Man arrested for burning the Quran

so is burning the koran yet everyone claims thats protected under free speech.

saying you hate the bible is perfectly fine, burning one in public wouldn't be.

A book is not worth more than a life in your opinion and yet you're all for the right to burn a book even if the deed costs human lives?

Firstly I wouldn't burn the book, secondly the book shouldn't cost human lives. If I were to burn the Koran and someone were to get murdered because of it or were to get murdered, then it isn't me committing murder or suicide.

Yes shouldn't cost lives but it will- we aren't living in some fantasy wonderland where every thing is peaceful and good. So as I said it's the question of whether you value human life more or the right to burn one book and that's all there is to it no matter how much you go around and around the topic that's what it comes down to.

Yes shouldn't cost lives but it will- we aren't living in some fantasy wonderland where every thing is peaceful and good. So as I said it's the question of whether you value human life more or the right to burn one book and that's all there is to it no matter how much you go around and around the topic that's what it comes down to.

Wow TSR has soooo many clever people. Here let me break it down:

1) Burn Quran= Freedom of Speech.
2) But also= almost guaranteed riots and deaths.
3) Do you value human life more or the right of a BNP knob to offend others?

Clearly it's the latter for a lot of people. Use some common sense and pragmatism.

Yes shouldn't cost lives but it will- we aren't living in some fantasy wonderland where every thing is peaceful and good. So as I said it's the question of whether you value human life more or the right to burn one book and that's all there is to it no matter how much you go around and around the topic that's what it comes down to.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/apr/09/bnp-candidate-arrested-quran-burning

Thoughts?

In that case, you don't believe in freedom of speech at all.

What is the point burning a Quran? OK fine you don't like the religion, but what is the need to go out of your way and burn the holy book lol? It just seems pathetic and sad to me, no need to carry all that unnecessary hatred. Get a life and get some better things to do with your time.

No not in the sense that you can say absolutely anything you want. Complete freedom of speech is impossible in a civilised, tolerant society.

I hate how people use the whole "freedom of speech" thing to excuse them saying hurtful and damaging things.

You can not go about saying what ever you like. If you do you you will have to accept the consequences.

This is such a painfully self-contradictory statement.

You think the government, or religious groups, or anyone else, telling us what we can and can't say - effectively what we can and and can't openly think - is "civilised" or "tolerant"?

The fact that you refer to it as "the whole freedom of speech thing" shows your disregard of how precious a thing it is, and what an indicator it is of how tolerant and enlightened a society is.

You cannot police people's expression of opinion on the basis that YOU have decided that what they are saying is nasty without assuming your own judgement is absolute and infallible - many will disagree. I for example find much of the dross Christians, Muslims and Jews come out with to be, in your words, "hurtful and damaging", but would be appalled if the authorities came along and decided to shut them up about it - it would be a sign that we lived in a society where the government intervenes in the free exchange of views and ideas. Which is an incredibly disturbing idea - it would be like living in North Korea, or a book by Orwell or Huxley. A self-perpetuating nightmare of censorship and thought-crime.

Even just practically speaking, it would be impossible to enforce such an absurd 'right' as the right not to be offended - people are too various, and annoy each other too much. How bland would it be to have the government intercept every possible source of disagreement, as well as how sinister?

What is the point burning a Quran?

its funny how a BNP politician is arrested for burning a Quran (essentially inciting racial hatred) and so many people get whipped up into a rage about freedom of speech; but when police raid a uni library, arrest numerous foreign students on suspicion of terrorism and hold them without full evidence or charge, and then release the same students (since they were innocent), no one takes notice.