I recommend watching the video. It’s much worse than it sounds. Kadri lunges at Hamit Coskun while holding a very large knife in the stab position. Coskun tries to run away from him but falls down, and Kadri proceeds to kick him repeatedly. Kadri doesn’t actually stab Coskun, so props for that, but he’s extremely violent and threatening. Coskun was threatening a book, a book of which there are billions of copies in existence; Kadri was threatening a human being. The judge told Kadri what a great guy he is.
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And it gets worse.
(Emphasis added.) How dare you put yourself in front of the knife?
It’s a religion of peace, remember (as are all religions, right?) What is confusing to me is that the tradition in Islam is to memorize the damn Koran in primary school so it can be recited by heart. Why do they need a book? So, I can’t imagine why this man is so upset. It’s not destroying his property, nor even the Koran since there are more than one copy anyway, right?
Why is the CPS more concerned with the book than the knife? Religious feelings must not be hurt, just like trans rights to impose “pronouns” must be protected.
On the one hand, Coskun proved his point that Islam is a religion of hatred and violence. On the other hand, England seems to be having a fire sale on values.
When a judge like John McGarva openly abuses victims of violent crime, nobody should be surprised when people look for other venues for justice.
Mike – because it’s Islam. Taboos violently enforced are very very important in Islam. Every Koran is a holy sacred taboo-ringed object, no matter how many billions of them there are.
The Western world seems to be swinging away from a Culture of Dignity (“I have inherent worth; words will never hurt me; I restrain myself to reason when insulted” to a Culture of Honor (“My reputation is my worth; words diminish me; I physically revenge myself when insulted.” )
Burning a Quran is like misgendering- while there is no actual criminal violation on the surface, someone’s core sense of self and meaning is being “dishonored.” When the public response is to make it an actual criminal violation, a very important shift is happening.
Makes me want to desecrate something.
Oh good point. Excellent point.
Reminds me of the funniest three minutes in cinema, with appropriate cross-dressing, wrong pronouns and everything.
“Making it worse?? How could it be worse?! Jehovah! Jehovah!”
https://youtu.be/SYkbqzWVHZI?si=D7KyPNbo4Lkescl0
From the tweet:
Brilliant. We know he was harassing because he was attacked. Maybe next it will be ‘we know having her face uncovered was luring men astray because she was raped.’