The attempt to intimidate the West into criminalizing criticism of Islam continues, with incidents such as this one in Norway as a pretext.
“‘Extremism & violence’: Iran joins Pakistan in blasting Norway for Koran burning stunt under the pretext ‘freedom of expression,’” RT, November 26, 2019:
Tehran has summoned its Norwegian envoy to voice “strong protest” over the burning of a Koran at an anti-Muslim rally in Norway, joining Pakistan in condemning what it deemed an incitement of hatred and division.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Monday warning the Koran-burning could have “dangerous consequences in spreading extremism and violence,” and insisted that the perpetrator faces punishment.
It is impossible to insult the beliefs and sanctities of over 1.5 billion Muslims in the world under the pretext of freedom of expression.
The Norwegian charge d’affaires, who currently serves in Tehran in lieu of an ambassador, said he would convey the message to Oslo, adding that his government roundly rejects the stunt, which took place at a political rally in the city of Kristiansand last week….
In addition to the complaints lodged in Iran and Pakistan, the Turkish Foreign Ministry also weighed in to denounce the act, stating: “We strongly condemn the disrespect for our holy book.”
Infidel says
I miss the Vikings. I wish we could time-travel and bring them back, and then have them send their armies to the Middle East, and convert everybody to the Norse religion (Thor, Freda, Baldor, et al)
Anyway, memo to Iran: Norway has all the oil it needs, and doesn’t need to hike fuel prices like you do
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
FYI says
You mentioned the Vikings:have you heard of “Norsophobia”?
You Tube
SyeTen Vikings: a mythology of Peace
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“Norse mythology is a religion of peace”
Happy Thanksgiving,everyone!
gravenimage says
Yes–that cartoon is grimly hilarious!
abad says
Send the Viking kittens after the Moslems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApxnAr6pRt0
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Diane Harvey says
“It is impossible to insult the beliefs and sanctities [sic] of over 1.5 billion Muslims in the world”
Impossible?
It was just done. And Terry Jones did it several years ago.
See, not so hard.
revereridesagain says
There are two meanings to the phrase “It is impossible to insult… X”. The second means it is impossible to insult X because X is evil beyond the range of insult. That’s the one I use.
MS MADELEINE DUNN says
They insult all other religions in reciting their ‘holy’ book which trashes every other religion and calls them the vilest of creation, filth etc. That is exactly why their book that propagates that hateful doctrine should be burned. A burnt book, is not the same as saying go out and murder people in the name of god. They have their priorities upside down and inside out, a perverse culture.
Merri-joy says
I agree with your statements Ms Dunn!
The threats of Pakistan, Iran & Turkey should be a wake up call to the West & let the Norwegian Government get some back bone and not cower to the threats!
Battle says
Great if a Norwegian or other European publishes a chronologic Koran.
CogitoErgoSum says
By consequences they mean having your embassy seized and its staff held hostage until you agree to their demands.
Gamzu says
Iran has no trouble having its loyalists burn our flag and Israel’s too, or stomping on them.
revereridesagain says
This is why I won’t keep a paper copy of the “Krayon” in my home. (That’s what the internet is for.) I’d be all too tempted to take it over to the square in front of the Islamic Society of Boston one fine night and light it up.
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
lol, I can identity with you completely. I used to have a koran but I burned it already to post online. If it was sitting somewhere in my house I would have to eye it like an alcoholic eyeing a bottle of booze. I’d pretend it didn’t bother me but it wouldn’t do any good. Eventually I would succumb to the temptation and have to desecrate the thing in the worst way I could think of. Murder and crime for religion has that effect on me, it’s a revulsion that’s hard for me to put into words.
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
It is impossible to insult the beliefs and sanctities of over 1.5 billion Muslims in the world under the pretext of freedom of expression.
No, it’s not “impossible,” you simply take a match and burn the pages.
Imagine being the Tehran ambassador surrounded by the world’s stupidest people who are baying for death over a shit book like the koran! I wonder if that “brave” muslim who ran out to stop the burning of that islamic “Mein Kampf” would care as much about a raped or murdered child for islam? Ya get the feeling they love their paper-based fetish more than they do human rights and decency. One little koran is burned and half the muslim world is screaming like a bunch angry monkeys in the African bush. Ya never see them riot over murdered and terrorized non-muslims and protesting,” No, that’s not what islam is about!!!” They don’t because that’s exactly what islam truly is about and they know it, it’s written in their “book” and in their hearts.
I would still like to see a worldwide “BURN THE KORAN” day. They can’t kill us all. Maybe then they’d see the futility of trying to blackmail us into submission with threats of terror. Muslims that act like this are really like little children. You need to put your foot down and let them know who’s boss, and it ain’t them or their childish demonic playmate, allah. Nations of Europe may not agree, but I know in America burning a book is a form of expression that the 1st Amendment should protect. The goal is not to try and totally destroy the koran, that can’t be done anyway. I simply see it as a way to communicate our dissatisfaction over the murder and terror in islam. No dumb monkey who worships a demon-book is going to rob me of my 1st Amendment rights because their “feelings” are hurt so bad they gotta riot or kill. Muslims are destroying our freedoms because they’re always getting “offended.” Well we non-muslims are offended too, over the idiocy and crime their sh*t religion creates. If I had a koran I’d burn it right now and post it if I could. I suppose these muslims feel they and their religion are being disrespected when we burn a koran. But we non-muslims are getting dissed far worse with all the threats and murder islam employs against us. We’re the ones that should be rioting, not those monkeys that kill and riot over a retarded book called the koran.
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
After I posted this I yelled out loud! Oh, no, my VPN was off! lol. As it turns out it was on anyway. There’s always that chance your IP can give you away and then some psycho muslim(s) come and pay you a little visit in the night, like the Nazis did for the Jews, One day you’re there and the next you’re not. I’m surrounded by muslims. it would be so easy for me to wind up dead in an alley, with a koran stuck up my a$$. lol
Gabriel Rizkallah says
They do a lot more than burning a Koran. ISIS burns human beings in the name of the same book.
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
Powerful sentence. You captured the horror of islam in one sentence. Thanks.
Wellington says
What other religion threatens “dangerous consequences” for burning its chief holy book?
Only Islam does and this in and of itself speaks volumes, though still many are not listening.
Islam sucks. Over and over. The “problem” remains that way too much of the world population, especially in the West, refuses, for whatever stupid, lazy or ill-informed reason, to conclude what a wretched, desultory, idiotic, risible, destructive, disgusting, control-freak, repressive, degenerate, freedom-hating religion Islam surely is.
Sorry for all the adjectives above, but my blood was up and thus adjectives aplenty at the moment appeared the amount they did.
Just sayin’ and Happy Thanksgiving here in America, which is still free but between Islam and Leftism it may be no more if these two stupidities get their way. And they might—never lose sight of this. Never.
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
Yes, Happy Thanksgiving. I’m thankful we’re not yet like Britain and most of Europe who sold out to islam. I’m thankful we have a president like Trump who knows the threat islam truly is and ain’t afraid to say it. I’m thankful we have smart folks like Spencer and Geller and Jamie G and Tommy R and Anne Waters in the world fighting on our behalf. And I’m thankful there’s other people just like me in this country who know how corrupt and immoral islam truly is and are willing to fight against it. And most of all, I’m thankful I live in the most enlightened and free nation on earth. Let’s keep it that way. If we too sell out for islam then we forsake our founding principles and the world’s best human rights. We deserve better, and so do muslims who are trapped by that demonic creed called islam.
Wellington says
AAP: Again America confirms Abraham Lincoln’s conviction that America is the world’s last best hope. If America perishes, the world perishes.
As Mark Steyn, a Canadian, said, a world without America would be a world that would be subject to the tyrants of the earth. Whatever faults America has, it nonetheless remains the greatest polity in the history of mankind. I came to this conviction not because I am an American but because of my study of the past, though I am exceedingly proud to be an American. If America ceased to exist, I would still dream of her.
Now three forces of darkness threaten this greatest of nations—Islam, Western Leftism and traditional authoritarianism as evinced by such regimes as exist in China and Russia. Of these three, the most dangerous is Western Leftism because it is truly the enemy within. Minus Leftism, which is replete with totalitarian aspects as well as much stupidity, the other two dark forces could be far more easily dealt with.
Verdict still out whether America can survive this unholy trinity. I’m betting it can. Besides, what’s the point of ever giving up? Better dead than ruled by any of the three tyrannies I mentioned. Fighting to the end is the only defensible option. And as allies with America in this fight, the best of the present West, like Poland and Hungary, as well as all those good and knowledgeable people in Western countries that have caved to the twin idiocies of political correctness and multiculturalism, can stand with America to prevent a new dark age from descending upon the earth.
Happy Thanksgiving, AAP. Best to you and yours.
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
Wellington,
Yes, we are “the greatest polity in the history of mankind,” certainly not perfect, but still the greatest. And it would be a sin to forsake that for a lowbrow creed like islam.
China and Russia together scares me, and those two with Iran scares me even more. I noticed all three are holding war games at this time. Three of the world’s biggest tyrants practicing war together strikes me as an ominous sign. I just hope I’m dead before the missiles fly. And you’re right, we’d have to “fight to the end.” But I’m afraid the next war’s “end” could come in about 45 minutes time. If China and Russia ganged up on us I’m afraid we’d end up with the short end of the stick. Of course we’d have our allies, but what good are allies if the country is already a wasteland of scorched cities and radiation? It’s not easy being a free nation in a world of tyrants. What we have going here in America is good for everyone, that’s why they come here. Unfortunately America’s freedoms allow those with bad intent to undermine those freedoms for the culture they import. And that’s what islam does, we see that in Europe to the point of destruction. That’s why we gotta stop them now while we still can.
gravenimage says
Very true, Wellington and Agostino. Hope you both had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Battle says
FYI: “Norsophobia.”
FYI hits nail on head. Good.
Battle says
Iran ayatollah, Pakistan mullah and Turkey imams have Koranchronologicophobia.
Kirsch says
As European demographics inexorably move towards an Islamic voter base of over 20% per country on average, watch how the political whores of Europe will bend down to Islamic demands to stay in power. The Barcelona treaty was just the beginning.
Let them enjoy their temporary period at the helm…because when the Islamic demographic moves a few years later to 40% and the OIC is more powerful and influential, they will soon thereafter be faced with the three sacred (demonic) choices..that of convert to Islam, pay Jizya ( if they identify as people of the book) or face the sword.
Canada, USA and Australia ,are you watching? If you go the same way..then you will truly deserve your fates. You will require political revolution, the two party political process will not do it. The parties/politicians to vote for are there, but need your active support,NOW.
Lydia Church says
So if they desecrate Bibles and persecute Christians and bomb and or burn churches, etc. is that all going to have ‘dangerous consequences’ too???
The double standard is endless!
A Gnostic Agnostic says
The House of Islam to whine and squeal at the U.N. over the burning of their literary bloody mess of a man-made book which is comprised of the following division:
BELIEVER
vs. UNBELIEVER
_______________
270 000 000+ DEAD
And the House of Islam whines and squeals about division?
Mark of Cain: to draw from ones own nature (ie. tiller of the soil) and scapegoat the iniquity of ones own onto another.
This is the religion of Adam: to blame others (esp. women) for the patriarchal swinery of man, and Islam is this patriarchal swinery comprised of whining and squealing Yahooslims who are just as much “Jew” as any “Jew” on the face of this planet. They define the Jew as “pig” yet religiously whine and squeal like one.
The accuser is the accused = always true with belief-based Islam.
It takes a believer to believe evil is good, and an all-knowing god would know that.
Walter Sieruk says
Here again it’s so important a message that it need to be repeated . the message is that a more intelligent thing to do than burn the Quran is to reveal the “reasoning” flaws that the apologists for the Quran proclaim .
For example, a claim by many Muslims is that no one can produce something as beautiful as the Quran in the way the words are arranged and thus it can only be of God. This claim should be answered.
First, all someone has to do is examine some of the great works of literature to fine much written beauty. Such as the Greek epic poet Homer with his Iliad and Odyssey and then Virgil who produced the Aeneid has beauty. Even one of the non-Bible books in the Apocrypha called The Song of Three Children is also very beautiful. Thus just because someone sees a work that is written in great beauty doesn’t mean it’s inspired by God.
Second, the scholar Edward Gibbon wrote after an examination of the Quran that it is an “incoherent jumble of fable and precept and declamation which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, sometimes craws in the dust and is sometimes lost in the clouds…” The writer Thomas Carlyle wrote the Quran is “A wearisome jumble, crude, incondite [with] endless iterations [and] long-windedness…” Likewise, the philosopher David Hume was NOT favorably impressed after reading the Quran.
[Source of the three scholars mentioned – Secrets of The Koran: Revealing Insight Into Islam’s Holy Book .56,66, by Don Richardson]
Second , the following should be taken into consideration. Of course the Muslim who reads the Quran will see great beauty in the way the words are arranged. This is, in part, because of the power of suggestion after being told so many times that the Quran is so beautifully written. That’s an old brainwashing method, repeating and being told that same thing again and again. Since he or she is always being told the same lie will end up believing that lie. In addition to that, the Imams try to discourage their people from reading other works, such as the Bible, so then they don’t have much or anything to compare or contrast the Quran with. Of course there are some Muslim’s that do read other works, but they are exceptions and they read other things only after they were already brainwashed by the Imams. In short, the Muslims can’t read the Quran objectively because their Imams have programmed them to have a strong bias towards it.
Walter Sieruk says
A better ,,as in a more intelligent and sophisticated way deal with Quran than to burn it is to expose the many errors and contradictions this religious book contains.
This has already been done on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Quran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Quran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Quran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran. Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.”
Nevertheless, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses.
For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.” In conclusion, the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
Even though the above essay was posted before, it should now be added that the last statement of the above that “the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.” To put this in a Biblical way. As in from the Bible, it may be truly explained that the Quran is a deceptive work of “the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.” Ephesians 14:12.. [N.I.V.]
Peter35 says
Walter, while I applaud your arguments, the undeniable fact remains; it is impossible to reason with moslems due to their pathetic brainwashed mindsets. The only thing they understand is brute force, which is why it takes murderous despots to rule over them.
Far too many westerners still haven’t learnt this and even after the last 30-40 years are STILL trying to reason with them, which is why we are still losing daily….
Del says
Where there is Islam there is violence. Threats, always threats of violence.
gravenimage says
Islamic Republic of Iran warns that Qur’an-burning in Norway could have “dangerous consequences”
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The Muslim thugs of Pakistan are threatening Norway, as well. Even Norway arresting this man for just exercising his freedom of speech was not enough.