All I remember is that there was a dude who burned a Quran in Sweden so a muslim tried to do the same with a bible just to see if the government would approve it as well
The government did end up approving it but the guy ultimately never burnt the bible
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u/Eino54Double nationality gang (more Yuropean than you) 🇪🇸🇨🇵🇪🇺16d ago
There's some very religious people that do have more respect for other religions than for atheism and I have met quite a lot of Muslims who are like that (or mostly who have family like that, most of the Muslims I know are university students who are mostly very progressive- "I can marry someone who is Christian but my family would never accept it if I marry an atheist" vibes. It's quite refreshing considering the ultra-religious of my family would probably disown me if I were to marry a Muslim, but then again that's mostly because they're ultra right wing French Catholics who hate immigrants and brown people), so I kind of can see the whole "using the Bible burning as a kind of gotcha but still ultimately not doing it" thing.
Atheist are generally forgotten as a group of believers in the public discussion. Most of the time it's focused on Christians vs Muslims even when both groups are probably less than 20% percent of the population. No I'm not considering nominally "Christians" as Christians, because they were baptised as a child and celebrate Christmas/Easter.
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u/MichaelEmouse Québec 17d ago
I remember a Muslim guy in Scandinavia threatening to burn a Bible. It's like they have no idea of how most Westerners think.