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To: SeekAndFind

OK, if I take a book that has a cover similar to a Koran but it is blank inside and burn it, am I guilty of anything?
To me it is a bit like burning the American flag that it not exactly the correct proportion. Is it a flag of the US or not?
As an aside, I am in favor of letting people burn our flag. I then know my enemy.


8 posted on 01/30/2024 6:53:17 PM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: super7man
OK, if I take a book that has a cover similar to a Koran but it is blank inside and burn it, am I guilty of anything?

Exactly! That was my first thought, too! I suspect that it will have to be like holding up a bank with a toy gun:

The Danes will, obviously, have to expand the law to include and "putative representations, facsimiles, parodies, or mock-ups" of holy books or anything "resembling or purporting to be" the Koran or "caricatures, cartoons, or other visual depictions" of religious leaders, esp. Mohammed, peace be upon him or anything "that a reasonable person might think was intended to denigrate the One, True, and Only Faith."

The Danes are getting there. They're not quite there yet, but they're getting there.

Regards,

17 posted on 01/30/2024 10:10:34 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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