Summary

Salwan Momika, the Iraqi man who staged several Quran burnings in Sweden in 2023, was shot and killed in Sodertalje, near Stockholm.

His actions had sparked international outrage, riots, and diplomatic tensions. Swedish police confirmed a murder investigation is underway, and several arrests have been made.

Momika, who sought asylum in Sweden in 2018, faced charges of incitement to hatred, with a verdict scheduled for the day after his death.

His protests were permitted under free speech laws but led to legal action against him.

  • reksas@sopuli.xyz
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    14 hours ago

    the man wanted to incite hatred, show him middlefinger by doing the opposite

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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      13 hours ago

      How do we know he wanted that?

      I see the post that says he was being charged with inciting hatred, but also says his act was protected under free speech.

      I think it’s dumb to be burning books as the only people who are going to be pissed are the fundamentalists and they’re always pissed off anyway, but I respect his right to free expression.

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        9 hours ago

        so, momika has been in sweden a few years. he converted to christianity in his home country, started shouting loudly about freedom of speech there, got told to stop, then filed for asylum in sweden. once here he kept doing the same thing, which of course jeopardises his asylum claim. only he wasn’t first. rasmus paludan has been burning qurans here for a while, always doing it in neighbourhoods with a majority muslim population. as a demonstration of the problem with religion, it’s effective. once. but both of them did it for years, and the things they have been saying during their book burning made it clear that it was not actually about freedom of speech, but about hatred of muslims. not islam, muslims. and they were both in court for the crime of hets mot folkgrupp (“incitement of hatred against a population group”). they clearly overstepped the law of the country they were in.

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        13 hours ago

        What other possible reason would someone have to burn a book that is to some more important than their life. Either people dont care about it or become enraged. And just because you have right to do something doesnt mean you should. His actions have caused a lot of harm, also most likely his own death too.

        For argument’s sake, lets assume he had some positive reason for his actions. Has there been a single positive thing that has come from this? If you want to do good you need to think the consequences through and if you dont then you shouldnt do anything at all.

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          8 hours ago

          This is such a bullshit take with some not so subtle apoligism and blame shifting.

          If burning a book causes a lot of harm in any way besides burn damage, the burner is hardly to blame but something else is fundamentally wrong, and he tried to make that very obvious to everyone with his own life at risk.

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            8 hours ago

            So how long have you sided with the Nazis and fundamentalist Christians?

            Because now you’re excusing their book burning.

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                7 hours ago

                Yes, it’s so much better when one group of bigots burn books than a larger group of bigots burn more books.

                I guess this is the lesser evil you guys keep voting for, just a little book burning and hate speech, as a compromise.

                Just a pro tip, if you are ever on the side of people burning books, you’re in the wrong.