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Protesters storm Swedish embassy in Baghdad, set it on fire over planned Koran burning (www.france24.com)

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Hundreds of protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad in the early hours of Thursday morning and set it on fire, a source familiar with the matter and a Reuters witness said, in a protest against the expected burning of a Koran in Sweden.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Isn't there something actually useful to do in Iraq... Just asking.

Who cares if some idiot wants to burn $insertReligiousBook in some forgein country?

Oh yeah, religious zealots, that's who. /s

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fragile religiosity, they don't really trust god to punish the sinners..

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

that’s such an interesting take on religious people forcing their beliefs on others: so what if they sin? Let your god take care of it, or do you think he’s too incompetent to deal with it himself?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In their eyes, they are God's wrath.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The Bible literally says this in Judges 6:28-31

In the morning when the people of the town got up, there was Baal’s altar, demolished, with the Asherah pole beside it cut down and the second bull sacrificed on the newly-built altar! They asked each other, ‘Who did this?’ When they carefully investigated, they were told, ‘Gideon son of Joash did it.’ The people of the town demanded of Joash, ‘Bring out your son. He must die, because he has broken down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.’ But Joash replied to the hostile crowd around him, ‘Are you going to plead Baal’s cause? Are you trying to save him? Whoever fights for him shall be put to death by morning! If Baal really is a god, he can defend himself when someone breaks down his altar.’

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People protest a lot of stuff in Iraq. Just nobody cares about what the Iraqi public thinks.

After the removal of the Iraqi government and army in the Iraq war, Iraq has essentially become a failed state run by Iranian mafias and tribal militias. There is literally nothing useful to do in Iraq.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

removal is a nice euphemism for a foreign invasion and installation of a government hostile to most of the people during a decade of occupation and ressource exploitation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My mother in law always says "Don't they have a lawn to mow or something?". And, yes, she's not too serious of course but I really don't get it either. If I were to jump over every stick some idiot in the world holds up for me, after the fifth time or so I'd be asking myself what the fuck I'm doing there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Re: your first question: https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/comments/151e87q/iraq_an_uncut_gem_february_2023/

Doesn't sound too bad.

I also don't think we should be burning books at all.