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Danish government will introduce new law to ban burning the Quran (www.euronews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sooo... other countries burning flags of other nations in public is okay, but this is not?

Even if this has whataboutism-character and I appreciate the take of "making it better, even if others don't", I can't deny there is some irony to that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

iirc burning flags of other nations is also not ok

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

And yet such non-EU countries don't deliver consequences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, burning other countries flags is prohibited in denmark, burning the danish flag is ok

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've explicitly excluded denmark.

other countries burning flags of other nations in public

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

Sooo... other countries burning flags of other nations in public is okay, but this is not?

According to Danes, yeah seems like it. They don't seem particularly bothered by those other countries burning their flag.