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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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[-] MaxPower@feddit.de 77 points 11 months ago

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

[-] bossito@lemmy.world 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] SevFTW@feddit.de 19 points 11 months ago

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?

[-] CaptFeather@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

In their eyes, they are God's wrath.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months 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.’

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