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At UN, Qatar’s emir says burning Qur’an ‘should not be seen as an example of the freedom of expression’

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Freedom of expression means freedom to express one’s views even if they offend another. By ruling desecration of the Qur’an out of the bounds of the freedom of expression, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani demonstrates that he doesn’t understand what the freedom of expression is, or wants to destroy it, or both.

“Qatar at the U.N.: Quran Burning Not ‘an Example of Freedom of Expression,’” by John Hayward, Breitbart, September 19, 2023:

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, used most of his address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday for boilerplate about sustainable development, rising levels of income inequality, and calls for other nations to resolve their differences through negotiation rather than war.

The extraordinary moments came when al-Thani declared his passionate support for the Palestinians against the Israeli “occupiers,” whom he accused of implementing an “apartheid” system, and his tirade against “idiots” who burn the Quran….

Al-Thani reserved his most heated remarks, after his tirade against Israel, for Westerners burning the Quran under free speech protections. He portrayed Quran burning as one of the most contemptible expressions of “racism” and “incitement against entire peoples, religions, and civilizations.”

The emir advised his Muslim brethren not to “get distracted by an idiot or a bigot whenever it occurs to him to provoke us by burning the Quran, or by other forms of triviality.”

“The Quran is too holy to be desecrated by a witless person,” he said.

However, al-Thani also rejected the notion that Western free speech principles should protect such provocative actions.

“Compromising the sanctity of others deliberately should not be seen as an example of the freedom of expression,” he declared.

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  1. “At UN, Qatar’s emir says burning Qur’an ‘should not be seen as an example of the freedom of expression’”

    Note–unless I missed it in the article–he referred only to burning/desecrating a Qur’an. Of course.

    • “Compromising the sanctity of others deliberately should not be seen as an example of the freedom of expression,” he declared.

      He’s referring to more than the Quran. The one problem with his argument is that Islam itself calls for violating the sanctity of others. This includes more than religious artifacts or buildings. They defile the crucifix. They tear minarets off mosques of other sects. They defile women. Hey Emir: listen to yourself. Is it freedom of religion that gives you the right to kill those who don’t accept your god?

      • Qatar’s “Al Jazeera propaganda news” owner emir al-Thani forgot the desecration by officially-genocidal Islamofascist Turkey of the Byzantine Christian Orthodox Cathedral hAgia Sophia which was converted by Erdogan into a Mosque! This blasphemous desecration and conversion by Turkey was protested by EU,UNESCO and all civilized world! Neither does the Qatari leader take into account that Christian and Jewish minorities are under Islamist “religion cleansing” operations in all Islamist authoritarian regimes which have exported their lawless (at least under our Western standards) jihadists to the EU causing huge social upheaval and increased criminality to European societies. I don’t see the word “Christianophobia” being used by Islamist leaders to preach to their fanatic followers.

  2. Islam in its entirety from the 7th century onwards knows nothing about true freedom of expression. As an example, imagine America colonized and developed by Muslims rather than Christians. Think the Declaration of Independence, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights would have been produced by an early Muslim America? Never mind the capacity to apologize for past wrongdoings like slavery for which the Judeo-Christian world has profusely apologized but the Islamic world (which even castrated male slaves by the millions) never has.

    Rooted in Christian theology, Judaic theology too, are intrinsic metaphorical seeds that go quite compatibly with what ancient Greece developed in the political realm, especially ancient Athens. No such seeds or elements have ever existed in Islam. And which partially, but only partially, elucidates the fact that Islam is the spiritual predecessor of Nazism and other totalitarian ideologies and why Christianity and Judaism most definitely are not.

    • Wellington,

      To your point, can you imagine if our forefathers were muslims?

      Would they have come up with anything close to this?

      “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…”

      • To your accurate point, James, not even close. Not even close.

        Sadly, this is lost on so many today and helps explain in part, but only in part, why America right now is in decline and in no way in the ascendancy.

        America presently is living off the fumes of past excellencies in both thought and action. And the tank is coming close to empty. Leading the way here in this nefarious descent (and there are many culprits) is the Democratic Party of the USA. No greater enemy of America exists, not even Islam, China under Xi, Russia under Putin, et al. Not one.

        • How true, Wellington. I get the feeling I’m in the last days of the Empire just like the those Empires of the past which disintegrated from the inside as their citizens lost their mooring.

          What worries me is how far a morally declining government and its war machine are willing to go, attempting to recover its world supremacy. Nowhere did the framers of the Constitution include a necessity to be, and retain status as, a supreme power. The Constitution enshrines citizens, rather than government, with inalienable rights.

      • Good exchange between you James and Wellington you are both rich in knowledge and vocabulary.But there’s one gigantic person in the name of Mortimer we’re missing.Do anyone know his whereabouts?

    • Wellington, and James,
      One only has to look at pakistan or afghanistan to see what would have been Americastan had mozlums beat the Christians in getting here and setting up a government.

      Thankfully, they did not.

  3. “The Quran is too holy to be desecrated by a witless person”

    Actually it’s a witless person who reacts to it. Stop reacting and it will fade away. The Quran means nothing to those who have not read it just as any unread book. Without reading the words and organizing one’s life by its principles the Quran is just a collection of words on paper as is the Bible. Notice anyone getting upset over burned or discarded Bibles? Do you think Christians belief in Jesus is affected by what happens to a Bible?

    Muslims themselves burn Qurans or place them in moving water to discard them. When Europeans pull discarded Qurans out of canals, it doesn’t look like it was treated as if particularly holy.

    This reaction to burning Qurans and the reason it happens has nothing to do with sanctity, it has everything to do with the Islamic sense of superiority that comes from the “best of peoples” words of the Quran. There is always some jerk who will pull your chain if you insist on wearing it.

    • I regard the words, commands, instructions, etc. of the Bible as Holy and Sacred.

      When I was much younger, an older friend who felt the same as I told me, “You can tear up a Bible, because it isn’t the paper that’s sacred; it’s the Words.”

      We had been discussing Christians in times of persecution when Bibles were taken away, so some had torn the book and hidden the different pages in many places so they would at least have some if their home was searched.

  4. “Would they have come up with anything close to this?”

    “…pursuit of Happiness..”

    Absolutely not. Muhammad (or 8th & 9th century clerics ) designed the religion to grow through warfare and was as likely as Zelenski’s “recruiters” to drag unwilling men into battle.

    • I appreciate the analogy, Westman.

      And mankind never learns. Some individuals certainly do but mankind as a whole never learns.

      Makes me often think that the Buddhist conception of non-existence as superior to existence has merit. The remaining Westerner in me fights this at times but I feel myself weakening in this regard. I arguably have good reason to do so considering all the thugs, zealots, ignoramuses and outright idiots who remain in charge of so much that they have no business remaining in charge of.

      • To Wellington- You are too smart, too kind, and too civilized to ever think about non-existence as an alternate to existence. So respectfully I say to you- please snap out of that thinking.

        We were all created for a purpose. I believe the triune God created us, redeemed us, and sanctified us. But for those JihadWatch readers who do not believe in God, “The Big Bang Theory” is ok in explaining our existence. (No sarcasm intended.)

        And I am positive the fake Islamic “god” Allah did NOT create us because there is no free will in Islam, and all humans have unrestrained free will. Also, Allah never healed anyone or raised anyone from the dead, so I question the “sovereignty” of Allah. ?

        I wish that everyone who reads JihadWatch could have been at the UN to call out Sheikh Al-Thani for not recognizing that humans were born with free will and that we have every right to reject and desecrate the unholy Quran for its satanic verses (such as 8:12 and 9:5) as an act of freedom of speech.

  5. He uses the “freedom of expression” to lie. He uses the “freedom of expression” to slam Israel and to make claims about the book of unholy, demonic filth being “too holy to be desecrated.”

    He is a hypocrite. He uses what he wants to deny to others who see his book as unholy….and destroy the copies they buy and own. What would he do with a Bible? Or a book others consider as coming from their gods?
    The book mozlums worship can’t be “desecrated,” because it is already, from start to finish, beginning to end, feculent and evil, praising a mass-murdering raper of children, sex-mad slave trading, lying sack of maggot debris. And this liar isn’t stopped from saying that it’s ‘holy.’

    • To somehistory- Great comments. Thank you for your discernment and critical thinking. I really wish a bunch of JihadWatch readers including myself could have protested this guy and other Muslim speakers at the UN. But the UN perimeters were barricaded for blocks, so there was no getting near these foreign Muslim speakers. They got NYC police protection better than most law abiding people from NYC.

  7. The playbook is already well rehearsed thanks to decades of “antisemitism” laws.

    Find something that offends a majority of people.

    Use that as an excuse to slowly chip away at our God given rights.

    Expand the definition of unacceptable “hate” speech and add new groups from your voting base to the list.

    We shoulda said no when it was only supposed to be used against Nazis and actual White Supremacists.

    “Freedom of expression means freedom to express one’s views even if they offend another.”

    It used to.

    Freedom of association also used to mean the freedom to choose your associates, business partners, customers, etc.

    The right to self-defense used to be straightforward too…until we started to make concessions thinking we are doing the right thing in the moment.

  9. Burning the Koran should not be considered a desecration. It should be considered an obligation. It is filled with so much evil.

  10. A question to the emir: What exactly makes your holy Qur’an holy? Can you mention just one verse?

    Will that possibly be one that commands the self-righteous Muslim to enslave or kil the kafirs as happens every day?

    In such case who are the racists and religious bigots?

  11. Actually—I can appreciate his point of view— Let’s compromise—we will refrain from permitting such “vandalism…”—if they refrain from issuing fatwas against people whose opinions they don’t like…

  12. Strange……I consider the burning of the terror guide, the koran, as a fun thing to do during ramadamadingdong. Sometimes a more practical use…..picking up dog poop. Or as a backstop at the range while using Israeli IMI ammunition, or lining a bird cage. You can’t use a koran to line a cat box tho’. Cats are clean creatures, and the koran is disgusting and dirty.

  13. When muslims start talking about not burning any books or destroying any other religions property I’ll pay attention. Other wise it’s just the voice of false islam attempting to gain control over everyone else. Islam believes in freedom of expression for themselves only.

  14. “Compromising the sanctity of others deliberately should not be seen as an example of the freedom of expression,” he declared.
    Well than, he’ll have to ditch the Quran for calling Jews the descendants of apes and pigs

  15. Burning the Qur’an is condemned by world leaders but every day Islam extremists slaughter Christians but nobody bothers

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