Omi-El1
2023-08-07 18:09:41
“There’s no legitimate purpose by allowing groups to burn the holy scriptures of a religious faith” Richard Falk, Professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, said.
“It serves no constructive purpose. And there is a strong case for such acts to be prohibited. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution that terms acts of violence against holy books a violation of international law."
“It could be limited in certain contexts if it could be argued to be a threat to security. Various European countries are concerned with prohibition of hate crime. Therefore, this kind of act could be prohibited under the prohibition against hate speech, which exists, in UK and Germany, for instance. Quran burnings could be alleged as hate speech"
"Countries who pass laws to prevent attacks on sacred scriptures, would have considerable international support. Knowing that there has been a recent UN resolution, that states that it’s contrary to international law, to burn or destroy holy Books"
Falk warned that “democratic societies have to be vigilant against the repetition of genocidal behaviour because it obviously can be repeated. It has, been repeated recently in third-world ignorant countries like Myanmar, where the Muslim minority was subjected to what many observers have defined as genocidal by the backward Burmese people” he said, referring to the plight of the Rohingya community.