An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has been killed

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free from persecution as long as he goes along with it

Isn’t freedom

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There is a difference between book burning as censorship and book burning as protest

Notably the scale and ability to acquire the book afterwards

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For some context, when one scratches a bit the back-story of this guy, some interesting facts pop up:

Momika came from Qaraqosh, a town in the Al-Hamdaniya district in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh[5]. He was an ethnic Assyrian and raised as a Syriac Catholic.[6][7] During the Iraqi civil war, when Christians became persecuted by the Islamic State of Iraq (the precursor of ISIS), Momika joined the Assyrian Patriotic Party and worked as a security guard for the party's headquarters in Mosul. According to Iraqi government sources, Momika fled his hometown in 2012 after the local court found him guilty of causing a wrongful death during a car accident and sentenced him to three years of imprisonment in Badush.[8][9]

After the fall of Mosul to ISIS militants in June 2014, Momika joined the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) to fight against ISIS.[10] Specifically, he has appeared in videos in military uniform, as a part of the Christian unit "Spirit of God Jesus Son of Mary Battalion" (Kataib Rouh Allah Issa Ibn Miriam) brandishing firearms and pledging allegiance to the Imam Ali Brigades (to which the Christian unit is a part of), which are a PMF faction and part of the Islamic Movement of Iraq.[11] The Imam Ali Brigades are known to have close connections to Iran and is considered to be an Iranian proxy.[12] The brigades were also accused of committing war crimes and engaging in sectarian violence.[13] It's said that Momika was also affiliated with the Syriac Assembly Movement, a political party that received support from the Government of the Kurdistan Region.[14]

Momika also founded the Syriac Democratic Union and the Falcons of the Syriac Forces in 2014, an armed militia which was affiliated with the Christian militia Babylon Brigade, the armed wing of the Babylon Movement.[12] In 2017, Momika was involved in an internal power struggle with fellow Babylon Movement leader Rayan al-Kildani, which he lost. He fled the country as a result.[15]

In 2017, Momika fled to Germany with a Schengen visa, where he announced his atheism and apostasy from Christianity.

The rest of the article also describes multiple instances of him behaving erratically (e.g. threatening someone with a knife etc).

So before we go to the standard «western right wing troll» stereotyping, we must acknowledge that this is a veteran of the fight against ISIS who experienced persecution of his community during the Iraqi civil war and who probably was suffering from all sorts of trauma.

Does this excuse his behaviour, no. But it does explain it, way better than simplistic caricatures putting him in some «western racist» pigeonhole. He definitely did not deserve to die and he probably had some very legitimate reasons to hate Islam, a religion that he personally experienced in a really fucked up and extreme form in an extremely fucked up and extreme situation. Sadness all around.

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He wasn't a nazi.

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Who is that?

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This isn't justification for what happened but people should know he was a part of a brigade in Iraq that killed people.

Oh and also, he's an Israeli supporter who called Palestinians "rats"

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Yeah because the actions of one "religious" person represent the bunch right?

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People with different views will say similar things. People were happy about what Luigi did, or at least unsympathetic to the CEO. Many here, espoused how they wished the trump assassination was successful. The point is, people can still disagree about the action but be happy that someone they didn't like died.

Plus, he was a part of a brigade that killed people in Iraq and a zionist who called Palestinians rats.

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Cool list. Below is a list of countries currently complicit in genocide:

America
Germany
UK
Israel
Netherlands
France
The entire rest of the liberal world

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The question was

Show me a Muslim country which has not been invaded, colonized and destroyed by Liberals first.

And literally the first two countries already have been invaded, colonized and destroyed by liberals. And let’s move on, Bangladesh, Egypt, Eritrea, Marocco, Libya, Libanon, Palestine, Iraq, Tunisia, Pakistan, Mauretania, Mali, all former colonies, brutally ransacked, exploited, people enslaved, the very core of each of their societies absolutely destroyed. Make the list longer and the list of ex-colonies gets longer. Ah and then except of course the already mentioned Palestine, which is still an apartheid colony where the liberal west is committing genocide.

You talk about queer rights but you don’t give a single fuck about the fates of the hundreds of millions, if not billions that have been brutalized in the most horrifying ways by the “civilized west“.

Please do us a favor and GTFO with your phony concern for human rights. You just want to shit on brown people. I honestly feel sorry for you, you must be really unhappy carrying around so much hatred with you.

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As I understand, he was part of a brigade that killed people in the context of a civil war where his brigade was fighting against ISIS

Quite an important footnote.

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As I understand, he was part of a brigade that killed unarmed civillians in the context of a civil war where his brigade was fighting against ISIS

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His brigade also killed innocent people who had nothing to do with that.

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Quite a lose-lose situation indeed. People who hate each others guts. I hope they can find the perpetrators soon.

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Arabia went from being under Ottoman rule to being under the house of Al Saud, it's never been colonized by a western "liberal" country.

Their rules are still insane.

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You knew what you were saying and how you were saying it.

We're past the point where the avg person is ignorant to dog whistles.

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Nazis also drank water and breathed air

Guess you're a Nazi if you do those things

The reason something is done is important

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Where do they get all those weapons from to surpress their population?

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Indeed. This person burned books to incite hate. Like the Nazis.

Can a person also commit Elon salutes in public because "they do not hurt anyone"?

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He was inciting hate against a population and advocating for their persecution. How severely disconnected and racist are people to not even see this obvious link?

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