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This is a difficult thing because in theory burning books is not illegal, a person is allowed to buy a book and burn it. So making it illegal to burn this specific book sends signals of Islamification of the law but context is important here. This book means very much to Muslims, not just in the obvious religious way but personally, individuals will remember their grandfather teaching it to them when they were a child. This makes burning it very emotional, it is like someone burning a photograph of your mother outside your house just after she died. It is true that burning pictures is not illegal but the context here is emotive to the point of incitement. It is not Islamification to view this book as a special case, it is about honouring beliefs you do not share and respecting other people.
But you're not burning somone's personal book or photo. It's your own copy. If you have an emotional investment in a copy of a book I bought, you need mental help.
It is not about ownership of copies it is about respect for significance. If I print a photograph of a member of your family I will own that print, can I then deface it in front of you and will you remain passive and unaffected.
How about the respect of not murdering people because your feelings got hurt?
Who's talking about murdering people? We're talking about what is considered hate speech.
Yeah but he didn't burn a picture of anyone's family. He burned a fiction book written over a thousand years ago
But it's not a picture of your mother (also qUaRaN forbids depictions of people) it's a book of random bullshit made by a warlord thousand years ago. And noone defaced nothing in front of anyone their point was that muslims allowed to ignore laws and try to use some savage "laws" to punish people that disagree with them.