There's a fine line between freedom of expression and using free speech to (politically) taunt certain people. But the more politically involved among us already noticed a flaw in the title because of the three examples given, one is actually widely accepted as "normal" and allowed in many European and North American nations under the pretext of "freedom of expression". We're talking of course about insults to Muslims by either burning the Quran or mocking their religion/prophet.

I heard an interesting quote not so long ago when certain people were being attacked and belittled for not accepting every single delusional (il)logic of the LGTBXYZ community, but at the same time also attacked for not accepting mocking cartoons towards Islam as freedom of expression, it was something along the lines of "criticizing Israel is antisemitic, not accepting the LGTBQ agenda is trans/homophobic, not believing Nato wars are for freedom and democracy is pro-Putin, but insulting one billion people by mocking their religion is freedom of speech."

As you can tell this is a rather loaded topic, so let's take a step back and examine the whole picture shall we? Did you know that Lèse-majesté is punishable by law in many EU countries? Meaning that it's illegal to insult the head of state or in some countries even those dictator families they call "royalty"? I specifically say EU states because as you know there (almost) are no independent nor sovereign nations left in West Europe, meaning that if you are a politician who holds referendums for independence in a country down south, you can be arrested in another country up north, have your immunity revoked and even extradited.

But why would anyone want to do some of these things? Why would you want to deny the Holocaust? Throughout history billions of people saw the scenes released by the Red Army of starving prisoners, the death camps, the mass graves, the unspeakable crimes captured on record, yet some still find it necessary to deny any of this ever took place. But at the same time people also deny the earth is round despite all the evidence, so should we forbid stupid theories altogether? Why would you want to taunt and insult a billion people you never met? Is mocking and insulting them the only way you can express yourself just because you don't believe what they believe? Why would you want to insult heads of state? Nobody is perfect and they are in a compromising position, so a little understanding towards one another is not a lot to ask right? Right.....?

This is where we get into the abyss of complexity. You see, you can be a vegetarian and express that ritual slaughter has no place in the 21st century without burning a religious book can you not? But should you have to? Ultimately this right here is the core question to the dilemma. We are not in elementary school anymore right, so what makes one adult decide that another can only express him/herself in a certain manner? I'm a firm believer in the saying 'insults start where intelligence stops' so I don't see a need for it, but that doesn't mean others agree. This can go back and forth for literal hours without any decisive conclusions, but here's what can have a conclusion: There are 16 European nations where it's illegal to deny the Holocaust. There are 14 European nations where insulting the royal family and/or president i.e. Lèse-majesté is punishable by law. But in all of these countries, under the guise of freedom of expression, you can go in front of mosques and burn the Quran.🤔

Now some might argue that you can burn other religious books as well so why not that one, but that perception is missing the main point. Remember the politically taunting part? That's what most of these things are, sometimes accidental as you are truly just expressing your opinion and others take insult, sometimes on purpose. The fine line some are pretending to draw is that free speech is one thing and purposely insulting and taunting another. I say they pretend to, because if it's good for the goose it should be good for the gander, but it all of a sudden isn't. Now why is that? It should either be all or nothing right? Why can you insult some but not others? Why can you deny one genocide but not the other? And it doesn't stop there, nowadays some countries are exploring new fields of insanity and trying to illegitimize the BDS campaign. A moment of silence please because Irony has died right there. The country that has the most illegal sanctions and is literally extorting others to boycott economic trade with certain countries, is making it illegal for their own citizens to call for an economic boycott.🤯

Let's try to understand the utter brain dead hypocrisy better by using a real time example in all three aspects: In the Netherlands, they are currently trying to push a Holocaust denial law through, meaning that soon there will be one more EU member state where denying the Holocaust becomes punishable by law. In this same Netherlands, it is literally forbidden to insult that money sucking dictator family who fled the continent like gutless wimps during WW2. In this same Netherlands one man was sitting in jail for two years after throwing a tealight on the horse carriage of that same royal family which not only has looted materials on it from their colonial era but I kid you not, also has actual images of the Africans and Indonesians "giving" their valuables to the white Dutchmen.

Oh, but you can set fire to the Quran in all of the Benelux and as it's burning in your hand, deny their colonial savagery ever took place and add insult to injury and say that it was actually what these people wanted. Do you understand the contradiction here?