The legislation, securing 94 votes in favour and facing opposition from 77 members in the 179-seat Folketing, specifically targets the "inappropriate treatment of writings with significant religious importance for a recognised religious community."
The law, pending formal approval by Queen Margrethe later this month, prohibits the public burning, tearing, or defilement of holy texts, both in person and through disseminated videos.
Offenders may face fines or up to two years in prison. The Ministry of Justice underlines that the law aims to counteract "systematic mockery," contributing to an increased terrorism threat in Denmark, particularly in the wake of public protests involving Holy Koran burning
...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women's noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship....s in Denmark and Sweden earlier this year.