Danish officials plan to criminalize Koran burnings after controversial incidents in Denmark and Sweden and increasingly heated protests and deteriorating relations with other countries.
Last month, two men stood outside a mosque in Stockholm and proceeded to tear pages out of a Quran and set the book on fire in front of a crowd of onlookers.
Minnesota’s Macalester College is mired in a dispute over artistic imagery and religious offense, complete with a “content warning” and black curtains temporarily censoring artwork.
MIT asserts that COVID-19 restrictions limiting the size of events and the presence of guests necessitated the decision to cancel a speech by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2020.