In practical terms, it will be forbidden to burn, tear or otherwise defile holy texts publicly or in videos intended to be disseminated widely.

You can still do it all you want, but if you're doing it to get a rise out of people, it's different.

The entire reason they're bringing this back is harassment of refugees after all. That's why you never hear about them burning Catholic Bibles, even though that actually is a world wide multi billion dollar organization that coordinates as a single entity to hide all the fucked up shit their employees do.

I might not believe in any religion, but I also don't see how anyone thinks being intentionally antagonistic towards a group of people because they believe in something.

Like, are you spending this month outside of elementary schools screaming at the kids that Santa isn't real?

Lifelong Atheist here. This sucks but let's not forget why this is happening and who is responsible for it. A small group of racists has continuously and systematically abused freedom of expression to incite intercultural hate in Denmark and around the world. Those right wing edgelords made public Quran burning a weekly event until the government simply had no other choice than adjusting the law to stop those provocateurs from inciting hate and violence, before worse things happened (which was obviously the goal of the neo-nazis, so they could then blame Muslims for it).

Atheists who spread hate against religious communities are no better than religious fundamentalists spreading hate against Atheists.

Up to 2 years in prison for burning a book (whether it be the Bible or Quran) that has been used as a weapon to subjugate women and persecute gay people. Interesting. Is there also a prison sentence for using a holy book to subjugate women or persecute gay people in Denmark?

Interesting priorities…there’s a reason people burn holy books