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8 Mar 2011, 1:31 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The Voice of America reports further developments and more details related to the story I noted yesterday:Police in Ethiopia have arrested 130 people described as religious extremists in connection with a series of church burnings in a Muslim-majority area....Ethiopian government spokesman Shimelis Kemal told VOA two Christians had been killed in the incidents. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 9:09 pm by Eugene Volokh
He said the burnings had occurred over a period of several days beginning late last week.... [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 5:19 am by SHG
  And if you aren't one of them, then they will burn your interests in a flash without the slightest remorse. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 8:16 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Agence France Press reports:A Muslim mob burned churches and clashed with police in Indonesia on Tuesday as they demanded the death penalty for a Christian man convicted of blaspheming against Islam, police said.Two days after a Muslim lynch mob killed three members of a minority Islamic sect [the Ahmadiyahs], crowds of furious Muslims set two churches alight as they rampaged in anger over the [five-year] prison sentence imposed on defendant Antonius Bawengan,… [read post]
31 Jan 2011, 9:12 pm
Toasted experts aside, a look now at the patent burn site. [read post]
26 Nov 2010, 11:19 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) From the Guardian (UK): A 15-year-old girl has been arrested in the West Midlands on suspicion of inciting religious hatred after allegedly burning an English-language version of the Qur’an — and then posting video footage of the act on Facebook.... [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 5:20 am by Benjamin Wittes
  We see these as a greater offense against Islam than any cartoon, Qur’an burning, or other speech could ever be deemed. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 10:53 am by Eugene Volokh
We see these as a greater offense against Islam than any cartoon, Qur’an burning, or other speech could ever be deemed. [read post]
26 Sep 2010, 3:36 pm by Philip Thomas
Blogs were burning up on Friday over this blog post by a California law professor (Eugene Volokh) that suggested that 5th Circuit nominee and current Miss. [read post]
19 Sep 2010, 5:41 pm by Mark Bennett
Supreme Court Justice “Breyer compares burning a Koran to shouting “Fire! [read post]
18 Sep 2010, 9:12 am by On the Net
” See also “Planning to Burn a Koran = $200,000 Bill from the Government for Policing Costs? [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 2:01 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The Gainesville Sun reports: The cost of policing the Dove World Outreach Center for the planned Quran burning that never happened is expected to come to about $100,000 each for the Gainesville Police Department and the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, officials say. [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 6:46 am by Anna Christensen
  At Politico, Josh Gerstein compares Breyer’s approach to the recent controversy over Qu’ran burning with that of President Obama, who also discussed Qu’ran burning recently with George Stephanopoulos. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 4:09 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Josh Gerstein (Politico) has transcripts of Breyer’s Good Morning America remarks, which seemed to suggest that Koran-burning might be constitutionally unprotected, but also his more recent Larry King Live remarks, which pretty strongly suggest that Koran-burning is indeed constitutionally protected. [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 10:55 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The New York Daily News reports: [Derek Fenton, t]he protester who burned pages from the Koran outside a planned mosque near Ground Zero has been fired from NJTransit, sources and authorities said Tuesday.... [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 11:23 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The Brisbane Times reports that: A Queensland University of Technology lawyer[,] ... [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 8:23 am by Jonathan H. Adler
” I’ll defer to Eugene on this question, but I’m particularly skeptical of the idea that the First Amendment would protect flag burning but not Koran burning (not that I’d recommend either, save burning a flag for proper disposal). [read post]