Danish Elections and Politics

[Lord Halifax]

Danish voters: "I can excuse hostile anti immigration policies but I draw the line at cutting the number of public holidays!"

people who are in favor of anti-immigration policies don't view them as "hostile", but as protective of native culture and identity, the living standard of local workers, social cohesion or whatever they feel immigration may threaten and not some kind of moral flaw that needs to be excused.

[Lord Halifax]

How is burning a book an example of "free speech"? Its not speech, its a physical action.

free speech is a Common Law concept, in Continental Europe they typically use broader terms which makes it either less relevant or irrelevant whether something is speech or another way of expressing an opinion. German has Meinungsfreiheit (freedom of opinion), Spanish and French have libertad de expresión and liberté d'expression (freedom of expression), and the Scandinavian term yttrandefrihet (Swedish) and ytringsfrihed/t (Danish/Norwegian) also means freedom of expression.

[Lord Halifax]

What's wrong with simply having a law against burning or desecrating any books - no matter what the subject matter. With the only exception being when institutions such as libraries or book stores have so much extra stock that there is no other way to dispose of them - though even in those cases, books are paper and ought to be recycled.

not sure if you're merely asking in the abstract, but such a ban would be unconstitutional in many, probably most, Western countries.