I’m no fan of book burnings, but they are a matter of free expression. If the police had prevailed in this and Qur’an-burning had been definitively banned, the door would have been opened to all manner of violent intimidation in other areas. Jihadis would have seen that it worked, and have been encouraged to employ the tactic more liberally.
“Verdict: Koran burning must be allowed,” translated from “Dom: Koranbränning borde tillåtits,” Expressen, June 12, 2023:
It was wrong for the police in Stockholm to stop Koran burnings outside the Turkish and Iraqi embassies in February. That was the view of the Administrative Court, and the Court of Appeal is also coming to the same conclusion.
“The Court of Appeal considers that the order and security problems referred to by the Police Authority do not have a sufficiently clear connection to the planned gatherings or their immediate surroundings to refuse permission,” says Court of Appeal president Stefan Holgersson, who presides over the case, in a press release.
Koran burning denied
It was in mid-February this year that the police denied two Koran burnings in a short time outside the Turkish and Iraqi embassies. The applications for permission to organize public gatherings to burn copies of the Koran were made by an association and a private individual, after far-right politician Rasmus Paludan had held his Koran burning outside the Turkish embassy the same month.The rejected applications were appealed, but the police stood their ground and said that there is a risk of terrorist acts if Koran burnings are allowed and carried out.
The police justified their decision to deny Koran burnings by the fact that Säpo made a security assessment that the threat picture against Sweden has been affected by previous Koran burnings and that the risk of attacks increased if future Koran burnings were allowed.
The administrative court concluded that there was no legal support for denying permission. In a press release in April this year, they wrote:
“The Administrative Court does not consider that the circumstances that have formed the basis of the Police Authority’s decision are sufficient to deny the permits in the two cases in question. The police authority’s decision must therefore be annulled”.
The police authority appealed the sub-instance’s decision to the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal’s judgment has now come in the current cases – and follows the same line as the Administrative Court.
The decision can be appealed to the Supreme Administrative Court.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So will Paludan be able to go to, say Malmö, and burn a quran w/o the Swedish police interfering?
Richard says
If enough Swedish people stand with him
born saturday says
the question is, do the police ban the burning and desecration of the churches and christian monuments in practise or not???
NO… they cannot stop the desecration of churches and burnings and other sacriligeous acts on christian monuments… and this goes for the rest of europe also…
so why should they ban the desecration of the quran????????????
why there has to be a double standard for muslims and christians????????
rasmus is a pioneer burning the quran in a public ceremony and he will be followed i assure you…….
Goofy says
The Qur’an should be read with critical eyes rather than be burned.
What Sweden needs is a special study version of the Critical Qur’an with full information of how it relates to the Swedish penal system:
Murdering of non-Muslims will coat you so many years in prison, honour killings will cost you so many years, etc. etc.
All Muslims incarcerated in Swedish prisons should be mandatory lectured this way for 6 hours every day!
According to the Qur’an halal food is not mandatory if it is not available. Nobody will therefore starve. Muslim prisoners should therefore be served the normal Swedish fare whether it is halal or not! Hopefully it will reduce the number of Muslim repeat offenders.
born saturday says
and let me teach you something about censorship…. i weill never publish your links anywhere in the world i blog or comment…..
Joe1 says
What are you saying?
tim gallagher says
It is a good decision, a win for civilised western values of freedom of expression versus the completely barbaric, thuggish values of islam. islam is totally incompatible in endless ways with a decent, civilised way of life. Muslims need to be kept out of non-Muslim countries because, once there are a large number of Muslims in any country anywhere, then they will always set out to impose barbaric islam on everybody. It is their reason for living. Having islam take over the world is the central goal for all Muslims.
Rob (Robin) Blair Harris says
Totally agree.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, Rob. Yes, once the Muslims grow their numbers enough in any country, then their attempt to impose barbaric islam on all of us will begin, that is for sure.
maria says
You are right. Sweden must stay a free country free from muslim terrorists
Michael Copeland says
“the nature of Islam to …impose its law on all nations” – Hassan al Banna
“Islam requires the earth, not just part, but the whole planet” – Maududi
“Yes, we will be masters of the world!” – Safwat Hegazy
“Islam will dominate the world” – placard
and more
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/02/islams-agenda-muslims-speak/
tim gallagher says
What a nightmare for the human race it would be, Michael, if these knuckle draggers did ever achieve their goal of dominating and dragging humanity back to the primitive, barbaric style of life that islam represents. Here’s hoping it never comes to pass. maria, Sweden and all other civilised, non-Muslim countries need to shut the door on Muslims or they will end up facing terrible problems.
Ren says
By banning the burning of the quran, the police authority is complying to a dhimmitude status.
David M says
Police don’t make laws, politicians do. Just because the police turn woke & don’t like something, doesn’t mean they can ban something.
Michael Copeland says
You see, people, if we resist Herr Hitler that will increase the risk of attacks, and we can’t have that, can we?
Michael Copeland says
Rasmus Paludan is astute. He proclaims that Islam is incompatible with Western freedoms. The response to the harmless book-burning proves his point.
Fitna says
Totally Michael, he’s a true hero. Thousands of people should be out there supporting him. We should be holding Quran-burnings everywhere and make it a national holiday…or a month’s long event, along with draw pictures of Mohammad too.
We need to make Muslims feel extremely unwelcome so they’ll pack their bags and leave. Additionally this will put pressure on politicians to support opponents of Islam rather than the Islamofascists.
This is a war and as the Muslim numbers grow, it’ll become more obvious. So it’s better to expose Islam now when they’re a tiny minority and easier to defeat than when they are 10-20% of the population or more.
And God help us if they ever gain state power-they will literately genocide millions of non-Muslims that refuse to convert to Islam and make our lives a living hell. If there was a devil and he had a religion it’d be Islam.
James Lincoln says
The Court of Appeal made an excellent decision!
Walter Sieruk says
A much better ,,as in a more intelligent and sophisticated way deal with Quran than to burn it to ashes is to examine and study it and then expose the many errors and contradictions this religious book contains
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This has already been done on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Quran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Quran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Quran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran. Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.”
Furthermore, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses.
For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.” In conclusion, the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
Even though the above essay was posted before, it should now be added that the last statement of the above that “the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.” To put this in a Biblical way. As in from the Bible, it may be truly explained that the Quran is a deceptive work of “the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.” Ephesians 14:12.. [N.I.V.]