For a leader of Iran’s Quds Force to threaten to murder a citizen inside another sovereign nation on grounds that are illegal only in Iran is nothing short of a declaration of war. The threat was against Salwan Momika, “an Iraqi immigrant, who burned pages from the Quran in front of the central mosque in Stockholm on the first day of Eid al-Adha.”
Momika is now living with a fear that is similar to that which is all too frequently experienced by religious minorities in Islamic countries (particularly Pakistan), who can easily be acccused of blasphemy. It is noteworthy that he is originally from Iraq. In Sweden, he should be safe, but given the “extraterritorial military and clandestine operations” of Iran’s Quds Force, Momika is not safe.
Ali Mohammadi-Sirat’s threat should be a top headline in every Western media outlet, as it shows the truth about how far Iran will go to demonstrate its contempt for the laws of Western nations.
“Khamenei’s Man In IRGC Quds Force Threatens Quran Burners,” Iran International, July 27, 2023:
The representative of Iran’s ruler in the foreign wing of the Revolutionary Guard has issued threats against the man who burned a Quran in Sweden last month.
Ali Mohammadi-Sirat, the Supreme Leader’s man in IRGC’s Quds (Qods) Force – a division primarily responsible for extraterritorial military and clandestine operations – said the man who disrespected the Quran should fear for his life. He called upon Swedish authorities to hand over the individual to a Muslim country, emphasizing that “whoever insults Prophet Muhammad and the Holy Quran will be sentenced to execution”.
The incident involved Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant, who burned pages from the Quran in front of the central mosque in Stockholm on the first day of Eid al-Adha, after obtaining a permit from a Swedish court. Some 200 onlookers witnessed him tearing up a copy of the Quran and wiping his shoes with the pages. He then put bacon on the book and set it on fire whilst another protestor addressed crowds with a megaphone. Momika repeated the desecration in front of the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm on July 20. The following day, in neighboring Denmark, members of the far-right nationalist group “Danske Patrioter (Danish Patriots)” burned a copy of the Quran in front of Iraq’s Embassy in Copenhagen.
Iran’s Supreme Leader called for the severest punishment for the perpetrators, describing it as “a bitter, conspiratorial, and perilous act.” In an interview with IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news agency on Wednesday, Mohammadi-Sirat repeated Khamenei’s demands and stressed that these men will not be safe wherever they are, a similar fate to that of Salman Rushdie, an Indian-born British writer who was stabbed in August 2022 because of a death edict by Islamic Republic’s founder Ruhollah Khomeini. In the late 1980s, Khomeini issued a Fatwa for the killing of Rushdie for his book, Satanic Verses, seen by some Muslims as insulting to Prophet Muhammed. Iran also announced a reward for Rushdie’s killing……
Pray Hard says
And moslems wonder why they’re despised all over the Earth.
Lisel Sipes says
That evil POS should fear for his soul. Godless savage.
Wellington says
Take the fear factor away from Islam and, yes, it would still be replete with stupidity and many other negatives but its main reason for continuing to exist would be gone.
Jayell1 says
Islam’s ‘fear factor’, brainchild of the Great Prophet Mohammed and associates, is basically the same thing as that dreamt up by wonderful specimens of humanity such as Al Capone or, over here in the UK, the infamous Kray twins (sadistic East End gangsters) and the Italian Mafia. The only difference between their respective careers lies in the fact that there were viable forces of law and order to take care of Capone and the Krays and keep the Mafia in check, whereas Mohammed & Co. had free reign to build their global protection racket wherever mankind was either stupid enough to be duped by their transparently concocted ‘religious’ marketing front or unfortunate enough not to be able to escape their ‘surgical’ skills as the Great Prophet and Chums performed their customary cranialectomies.
somehistory says
Totally unreasonable is islam and its devout are infected with hatred, a bloodlust, and demon-inspired intentions.
If their ‘god’ was anything like they claim, he could protect his “book,’ from being completely destroyed and his worshippers wouldn’t worry if a copy was burned or torn. But their ‘god’ is a false god, impotent and a liar, full of his own hatred and bloodlust.
The Bible in times past, has been burned, banned, and those brave men who translated it from the original languages into the common languages of mankind, hunted like animals are hunted, burned at the stake, and yet, the Bible still is here and just in about every language for the enrichment of mankind.
And when it has been “desecrated” by mozlums, as in Israel some years ago, used for toilet paper, Christians didn’t riot and call for the death of those mozlums.
mozlums worship falsehoods and lies and have no reasonable way of seeing anything.
Will more and more people take it upon themselves to demonstrate that they can burn the book of unholy filth without fearing the wrath of mozlums and their false god?
Surely the world is seeing just how hate-filled and lacking peace islam truly is.
Tatanka says
The tolerance of Islam is truly heart warming ain’t it?
Goofy says
Apart from the fact that death threats are illegal in all civilized countries what is it precisely that the Qur’an deserves to be respected for? Can we please have some Qur’an verses to make us better understand why you are so upset and filled with lust for spilling blood?
Then a question for Mr Pope: What is it precisely that Christianity and it’s justification in the blood of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has in common with Islam, which is utterly carnal and which has no promise of salvation but is subject to the whims of the greatest of all deceivers Allah?
Mr Pope you are endorsing Islam which is based on blasphemy of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!
The Turkeychoker says
p on yor so called holy phrofit moohamud and his manual for rape,murder and conquest, the queeran.
and p on u for threatening people who have a right to freedom.
Andrew B. says
If the words and deeds of this old fart in a turban does not show people that the teachings in islam is proof that it is in fact a Fascist Religious Cult of brain dead followers who can take a bloody joke nor simply shine on whatever negativity comes their way about their beliefs as whatever they call my faith or me as a person is of zero importance to me but what I think of their faith and person is obviously very important to them so I can see they are so very shallow in their faith as surely my opinion of their faith or personality can not possibly be so important to them as I am nobody of importance.
However they seem to take my words as it hurts their wee shallow feelings and that should tell everybody just how low IQ of belief system they follow.
By their words and actions they are telling me that I am more important than they are…
At least they get that right.