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Sweden: Prosecutor determines that burning the Qur’an is not a hate crime

Nov 19, 2020 9:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams 32 Comments

Considering the Islamization of far-Left-ruled Sweden, this report is a welcome surprise. “Burning a Koran in itself is not illegal, says chamber prosecutor Sofia Syrén,” suggesting that neither is criticism or even mockery of Muhammad.

Malmö isn’t simply a “multicultural” city. It has a particularly high Muslim population, as well as high rate of Muslim violence. Conditions are so grave in the city that a Jewish congregation has warned that rising antisemitism is turning it into a no-go zone for Jews. Yet not only Jews are facing threats. UPS was forced to suspend deliveries there, citing attacks on drivers. It’s a town under siege by jihadists and Islamic supremacist thugs.

Every country in the West needs to stand united, support the freedom of expression, and oppose the Sharia. No hurt feelings of people of any faith should be considered a challenge to the freedom of speech. Yet the proclaimed hurt feelings of Muslims are creating pandemonium in Western societies, placing the freedom of speech and expression under serious threat.

An imam in France got thousands of death threats for calling the beheaded teacher in France a “martyr for freedom of expression.” Muslims who do not support freedom of expression do not belong in the West.

“No prosecution after Koran burning: ‘Unable to prove crime,'” translated from “Inget åtal efter koranbränning: ‘Går inte att styrka brott,'” SVT, November 16, 2020:

It was not incitement against an ethnic group to set fire to a Koran in Malmö in August. The prosecutor has decided to close the preliminary investigation.

It was originally the Danish party leader Rasmus Paludan who was planning to burn a Koran in Malmö. However, the police stopped his entry into Sweden, when another man decided to burn Islam’s holy book, an action published by Samhällsnytt.

Prosecutors began a preliminary investigation into incitement against ethnic groups, but this was dropped on Thursday, which Sydsvenskan was the first to report.

– It is not possible to prove that a crime has been committed, burning a Koran in itself is not illegal, says chamber prosecutor Sofia Syrén.

She made the assessment to close the preliminary investigation based on, among other things, obtained witness information and the video from the scene.

– We have looked at what is happening around, how the person expresses themselves and so on, she says.

Two preliminary investigations are closed

In connection with the burning of the Koran at Emiltstorp, a large crowd gathered at Stortorget in Malmö. This incident has also been the subject of a preliminary investigation that was closed on Thursday. Sofia Syrén has also reviewed video and witness information here.

– From the material, it appears that there are people who have expressed themselves in a way that is to be judged as incitement against ethnic groups, but these people cannot be identified, she says.

Let’s say that they had burned the Koran at the same time as the events on Stortorget, where they incited an ethnic group and kicked the Koran, would it have been incitement against an ethnic group?

– I would rather not answer that. There are too many unknown parameters, says chamber prosecutor Sofia Syrén.

The two events later that day resulted in a violent riot in Rosengård, where people threw stones at the police. Six people were charged last week with violent rioting.

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Filed Under: blasphemy, Featured, free speech, Qur'an, Sweden Tagged With: Emiltstorp, Malmo, Rasmus Paludan, Rosengård, Sofia Syrén, Stortorget


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  1. John says

    Nov 19, 2020 at 9:41 am

    Ethnic Group? the quran is the guideline of a Barbaric Totalitarian Ideology of Male SAVAGES . Nothing Ethnic, just pure evil Savagery.

    Reply
    • mortimer says

      Nov 19, 2020 at 10:12 am

      They are not merely savages, but savages who are openly hostile to Swedish laws, Swedish people and Swedish culture.

      Reply
      • Keith O says

        Nov 19, 2020 at 5:23 pm

        Mortimer, try hostile to any civilised nation or culture.

        Reply
    • Truth teller says

      Nov 19, 2020 at 2:29 pm

      Mohammad is a lying, murderous, pervert and the Koran will teach you to be just like him.

      Reply
      • gravenimage says

        Nov 19, 2020 at 3:30 pm

        John seems to be resisting the savagery of the Qur’an just fine.

        Reply
  2. Mad Max says

    Nov 19, 2020 at 9:43 am

    Finally some sanity from the far left.

    Reply
  3. Sylvia Drummond says

    Nov 19, 2020 at 10:07 am

    Burning the Queer’un is a waste of time. Deporting its fanatical adherents for their criminal behaviour would be better, that is if the police have the courage to go into Malmo to arrest them

    Reply
    • mortimer says

      Nov 19, 2020 at 10:19 am

      We have to ‘prove’ our right to blaspheme from time to time by actually testing that right. Otherwise, the right is merely theoretical.

      It is the responsibility of the Swedish legal system to defend the rights of Swedish citizens in the constitution.

      Reply
      • gravenimage says

        Nov 19, 2020 at 8:04 pm

        Agreed, Mortimer.

        And I agree with Sylvia that Jihadists need to be deported.

        Reply
    • JohnTheRevelator says

      Nov 19, 2020 at 12:44 pm

      In order to deport someone, you have to have an extremely good reason as you’re violating that person’s human rights and rights as citizens, unless you happen to have an extremist gov’t in power that opposes certain groups of people like in Nazi Germany.

      So in fact burning the Quran is not a waste of time but the crux of the matter entirely. As Sun Tzu stated in the Art of War “if your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him.” That’s exactly what Rasmus Paludan and other Quran burners have been doing.

      By offending Muslims, they’re forcing them to show their hand and true intentions publicly and esp to the ignoramuses and the fools defending Islam. As we know, Muslims attack, beat and kill anyone that burns their ‘sacred’ book, thereby demonstrating that they do not believe in freedom of speech/expression or have a tolerance for other opinions and hence do not belong in western nations.

      Those of us who already know Islam very well don’t need to be convinced that Muslims don’t belong in western nations. These demonstrations are held intentionally to reach those amongst our population who either know nothing about Islam/Muslims or who think that the Islamic community is as benign as any other.

      So if you want to deport Muslims then you need to convince at least two-thirds of your nation that they don’t belong, because of the threat they pose to us ‘infidels.’

      Lastly deporting ‘fanatics’ won’t stop the problem, because Islam has a near endless supply. They all have to be sent back except those who wish to leave Islam, they should be allowed to stay.

      Reply
      • Anne Sardine says

        Nov 19, 2020 at 4:30 pm

        ” those who wish to leave Islam, they should be allowed to stay.”
        They can demonstrate their abandonment of Islam by being filmed burning a Koran.

        Reply
  4. mortimer says

    Nov 19, 2020 at 10:10 am

    Christine Douglass-Williams declares: “This report is a welcome surprise.” (Too true!)

    Can this be the end of the Islamic takeover of Sweden? The hightide mark of jihad? Let’s hope the Swedes are awakening to the systemic hostility within political Islam.

    Den politiska islam är systematiskt fientlig mot kafirs och deras kulturer.

    Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Nov 19, 2020 at 8:06 pm

      This might be a bit premature–but good news, in any case.

      Reply
  5. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Nov 19, 2020 at 10:15 am

    Finally, freedom of speech trumps Islam.
    I guess baby steps it will be.

    Reply
  6. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Nov 19, 2020 at 10:16 am

    +1 John.

    Reply
  7. mortimer says

    Nov 19, 2020 at 10:17 am

    Their is no place in modern, Western countries for a new blasphemy law. Western nations have fought wars over the right to dissent from established religions and the have won that battle. Our freedom to blaspheme is a settled matter in law.

    Our right to blaspheme was best explained by the US Supreme Court. Justice Clark in 1952 wrote:

    “…it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them. … It is not the business of government in our nation to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine.”

    Additionally, Justice Frankfurter noted that beliefs which are

    “…dear to one may seem the rankest ‘sacrilege’ to another,” and added concerning ‘sacrilegious’ speech:

    “…history does not encourage reliance on the wisdom and moderation of the censor.”

    What the American justices were getting at is that the US has no establishment of religion. A US Supreme Court justice has no ‘official’ explanation of blasphemy, since there is no ‘official’ faith.

    The Irish Law Reform Commission’s 1991 Report opined that “there is no place for the offence of blasphemous libel in a society which respects freedom of speech.”

    Reply
    • revereridesagain says

      Nov 19, 2020 at 11:21 am

      That rang a bell, and I seemed to recall some years back a few people trying to stage a protest against a Massachusetts blasphemy law still on the books. So I Wiki’d it, and sure enough…

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_the_United_States

      Of course they aren’t enforced. (Except in the comments sections on GP and Breitbart…) When someone tries to get such a law removed the result usually seems to be a strange combination of embarrassment that it’s still on the books and heels-dug-in refusal to remove it.

      Reply
    • Westman says

      Nov 19, 2020 at 12:47 pm

      It seems the entire crux of West-Islam conflict can be reduced to question of, “Is religion allowed to assume the role of civil government?”

      For the US, that question was decided long ago. Nations like Sweden must make a determination for themselves as they recognize the consequences of ignoring it.

      Reply
    • Michael Copeland says

      Nov 19, 2020 at 4:42 pm

      EU mandarin Federica Mogherini, a Communist, has a different, predictably totalitarian, view:

      ““Islam holds a place in our Western societies. Islam belongs in Europe. It holds a place in Europe’s history, in our culture, in our food and—what matters most—in Europe’s present and future. Like it or not, this is the reality.”

      Europe’s freedom of speech has its own domestic enemies.

      Reply
      • gravenimage says

        Nov 19, 2020 at 8:07 pm

        Grimly true.

        Reply
  8. Dave from San Antonio says

    Nov 19, 2020 at 10:36 am

    Sounds like this prosecutor has some common sense and a some backbone, too. Well done! It, also, might be prudent for him to take a vacation, of some sort, right now.

    Reply
  9. Andrew says

    Nov 19, 2020 at 11:14 am

    That now gets Sweden on the hit list alongside France, Netherlands,Austria and every other European Nation….Its coming folks, its coming…

    Reply
  10. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 19, 2020 at 11:27 am

    How many times does it needs to be repeated ? Which is that a much more for intelligent way to handle the Quran than to burn it is to reveal the logic flaws spoken by the Muslim apologists who used illogical an senseless claims to “prove” the Quran to be true

    For example, a claim by Muslims scholars is that no one can produce something as beautiful as the Quran in the way the words are arranged and thus it can only be of God.

    This claim should be answered.

    First, all someone has to do is examine some of the great works of literature to fine much written beauty. Such as the Greek epic poet Homer with his Iliad and Odyssey and then Virgil who produced the Aeneid has beauty. Even one of the non-Bible books in the Apocrypha called The Song of Three Children is also very beautiful. Thus just because someone sees a work that is written in great beauty doesn’t mean it’s inspired by God.

    Second, the scholar Edward Gibbon wrote after an examination of the Quran that it is an “incoherent jumble of fable and precept and declamation which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, sometimes craws in the dust and is sometimes lost in the clouds…” The writer Thomas Carlyle wrote the Quran is “A wearisome jumble, crude, incondite [with] endless iterations [and] longwindedness…” Likewise, the philosopher David Hume was NOT favorably impressed after reading the Quran.

    [Source of the three scholars mentioned – Secrets of The Koran: Revealing Insight Into Islam’s Holy Book .56,66, by Don Richardson]

    Furthermore, the following should be taken into consideration.

    Of course the Muslim who reads the Quran will see great beauty in the way the words are arranged. This is, in part, because of the power of suggestion after being told so many times that the Quran is so beautifully written. That’s an old brainwashing method, repeating and being told that same thing again and again. Since he or she is always being told the same lie will end up believing that lie. In addition to that, the Imams try to discourage their people from reading other works, such as the Bible, so then they don’t have much or anything to compare or contrast the Quran with. Of course there are some Muslim’s that do read other works, but they are exceptions and they read other things only after they were already brainwashed by the Imams. In short, the Muslims can’t read the Quran objectively because their Imams have programmed them to have a strong bias towards it.

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    • gravenimage says

      Nov 19, 2020 at 8:24 pm

      Yes–the Qur’an only impresses the illiterate.

      Reply
  11. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 19, 2020 at 11:33 am

    It seems to be a need to reiterate again that a better ,as in a more intelligent and sophisticated way deal with Quran than to burn it is to expose the many errors and contradictions this religious book contains.

    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.

    Reply
  12. Infidel says

    Nov 19, 2020 at 12:11 pm

    So Sweden is cold enough that the Swedish hell froze over!

    Reply
  13. rob says

    Nov 19, 2020 at 12:12 pm

    Signs of intelligent life still remain in Sweden?

    Reply
  14. somehistory says

    Nov 19, 2020 at 2:48 pm

    The prosecutor made a wise decision. islam is not an “ethnic” group so the charge didn’t fit to begin. And moslims have enough places where they control freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of choice, freedom of religion…and deny all to everyone what does not fit their filthy book.
    If they don’t wish to live in a country where their written filth is burned or torn, they can stay in their countries where they don’t allow it to be destroyed or even criticized. They can’t be allowed to control such things in other countries, but they won’t stop trying.

    Now, the prosecutor needs to be aware of everyone, everywhere she goes, and watch out…and she needs help to protect herself from those who will wish to kill her for going against them.

    Reply
    • Michael Copeland says

      Nov 19, 2020 at 4:47 pm

      She could start being a Leatherneck, like the early US Marines, and wear a leather neck protector.

      Reply
      • somehistory says

        Nov 19, 2020 at 8:39 pm

        I don’t know if they are still made, but it once was possible for a woman to buy a metal “choker” necklace. That might work as well. She should definitely do something before the murderers do.

        Reply
  15. tim gallagher says

    Nov 19, 2020 at 4:03 pm

    This decision is a sign of some progress in the right direction. And, unfortunately, there are so many times where the authorities in our western countries cave in to Islam’s bullshit, so decisions like this are promising. I think the right approach is the approach of Hungary and the other Visegrad countries who say, no Muslims thanks, none at all, and avoid all the endless nonsense that Muslims always bring to any country foolish enough to let them in. Unfortunately, many western European countries have already let large numbers of Muslims in and, therefore, face massive problems. Short of kicking the Muslims out, the way Burma did, it is hard to see an end to the problems Islam always brings, but you have to celebrate each little sign of our countries waking up and telling Islam to take its barbaric crap, its desire to have backward old blasphemy laws brought back and other garbage, and go to hell. Anyway, well done to this prosecutor in Sweden.

    Reply
  16. gravenimage says

    Nov 19, 2020 at 8:01 pm

    Sweden: Prosecutor determines that burning the Qur’an is not a hate crime
    …………..

    Finally some sanity out of Sweden!

    Reply

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