I’m no fan of book burnings, but they are a matter of free expression. If the police prevail in this and Qur’an-burning is banned, the door will be opened to all manner of violent intimidation in other areas. Jihadis will have seen that it worked, and be encouraged to employ the tactic more liberally.
“The police are appealing verdicts on denied Koran burning,” translated from “Polisen överklagar domar om nekad koranbränning,” by Johanna Hanson, Expressen, April 6, 2023:
The police are appealing the Administrative Court’s rulings that there was no basis for denying permission for two Koran burnings.
The administrative court ruled on Tuesday that it was wrong to stop the two public gatherings where Koran burnings were to take place.
A gathering was stopped outside the Turkish embassy in early February. Another outside the Iraqi embassy in late February. The police based the decision on the increased threat to Sweden.
Now the police authority is appealing the judgments and has requested a postponement until April 25 to develop its appeal.
“The police authority considers that the issue is fundamentally important and that it is therefore urgent that it be examined by a higher authority,” the police write in a press release.
somehistory says
They just don’t wish to protect those people who will burn the book of filth from those who read and worship the book of filth when the latter riot and burn other stuff.
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“The police are appealing the Administrative Court’s rulings”
I don’t know much about the laws in Sweden, but aren’t the police supposed to enforce the law rather than appeal it?
somehistory says
I don’t know much about the laws there either, James. Perhaps Sweden left that principle far behind when they decided to let mozlums rule them. As long as the law is in favor of freedom, the mozlums will certainly appeal…or riot…for the change.
PRCS says
That’s the way it’s supposed to work….
tim gallagher says
James, I wonder if the police are after a peaceful, or maybe a do nothing, lazy life, and therefore want to stop the burning of the Koran because they know what lunatics the Muslims will behave like after each burning of the vile book of hate. I imagine that the police do get sick of all the
extra crime that they have to deal with since the Muslims lobbed in sweden which I’m sure was once a very peaceful country before the Muslim invasion. It is a pretty gutless attitude from the Swedish police.
Fitna says
Agreed Tim, if the cops were smart, they’d ask for the banning of Qurans, Islam and Muslim immigration, if they really want to make their lives more cushy.
In fact all non-Muslims everywhere should ask for that. Oh we’ll get some heat and insults and death threats, but if we succeed in getting Islam banned, there will be real peace for us and future generations for a long time, totally worth it.
tim gallagher says
Couldn’t agree more with what you say, Fitna. If Muslims, with all their Koranically endorsed murderous hatred for non-believers were shut away in Muslim countries and kept the hell out of all non-Muslim countries, there would be such a massive increase in peace in those non-Muslim countries. Will our authorities ever wake up to this fact and act accordingly? Maybe one day, but, at the moment, unfortunately, it seems a long way off.
Fitna says
Thanks Tim and well said…unfortunately our elites are absolutely clueless on how to solve this problem.
They’re terrified of offending Muslims, so how can you stop a group of evil people from being evil if you’re afraid to offend them?
But there really is a light at the end of this dark tunnel…should our leaders decide to get tough, stop caring about what Muslims and Lefties think and get on with treating Islam and Muslims like toxic waste that we have to get rid of.
The day they do that is the day we’ll all be free (from Islam at least).
But I think you’re right, it’s going to be a long hard fight and perhaps we’ll have to first lose our freedoms, and maybe many thousands or more innocent lives will be destroyed (by Muslim hands) until we finally decide we’ve had enough of them and fight back…it could take decades at this rate for that to happen, if ever, sadly.
I’ve always been an optimist and I feel if the elites don’t ‘handle it’ then maybe enough people like us will rise up and demand something is done. If we get a million anti-Islamic people demanding a stop to Islam I think it can happen.
David M says
I’m sure that’s how it works all around the world. The police are there to enforce the law, not get offended by a law because it goes against their leftist values.
maria says
The swedish police is not only cowardish, but they have police women who live together with the muslims and they want to ban koran burning.
Then there is still part of real policemen who allow burning of the koran.
Many Swedes support Paludan but many other are afraid to say it openly.
The worst thiing is that there are too many muslims in Sweden about 2 milllion and they take moe and more rule in Sweden.
Mike says
The freedom of speech and expression must be ruled and organized by not only the human made laws, regulations and the constitutions, but also by something we call the human species attributes that differentiate us humans from animals, some of these attributes are the human dignity, human decency, human integrity, human empathy and compassion toward other humans, human empathy and so on.
We, the human species have reached the bottom of our purposes for existence instead of reaching the top, that’s why we are being engulfed in miseries such as wars, famines, homelessness, billionaires vs starving children, selfishness where everybody on this earth thinks that he is the holder of the truth and the only truth and all others are wrong and deserve slavery.
Correct me if you think that I’m wrong, thanks.
Goofy says
The Swedish authorities as the Swedes in general are not much into religion of any kind, including what is supposed to be their own Lutheran faith.
Therefore nobody has ever bothered to find out what is written in the Qur’an. If they did they would find numerous blasphemies against the Christian faith.
And still the Qur’an is called holy!
We cannot expect from the Swedish police any theological expertise, but it ought to be of concern that the Qur’an includes calls for the Muslim faithful to fight everybody else by striking their necks as found in the Qur’an 8:12 and 47:4. That surely contradicts the criminal code of any civilized country, Sweden included!
And still the Qur’an is called holy!
John Allan says
‘And still the Qur’an is called holy!’
Very likely because its religious logic is full of holes!
John Allan says
It’s the Qur’an, ITSELF, that needs banning!
Then there wouldn’t BE any burnings TO ban!
OLD GUY says
Burning the Quran is a logical thing to do, it has no value other than to justify violence and murder.