This jeopardizes Sweden’s bid to join NATO, as Erdogan is holding its membership hostage. Sweden must abandon the freedom of expression if it wants to join NATO. Now it has opted for the freedom of expression, but this stand may not last long.
“Sweden approves small Quran-burning protest outside mosque,” by Lindsay Isaac, CNN, June 28, 2023:
Swedish authorities approved a Quran-burning demonstration outside of a mosque in the center of Stockholm on Wednesday, in a decision that may jeopardize its bid to join NATO before the bloc’s key summit in July.
Although only two people were expected to participate in the protest, the burning will coincide with the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Adha, one of the most significant in the Islamic calendar.
The decision to permit the protest was made in accordance with the right of freedom of speech, Swedish police said, adding that the demonstration does not pose an immediate security risk.
But allowing such an inflammatory protest may stir further backlash in Turkey, a NATO member state that has obstructed Sweden’s accession bid. Sweden and neighboring Finland both formally applied to join the bloc after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine….
maria says
Sweden is now a very good country. Why should Sweden be a member of NATO? To fight for Ukraina?
No.
Erdogan is a terrible muslim fanatic but he cannot force Sweden to dictate what to do and what not
Fitna says
Agreed
Fitna says
I think this is due in large part to the Sweden Democrats sharing power with the center-right. I hope we continue to see more defiance and strength in the face of Islamic thuggery coming from Turkey and other Muslim nations.
That’s one bright spot in an ocean of darkness…hopefully other western nations will start showing courage and oppose Islamic fascism. Ofc most of this is just symbolism…only when Islam is declared an enemy ideology and Muslims are deported will we know that our leaders want to save their nation from Islamification, otherwise there is still a long way to go.
CL North says
Exactly right! As a 30 year military veteran, I would love to see Sweden join NATO. They have lots of military age males to help do the fighting! U.S. military is currently undermanned in several key positions like infantry & radar specialists. Nothing short of a mandatory draft will fill our depleted military ranks! Conservatives & patriotic families are no longer encouraging their young to join a woke joke military! United States still has the largest amount of military troops in the 30-member NATO alliance. Believe it or not, Turkey has the second largest number of soldiers. Watch how many NATO peacekeepers (who identify as Muslims) go against Turkey or another Muslim rogue nation! That’s the scary part of Europe, Canada & America embracing Islamic, migrant soldiers among their ranks! Trusting snakes not to bite & kill you. Better odds can be found in Vegas!
Fitna says
Thanks CL and likewise…well said.
NATO should throw out Turkey and take in Sweden…though it’s no longer the organization it used to esp. since it doesn’t realize they have enemies in their ranks including a dangerous country controlling the agenda.
It needs to be revamped to fight Islamic fascism, today’s Nazism.
Walter Sieruk says
Actually, a much more intelligent and sophisticated to do with the Quran than burn is is to study it and examine it and then publicly reveal and expose all the errors and contradictions that it contains.
This has already been done. For example, 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 Qu ‘ran 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.” In addition , 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 Qu ‘ran 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 Qu ‘ran 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.]
Walter Sieruk says
There is an old challenge given by many the apologists for Islam to support of their firm belief that the Qu ‘ran is ,truly, Divine.
The challenge they declare is “Try to write a book as beautifully written as the Qu’ ran . you cannot.”
The answer to that claim this that just because a written work of religious literature has beauty in it does not necessary mean that it’s the infallible Word of God.
For there are many highly religious books that are very beautifully written that have been around for centuries but not literally God’s Word.
For example, many of the books that make up the Apocrypha are very well written but they didn’t make into the Bible as God’s word. For instance, the specific apocrypha book of The Song of Three Young Men is a very pious beautifully written religious work of literature but it’s still not the Divine Word of God.
In addition, there have been and are many very intelligent men who read the Qu ‘ran and found it to be overly repetitious, dull inconsistent and even in some places contradictory.
This naturally is in contrast to how all Muslims hear the Qu ‘ran when it is recited. So those two contrasting views of the Qu ‘ran just prove valid the old saying that “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
In conclusion, it should be obvious that just because a person finds something in a book that is religious to be also b that he finds to be written doesn’t actually mean of Divine.
somehistory says
This is a surprise….after that arrest warrant for the man who wanted to burn one there somewhere and had to leave the country; and er snake a wan wanted Swedish laws changed, and riots, and other mozlums overreacting.
Is a big change in the wind in Sweden?
Tatanka says
Hopefully they approve the flattening of every mosque in the Country next
Hank says
Why not make a practical deal and make everybody happy.
Ok— no more Quran burnings in exchange for Muslim countries taking their own illegal migrant Muslim citizens at a quota of 400,000 a year. Especially the most violent protesting Muslim countries would more than be happy for such a deal. I am sure the Quran would be held in such esteem that a deal could easily be struck.
It’s a win-win deal.