The relentless effort to force Islamic blasphemy laws on free societies continues. It may well turn into a vicious cycle, if it hasn’t already. The more Islamic supremacists attempt to impose the Sharia upon the West, the more desecrations of the Qur’an may occur. These desecrations have not been about hatred for Muslims, but are expressions of opposition to Islamic tenets which justify jihad and a host of other abuses against minorities and women. The desecrations are a statement that the West offers protections for human rights and refuses to become a country like Pakistan, where alleged blasphemy against Islam is harshly punished. France saw schoolteacher Samuel Paty beheaded in the street for showing Muhammad cartoons to his class. Even the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, once stated about the Muhammad cartoon controversy: “In this country, we have to hold on to freedom of speech.” (He also said in 2016 that “it’s time to stop saying Isis has ‘nothing to do with Islam.’”)
Yet there are those on the Right in the West who jump on the bandwagon of protesting against the offense of attacking religious symbols. They say that they see it as “hate,” but they stop short of recognizing the most fundamental point: that central to this entire issue of Qur’an desecration is pushback against Islamic supremacist incursions upon the rights and freedoms which infidels will ultimately lose if the offense to the Qur’an is deemed more important than defending the freedom of expression.
The freedom of expression, no matter if offensive, must continue to flourish in Western societies, as must the freedom to discuss and criticize any ideology. Never before have such freedoms been so vehemently attacked. The renewed desecration of the Qur’an in Sweden is again causing upheaval in the Muslim world. The fires burning in protest against the alleged blasphemy, the millions who are have protested and exhibited utter hooliganism — not to mention the mobbing and murder of Christians for trumped-up blasphemy accusations in Pakistan — all demonstrate the rage, violence and extreme dangers coming from the Islamic world when Islam is perceived to have been offended.
The West needs to take note. And now Iraq, after expelling the Swedish ambassador over the Quran desecration in Sweden, has called for an emergency summit of Muslim nations, and Saudi Arabia is backing this call.
Other Muslim countries have also summoned Sweden’s ambassadors to protest against the Qur’an desecration.
“Iraq Orders the Expulsion of Sweden’s Ambassador as a Man Desecrated the Quran in Stockholm,” Associated Press, July 20, 2023:
Iraq’s prime minister ordered the expulsion of the Swedish ambassador from Iraq and the withdrawal of the Iraqi charge d’affaires from Sweden on Thursday as a man desecrated of a copy of the Quran in Stockholm with permission from Swedish authorities.
The diplomatic blowup came hours after protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Islamic holy book stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad early Thursday, breaking into the compound and lighting a small fire.
Online videos showed demonstrators at the diplomatic post waving flags and signs showing the influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr before a planned burning of the Islamic holy book Thursday in Stockholm by an Iraqi asylum-seeker who burned a copy of the Quran in a previous demonstration last month.
Following the incident, the Swedish Embassy announced that it had closed to visitors without specifying when it would reopen.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement after meeting with security officials that Iraqi authorities will prosecute those responsible for the arson as well as referring “negligent security officials” for investigation.
However, the statement also said that the Iraqi government had informed its Swedish counterpart on Wednesday that Iraq would cut off diplomatic relations should the Quran burning go forward. Hours later, Sudani announced the ordered expulsion of the Swedish ambassador…….
mg says
And yet, none of these nations of the west have summoned the ambassadors of muslim nations protesting the beheadins, slaughterings and other mutilations brought by muslim adherents shouting allahu akbar before their acts in multiple other nations. All we hear, is that this is not a muslim thing…. by both muslim and non muslim speakers.
OLD GUY says
Vary true, on top of the silence from the media when islam is involved in any attack on non-islamic people.
FYI says
The quran refers to us infidels as ‘the WORST of created beings'{koran 98:6}and is written by somebody who is clearly not omniscient,cannot be the creator and whose mind is still in the 7th/8th century.
This is obvious from the well known mistakes in the quran.In koran 10:94 allah tells muhammed that if in doubt he should check with the Bible people.But it is hard to find a Bible in islamic countries as the muslims would see that the Real Torah has teachings that expose allah’s ‘torah'{koran 2:87}as an obvious fraud.
If allah is claiming he gave the Torah to Moses then how could he have missed the entire Law system in the Torah?..and he MISSED the Golden Rule which is the meaning of the law{Matthew 7;12}
In quran 5:116 allah says ‘O Jesus son of Mary!Didst thou saith unto mankind :take me and my mother for two gods beside allah?”
Where does allah get Mary from?When did Jesus Christ say Mary should be honored as a god?
Ridiculous nonsense!
allah seems to think Christians worship 3 gods{allah,Jesus,mary}So he doesn’t understand Christian Theology!
“Thou art the Knower of Things Hidden” koran 5:116
No allah,you don’t know all things.Nice try though:But you are just not omniscient!
FYI says
“thou art the knower of Things Hidden” koran 5:109{not 5:116}
“And he is knower of all things” koran2:24
“allah knoweth;ye knoweth not” koran 2:232
It is funny how allah insists he knows all things but doesn’t understand Science,the Purpose and meaning of the Laws of Moses{TORAH}or Christian Theology.
It is funny how allah lacks omniscience.
Hi:I am alan and i know all things..i know babies grow in the kidneys,the Moon split in three and christians are polytheists who worship 3 gods{Jesus,Mary and Joseph}and abraham was certainly not a Jew..And these are 100% true statements…like the koran then.
Michael Copeland says
The earth is laid out flat like a carpet, and the sun sets in a muddy pool. if you say they do not you will be killed.
Emilie Green says
“The renewed desecration of the Qur’an in Sweden is again causing upheaval in the Muslim world”
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“How dare these infidels, these kafir, not do as we Muslims – the best of peoples – command.”
Michael Copeland says
“:the millions who have protested”….
Translation: the millions obeying orders from the mosque.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Sweden should have been first to break off diplomatic relations, but it’s not too late. They should shut down the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm, and declare all Iraqis in Sweden (except Assyrian/Chaldean Christians as well as Yazidis) persona non grata and expel them all!
PMK says
AMEN!!!!
Aum says
Will the EU or G7 – Support Sweden?
West needs to build a coalition like the 57 of OIC on the issue of Freedom of Speech.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Won’t happen, b’cos much of the West does not really stand for it!
Deodata says
In a show of solidarity, every Nato member should close Iraq’s embassy
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Ha! One more reason why NATO is a farce
Besides, Turkey would be more on Iraq’s side here than NATO. Of course, nobody in Western diplomatic circles would think that Turkey doesn’t belong in NATO for this reason, as well as so many others!
davidafoot says
Not only does the Islamic Empire orders to force its law above our law of property and freedom of speech but other parts of the Islamic Empire are prepared to also try and force their abomination outside their borders on other countries.
We should have an absolute right over our property even to destroy it without involving anybody else’s property.
We should have an absoulte freedom of speech if we disagree with what is written on paper which belongs to us to burn it if we wish to express that opinion in that way.
What happens inside the borders of Sweeden is not a matter for a foreign state.