This is an unexpected turn of events, as the Iraqi court is showing more grit than most Western authorities in standing up to the rioting and thuggery that has followed desecration of the Qur’an.
While the West refuses to hold Muslims who resort to violence and barbarism accountable, “a government source confirmed the jail terms and said the verdict showed the Iraqi state was committed to holding people accountable for the violence.”
Good news for a change.
A contrasting example out of Denmark: Danish Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard recently stated that Qur’an burnings “harmed Denmark and risked the safety of Danes.” He missed the boat by not recognizing that it is those Muslims who riot in the wake of Qur’an burnings who are imperiling the safety of citizens and the rule of law in Denmark. Weakness and appeasement only enables such people.
“Iraq jails police for failing to halt torching of Swedish embassy after Quran burning,” Reuters, September 13, 2023:
An Iraqi court sentenced 18 police officers to prison after they were found guilty of failing to prevent protesters from setting fire to the Swedish embassy in Baghdad in July over a planned Quran burning in Stockholm.
A Baghdad court passed the sentences, ranging from 18 months to three years, on Tuesday, according to a copy of the judgment obtained by Reuters and confirmed by two interior ministry officials.
It says the officers were convicted of “abstaining from their duties to protect the Swedish embassy and to stop the persons who stormed and set fire to it.”…
A government source confirmed the jail terms and said the verdict showed the Iraqi state was committed to holding people accountable for the violence.
Hundreds of protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad in July and set it on fire over a planned Quran burning in Stockholm….
Michael Copeland says
Danish Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard also abstained from his duty to protect the Danish Constitution.
The rioting and thuggery are an attack on democracy, part of Islam’s “state of permanent hostility’, as Karl Marx expressed it.
(https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1854/03/28.htm).
William Kemmler says
Good. They held law enforcement accountable for not doing their duty to try and prevent the Swedish Embassy from being burned. But there is one thing that I don’t see in any of that. The moslems that did the burning being held accountable for their terrorist acts against the Swedish Embassy.
And until individual moslems are held accountable for the violence they commit in the name of their political ideology disguised as a religion the violence will never end.