Wherever there are Qur’an desecrations, there will be furious reactions and riots from Muslims. This is a consciously chosen course of action that originated in response to the Muhammad cartoons in Jyllands-Posten in Denmark back in 2005. The idea is to frighten and intimidate the West into giving up the freedom of expression. And it works: Denmark has already capitulated. Sweden will likely soon follow.
“Clashes erupt in Sweden’s third largest city after another Quran burning,” Associated Press, September 4, 2023:
STOCKHOLM — Clashes erupted in an immigrant neighborhood in Sweden’s third largest city after an anti-Muslim protester set fire to a copy of the Quran, police said Monday.
Police in Malmo said they were pelted with rocks and dozens of cars were set on fire, including in an underground garage, and described the events that started Sunday and lasted overnight as “a violent riot.”
The clashes started after an anti-Islam activist, Salwan Momika, burned a copy of the Quran on Sunday and an angry mob tried to stop him, police said. At least three people were detained, they said.
Early Monday, a crowd of mainly young people set fire to tires and debris and some threw electric scooters, bicycles and barriers in Malmo’s Rosengard neighborhood, which has seen similar clashes in the past. Several banners condemned the Quran burning….
In the past months, Momika, a refugee from Iraq, has desecrated copies of the Quran in a series of anti-Islam protests mostly in Stockholm. Swedish police have allowed his actions, citing freedom of speech….
Sweden dropped its last blasphemy laws in the 1970s and the government has said it has no intention to reintroduce them.
However, the government has announced an investigation into the possibility of enabling police to reject permits for demonstrations over national security concerns.
Michael Copeland says
Associated Press tries to keep the description abstract:
“Clashes erupted….. Police …. were pelted with rocks and dozens of cars were set on fire, …. young people set fire to tires and debris and some threw electric scooters, bicycles and barriers …”
With respect, these are NOT “clashes”. These are attacks on democracy by violent intimidation.
The report initially misdescribes Salwan Momika as “an anti-Muslim protester”. This is wrong. Later the article more accurately calls him “an anti-Islam activist”, but the damage was already done. The two subjects are distinct and need to be kept separate: otherwise it is misdescription, and the readers remain uninformed.
Sweden’s constitution upholds freedom of expression. This deserves to be emphasised in these reports.
Has the unnamed reporter even looked at the Koran? At Chapter Nine? Does he think it should be sacrosanct, with its “enmity and hatred forever” (60:4) and repeated instructions to “Kill them [the non-Muslims]”?
https://gatesofvienna.net/2023/08/koran-the-book-of-kill-them/
Jennifer says
This never made the international news!
No surprise there really!!
Emilie Green says
“Sweden dropped its last blasphemy laws in the 1970s and the government has said it has no intention to reintroduce them.”
Of course, that’s exactly what Sweden is doing.
FYI says
Muslims are always enraged about something.
But then they don’t have music,art,literature,comedy festivals,beer.No chillin’out with them.
Hobbies?Origami is probably out.Cartoons?haram..it’s allay akbar time.
Mind you if they discover the Awesome Way Of the Murtads or allahs’ unwitting way out of islam {koran 10:94} it would be good.Then they become infidels like us …’the Worst of created beings” koran 98;6
And anger management classes should be made compulsory.
Tatanka says
And it just does not cross the minds of police and immigration to round these religious fanatics up and send them back to their sand dunes and quit importing theses misogynistic pedophiles and necromancers
Fitna says
Maybe they fear the wrath of their Muslim masters in rich Arab states.
The Swedish PM Kristersson was sweating like a pig trying to ride the line on freedom of speech/expression and trying to placate the anger of nations like Turkey so that they’ll be accepted in NATO.
Well when a gang of violent thugs demand you give up your rights/freedoms for momentary peace, it’s hard to resist, esp. for civilized people not used to being attacked/bullied.
I hope Sweden holds the line, but looks like they might capitulate like Denmark…then there will be more demands until it becomes Pavlovian to bow to Muslim terrorists.
They’ll later regret it but the fight to get back their freedom will be even harder.
And I fully agree with you…the Swedish gov’t (all western nations) have massive powers at their fingertips, including calling in the military if they wanted…but curiously enough, rather than protect their nation, they keep taking it.
Fitna says
Another possibility is the fear of a global war. Muslim nations haven’t been shy about threatening war before.
When Holland had the ‘Draw Mohammad’ cartoon event, Pakistan threatened to nuke them.
They also have the OIC, the UN and other Islamic entities telling them to back down.
Whatever happens, those of us who oppose Nazi-Islam owe a great debt to Momika…I think this was exactly his aim.
The first few times when the Quran was burned, very little happened…but this was just the beginning. The aim was to rile up Muslim anger so that we get exactly the response we did with the rioting and burning of cars.
That definitely got the world’s attention….we need more of this to show to everyone what a bunch of rotten evil savages Muslims really are….what gov’ts do after is up to them but at least the population will see what’s coming with their own eyes.
People will also see that Muslims don’t belong here as they oppose everything we stand for.
Westman says
When non-Muslims behave in a violent manner over perceived dissatisfaction, which involves no personal injury nor even actual direct threat to any specific individual(s), we ascribe that behavior to bad programming by parents or society. In children it is recognized as, “throwing a tantrum”.
The violent behavior of some Muslims to the loss or degradation of a symbol that they do not personally own, manifested in destructive behavior such as burning cars, might be considered adult(?) tantrums. It is ignorance of reality that permits Sweden’s government to consider any of these violent criminal actors to be good citizens, a source of stable employment, or economic assets.
What is responsible for the poor behavioral programming of violence-oriented Muslims that justifies their violence? Was it the society from which they came, Islam, bad parents? A combination? Is it possible that limited education has resulted in frozen adolescence?
Hoi Polloi says
Murder and arson over damaged paper. Pedophilia. Wife beating. Slavery. Policy of lying. 14 centuries without advancement. Intense sanctioned hatred. Remind me, please, what islam brings to civilized people?
OLD GUY says
Muslims/islam always chooses violence to any problem or idea they disagree with.