Despite the threat to freedom, and in a global atmosphere of darkness regarding Hamas and what Islamic jihad is really about, a Swedish court “convicted a man of inciting ethnic hatred with a 2020 Qur’an burning, the first time the country’s court system has tried the charge for desecrating Islam’s holy book.”
The reaction from the Swedish government was to “condemn the desecrations” as it “upheld the country’s extensive freedom of expression laws.” Yet the Linkoping District Court still ruled against freedom of expression laws. Desecrating a Qur’an has nothing to do with “targeting Muslims,” as the court claimed. Rather, it is a gesture to send the message that the West is not under Sharia blasphemy laws. The reaction to Qur’an desecrations has also served to show what normative Islam is about, and why it is more important than ever to defend the freedom of expression.
Of course, the court could not prove any intent to incite “ethnic hatred,” but rather exposed its own folly. Islam is not an ethnicity or race.
“Sweden convicts man over 2020 Quran burning, a first,” Malay Mail, October 12, 2023:
STOCKHOLM, Oct 12 — A Swedish court today convicted a man of inciting ethnic hatred with a 2020 Quran burning, the first time the country’s court system has tried the charge for desecrating Islam’s holy book.
The conviction comes after a wave of Quran burnings earlier this year that stoked international outrage and made Sweden a “prioritised target”, prompting the country’s intelligence agency to heighten its terror alert level.
The Swedish government condemned the desecrations but repeatedly upheld the country’s extensive freedom of expression laws.
The Linkoping district court in central Sweden found the 27-year-old man guilty of “agitation against an ethnic group”, saying his action had “targetted Muslims and not Islam as a religion”, and “can hardly be said to have encouraged an objective and responsible debate”.
In September 2020, the man had recorded a video clip outside the Linkoping cathedral showing a Quran and bacon being burned on a barbecue, with a pejorative remark about the Prophet Mohammed written on a sign under the barbecue.
The man published the video on social media platforms Twitter, now known as X, and YouTube, and placed the burnt Quran and bacon outside the Linkoping mosque.
The song “Remove Kebab” was used in the video, a song popular among far-right groups and which calls for the religious cleansing of Muslims….
The man had denied any wrongdoing, arguing that his action was a criticism of Islam as a religion….
Jack Reynolds says
But he was just trying to reduce his reliance on Fossil fuels !!!
mike says
will this case just proves the Muslims are in control
what will be next
Muslims are always the victims
ed says
What would happen if you burned a koran and a bible at the same time?
Phil Copson says
Brilliant!
I expect you would be sent to prison with the excuse that you had offended two major religions: Therefore, the thing to do would be to burn a bible first and see what happens – either nothing – or probably the Left will praise you for being “brave”. The following week, burn a bible and a koran together, and then when they impose a prison sentence – it proves that the prison sentence only relates to the koran burning and they couldn’t care less about the desecration of the bible.
ed says
OBTW
You should never burn your koran
you never know when you might run out of toilet paper
John Allan says
🤣😂😭
John Allan says
‘The conviction comes after a wave of Qur’an burnings earlier this year that stoked international outrage …’
INTERNATIONAL OUTRAGE!?
Yeah, right! I SERIOUSLY doubt that MOST of the international community GIVES a toss!
Either about Islam … other than when its adherents are doing a war-dance, over SOME imaginary slight!
Or about its ruddy Qur’an!
Though it SHOULD give one … about ‘democratic’ governments, abusing people’s right to freedom of expression!
Hoi Polloi says
Suicidal Sweden.
FYI says
allah’s amazing lack of omniscience..
“And allah is knower of ALL things”
koran 2:29
The well known scientific errors in the koran,the epic theology fail of koran 5:116 where allah reveals he completely misunderstands what christians believe by having MARY as one of the 3 gods they worship,the nonsense about Jews believing in someone called ‘Ezra is he son of allah” when they don’t.
What can be said is that allah does NOT know ALL things.
allah does not understand what omniscience actually is.
so he is not omniscient.despite claiming he is:so koran 2:29 is provably FALSE
iThe author of the koran is just pretending to be God.
Will the muslims get that?
No
Ex-muslims,atheists and everyody else should.
The koran cannot come from any source that is omniscient.
The koran cannot come from any God.How hard is it to figure it?centuries of islamic scholarship?
FYI says
allah and his amazing lack of omniscience..
It’s like this.There is a pub quiz and you are introduced to a member of your team.allan it is said knows all things.Good man for the quiz then!
“Hi i’m allan akbar and i know ALL things..except anything to do with Science especially Astronomy,Mathematics,Sport,Art,music,literature or general knowledge or where babies come from or anything that requires Logic”
You cannot claim to know ALL things as allah does if you don’t actually know ALL things!
Critical thinking is hard for muslims:islam has a death penalty for Apostasy.The ‘scholars’ of islam and the dawah conmen don’t want muslims to think for themselves.
So well done to ex-muslims….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I thought that they upheld that that is legal. Or didn’t they?
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“A Swedish court today convicted a man of inciting ethnic hatred with a 2020 Quran burning…”
I submit that the Koran itself – with its horrific statements about Jews and infidels – is really the thing that incites “ethnic hatred”.
Would the man have been convicted if he merely read publicly from the Koran?
David says
After what is happening in Israel today burning that cult of terrors holy book should be encouraged not condemned.