Ahmad Alloush staged demonstration in response to series of Koran-burnings in Sweden despite government condemnation
Originally from Syria, Alloush has lived in Sweden for eight years and lives in the southwestern Borås municipality. His one-man protest on Saturday threw down the gauntlet to the Swedish government. It has condemned the Koran-burning as Islamaphobic but has yet to act, citing the independence of police and courts.
Koran-burnings have taken hold in Sweden and Denmark in the last three years largely thanks to Rasmus Paladan, a politician with joint Swedish and Danish citizenship. His latest burnings of the Islamic holy scriptures last January before a Stockholm mosque complicated Sweden’s tricky accession to Nato amid Turkish reservations.
They framed the right to burn books under Sweden’s liberal freedom of expression, assembly and demonstration laws. After the most recent Koran burning, during the Eid al-Adha holiday, Sweden’s justice minister Gunnar Strommer said the government was reconsidering changing the law. Fearing a repeat of Denmark’s 2005 controversy over a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad, the justice minister said the Koran burnings had “generated threats to our internal security”.
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