The Stockholm Administrative Court lifted the ban of the country’s Interior Ministry on organizing demonstrations with the burning of the holy book.
“The Administrative Court does not consider that the circumstances which formed the basis of the decision of the police department in the two episodes under consideration were sufficient to refuse permission. In this regard, the decision of the police department is canceled,” the document explains.
Even in winter, the organizers of the burning of the holy book of Muslims in front of the Turkish and Iraqi embassies in Sweden turned to the police. The police department denied them permission to hold the action, fearing that more burnings of the Koran would increase the risk of new terrorist attacks. The decision has already attracted criticism from lawyers who said that the letter of the Law does not give the police the right to such actions.
The Koran under the walls of the Turkish embassies in Stockholm was burned in February, later a doll was hung in front of the city hall, clearly resembling Turkish leader Recep Erdogan. The action was conducted by the Danish-Swedish activist of the far-right and anti-Islamic political force “Hard Course” Rasmus Paludan. The fact of barbaric blasphemy against the holy book by extremists was condemned by several Arab states and organizations at once – the Arab League, the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, as well as the world giant – the Islamic University Al-Azhar.
In turn, the Secretary General of the GCC Naif Falah al-Hajraf openly announced that the provocative act inciting ethnic hatred offends the values of the Muslim community, and also represents new evidence of a critical level of Islamophobia, hatred, intolerance and xenophobia. The Secretary General called on the leadership of Sweden to take all possible measures against criminal acts as soon as possible.
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