{"id":1442636,"date":"2022-04-17T14:59:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T18:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1442636"},"modified":"2022-04-17T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T19:00:06","slug":"sweden-sees-days-of-riots-over-qur-an-burning-danish-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sweden-sees-days-of-riots-over-qur-an-burning-danish-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden Sees Days of Riots over Qur&#039; an-Burning Danish Politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsweden-sees-days-of-riots-over-qur-an-burning-danish-politician%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1442636&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">On Thursday and Friday, Swedish cities saw cars set on fire and police injured as a result of rioting by people opposed to demonstrations by Qur\u2019an-burning politician Rasmus Paludan.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, riots and violence took place in the\u00a0Sk\u00e4ggetorp area of the city of\u00a0Link\u00f6ping ahead of a demonstration by Danish anti-Islam politician Rasmus Paludan, leader of the Stram Kurs party.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The violent riots led to at least three police officers being injured after being hit with stones and rocks and several vehicles set on fire, including a police car, broadcaster SVT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/lokalt\/ost\/valdsamt-upplopp-i-skaggetorp-polisbilar-skadade\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paludan\u2019s rally was supposed to take place Thursday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. but did not occur. Police say at least two people, both in their thirties, were arrested during the riots.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20671490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1240004791.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20671490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1240004791-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Police vans are on fire as counter-protesters react during a counter-protest in the park Sveaparken in Orebro, south-centre Sweden on April 15th, 2022, where Danish party Stram Kurs had permission for a square meeting on Good Friday. (Photo: KICKI NILSSON\/TT NEWS AGENCY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis has been a serious situation. It was chaotic at the scene with several hundred people on the scene,\u201d police spokesman Johnny Gustavsson commented. Several rioters are believed to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/lokalt\/ost\/polisuniformer-stulna-i-skaggetorp\">stolen police uniforms<\/a> and other equipment from police vehicles.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt was a violent and chaotic situation today. There have also been burglaries in the cars and bags of police equipment have been stolen,\u201d Gustavsson added.<\/p>\n<p>Rioting also broke out in the city of\u00a0Norrk\u00f6ping due to another Stram Kurs demonstration that also did not end up taking place. Around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/lokalt\/ost\/oroligt-i-norrkoping-sparvagn-attackerad\">15 cars were set on fire<\/a> in the city and police were also attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Swedish\u00a0National Police Chief Anders Thornberg commented on Thursday\u2019s rioting <a href=\"https:\/\/polisen.se\/aktuellt\/nyheter\/2022\/april\/rikspolischefen-kommenterar-handelserna-i-linkoping-och-norrkoping\/\">saying<\/a>, \u201cWhat happened in Link\u00f6ping and Norrk\u00f6ping is completely reprehensible and will never be accepted. I have made sure that the employees who have been injured have been taken care of.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20671502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1240004622.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20671502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1240004622-1024x676-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"654\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Police officers react during a counter-protest in the park Sveaparken in Orebro, south-centre Sweden on April 15th, 2022, where Danish party Stram Kurs had permission for a square meeting on Good Friday.\u00a0 (Photo: KICKI NILSSON\/TT NEWS AGENCY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe live in a democratic society and one of the most important tasks of the police is to ensure that people can use their constitutionally protected rights to demonstrate and express their opinion.\u00a0\u00a0The police should not choose who has that right but always intervene if a crime occurs. Targeting police and police equipment is an attack on both the rule of law and democracy,\u201d Thornberg added.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Paludan and his group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/lokalt\/stockholm\/oroligt-i-rinkeby-polis-skadad\">burned a copy of the Islamic Qur\u2019an<\/a> in the no-go Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby and violence soon broke out. Police were attacked with stones and rocks, leading to one officer becoming injured.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAt first I had information that one was injured, then I got information that no one was injured. There are two police officers who have been hit by something and suffered pain, but have not been so badly injured that they have had to seek medical attention. They could continue to work after this,\u201d\u00a0Daniel Wikdahl of the Stockholm police said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Swedish prosecutor has brought charges against 12 men and one woman connected to rioting in August after a copy of the Islamic Quran was burned in Malm\u00f6. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vGe7hSB74S\">https:\/\/t.co\/vGe7hSB74S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1391060634364792835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The riots are not the first in Sweden in reaction to the actions of Paludan and Stram Kurs. In August of 2020, around 300 residents of the multicultural city of Malmo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/08\/29\/muslims-riot-stone-cops-in-no-go-zone-after-protester-burns-quran\/\">took part in riots<\/a> that saw violence against police and cars set on fire after activists had burned a Qur\u2019an.<\/p>\n<p>Later that year, a group of fifteen Muslim congregations called on the Swedish government to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/09\/15\/muslim-groups-call-sweden-make-quran-burning-mocking-islam-illegal\/\">outlaw the burning of religious texts<\/a> like the Qur\u2019an.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not want it to be legal in Sweden to burn holy scriptures such as the Qur\u2019an, the Bible, and the Jewish scriptures and at the same time for it to be forbidden to mock the different religions,\u201d Rinkeby\u2019s Imam\u00a0Hussein Farah Warsame said.<\/p>\n<p>Following an investigation into the Qur\u2019an burning by Paludan and his followers, a Swedish prosecutor determined that burning copies of the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/11\/17\/swedish-prosecutor-determines-burning-quran-not-a-hate-crime\/\">was not in itself illegal<\/a> and did not levy any criminal charges against the Dane 0r Stram Kurs activists.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Swedish Prosecutor Determines Burning Qu\u2019ran Not a Hate Crime <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NcqNr0ObXs\">https:\/\/t.co\/NcqNr0ObXs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1328646564198244352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at\u00a0<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>or email at\u00a0ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday and Friday, Swedish cities saw cars set on fire and police injured as a result of rioting by people opposed to demonstrations by Qur\u2019an-burning politician Rasmus Paludan. 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