[ April 24, 2024 ]
Agence France-Presse reported Saturday that “protesters threw stones at police and burned tyres in southern Sweden late on Friday, authorities said, hours after an anti-Muslim Danish politician was blocked from attending a Quran-burning rally nearby.” Were the “anti-Muslim Danish politician” or the participants at the “Quran-burning rally” throwing stones at police or burning tires? No, but as far as Swedish authorities were concerned, they were the problem, not the Muslim rioters.
According to AFP, “about 300 people were on the streets of Malmo with violence escalating as the evening wore on….The demonstration was connected to an incident earlier in the day in which protesters burned a copy of the Islamic holy book,” according to police spokesman Rickard Lundqvist.
The Danish politician Rasmus Paludan, who has burned the Qur’an before, was planning to go to Malmo to speak at the event, but Swedish authorities moved quickly to prevent that, barring him from entering Sweden until at least 2022. Apparently Paludan entered Sweden anyway, as AFP notes that he “was later arrested near Malmo.”
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Malmo Police spokesman Calle Persson explained: “We suspect that he was going to break the law in Sweden. There was also a risk that his behaviour would pose a threat to society.” Police also swooped into the Qur’an-burning rally and arrested three people there for “inciting racial hatred.”
Paludan was, understandably, disgusted by all this, and pointed out, quite correctly, that there was a glaring official double standard at play. “Sent back and banned from Sweden for two years,” he wrote on Facebook (where he is, apparently, not banned yet, but that is certainly coming given the social media giant’s repeatedly affirmed commitment to enforcing Sharia blasphemy laws under the spurious guise of “hate speech”). “However,” Paludin added, “rapists and murderers are always welcome!” he wrote.
Yes, that’s quite right. Swedish authorities have made it clear who they think is the real threat: not criminal Muslim migrants, but those who dare offend them. I’m not in favor of burning the Qur’an. I believe people should read it and understand its contents rather than burn it. But in a free society, book-burning is not or should not be illegal. It is part of the freedom of expression; we may dislike it, but to outlaw it would restrict the freedom of expression in ways that would have negative consequences for society in other ways: the group that was prevented by law from being criticized or insulted, including having its holy book burned, would be free from all restraints and able to work its will unchallenged and unopposed.
If Rasmus Paludin had intended to travel to Sweden to burn a Bible, would anyone have cared? Would he have been banned from the country or arrested? When that police spokesman, Calle Persson, said “We suspect that he was going to break the law in Sweden,” to what law was he referring? Is burning a Qur’an against the law in Sweden? Is Sweden under Sharia now?
And when Persson added that “there was also a risk that his behaviour would pose a threat to society,” note that this is the same sleight-of-hand British officials employed when they banned Pamela Geller and me from entering that country. Just as in our case, Paludin does not actually pose a threat to society. The people who were going to react violently and irrationally to his behavior pose a threat to society, and the Swedes lack the will to act against them, so they act against Paludin instead.
And now Muslims are rioting despite the Swedish authorities’ best efforts to prevent it from happening. The police did not burn the Qur’an, but they’re the ones getting stones thrown at them. The property destroyed and people injured in the riots likely had nothing to do with the people responsible for the Qur’an burning, but that is the deadly illogic of riots everywhere. We’re seeing the same thing now all over the United States.
The rioters are, of course, screaming “Allahu akbar.” For them, Allah is greater than the gods of Sweden, be they the God of Christianity, or the gods of secularism, hedonism, the welfare state, what have you. Will Sweden acquiesce to their declarations of superiority and supremacism? Does it, at this late date, have the will not to do so?
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 21 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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3 years ago
UPDATE :
DOJ: Illegal Alien Islamic Terrorist Used Protests as Cover To Attack NYPD Cops
Published August 27, 2020 at 12:41pm
The man who attacked several New York City Police Department officers earlier this year is an illegal immigrant and Islamic extremist who used the chaos of recent protests as cover for his actions, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.
Back in June, during the early days of the anti-police demonstrations still roiling the country, an individual now identified as Dzenan Camovic approached two Brooklyn cops and stabbed one of them in the neck, according to the DOJ.
“After stabbing the first officer (Officer 1), Camovic chased the second officer (Officer 2), lunging at him and attempting to stab him,” the department said in a news release.
“Camovic then ran back to Officer 1, attacked him, forcibly took control of Officer 1’s firearm and fired multiple shots at Officer 2 and other officers who had responded to the scene.
“Responding officers ultimately shot Camovic and took him into custody. Several officers were wounded during Camovic’s attack and robbery, including Officer 2 who was shot in the hand.”
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In the days following the attack, one of his relatives told the New York Post that Camovic is a practicing Muslim but claimed he is “absolutely not a terrorist.”
3 years ago
Reply to
jes sayen yo
Of course he’s not a terrorist because there’s nothing wrong w/killing the kufar in islamic theology in dar al harb.
3 years ago
Quran, the Devil’s manual can be used for cat litter.
3 years ago
I will become a mistress and send hot photos here – https://ai6.net/5dF2JR????????
3 years ago
More of the chaos that islam and muslums bring to any civilised country they infest. I like the way the craven Swedish cowards eliminated freedom of expression and freedom of speech in deference to subtly disguised islamic blasphemy and heresy laws. But the yellow streak that Swedenistan displays here is catching across the entirety of the dying atheist West (cough, Scotlandistan, cough).
3 years ago
Why waste a Koran by burning it. I find they are very useful in my outhouse as toilet paper.
3 years ago
Reply to
Mohammed_Goldberg
bl**dy a-rabs!!
all white countries for them
white sl-ts.
convert convert convert.
arabs pretend to be every other nationality and Christian religion and/or jew religion – mind you….dirty b@stards.
hey i’m speaking from experience okay!
3 years ago
Quran 5:155,,, 19:33
3 years ago
Quran 3:55,,,, 19:33
3 years ago
Nice to see the dumb Swedish turnips getting a taste of their own medicine at last.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
They also financed the terrorist campaign bombing innocent civilians in South Africa during the 80’s and the 90’s on the grounds of humanitariasm. What goes around, comes around, turnips included.
3 years ago
Reply to
CNN sucks!
I didn’t know that so they supported the black apartheid regime in South Africa rather than the white apartheid regime of today.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
If anything, they are still financing the corrupt terrorist organisation, that is now in control. So while the greedy ‘freedumb fighters’ jockey for position at the trough, the country has fallen apart. State captured, judiciary captured, what couldn’t be captured has been destroyed. The better life for all, ha ha ha haaaaahaaa. Sweden is going to love it.
3 years ago
How cute. How much savagery will be avoided by banning this guy from the country? Oh right, none. Swedistan is not a country, but a contested territory.
