Man sets fire to Koran pages outside Stockholm mosque
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A man set fire to pages of the Koran outside Stockholm's main mosque Wednesday, drawing a swift condemnation from Turkey which is holding up Sweden's bid to join NATO days ahead of a summit.Turkey is blocking Sweden's NATO membership bid due to what it perceives as Stockholm's failure to crack down on Kurdish groups it considers "terrorists," and took particular offence at another Koran burning outside its Stockholm embassy in January.

Swedish police said they have granted a permit for a protest where the organiser plans to burn a Koran outside Stockholm's main mosque on Wednesday, the start of the Muslim three-day Eid al-Adha holiday.

Under a heavy police presence and with around a dozen opponents shouting at him in Arabic, Momika, dressed in beige trousers and a shirt, addressed the crowd of several dozen through a megaphone.

He stomped on the Koran and put on it strips of bacon, which is forbidden in Islam. He then lit a few pages on fire before slamming it shut and kicked it like a football while waving Swedish flags

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I saw plenty of libs defending this using the exact same arguments that typical islamophobic chuds use. Claiming freeze-peach, or "but the guy who did it is Iraqi!" etc. etc.

  • amyra [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    things not to do when waiting for Turkey to approve your NATO membership

    • MeinOnkelBuck [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Swedish NATO membership was never going to happen anyway, in a million years. America remembers Olof Palmes 1972 Christmas speech and have never forgiven us for it. They simply want to militarily deindustrialize us and ensure our silence of foreign matters. And if they can do that without admitting us to NATO then all the better.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        first I'd heard of this speech. darkly typical that there's no English NATOpedia page for it but I found a translation here: https://scrap.tf/raffles/VV7UTC