Denmark penalties up to two years imprisonment for Public burning of the Quranso far it is authorized as in other Scandinavian countries because they right to freedom of expression. Protests from the Islamic world against such repeated actions spurred the Danish government into action. social democrat Mette Frederiksen, take into account attacks against them National Security. At the end of last July, hundreds of protesters attacked the building and set it on fire. Swedish Embassy in Baghdad They also tried to reach the Danish security zone in response to an Iraqi refugee burning a Quran in Stockholm. Salwan Momika. Added to these reactions are complaints at the diplomatic level against Denmark and Sweden, countries with a predominantly Muslim population, who are still waiting for Turkey to complete the approval process for its entry into the EU. NATO.
The Danish Parliament this Tuesday considered the bill prepared by Frederiksen’s team to punish behavior defined as “improper treatment” of the sacred texts of a religious group. Changes were made in the text compared to the first draft of the same bill, and criticism was made because it was understood that this draft violated the principle of law. the Freedom of expression. The new text emphasizes that: violation of respect for religious beliefs It includes burning sacred texts.
provocations
The trigger for recent protests in the Muslim world was the public burning of the Quran, mostly in Sweden, by Momika, a 37-year-old Iraqi refugee and Christian who recently declared herself an atheist and is also a well-known Christian. Sympathy or militancy with the Swedish far right. He came to Sweden in 2019 and received a temporary residence permit. Your new extension request has been rejected and you awaiting deportationHowever, since it is thought that his life would be in danger if he is handed over to the Iraqi authorities, the order has not come into force for now.
Momika’s actions were widely covered in the media, but in reality she is not the only person in the Scandinavian world to commit such actions, often individually. Earlier, a Swedish-Danish neo-Nazi called. Rasmus Paludan Some of these types of actions were carried out one after another in neighborhoods with a dense immigrant population or in front of mosques. According to data from the Danish police, approximately 483 holy books or flags of Muslim-majority countries were burned in the country between July and October this year.
From social alarm to murder
Government of Sweden, a centrist coalition led by conservatives Ulf Kristersson As a foreign ally of the far right, it has been working for months on how to ban or restrict these provocative actions. Kristersson expressed his concern after the murder of two Swedish citizens who attended a match for their national team in Belgium last October and were shot dead by an Islamic State (IS) sympathizer. The chairman of the Stockholm Board of Directors acknowledged there that his country’s citizens were targets of fundamentalist terrorism.
Denmark still remembers the bloody protests that broke out with the release of 12 in 2005. cartoons of MuhammadThe most famous of these is the work of the Danish cartoonist. Kurt Westergaard. Danish society later defended this as a right to freedom of expression; We have moved from this to an increasing rejection of actions that endanger national security.