A Dutch far-right activist trampled on and tore up a copy of the Koran at a demonstration outside the
The Dutch government had already condemned the holding of the demonstration ahead of the event, but said it had no legal powers to prevent it.
Edwin Wagensveld, who leads the Dutch branch of the far-right group Pegida, damaged a copy of the Koran, AFP correspondents witnessed. He was accompanied by two other people.
Police had sealed off access to the street where the
Some of them began throwing stones at Wagensveld when he tore up pages from the Koran, the holy book of Islam.
Around 20 police equipped with shields and batons intervened when some of the crowd tried to chase after him as he left.
On Friday morning Dilan Yesilgoz, the Netherlands’
But the country’s laws authorized such a demonstration, she added.
Wagensveld nevertheless faces trial for comments he made during a similar demonstration in January, when he tore up a copy of the Koran outside parliament while likening the book to Adolf Hitler
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like...
’s "Mein Kampf."
A T-shirt he wore at Friday’s demonstration made a similar claim.
Geert Wilders, the leader of another far-right party, the PVV, posted a message online supporting Friday’s demonstration by Pegida.
Similar attacks on the Koran have taken place in other European countries recently. In late July, two men set fire to a copy of the Koran in front of the Swedish parliament, and similar incidents have taken place in Denmark this year. Such demonstrations have provoked anger and sometimes unrest and violence in Moslem countries.
On Thursday, Sweden’s intelligence agency heightened its terror alert level to four on a scale of five in response to the angry reactions in the Moslem world to Koran burning
...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women's noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship....s.
Woman interrupts Sweden Quran-burning, sprays activist with fire extinguisher
[IsraelTimes] Swedish police detained a woman Friday who sprayed an anti-Islam activist with a fire extinguisher as he staged a Koran-burning protest outside the Iranian Embassy
...You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy!...
in Stockholm.
Video of the scene showed the woman rushing up to Salwan Momika and spraying white powder toward him before she was intercepted by plainclothes coppers who led her away. Momika, who appeared stunned but unhurt, then resumed his demonstration, which had been authorized by police.
Police spokeswoman Towe Hägg said the woman, who was not identified by police, was detained on suspicion of disturbing public order and violence against a police officer.
Momika, a refugee from Iraq, has desecrated the Koran in a series of anti-Islam protests that have caused anger in many Moslem countries. Swedish police have allowed his demonstrations, citing freedom of speech while filing preliminary hate speech charges against him.
Prosecutors are investigating whether his actions are permissible under Sweden’s hate speech law, which prohibits incitement of hatred against groups or individuals based on race, religion or sexual orientation. Momika says his protests target the religion of Islam, not Moslem people.
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