2023-07-14 16:22:05
Stockholm
Swedish police authorize Torah burning outside Israel embassy
After the burning of a Koran in Stockholm, the police approved another highly controversial action: a Jewish Torah and a Bible are now to be burned in front of the Israeli embassy.
Published14. July 2023, 18:22
There were protests against the burning of the Koran in Stockholm, for example in Lahore in Pakistan…
… or in Tehran in Iran, where …
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… the police had to protect the Swedish embassy there. The reason was the action…
via REUTERS
… of 37-year-old Salwan Momika, who in June in a lonely public action in Sweden put ham in the Koran, stepped on it and burned some pages.
via REUTERS
Sweden’s police have approved the burning of a Jewish Torah in front of the Israeli embassy.
In June, the destruction of a Koran in Stockholm led to violent reactions.
Israel’s president and ambassador have clearly protested against the decision.
After Burning a Koran In front of a mosque in Stockholm, the planned burning of the Hebrew Torah in front of the Israeli embassy is causing outrage. The Stockholm police on Friday gave permission for a 30-year-old applicant to hold a public rally at which he wants to burn a Torah and a Bible. The action is scheduled to take place tomorrow, Saturday, in front of the Israeli embassy in the Swedish capital. It is unclear whether it is the same man who applied for a permit in January. At the time, a 34-year-old Egyptian writer living in Sweden was behind the request.
The current applicant should therefore consider the rally as a reaction to the action at the end of June. The aim is to “expose the Swedish hypocrisy”. The burning of the holy scriptures of Islam was common among Muslims both abroad and within Sweden anger and protests guided.
Official Israel is appalled
“As President of the State of Israel, I have condemned the burning of the Koran, sacred to Muslims around the world, and it breaks my heart now that the same fate awaits a Jewish Bible, the eternal book of the Jewish people.” shared Israeli President Izchak Herzog on Friday with
“Allowing the defacement of sacred texts is not an exercise of freedom of expression, but obvious incitement and an act of pure hatred,” Herzog said. The whole world must come together and clearly condemn this “heinous act”. Ziv Nevo Kulman, the Israeli ambassador in Stockholm, was also appalled.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on Twitter: “The State of Israel takes this shameful decision, which damages the holy of holies of the Jewish people, very seriously.” Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen urged the Swedish authorities to prevent the burning.
As early as April 2022, the Swedish-Danish dual citizen and politician Rasmus Paludan had burned Korans in several places in Sweden. Even then there had been violent reactions in the Islamic world.
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