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New application to burn the Koran in Stockholm
The police have received three new applications to burn religious scriptures, reports SVT Nyheter.
One of them involves burning a Koran outside a mosque in Stockholm - and the organizer, a woman in her 50s, wants it to happen "as soon as possible".
In addition, a man in his 30s has applied to burn the Torah and the Bible in front of the Israeli embassy on July 15 in "a symbolic gathering for the sake of freedom of expression".
A person in Helsingborg has also applied to burn unspecified religious texts on July 12.
- Our view is that it may not be aimed at any specific religion, but that it is part of freedom of expression and the debate that is going on right now, says Mattias Sigfridsson, police area manager in northwestern Skåne.
Salwan Momika, who burned the Koran outside Stockholm's mosque at Medborgarplatsen on Södermalm in Stockholm. Stefan Jerrevång/TT
"Should burning the Koran count as a hate crime?"
After the recent Koran burnings, the debate about freedom of speech and religion has flared up. Prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad tells DN that a Koran burning targets a symbol against the religion and not the group itself, even if people are offended.
But according to Bishop Åke Bonnier, it must be investigated whether it is a hate crime.
- It is a desecration of a holy scripture. It will be a very strong mark against the Muslim people to burn a holy book in connection with major important holidays, he says in P1 Morgon.
Dan Korn, rabbi and editor-in-chief of the Bulletin magazine, agrees that it is a hateful act, but says in P1 Morgon that it should not be classified as a hate crime.
- Muslims are not a people, you have to be able to criticize a religion and therefore it cannot be called incitement against a ethnic group. To call it incitement against a group of people undermines the meaning of the law, that is to say that you incite against people of a certain ethnicity.
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