In 2020, a Swedish court sentenced a man for spreading ethnic hatred by burning the Koran.
According to international media, the country’s judicial system has for the first time tried a case on the charge of desecration of the holy book of Islam. This punishment comes after several incidents of Quran burning at the beginning of this year, which caused global outrage.
The Swedish government condemned the desecration but repeatedly suppressed the issue, citing the country’s extensive freedom of expression laws.
The Linköping District Court in central Sweden found the 27-year-old man guilty of “inciting racial hatred”, saying his actions “targeted Muslims, not Islam as a religion” and “incited hatred against an ethnic group”. Created the environment.”
According to a foreign news agency, the district court of the Swedish city of Linköping has convicted a 27-year-old man of protesting against an ethnic group.
The court says that the person who desecrated the Holy Quran did not target the religion of Islam but the Muslims. The man posted the video on the social media platform Twitter and placed a burnt Quran and bacon (pork) outside the Linköping Mosque.
The video used the song “Remove the Kebab”, a song popular among far-right groups that calls for the religious cleansing of Muslims.
The court noted during the trial that the music was related to the 2019 attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which a white Australian gunman killed 51 people at two mosques.
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