According to the organizers, the protest is a response to the burning of the Islamic Koran in June. The act is expected to take place in front of the Israeli embassy After the public burning of a Koran in Sweden two weeks ago, Stockholm police authorized a demonstration this Saturday (15/07) in which copies of the Torah, the holy book, will be burned of the Jews and the Bible, the holy book of Christians.
Swedish police spokeswoman Carina Skagerlind said in an interview with AFP news agency that the authorization did not refer to an official request to publicly burn the Torah and the Bible, but to a meeting where a ” opinion”.
“This is an important difference,” Skagerlind stressed.
However, in the recording of the demonstration, the organizers announced that copies of the Torah and the Bible would be burned. According to the applicant, the action is a reaction to the burning of the Islamic Koran which took place at the end of June, which also took place with official approval, with the argument of “freedom of expression”.
For the organizers of the new event, the goal is to “expose Swedish hypocrisy”.
Reviews of Israel
The approval granted came under strong criticism in Israel and among Jewish organizations.
“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 Torah, the eternal book of the Jewish people,” the president said Israeli. Izchak Herzog.
He condemned “permission to burn sacred books in the strongest terms”.
According to him, allowing the defacing of sacred texts is not an exercise of freedom of expression, but a clear incitement and an act of pure hatred. The whole world must unite and clearly condemn this “heinous act,” Herzog said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on Twitter:
“The State of Israel takes this shameful decision very seriously, which harms the holiest of the Jewish people.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen urged Swedish authorities to prevent the fire.
Burning of the Koran
In late June, on the first day of the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice, 37-year-old Iraqi Salwan Momika repeatedly trampled on a copy of the Koran in front of Stockholm’s main mosque while waving the Swedish flag. He put strips of bacon in the book, food considered unclean by Muslims, and burned some pages. The act sparked violent protests in the Muslim world.
The police justified their approval of Momika’s protest as “free speech”. However, he later opened an investigation for “incitement against an ethnic group” as Momika carried out the deed near a mosque.
Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco have summoned Swedish ambassadors for explanations.
the (ARD, AFP)
Source: Terra
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