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Summary
Salwan Momika, the Iraqi man who staged several Quran burnings in Sweden in 2023, was shot and killed in Sodertalje, near Stockholm.
His actions had sparked international outrage, riots, and diplomatic tensions. Swedish police confirmed a murder investigation is underway, and several arrests have been made.
Momika, who sought asylum in Sweden in 2018, faced charges of incitement to hatred, with a verdict scheduled for the day after his death.
His protests were permitted under free speech laws but led to legal action against him.
He was being charged for doing this? I had completely missed that. Was Sweden always like this?
No, people haven’t been killed over a religious text for a very, very long time. Then we imported the religious issue.
Wouldn’t it make sense for Swedes to go after the people who try to kill someone for burning a book instead of making book burning illegal?
Are they really that weak and spineless?
Chill there baby.
There is a murder investigation. So yes they are. Unless you’re one of the troglodytes that wants to grab a pitchfork; i much prefer to let the police do their job.
Just because your American police is a joke, doesn’t mean ours is.
You can burn as many books as you want, thats not why salwan was under investigation.
I have literally zero fear of burning any book in the US.
Unlike in france and sweden…
I’m also referring to the apparent laws Sweden has against book burning.
There are no such laws. you bought it, you burn it.
There are laws about religious, racial or ethnical discrimination though.
Then why are people saying what he was doing was illegal for ‘inciting hatred’?
Because you can try someone for a crime if the prosecutor finds a reason to do so.
I don’t pretend to know exactly what his indigtment was, but i recon i could ask for the papers since its public. What I do know is that he had to ask permission from the police to have his demonstrations and all except one was granted. The one that wasn’t allowed was because of the security issue due to muslim protestors. Don’t remember exactly how many allowed demonstrations there was. So i guess the answer is, people don’t know what they are talking about when they say what he was doing was “illegal”.