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| Quran burning rally near Iraqi embassy in Denmark | |
| 2023-07-23 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Members of the right-wing extremist group "Danish Patriots" held a rally outside the Iraqi embassy in Copenhagen on July 22, which included burning a copy of the Koran and desecrating the national flag of Iraq. The action was broadcast on the group's pages in social networks. No more than five people took part in the action, judging by the frames of the broadcast. Earlier, permission to hold a rally with the burning of the Koran at the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm was issued by the Swedish authorities. As a result, the protesters did not burn a copy of the sacred book for Muslims, but trampled it. Another such action was held in Stockholm a month earlier, in June 2023. Attempts by extremists to carry out such actions and their approval by the Swedish authorities caused condemnation from a number of Arab countries, including Turkey and Egypt. In Baghdad, a mass protest rally was held near the building of the Swedish embassy. The protesters stormed the building. The Prime Minister of Iraq announced the expulsion of the Ambassador of Sweden. The problem is that whole families of migrants move to Europe, including illegally, and there are clashes between ethnic Europeans and newcomers, and against this background, radicals organize provocations, Boris Dolgov, a senior researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. in History, noted earlier in an interview with IA Regnum. The Swedish authorities should have fought their radicals, but they are surprisingly indifferent to what is happening, the expert noted.
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