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A man set fire to pages of the Koran outside Stockholm’s main mosque Wednesday, drawing swift condemnation from Turkey, which is holding up Sweden’s bid to join NATO days ahead of a summit.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called the burning of the pages of the Islamic holy book “despicable.” Turkey is blocking Sweden’s NATO membership bid due to what it perceives as Stockholm’s failure to crack down on Kurdish groups it considers “terrorists,” and took particular offence at another Koran burning outside its Stockholm embassy in January.
In its written decision granting a permit for the protest, Stockholm police said the security risks associated with the burning “were not of a nature that could justify, under current laws, a decision to reject the request.”Salwan Momika, 37, who fled to Sweden several years ago, had asked police for permission to burn the holy book “to express my opinion about the Koran”.
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