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Swedish police said they have granted a permit for a protest where the organiser plans to burn a Koran outside Stockholm's main mosque on Wednesday, the start of the Muslim three-day Eid al-Adha holiday.

The police said in the written decision that the security risks associated with the burning "were not of a nature that could justify, under current laws, a decision to reject the request."

The green light came two weeks after a Swedish appeals court rejected the police's decision to deny permits for two demonstrations in Stockholm which were to include Koran burnings.

Police had at the time cited security concerns, following a burning of the Muslim holy book outside Turkey's embassy in January which led to weeks of protests, calls for a boycott of Swedish goods and further stalled Sweden's NATO hip bid.

Muslims are outraged by the destruction of their holy text and similar acts have in the past sparked violent protests.

Police argued the January protest had made Sweden "a higher priority target for attacks".

Turkey, which has blocked the country's NATO bid due to what it perceives as Stockholm's failure to crack down on Kurdish groups it considers "terrorists", took particular offence that police had authorised the January demonstration.

Police then banned two subsequent requests for protests involving Koran burnings -- one by a private individual and one by an organisation, outside the Turkish and Iraqi embassies in Stockholm in February.

The appeals court in mid-June ruled that police were wrong to ban those, saying "the order and security problems" referenced by the police did not have "a sufficiently clear connection to the planned event or its immediate vicinity."

- 'Burn it' -
In granting the new protest permit, police said that "in light of this judgement," the "security risks and consequences" it expected in connection with the protests were not enough to warrant them denying the request.

The request for the Wednesday demonstration was made by the same private individual who had his previous request blocked.

"I want to protest in front of the large mosque in Stockholm, and I want to express my opinion about the Koran... I will tear up the Koran and burn it," Salwan Momika, 37, wrote in the application, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.

Speaking to newspaper Aftonbladet in April, Momika -- who fled to Sweden from Iraq -- said his intention had not been to sabotage the Swedish NATO bid, and had considered waiting to stage his protest until after Sweden had ed the alliance.

"I don't want to harm this country that received me and preserved my dignity," Momika told the newspaper.

Police said Wednesday they had called in reinforcements from across the country to maintain order.

An AFP correspondent said several police cars were already parked near the mosque early Wednesday.

Swedish police had granted a permit for the January protest, which was organised by Rasmus Paludan, a Swedish-Danish activist who has already been convicted for racist abuse.

Paludan also provoked rioting in Sweden last year when he went on a tour of the country and publicly burned copies of Islam's holy book.

Swedish politicians have criticised Koran burnings, but have also adamantly defended the right to freedom of expression.

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This is one of the reasons turkey is blocking their bid to NATO.

As a Christian, I don't the burning of quran

I wish the protesters will burn the Bible, the Koran and the Torah. All these books encourage violence, senseless killings, slavery and gender discrimination with fake promises that only greedy fools believe.

For useless people mentioning me to say rubbish, I wish you were one of the little boys your god instructed Moses to kill or your mother was one of the little girls that your god instructed his killer squad to keep for themselves in numbers 31.

Nigeria Northern Muslims will not like this...

Did you know??




We are troubled by lying to those who trust us blindly.

fl@theads muzlimz should go and do same in Kano/Sokoto make we see

Nice one

Wetin man no go hear

THE BIBLE IS WELL RESPECTED AND THE ONE AND ONLY BOOK THE DEVIL SO MUCH RESPECT TOO.




INFECT LET ME INVITE OUR NAIRALAND PREACHERS AND EVANGELIST TO CONTINUE THE PREACHING.



I WAS SAYING IT THE OTHER DAY THAT THE GOV AND ARMY SHOULD PROTECT THE CHRISTIANS IN THE NORTH,

WITH THIS NEWS,I PRAY FOR THE INNOCENT CHRISTIANS IN THE NORTH





ONLY JESUS IS THE SAVIOUR.


WEALTH IS GOOD.

FalseProphet1:

ANOTHER ONE' WAITING FOR RIOT TO START IN KANO.

The earlier Europe and other parts of the world start rejecting Islam the better, Islam and LGBTQ folks are in the same category of behavior

When they are few they demand for special rights, when they are plenty they take away your rights

God1000:
This is one of the reasons turkey is blocking their bid to NATO.

As a Christian, I don't the burning of quran

Oga the guy burning it did not claim to be a Christian neither is he from Sweden, he is from Iraq, so please don't lump Christianity with his action, Islam has so many problems different people are angry and concerned about, So don't try to make it look as if anyone against Islam must be a Christian.

I fear who no fear the most violent religion ever known to mankind.

over to muslim brother ..........awon set wahala wahala

God1000:
This is why turkey is blocking their bid to NATO

NOPE!
Turkey is blocking Sweden because of the Kurdish activists granted assylum in the country.
It has nothing to do with religion.

Have you ever asked yourself why no single muslim country, not even the full sharia ones
has ever condemned China on religious grounds? Not even a single protest to burn Chinese flags?

I mean, China bans its muslim population from fasting, sends muslim to re-education camps
and regularly demolish and redesign mosques using the C and atheistic confucian architecture styles,
yet not even a shred of complaints from muslim countries?

Countries act based on interests, not basal emotions.

We don't want to hear bombing news soon.

Why

Burn all Muslims too .. fucking retards

God1000:
This is why turkey is blocking their bid to NATO

They will not give permit to burn Torah in front of synagogues. They refused the permit. Which shows they are a biased society.

Head slamming mohammadian terrorists...


Anywhere u see those head slammers u see problem...

Anyway God bless the good people of Southsouth and Southwest...

If you don't destroy Islam now, it will wreck you. Islam is a cankerworm. Give no room to ret@rded fucktards

It's their country.

they are free to do any damn thing. If you are not happy go back to Pakistan or Afghanistan.

Afghanistan wont eevn allow any church. Saudi police will shutdown any open church.

You are in a free country where they allow you build mosque and you want to muscle their freedom.

Don't tell me they need to respect people's religion. They don't believe in your religion.

Instead of killing people. go back to your country

To tell you how animalistic they are.

They will soon start burning things in Kano and kaduna sponsored by that midget

police be careful before Dem burn ona, say na blasphemy.

phr0nesis:
Na Christians for Northern Nigeria go come bear this wahala

If we didn't make Onitsha/Aba 2006 to happen,by now Northerners would have started attacking Easterners in their regions like before.

Na Christians for Northern Nigeria go come bear this wahala

Nawa ooo

Some innocent persons may bear the brunt now. Nigerian security agents should watch out, most especially northern Nigeria.

They need to Burn hundred millions of Muslims that memorize the Quran too.

The Religion of God will prevail all over the world even though the disbelievers may hate it, in the Near future Islam will be the dominant religion in Sweden in Europe insha Allah

I guess this is the only way he can get the attention he is looking for, really.

THEY WILL COLLECT WOTOWOTO

You waste your time burning Qur'an (even though one or two of them will loose a head). The real location of the Qur'an is the mind of muslims. I don't need a Qur'an book presently to recite a large portion of it. And I'm not even the hardworking serious type of muslim. Just an average person who grew up in the south south. If all the Qur'an in the world is taken away today, it will be reproduced again overnight