Her police Sweden gave permission today for a small rally to be held in front of Stockholm’s largest mosque, during which its organizer he is going to burn a copy of the Koranon the first day of the great Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.

“The police gave permission for the gathering to take place”, as they assessed that “the security risks” due to the fact of burning the Koran “are not of such a nature as to justify its prohibition”, it said in its decision.

The rally will take place at 13:30 (local time, 14:30 Greek time) in front of the Stockholm Great Mosque.

The issue is sensitive in Sweden, where a demonstration in January in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, during which a copy of the Koran was burned, angered Ankara, which continues to block Sweden’s NATO membership.

The organizer of today’s rally, 37-year-old Salwan Momika, who says he is an Iraqi refugee who wants the Koran banned, said he wanted to “express his point of view”. “I want to tear up the Koran and burn it,” he wrote in the request he filed with the police.

In addition to Momika, another person is expected to participate in the demonstration, according to Swedish police.

Stockholm police had not approved the holding of two demonstrations, on February 6 and 9, during which their organizers would burn the Koran, as they had assessed that there was a risk to public order.

The protesters had appealed the decision and were vindicated in early April. The first-instance decision was upheld by the appeals court, considering that the security risks cited by the police “were not clearly connected” to the demonstrations in question.

The Stockholm police relied on this decision to allow today’s rally.