37-year-old refugee Saluan Momika said he knows the impact of his act and has already received “thousands of threats to his life”.
The Iraqi man who burned pages from a copy of the Koran in front of Stockholm’s largest mosque on Wednesday, sparking outrage across the Muslim world, said Thursday he would do it again in ten days.
“In ten days, I will burn the Iraqi flag and the Koran in front of the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm,” Salwan Momika noted.a 37-year-old Iraqi who fled Iraq and lives as a refugee in Sweden, to the Swedish newspaper Expressen.
Momika said he is fully aware of the impact of his actions and has already received “thousands of threats to his life”.
Protesters briefly stormed its embassy yesterday Sweden in Baghdad in protest of this act, which was condemned by many Muslim countries.
On Wednesday, Salwan Momika trampled on a copy of the Koran and then burned pages of it in front of Stockholm’s largest mosque on the first day of Eid al-Adha, the great holiday of sacrifice celebrated by Muslims around the world.
Earlier on Wednesday, the police had announced that they had allowed the “rally” to take place, judging that the “security risks” associated with the burning of the Koran were “not serious enough to be banned”.
However, at the end of the day, he announced that he was filing a lawsuit against the organizer, mainly for incitement to hatred.
Similar actions have been taken in the past in Sweden or other European countries, sometimes at the initiative of far-right movements, sparking protests and diplomatic tensions.
A demonstration in January in which a copy of the Koran was burned in Stockholm in front of the Turkish embassy sparked outrage and protests across the Muslim world, as well as calls for a boycott of Swedish products.
Source :Skai
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