5 Actors Burned by Al-Quran Who Shook the World

Jakarta, Klinik Farma – Recently, the world was shocked by a series of acts of burning the Holy Koran in Sweden and Denmark. This act of blasphemy caused the Scandinavian country to face diplomatic hotballs from Muslim countries.

So far, this kind of burning of sacred books has not received decisive action from the local government. This has given rise to the view that the Swedish and Danish governments are protecting such blasphemous activities.

As a result, many Muslim countries are outraged. Earlier this month, Yemeni Minister of Industry and Trade Muhammad Sharif al-Mutahar announced a boycott of Swedish products. Similarly, Mohsen Rezaee, secretary of Iran’s Supreme Economic Coordinating Council, called for a boycott on July 23.

Denmark, several countries called the ambassador of the Nordic country to ask for an explanation. In fact, the patron saint of the Middle Eastern Muslim nation of Saudi Arabia has asked Copenhagen to immediately stop activities that incite hatred between religions.

In fact, the burning of the Holy Quran took place several times, and not only in Denmark and Sweden. Below is a short list of perpetrators. Klinik Farma:

1. Salvan Momika

Salvan Momika is an Iraqi immigrant living in Sweden. He is known to have committed acts of burning and blasphemy against the Quran three times, with the last time he appeared before the Swedish parliament last Monday.

According to the records, Salvan first burned the holy book in Eid al-Adha on June 28 last year. At that time, Salvan took advantage of a permit previously approved by the city of Stockholm to burn the pages of the Koran near the city’s central mosque.

“I will continue until they ban this book,” said Salvan, who applied for political asylum in Sweden in 2018. SVT and cited Russia today.

2. Rasmus Paludan

Currently, Paludan is known as a lawyer who is also the founder and leader of the Danish right-wing party Stram Kurs.

He has been participating in anti-Islamic programs since 2016. He was also involved in actions that sparked clashes with Muslim groups in 2019.

In 2020, he planned to burn the Quran in Malmö, Sweden. However, this plan failed after Stockholm banned him from visiting Sweden for a period of 2 years.

But in the same year, Paludan received Swedish citizenship, since his father was a native of this country. Finally, he was able to penetrate the territory of the state of Scania.

In April 2022, Paludan planned to burn the Quran in all major cities in Sweden. This eventually caused riots in the country due to the many groups that opposed his actions.

In addition to being associated with the Quran, Paludan was also involved in a scandal involving sexual conversations with underage boys. Danish newspapers Additional magazine what Paludan was talking about sex through his Discord server fetish hardcore with minors between the ages of 13 and 17.

3. Edwin Wagensveld

Wagensveld is also the leader of the anti-Islamic group in the Netherlands Pegida. Pegida himself believes that Europe is Islamized.

Like Paludan and Momika, Wagensveld also has a track record of destroying the Koran. Last October, police arrested him just before he burned the Koran during a demonstration in Rotterdam.

In addition to destroying the Koran, Wagensveld was implicated in a tax evasion scandal in Germany. On this charge, he was sentenced to 33 months in prison.

4. Danish patriots

Danske Patrioter or Danish Patriot is a far-right anti-Islamic group. They held an action to burn the Koran for three days in a row until Wednesday (02/08/2023) in front of the Turkish community and the embassies of Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

Despite condemnation from around the world, they continue to chant anti-Islamic slogans and live-stream cases of extreme Islamophobia on social media.

The group not only unfurled banners insulting Islam and shouted Islamophobic slogans, but also trampled on copies of the Koran when they were detained by the police.

The group also plans to burn more copies of the Quran following an online meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that discussed the incident.

5. Lars Thorsen

Lars Thorsen is a Norwegian extremist who burned the Holy Quran in July 2022. He broadcast the action live on his Facebook account.

Thorsen himself is known as the leader of the radical group Stop the Islamization of Norway (Sian). It is known that he received support after the terrorism case that took place last year in Oslo, where the Norwegian authorities said that the case was organized by “Islamic terrorists.”

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