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Rasmus Paludan, the Danish enemy, wants to burn Koran in Stockholm.
But the police have made the dubious decision to transfer him from entering Sweden.
This figure is a lawyer and politician who as recently as last year in his home country was sentenced to 14 days in prison for incitement against an ethnic group after claiming in a video that Africans have low IQ.
He is popular in some circles and detested in others in Denmark after inciting immigrants and burning copies of the Qur’an.
In short, Paludan is an Islamophobe who only seems to enjoy life when he succeeds in provoking violence and riots, and thus should have felt like a child on Christmas Eve when riots broke out in Malmö on Saturday night.
Photo: Johan Nilsson / TT
Rasmus Paludan.
He had thought He took his heroic fight for freedom of expression to Skåne and, for security reasons, set fire to the Muslim holy book in front of a mosque in Rosengård, but the police stopped him as soon as he crossed the Öresund Bridge and had to return to Copenhagen with his burly bodyguards.
But it did not help much. In Stortorget, some supporters played football with a copy of the Koran and in another part of Malmö a copy of the Holy Scripture was burned, something that was quickly documented and spread online.
Stones were thrown, attacks were instigated on police officers, according to eyewitnesses, by known gang criminals, anti-Semitic slogans were shouted.
And as of one The event was one of the sites that have Muslims carefully on their minds to film the riot and when it was all over, Swedish Democrats’ Party Secretary Richard Jomshof could easily take home victory by sighing with satisfaction that with mass immigration Sweden has imported forces that want to stifle free speech.
Greater thinkers than I have discovered that extremists live in symbiosis and provide each other with oxygen and meaning to life in an otherwise gray and uneventful life.
In the best of worlds, the squalor here could have been put to an end and left to the police to calmly investigate all cases of incitement to ethnic groups, violent riots and blue-light sabotage of which 20 people are so far suspected .
But yesterday client Sydsvenskan reveals that Paludan wants to bring his show to Stockholm and hire a bonfire at five locations, including Tensta and Akalla.
Ask questions. One of them is whether the police should authorize the actions. I suspect it will be a thumbs down, which in light of how the law is structured would probably be correct.
There is a recent decision to lean on. Recently, last week, the Malmö Administrative Court rejected Paludan’s appeal to be allowed to carry out his demonstration.
Freedom of assembly and demonstration is protected in the constitution. The possibility of denying permission is very limited. So it should be.
But there is there is also little room for exception. That must also be the case.
If, for example, there is a clear risk that order and security will be compromised, a restriction may be justified.
And it doesn’t take Saida to understand that the event would degenerate. It is not even necessary, as the police did in their presentation to the court, to refer to the fact that it is seething online and that violence is defended in some forums.
I am light years away from being sufficiently familiar with the constitution to be able to credibly argue that the administrative court made the wrong decision.
But denying one of the fundamental rights that every democracy worthy of the name adheres to just because some are angry doesn’t sound like a matter of principle.
More doubtful is dock the police decision to ban Paludan from entering Sweden for two years.
This is a very unusual measure that was taken with reference to a section of the Aliens Act. The man is considered to be “a threat to public order and security in Sweden”.
Something that makes me think of a novel that was published more than 30 years ago and became very famous.
Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, the book was publicly burned around the world by angry Muslims, and the author was forced to go underground and live under police protection for many years.
Had Salman Rushdie also been denied entry to Sweden?
Photo: Chris Young / SCANPIX SWEDEN
Salman Rushdie.
Legal space for the reason in the same way as in the case of Paludan was certainly not lacking when the resurrection was at its worst around the verses of Satan.
Or is it the case that a Swedish court would not dare to find a finely cultured and understanding provocateur, but knows that there is no risk of naming a hateful vulgar?
Neither option is flattering.
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