Britain's Foreign Office warned that terror attacks are 'likely' in Denmark over Qur'an burnings as Sweden increased its terror threat level.
The last time the terror threat level was set at “high” in Sweden was in 2016 following the ISIS attack on the Bataclan Theatre in Paris in which 130 people were killed by ISIS terrorists. During the time, ISIS called for terror attacks throughout Europe, as terroristsIn addition to raising the terror threat level, Swedish authorities are also considering changes to the public order act in order to prohibit the burning of the Qur’an if it is deemed a threat to national security.
Minister of Justice Gunnar Strommer said that he would be pannel a commission to consider expanding police powers to block the form of protest. However, he claimed that there would have to be a high bar for making such a determination,: “Of course, general international dissatisfaction or vague threat should not be enough – it must be about serious and qualified threats.”
Dutch Edwin Wagensveld, head of the Netherlands’ chapter of the anti-Islam movement Pegida holds up a Koran before tearing up, during a demonstration in front of the Turkish embassy in The Hague, on August 18, 2023. / Netherlands OUT Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, the leader of the Dutch chapter of the anti-Islamist Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident , Edwin Wagensveld tore up a copy of the Qur’an outside the Turkish embassy in The Hague on Friday., Islamic counterprotesters hurled stones at the activist while shouting “shame on you”.
In the wake of the protest, Justice Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz said that she may have to raise the terror threat in The Netherlands like Sweden has already done. Yesilgöz said that she “personally finds destroying or burning a book rather primitive and sad” but “it’s allowed in our country, you have that freedom.”
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