(Brussels Times) The Brussels municipality of Molenbeek forbids the arrival of the Danish anti-Islam politician Rasmus Paludan, who had announced he would come to the commune for a Koran-burning protest.
In August, a public burning of the Koran in an immigration neighbourhood in Malmö, Sweden, sparked violent protests in the city. The European Commission condemned the incident. A request by the Danish politician to demonstrate outside a mosque in the city was denied and a two-year travel ban to enter Sweden was issued against him.
Paludan (38) is the founder of the far-right party Stram Kurs (“Hard Line”) in Denmark. In 2019, the party narrowly missed the electoral threshold, and the court convicted Paludan of racism.
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