(Breitbart) Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt has criticised Swedish police in Stockholm for allowing Danish anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan to carry out the burning of the Qur’an.
Bildt, who served as Swedish prime minister from 1991 to 1994 and later as minister for foreign affairs from 2006 to 2014, slammed the police for allowing the Qur’an burning protest to take place, noting the negative effect the incident has had on Sweden’s relations with Turkey and other countries in the Islamic world.
“We have a difficult security situation for Swedish interests in a number of countries. This is something you should not take lightly,” Bildt told broadcaster SVT and added, “I notice that secular friends in Turkey do not understand that we can allow what they regard as a hate crime against their religion and culture.”
