(Anadolu) Members of an Islamophobic group in Denmark burned a copy of the Holy Quran on Friday.
The ultranationalist group called Danske Patrioter burned the holy book in front of Iraq’s Embassy in Copenhagen.
They also carried a banner with insulting slogans against Islam, before stamping the Iraqi flag and a copy of the Quran under police protection, as seen in the videos they shared on social media.
The group said they did this to protest the attack against Sweden’s Embassy in Baghdad.
(Local) A 39-year-old man from Aalborg must pay fines totalling 4,000 kroner for posting hate speech on his Facebook page in October 2017. The man was found to have written “macabre and threatening words against Muslims,” local media Nordjyske reports. The man […]
(Catholic News Service) A spokeswoman for Denmark’s Catholic Church said draft legislation requiring all sermons and homilies to be translated into Danish will fuel ill-feeling and damage religious freedom. “This law is directed primarily at Muslims — its proponents say they want […]
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