(Brussels Times) The leader of the Dutch branch of anti-Muslim organisation Pegida, Edwin Wagensveld, burnt a Koran in the city of Arnhem (in the eastern part of the Netherlands, near the German border) on Saturday afternoon.
An earlier attempt by Wagensveld in January this year to set fire to Islam’s holy scripture failed as riots broke out. There were no counter-demonstrators at the site of the burning on Saturday, but behind a line of police officers dozens of metres away were some onlookers who were not allowed to approach.
Wagensveld wore a shirt that read “Islam is no better than Nazism” and he called it important that the burning be done under the right to demonstrate and criticised the fact that he said a lot of police were needed to keep it peaceful.
