(European Conservative) A Danish court on Friday for the first time meted out a verdict in the first criminal case using the country’s new law prohibiting “improper treatment of a religious text.” The court sentenced Islamism critic Rasmus Paludan and one of his associates to each pay a fine of DKK10,000 (just over €1,300) for destroying copies of the Quran at Folkemødet, a civic festival aimed at fostering open debate, in Allinge, Bornholm, last summer.
In the tent of Paludan’s migration-critical political party, Stram Kurs, the two tore pages out of copies of the Quran, which Muslims consider a holy book, put the book on a grill, and let it drop into puddles on the ground.
