{"id":115731,"date":"2023-07-28T09:15:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T06:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/swedish-pm-extremely-worried-what-could-happen-if-further-koran-burnings-go-ahead\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T09:15:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T06:15:41","slug":"swedish-pm-extremely-worried-what-could-happen-if-further-koran-burnings-go-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/swedish-pm-extremely-worried-what-could-happen-if-further-koran-burnings-go-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish PM \u2018extremely worried\u2019 what could happen if further Koran burnings go ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115731\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nSwedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson is &#8220;extremely worried&#8221; about the consequences if more demonstrations go ahead in which the Koran is desecrated, he said on Thursday, amid growing Muslim anger at a series of attacks on Islam&#8217;s holy book. Attacks on the Koran in Sweden and Denmark have offended many Muslim countries including Turkey, whose backing Sweden needs to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a goal of Stockholm&#8217;s following Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Kristersson told Swedish news agency TT that further requests had been filed with police for permission to hold protests where desecration of the Koran was again planned. &#8220;If they are granted, we are going to face some days where there is a clear risk of something serious happening. I am extremely worried about what it could lead to,&#8221; he said. Sweden&#8217;s embassy in Baghdad was stormed and set ablaze on July 20 by protesters angered by a planned Koran burning.<\/p>\n<p>Kristersson said the decision whether to grant permission for the demonstrations was up to the police. Sweden&#8217;s security service, SAPO, has kept its assessment of the threat level at 3 on a scale of 5, signifying an &#8220;elevated threat&#8221; during the crisis, but its head said there had been a strong reaction to recent events. &#8220;Sweden has gone from being seen as a tolerant country to being seen as an anti-Islamic land,&#8221; Charlotte von Essen told reporters on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark and Sweden have said they deplore the burning of the Koran but cannot prevent it under rules protecting free speech. Sweden has accused other countries &#8211; such as Russia &#8211; of manipulating the crisis to damage its interests and its bid to join NATO. &#8220;In some countries there is a perception that the Swedish state is behind or condone this. We don&#8217;t,&#8221; Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told reporters on Thursday. &#8220;These are acts committed by individuals, but they do it within the framework of freedom of speech laws,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Billstrom said he had been in touch with the foreign ministers of Iran, Iraq, Algeria and Lebanon among others as well as the United Nations secretary-general about the current crisis. &#8220;And just now I will speak to the secretary-general for the Organisation of Islamic Countries,&#8221; Billstrom said. &#8220;We will discuss these issues and it&#8217;s important to stress that this is a long-term issue, there are no quick fixes,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The government is facing a difficult balancing act in defending far-reaching freedom of speech laws, while at the same time avoiding potential insult to Muslims. Its position is not made easier by the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, whose support keeps the right-of-centre coalition in power though the party is not formally part of the government. Members of Sweden Democrats, the biggest party on the right, have repeatedly warned about the &#8220;Islamization&#8221; of Swedish society and called for immigrants to adopt &#8220;Swedish&#8221; values.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/swedish-pm-extremely-worried-what-could-happen-if-further-koran-burnings-go-2023-07-27\/\">Reuters<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/swedish-pm-extremely-worried-what-could-happen-if-further-koran-burnings-go-ahead\/\">Swedish PM &#8216;extremely worried&#8217; what could happen if further Koran burnings go ahead<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[6525,10857,3290,2793,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-115731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-burning","tag-koran","tag-pm","tag-swedish","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}