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Court convicts man for Qur’an burning in Sweden
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Court convicts man for Qur’an burning in Sweden

Srinagar, Oct 12: In a first, a court in Sweden convicts a man of inciting hatred with a 2020 Qur’an burning, a media report said today. The Linkoping district court in central Sweden found the man guilty of “agitation against an ethnic group,” calling his action had “targeted Muslims and not Islam as a religion,” and “can hardly be said to have encouraged an objective and responsible debate,” Arab News reported. In September 2020, the 27- year-old man had recorded a video clip outside the Linkoping cathedral showing a Qur’an and bacon being burned on a barbecue, with a pejorative remark about the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) written on a sign under the barbecue. The man had also published the video on social media platforms Twitter (now known as X), and YouTub...