30th August: Protests in Southern Sweden started after an anti-Muslim Danish leader got banned on Friday. According to reports from the international media, protesters threw stones at police and burned tires in southern Sweden late on Friday, authorities said. The riots started hours after an anti-Muslim Danish politician was blocked from attending a Quran-burning rally nearby. Shabbir(AS)’s passion ignites Muslims faith and principledness According to the police and media, about 300 people were on the streets of Malmo with violence escalating as the evening wore on. The demonstration was connected to an incident earlier in the day in which protesters burned a copy of the Islamic holy book, police spokesman Rickard Lundqvist told Swedish tabloid Expressen. Rasmus Paludan, who leads the far-right Danish anti-immigration party Hard Line, was due to travel to Malmo to speak at that event, which was being held on the same day as weekly prayers for the Muslim sabbath. Top UN official condemns desecration of Holy Quran in Sweden But authorities pre-empted Paludan’s arrival by announcing he had been banned from entering Sweden for two years. He was later arrested near Malmo. “We suspect that he was going to break the law in Sweden,” Calle Persson, … Continue reading Riots in Sweden after the ban of an anti-Muslim Danish leader