Why should Sweden be in NATO anyway?
Previously:
Sweden: the gov’t gets cold feed, bans Quran burning
…which means freedom of expression is dead in Sweden.
Quran-burning protest by anti-NATO activists banned by Swedish authorities
Swedish authorities claimed the demonstration would have “serious disturbances of national security.”
An activist group that planned to further derail Sweden’s NATO membership bid by burning a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm has been denied permission for its demonstration.
Members of Apallarkerna, a little-known organization opposed to Swedish membership of the defense alliance, had hoped to further stoke tensions with Turkey, which the Swedish government needs to ratify its NATO application.
Stockholm police refused permission for the protest on Wednesday, claiming it would pose “a serious disturbance to national security.”
Authorities have changed tack after allowing a similar protest to take place last month, which resulted in wide-scale condemnation from the Islamic world, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who pulled out of talks with the Swedish government over its ambitions to join NATO.