The 3rd protest carried out by the same Christian man came just days after the prime minister said Quran desecrations were making Sweden 'prioritized' for terror.
Two protesters burned pages torn from a Quran outside Sweden's parliament in Stockholm Monday, the third such demonstration in recent weeks and the first since thethat demonstrations involving the desecration of Islam's holy book were making Sweden a bigger target for terrorism.
The two previous protests sparked outrage in Muslim countries and drew protests often aimed at Swedish embassies. Freedom of speech is protected under Sweden's constitution and police can only refuse a protest permit if"there have been serious public disturbances or a considerable danger for participants at a previous gathering of a similar kind," according to Anger over the protests boiled over in Iraq, where scores of angry demonstrators have twice stormed Sweden's embassy.
On Sunday, Denmark's top diplomat Lars Løkke Rasmussen said the Danish government would seek to make it illegal to desecrate the Quran or any other religious text in front of foreign embassies amid backlash from the Islamic community, The In a statement also issued on Sunday, the Danish government said that while freedom of expression is one of the most important values in Danish society, Quran burnings"are deeply offensive and reckless acts committed by few individuals.
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