Sweden has raised its terrorism alert level one notch to the second highest following recent Quran burnings in the Scandinavian country, which sparked angry demonstrations in Muslim nations.
Hezbollah supporters trample representations of the Swedish flags during a rally denouncing the desecration of the Quran after Friday prayers in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Friday, July 21, 2023. Muslim-majority nations expressed outrage Friday at the desecration of the Islamic holy book in Sweden. Following midday prayers, thousands took to the streets to show their anger, in some cases answering the call of religious and political leaders.
Sweden has in recent weeks asked citizens abroad and businesses linked to the country to “be attentive and aware of the information the authorities communicate,” following a string of public burnings of copies of the Quran by an Iraqi asylum-seeker.overall security situation has deteriorated and the risk of terrorism in Sweden was now at level four or “high" on its five-point scale, a first since 2016.
“We are in a deteriorating situation and this threat will continue for a long time," SAPO head Charlotte von Essen said, adding that"the threat of attacks from actors within violent Islamism has increased during the year.”While urging people in Sweden to continue to live “normally,” Von Essen stressed that there wasn't a single incident that led to the height
Earlier this year, a far-right activist from Denmark burned a copy of Islam's holy book outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm.and gathered outside the Swedish Consulate in Istanbul, where a photo of the Danish anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan was set on fire. Denmark's national police said Wednesday that “on the recommendation" of the domestic intelligence service PET, it was"necessary to maintain the temporarily-intensified efforts at the internal Danish borders.” Sweden has also stepped upOn Tuesday, PET and its foreign intelligence counterpart said in a joint statement that the recent Quran burnings “have resulted in considerable, negative attention from, among others, militant Islamists.
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