Rasmus Paludan

Rasmus Paludan, the Danish-Swedish far-right leader, pledges the burn the holy Quran "every Friday" until Ankara approves Stockholm's bid to NATO.

To comply with the terms of the memorandum punctually. What is the essence of the mechanism? One will take place outside the Turkish embassy, another outside a mosque, and the third near the Russian embassy. Now that he doesn't want to let Sweden into NATO, I have to teach him about freedom of speech until he does. [Erdogan's fault](https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/ankara-to-hold-quran-reverence-outside-turkish-embassy-in-st). Recently, Paludan's political repertoire has included burning and otherwise defacing copies of the holy Quran.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Turkey summoned the Danish ambassador and accused Denmark of endorsing a “hate crime” after an anti-Islam activist on Friday ...

A lawyer, Paludan established far-right parties in both Sweden and Denmark that have failed to win any seats in national, regional or municipal elections. On Friday, he replicated the stunt in front of a mosque, as well as the Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen, and vowed to continue every Friday until Sweden is admitted into NATO. Loud music blared from the mosque as he spoke, in an apparent attempt to drown his words. Sweden and neighboring Finland are seeking to join the military alliance amid the war in Ukraine, in a historic departure from their non-aligned policies. But their accession requires approval from all NATO members, and Turkey has indicated it will block Sweden’s bid — in part due to Paludan’s initial stunt. Rasmus Paludan, a far-right activist who holds both Danish and Swedish citizenship, had already infuriated Turkey by staging a Quran-burning protest in Sweden on Jan.

Rasmus Paludan, on Friday burned a copy of the Holy Quran in front of a mosque and Turkish embassy in the Denmark capital, Copenhagen.

Paludan, a lawyer, founded far-right parties in Sweden and Denmark that failed to win any seats in national, regional or municipal elections. The Turkish Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the Danish authorities’ permission to burn a copy of the Holy Quran in front of the Turkish embassy and opposite a mosque in Copenhagen, under police protection. Shortly after he burned the copy of Quran in front of a mosque, Paludan burned a copy of the Holy Quran again in front of the Turkish embassy in Copenhagen, for the third time in a week.

Far-right Danish politician, Rasmus Paludan, committed another provocative act on Friday, burning a second copy of the Muslim holy book, the Quran, ...

The mosque-goers remained calm amid the provocateurs actions. Hours earlier, Paludan had burned another copy of the Quran in front of a mosque in Denmark. After the burning of the Quran, Paludan tried to provoke the Turks who gathered in front of the embassy.

Turkey has condemned the government of Denmark for allowing Rasmus Paludan to burn copies of the Koran in Copenhagen.

This time, the leader of the Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party destroyed one Koran outside a mosque and another in front of the Turkish embassy. The seeds of hatred you allow to be planted will poison your entire society”, Mevlut Cavusoglu added. They called Denmark’s position ‘unacceptable’ in allowing such an action to be carried out. Vile attacks cannot overshadow the holiness of our supreme religion, Islam and our Bible, but they degrade those who do and allow it. Paludan’s burning of the holy book was slammed as ‘heinous’, and ‘despicable’ by the Ministry. Last week he performed the same action,