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Afghanistan
The Taliban suspends the work of the Swedish missions in Afghanistan
2023-07-12
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] Sweden's missions in Afghanistan have been suspended. This was announced on July 11 by the representative of the Taliban movement (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), which came to power in the country in August 2022, Zabiullah Mujahid.
A major loss to the Swedish quality of life, to be sure.
He explained that the reason for this decision was the desecration of the Koran in Sweden.
Of course it is.
"The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is suspending all Swedish activity in Afghanistan until they apologize to Muslims for this heinous act," the Twitter post read.

The Taliban also urged other Muslim countries to reconsider their engagement with Stockholm.

As IA Regnum reported , on June 28, on the first day of Eid al-Adha, a 37-year-old immigrant from Iraq held an action to burn the Koran near the cathedral mosque in the center of Stockholm. Earlier, the city police refused to hold the action, justifying it with possible threats against the country and the risk of terrorist attacks. But the organizers appealed to the court, which recognized the decision of law enforcement officers as erroneous. As a result, a demonstration with the burning of the Koran next to the mosque was allowed to be held.

The action aroused the indignation of Islamic countries - in Baghdad, protesters broke into the territory of the Swedish embassy and demanded the expulsion of the ambassador of the kingdom from the country.

On July 5, it became known that the Swedish police received three more applications for religious book burnings. One of the applications was submitted by a woman who wants to burn the Koran at a mosque in Stockholm as soon as possible. The man wished on July 15 to destroy the Torah and the Bible at the Israeli embassy. And a third citizen plans to burn religious texts on July 12 in the city of Helsingborg.

The police have already issued a permit for the rally in Helsingborg in southern Sweden.

Mufti Rushan Abbyasov, Deputy Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (DUM) of Russia, called on believers in Sweden to actively condemn "blameless actions" with the burning of sacred religious books. He believes that such actions can lead to very sad consequences, primarily in Sweden itself.

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