Finnish Police refuse burning of Quran

Published January 31st, 2023 - 07:17 GMT
Protests in Pakistan
ctivists of radical anti-blasphemy party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan burn a Swedish flag as they protest against the burning of the Koran in Sweden, in Karachi on January 27, 2023. Several thousand people rallied in Muslim-majority Pakistan after Friday prayers to voice outrage over right-wing protests targeting the Koran in Sweden and the Netherlands. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP)

ALBAWABA - Police in Finland will not allow the burning of the Quran in public places. 

This is being plainly stated by Finland's National Police board, which said set the Quran ablaze is against the law and violates peaceful coexistence between the country's different religions. 

The Finnish police is making this clear after a spate of Quran burning in Sweden and Denmark lead by Danish-Swede politician Rasmus Paludan, the head of the far-right Stram Kurs (Hard Line) Party. He burned a copy of the Quran in front of a mosque in Denmark on Friday, according to Anadolu

In 2021 a poll of Finnish MPs found that they didn't want to change the current law on religion, which carries a six-month sentence for blasphemy.