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Eugene

(62,650 posts)
Fri Aug 18, 2023, 10:07 AM Aug 2023

Sweden raises its terror threat level to high for fear of attacks following recent Quran burnings

Source: Associated Press

Sweden raises its terror threat level to high for fear of attacks following recent Quran burnings

BY KARL RITTER AND JAN M. OLSEN
Updated 12:50 PM EDT, August 17, 2023

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden raised its terror alert to the second-highest level on Thursday after a string of public desecrations of the Quran sparked angry demonstrations across Muslim countries and threats from militant groups.

The Swedish Security Service, known as SÄPO, lifted the “terror threat level” one notch to “high,” the fourth of five levels, for the first time since 2016.

The move reflects Swedish concerns that repeated Quran-burnings this year by a handful of anti-Islam activists have made the Scandinavian country a prime target for Islamic extremists.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson noted that Swedish interests abroad had already been targeted, including the storming of Sweden’s Embassy in Baghdad last month and an attempted attack on the diplomatic mission in Beirut last week.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/sweden-terror-threat-level-quran-burnings-93df9f95ecae958b64763844d1bc8e4a

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Sweden raises its terror threat level to high for fear of attacks following recent Quran burnings (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2023 OP
However offended someone might be from this edhopper Aug 2023 #1
Agree! jimfields33 Aug 2023 #2
"God has no religion." --- Mahatma Gandhi anciano Aug 2023 #3

edhopper

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1. However offended someone might be from this
Fri Aug 18, 2023, 10:37 AM
Aug 2023

Violence and killing is NEVER justified. If your God is insulted, is he too weak to do something about it himself?

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