Man fined €1,800 for ‘insulting’ German Greens MP on X

A man in Germany has been ordered to pay a €1,800 fine for allegedly insulting Green Party MP Janosch Dahmen in the latest case of German citizens facing legal consequences for criticizing politicians online.

A year after posting a comment on social media, Daniel Kindl from Lower Saxony was slapped with a penalty order that arrived unexpectedly last week.

The charge stems from a post on X Kindl wrote on Jan. 4, 2024, in response to Dahmen’s concerns over an alleged attack on Economic Minister Robert Habeck in Schlüttsiel. The incident was later deemed exaggerated, with reports indicating that farmers had merely staged a protest over the left-wing government’s environmental policies rather than engaging in violence.

In his post, Dahmen expressed his dismay at the political climate amid a rise in civil unrest against the federal government. He wrote, “I don’t like to imagine Robert Habeck’s concerns for his family and the security authorities in the face of such situations. Such attempts to assert themselves with volume and intimidation in our democracy must stop!”

Kindl replied with, “Heul leise, du Lappen, das ist erst der Anfang” which roughly translates to, “Cry quietly, you rag, this is just the beginning.”

According to Dahmen and prosecutors, this constituted an insult, and the left-wing politician filed an official criminal complaint against Kindl on Feb. 19, 2024.

Kindl, who resides in a village near Hanover, defended his remark, stating that it was meant to express the frustrations of rural citizens over government policies impacting farmers.

Speaking to Nius, he said: “At that time, it was already known that the attack on Habeck had not happened as widely claimed by the Greens. The farmers were simply protesting and voicing their displeasure. With my tweet, I wanted to make it clear that we rural citizens will continue to stand against hostile politics in the future.”

In December — more than 10 months after the post — police contacted Kindl regarding the case. He sought legal representation and refrained from making a statement. Despite his lawyer’s request for case files, none were provided before the penalty order was issued. Kindl has vowed not to pay the fine and has escalated the matter to his legal team.

The fine consists of 30 daily rates of €60 each, plus €81 in court costs.

The case is part of a growing trend in Germany, where citizens have been fined or even imprisoned for remarks directed at political figures.

Other recent cases include a German pensioner who was fined €800 for submitting a satirical comment about Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock through the Foreign Office’s online contact form, where he jokingly claimed she had hit her head too many times against a ceiling jumping on a trampoline.

In November last year, another pensioner was arrested after retweeting a meme of Green Economy Minister Robert Habeck, which referred to him as an “idiot.” The case was recorded as a “politically motivated right-wing crime.”

A Bavarian woman who fought her initial €6,000 fine for calling Baerbock a “hollow brat” on X was acquitted late last year after nearly two years of legal proceedings.

Also recently, a civil engineer from Lower Saxony was sentenced to 30 days in jail for failing to appeal a fine he received after calling SPD politician Manuela Schwesig a “storyteller” and accusing her of spreading misinformation.

The convictions aren’t just reserved for comments against politicians, however.

German police raided the home of a 14-year-old boy in Bavaria last month after he allegedly posted the hashtag #AllesFürDeutschland (“Everything for Germany”), a phrase now deemed controversial.

Similarly, a German man who described a judge as “obviously mentally disturbed” — after the judge issued a light sentence to a Syrian who raped a 15-year-old girl — was slapped with a €5,000 fine for “insulting” the judge.

The increasing number of prosecutions has sparked concerns about freedom of expression in Germany. A November 2024 survey by pollster Insa revealed that 74 percent of Germans believe people are self-censoring out of fear of legal repercussions, with younger and right-leaning citizens particularly affected.

https://rmx.news/article/man-fined-e1800-for-insulting-german-greens-mp-on-x/

German county ‘pays €40,000 per month to monitor aggressive asylum seeker’

Bad Kreuznach county in the German State of Rhineland-Palatinate has been paying €40,000 per month for private security services to monitor an allegedly aggressive asylum seeker around the clock, it has been revealed.

Lengthy appeals to authorities to deport the man whose asylum claim had been rejected had until recently reportedly fallen on deaf ears.

The 20-year-old unnamed Afghan came to the area close to Frankfurt/Main in September 2023 and was first housed in a shared living facility in the municipality Rüdesheim.

Whilst there, claimed Markus Lüttger, mayor of the town: “He attacked his roommates with a stick, smashed crockery and destroyed windowpanes.”

Lüttger alleged the man often threatened others for religious reasons, accusing his roommates of not living in line with their faith correctly and waking them in the middle of the night to get them to pray.

German media have not disclosed the Afghani’s faith.

Administrators then transferred him to a shelter for refugees in Windesheim, reportedly believing the more controlled support there would stop any further aggression.

That apparently did not happen, with the man reportedly threatening and attacking residents and employees of the facility.

He has since been placed in a private facility to live where he is fed alone and does not interact with other residents on his own.

Bad Kreuznach at the same time hired a private security company to monitor the man – who is allowed to move around freely – accompanied by two officials.

According to district councillor Bettina Dickes, the surveillance has been costing the county – which numbers 160,000 inhabitants – €40,000 per month.

Dickes said she had already asked the integration ministry of Rhineland-Palatinate on November 22 last year to organise the man’s deportation, whose claim for asylum had previously been rejected. The ministry is led by Katharina Binz of the Greens.

In mid-January, the ministry said it had forwarded the request to the federal Interior Ministry led by Nancy Faeser, which would have to make the final decision.

It reportedly said the man’s deportation could only take place if German authorities organised a deportation flight to Afghanistan.

Germany has only sent one plane with rejected Afghan asylum seekers back to their country since the Taliban took over again in 2020.

In August 2024, following a deadly stabbing attack, allegedly by an Afghan, on a German critic of Islam and a policeman in Mannheim, the government deported 28 Afghan asylum seekers to Kabul. Many of them have reportedly been freed by the Taliban since arriving.

On January 24, the interior ministry confirmed that a second deportation flight to Afghanistan had been scheduled for February 22 – one day before the national elections.

The people of Bad Kreuznach were reportedly now hoping that the issue will be settled then. “We are close to despair,” said Bad Kreuznach councillor Dickes of the affair.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/01/german-county-pays-e40000-per-month-to-monitor-aggressive-asylum-seeker

Is the climate doomsday cult finally losing power?

By Vijay Jayaraj

For years, climate activists like Al Gore and John Kerry have made bold, headline-grabbing predictions that have failed to materialize.  Gore’s 2007 assertion that the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013 stands in stark contrast to reality: Arctic ice has not disappeared despite seasonal fluctuations, and Antarctica sea ice has rebounded from record low levels.

Similarly, Kerry’s repeated warnings of impending catastrophe have lacked grounding in observable data.  Then-teenage activist Greta Thunberg’s 2020 declaration that we had only “eight years left to save the planet” added to a long list of apocalyptic deadlines that have come and gone without the promised catastrophes.

The credibility gap has only widened with extreme actions by groups like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, whose theatrical protests — from destroying priceless artworks to blocking ambulances by gluing hands to roads — have alienated potential supporters and raised questions about the movement’s priorities.

These repeatedly failed predictions and increasing public skepticism of activists’ motivations have wrought a significant shift in the public’s openness to their apocalyptic narrative.

A growing number of citizens worldwide are embracing what can be called “climate realism” — a perspective that acknowledges climate variations while questioning their primary causes, the supposed severity of their impacts, and claims of their unprecedented nature.

According to Pew Research Center’s annual policy priorities survey, conducted January 2024, only 36% of poll participants thought climate change should be a top priority for the U.S. president and Congress.  There were 17 more pressing issues, including health care, education, employment, and national security.  Another survey last year found that of the 28 issues, global warming ranked only 19th among registered voters.

The shift in public sentiment is perhaps most evident in recent elections across diverse democracies.  In the United States, Argentina, India, and Italy, voters have increasingly prioritized immediate economic concerns, national security, and tangible environmental issues like local pollution over abstract climate goals.

The election of leaders who prioritize economic growth and energy security over climate action isn’t a rejection of environmental concerns; it’s a realignment of priorities based on lived experience.  Real-world data often contradict alarmist narratives.

Global life expectancy has continued its upward trend, reaching 74.6 years in 2023, despite predictions of climate-induced health crises.  The United States and Europe have achieved remarkable improvements in air quality through practical environmental management, with the U.S. seeing a 78% reduction in aggregate emissions of six key pollutants since 1970, according to a 2021 EPA report.

Equally telling are data on extreme weather events.  Although media coverage might suggest otherwise, the frequency of major hurricane landings in the United States and the global frequency of major hurricanes have shown no significant upward trend over the past five decades (a period  of increasingly accurate satellite data).

Meanwhile, forest cover in the European Union has increased by over 9% since 1990.  Similar positive trends have been documented in India and China.  Global crop production has reached record levels, with the global wheat yield increasing by 30% since 2000.

For years, organizations like the United Nations have advanced pseudoscientific climate policies disconnected from the needs of ordinary people.  But the veneer of consensus is wearing thin.  Developing nations, which face immediate challenges like poverty, disease, and inadequate infrastructure, are increasingly resistant to climate agendas of Western origin.

Argentina’s decision to pull out of November’s COP 29 climate conference highlighted a growing divide between the global North and South.  President Donald Trump’s pull-out of the U.S. from the Paris accord and net-zero movement will embolden more developing countries to do the same.

People increasingly recognize that access to abundant, reliable energy — predominantly from fossil fuels and nuclear power — is fundamental to human flourishing.  The correlation between energy consumption and quality of life metrics (health care, education, economic opportunity) is well documented.

The era of climate alarmism may be waning, replaced by a more pragmatic approach to global challenges.  The future of environmental policy likely is in practical, local solutions that balance mitigation of real pollutants — as opposed to the demonization of harmless carbon dioxide — with human prosperity.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/01/is_the_climate_doomsday_cult_finally_losing_power.html

Merkel Out of Retirement to Tell Off Germany Voting for Border Control

Former Chancellor Merkel, who led Germany and the continent into the Europe Migrant Crisis of 2015 has made a rare break from retirement to play the elder statesman, decrying her successor as party leader for working with the sovereigntist right to vote through border control rules.

Angela Merkel, the former leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU, globalist centre-right) and longtime Chancellor of Germany came out of retirement on Thursday to pour scorn on her successor for daring break the so-called cordon sanitaire or firewall that all other parties have imposed against the Alternative for Germany (AfD, populist-sovereigntist right) for years.

25 September 2024, Berlin: Angela Merkel (M) accepts the applause from Friedrich Merz (2nd from left), at the Berlin Discussion Special to mark the former Chancellor’s 70th birthday. Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa (Photo by Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images)

No party has ever collaborated with the AfD to pass laws in the German Bundestag before, but on Wednesday night the CDU and AfD voted together to pass a border security bill that no other parties would agree to support. CDU leader Friedrich Merz had argued the migration restrictions had clearly been proven essential in the wake of the deadly Magdeburg and Aschaffenburg attacks and among the provisions are those who are ordered to leave Germany should be “immediately taken into custody” and placed into a removal centre.

This is remarkably strident for the centrist CDU, but an election is looming and Merz has been working to rebrand his party and insist it has moved beyond the attitudes of the Angela Merkel open borders era.

Merkel herself appears incensed that her legacy is being dismantled. In a statement published on Thursday, hours after the vote, Merkel began by reminding Merz that he had vowed not to work with the “far right” AfD in 2024. She praised this position as “an expression of great state political responsibility, which I fully support”.

t was “wrong” to move away from this and to allow “the AfD to gain a majority in a vote in the German Bundestag on January 29, 2025 for the first time”, Merkel said. Instead, “all democratic parties” should work together “moderately in tone” to prevent future terror attacks, Merkel said, even though this has been what the German state has been trying for years with questionable success

German newspaper Die Welt notes the CDU leadership has brushed off their old boss coming back to try and micro-manage them, with CDU parliamentary faction leader Thorsten Frei rejecting Merkel’s position without mentioning her by name, and saying: “I think it is right that we put the two motions to the vote yesterday. And I also think it is right that we discuss and decide on the influx limitation law in the German Bundestag tomorrow.”

The world has changed in the past few months and this new reality has to be contended with, Frei said, citing the Magdeburg and Aschaffenburg attacks and the events of November 6th, when Donald Trump won the U.S. Presidential election and the German government collapsed, triggering next month’s snap election.

Unsurprisingly, Germany’s left wing parties were delighted with Merkel’s telling-off, with one Social Democrat (SPD, globalist centre-left) politician calling it an expression of “decency” and that party’s national executive calling the CDU working with the AfD to pass laws a “breach of taboo”.

Party co-leader Saskia Esken said she was “very grateful” for Merkel’s intervention, Welt reported, stating: “She obviously got the impression that she had to remind her successor, Friedrich Merz, of his political responsibility.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/01/30/merkel-out-of-retirement-to-tell-off-germany-voting-for-border-control

Cardinal Müller on Trump: ‘Better a good Protestant than a bad Catholic’ in the White House

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Cardinal Gerhard Müller has said that many bishops and cardinals favor President Donald Trump but are afraid to say it publicly.

In an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the former head of the Congregation (now Dicastery) for the Doctrine of the Faith said that he “personally prefer[s] Donald Trump to Joe Biden.”

When asked why that is, despite Trump being a Protestant and Biden a Catholic, he answered: “Better a good Protestant than a bad Catholic.”

He added that “many cardinals and bishops think like me, even if they are afraid to say so. And in the United States, the percentage is even higher.”

Müller also talked about Brian Burch, the founder of CatholicVote and newly appointed U.S. ambassador to the Holy See.

“I’ve been told that Burch is a good Catholic,” the German cardinal said. “And Trump will help the Church because he represents natural law values: the inviolability of life, the importance of marriage, religious freedom.”

“And he pursues the idea of a state that does not meddle in every area of life. Even on immigrants, one has to distinguish. If he sends criminals away, that’s good. If he expels them as foreigners, no,” Müller added.

In a recently released statement, the USCCB called the Trump administration’s immigration policies that would include mass deportations of illegal immigrants “deeply troubling.” Müller’s statements imply that not all active U.S. bishops agreed with the sentiment expressed by the USCCB.

Müller met both Trump and Vice President JD Vance in 2022 during his trip to the U.S. He said that Trump expressed “his respect for the Catholic faith.”

“Vance told me that it was precisely his encounter with Catholicism that enabled him to overcome the problems he was dragging from childhood,” Müller recalled.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-muller-on-trump-better-a-good-protestant-than-a-bad-catholic-in-the-white-house/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=usa

Europe’s biggest motorbike manufacturer may move production to Asia

Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer Mika Kallio‘s KTM 125 -motorcycle at the MP2006-fair in Helsinki. Photo by Thermos. Wikimedia Commons,CC-BY-SA-2.5

KTM, Europe’s biggest manufacturer of motorcycles by sales, is mulling moving a large part of its production capacity to either India or China, according to company sources. The Austrian company has been in a severe crisis for several months and is facing bankruptcy. To survive and restructure, KTM reportedly needs €600 million in liquidity in the coming weeks.

On January 28, the shareholders of KTM’s parent company Pierer Mobility agreed on a capital increase which might provide the company with up to €900 million in cash, ensuring KTM’s survival for the moment. According to Peter Vogl, the restructuring manager assigned to KTM, the search for investors has been successful. Twenty parties have expressed their interest in investing in the motorbike manufacturer – although he could not say how many had made a concrete offer for some of the new shares.

Even if KTM survives the company will probably move a big chunk of its production capacity outside of Europe to cut costs. This was reported by Austrian media with reference to Pierer Mobility insiders. Reportedly, production is planned to be moved either to Bajaj Auto in India or to CF Moto in China. Bajaj is one of two core investors in KTM together with Heinrich Pierer. Pierer took over KTM in 1991 and turned it into a flourishing company. CF Moto from China is a long-term partner of KTM and a minor shareholder of Pierer Mobility.

This is bad news for KTM’s 5,000 employees in Austria, many of which work in the main production plant in Mattighofen, north of Salzburg. Many people have already been let go as production was switched from double shifts to single shifts for 2025 and 2026.

KTM’s crisis has many roots. Gottfried Neumeister, KTM’s new CEO since January 2025, attributed it to high inventories, rising production costs, complex marketing strategies and high debt. In addition, the ongoing economic crisis in Europe has negatively affected sales. Reportedly, KTM has more than a year’s production volume in store.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/01/europes-biggest-motorbike-manufacturer-may-move-production-to-asia

Germany: Iraqi migrant on trial for raping an 82-year-old woman in her apartment, twice

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An Iraqi migrant is on trial for raping an 82-year-old woman in her Hamburg apartment building twice last summer, with the trial now running since Tuesday.

The migrant is 36-year-old Hawzheen A. (photo), who is unemployed, and reportedly suffers from “psychological problems,” according to Bild. Due to this, Hawzheen A. is not serving his time in detention in a prison but instead inside a “therapeutic institution.”

During the incident, he attacked the old woman, dragged her to a bedroom and then proceeded to rape her, according to prosecutors. In a second attack, he dragged the woman to another apartment one floor down which belonged to a friend and raped her there.

The woman only called the police after the second incident.

However, it is not the only criminal charges he is facing. In January 2023, he was accused of attacking an unknown woman from behind while they were inside a cafe in the Horn district, at which point he brought her to the ground and kicked her. Guests inside the cafe reportedly intervened to help the woman. When police arrived, he fought and kicked them as well as spat on them.

Two weeks later, Hawzheen A., was involved in an incident where he began damaging property. He fought the police so hard that he was transported face down inside a police van and three officers were injured during the struggle to arrest him.

The defendant has remained silent during his trial so far. It is expected to run until Friday.

Migrants involved with sexual violence against elderly women are not so uncommon. Last year, a Syrian migrant sexually assaulted a 78-year-old woman, only to be released and rape a 23-year-old the next day. Also last year, a migrant raped two elderly women in a hospital and said he was “forced to rape” because he “didn’t have a girlfriend.” And on New Year’s morning last year, a migrant committed a break-in and raped a 75-year-old French woman.

In 2022, an Iraqi migrant raped a 90-year-old disabled woman confined to a wheelchair inside a hospital in Germany.

In France, there has been a wave of migrants raping or sexually assaulting elderly women. Last year, a migrant was jailed for the attempted rape of a woman who was 102 years old.

https://rmx.news/article/germany-iraqi-migrant-on-trial-for-raping-an-82-year-old-woman-in-her-apartment-twice/

Public-Funded Fairytale-Tellers Get Busy Ahead of German Election

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A state-funded German left-wing publication that spread disinformation about right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has released another hit piece, this time targeting the leader of centre-right CDU, Friedrich Merz—one month before the national elections.

The “investigative journalism” website Correctiv attracted attention last year when it published an article designed to undermine public confidence in the AfD, which had been—and still is— surging in the polls due to its tough stance on migration.

The piece falsely accused party members of having discussed deporting German citizens from a migrant background at a conference in Potsdam in November 2023. Other media outlets, including state-run broadcasters, have been repeating these claims about the AfD ever since, despite court rulings that deemed them to be false.

Less than a month before the February 23rd elections, Correctiv is now going after Friedrich Merz, the leader of the CDU, which is the frontrunner in the polls.

The article, described by the publication as “explosive,” details the 69-year-old Merz’s ties to big corporations and suggests how these relationships could influence the way he runs the country. Correctiv accuses Merz of advocating a liberal economic policy instead of a left-wing one, and the publication expresses its fears that “right-wing conservative voices from the past are also getting involved again.”

As conservative news outlet Nius.de explains, absolutely nothing controversial or “explosive” is revealed in the article, because Friedrich Merz is well-known as a former politician-turned-businessman who went back into politics and took over the leadership of the CDU after Angela Merkel. Merz is vowing to steer the CDU back towards the Right after two decades of left-wing-liberal policies by his predecessor.

What is controversial, however, is the fact that Correctiv unashamedly takes public money from the government and uses it to attack the political opponents of the two governing parties, the Social Democrats and the Greens.

In 2023, the publication received €198,500 from the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Green politician Claudia Roth. Last year, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research granted €1.33 million to Correctiv for a ‘fact checker’ project to combat ‘fake news’—a clearly ironic move, given the publication’s history of spreading… fake news.

In 2022 and 2023, the outlet also received over half a million euros from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, led by a politician from CDU’s left wing, Hendrik Wüst.

As German lawyer Ulrich Vosgerau told europeanconservative.com in an interview last year:

The German state supports Correctiv financially, putting money in the pockets of these fairytale-tellers. They publish outrageous narratives, false facts, and cascades of speculation with the intention that these are taken as facts, “research,” and “revelations.”

The platform has proudly stated that it works “free of political and economic dependencies,” but its funding and left-wing activism suggest that it is extremely biased and under the influence of the governing parties.

As Nius.de writes, “tough investigative research against Green Minister Robert Habeck would be almost unimaginable,” not to mention that their former managing director Jeannette Gusko has been managing the Greens’ election campaign since November.

As we previously reported, Correctiv’s directors had meetings with officials from the federal government on numerous occasions, apparently to “exchange ideas” on what coverage is desirable, and Gusko met Chancellor Olaf Scholz days before the now infamous Potsdam meeting, on which the publication had deceptively misreported about.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/public-funded-fairytale-tellers-get-busy-ahead-of-german-election/

Qur’an-Burning Islam Critic Assassinated While Livestreaming in Sweden

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Iraqi-born Islam critic Salwan Momika was shot dead at a residence in Sweden on Wednesday night, just hours before he was due to be in court for the Swedish government’s prosecution of him for his Qur’an-burning protests.

38-year-old Salwan Momika was shot dead in an apartment in Södertälje, in Stockholm county, on Wednesday night around 11pm. The refugee, who was born into Iraq’s Assyrian Christian minority but who self-described as a “liberal atheist” had come to Sweden from Iraq in 2018 and given protection because he was at high risk of torture and “inhumane treatment” in his home country.

Sweden’s Aftonbladet newspaper reports the attack against Momika took place while the Islam critic was livestreaming on the TikTok platform, and that the killing was broadcast. Indeed, the paper states the livestream only ended later when a police officer entered the apartment and turned the phone off.

Five people have been arrested on suspicion of murder. A police insider is reported to have said they are working on the theory a perpetrator accessed the apartment by the building’s roof.

Momika rose to prominence in 2023 after he burned copies of the Qur’an four times at protests in Sweden, including outside a Stockholm mosque and the Iraqi embassy. Proponents of Qur’an burning, as well as wishing to protest Islam itself, say the extremely violent reactions to the burnings ironically prove their own points that Islam is dangerous and incompatible with Western society.

Momika himself asked, rhetorically, in 2024: “If Islam is a religion of peace, why do I need a bulletproof vest?… Why do I need hundreds of police to protect me when I burn a book of the people of the religion of peace?”. Swedish public television broadcaster SVT’s crime correspondent stated on Thursday it was well known in Sweden’s criminal underground that a price had been put on Momika’s head and money could be made by killing him.

British campaigner Tommy Robinson, who is now in prison in the United Kingdom, interviewed Momika in 2024 and warned he faced “certain death”.

It is claimed before coming to Europe, Momika served in an anti-Islamic State (ISIS) militia in Iraq.

Momika’s 2023 Qur’an burnings triggered massive protests which in turn created a diplomatic crisis for Sweden. The Swedish embassy in Iraq was mobbed and Turkey cited Sweden’s permitting freedom of expression against Islam as it slow-walked the nation’s admission into NATO. There were also Qur’an riots in Malmo, Sweden’s infamously multicultural city, in 2023 over Momika.

Momika, along with another Qur’an burner, was charged with incitement against an ethnic group over the 2023 burnings and a verdict in the case was due to be heard in a Stockholm court this morning, some 12 hours after he was shot. A spokesman for the court said the ruling has been delayed to next month “Since it has been confirmed that one of the defendants has died, the sentence must be adjusted to the fact that it is not possible to sentence a deceased person”.

While he characterised the bid to convict him for expressing his views in public as “legal persecution”, Momika nevertheless said “I am grateful for Sweden and I love Sweden and its people”. Sweden had recently jailed another Qur’an burner, Dane Rasmus Paludan. The Judge told Paludan at sentencing “It is permissible to publicly criticize, for example, Islam and even Muslims, but the contempt for a group of people must clearly not exceed the limits of a relevant and responsible discourse”, and found that the activist had intended to “defame and insult Muslims”.

In 2024, it was reported two men were arrested in Germany over planning a terror attack against Sweden because of Qur’an burnings. The men intended to shoot police officers and other people at the Swedish Parliament.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/01/30/quran-burning-islam-critic-shot-dead-while-livestreaming-in-sweden