{"id":186807,"date":"2019-04-16T08:14:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T08:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186807"},"modified":"2019-04-18T06:42:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T06:42:03","slug":"copenhagen-riots-violent-protests-after-anti-islam-campaigner-throws-koran-in-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186807","title":{"rendered":"Copenhagen riots: Violent protests after anti-Islam campaigner THROWS Koran in air"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel Russell \u2013 Daily Express April 15, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n

AT least 23 people were arrested in connection with violent riots that broke out when a far-right anti-Islam activist threw a copy of the Koran in the air.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Police threw teargas after missiles were thrown at them when the unrest spread on Sunday to several parts of Copenhagen, Denmark. Rasmus Paludan, the founder of the anti-immigrant party Hard Line, held a demonstration calling for Islam to be banned from Denmark. He had thrown the holy book more than once in Noerrobro, which is an anti-immigrant area in the capital.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen he condemned Mr Paludan\u2019s \u201cmeaningless\u201d actions.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said on Twitter: \u201cI strongly disagree with Paludan’s meaningless provocations that have no other purpose than sow disunity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMeet him with arguments – not with violence.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A Danish police officer stands guard during the riots at Norrebro in Copenhagen. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cDo not let derogatory actions directed at specific groups in Denmark destroy our unity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Paludan had cobblestones thrown back at him by counter-protestors, before police then took him away.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was not injured in the violence, according to Danish broadcaster TV2.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dustbins and bicycles were also set on fire as the riots spread to other areas in Copenhagen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police warned people to stay away from the affected areas or indoors for their own safety.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hard Line group believes Denmark should be a country for people who are \u201cethnic Danes at birth\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

They also should have \u201cDanish genus and Danish native language\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Paludan has already been handed a suspended sentence for racist abuse and his party also does not have any seats in the Danish parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Increasingly frequent event where, by \u201cdivide and rule\u201d, formerly homogenous societies are fractured by unrestricted immigration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186807"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186828,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186807\/revisions\/186828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}