The passing of a law banning the burning of the Quran by the Danish parliament has done little to quell the argument over free speech that has beset the country for months.
The legislation comes in the wake of public burnings of the Quran by a small group of nationalists in both Denmark and Sweden. burnings have been shown globally via social media and led to condemnations from Muslim nations and a storm on the Swedish embassy in Baghdad. The burnings have been given as one of the reasons why Turkey still hasn’t ratified Sweden’s membership of Nato. While the governments of both Denmark and Sweden have said the burnings are abhorrent, they was nothing they could do under the law.
