The Importance of Religious Conflict in Sweden

A poll in Sweden showed that over 50% of Swedes want to ban the burning of the Quran because an Iraqi who has been living in Sweden for a short period of time, not that long, burned a Quran publicly and did so because he is somebody who has raised an Iraq and raised in a religious tradition and now rejects that. Because of these two things, Turkey is now, and since the first Quran burning, is now for a couple of other things to particularly, you know, Kurdish people that they consider PKK members,. They're blocking Sweden's ascension to NATO. And so when you have these kind of religious clashes and this kind of, it was alien to Swedes, they