Protests involving the desecration, vandalism, or burning of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, have been going on for years in Scandinavia, with Danish anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan and his group Stram Kurs (Hard Line) being behind many of the demonstrations in Denmark, Sweden, and elsewhere.
Earlier this year, Paludan burned a copy of the Quran in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, provoking fierce condemnation from the Turkish government and from Islamist president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
