[Editor’s note: I received this email from Danish freedom activist Rasmus Paludan, clarifying our report here and providing additional details. That email is published here with Mr. Paludan’s permission. — RS]
Dear friend Mr. Spencer,
I noticed your article that I had been arrested to prevent me from burning a Koran.
This is not exactly what happened.
However, I am primarily writing to you because there is an important update in the case: The police have acknowledged that the deprivation of liberty was illegal. The police have therefore also awarded me compensation.
Denmark has an annual event called Folkemødet (in English translated as “meeting for the people”). All political parties and a host of NGOs participate. So does my party. Historically and without precedent, I received an administrative order from the police that I was not allowed to participate because the threat to me from terrorists was so serious that it was a risk of danger both to me and to other participants. I consider that order illegal. The security service’s bodyguards would not follow me either, because the security service also considered it too dangerous.
So I decided to get as close to the meeting as possible, but without the bodyguards from the security service who have otherwise surrounded me around the clock for years.
In order to get as close as possible to the forbidden zone, I drove by car on 15 June 2023 towards the town of Allinge. Unfortunately, in order to harass me, the police had made sure that the prohibited zone also covered all car roads into Allinge. So therefore the police stopped my car and said I was 20 meters into the zone.
When I was informed of this, I replied that I had made an accidental mistake. I immediately started strolling out of the zone. When I was 5 meters from leaving the zone, I was informed that I was administratively deprived of my liberty. It is not the same as being arrested. An administrative detention in Danish law can be carried out by the police against a person who is not suspected of a crime.
The next day (June 16, 2023) I demanded that the deprivation of liberty be brought before the court and compensation.
On 20 June 2023, the police replied that they recognized that the deprivation of liberty was illegal and awarded me DKK 3,000 in compensation.
I am attaching a copy of a translation of the police letter.
To get as close to the forbidden zone as possible, I had to hike through nature. I am attaching a map showing the route.
I therefore had to walk almost 2 kilometers each way on hilly terrain every day in the company of my secretary, while we were pursued by uniformed officers who were ready to intervene if I should by mistake move even half a meter into the zone. Danish police have surrendered to the heckler’s veto.
Sincerely,
Rasmus Paludan
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Fitna says
Thank you for all you do Mr Paludan, you are speaking for millions of people who want to keep their freedom and way of life.
I wish there were thousands or millions of us doing the same in all western nations and then it’d be easier to get rid of Islam…but ofc it’s just a handful of people for now, hopefully in time the numbers will grow.
The political elites need to wake up and deal with this fascist ideology.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
“Administrative deprivation of liberty” is something different from an arrest: can the Danes invent something more Orwellian than this?
Phil says
Go go Mr Paludan!
Aum says
Stay Safe.
Goofy says
Rasmus Paludan is a lawyer by training. In that perspective I consider that it is a waste of his time to tour Denmark and Sweden to burn the Qur’an!
(By the way, which of the many versions of the eternal, uncreated Qur’an does he burn? The one he considers the most authentic or the one catching fire the easiest?).
Anyway, Qur’an burning is inflammatory as it triggers emotional reactions without any thought process as cause. That may be common amongst big segments of the Muslim population, but it is surely not something which will put in motion any positive development as we witnessed in Sweden around Easter 2022.
What we need is an injection of sanity in the Islamic community. Here Rasmus Paludan may find his calling;
Buy Robert Spencer’s the Critical Qur’an and read it from cover to cover and make notes of all its commands which are in conflict with the Danish criminal code, the international convention on human rights, the convention on war crimes etc.
Either publish it as a separate book under a title like “A Qur’anic guide to the Rule of Law in Denmark” or “A guide for devout Muslims to permanent imprisonment in Denmark”.
A similar book should be published for the benefit of Muslims in Sweden
It should be made mandatory in all prisons.
Fitna says
Goofy,
“Qur’an burning is inflammatory as it triggers emotional reactions without any thought process as cause.”
So your answer is “don’t burn the barbarians’ holy book or they’ll burn down cities?” You’re arguing for capitulation in the face of threats to our freedom? That’s precisely why the Quran must be burned, because they would react with violence…and the wider population needs to see that.
This means they don’t play by the rules that everyone else does and therefore they don’t belong here.
If they’re going to attack/kill over the Quran, what else would they become violent over? Insulting their pedophile-warlord prophet, or their religion?
As Sam Harris once said “all we have is conversation or violence” in order to solve human problems. So if people are willing to harm others, breaking our laws, then why should they be allowed to enjoy the freedoms that they would take away from us, if given the chance?
“What we need is an injection of sanity in the Islamic community.”
Oh really? You’re going to turn Muslims into sane people? What’ll you do for your next trick? Part the seas? Make doves fly out of your azz?
Expecting Islam to become ‘sane’ is like thinking you can cure schizophrenia-it’s impossible. Islam is an imposed mental disorder invented by a raving lunatic and followed by morons because they had Islam beaten into them from childhood.
If people were rational and could be reasoned with then, all religions would’ve died off ages ago-because they are all founded on terrible logic, superstition and absurdities. But they persist because humans are flawed and theists have learned to take advantage of evolutionary biology by brainwashing children with these rotten ideologies.
Nature has made children to be fully trusting of adults because they cannot look after themselves, so biologically speaking they must rely on them for survival…which is why you can teach a child that the moon is made out of cheese, or there’s a fat man at the north pole who gives you gifts, or there’s a magic bearded sky-daddy who’s going to judge you and they’ll believe it.
History has shown there is no ‘reforming’ or ‘civilizing’ this evil death cult Islam. You either bow to these religious maniacs or you make them go away forever…either by expulsion or warfare or forcing them to convert to another belief system, but good luck with that.
Alena says
Nice reply
Fitna says
Thanks Alena.
James Lincoln says
Fitna says,
“Expecting Islam to become ‘sane’ is like thinking you can cure schizophrenia-it’s impossible. ”
You are correct regarding patients with schizophrenia.
Those patients cannot be “cured”, but psychotropics can help to “control” their schizophrenia.
And yes, islam cannot be “cured” and its devout followers are even more difficult to control than schizophrenic patients.
Fitna says
Thanks James and agreed.
Rational Muslims have tried to bring Islam into the modern age and tame the more violent passages, but the ‘true believers’ have always thrown them out of 3rd story window or killed them some other way.
Unlike Christianity which went through the Reformation and became more civilized over time, because Jesus was a peaceful man, that’s just not possible with Islam, since it’s leader was bloodthirsty warlord and serial rapist.
Ofc there are a handful of Muslims with some intelligence who realize on their own how rotten their religion is and eventually convert out or leave it…but most humans are lazy and stupid by nature, so the majority of Muslims won’t bother to question their beliefs and must be dealt with by the use of force.
There is a small window of opportunity free nations have to stop Islam, which is when their populations are around 5-10%, but as they grow their numbers it becomes far more difficult without engaging in all out warfare to quell them. So we in the West need to wise up soon before the situation gets out of control.
James Lincoln says
Fitna,
Thank you for your reply.
Michael Copeland says
To appreciate how hostile, implacable, hateful, and inflexible Islam is, and closed to all reason – – “We follow blindly” – see what their own spokesmen say in:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/03/islam-western-leaders-are-well-deceived/
John1 says
Why would you let people into your country only to have pay the expense of trying them in court and paying for long prison sentences? Or paying for security services to monitor their activities because they are a threat to public safety, etc? JUST DON’T LET THEM IN!
PRCS says
Well John,
What’s the plan for the millions who’re already here?
Namer says
I used to travel to the ME fairly regularly for my job in the late 80’s. While there I frequently saw Muslims cutting up ancient Handwritten and Illustrated to sell to tourists. Muslims have no problems desecrating the Koran themselvesso why is it an issue when non muslims do it. The muslims in Gitmo regularly destroy their Korans.
Michael Copeland says
Paludan’s point is simple: because of Islam, muslim behaviour is incompatible with Western freedoms.
The harmless burning of a book proves the point succinctly.
Fitna says
Exactly
bill says
Never mind burning a book it needs somebody to burn a few m****ues. Then they will get the message that people are not going to accept their domination. Hitler was not stopped, because he had patience and lost a few elections before he got into a position of power democratically, with the help of powerful people who thought they could control him, and they thought he would be less extremist once in power. The move to dominate what used to be called Christendom is happening the same way, because nobody is stopping it while they think they can control it.