Why immigration and free speech are incompatible

Published February 6, 2025 11:00pm ET



A man was murdered in Sweden last week by Islamists. What was the response of the authorities? To make it harder for people such as him to get on the wrong side of the extremists in the first place.

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi Christian asylum-seeker, was shot in an apartment in Stockholm after he burned a copy of the Koran. According to the BBC report, “The government later pledged to explore legal means of abolishing protests that involve burning texts in certain circumstances.”

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