Sweden’s Quran burnings underline importance of First Amendment

Published July 31, 2023 3:59pm ET




It’s a crisis that is complicating Sweden’s efforts to win Turkey’s support for its accession to NATO. It is undermining Sweden’s relations with other nations. But it’s not a crisis born of any government action or foreign policy choice. Instead, this crisis flows from the inability of foreign governments to understand that free speech means allowing idiots to be idiots.

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