{"id":18918,"date":"2023-01-26T09:29:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T09:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=18918"},"modified":"2023-01-26T09:44:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T09:44:28","slug":"russia-behind-quran-desecration-in-front-of-turkiye-embassy-to-keep-sweden-away-from-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/russia-behind-quran-desecration-in-front-of-turkiye-embassy-to-keep-sweden-away-from-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia behind Quran Desecration in front of Turkiye Embassy to Keep Sweden away from NATO ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18920\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NATO-Sweden-Tazeen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NATO-Sweden-Tazeen.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NATO-Sweden-Tazeen-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Russian military intelligence operation in Sweden, besides blocking the nation\u2019s NATO membership bid, could raise the level of terrorist threat in the country<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"td_btn td_btn_lg td_shadow_btn\" style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Islamabad: Editor&#8217;s Desk &#8211; This article monitored by our team has claimed that Desecration of Quran in Sweden was conspiracy hatched by Russian Intelligence and implemented by their agents only to block Sweden&#8217;s entry into NATO. Turkiye has strongly condemned the highly unfortunate incident and opposed Sweden in NATO. This article elaborates that it was all Russian operation only to keep Sweden from NATO. That is why the desecration was committed in front of Embassy of Turkiye in Sweden. This is the point of view presented in this article. If Russian side intends to respond and share their own stance in this regard, we will publish that as well.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"dJ6BsR6fHy\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/lansinginstitute.org\/2023\/01\/24\/russian-military-intelligence-operation-in-sweden-besides-blocking-the-nations-nato-membership-bid-could-raise-the-level-of-terrorist-threat-in-the-country\/\">Russian military intelligence operation in Sweden, besides blocking the nation\u2019s NATO membership bid, could raise the level of terrorist threat in the country<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Russian military intelligence operation in Sweden, besides blocking the nation\u2019s NATO membership bid, could raise the level of terrorist threat in the country&#8221; &#8212; Robert Lansing Institute\" src=\"https:\/\/lansinginstitute.org\/2023\/01\/24\/russian-military-intelligence-operation-in-sweden-besides-blocking-the-nations-nato-membership-bid-could-raise-the-level-of-terrorist-threat-in-the-country\/embed\/#?secret=SDz6kCtBmc#?secret=dJ6BsR6fHy\" data-secret=\"dJ6BsR6fHy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Russia has masterminded and organized the effort to destabilize Sweden on religious grounds. The operation aims to hamper Sweden\u2019s NATO integration plans, escalate relations with Muslim countries, and create grounds for the acts of terror on the part of Islam followers who arrived in Sweden as refugees.<\/h5>\n<h5>Therefore\u00a0the Kremlin also attempts to provoke riots and violence with the subsequent higher risk of international terrorist organizations intensifying their operations in Sweden (a secondary goal).<\/h5>\n<h5>On January 21, 2023 leader of the Hard Line partly Rasmus Paludan publically burned the Quran outside T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s embassy in Stockholm. According to\u00a0the Swedish TV channel SVT, it was a local journalist,\u00a0Chang Johannes Frick, who proposed that Paludan burn the Quran. He also guaranteed that any damage that the Hard Line leader may sustain in respect to the stunt will be covered.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18923\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sweden-Quran-1-e1674725615236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sweden-Quran-1-e1674725615236.jpg 400w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sweden-Quran-1-e1674725615236-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h5>\n<h5>Russian military intelligence has likely exploited unsuspecting Paludan with the mediation of\u00a0Chang Johannes Frick, who, according to multiple signs, is a GRU asset recruited for psyops. The location \u2013 the area outside Turkey\u2019s embassy in Stockholm \u2013 was chosen specifically as the act targeted Ankara. The operation was held ahead of the scheduled visit to Sweden of Turkey\u2019s defense minister.\u00a0In 2023, the elections will be held in T\u00fcrkiye, while incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is competing with the Arab world for influence on Muslims worldwide.<\/h5>\n<h5>To Sweden\u2019s move to apply for NATO membership following Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine T\u00fcrkiye responded with a demand to extradite representatives of Kurdish forces and suspects in the 2016 coup d\u2019\u00e9tat case. At the same time,\u00a0Stockholm\u2019s accession aspirations became a matter of concern for Moscow. As a result, the Kremlin plotted an operation aiming to escalate contradictions between T\u00fcrkiye and Sweden amid the upcoming elections in Ankara, realizing that an attack on a religious symbol of Islam can\u2019t be ignored during an ongoing campaign.<\/h5>\n<h5>It is not a coincidence that the riots occur against the backdrop of reports that Sweden could join NATO and at a time when Moscow has voiced threats to Stockholm over its chosen course of action. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has said that, \u201cif Sweden and Finland join NATO, this could lead to \u201cnegative implications\u201d for peace in northern Europe.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18924 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/swedens-e1674725877121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/swedens-e1674725877121.jpg 400w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/swedens-e1674725877121-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h5>\n<h5>Chang Johannes Frick (until 1995 \u2013 Chang Georg Lindberg) owns a Nyheter idag online newspaper and hosts a show on SD Riks TV channel (which is financed by the Sweden Democrats party). There are numerous signs indicating that the man covertly cooperates with and is affiliated with Russia\u2019s GRU military intelligence. This connection raises no doubts as he previously worked for more than a year for Russia\u2019s state-owned news agency RT\/Russia Today as a \u201cfreelancer with regular tasks\u201d for Ruptly, which is RT\u2019s subsidiary. Affiliated with the Russian defense ministry and military intelligence, RT took up an active role in the coordinated efforts to compromise the international inquiry into the downing of MH17 in 2014.<\/h5>\n<h5>RT and Sputnik\u2019s Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan also cooperates with the Russian defense ministry and military intelligence. It is important to bear in mind that at the dawn of Simonyan\u2019s career in journalism, she was a war correspondent covering the war in Chechnya. This indirectly confirms her ties with the GRU. The defense ministry in 2005 even awarded her a medal. Then, in 2008, she covered the Russian military campaign aimed to seal control of the South Ossetia.<\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18927\" style=\"width: 548px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18927\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NATO-Sweden-Tazeen-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NATO-Sweden-Tazeen-1.jpg 548w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NATO-Sweden-Tazeen-1-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Press conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Pekka Haavisto, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Ann Linde following the signature of the NATO Accession Protocols for Finland and Sweden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h5>Since 2012, he has been a partner of Polina Urvantseva, a Russian national born in Chelyabinsk in July 1989. <a href=\"https:\/\/lansinginstitute.org\/2022\/08\/18\/moscow-sets-the-stage-for-intelligence-infiltration-into-osce-pa\/\">Handling foreign assets with the help of young Russian women is one of the classic practices preached by Russian intelligence<\/a> since the Cold War times.<\/h5>\n<h5>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In 2017, Chang Frick covered a visit to Russia of a lawmaker with the ultra-right party Sweden Democrats, Pavel Gamov, who has Russian roots.\u00a0According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/10\/world\/europe\/sweden-immigration-nationalism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>,\u00a0in 2018, Russia helped the Sweden Democrats achieve a record-breaking success in parliamentary elections by fueling anti-migrant moods and promoting across social media the websites affiliated with nationalists.<\/h5>\n<h5>In 2018, Nyheter idag, unlike most Western\u00a0\u00a0media platforms, covered Russian elections in a positive light.\u00a0Today, Frick\u2019s outlet focused on circulating anti-Turkish rhetoric across Sweden (Turkey\u2019s involvement in the killing of Kurds in Syria, oil deals with the Islamic State, granting asylum to Islamic terrorists, blackmailing Europe with refugees, and Erdogan\u2019s involvement in the 2015 refugee crisis), provoking Turkey to stand up against Sweden\u2019s appeal to join NATO. It is highly likely that the content spun by the outlet reflects the tasks set by Moscow depending on the relevant agenda.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18929\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sweden-Quran-2-e1674726257487.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sweden-Quran-2-e1674726257487.jpg 400w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sweden-Quran-2-e1674726257487-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h5>\n<h5>According to our estimates, Russia chose Paludan for the stunt due to the fact that he had already taken part in burning the Quran in Denmark, Germany, and France, as well as demonstrations of the prophet\u2019s image, which is severely banned in Islam.<\/h5>\n<h5>Paludan is a Danish politician, founder of the far-right anti-Islamist political party Stram Kurs (\u201cHard Line\u201d), which demands a ban on practicing Islam in the country and the deportation from Denmark of all migrants earlier granted asylum. Frick\u2019s testimony claiming he stands behind Paludan\u2019s stunt indicates attempts to minimize repercussions for Paludan as an act of promised damage compensation for the executioner.<\/h5>\n<h5>Thus, the scenario was likely chosen of an active measure through an act religious provocation. Earlier, similar measures eventually fueled mass riots and even terrorist acts, as in the case of the Charlie Hebdo HQ in France. Paludan\u2019s far-right ideology and anti-migrant policies totally fit the Kremlin in running intelligence operations within the wide framework of the anti-migrant movement across Europe, which Moscow has been generously cultivating since 2015.<\/h5>\n<h5>Paludan has long gained notoriety for his anti-migrant protests and Quran-burning acts in districts populated by ethnic minorities. The Danish court even found him guilty of racism and slander.<\/h5>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"td_btn td_btn_lg td_shadow_btn\" style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18928\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NATO-Sweden-Tazeen-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NATO-Sweden-Tazeen-11.jpg 392w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NATO-Sweden-Tazeen-11-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/>However, the choice of Stockholm and the Turkish embassy goes beyond Paludan\u2019s modus operandi in his anti-Islamic efforts. Therefore it is highly likely that his anti-Islamic activity was exploited by third parties to achieve political goals.On January 24, Zvezda, a media outlet run by the Russian defense ministry, posted an article covering Paludan\u2019s stunt, putting an emphasis on the worsening of relations between Sweden and T\u00fcrkiye.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian military intelligence operation in Sweden, besides blocking the nation\u2019s NATO membership bid, could raise the level of terrorist threat in the country Islamabad: Editor&#8217;s Desk &#8211; This article monitored by our team has claimed that Desecration of Quran in Sweden was conspiracy hatched by Russian Intelligence and implemented by their agents only to block [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[2161,287,375,670,2589,270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18918"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18930,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918\/revisions\/18930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}