Riot Over Koran Pages Placed in Toilet


Reports claim that a 25-year-old Afghan man tore pages from the Koran and threw them in a toilet, prompting 20 people to attempt to lynch him. When police showed up to the refugee shelter, they were greeted with rocks and bits of concrete.

Wednesday night’s violence took place at an overcrowded refugee shelter in which some 1,800 people were being housed. The house was meant to hold only 1,200 – an indication of the difficulties faced by Germany’s authorities.

Police were pelted with stones and concrete blocks as they tried to calm the situation.

The migration minister in the central state of Thuringia, Dieter Lauinger, told reporters that the violence had nothing to do with overcrowding at the shelter.

State prime minister Bodo Ramelow, from leftist party Die Linke, suggested that part of the problem was housing different nationalities together.

This comes in the wake of a right-wing movement in Suhl against “Islamization”. While none of their supporters will argue against the pages of the Koran belonging in the toilet, this is just a minor example of the problems these Western European countries are facing.

Source: bbc.com

 



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