If Christians had been rioting over desecration of the Bible, you can be sure that Katia Elliott would have readily acknowledged that the riots had to do with religion. For Leftists, denying reality in a ridiculous way is preferable to appearing to criticize Islam.
“SVT’s remark: Unclear if the Koran riots had anything to do with Islam,” translated from “SVT:s anmärkning: Oklart om korankravallerna hade med islam att göra,” Fria Tider, April 12, 2023 (thanks to L.):
MEDIA. It has not been made clear that the Koran riots were in any way connected to religion, clarified SVT’s presenter Katia Elliott on “Aktuellt.”
On Tuesday evening, “Aktuellt” had a feature on Carola’s critical comments about Swedish multiculturalism.
To discuss the issue of immigration, the state television giant had invited two guests: the Greek-Swedish leftist journalist Leonidas Aretakis and the Afghan ex-policeman Mustafa Panshiri.
The former was critical of Carola’s comments, while the latter showed a little more understanding of the criticism of immigration policy.
One of the comments that Carola made in the attention-grabbing interview with Svenska Dagbladet concerned Muslims. It “is in their scriptures that it is okay to lie to unbelievers,” she noted.
Panshiri brought up the quote and when talking about the Koran riots last Easter.
“It is clear that what happened during Easter a year ago had to do with religion,” he said.
However, this claim was apparently so strong that SVT’s presenter Katia Elliott felt compelled to comment on the matter at the end of the discussion.
“There are many explanations for the Easter riots. Some would say they are religious, others not, I just want to say,” she clarified.