FG, BastaYekfi, 18/4/2022
The man who set fire to the Swedish suburbs during the Easter weekend and in the middle of Ramadan earned his time in the limelight. Express portrait.
Rasmus Paludan, by Morten Ingemann
Rasmus Paludan was born in 1982 in North Zealand to a Danish mother and a Swedish father, which allowed him two years ago to obtain Swedish nationality as well as Danish, and should open a path for him to become a candidate in Sweden’s legislative elections next September. He will probably have no more chance of being elected there than in Denmark, where he received only a few thousand votes, but this should widen his influence on the so-called social networks, where he is spreading out, multiplying provocations, but without meeting the expected success.
Rasmus has a leftist younger brother - who called in a video not to vote for him in 2019 - and a feminist poet little sister, who also makes electronic music. He got married last fall to a 21-year-old woman, whose anonymity has been preserved and who is only known to the public as having had love affair since she was 17 with Peter Madsen, alias Raket-Madsen, the rocket and submarine inventor who is serving a life sentence for the murder, preceded by rape, of the Swedish journalist Kim Wall. Is this a sham marriage? We don't know. In any case, this news has put an end to the constant rumours of Rasmus' homosexuality, as Rasmus is also the subject of a complaint from a children's rights NGO for exchanging sexual comments with people under 15.
Rasmus has two personal problems: his brain and his overweight.
In 2005, at the age of 23, he was in a car accident that resulted in a 25% loss of brain power and compromised his law studies. But he learned enough law to specialize in all kinds of complaints and lawsuits, whether against the author of a message that Hitler hadn't finished the job of ridding the world of "fags" or against his namesake Rasmus Padulan Malver for improper use of his "middle name" (Padulan) as a surname.
But he has lost more cases than he has won and has
been convicted a respectable number of times for his hate speech against
Muslims.
Rasmus has specialized in one particular activity: he publicly burns Korans, often after wrapping them in bacon or smearing them with pork fat, both in Denmark and in Sweden, under police protection, in the name of the sacrosanct right to freedom of expression. To do this, he created a start-up, which presents itself as a political party but is more of a one-man business: Stram Kurs or Hard Line. The company's philosophy is summed up in two Instagrammed words: "ethnonationalist and libertarian". In short, he is a 21st century crusader, who wants to cleanse Denmark of the Muslim spawn before it finally takes over at the end of the great replacement in progress.
