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Who is Rasmus Paludan, the Swedish far-right leader who burnt Quran in front of Turkish embassy

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The act of Quran-burning by anti-Islam campaigner Rasmus Paludan were denounced by Turkish authorities on Twitter on Saturday. President of Turkey's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin described it as a heinous act against humanity. Danish-Swedish politician and far-right extremist Rasmus Paludan is the leader of the Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party in Denmark. He set the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's effigy on fire in Stockholm last week.