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title: "Lars Thorsen, Anti-Islam Extremist Car Crash Minutes After Burning Quran"
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updated: "2022-07-03"
description: "OSLO (NORWAY) - Minutes after burning a Quran outside Oslo, the leader of an anti-Islamic Norwegian group was involved in a spectacular car chase and collision. Two people have been arrested in Norwa\u2026"
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# Lars Thorsen, Anti-Islam Extremist Car Crash Minutes After Burning Quran

Source: https://theislamicinformation.com/news/lars-thorsen-car-crash-minutes/
Updated: 2022-07-03

**OSLO (NORWAY)** - Minutes after burning a Quran outside Oslo, the leader of an anti-Islamic Norwegian group was involved in a spectacular car chase and collision.

Two people have been arrested in Norway, including the driver of a car that deliberately rammed the SUV of Lars Thorsen, leader of the radical group "Stop the Islamization of Norway." ([SIAN](https://theislamicinformation.com/news/man-who-burnt-quran-in-pakistan-arrested/)).

Among the five passengers in the SUV, one was hospitalized, police said.

https://youtu.be/CYijCS1OFk8

According to a video posted on Facebook, Thorsen and other activists first drove to Mortensrud, a Muslim-populated suburb of Oslo.

After placing the Quran on fire, the activists initially managed to push back locals who tried to put it out.

Angry witnesses gathered, including a woman who climbed into a gray Mercedes and grabbed the charred book.

An SUV painted in camouflage livery left the scene after the anti-Islam activists left. Eventually, the Mercedes overtook it and hit it lightly before slamming into it at speed, causing it to overturn.

Someone followed the car throughout the whole episode.

A gunman killed two people in Oslo's central district a week ago, wounding 21 others.

According to Norway's domestic intelligence service, the attack was an act of Islamist terrorism.

Far-right anti-Islam activists in Scandinavia have made it a specialty to burn Qurans in Muslim neighborhoods.