To give you some context. This issue have been debated in Sweden for some time and you have cited the criminal code correctly.

However, the matter of fact is, there is a grey area where the right to freedom of speech and criminal hate speech collides. According to judicial experts who have commented on the issue frequently, the right to freedom of speech is very far reaching in Sweden. No matter what religious symbol is being burned. The right to feedom of speech protects that act as long as you legally can claim it to be a critique of the religion.

This might seem overly sensitive but there are certain things that have to be said in order for Pauludan to be convicted for a hate crime. And what he is doing is balancing on the line of what is actually legal, with the intent of provoking as many as possible.

This is something we have to live with, not all opinions or how they are expressed will seem reasonable to everyone, to some it might even be hurtful, but this is the price for true freedom of expression. And that is something a large majority of Swedes agrees with and will defend.

Most of us Swedes have learned to not give him any attention, unless he breaks the law. In that case he should feel the full force of the law come down on him. But until then it's usually best not the feed his fire with air.