BAGHDAD: Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and different Center Jap nations on Thursday condemned the burning of the Quran by an Iraqi residing in Sweden, warning such acts “inflame” the sentiments of Muslims around the globe.
Below a heavy police presence, Salwan Momika, a 37-year-old who fled to Sweden a number of years in the past, on Wednesday stomped on the Quran earlier than setting a number of pages alight in entrance of Stockholm’s largest mosque.
Police within the Swedish capital had granted him a allow for the protest in step with free-speech protections, however stated later that they had opened an investigation into the person over “agitation”.
The incident occurred as Muslims around the globe started marking the Eid al-Adha vacation and because the annual haj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia was drawing to an in depth.
Iraq condemned the Swedish authorities’ choice to grant an “extremist” permission to burn the Quran .
“These occasions inflame the sentiments of Muslims around the globe and signify a harmful provocation for them,” the international ministry in Baghdad stated.
Iraq’s influential Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr referred to as for an indication outdoors the Swedish embassy in Baghdad to demand the removing of the ambassador, charging that his state is “hostile to Islam”.
Iran joined within the condemnation, calling the Quran burning “provocative, ill-considered and unacceptable”.
“The federal government and folks of the Islamic Republic of Iran… don’t tolerate such an insult and strongly condemn it,” stated international ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanani.
“The Swedish authorities is predicted to significantly think about the precept of accountability and accountability on this regard, whereas stopping the repetition of insulting the holy sanctities,” he added.
Saudi Arabia, which hosted round 1.8 million Muslim pilgrims for the hajj that ended on Wednesday, additionally denounced the Quran burning.
“These hateful and repeated acts can’t be accepted with any justification,” the Saudi international ministry stated.
Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous nation, referred to as the Quran burning a “disgraceful act upsetting the sentiments of Muslims” as they mark Eid.
The Cairo-based Arab League branded the Quran burning an “assault on the core of our Islamic religion”.
Kuwait referred to as for perpetrators of such “hostile acts” to be delivered to justice and “prevented from utilizing the precept of freedoms as a ploy to justify hostility towards Islam or any holy religion”.
The Quran burning was additionally condemned by the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council and by Morocco, which recalled its ambassador to Stockholm.
“This new offensive and irresponsible act disregards the sentiments of greater than a billion Muslims, at this sacred time of the nice pilgrimage to Mecca and the blessed feast of Eid al-Adha,” the dominion stated.
“Confronted with these repeated provocations, dedicated below the complacent gaze of the Swedish authorities”, Morocco summoned Sweden’s cost d’affaires in Rabat and recalled its ambassador, it added.
Syria’s authorities condemned the “disgraceful act” on one of many holiest days for Muslims “by an extremist with the permission and consent of the Swedish authorities”.
Lebanon’s highly effective Iran-backed motion Hezbollah charged the Swedish authorities had been “complicit within the crime”.
Hezbollah referred to as on Sweden to place an finish to such acts “fairly than hiding behind freedom of speech”.
It urged spiritual authorities and Muslim and Arab nations to take “all the required steps” to compel Sweden and different international locations to forestall the recurrence of such incidents and cease “the unfold of a tradition of hate”.
The Palestinian international ministry condemned what it stated was a “flagrant assault on human rights, values of tolerance, acceptance of others, democracy and peaceable coexistence amongst followers of all religions”.
Additional afield, Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities, which enforces a strict interpretation of the Quran and Islamic regulation, additionally reacted angrily, labelling the Quran burning an act of “utter contempt in the direction of this noble faith”.
In January, a Swedish-Danish right-wing extremist burned a replica of the Quran close to the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, additionally triggering outrage within the Muslim world.
Below a heavy police presence, Salwan Momika, a 37-year-old who fled to Sweden a number of years in the past, on Wednesday stomped on the Quran earlier than setting a number of pages alight in entrance of Stockholm’s largest mosque.
Police within the Swedish capital had granted him a allow for the protest in step with free-speech protections, however stated later that they had opened an investigation into the person over “agitation”.
The incident occurred as Muslims around the globe started marking the Eid al-Adha vacation and because the annual haj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia was drawing to an in depth.
Iraq condemned the Swedish authorities’ choice to grant an “extremist” permission to burn the Quran .
“These occasions inflame the sentiments of Muslims around the globe and signify a harmful provocation for them,” the international ministry in Baghdad stated.
Iraq’s influential Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr referred to as for an indication outdoors the Swedish embassy in Baghdad to demand the removing of the ambassador, charging that his state is “hostile to Islam”.
Iran joined within the condemnation, calling the Quran burning “provocative, ill-considered and unacceptable”.
“The federal government and folks of the Islamic Republic of Iran… don’t tolerate such an insult and strongly condemn it,” stated international ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanani.
“The Swedish authorities is predicted to significantly think about the precept of accountability and accountability on this regard, whereas stopping the repetition of insulting the holy sanctities,” he added.
Saudi Arabia, which hosted round 1.8 million Muslim pilgrims for the hajj that ended on Wednesday, additionally denounced the Quran burning.
“These hateful and repeated acts can’t be accepted with any justification,” the Saudi international ministry stated.
Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous nation, referred to as the Quran burning a “disgraceful act upsetting the sentiments of Muslims” as they mark Eid.
The Cairo-based Arab League branded the Quran burning an “assault on the core of our Islamic religion”.
Kuwait referred to as for perpetrators of such “hostile acts” to be delivered to justice and “prevented from utilizing the precept of freedoms as a ploy to justify hostility towards Islam or any holy religion”.
The Quran burning was additionally condemned by the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council and by Morocco, which recalled its ambassador to Stockholm.
“This new offensive and irresponsible act disregards the sentiments of greater than a billion Muslims, at this sacred time of the nice pilgrimage to Mecca and the blessed feast of Eid al-Adha,” the dominion stated.
“Confronted with these repeated provocations, dedicated below the complacent gaze of the Swedish authorities”, Morocco summoned Sweden’s cost d’affaires in Rabat and recalled its ambassador, it added.
Syria’s authorities condemned the “disgraceful act” on one of many holiest days for Muslims “by an extremist with the permission and consent of the Swedish authorities”.
Lebanon’s highly effective Iran-backed motion Hezbollah charged the Swedish authorities had been “complicit within the crime”.
Hezbollah referred to as on Sweden to place an finish to such acts “fairly than hiding behind freedom of speech”.
It urged spiritual authorities and Muslim and Arab nations to take “all the required steps” to compel Sweden and different international locations to forestall the recurrence of such incidents and cease “the unfold of a tradition of hate”.
The Palestinian international ministry condemned what it stated was a “flagrant assault on human rights, values of tolerance, acceptance of others, democracy and peaceable coexistence amongst followers of all religions”.
Additional afield, Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities, which enforces a strict interpretation of the Quran and Islamic regulation, additionally reacted angrily, labelling the Quran burning an act of “utter contempt in the direction of this noble faith”.
In January, a Swedish-Danish right-wing extremist burned a replica of the Quran close to the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, additionally triggering outrage within the Muslim world.
