Overseas Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen says gov’t will think about risk of intervening in ‘particular conditions’ the place ‘different nations, cultures, and religions are being insulted’.
The Danish authorities will attempt to discover authorized signifies that will allow authorities to stop the burning of copies of the Quran in entrance of different nations’ embassies in Denmark, Overseas Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has mentioned.
“The burnings are deeply offensive and reckless acts dedicated by few people. These few people don’t signify the values the Danish society is constructed on,” Rasmussen mentioned in an announcement on Sunday.
“The Danish authorities will subsequently discover the opportunity of intervening in particular conditions the place, as an illustration, different nations, cultures, and religions are being insulted, and the place this might have vital adverse penalties for Denmark, not least with regard to safety,” he mentioned.
Denmark and Sweden have discovered themselves within the worldwide highlight in latest weeks following protests the place the Quran, the Islamic holy e book, has been broken or burned.
In a separate assertion on Sunday, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson mentioned he had been in shut contact along with his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen, and {that a} comparable course of was already underneath approach in Sweden.
“We now have additionally began to analyse the authorized scenario already … with a view to think about measures to strengthen our nationwide safety and the safety of Swedes in Sweden and around the globe,” Kristersson mentioned in a publish to Instagram.
Outrage in Muslim nations
This month, far-right activists have carried out numerous public burnings of Islam’s holy e book in entrance of the Iraqi, Egyptian, and Turkish embassies within the Danish capital.
On Monday, two members of the ultra-nationalist Danish Patriots stomped on a duplicate of the Quran and set it alight in a tin foil tray subsequent to an Iraqi flag.
Earlier this month in Sweden, an Iraqi citizen residing within the nation, Salwan Momika, 37, stomped on the holy e book and set a number of pages alight.
The general public burnings within the Scandinavian nations have sparked widespread outrage throughout Muslim nations, with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, Morocco, Qatar and Yemen lodging protests in response.
Sweden and Denmark have mentioned they deplore the burning of the Koran however can not stop it underneath their guidelines defending freedom of expression.
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) earlier this month accredited a decision on non secular hatred and bigotry following a number of burnings.
Pakistan and different Organisation of Islamic Cooperation nations backed the movement, together with numerous non-Muslim majority nations together with India and Vietnam. The USA and the European Union opposed the decision on the grounds it interfered with freedom of expression.
In his assertion, Rasmussen added that no matter measure was taken “should in fact be performed throughout the framework of the constitutionally protected freedom of expression and in a way that doesn’t change the truth that freedom of expression in Denmark has very broad scope”.
