The dominion requires a halt to ‘disgraceful acts’ after spate of Quran burnings in Copenhagen.
Saudi Arabia has summoned Denmark’s cost d’affaires over latest burnings of the Quran in Copenhagen.
The Danish diplomat was handed a memo that “features a demand from the dominion to cease the disgraceful acts that violate all spiritual teachings, legal guidelines and worldwide norms,” the Gulf nation’s overseas ministry mentioned in an announcement on Friday, with out figuring out the Danish official by identify.
The dominion’s protest comes after far-right activists carried out a lot of public burnings of Islam’s holy ebook over the previous week 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 replica of the Quran and set it alight in a tin foil tray subsequent to an Iraqi flag.
Danish Overseas Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen condemned an analogous demonstration by the group the earlier week as a “disgraceful act” meant to “provoke and create division”, however famous that desecrating the Quran will not be a criminal offense in Denmark.
Activists have additionally burned copies of the Quran in neighbouring Sweden in latest weeks.
The general public burnings within the Scandinavian international locations have sparked widespread anger throughout the Muslim world, with international locations together with Qatar, Jordan, Morocco, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Iran, and Yemen lodging protests in response.
Saudi Arabia final week summoned the Swedish cost d’affaires to sentence the desecration of the Quran in that nation. Iraq earlier this month expelled the Swedish ambassador shortly after Iraqi protesters stormed the Swedish embassy earlier than setting the constructing on hearth.
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) earlier this month permitted a decision on spiritual hatred and bigotry following the burnings.
Pakistan and different Organisation of Islamic Cooperation international locations backed the movement, together with a lot of non-Muslim majority international locations together with India and Vietnam. America and the European Union opposed the decision on the grounds it interfered with freedom of expression.
