The incident is the newest in a string of Quran burnings in Sweden and Denmark that prompted protests within the Center East.
Two protesters have set hearth to a replica of Islam’s holy ebook, the Quran, in entrance of the Iraqi embassy in Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen.
The duo from a gaggle that calls itself Danish Patriots stomped on the Quran on Monday and set it alight in a tin foil tray subsequent to the Iraqi flag mendacity on the bottom.
Shortly after the incident, Iraq’s international ministry known as on the authorities of nations within the European Union to “shortly rethink so-called freedom of expression and the suitable to display”, in response to the Iraqi state information company INA.
The far-right, ultra-nationalist Danish Patriots held the same demonstration final week and live-streamed the occasions on Fb.
After final week’s incident, Danish Overseas Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen condemned it as an act of “stupidity” by just a few people, telling nationwide broadcaster DR: “It’s a disgraceful act to insult the faith of others.”
“This is applicable to the burning of Qurans and different non secular symbols. It has no different objective than to impress and create division,” he mentioned. He famous, nevertheless, that burning non secular books was not a criminal offense in Denmark.
The strain between Muslim international locations and the 2 Scandinavian nations intensified final month after a 37-year-old Christian Iraqi refugee in Sweden, Salwan Momika, burned pages of the Quran on the Islamic vacation Eid al-Adha.
On Sunday, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, a coalition of 57 Muslim international locations, suspended the standing of Sweden’s particular envoy over the string of Quran burnings, saying the choice was as a result of “granting by the Swedish authorities of licenses that enabled the repeated abuse of the sanctity of the Holy Quran and Islamic symbols”.
A day earlier, a number of thousand Iraqis demonstrated in Baghdad over Islamophobic protests within the two Scandinavian international locations.
Iraqi safety forces repelled the protest 48 hours after the Swedish embassy in Baghdad was overrun and set alight in protest at a deliberate burning of the Muslim holy ebook in Stockholm.
Thursday’s anti-Islam demonstration in Sweden’s capital, Stockholm, prompted Center Japanese states, together with Saudi Arabia and Iran, the area’s main Sunni and Shia powers, to summon Swedish diplomats in protest.
Iranian Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei on Saturday urged Sweden at hand over culprits to Islamic nations’ judiciaries.
“The Swedish authorities ought to know that by supporting the legal who burnt the Holy Quran it has gone into battle array for struggle on the Muslim world,” he mentioned on Twitter.
