SAUDI ARABIA CONDEMNS THE DELIBERATE ABUSE OF HOLY QURAN IN SWEDEN

Mon 18 April 2022:

Saudi Arabia condemned the deliberate abuse of the Holy Quran by extremists in Sweden, the Kingdom’s Foreign Ministry said early Monday.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s condemnation of the deliberate abuse of the Holy Quran, provocations and incitement against Muslims by some extremists in Sweden,” the ministry said in a statement.

It added: “The Kingdom stresses the importance of concerted efforts to spread the values of dialogue, tolerance, coexistence, renounce hatred, extremism and exclusion and prevent abuse of all religions and holy sites.”

Earlier on Sunday, Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Radio reported violent protests across several cities over the weekend, which saw police clash with counter demonstrators.

“The chaotic scenes stem from public resentment over planned rallies by an anti-Islam far-right group that had planned to burn copies of the Quran at its gatherings.”

Far-right Danish politician #rasmuspaludan burned a copy of the Holy Quran in a neighbourhood in Sweden’s Linkoping, which is densely populated by Muslims, on April 14.

#Islamophobia pic.twitter.com/heuI89jcAN

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Counter-protesters demonstrating against a far-right group’s intention to burn a Quran in central Sweden. Riots have spread to Norrköping & Rinkeby, Stockholm as well. pic.twitter.com/HkMuZ7iZ6d

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It is noteworthy that the southern Sweden has witnessed severe violence on the sidelines of a rally by the anti-immigration and anti-Islam movement led by Danish-Swedish citizen Rasmus Paludan who announced the intention to burn copies of the Holy Quran.

Paludan is currently touring Sweden and targeting neighborhoods with a large Muslim community.

Thursday, disturbances broke out in late afternoon in Linköping, leaving three police officers wounded.

Paludan has provoked other incidents on several occasions in recent years.

In November 2020, he was arrested in France and then deported. Five other activists were arrested in Belgium shortly afterwards, accused of wanting to “spread hatred” by burning a Qur’an in Brussels.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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