Quran Activists Urge Muslim Countries’ Decisive Response to Quran Desecration
The statement was released by more than 3,600 Quran experts, reciters, memorizers and teachers from Iran, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Afghanistan, Yemen, Lebanon, Pakistan, Belgium, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Algeria and Sudan.
They said the waning civilization of the West once again demonstrated another layer of its Satanic and ugly face by these cases of Quran burning in several European countries.
These disgraceful measures that drew condemnation and anger of Muslims worldwide, will certainly not remain unanswered, the statement stressed.
The Quran activists also slammed Western rulers who allow desecration of Islamic sanctities in the name of freedom of speech while those questioning the Holocaust are imprisoned in the West.
They underscored their support for Muslims around the world who have voiced their anger and condemnation of this Satanic scheme against Islamic sanctities.
Rasmus Paludan, an extremist Danish-Swedish politician and the leader of the far-right party Stram Kurs (Hard Line), burned a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm on Jan. 21 with both police protection and permission from Swedish authorities.
The following week, he burned a copy of Islam's holy book in front of a mosque in Denmark and said he would repeat the act every Friday until Sweden is included in NATO.
Meanwhile, far-right Dutch politician Edwin Wagensveld, leader of the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA), tore apart a Quran before setting it on fire at an anti-Islam demonstration in Enschede, the Netherlands in late January.
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