TEHRAN, Jul 23 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and his Pakistani counterpart, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, yesterday, condemned the recent desecration of the Quran in Sweden and Denmark, in a phone talk.
The two ministers said, such “sacrilegious” acts contradicted human dignity and rights, according to a statement published on the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s website.
Amir-Abdollahian said, the recent “insults” to the Quran in Sweden and Denmark have harmed the feelings of Muslims across the world.
The Iranian top diplomat noted that, he has proposed holding an emergency meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), to convey a “strong message” from Islamic countries, in response to such acts.
Zardari, on his part, pointed to his participation in a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council, earlier this month, during which the council adopted a resolution that condemned and strongly rejected any advocacy of religious hatred, including the desecration of the holy Quran.
The Pakistani top diplomat voiced his country’s readiness for cooperation with Iran, in countering such acts, stressing that Muslim countries should place on the agenda, criminalising such actions and publishing the perpetrators through law enforcement.
A copy of the Quran was burned by a group called Danske Patrioter in front of Iraq’s embassy in the Danish capital of Copenhagen.
The group’s members also carried a banner with insulting slogans against Islam, before stomping on the Iraqi flag and a copy of the Quran.
They said, they made the move to protest against the Iraqis’ attack on the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on Thursday.
Hundreds of angry protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on Thursday and set fire to the building, in protest against the desecration of the Quran and the Iraqi flag, in the Swedish capital, Stockholm.– NNN-IRNA
