On Sunday, the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Chargé d’Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden in Baghdad, Hakan Roth, to protest once morest a group of extremists burning a copy of the Holy Quran.
The ministry said in a statement, “Burning a copy of the Qur’an is a provocation to Muslims’ feelings and an extremely sensitive offense to their sanctities, and it goes once morest humanitarian principles that reflect the essence of religions and contradicts the premise of recognizing the religious other.”
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry warned that burning the Qur’an “has serious repercussions on relations between Sweden and Muslims in general in Islamic and Arab countries and in Europe.”
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Today, Sunday, April 17, 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Chargé d’Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden in Baghdad, Mr. Hakan Roth, and informed him of the Iraqi government’s protest. pic.twitter.com/6mQ3P8967P
— Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (@Iraqimofa) April 17, 2022
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry urged the Swedish government to stop any acts of factional nature or inciting the feelings of religious components, especially those that affect Islamic sanctities.
The statement of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry comes following a gathering of the anti-immigration and Islam movement “Straam Corse” led by the Danish-Swedish Rasmus Paludan, who is currently on a tour in Sweden, which caused several clashes between the police and the anti-demonstrators in a number of Swedish cities.
The clashes took place for the second day in a row, Friday, once morest the backdrop of a gathering of the anti-immigration and anti-Islam “Straam Corse” movement led by the Danish-Swedish Rasmus Paludan.
Baludan has repeatedly sparked controversy in recent years. In November 2020, the French authorities arrested him and deported him.
