SEDAN
A spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry on Monday condemned the burning of part of the Koran in Sweden.
“We condemn the weekend action. It is disrespectful and very out of place and we also doubt that this action represents the opinion of the majority of Swedish society,” Christian Wagner told media representatives in Berlin.
“Provocations of this kind are aimed at provoking division. . . ,” he added, referring to the action of Rasmus Paludan, leader of the Danish far-right Stram Kurs (Hardliner) party who, under police cover and with the permission of the government, burned a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm on Saturday.
Condemnations continued to pour in from the Arab and Islamic world for the burning of one of Islam’s holy books.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry condemned the burning of the Koran in Stockholm as a “vile attack. “
“We condemn in the strongest terms imaginable the despicable attack on our holy book, the Koran, in Sweden today (January 21), despite our previous repeated warnings,” a ministry said Saturday.
Reacting to Sweden’s authorization of the incident, Ankara canceled the upcoming visit to Turkey by Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson.
Egypt’s Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, the seat of Sunni Islamic teaching, also denounced the burning of the Quran as a “shameful act” and a violation of “all foreign laws and covenants that stipulate the need to respect the sanctity of peoples, their beliefs. “and their religions. “
He called for the progression of foreign law “to ensure mandatory safeguards of the rights of Muslims to practice their devout rites in the societies in which they live. “
The International Union of Muslim Scholars has called on Muslim countries to summon Swedish ambassadors to apologize from Swedes for the incident.