Sweden charges man with agitation against an ethnic or national group after allowing him to desecrate Quran on Muslim holiday of Eid
Swedish police grant permit to burn Quran "in line with free-speech protections" and after Turkish-led widespread outrage open an investigation into the man, originally from Iraq, for "agitation against an ethnic group".Salwan Momika, 37, who fled from Iraq to Sweden several years ago, was granted permission by the Swedish police to burn the Muslim holy book on Eid ul Adha.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan immediately condemned the act in a tweet, adding that it was unacceptable to allow anti-Islam protests in the name of freedom of expression.Burning of religious texts is"disrespectful and hurtful", the deputy spokesperson for the US State Department told reporters in a daily briefing.
"The mosque suggested to the police to at least divert the demonstration to another location, which is possible by law, but they chose not to do so," Khalfi said in a statement. In this context, the embassy contacted Organization of Islamic Cooperation [OIC] members, embassies of Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Morocco, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Palestine in Stockholm.
"I strongly condemn the approval of the despicable act against our holy book, the Quran, in Sweden during Eid al Adha," Erbas wrote in a statement on social media.
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