Attacks on the Koran continue in Denmark
Members of the anti-Islamic and racist group “Danske Patrioter (Danish Patriots)” in Denmark burned the Koran in front of the Embassy of Turkey, Algeria, Pakistan, Indonesia and Iran in Copenhagen.
The members of the group, who carried out their provocations accompanied by the police, chanted anti-Islamic slogans.
The group shared these moments live on their social media accounts. Facebook had restricted some of the group’s videos.
PROVOCATIONS IN SWEDEN AND DENMARK
While attacks on the Qur’an have intensified recently in Sweden and Denmark, allowing these provocations generates backlash.
Far-right Danish politician and leader of the Solid Direction Party, Rasmus Paludan, continued his provocations of burning the Holy Quran in the Swedish cities of Malmö, Norköpin, Jönköping and the capital Stockholm during the 2022 Easter holidays.
Paludan burned the Quran in front of the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm on January 21 and the Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen on January 27.
Salwan Momika, of Iraqi origin in Stockholm, burned the Koran under police protection in front of the Stockholm Mosque on June 28, which coincides with the first day of Eid al-Adha, and on July 20, under police protection, in front of the Embassy of Iraq. in Stockholm, he trampled on the Holy Qur’an and the Iraqi flag.
An Islamophobic and ultra-nationalist group in Denmark had started attacking the Turkish flag and Koran in front of the Turkish embassy in Copenhagen in April.
Members of the group, holding up anti-Islamic banners and shouting slogans insulting Islam, read the Quran in front of the Iraqi embassies on July 21, Iran and Iraq on July 24, and the Egyptian and Turkish embassies on July 25 in Copenhagen Kerim it was burned.
On July 25, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution recognizing violence against holy books as a violation of international law and strongly condemning such actions.
The group burned the Koran in front of a mosque in Copenhagen on July 28.
Simultaneously with the 18th Extraordinary Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which was held on July 31 to address attacks on the Holy Quran, in Denmark and Sweden, attacks on the Quran were again carried out .
The Koran was set on fire in front of the embassies of Turkey, Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia in Copenhagen on August 1, and in front of the embassies of Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran on August 3.
The group burned the Koran in front of the embassies of Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran on August 4, and in front of the embassies of Turkey, Pakistan, Algeria, Indonesia and Iran in Copenhagen on August 7.
As the group took its provocations outside of Copenhagen, it was met with backlash from some Muslims there.
The group also burned a book by Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lökke Rasmussen.
Iranian-born Danish artist Firoozeh Bazrafkan also attacked the Holy Quran in Copenhagen on August 5.
Many countries, especially Turkey, reacted to the fact that these actions were carried out under police protection and obtaining permission from the authorities. (AA)