The far-right Wagensveld tore the Holy Quran in front of the Turkish embassy

In the Netherlands, Edwin Wagensveld, leader of the far-right movement European Patriotic Organization Against the Islamization of the West (Pegida), tore up the Holy Quran in front of the Turkish embassy in The Hague.

During the day-long protests in The Hague, Wagensveld tore up the Holy Quran in front of the embassies in The Hague of Pakistan, Indonesia and Denmark, as well as Turkey.

During his protest outside the Turkish embassy in The Hague, Wagensveld threw the pages he tore from the Quran to the ground and stepped on it, demanding that the Quran he tore last month be removed from the embassy.

Wagensveld also insulted the Turks and Turkey and thanked the police who protected him while he tore up the Koran.

Türkiye’S REACTION: WE CURSE THE ATTACKS ON OUR HOLY BOOK

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted to the provocation. The Ministry’s written statement is as follows:

– “We condemn in the strongest terms the despicable attacks against our holy book, the Holy Quran, carried out in front of the Embassies of some member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, including our Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands. today (September 23).

– We condemn the spread of these provocative attacks, whose objective is to humiliate our religion and its believers, in European countries, since they are tolerated and these acts of hatred are allowed under the pretext of freedom of expression.

– Now the countries where the attacks take place must take effective measures against these provocations, which the United Nations accepts as religious hatred and a violation of international law.

– We call on the Dutch authorities, with whom we took action against these attacks, to take the necessary measures against the perpetrator of the incident and take precautions to prevent these atrocious incidents from being repeated.

“Turkey will continue its fight against this sick, hate-based mentality with determination on all platforms.”

NOT THE FIRST

Edwin Wagensveld tore up the Holy Quran under police protection in front of the temporary Dutch parliament building in The Hague on January 22, and during a demonstration he held alone in Utrecht on February 13.

Wagensveld tore up the Holy Quran in front of the Turkish embassy in The Hague on August 18.

Similarly, the action of PEGIDA, which planned to burn the Holy Quran in Rotterdam on October 22, 2022, ended before it began with the Wagensveld detention.

ATTACKS ON THE QURAN IN EUROPE

Danish far-right politician and leader of the Narrow Direction Party, Rasmus Paludan, burned the Holy Quran in the Swedish cities of Malmö, Norköpin and Jönköping and in the capital Stockholm during the 2022 Easter holidays.

Paludan burned the Holy Quran in front of the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm on January 21 and in front of the Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen on January 27.

Back in Stockholm, Salwan Momika set fire to the Holy Quran under police protection in front of the Stockholm Mosque on June 28, coinciding with the first day of Eid al-Adha.

Momika trampled on the Koran and the Iraqi flag under police protection in front of the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm on July 20, and in front of the Swedish Parliament on July 31 and 14.

A person named Momika had attacked the Holy Quran in front of the Iranian embassy in Stockholm, also under police protection.

Iranian-born Bahrami Marjan burned the Holy Quran under police protection on Stockholm’s Angbybadet beach on August 3. (AA)