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In a statement indicating clean-chit to the perpetrators of such acts under so-called freedom of speech, Denmark and Sweden said they deplore the burning but cannot prevent it as it falls under rules of "protecting freedom of speech".
Protestors last week, lit up the Swedish embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad as a response to the unholy act, which enraged billions of Moslems, according to a Rooters report.
Tuesday's demonstration in Copenhagen by a group called "Danish Patriots" followed Koran burning
...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women's noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship....
s the group staged Monday and last week in front of the Iraqi embassy. Two such incidents have taken place in Sweden over the past month.
Iraq's foreign ministry Monday called on authorities of EU countries to "quickly reconsider so-called freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate in light of the Koran burnings."
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Monday said it strongly condemned what it called a "despicable attack" on the Koran and called on Denmark to take necessary measures to prevent this "hate crime" against Islam.
The Egyptian foreign ministry Tuesday summoned Sweden's charge d'affaires to condemn the desecration of the Korans.
"People benefit from an extended freedom of speech when they demonstrate," University of Copenhagen law Professor Trine Baumbach told Rooters, explaining Danish laws.
"It does not just include verbal expression. People can express themselves in various ways, such as through the burning of items."
The organizer of Monday's demonstration in Copenhagen stomped on the Koran and set it alight in a tin foil tray next to the Iraqi flag on the ground.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
said Saturday that people who desecrate the Koran should face the "most severe punishment"
Weeks earlier, Pope Francis
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...also condemned the burning of the Holy Koran in Sweden, in June saying that the vile act had "angered and disgusted" him.
"Any book considered holy should be respected to respect those who believe in it," the pope said in an interview with the United Arab Emirates newspaper Al Ittihad.
"Freedom of speech should never be used as a means to despise others and allowing that is rejected and condemned."
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On Tuesday afternoon, Reuters reported that five members of the same association burned a sacred book at the Egyptian diplomatic mission.
The second action took place near the Turkish embassy.
In addition, the day before, two representatives of the "Danish Patriots" set fire to the Koran in front of the Iraqi diplomatic mission.
At the end of June in Stockholm, during the celebration of Eid al-Adha, a resonant action took place with the desecration and burning of the Koran. It was arranged by Salvan Momika, a native of Iraq. This caused a wave of indignation in the Muslim world, which was condemned by Algeria, Afghanistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Uzbekistan and other countries.
As emphasized in the Russian Foreign Ministry , the impunity of the participants in this incident can lead to unpredictable catastrophic consequences. Vladimir Putin, during a visit to the Juma Mosque in Derbent, said that disrespect for the Koran is considered a crime in Russia and that the country intends to always adhere to these legislative rules.
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The refugee, named as Salwan Momika, is said to have initiated contact with the Israeli agency.
Iran's Tasnim News Agency quoted a ministry statement alleging that Momika worked for Israel and committed the sacrilege as part of a mission assigned to him by the Mossad, to divert Moslem public opinion from the atrocities committed against the Paleostinians.
The statement further claimed that Momika attempted to establish a party, the Democratic Syriac Union, inside Iraq in 2014, positioning himself as the official representative and spokesperson for the Christian community in northwest Iraq.
The Ministry's statement noted, "Momika, known for deceit and aspiration for leadership, failed in establishing his alleged party and decided to migrate to Europe. He applied for residence visas from various European countries, but was unsuccessful."
"Momika put forth considerable effort to establish contact with Israel, offering his services to the Israeli spy agency," the statement continued.
He reportedly positioned himself as an opponent of Iraq's Shia, claiming he were tossed into the calaboose by the "Iraqi resistance" due to his ties with Israel and his efforts to form a Christian party in Nineveh province.
"Momika, in order to prove his loyalty and obedience to Israel, photographed himself wearing a kippah - a small, round brimless cap worn by Orthodox Jewish men - along with the Israeli flag and the flag of his alleged party, the Democratic Syriac Union, sending these images to Israel," the ministry said.
The statement alleged that Momika was officially employed by the Israeli spy agency in 2019, assigned tasks such as spying on Iraqi resistance headquarters and its leaders, particularly in Nineveh province.
Upon completion of his service to the Israeli intelligence agency, he reportedly sought asylum in one of the European countries. This time, his application was accepted by Israeli officials considering him prepared to offer any service in return for European residence. Consequently, he was granted Swedish citizenship, described by the Ministry as "Israel's backyard."
The Iranian Ministry's statement suggested the timing of Momika's actions in Sweden, along with Israeli operations within the West Bank, particularly in the city of Jenin, indicates the intention of such practices is to divert the Islamic public opinion from the massacres occurring there.
The ministry added that this heinous crime is added to Sweden's record of Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do..., and its insistence on confronting sacred beliefs and offending the feelings of more than two billion Moslems worldwide.
The statement concluded that the outrage and condemnation by millions of Moslems worldwide will have profoundly negative impacts on Sweden, far exceeding the blood-stained reward it has received from Israel in return for this service.
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