Tunisian Woman Allegedly Desecrates Islam's Holy Book

A Tunisian woman based in Paris has received a massive flood of criticisms because she has allegedly “burned a page of the Quran with her cigarette.”

The Tunisian website Bouyafar published photos of a woman who desecrated the pages of Holy Quran by her cigarette, Morocco World News reported.

The same source said that Khadija Ben Ayed, a Tunisian living in Paris, burned and desecrated the Quran and posted the photos on her Facebook wall.

However, the Moroccan French website Telquel said that “these photos that circulated for a while on Facebook do not belong to the Tunisian question in question.

“These are screenshots taken from a video posted on YouTube in 2012 of a completely different person, speaking in English, and affiliated with an Islamophobic forum,” the same source said.

"Quran desecration" is the blasphemous act of insulting the Quran— the Word of God—by defiling or defacing its copies.