Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution Slams Quran Desecration
In a statement on Monday, the council said such insulting acts result from the enemies’ weakness and inability to undermine the message of Islam.
It rejected the notion that freedom of speech can be used to justify insulting the sanctities of nearly two billion Muslims in the world.
Extremist elements in European countries seek to spread Islamophobia in the West through such behaviors but these actions will only lead to more interest in the messages of Islam and the Quran, the statement stressed.
The secretariat of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution further called on world religious leaders to condemn such acts of desecration.
Last Friday, a copy of the Quran was burned in the city of Malmo by right-wing extremists.
A day later, at an anti-Islam protest in Oslo, Norway — held by the far-right group Stop the Islamization of Norway (SION) — a protester tore out pages of the Quran and spat on them.
On Wednesday, French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo reprinted the insulting cartoons of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), as the trial opened over the subsequent 2015 terror attack on its Paris office.
