The Ministry of Human Rights condemned on Friday the Swedish authorities’ continued abuse of the sentiments of the Islamic Ummah by repeating the burning of the Holy Quran.
In a statement received by the Yemeni News Agency (SABA), the Ministry explained that this act, insofar as it is a clear challenge for more than one and a half billion Muslims, reveals the Swedish and Western tendency to provoke violence, hatred and chaos.
The repetition of such outrageous acts reflected the moral and political ugliness of the Swedish State and all States of the West that supported that path, while expressing freedom of opinion by fuelling hatred towards religions.
The statement saw these acts as a clear challenge to the Human Rights Council’s draft international resolution, which, by majority, condemned and criminalized attacks against the Holy Quran as inciting religious hatred.
The Ministry of Human Rights denounced the opposition of America, Britain and some European Union countries to vote on the Human Rights Council’s resolution, indicating their adoption of campaigns to burn the Quran and abuse the Islamic religion, and their persistent provocation of Muslim sentiments under the pretext of upholding freedom of expression.
Sponsoring such outrageous and provocative acts was an untouchable collusion that would escalate instances of discrimination, intolerance and violence in general.
It commended the honourable attitude of the people and the Iraqi Government and Iraq’s popular and official reaction to the crime of burning the Holy Quran in Sweden and the practical actions taken in response to that crime.
The Ministry of Human Rights called for unified and broad Islamic attitudes and global solidarity against the systematic targeting of divine religions, the Western and American agendas that threaten world peace and security.
It also called for the formation of an international coalition to prevent the abuse of divine religions and prophets as crimes that destabilized social peace and spread hatred among peoples.
Source: Yemen News Agency