LONDON (AA) – The British Army is “no longer regarded” as a leading global fighting force and is “unable to protect the UK and our allies,” a US general has reportedly said. Citing defense sources, Sky News reported on Monday that Defense Secretary Ben Wallace was told by the US general that the country’s fighting...
COPENHAGEN (AA) – Burning sacred books has nothing to do with freedom of expression, Christian and Jewish religious leaders in Denmark have said, denouncing the recent antics of extreme-right politician Rasmus Paludan. Paludan, a Danish-Swedish politician, has drawn global condemnation after desecrating the Quran outside a mosque in Copenhagen...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AA) – Attacks against Islam’s holy book should be recognized as hate crimes, say former far-right politicians in the Netherlands who have converted to Islam. They say that Muslims are subjected to double standards. Former politician Arnoud van Doorn, who left the extreme right-wing Freedom Party, said that h...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye may consider Finland’s NATO bid separately from Sweden, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said. “If NATO and these countries (Finland and Sweden) take such a decision, we, as Türkiye, think that we may evaluate the applications separately, but first of all, NATO and these countries have to de...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan has strongly condemned a Danish far-right politician’s repeated act of desecration of the Quran, calling it a “senseless and deeply offensive act.” Rasmus Paludan, the leader of the Danish far-right party Stram Kurs (Hard Line), carried out the latest Islamophobic act in Denmark on Friday as he had d...
MOSCOW (AA) – An unnamed person desecrated a copy of the Quran in front of the Russian Embassy in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen, the embassy said on Friday. In a statement on social media, the Russian Embassy in Denmark said a series of acts of this nature took place in Copenhagen, including one in front of […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AA) – Members of religious groups in Sweden have spoken out in support of Muslims after Rasmus Paludan, fanatical leader of the Danish far-right Stram Kurs (Hard Line), desecrated the Muslim holy book under police protection. The coordinator of the Catholic Commission for Interreligious Dialogue in Sweden, Kaj Engelhar...
ANKARA (AA) – A week after a Quran burning in Stockholm, Israel’s envoy to Sweden said Tel Aviv and the local Jewish community had prevented a burning of the Torah, in coordination with Swedish officials. Ziv Nevo Kulman announced on Twitter that the Torah burning was planned to take place in front of Israeli Embassy […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AA) – A far-right Danish politician torched copies of the Holy Quran near a mosque Friday and outside the premises of the Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen. Rasmus Paludan, known for his Islamophobic extremism, staged a similar stunt Jan. 21 and announced he would burn the holy book of the Muslims every Friday until [&he...
ANKARA (AA) -The Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), a neo-Nazi organization, is among those who have benefited from Sweden’s broad description of freedom of expression that makes the burning of Islamic religious scriptures “legal from a Swedish point of view.” Rasmus Paludan, an extremist Islamophobic Swedish-Danish politician...
