OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The UN human rights chief on Wednesday slammed recent “despicable incidents” of desecration of Muslims’ religious scripture in Europe. They are “deliberate provocations… intended to drive wedges between countries and communities,” Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said at a high-level conf...
RAMTHA, Jordan (AA) – Sondos Sidawi, a 21-year-old Jordanian woman, sees her win in an international Quran memorization competition as a powerful message to those attempting to desecrate Islam’s holy book. “Even if they burn the Quran, it will remain in our hearts,” Sondos told the media. The young woman won the first prize in […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Friday condemned “new forms” of racism, Muslim stereotyping and burning of Quran, calling them “clear Islamophobic” acts. In his address to the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, Ibrahim said inaction against such acts sends a “dangerous” message to humanity. “We...
NEW YORK (AA) – Levels of racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia have all climbed to a dangerous breaking point, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Tuesday. “Racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia, which spread like a virus especially in developed countries, have reached intolerable levels,” Erdogan said in his address at the ...
GENEVA (AA) – UN rights chief Volker Turk has said the recent attacks against the Noble Quran, the Muslim holy book, will be discussed in the UN Human Rights Council on October 6. Turk made these comments at the 54th Human Rights Council’s opening session in Geneva, which began with a moment of silence to […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – An unidentified person threw a copy of the Quran to the ground and kicked it outside the Turkish House in New York on Friday morning. The Quran was desecrated at 10:46 a.m. local time (1446 GMT), Anadolu has learned. Turkish House security personnel immediately intervened and removed the person from the premises, […]
LONDON (AA) – Clashes between the police and rioters in Sweden’s third-largest city Malmo continued on Monday after another incident of desecration of the Muslim holy book, according to the Swedish police. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said at a press conference that the events in Malmo were “terrible.” “These are pa...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – Swedes who want a ban to be introduced for desecrating holy books including the Quran have increased to 53%, two points higher than the previous poll. The latest survey was conducted by the Swedish opinion poll company SIFO. Some 37% were in favor of burning holy books within the scope of freedom […]
LONDON / ANKARA (AA) – The Swedish prime minister on Friday voiced respect for Denmark’s step toward criminalizing the public desecration of religious scriptures. “I have great respect for what Denmark is doing,” Ulf Kristersson said at a news conference, according to local media. He added that Sweden and Denmark have differe...
LONDON (AA) – The Danish government has announced that it has presented a bill criminalizing the burning of religious scriptures publicly. The action is being taken for criminalizing the burning of the Bible or the Quran, said a statement by Foreign Ministry. “As a result of recent Quran burnings, Denmark is increasingly seen in la...
