Parliament council strongly condemned the intention of the Swedish authorities to allow extremists to burn copies of the Holy Qu’ran in front of a mosque in Sweden, with the protection of the Swedish police.

In a statement issued, the Council renewed its condemnation of the Swedish authorities allowing extremists to commit these violations and racist practices that deliberately offend Muslims’ feelings and sanctities, particularly the Holy Qur’an.

The Council considered these practices a provocation to the feelings of more than one and a half billion Muslims in the world, especially on the first day of Eid al-Adha, calling on Arab, regional and international parliaments to criminalize insulting religions, sanctities and beliefs and consider it a violation of international laws, norms, human moral values and principles.

The statement stressed that freedom of expression does not mean insulting religions and beliefs, calling on Arab and Islamic countries and peoples to activate the weapon of boycotting goods and countries that allow such disgraceful acts, and to work to confront them by all available means and methods and to strengthen Arab-Islamic solidarity to confront these behaviors that threaten peace and coexistence between nations and peoples.

Source: Yemen News Agency