Tag: Koran
More condemn Koran burning
full screen Protests outside the Swedish embassy in Iraq last Friday. Archive image. Photo: Hadi Mizban/AP/TT Last week’s Koran burning in Stockholm continues to arouse strong reactions. The World Jewish…
More condemn Koran burning
“Burning religious texts is a clear act of hatred and a fundamental attack on all people of faith,” Ronald Lauder, president of the WJC, said in a statement. Reactions from…
“You demean the Koran in a barbaric way”
The burning of the Koran at Stockholm’s mosque on Södermalm has stirred emotions around the world. Imam Mahmoud Khalfi says he condemns the act.More applications have now come in. –…
New application to burn the Koran in Stockholm
A new application to burn a Koran in Stockholm has been submitted to the police. In addition, two more applications to burn religious scriptures have been submitted, according to SVT.…
Pakistan calls for protest against Koran burning
full screen Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Archive image. Photo: Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone/AP/TT Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is calling for a nationwide protest on Friday following the high-profile Koran…
Pakistan calls for protest against Koran burning
The incident has created great anger in the Muslim world. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned the burning in a televised speech and several countries have summoned Sweden’s ambassador…
Extraordinary meeting at the UN after the Koran burning
The UN Human Rights Council will hold an extraordinary meeting on “Koran burnings in Europe”, AFP reports. The news comes barely a week after the burning outside a mosque in…
Macky Sall renounces a new mandate, burning of the Koran in Sweden…
UNITED STATES End of positive discrimination at university The Supreme Court, with a conservative majority, abolished, on June 29, the policies of positive discrimination at the university. Many institutions had…
“The burning of the Koran is perceived as a clear desecration”
Sweden’s embassy in Iraq was stormed, the Pope is furious, the Islamic Conference Organization demands action and the Swedish Foreign Ministry says in a statement that the government condemns the…
Two men are reported for incitement against a group of people after burning the Koran
Last week’s demonstration outside Stockholm’s mosque on Södermalm has sparked anger around the world and several leaders have condemned the incident.Now Salwan Momika and another man have been reported for…