Iran Press/ Iran news: On Friday, a small group of extremists in Stockholm desecrated the Quran by kicking and partially damaging the holy book. Reports suggest they did not burn it as they had planned to do so.
According to Swedish media reports, the blasphemous act was planned by Salwan Momika, a 37-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker in Sweden who also set ablaze pages of holy Quran in front of Stockholm’s largest mosque during the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday late last month.
The Iraqi government has now expelled the Swedish ambassador in response to the repeated permissions being granted by the Swedish government to allow the burning a copy of the Holy Quran.
In a Friday telephone conversation, Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and the OIC Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha discussed the sacrilegious burning of a copy of the holy Quran in the Swedish capital, Stockholm.
Amir-Abdollahian said the OIC foreign ministers should hold the meeting at the earliest possible time to address the desecration.
He said: "If the Swedish government does not take effective action immediately, the Islamic countries must give a strong response to Sweden for insulting Muslim's holy book, Holy Quran."
The OIC chief, meanwhile, hailed Iran's leading role in the organization and the attention it gives to the condemnation of the blasphemous act. In this context, he promised to put the meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on the agenda. 219
