Iran Press/ Europe: Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told Danish radio that the move sends an “important political signal” to the rest of the world.
Burning a Quran under the new law would be an act punishable by fines or up to two years in prison.
Peter Hummelgaard, the justice minister, explained that the proposed law is intended to be written into the same regulation that currently bans the desecration of other countries’ flags.
The Danish law would prohibit the “improper treatment of objects of significant religious significance to a religious community,” he said.
Hummelgaard, speaking at a press conference, said that a spate of recent Quran burnings were “senseless taunts” aimed to incite “discord and hatred”, adding that national security was the primary “motivation” for the ban.
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