Iran Press/ Europe: According to AFP, Edwin Wagensveld, who leads the Dutch branch of the far-right anti-Islam group Pegida, was accompanied by two other people.
He faces trial for comments he made during a similar demonstration in January when he tore up a copy of the Qur'an outside parliament while likening the book to Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf."
Extremist groups have desecrated the sacred Muslim book several times during the past month in Sweden and Denmark, whose governments have authorized and defended such abuses as “freedom of expression.”
The extremist Danish Patriots set fire to copies of the Qur'an in Copenhagen on July 25 in front of the Egyptian and Turkish embassies in an anti-Islam demonstration. The sacrilegious act followed a string of Qur'an burnings in Denmark and Sweden a week before.
The entire Muslim community is furious about the sacrilegious deeds. The ambassadors of Sweden and Denmark have been summoned or expelled by a number of Muslim nations.
For example, Iraq expelled the Swedish ambassador on July 20 in protest. The Qur'an burning in Stockholm had prompted hundreds of protesters to storm and set the Swedish embassy in Baghdad alight. An Iraqi government statement said Baghdad had also recalled its charge d'affaires in Sweden, and Iraq's state news agency reported that Iraq had suspended the working permit of Sweden's Ericsson on Iraqi soil.
Despite condemning the burning of the Qur'an, the two Nordic nations claimed they were unable to stop it because freedom of expression is enshrined in their constitution.
The OIC, representing 57 Muslim nations, has urged its members to counter appropriately — politically or economically — toward countries where the Muslim holy book is being defiled. Additionally, it has asked the world community to unify in opposition to these hateful actions.
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