Iran Press/ Europe: Some countries have already expelled Swedish envoys, some have declared their unwillingness to accept their new envoys, while many others have summoned the respective Swedish ambassadors in recent weeks to register their strong protest.
Holding two Swedish flags and shouting in Arabic and broken Swedish, a 37-year-old Christian Iraqi refugee in Sweden, Salwan Momika, desecrated the Holy Quran in front of Stockholm’s most prominent mosque during the Islamic Eid al-Adha festival on June 28.
A similar incident was repeated by the same far-right extremist on July 19 in front of the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm, again with strict police protection, kicking the holy Muslim book, burning the Iraqi national flag, as well as photographs of prominent Iraqi political leader Muqtada al-Sadr.
Both incidents were far from a one-man show, as they were officially approved by the Swedish judiciary under the guise of "freedom of expression,” with law enforcement officials providing protection.
According to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade for 2022, the biggest importers of Swedish products among Muslim countries are Turkey and Saudi Arabia, with more than a billion Euros worth of goods.
They are followed by Egypt, UAE, Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, Qatar, Algeria, and Pakistan, with hundreds of millions worth of imports from Sweden, and other notable importers are Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Oman, Tunisia, Kuwait, and Iraq.
Taking into account the Muslim population of 1.9 billion and Sweden's export-oriented economy, several Muslim countries, prominent organizations, and individuals have called for a boycott of Swedish products as the most effective way to register their protest against Swedish authorities.
Social media has also been abuzz with users denouncing repeated insults to sacred Islamic sanctities and calling for the boycott of Swedish products.
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