The General Secretariat of the League of Arab States condemned the Swedish authorities’ permission to desecrate a copy of the Holy Qur’an, in front of the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm.

The General Secretariat said, in a statement, that “this heinous act represents an unacceptable provocation to the feelings of Muslims everywhere around the world,” stressing that laxity with hate speech and extremism does not fall within the pretext of freedom of opinion, expression and tolerance, and that mixing these concepts feeds the cycle of extremism and violence on the part of those who wait for the opportunity to spread their poison and spread their destructive ideas.

The statement pointed out that the Arab League warned weeks ago against the Swedish authorities allowing such provocative acts that only contribute to spreading the rhetoric of extremism, pointing in this context to the protection of the Swedish authorities for those who commit such acts./ End

Source: National Iraqi News Agency