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  • 41 Kuwaiti MPs call to boycott Sweden over burning of Quran

    41 Kuwaiti MPs call to boycott Sweden over burning of Quran

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    Kuwait: Kuwaiti MPs condemned the burning of a copy of the Holy Quran by an extremist with the approval of the Swedish government, and called for a boycott of all countries that do not respect the sanctities of Muslims.

    In a statement reported on Tuesday, 41 MPs condemned the burning of the Holy Quran, in a scene that is repeated from time to time with the approval of governments and in violation of all international norms, laws and covenants, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anbaa reported.

    The MPs’ said that these practices provoke the feelings of Muslims around the world, expressing their condemnation of the position of the Swedish government, which granted permission to burn the Quran in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm.

    They appealed to all parliamentarians in the world to boycott the Swedish government and all governments that do not respect the constants of Muslims. They emphasized that these practices “do not undermine the sanctity of the Quran in the heart of every civilized person.”

    According to the Arabic daily Al Qabas, on January 23, the cooperative societies in Kuwait announced a boycott of Swedish products in protest of the provocative act.

    On January 21, 2023, the leader of the Danish far-right hard line party, Rasmus Paludan, burned a copy of the Quran near the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, amid tight police protection that prevented anyone from approaching him while he was committing the provocative act.

    All Arab countries issued statements of condemnation and denunciation, and considered the incident “a serious provocation to the feelings of Muslims around the world.”

    Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah considered that these events “would inflame the feelings of Muslims around the world, and constitute a dangerous provocation for them.”

    Angry reactions increased, which turned into popular calls for a comprehensive Arab and Islamic economic and commercial boycott of Sweden.



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  • Turkey postpones trilateral Sweden, Finland meeting after Quran burning

    Turkey postpones trilateral Sweden, Finland meeting after Quran burning

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    Ankara: Turkey has postponed a trilateral meeting with Sweden and Finland on their NATO bids following the burning of a copy of the Quran in Sweden, the state-run TRT network reported.

    The meeting was slated to take place in February, the report said, citing anonymous Turkish diplomatic sources.

    The decision came a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Sweden not to expect Turkey’s support on its NATO bid after Rasmus Paludan, the head of the Danish far-right political party Hard Line, burned a copy of the Quran on Saturday outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.

    Sweden and Finland submitted their formal requests to join the NATO in May 2022, which were initially objected by Turkey, a NATO member, citing their support for anti-Turkish Kurdish organisations and political dissidents, Xinhua news agency reported.

    A month later, Turkey, Sweden and Finland reached a memorandum of understanding (MoU) ahead of the NATO summit held in Madrid, Spain.

    In the MoU, Ankara agreed to lift its veto on the NATO bids by Finland and Sweden, which in return pledged to support Turkey’s fight against terrorism and address its “pending deportation or extradition requests of terror suspects expeditiously and thoroughly”.

    The Turkish parliament has not ratified the Nordic countries’ NATO bids so far, citing that they have yet to meet Turkey’s requests.

    (Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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  • GCC countries strongly condemn burning of Holy Quran in Sweden

    GCC countries strongly condemn burning of Holy Quran in Sweden

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    The countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) condemned the burning of a copy of the Holy Quran, by extremists in front of the Turkish embassy in the Swedish capital, Stockholm.

    On Saturday, January 21, Swedish right-wing leader Rasmus Paludan burned a copy of the Holy Quran, with the permission of the Swedish government.

    Paludan set fire to the Holy Quran surrounded by the police with a lighter after a long sermon, which lasted about an hour, in which he attacked Islam and immigration in Sweden.

    Following the decision, Ankara summoned Sweden’s ambassador to it and informed him of its condemnation in the strongest terms.

    GCC countries condemn

    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and five other GCC countries— UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar have expressed their strong condemnation of such provocative actions against the feelings and sanctities of Muslims and the incitement to violence and hatred. 

    The GCC countries foreign ministries affirmed their countries’ total rejection of all forms of hate speech based on belief, race or religion, and the involvement of sanctities in political disputes.

    The ministries warned that the campaigns of hatred against Islam and the discourse of Islamophobia have witnessed a dangerous escalation with the continued systematic calls for the repeated targeting of Muslims in the world.

    Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain’s foreign ministries called on the international community to shoulder its responsibilities to reject hatred, discrimination, incitement and violence and stressed the importance of upholding the principles of dialogue and mutual understanding.

    The ministries renewed countries’ full support for the values ​​of tolerance and coexistence, and their keenness to establish the principles of international peace and security through dialogue and understanding.



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  • Turkey cancels visit of Swedish minister over burning of Holy Quran

    Turkey cancels visit of Swedish minister over burning of Holy Quran

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    Turkey cancels visit of Swedish minister visit for burning copy of Holy Quran

    Ankara: Turkey has cancelled the upcoming visit of Swedish Defense Minister Pal Johnson to the country, in response to Stockholm police giving permission to burn a copy of the Holy Quran during a planned protest in the Swedish capital.

    Johnson was planning to visit Turkey on January 27 at the invitation of his Turkish counterpart, as the Scandinavian country hopes to urge Turkey to ratify its bid to join NATO.

    “Swedish Defense Minister Pal Johnson’s visit to Turkey on January 27 lost its significance, so we cancelled the visit,” Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said, Anadolu Agency reported.

    On Saturday, January 21, Swedish right-wing leader Rasmus Paludan burned a copy of the Holy Quran, with the permission of the Swedish government.

    Paludan set fire to the Holy Quran surrounded by the police with a lighter after a long sermon, which lasted about an hour, in which he attacked Islam and immigration in Sweden.

    On Friday, January 20, Ankara summoned Sweden’s ambassador and informed him of its condemnation in the strongest terms.

    This is the second time in a few days that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the Swedish ambassador to Ankara. The first took place after a video clip was broadcast last week showing a hanged doll in the image of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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  • Turkey condemns burning of Qur’an during far-right protest in Sweden

    Turkey condemns burning of Qur’an during far-right protest in Sweden

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    Turkey has condemned a demonstration involving the burning of Qur’ans in Sweden on Saturday, further inflaming tensions between the two countries amid Stockholm’s Nato bid.

    The protest in Stockholm, which took place under heavy police protection in front of Turkey’s embassy, gathered about 100 people and a crowd of reporters, Agence France-Presse reported.

    Far-right politician Rasmus Paludan, who staged the event, gave an hour-long speech against Islam and immigration before setting fire to a copy of the Qur’an.

    A day prior, Turkey’s foreign ministry summoned Sweden’s ambassador over the permission granted to Paludan’s protest. It was the second time Sweden’s ambassador to Turkey has been summoned this month, after having had to answer for a 12 January stunt during which a Kurdish group hung an effigy of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in Stockholm.

    Earlier on Saturday, Ankara cancelled a 27 January visit by Sweden’s defence minister, Pål Jonson, intended to be a discussion about Turkey’s refusal to ratify Sweden’s Nato accession.

    Turkey’s defence minister, Hulusi Akar, said the meeting was cancelled because it “has lost its significance and meaning”.

    Jonson, however, announced the meeting had been postponed after talks with Akar on Friday at the US military base in Ramstein, Germany.

    “Our relations with Türkiye are very important to Sweden, and we look forward to continuing the dialogue on common security and defence issues at a later date,” he tweeted on Saturday.

    Prior to Paludan’s event on Saturday, Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, called it a “hate crime” that could not be characterised as freedom of expression, and asked Sweden not to allow the “vile act” to take place.

    The Stockholm protest was also denounced by İbrahim Kalın, chief adviser to Erdoğan.

    “The burning of the Holy Qur’an in Stockholm is a clear crime of hatred and humanity,” Kalın tweeted. “We vehemently condemn this. Allowing this action despite all our warnings is encouraging hate crimes and Islamophobia. The attack on sacred values is not freedom but modern barbarism.”

    Sweden’s government has sought to distance itself from the demonstration, with the foreign minister, Tobias Billström, condemning it on Saturday.

    “Islamophobic provocations are appalling,” Billström tweeted. “Sweden has a far-reaching freedom of expression, but it does not imply that the Swedish government, or myself, support the opinions expressed.”

    Turkey has proved to be an obstacle to Sweden and Finland’s historic application for Nato membership after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which marked a reversal of the Nordic countries’ decades of neutrality. Sweden and Finland have gained the approval of 28 Nato members so far, bar Hungary and Turkey.

    In November, Hungary’s president, Viktor Orbán, said his parliament would ratify Nato membership for Sweden and Finland in early 2023. But Turkey is still holding back, demanding the extradition of people in Sweden it claims to have links to the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) – designated as a terrorist group by Turkey, the EU and the US – or to banned cleric Fethullah Gülen.

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  • Iran sentences mentally ill man to death over alleged Quran burning

    Iran sentences mentally ill man to death over alleged Quran burning

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    Tehran: The Iran’s Revolutionary Court (IRC) has sentenced a mentally ill man to death on charges of apostasy for allegedly burning a holy Quran during the early phase of the protests triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, local media reported.

    35-year-old Javad Rouhi, who suffers from a severe mental illness, was accused of entering a local traffic police headquarters in September 2022, along with two others, and setting the building on fire, including copies of the Quran.

    Rouhi, was sentenced to death on three charges— waging war against God, corruption on earth and apostasy. He was detained on September 22, 2022.

    After his arrest, he was transferred to a detention center supervised by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. He was left unable to speak and walk after being severely tortured while in detention.

    According to Mizan Agency, which is run by Iran’s judiciary, the head of the province’s supreme court said that Rouhi “admitted the fact that he destroyed the headquarters and set it on fire.”

    Rouhi was prevented from appointing a lawyer of his choice, as court authorities required him to be represented by state advocate Habibullah Qazvini.

    The judiciary had already carried out death sentences against four people who were convicted of assaulting security men on the sidelines of the protests that took place in various parts of the country and are approaching the completion of their fourth month.

    Of the 18 death sentences, four have been carried out and two others have been approved by the Supreme Court. 

    Since September 16, Iran has been witnessing protests following the death of Amini, three days after she was arrested by the morality police for not adhering to the strict rules of dress in the Islamic Republic.



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