Algeria summons Danish, Swedish envoys over Quran burning
Algeria has summoned senior Danish and Swedish diplomats in its official response to the continued attacks on copies of the Quran in the two countries. The two countries are Sweden and Denmark.
Earlier on Monday, the biggest market in Qatar is reported to have removed any products which come from Sweden.
There have been protests against this in several Muslim-majority countries, with campaigners and governments demanding that Sweden ban the burning of Islam’s most sacred book.
Two people from a group calling itself “Danish Patriots” burned a copy of the Quran in Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen. The group carried out the act in front of the Egyptian and Turkish embassies in Copenhagen on Tuesday after similar protests in Denmark and Sweden over recent weeks.
Denmark and Sweden have deplored the burning of the Islam’s holy book but cannot prevent it under rules protecting free speech. Last week, protesters in Iraq set the Swedish embassy in Baghdad ablaze.
Iraq’s foreign ministry on Monday called on authorities of EU countries to “quickly reconsider so-called freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate” in light of the Koran burnings.
Turkey on Monday said it strongly condemned what it called a “despicable attack” on the Koran and called on Denmark to take necessary measures to prevent this “hate crime” against Islam.
The Egyptian foreign ministry on Tuesday summoned Sweden’s charge d’affaires to condemn the desecration of the Korans.
Source: BBC
