Iran, Iraq & Egypt Condemn The Attempt of Quran Burning in Sweden

On Monday, Egypt strongly denounced the purposeful burning of the Quran in Sweden by a gang of far-right extremists, as well as the ensuing inflaming of Muslim sensitivities in several countries during Ramadan.

The incident is part of a sequence of actions by the Swedish far-right that incites violence and hatred towards outsiders in general, especially Muslims.

Three persons were injured by bullets in Norrkoping, Sweden, as police fired shots at people opposing Quran burnings.

Demonstrators and counter-demonstrators clashed in the central Swedish city of Orebro on Friday, ahead of a planned Quran burning by an anti-Islam far-right party. The clashes entered their third day on Sunday, with protests continuing.

A total of 17 persons have been arrested, and many vehicles have been set ablaze. Stram Kurs' demonstration sparked two days of disturbances in numerous Swedish cities and towns, culminating in violent battles in Orebro late Friday which left 12 policemen wounded and 4 police cars set on fire.

On Saturday, the Danish right-wing Stram Kurs party organized a demonstration in the southern town of Landskrona to burn the Quran.

Rasmus Paludan, the leader of Stram Kurs, was also preparing a Quran burning in Landskrona. In 2017, Paludan, a Danish lawyer with Swedish citizenship, founded Stram Kurs, or Hard Line.

According to the party's website, which promotes an anti-immigration or rather anti-Islam ideology, Stram Kurs is Denmark's most patriotic political party.

According to a Reuters report, PM Magdalena Andersson criticized the violence. The Iranian as well as Iraqi administrators called Swedish ambassadors to denounce the burning earlier on Saturday.

Paludan was sentenced to a month in prison in Denmark in 2020 for many crimes, such as racism, and he has attempted to fire the Quran in different EU countries such as France and Belgium.