Pakistan on Monday denounced the most recent “senseless” burning of the Qur’an in front of several Muslim embassies in the Netherlands.
Several copies of the Muslim holy book have been burned and damaged in recent months by anti-Islam extremists, causing outrage throughout the Muslim world and calls for the governments of those countries to outlaw such actions.
Muslims view the deliberate setting fire to the Qur’an as a blasphemous act that should be severely punished.
“Pakistan condemns in the strongest terms the latest senseless and deeply offensive act of desecration of the Holy Qur’an that took place in The Hague, the Netherlands, in front of some embassies of OIC member countries including Pakistan,” the Pakistani foreign ministry said, “It is a deliberately provocative and Islamophobic act that has hurt the sentiments of Muslims around the world. Such acts cannot be condoned under the guise of freedom of expression, opinion and protest.”
