ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan on Thursday strongly condemned the desecration of the Holy Quran and dishonouring of the Pakistani flag in Copenhagen and mentioned it had lodged a powerful protest with the Danish authorities to cease such acts of hatred and incitement.
“We count on the Danish authorities to take all measures essential to cease such acts of hatred and incitement,” the International Workplace spokesperson mentioned in a press release.
The intent of such evil acts is to insult two billion Muslims all over the world and create friction amongst communities, cultures, and nations. These acts, by any definition, don’t represent freedom of expression. Nor can the permission to hold out provocative acts of non secular hatred be justified below the pretext of freedom of expression, opinion and protest. Because the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights has mentioned, “speech and inflammatory acts in opposition to Muslims are offensive, irresponsible and incorrect” the assertion added.
“Pakistan has at all times maintained that freedom of expression comes with tasks. It’s the accountability of nationwide governments, regional organisations and the worldwide neighborhood at massive to name out, condemn and proactively forestall the vile acts of Islamophobia and non secular hatred. As urged by the UN Human Rights Council, the related nations should tackle, forestall and prosecute such acts of non secular hatred. The worldwide neighborhood should increase its collective voice in opposition to Islamophobia and work collectively to advertise inter-faith concord and peaceable co-existence,” it additional added.
Pakistan, for its half, would proceed to boost the query of Islamophobia on the worldwide degree. This problem was a key level of phone conversations of International Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari along with his counterparts from Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye and with the Secretary Common of OIC and the UN Secretary-Common. Points pertaining to those recurrent acts of Islamophobia have been being mentioned on the OIC Headquarters in Jeddah and the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the assertion concluded.
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Earlier this week, a small group of anti-Islam activists set fireplace to copies of the Holy Quran in entrance of the Egyptian and Turkish embassies in Copenhagen after comparable protests in Denmark and Sweden over latest weeks which have enraged Muslims.
Denmark and Sweden have mentioned they deplore the burning of Islam’s holy e-book however can’t forestall it below guidelines defending free speech. Final week, protesters in Iraq set the Swedish embassy in Baghdad ablaze.
This Tuesday’s demonstration in Copenhagen by a gaggle referred to as “Danish Patriots” adopted Holy Quran burnings the group staged on Monday and final week in entrance of the Iraqi embassy. Two such incidents have taken place in Sweden over the previous month.
Turkey’s overseas ministry on Tuesday strongly condemned the “persevering with assaults” on the Holy Quran, including that Danish authorities permitting these actions imply they don’t see the “severity” of the outcomes they’ll have. Turkey on Monday referred to as on Denmark to take mandatory measures to forestall this “hate crime” in opposition to Islam.
Bahrain summoned Sweden’s chargé d’affaires and handed her a proper protest letter in opposition to permitting the burning of the Koran in Stockholm, the state information company mentioned on Tuesday citing the overseas ministry.
Iraq’s overseas ministry on Monday referred to as on authorities of EU nations to “rapidly rethink so-called freedom of expression and the fitting to exhibit” in mild of the Koran burnings.
The Egyptian overseas ministry on Tuesday summoned Sweden’s cost d’affaires to sentence the desecration of the Korans.
Denmark has condemned the burnings as “provocative and shameful acts” however says it doesn’t have the ability to dam non-violent demonstrators.
Danish overseas minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen mentioned on Tuesday he had “had a constructive telephone name” with Iraqi overseas minister Fuad Hussein on their nations’ relations and the Koran burnings.
“Repeated DK’s condemnation of those shameful acts carried out by few people. Emphasised that each one protests should stay peaceable,” he wrote on X, the social community previously generally known as Twitter.
“Individuals profit from an prolonged freedom of speech after they exhibit,” College of Copenhagen legislation Professor Trine Baumbach mentioned of Danish legal guidelines. “It doesn’t simply embrace verbal expression. Individuals can categorical themselves in varied methods, resembling by means of the burning of things.”
With enter from Reuters.