Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
A few days after the international media dealt with the burning of the Holy Qur’an in Sweden by an extremist, the Turkish News Agency said that another European extremist had torn the pages of the Qur’an while guarding the police in a street in The Hague, Netherlands, on Monday.
In a tweet on Twitter, the agency published a video of the person who was speaking Dutch in front of the photographers, as he was tearing up the pages of the Qur’an and throwing them on the ground, then trampling on them with his feet. Opinion and he is happy because the local authorities in the city were convinced and agreed for him to tear this book, which he described as fascist, and now I can dance on those pages and he said, "Everyone knows what this book caused in my country, the Netherlands."
During the past years, the media has been accustomed to focusing on such incidents, which some in Western countries consider to come within the framework of freedom of expression, and find those who defend them, especially from the extremist Yeki parties, while at the same time Faten, these actions arouse feelings of anger among Muslims, and some see them as not serving the endeavours. To spread the principles of tolerance, freedom of belief, and rejection of hatred
It is noteworthy that after one of the extremists burned the Holy Qur’an in Sweden .. the Prime Minister commented, saying: It is a disgraceful act and sympathizes with Muslims who felt offended, while the Swedish Foreign Minister, Tobias Billstrom, described the anti-Islamic provocations as “horrific.”
In a press statement last Sunday, the Arab Parliament called on the international community to assume its responsibilities and criminalize these unacceptable acts in a sentence and in detail, which contradict all human and moral values and principles, provoke Muslims, fuel feelings of hatred and violence, and aim to destabilize security and stability, and demanded the renunciation of all forms of hatred and extremism. Spreading the values of dialogue, tolerance and peaceful coexistence among peoples, and preventing any form of insult to all monotheistic religions.
The Arab Parliament warned of the serious repercussions of these practices, which are a serious violation of human rights, stressing the need to renounce hate speech and violence, and the necessity of respecting religious symbols, and refraining from provoking hatred by insulting religions and sanctities, and the need to spread the values of tolerance and coexistence.