A Swedish imam called on Muslims in the country to exercise self-restraint following acts of Quran desecration.<\/p>\n
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A Swedish imam called on Muslims in the country to exercise self-restraint following acts of Quran desecration.<\/p>\n
Hussein Farah, who is a renowned Muslim scholar and heads the mosque and Islamic center of Rinkeby, in the capital Stockholm, described the insulting moves by far-right groups to burn copies of the Quran as unacceptable, alkompis.se website reported.<\/p>\n
He urged, however, that Muslim should show restraint.<\/p>\n
Following a similar Islamophobic provocation last month, a far-right group on Thursday burned a copy of the Holy Quran in a heavily Muslim area of Sweden.<\/p>\n
Members of the Danish far-right group Hard Line (Stram Kurs) burned the Muslim Holy Book in an illegal demonstration in the Rinkeby neighborhood of Stockholm.<\/p>\n
The group had asked the police for permission to burn the Quran in Rinkeby but the request was denied.<\/p>\n
Last month in the southern Sweden city of Malmo, supporters of Rasmus Paludan, Hard Line\u2019s leader, also burned a copy of the Quran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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