Muslim Gov’ts Should Act to Prevent Quran Desecration in Sweden: Lebanese Scholar
Sheikh Ibrahim al-Baridi, a Sunni Muslim and secretary of Lebanon’s Assembly of Muslim Scholars, told IQNA in an interview that defiling religious sanctities can never be justified under the pretext of freedom of speech.
Nor is it compatible in any law, he said, stressing that the Swedish government has violated laws by giving the green light to some to desecrate the Quran in the country.
Sheikh al-Baridi underlined that God, the Almighty, is the protector of Islam and its sanctities and those who think can undermine the religion and the Quran are mistaken.
Those who burn the Quran seek to foment discord in the Muslim world and undermine Islamic values but the flames of this Fitna (sedition) will be put out, as God said (in Verse 64 of Surah Al-Ma’idah) “Whenever they kindle the fire of war, God extinguishes it.”
The Lebanese scholar further said that if acts of desecration in Sweden continue, the governments of Arab and Muslim countries should take stances against Stockholm.
One step they can take is boycotting Sweden and expel its ambassadors from Muslim countries, he stated.
Muslims all over the world should also launch online campaigns against Stockholm and those inciting sedition, he added.
Sheikh Al-Baridi further noted that Sweden has interests in Islamic countries (and in order to protect them) it should prevent sacrilegious incidents from happening.
In recent weeks, Quran desecrations in Sweden and Denmark with government permission and police protection have drawn widespread anger and condemnations from the Muslim world.
The Nordic countries allow the blasphemies to happen under the guise of the so-called freedom of speech despite wide condemnations from Muslim and non-Muslim states and even in the face of a UN Human Rights Council resolution adopted last month.
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