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- A man was charged by Swedish police with 鈥渁gitation against an ethnic group鈥�
- Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan also condemned the act
RIYADH: The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the Kingdom鈥檚 strong condemnation and denunciation on Wednesday of an extremist鈥檚 burning of a copy of the Qur鈥檃n at the Stockholm Central Mosque in Sweden during the Eid Al-Adha holiday.
鈥淭hese hateful and repeated acts cannot be accepted with any justification, and they clearly incite hatred, exclusion and racism, and directly contradict international efforts seeking to spread the values 鈥嬧�媜f tolerance, moderation and rejection of extremism, and undermine the necessary mutual respect for relations between peoples and states,鈥� the foregin ministry statement said.
A man was charged by Swedish police with 鈥渁gitation against an ethnic group鈥� following his desecration and setting fire to pages of the Qur鈥檃n outside the main mosque in Stockholm.
Salwan Momika, 37, who fled from Iraq to Sweden several years ago, said he wanted to highlight the importance of freedom of speech. 鈥淭his is democracy. It is in danger if they tell us we can鈥檛 do this,鈥� he said.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Momika鈥檚 protest was 鈥渓egal but not appropriate,鈥� and it was up to the police to permit it or not.