“We expect Swedish authorities to take all measures necessary to stop such acts of hatred and incitement. Ms Baloch called for unequivocal condemnation of Islamophobic acts, the isolation of those who stoke religious hatred, building deterrence, and the promotion of mutual respect, tolerance, and harmony among religions, faiths, and cultures. The permission to carry out premeditated and provocative acts of religious hatred cannot be justified under the guise of freedom of expression, opinion, and protest. She described these disturbing acts as both legally and morally reprehensible. Separately, Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, during a weekly press briefing, said that Pakistan condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the repeated Islamophobic acts of public desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden. “These behaviours are highly abhorrent and condemnable both legally and morally,” the prime minister remarked. This promotion of hatred is not allowed under international law, and attitudes of religious incitement, provocation to terrorism, and violence are detrimental to world peace. The prime minister said that the decision to allow the desecration of the Torah and the Gospel encouraged desecrators. Satan’s followers are blaspheming the holy books which gave human beings dignity, rights and guidance.” “The whole world of Islam and Christianity must collectively stop this conspiracy. The sequence of events indicates that this was not an issue of freedom of expression, but rather part of a political and satanic agenda, he said. He said the permission to desecrate the holy books, persons, and rituals was not the freedom of expression, but rather a way to constantly torment the world. The PM pledged to launch a campaign to reverse the decision to allow the desecration of the Torah, the Bible and the Holy Quran. Moreover, the prime minister said that the OIC must play its role in representing the sentiments of the Muslim Ummah and combat with this evil. The prime minister’s remarks came after a refugee, Salwan Momika, on Thursday stepped on the Holy Quran but did not burn it, as he had done less than a month earlier at a similar protest outside Stockholm’s main mosque, triggering renewed condemnation and calls for protest across the Muslim world. The government will help create a common strategy to eradicate evil from the platform of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the prime minister said. ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday strongly condemned yet another incident of the desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden, vowing to launch a campaign to end the sacrilege of holy books in the Nordic state. Arabia, Iran summon Swedish diplomats Baghdad and Tehran protests demand envoys’ expulsion PM Shehbaz vows to launch campaign to end sacrilege in Nordic state.
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