In a statement, he considered that the Swedish official authorities were partners and accomplices in the crime, since they gave permission to the protesters knowing they intended to carry out such an act.
Hezbollah, emphasizing its refusal to condone repeated violations of the text blessed for Muslims in this country and elsewhere, called on the Swedish government to stop this evil downward path instead of hiding behind the slogan of free speech and other flowery slogans hide.
The resistance called on the highest Islamic authorities and institutions, as well as Arab governments, to take all appropriate measures to encourage countries to avoid repeated hate events.
When the Independent Nasserite Movement (Al-Mourabitoun) burned a copy of the holy book in a Stockholm mosque, it pointed out that allowing Sweden to challenge Muslim sentiment would benefit all forces of extremism and religious terrorism worldwide.
In a statement, he rejected the method used by the European nation of allowing a group of extremists and other residents to desecrate the Koran, which he said was an expression of hypocrisy and distortion in relation to progress and openness.
In this regard, MP Melhem Khalaf tweeted that the crime against Islam, which fuels the spirit of hatred, fuels struggle and constitutes a flagrant racist transgression, was described as cowardly.
Representative Ihab Matar also opposed the Swedish police’s actions, allowing the copy of the Koran to be burned in the middle of Eid Al Adha celebrations, one of the most important festivals for Muslims.
Earlier, Lebanon’s Supreme Shia Islamic Council had stated that such an attitude constituted a racist and decadent cultural attack aimed at the obliteration of civilized human values.
In this train of thought, he called on spiritual authorities, including the Vatican and the Eastern Church, to take a stand on the blatant violation, which will not be limited to Islam and its symbols in a series of systematic attacks affecting everyone.
According to press reports, the Swedish police gave permission for a demonstration at which organizers set fire to a copy of the Koran in front of the Great Mosque in Stockholm.
The green light for this protest came two weeks after a Swedish appeals court refused to allow demonstrations in the capital to burn a copy of the sacred text.
In late January, political and religious forces in Lebanon and other Arab and Islamic countries condemned the desecration of a copy of the Koran by the leader of the hard-line Danish far-right party, Rasmus Paludan.
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