Two weeks after the burning of the Koran, the time has now come Bible be set on firestill a Stockholmthis time beforeIsraeli Embassy precisely on the holy day of Jewish rest, the Saturday. At the moment there are not many details about the fire that will take place tomorrow, July 15, except that the request was made by a thirty-year-old as a symbolic act “For Free Speech” and what the Stockholm police admitted the authorization. It’s not clear whether a Bible or the Jewish Torah will be burned, but the announcement of the gesture set off a spark controversy out of Diplomatic Incidentwith the Chief Rabbi Israeli David Lau who wrote to the Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Krististerson officially ask for it prevent desecration. “An act of pure hatred” – declared the head of state Isaac Duke to the Times of Israel: “I strongly condemn Sweden’s permission to burn sacred books. As President of the State of Israel, I condemn the burning of the Koran, which is sacred to Muslims around the world, and I am saddened now that the same fate awaits a Hebrew Bible, the eternal book of the Jewish people.” Words of condemnation too from the President Netanyahuwho talks about it on Twitter “A shameful decision”.
Home Secretary Moshe Arbel belonging ultra-Orthodox party Shas sent a letter toSwedish Ambassador to Israel Erik Ullenhag, in which he recalls the admonition of Heinrich Heine. “Where books are burned, people are also burned”, words which – as the minister wanted to emphasize – materialized “in the following years”. holocaust. Outraged words also from Israeli Arab MP Ahmed Tibiwho, after condemning similar gestures against “sacred texts of any religion,” said he found at least relief that in Sweden “Jewish and Muslim religious are fighting side by side to prevent a Bible from being burned.”