The Arab League on Friday emphatically decried Swedish authorities’ decision to allow, once more, an extremist to set ablaze a copy of the Holy Quran in Stockholm in an unacceptable provocation of Muslim sentiments worldwide.
The Cairo-based bloc’s Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said, in a press release, that he had previously sounded the alarm about Swedish authorities’ authorization of such provocative acts that would only lead to fanning out discourse of hatred.
He also recalled that Sweden, in a similar step, had permitted an extremist to burn the Iraqi flag in an act that had angered the Iraqi people.
Aboul Gheit cautioned that resilience in response to this discourse of hatred and extremism has nothing to do whatsoever with the freedom of opinion and expression, or tolerance.
