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Ansarullah leader blasts desecration of Qur'an in Sweden, urges Muslims to stand up to sacrilegious acts

The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, speaks in a televised speech broadcast from the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a on April 20, 2022.

The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has vehemently condemned the desecration of the Holy Qur’an by a Swedish far-right group during the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, urging Muslims to stand up to such sacrilegious acts. 

“Our enemies hate us (Muslims) and hold animosity towards our religion and faith. They express their hatred at all times and through all available means. They hate the Holy Qur’an, our Messenger (Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)), our sanctities, as well as our rituals and religious practices. This is clearly evident in their actions,” Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said in a televised speech broadcast from Sana’a.

He added, “How many more copies of the Holy Qur’an should be burned in the West? The last blasphemous move took place in Sweden. Why do they really want to burn the Holy Qur’an? This is rooted in their hatred and extreme hostility towards Muslims. ... The Qur’an burning constitutes a serious provocation of the feelings of Muslims around the world, in addition to a significant challenge to their dignity.”

“How many more offenses should happen against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and his household in Western societies? How many more attacks should be carried out against Muslims? How many more times should their religious rituals and sanctities be targeted? Hardly a day goes by without desecration of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, and an assault on its worshipers,” the Ansarullah chief pointed out.

Houthi noted that enemies aspire to wrest control over Muslim nations, exploit their capabilities and homelands, and enslave them and called on Muslims to stand up to the ideological war being waged against them.

“We will not be able to protect ourselves against such challenges unless we stiffen our resolve and tread the path of God,” the Ansarullah leader said.

Rasmus Paludan, the Danish leader of Sweden’s far-right Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party tried to burn a copy of the Qur’an in a heavily-populated Muslim area on Saturday.

Paludan, accompanied by police, went to an open public space in the southern Swedish city of Linkoping and reportedly placed the holy book down and tried to set it on fire while ignoring protests from onlookers.

The blasphemous act prompted protesters, numbering about 200 by local media’s estimate, to clash with the members of the far-right party and Swedish police after their pleas to stop Paludan’s sacrilegious move were conveniently disregarded.

Paludan has regularly been at the center of such incidents in recent years. In 2019, he wrapped the holy book in bacon and tossed it in the air.

In September 2020, the racist leader was banned from entering Sweden for two years. Later in October, he was prevented from coming to Germany after he announced plans to hold a provocative rally in Berlin.

Paludan, who intends to stand in the September general elections but does not yet have the necessary signatures to secure his candidacy, has gone on a declared ‘tour’ of Sweden, visiting cities and towns with large Muslim populations with the intent of burning copies of the Muslim holy book during Ramadan.

Anti-Muslim sentiments have been on the rise across Europe in recent years in the wake of terrorist attacks in the continent carried out mostly by Daesh sympathizers or the Takfiri terrorist group’s members who returned home following the group’s defeat in Iraq and Syria.

Muslim leaders in Europe and around the world have repeatedly condemned the terrorist attacks.

Moreover, the rise of far-right ideology and the propagation of anti-immigration policies have also exacerbated the status of religious minorities in Europe.


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