Mufti of Al-Quds Condemns Zionist Settlers’ Desecration of Quran

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Grand Mufti of al-Quds and Palestine denounced a recent move by Zionist settlers to desecrate the Quran in the West Bank city of Al-Khalil (Hebron).

Sheikh Mohammed Hussein in a statement strongly condemned the act of sacrilege as a racist and heinous crime.

He warned that such Islamophobic moves hurt the feeling of people and could lead to escalated tensions.

This is not the first time that extremists desecrate the Book of God, he deplored.

Sheikh Mohammed Hussein also slammed the silence of international bodies on the desecration of Islamic sanctities in different countries.

He called on the United Nations and the world countries to pass laws banning desecration of religious symbols and sanctities.

All of those who take such measures should be tried and punished in order to put an end to acts of hate in the world, he stressed.

Recently, extremist Israeli settlers tore pages from a number of Quran copies and set them on fire near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil.  

Acts of Quran desecration in different countries, including Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands in recent months have drawn widespread condemnations in the Muslim world.  

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