Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), announced in a press conference in Brussels on Thursday: Burning the Koran in Sweden should not prevent this country from joining NATO.
Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO in Brussels, took a two-sided stance, on the one hand, he considered the burning of the holy book of Muslims as an offensive and objectionable act, but on the other hand, he claimed that “in an independent legal system, this is not necessarily illegal.” »
This senior NATO official also did not consider the burning of the Holy Quran in Sweden “illegal” and considered it a part of freedom of expression.
He stated that Sweden has fulfilled its obligations to join NATO and announced his conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to hold a multilateral meeting to review Sweden’s membership in NATO on July 3.
Last Wednesday, the 7th of July, a Swedish extremist, supported by the authorities and the police of this country, burned the Holy Quran outside the main mosque of Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, in front of the eyes of about 200 Muslims.
In recent years, some European countries, especially the Scandinavian region, have been on the scene of violations and desecration of Muslim sanctities. Under the support of the Swedish police, extreme right-wing extremists set fire to the Holy Quran, and Muslim protests have also been suppressed.
This desecration of the Holy Quran has faced a wave of widespread condemnation, especially in the Islamic world. Hossein Amirabdollahian, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in this regard, condemned the desecration of the Holy Quran and the spread of hatred against Islamic holy places in Sweden and wrote in a tweet: “We should not hurt the feelings of the world’s Muslims and Islamophobia under the pretext of supporting Freedom of speech has become a common thing in some European countries claiming human rights.
