Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen states gov’t will think about possibility of intervening in ‘unique circumstances’ where ‘other nations, cultures, and faiths are being insulted’.
The Danish federal government will look for legal ways that will make it possible for authorities to avoid the burning of copies of the Quran in front of other nations’ embassies in Denmark, Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has actually stated.
“The burnings are deeply offending and negligent acts dedicated by couple of people. These couple of people do not represent the worths the Danish society is developed on,” Rasmussen stated in a declaration on Sunday.
“The Danish federal government will for that reason check out the possibility of intervening in unique scenarios where, for example, other nations, cultures, and faiths are being insulted, and where this might have substantial unfavorable repercussions for Denmark, not least with regard to security,” he stated.
Denmark and Sweden have actually discovered themselves in the global spotlight in current weeks following demonstrations where the Quran, the Islamic holy book, has actually been harmed or burned.
In a different declaration on Sunday, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson stated he had actually remained in close contact with his Danish equivalent Mette Frederiksen, which a comparable procedure was currently under method in Sweden.
“We have actually likewise begun to evaluate the legal circumstance currently … in order to think about steps to reinforce our nationwide security and the security of Swedes in Sweden and around the globe,” Kristersson stated in a post to Instagram.
Outrage in Muslim nations
This month, reactionary activists have actually performed a variety of public burnings of Islam’s holy book in front of the Iraqi, Egyptian, and Turkish embassies in the Danish capital.
On Monday, 2 members of the ultra-nationalist Danish Patriots stomped on a copy of the Quran and set it alight in a tin foil tray beside an Iraqi flag.
Previously this month in Sweden, an Iraqi resident living in the nation, Salwan Momika, 37, stomped on the holy book and set a number of pages alight.
The general public burnings in the Scandinavian nations have actually stimulated extensive outrage throughout Muslim nations, with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, Morocco, Qatar and Yemen lodging demonstrations in reaction.
Sweden and Denmark have actually stated they deplore the burning of the Koran however can not avoid it under their guidelines safeguarding liberty of expression.
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) previously this month authorized a resolution on spiritual hatred and bigotry following numerous burnings.
Pakistan and other Organisation of Islamic Cooperation nations backed the movement, together with a variety of non-Muslim bulk nations consisting of India and Vietnam. The United States and the European Union opposed the resolution on the premises it hindered flexibility of expression.
In his declaration, Rasmussen included that whatever step was taken “needs to obviously be done within the structure of the constitutionally safeguarded liberty of expression and in a way that does not alter the truth that flexibility of expression in Denmark has extremely broad scope”.
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