PETALING JAYA: Wisma Putra has summoned the Swedish charge d'affaires over the recent desecration of the Quran in Stockholm on July 20. "The Foreign Ministry reiterated Malaysia's objection and disappointment over the Swedish Government for granting approval and allowing such a derogation act towards the Quran to be carried out repeatedly in Sweden under the...
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has applauded the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution last week following the Quran-burning incident outside of Stockholm’s central mosque during Aidiladha celebration. The UNHRC adopted the resolution on "countering religious hatred constituting incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence" on July 12, and amongst the 47...
Smoke was rising from the Swedish embassy building and dozens of demonstrators were still on the scene. Protesters set fire to Sweden's embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad early Thursday, an AFP journalist said, ahead of a planned burning of a Koran in Sweden. Supporters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raise the Quran, the Muslims'...
