The Organization of Islamic Cooperation is advising its member nations to “take action” and “downgrade ties” with countries that permit the burning of the Qur’an, as Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson expressed “extreme” worry about jihad attacks. That means all free societies are fair game. Sweden and Denmark are being targeted now since a handful of Qur’an burning incidents have occurred in those countries. The daring individuals who have dared to do this are pushing back against Islamic encroachment into their societies and have been not only standing up for freedom of expression, but testing these countries’ commitment to freedom, which is becoming decidedly shaky. Denmark and Sweden are now considering banning Qur’an burning protests altogether. Since Sharia expansion is relentless, what might come next?
Deutsche Welle also reported that Muslim fury over Qur’an burnings is now “threatening to escalate into a trade war after calls from Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa came to boycott Swedish products.”
Unlike Western countries, Muslim countries stand firm on their Sharia values amid confrontation.
The issue of Qur’an burnings are beyond moral offense. Islamic countries are demanding that Western countries change their laws to crack down on anyone who offends Islam by burning a Qur’an, the symbol of the divinity of the Sharia.
In another update:
Two protesters burned pages torn from a Quran outside Sweden’s parliament in Stockholm Monday, the third such demonstration in recent weeks and the first since the country’s prime minister warned that demonstrations involving the desecration of Islam’s holy book were making Sweden a bigger target for terrorism.
Indeed, any insults to Islam come with threats of physical violence, showing exactly why the West should not succumb to bullying as the strongmen of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and its Islamic foot soldiers cast fear into the hearts of disbelievers, and move closer to their vision and goal of a global caliphate.
“I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them” Quran 8:12
“Believers, whenever you encounter a hostile force of unbelievers, do not turn your backs to them in flight. For he who turns his back on them on such ar occasion – except that it be for tactical reasons, or turning to join another company – he shall incur the wrath of Allah and Hell shall be his abode. It is an evil destination.” Quran 8:15, 16
As Christians and other minorities are abused daily in all too many Muslim countries, Qur’an burnings have become the global focus and priority, rather than human lives.
“Islamic group suggests that member nations downgrade ties with countries that allow Quran burnings,” by Abbey Sewell and David Keyton, Associated Press, July 31, 2023:
BEIRUT — The Organization for Islamic Cooperation urged its member nations Monday to take action against countries that permit public burning or desecration of the Quran, including the recalling of ambassadors.
The Saudi Arabia-based group made the call in a statement following an emergency online meeting of its foreign ministers to discuss recent incidents in which the Islamic holy book was burned or otherwise defaced at officially permitted protests in Sweden and Denmark.
The organization’s 57 member countries should “consider taking any necessary decisions and actions that they deem appropriate in their relations” with Sweden, Denmark, and other countries that allow such incidents, including recalling their ambassadors, the statement said.
It encouraged civil society organizations in the member states to work with counterparts in countries where the Quran has been burned or desecrated to file local lawsuits “before taking their cases to international judicial bodies, where applicable.”
It also called for more efforts at outreach to combat Islamophobia, praising Kuwait for commissioning the printing of 100,000 copies of the Quran translated into Swedish for distribution in Sweden……
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Good decision. The countries that still value freedom of expression should make the first move, and downgrade relations w/ OIC members. Even severing them if necessary
Non-muslim countries that are still members of the OIC, like Guyana, Suriname, Mozambique,… would do well to reconsider their membership of that body, & withdraw. There is no reason their countries are tied to islam
somehistory says
Good ideas
Michael Copeland says
Book-burning is harmless.
No-one is injured.
Freedom of expression is freedom to express oneself.
It includes book- and flag-burning, providing they are your own property.
The essential feature of democracy is the ability to discuss things.
There cannot be areas where discussion is forbidden.
Islam does not do democracy. It crushes freedom of expression.
Wake up, Europe.
somehistory says
True
John1 says
Fine with me.
somehistory says
Those are the kind of ‘ties that bind’ when no binding is desired. Like what takes place in a mixing bowl…with the ties that *bind,* the one cannot escape being like the other to which it is bound.
Tied up with mozlum nations, those tied will be smothered by the evil, feculent, demands of islam…if not soon, then very soon.
Don Davenport says
Pretty soon that map is gonna have a little green dot in Michigan.
Noah Andeark says
Israeli IMI ammunition works really really well with korans. The terror org CAIR used to send out free terror guides to any that asked for them. Back in the day, we got about 20 of them for use at the range and birdcage linings. We tried them in the cat box, but cats are clean, and thought the boxes contained feces. They were correct.