After burning the Holy Quran.. Claims to boycott the Netherlands and Sweden
After the Holy Qur’an was burned in Sweden by a far-right politician, and it was torn to pieces in the Netherlands, angry and deplorable reactions continue to follow in Arab and Islamic countries, calling for a boycott of the products of the two countries.
There is an incessant controversy and anger through electronic platforms in the Islamic world, coupled with attempts to soothe by Swedish-language pages in Arabic and other languages. Calls for boycotting Swedish products have been raised through several hashtags, the most prominent of which are: “The Anger of Billions over the Burning of the Quran”, “Boycott Swedish and Dutch Products”, and “Expelling the Ambassadors of the Two Countries”.
These calls were accompanied by official statements condemning prominent institutions, including Al-Azhar University, in Egypt, calling on the Arab and Muslim peoples to boycott Dutch and Swedish products in support of the Holy Quran, following the burning and tearing up of two copies of the Qur’an in Sweden and the Netherlands.
In a statement published on its official Facebook page, Al-Azhar called on “Arab and Islamic peoples to boycott all Dutch and Swedish products of all kinds and adopt a strong and unified stance in support of the Book of God and our Holy Quran; the Holy Book of Muslims, a fitting response to the governments of these two countries in their abuse of 1.5 billion Muslims, and the continued protection of despicable and barbaric crimes under an inhuman and immoral banner they call “freedom of expression,” which they should call the dictatorship of chaos, bad manners, and the power of elegant peoples linked to God and the gift of heaven.”
“We stress the need for the Arab and Islamic peoples to commit to this boycott and inform their children, youth and women about it, and to know that any reluctance or omission in this matter is a flagrant failure to uphold the religion that God has approved for them, and that those deviants will not realize the value of this religion – about which they know nothing, and provoke Muslims by offending it – except when they are face-to-face with the necessities of matter, money and the economy, which do not understand a language other than its language, and do not sanctify anything other than the laws of abundance, production and consumption,” he added.
Yesterday, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and the Sultanate of Oman condemned the desecration of a copy of the Holy Quran and burning it in The Hague, Netherlands.
The leader of the extremist anti-Islamic group Pegida in the Netherlands, Edwin Wagensfield, burned the Quran after it was torn down and desecrated, in The Hague, the administrative capital of the country, after nearly three months of detention while also burning it.
