Hisham Nassif

As Denmark continues to rise to the throne of world happiness, this Scandinavian country, proud of its development and economic development and of being a top player in the observance of human rights standards, does not hesitate to instill grief and anger in the hearts of millions of Muslims around the world.

In the absence of an Islamic world, only what, in internal conflicts and political and economic crises that can hardly be solved, is the European country returning to shed light through the second abuse of its modern history of Islam and its sacred sites.

On April 14, the head of Denmark's extreme rightist party, Rasmuss Baldane, falsified copies of the holy Koran and threw them into the air under the sight of the police, who were charged with protecting him in the Norrebro neighborhood, home to a large number of Muslims and immigrants. - Downtown Copenhagen.

Denmark has provoked feelings of Muslims across the world following the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005 (Reuters)


Racist statements
Baloudan, who recently received a two-week prison sentence for racist remarks, on March 22 burnt a copy of the holy Koran to a crowd of worshipers while performing Friday prayers in front of the parliament building to denounce the New Zealand mosque massacre.

These incidents recall what happened in the same country in 2005 when a Danish cartoonist published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a children's book. The local newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 drawings on September 30 of the year same.

A few days later, the Danish magazine "Mgazina" reprinted the cartoons, causing a wave of anger and confrontation across the Muslim world. Protestors burned Danish and Norwegian embassies and consulates and boycotted Danish goods, costing them $ 8 billion in just seven days of publication.

The new provocative incident caused unrest in several parts of Copenhagen, where angry youths threw stones at supporters of the Hard-To-Go party in the center of the capital and set fire to containers, while police used tear gas to disperse them.

The security authorities also announced Monday the arrest of 23 people suspected of involvement in dozens of deliberate fires of cars in the neighborhood of Norbro.

#Denmark 🇩🇰-ааос у Данском граду Копенхагену рат полициее и демостраната #Kopenhagen #Copenhagen pic.twitter.com/IVCx4XnL0Z

- СРБ (@SRBNOVOSTI) April 19, 2019

Disdain beliefs
Twenty-four civil society organizations, most notably the Danish-Danish Religious Association, the Danish Islamic Society and the Union of International Democrats, organized a peaceful protest march on Friday condemning the desecration and burning.

Protesters, walking a few kilometers to Copenhagen's central square in the center of the capital, carried Koranic chanting slogans calling for respect for the Koran and all holy books.

In support of the march, several civil society organizations have signed signatures to ban insulting the Holy Scriptures in Denmark and to reinstate the "contempt of faith" law, which was suspended in the country about two years ago.

Representatives of 24 civil society organizations participated in the Copenhagen protest to denounce the incidents of burning and desecration (communication sites)


Extensive criticism
The new desecration incident has led to widespread criticism of social networking sites that have attracted hundreds of angry comments.

Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, in a series of tweets at the expense of his Council of Muslim Sages, expressed his rejection of the desecration and burning of the Koran in the Danish capital, describing the incident as "disgraceful."

"The Holy Quran is the Book of God, and we do not accept it in any way," he said.

Grand Imam of the Great Imam Dr. Ahmed Tayeb
Sheikh Al-Azhar Al-Sharif
Chairman of the Council of Muslim Scholars: Heavenly Books have a full sanctity The world must avoid such a kind of extremism and the Koran is the book of God and we do not accept compromising it in any way pic.twitter.com/IIMwT1YrUT

- Council of Muslim Sages (@MuslimElders) April 17, 2019

"The incident is the second in Denmark, less than two months after the first incident in March, and the same person," the Islamophobia Observatory of the Egyptian Fatwa Center said in a statement.

The Observatory added that this "refers to a state of qualitative development of violence is very dangerous to Muslims and their sanctities there, and try to create chaos within the Danish society."

While he considered that what happened did not have anything to do with freedom of expression, calling on the Arab and Islamic countries not to stand idly by and to boycott Denmark politically and economically.

How many Islamic countries exist we did not hear their voice burn and play the Holy Quran in Denmark by Danish racist lawyer !!!!
Why do not you boycott Denmark !!! I think such acts are not free expression pic.twitter.com/Hswa9y6MUS

- south of the son of Basra (@ Iraqifox40) April 16, 2019

Similar incidents
The incident of insulting the Holy Quran in Denmark recalls a series of similar incidents that ridiculed the sanctities of Muslims and ridiculed their symbols, especially the Koran.

The first such abuse was recorded in 2004, when the Dutch director Theo van Gogh, with the help of Somali author and political activist Ian Hirsi Ali, produced a film entitled "Subjugation" of what she called "the oppression of women" in Islam.

The film included pictures of a dark-haired woman with dark brown and brown lines and a depiction of the effects of the skin and Quranic verses of Surah Al-Nour.

In November of the same year, a Moroccan young man, Mohamed Bouyeri, was shot dead in the street by bullets and knife stabs in retaliation for the Koran. He then surrendered to the police, while the United States granted Herssey asylum despite being a member of the Dutch Parliament.

Khairat Wilders' abuse of the Koran was met with anger across the Muslim world (Reuters)


After the murder of his friend Van Gogh, the Dutch politician Geert Wilders formed a political party in 2006 that brought together all the anti-Muslims and openly demanded the prohibition of the Koran in the Netherlands. He also repeatedly called on Muslims to "tear up half the Koran if they wanted to stay" As a fascist book, suspicious of him with the book "my struggle" of Adolf Hitler.

In 2005, there were frequent accounts by former Guantánamo detainees that interrogators inside this infamous prison were ordering a trained dog to sit on the Koran while interrogating some prisoners, especially those who were asked by the prison administration to provide him with a Koran! Stories of urination were also quoted on copies of the Koran and thrown in the latrines as a form of psychological torture of detainees.

In 2008, after the US invasion of Iraq, pictures of crucifixes with crosses or gunshots were made public after being turned into a target for shooting by US soldiers, prompting a formal apology from the Bush administration.

In 2008, Dutch extremist Geert Wilders returned to the front, where he produced a film called "Sedition", in which he attacked Islam and the Koran, warning Europe in general and the Netherlands, especially from a future dominated by Muslims across the continent.

And then decided to burn the Koran publicly, which angered the politicians of the country where the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice and the Dutch Foreign Minister at the time to discuss on television to dissuade him from doing, but Wilders refused to comply and decided to burn the Koran in secret, and pictures and published it. When he was questioned, the photo showed the truth, and it turned out that the person who burned it was a copy of a telephone book, and that his only goal was to provoke anger and provoke Muslim feelings.

Demonstrations in Pakistan in September 2012 in protest against the call of Rev. Terry Jones to burn thousands of copies of the Koran (European)


In 2010, an Australian atheist named Alex Stewart appeared on a YouTube video smoking pages he said were both for the Bible and for the Koran. He appeared and wrapped a page of the Bible in the shape of a cigarette and lit it and inhaled its smoke and said, "What I sanctify!"

In February 2012, US soldiers in Afghanistan burned a Koran at the Bagram Air Base in Kabul, causing a wave of anger. Despite the American apology and condemnation "in the strongest terms" of the burning incident, this did not succeed in pacifying the situation as the protests in Afghanistan killed dozens, including US soldiers.

In 2013, an American priest in Florida, Terry Jones, called for the revival of what he called "the International Day for the Burning of the Qur'an", in conjunction with the anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001. The priest decided on this occasion to burn about 3,000 copies of the Koran in the courtyard of his church, Growing pressure inside and outside the United States has decided to reverse.