Protests Erupt After Burning of Quran in Sweden

Embassy Stormed in Baghdad

Thursday, after dozens of Iraqi demonstrators stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad to protest the burning of a copy of the Koran in front of a mosque in Stockholm, an incident that drew condemnation throughout the Islamic world.

Emergency Meeting by Organization of Islamic Cooperation

In turn, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow at the level of the executive committee to discuss the consequences of the incident with the burning of a copy of the Koran in Sweden, according to the Arab World News Agency.

The organization said in a statement released yesterday by the organization’s director of media on his personal Twitter account that Saudi Arabia convened the meeting in its capacity as head of the Islamic Summit and head of the Executive Committee to discuss “measures to be taken against these heinous deeds and take a unified stand on cases of repeated desecration of the Qur’an”.

Saudi Arabia Condemns the Burning

Last Wednesday, the Saudi Foreign Ministry sharply condemned the “extremists” who burned the Koran in a mosque in Stockholm.

“These hateful and repetitive actions cannot be accepted with any justification and they clearly incite hatred, isolation, and racism,” the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement.