International Courant
ANKARA
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Friday strongly condemned Swedish authorities for permitting a duplicate of the Jewish holy e book, the Torah, to be publicly burned, whereas the Ashkenazi chief Rabbi wrote to the Swedish prime minister urging him to cancel the deliberate desecration on Saturday.
Earlier on Friday, Swedish police allowed a public assembly to be burned in entrance of the Israeli embassy in Stockholm on Saturday to burn Judaism’s holy e book, the Torah and Bible.
In line with Israeli information web site i24, Israeli President Isaac Herzog strongly condemned the Swedish authorities for permitting the burning of holy books.
“I completely condemn the permission given to the burning of holy books in Sweden. Because the President of the State of Israel, I condemn the burning of the Holy Quran, which is sacred to Muslims everywhere in the world, and I’m unhappy that the identical destiny awaits us now. A Jewish Bible, everlasting lifetime of the Jewish folks. e book,” he stated.
Ziv Nevo Kulman, Israel’s Ambassador to Sweden, stated he was shocked and appalled at permitting extra public burning of holy books.
Kulman stated on Twitter, “I strongly condemn the burning of holy books, that are sacred to any faith, as an act of hatred and disrespect that has nothing to do with freedom of expression.”
In the meantime, Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, David Lau, wrote to Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson asking him to cease the disrespect.
“I urge you to do all the pieces attainable to stop this motion. Freedom of expression doesn’t imply permitting all the pieces,” Lau quoted the letter to the Occasions of Israel.
“Any desecration of Jewish sacred objects just isn’t freedom, it’s antisemitism,” stated the Chief Rabbi.
Final month, an extremist recognized as Salwan Momika burned a duplicate of the Qur’an below police safety outdoors the Stockholm Mosque in Sweden.
His provocative act coincided with Eid al-Adha, one of many largest Islamic spiritual holidays celebrated by Muslims worldwide.
It sparked widespread condemnation from across the Islamic world, together with Turkey, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Senegal, Morocco and Mauritania.
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