COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Two protesters set hearth to a replica of the Koran, Islam’s holy e-book, in entrance of the Iraqi embassy within the Danish capital on Monday, risking an additional deterioration of relations between the 2 international locations.
Protests have raged throughout Iran and Iraq after Denmark and Sweden allowed the burning of the Koran underneath guidelines defending free speech. Protesters in Iraq set alight the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on Thursday.
The 2 protesters had been from a bunch that calls itself “Danish Patriots”, which held an identical demonstration final week and livestreamed the occasions on Fb.
A number of thousand Iraqis demonstrated in Baghdad on Saturday over the burnings within the two Nordic international locations, in a gathering referred to as by ruling Iraqi events and armed teams, many near Iran.
The organiser of Monday’s demonstration in Copenhagen stomped on the Koran and set it alight in a tin foil tray subsequent to the Iraqi flag on the bottom.
Iranian Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated on Saturday that individuals who desecrate the Koran ought to face the “most extreme punishment”.
(Reporting by Louise Breusch Rasmussen, modifying by Terje Solsvik; Enhancing by Nick Macfie)