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Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, July 6, 2023
"A wave of protests swept through the Middle East and North Africa after an ugly Islamophobic incident in Stockholm, where an immigrant from Iraq publicly burned a copy of Islam's most holy book, the Quran, on June 28, which is the first day of Eid al-Adha. The believers expressed their outrage at this blasphemous act and demanded that the Swedish authorities, whose connivance allowed this to happen, take measures to prevent such provocations in the future. As a reminder, Stockholm has officially and repeatedly cited freedom of speech and said it would not condemn such antics in any way because they are part of self-expression, freedom of speech and liberalism. The blasphemous act has been condemned by official circles in the Middle Eastern capitals and other Muslim states.
The June 29 statement by the Foreign Minister’s Special Representative for Cooperation to Promote Respect for the Right to Freedom of Religion and the Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large Gennady Askaldovich expressly detailed our approach to the issue. We reaffirm the principled assessments of the provocation itself and the Swedish authorities’ actions in this regard, as well as Russia’s key approaches to combating religious intolerance and extremism, as spelled out in the statement.
We bring to Stockholm’s attention that supporting such xenophobic acts is unacceptable."
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