UN to hold urgent meeting on Quran burning incident in Sweden on Pakistan’s request

The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council is set to convene an urgent meeting in response to a request from Pakistan regarding the burning of a copy of the Quran in Sweden, as stated by a spokesperson on Tuesday.

“The UN Human Rights Council will hold an urgent debate to discuss the alarming rise in premeditated and public acts of religious hatred, as manifested by the current desecration of the holy Quran in some European and other countries,” council spokesman Pascal Sim told reporters, citing a request from Pakistan on behalf of some members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, as reported by AlArabiya News.

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi living in Sweden, set fire to a copy of the Quran in front of Stockholm’s central mosque on Eid-ul-Azha.