COPENHAGEN: Denmark will ban public desecration of the Holy Quran, the country’s Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard said on Friday.
Hummelgaard said that the government will introduce a bill to ban the desecration of religious scriptures in public places, according to media reports.
He said that public burnings of the holy scriptures must be punishable by up to two years in jail.
Quarn burning a mocking act
Calling Quran desecration as fundamentally unsympathetic and mocking act, the justice minister said that the burning of Islam’s holy book also damages Denmark and its interests.
Islamophobic individuals and groups in Northern Europe have repeatedly carried out Quran desecration acts and similar attempts in recent months to burn the holiest book of Islam, drawing outrage from Muslim nations and the rest of the world.
