{"id":412467,"date":"2023-01-23T07:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T07:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=412467"},"modified":"2023-01-23T07:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T07:20:05","slug":"somali-government-condemns-quran-burning-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/somali-government-condemns-quran-burning-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali Government condemns Quran burning in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation strongly condemned the Swedish authorities&#8217; allowing an extremist to burn a copy of the Holy Qur&#8217;an in front of the Embassy of the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye in Stockholm on Saturday (January 21), which represented a blatant violation of religious sanctities and a provocation to the feelings of Muslims all over the world.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Allowing this hateful act that insults Islamic sanctities and values is completely unacceptable. It is nothing but a demagogic\u00a0 practice that promotes hatred and racism and serves the agendas of extremism and terrorism.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation affirms the position of the Federal Republic of Somalia calling for the importance of spreading the values of dialogue, tolerance and coexistence and rejecting hate speech and violence, and renews the importance of respecting religious symbols, and refraining from provoking hatred and fueling strife through abuse and distortion of religions, sanctities and Islamic rituals.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Somalia calls on Sweden to take strong measures against the rising tide of hatred against Muslims and urges all actors in the international community to shoulder their responsibilities in curbing Islamophobia.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-412468 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Press-Statemen.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Press-Statemen.jpeg 1275w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Press-Statemen-232x300.jpeg 232w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Press-Statemen-791x1024.jpeg 791w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Press-Statemen-768x994.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Press-Statemen-1187x1536.jpeg 1187w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Press-Statemen-696x901.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Press-Statemen-1068x1382.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Press-Statemen-325x420.jpeg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation strongly condemned the Swedish authorities&#8217; allowing an extremist to burn a copy of the Holy Qur&#8217;an in front of the Embassy of the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye in Stockholm on Saturday (January 21), which represented a blatant violation of religious sanctities and a provocation to the feelings of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":397955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-412467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412469,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412467\/revisions\/412469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}