Perpetrators of Qur’an desecration will have no security: IRGC chief

The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Muslims will soon take revenge on all those involved and responsible for the latest act of sacrilege against the Holy Qur’an.

“We will not allow those who insult the Qur’an to be secure,” Major General Hossein Salami said on Saturday.

On Thursday, Salwan Momika, a Sweden-based Iraqi refugee, desecrated the Muslim holy book during a demonstration outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm amid strict protection provided by the Swedish police.

This was the second time Momika was disrespecting the holy book with the approval of Sweden’s authorities. He set a copy of the Qur’an on fire on June 28, prompting raging protests across the Muslim world.

On Friday, members of an Islamophobic group called Danske Patrioter burned the Muslim holy book in front of Iraq’s Embassy in the Danish capital city of Copenhagen to protest the attack against Sweden’s Embassy in Baghdad.

They also carried a banner with insulting slogans against Islam, before stamping the Iraqi flag and a copy of the Qur’an under police protection, as seen in the videos they shared on social media.

Salami urged Muslim countries to adopt all necessary measures and strategies to prevent and end the vicious policy of Islamophobia and insult to the Holy Qur’an and Muslims’ sanctities, stressing the need for international circles’ support in this regard.

The IRGC chief commander said such blasphemous acts would forge unity and cohesion among Muslims and incite more hatred against all those who violate Islamic sanctities.

In a message on Saturday, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei called for the “severest punishment” for the perpetrator of the desecration of the Holy Qur’an in Sweden.