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World
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International
11/14/2023 4:58:20 PM
Denmark's parliament on Tuesday will debate a bill to ban Quran burnings, after a string of desecrations of Islam's holy book sparked anger in Muslim countries.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/25/2023 11:13:14 PM
Egypt’s Al-Azhar strongly condemned the recent incident of tearing copies of the Quran in the Netherlands in front of several embassies in The Hague.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/25/2023 6:15:04 PM
Egypt has strongly condemned the tearing of a copy of the Holy Quran by an extremist in The Hague, Netherlands, on Monday, describing the repeated incident as a “provocative and irresponsible act” that violates Muslims' sacred beliefs and promotes hate speech.
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World
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International
9/3/2023 7:27:39 PM
Swedish police on Sunday arrested two people and detained around 10 people after a violent riot broke out at a protest involving a burning of the Quran, police said.
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World
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International
8/21/2023 12:55:03 PM
Authorities in Pakistan are promising 2 million rupees ($6,800) in compensation for each of nearly 100 poor Christians who lost their homes when a Muslim mob angered over the alleged desecration of a Quran stormed their neighborhoods, burning at least 16 churches and damaging houses, officials said Monday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/20/2023 7:45:54 PM
Egypt has warned that the Quran burning and desecration incidents in Sweden have damaged the image of the European country in the Arab and Islamic worlds.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/5/2023 11:43:40 AM
Sweden condemns the regrettable acts of Quran burnings and is studying ways to curb these racist acts as well as various forms of intolerance towards religions and beliefs, Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Tobias Billström said on Friday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/4/2023 7:50:09 PM
Denmark's Foreign Minister Lars Rasmussen affirmed in a phone call on Friday with Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry that his government is studying several measures and legislations to prevent the recurrence of Quran burning incidents.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/1/2023 8:57:50 PM
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb has called for “Islamic-Islamic” dialogue between Islamic scholars around the world, of all sects and schools, to establish unity following the frequent Quran-burning incidents in the past two months in Europe.
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World
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Region
8/1/2023 1:36:00 PM
The Organization for Islamic Cooperation urged its member nations Monday to take action against countries that permit public burning or desecration of the Quran, including the recalling of ambassadors.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/31/2023 11:23:38 PM
Egypt called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to mobilize efforts and take practical steps to confront the spread of Islamophobia amid repeated incidents of burning copies of the Holy Quran by extremists in Europe.
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World
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Region
7/31/2023 12:12:57 PM
Swedish police have granted a permit for a protest outside parliament on Monday in which the organisers plan to burn the Koran, according to local media.
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World
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Region
7/29/2023 3:40:18 PM
The leader of Lebanon’s Shia militant group Hezbollah said Saturday that if governments of Muslim-majority nations do not act against countries that allow the desecration of the Quran, Muslims should “punish” those who facilitate attacks on Islam's holy book.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/27/2023 10:28:00 PM
Egypt has summoned the Danish ambassador to Egypt to express "deep concern" over recurring incidents of Quran burning in Denmark in front of foreign diplomatic missions, including the Egyptian embassy in Copenhagen,.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
7/25/2023 8:23:38 PM
Like all Arab and Muslim nations, along with the leaders of Abrahamic religions worldwide, Egypt has condemned in the strongest terms the repeated desecration of the Muslim holy book, the Quran, in both Sweden and Denmark.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/25/2023 5:38:04 PM
Officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the chargé d’affaires at the Swedish Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday to express the Egyptian people and government’s categorical rejection of the repeated Quran burnings in Sweden.
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World
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Region
7/22/2023 12:52:38 PM
Hundreds of protesters attempted to storm Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses foreign embassies and the seat of Iraq's government, early Saturday following reports of the burning of a Quran carried out by a ultranationalist group in front of the Iraqi Embassy in Copenhagen.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/21/2023 6:54:32 PM
Egypt has condemned the Swedish government's approval of an assembly where an extremist repeated the act of desecrating the Quran in the Swedish capital of Stockholm on Thursday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/21/2023 5:54:09 PM
Al-Azhar has condemned the repeated burnings of the Quran in Sweden under the guise of freedom of expression and called for “unified and serious stances” towards Sweden's “anti-Islam and anti-Muslim policies."
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World
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Region
7/21/2023 3:28:00 PM
Sweden announced Friday that the staff and operations of its embassy in Iraq had been relocated to Stockholm, citing security concerns after protesters stormed the embassy in a pre-dawn raid this week.
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