(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Grand Ayatollah Hussein Noori Hamedani, Iranian senior cleric and professor at Qom Seminary referred to the shameful act of US forces in Afghanistan to burn copies of Qur'an and other Islamic texts demanding Muslims to take a serious stance regarding the offence.
He said, "Regarding the background of such shameful acts against Islam, serious stances have to be taken against the desecrators of Muslim sanctities."
Shia cleric also stressed that defending Qur'an has no geographic limitation and urged people from around the world to criticize the desecrators.
Iranian religious figure demanded prosecution of those behind the act and called for programs for the Iranian people to express the opposition with the Islamophobic measure.
Recently copies of the Holy Qur’an and other Islamic texts at the US-run Bagram Airbase, 11 kilometers (7 miles) southeast of the city of Charikar in Afghanistan's Parwan Province have been burnt by US forces.
The act has triggered widespread rallies across Muslim countries with the protesters calling for the prosecution of those involved in the sacrilege of Islam's holy book.
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