AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The unity of the Muslim Ummah (community) is very important in confronting acts of sacrilege and Quran desecration.
This is according to Ali Khamis al-Alawi, head of Oman’s Intellectual Property Society, made the remark in an address to an international seminar on the Fiqhi (jurisprudential) and legal aspects of desecration of the Quran from the viewpoint of international law.
The seminar was held in Tehran both in person and virtually by the International Association of Muslims university Professor following recent Quran desecrations in Sweden and Denmark.
Alawi said that the Muslim Ummah should defend the Holy Book and give a strong and decisive response to such sacrilegious acts.
The Muslim world should answer to Quran burnings with the logic of power, he stressed.
He also said that such acts are supported by the world Zionism with certain ominous purposes.
The Muslim Ummah is vigilant and will, God willing, thwart the enemies’ plots, he went on to say.
Sayed Ali al-Fayadh, a professor of Imam Kadhim (AS) University in Baghdad, was another speaker at the event, who highlighted the sublime status of the Quran and its sanctity, adding that the Quran stresses respecting other religions.
Haytham al-Attas, dean of the University of Damascus’ faculty of law, also addressed the seminar, saying Quran burning is a provocative act that spreads hate and racism.
He said such acts are against international laws and also contravene freedom of expression and should be confronted.
Azmi Zarrin Naziya, a University of Punjab scholar in Lahore, Pakistan, in her address underscored the status of divine books among followers of religions and said disrespecting these books is not acceptable anywhere.
She noted that people in many countries, including Pakistan have held protests against such sacrilegious acts.
The participants in the seminar, in a final statement, reiterated the importance of Islamic unity in defending Islam and its sanctities.
They also called on Muslim countries to decisively react to governments like Sweden and Denmark that allow desecration of Islamic sanctities.
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