News - Middle East: Iraq’s Foreign Ministry has called on Sweden to extradite the Iraqi man who publicly burned a copy of Qur’an outside a Stockholm mosque so that he could be tried according to the country’s laws.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein made the request in a phone conversation with his Swedish counterpart Tobias Billstrom on Friday, the ministry said in a statement.  

Hussein said that burning Qur’an does not fall within the framework of freedom of speech, and it rather encourages violence and fuels the flames of Islamophobia.

The Iraqi foreign minister emphasized that this heinous act, which is an insult to religious sanctities, has hurt the feelings of Muslims all over the world.

Source: Press TV