Bangladesh condemns desecrating Quran in The Hague

Bangladesh has strongly condemned the recent act of desecrating the Holy Quran by a far-right activist in The Hague.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country issued a statement in this regard on Thursday.

‘Bangladesh expresses grave concern over such heinous incident and rejects any act of insulting the sacred values and religious symbols of the Muslims - for that matter of all religions - all over the world under any circumstances,’ the statement read.

‘Bangladesh urges all concerned to put an end to such unwarranted provocations and Islamophobia for the sake of harmony and peaceful coexistence,’ it said.

On January 22, the extremist anti-Islam group Pegida in the Netherlands, Edwin Wagensfeld, tore up pages and burnt a copy of the Holy Quran in The Hague, under the protection of the Dutch police.