Prominent Figures Denounce Burning of Qur’an

TEHRAN -- Prominent Iranian poet, writer and literary critic and Muhammad-Reza Shafie’i ‎Kadkani has censured the sacrilegious burning of the Holy Qur’an in Sweden.

“The last leaf of rain’s travelogue reads: The earth is tarnished,” Kadkani who is also a professor of literature at the University of Tehran wrote on his Instagram page.
On the eve of Eid al-Adha, 37-year-old Salwan Momika tore, burned and kicked the holy book in front of the main mosque in Stockholm.
The Swedish police which initially allowed the blasphemous move said later they were investigating it as a potential act of “agitation against an ethnic group”.
Muslims across the world, especially Turkey, Morocco, Iraq and Saudi Arabia and Iran, have strongly condemned the blasphemous act.
Born on October 12, 1939 in the Iranian city of Nishapur, Shafiei-Kadkani is the most famous living poet of Persian language. He is known for his works on literary criticism and modern Persian poetry.
Meanwhile, popular Iranian musician and singer Mohsen Chavoshi has said the sacrilegious move is rooted in a failure to distort the divine book of Muslims.
“They changed the Torah and the Bible, and when they could not distort the Qur’an, they burned it,” said Chavoshi on a social media page.