TEHRAN (Iran News) –As Islam is gradually attracting more believers in the world and especially in the Western countries, it is coming under hostile reactions from believers of other religions and mostly by atheists, and every now and then we see some desecrations and insults against Muslims or spread of Islamophobia.

While many countries in the world were marking the martyrdom anniversary of the third imam of Shiites, Imam Hussein (AS), some people desecrated the Holy Quran in front of the Islamic Centre of Hamburg on Sunday.

German police forces, who were present in the place, did not take any action to prevent the blasphemous act, which is prohibited under Germany’s law, nor reacted to those who committed it.

This blasphemous act is a clear example of sedition and spreading hatred and is categorically condemned by all Muslims, monotheists …and those who believe in coexistence and interfaith dialogue.

This is not the first time that Holy Quran and Islam suffers desecration and this time it happened while the Zionists had launched a savage attack against the Palestinians and Shiites worldwide were commemorating the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS). It seems this blasphemous act has been committed intentionally to provoke Muslims in order to distract them from what was happening in Gaza Strip by the Zionists. Of course this type of insult is committed under the name of freedom of expression in order to silence those who react to such insults.

In recent years, the number of such blasphemous acts against Muslims and their beliefs has been on the rise in Europe, and racist attitude of Westerners should be blamed for such acts. Each time European judiciary or security officials ignore punishing the offenders and this attitude emboldens anti-Islam acts.

The Zionists and their lackeys should be mainly blamed for such anti-Islam acts because they fear about spread of Islamic values and religion in the world as the number of the Islam believers is on the rise and this is what enemies of Islam do not like it.

The enthusiasm for Islam and Islamic values has gained momentum worldwide especially since the emergence of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and this new phenomenon has encouraged other nations to pursue the valuable principles of the Islamic Revolution which are based on Islamic rules.

In April 2022, city of Norrkoping in Sweden witnessed one of the deadliest clashes and protests which was ignited by insulting the Holy Quran. More than 40 people were arrested in the clashes while three people were injured when police forces fired warning shots at rioters.

The violence was sparked by a series of rallies organized by the Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan. Sweden’s national police chief, Anders Thornberg, said he had never seen such violent riots following Sunday’s clashes in Norrkoping, which is about 160km (99 miles) south-west of Stockholm, and nearby Linkoping.

The two cities also witnessed riots, along with the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby and the western city of Orebro. There was also a riot in the southern city of Malmo because of such provokation. Such insults against Islam have been seen in Europe especially in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany and France through offensive remarks and drawing caricatures of Islamic figures like Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). We have not yet forgotten French Magazine Charlie Hebdo’s insulting caricature about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) under the title of freedom of expression which caused protests in France and in the world but the offenders escaped unpunished.

Such passiveness or support of offenders emboldens them to continue insulting Islam and make Muslims resort to violent actions, and later Muslims will be blamed and Islam will be shown as the violent religion while Islam is religion of mercy and friendship but it does not mean that everybody is allowed to insult Islam and offender should be blamed and punished.

So Muslims in the world in the current era should be vigilant because enemies of Islam are trying to provoke them for creating rifts and violence and any moment we should expect such a blasphemy to enrage Muslims because enemies are angry over spread of Islam as the savior religion in the world and Muslims should deal with such offences with wise and calculated response and unity among Muslims is the winning card for them against any plot as Islam has always called on Muslims for unity and urged them to avoid division and sparseness .

Iranians have categorically condemned the desecration of the Holy Quran and Islamic sanctities in Germany, urging the country to put an end to such moves, as they have called on Muslims to have proper response to it.

So desecration is a weapon which is used against Islam and Muslims, and Muslims need its own weapons to thwart effect of desecration that unity will be one of them.