DUBAI (Reuters) – Egypt summoned Sweden’s chargé d’affaires to condemn incidents where copies of the Koran have been burned, the foreign ministry’s spokesperson said on Tuesday.
Five anti-Islam activists set fire to a Koran in front of the Egyptian embassy in Copenhagen on Tuesday, the third such incident in Denmark in less than a week, following Koran burnings in nearby Sweden.
Egypt informed the chargé d’affaires of its “strong condemnation and complete rejection … of the unfortunate and repeated incidents of burning and abuse of copies of the Holy Koran,” the statement added.
(Reporting by Clauda Tanios, Writing by Ahmed Elimam, Editing by Andrew Heavens)
