QNA
Doha
The Shura Council has expressed its strong condemnation and denunciation of the burning of the Holy Quran in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Shura Council expressed the condemnation during the regular weekly meeting chaired by Speaker of the Shura Council HE Hassan bin Abdullah Al Ghanim at Tamim bin Hamad Hall on Monday.
The Council stressed that the continuation of this behaviour at this particular time, during which Muslims live a spiritual atmosphere during the blessed month of Ramadan, is a deliberate provocation and a grave insult to them.
The Council warned that official authorities in a number of European countries allowing the continuation of these disgraceful behaviours have dire consequences that negatively affect the values of tolerance and coexistence.
The Shura Council renewed its call for the need for international legislation to limit and criminalise those disgraceful acts that only lead to more discord, division and hatred, saying that the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in particular and the international community in general must take effective action to find legal formula that protects religions and sanctities from violation and abuse.
The speaker of the Shura Council said the continuation of those provocative actions is an affirmation of the need to create a legal and legislative framework to protect religions, sanctities and places of worship from abuse and desecration to achieve peaceful coexistence and address hate speech.
He added that this is what the Shura Council has repeatedly called for and was interpreted through calling - in the name of the Arab parliamentary group - to include that topic as urgent on the agenda of the Assembly of the IPU that was held recently in Bahrain, which was widely accepted and supported.
On the other hand, the Shura Council agreed to extend the work of the Legal and Legislative Affairs Committee to study a draft law on regulating real estate registration.
