President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela has censured European leaders for their silence toward acts of sacrilege against the Holy Qur’an in Sweden and Denmark.
“I condemn these racist acts of hatred against Muslim nations,” the president told Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television news network on Monday.
“The silence of European leaders over the burning of copies of the Quran is surprising, which amounts to their complicity in the crime.”
Maduro said it was impossible to turn a blind eye to such provocations that humiliate Islam and its followers.
“What would European Christians say if a Bible was burned in front of them?”
The Venezuelan president said it was “quite natural” that the global Islamic community displayed an “angry reaction” to the desecration of the holy book.