Muslim leaders to hold emergency meeting on Sunday

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - Monitoring: In a Friday phone conversation, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and the OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha discussed the sacrilegious burning of a copy of the Qur'an outside a mosque in the Swedish capital, Stockholm.

Amir Abdollahian said the OIC foreign ministers should hold the meeting at the earliest possible time to address the desecration.

He said the meeting can be convened at the same time as the Ministerial Meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement in Baku, Azerbaijan, on July 5-6.

The top Iranian diplomat once again censured the recent "offensive and provocative" act against the Qur'an.

In a repeated and state-authorized instance of sacrilege against the Muslim holy book, two men stood outside the central mosque in Stockholm on Wednesday and burned a copy of the holy book following a go-ahead given by a Swedish court.

The move was made to coincide with the Muslim festivity of Eid al-Adha, which marks the conclusion of the annual Hajj pilgrimage that is partaken by millions of Muslims from across the world.

Many Arab and Muslim countries have condemned the move.

On Friday, Iranian President Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi of said the Muslim world will never overlook the recent act of sacrilege against "the most valuable divine book" in a Western country that claims to defend free expression.