Protesters Burn Quran in Front of Iraqi Embassy in Denmark

By Staff, Agencies

A small group of protesters in Denmark on Monday set fire to a copy of the Holy Quran in front of the Iraqi embassy in Copenhagen, risking a further deterioration of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The group that calls itself "Danish Patriots" also held a similar demonstration last week, livestreaming the events on Facebook.

Several thousand Iraqis demonstrated in Baghdad on Saturday over the burning or desecrating of the Holy Quran during anti-Islam protests in Sweden and Denmark.

Thousands of people took to the streets in several Muslim-majority countries last Friday to express their outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden.

The protests in Iraq, Lebanon and Iran that followed weekly prayers were controlled and peaceful, in contrast to scenes in Baghdad on Thursday, when demonstrators occupied the Swedish Embassy compound for several hours and set a small fire.