Ansarullah leader condemns burning holy Qur'an, calls for economic sanctions

The leader of Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement has strongly condemned the crime of burning the Holy Qur'an in Europe and emphasized the need for Muslims to take a stand against the war against Islam.

According to al-Masirah TV, Seyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said in his Ramadan speech that those who stand behind these crimes and frequent attacks against Islamic sanctuaries are the Israeli lobby.

“Our religious attachment requires us to be angry and express our fury when they start a war with our religion,” he emphasized.

Referring to the materialistic nature of the West, al-Houthi said that the Muslim nation should confront them with the weapon of economic sanctions.

“We, as Muslims, should sanction all countries that have allowed the burning of the Holy Qur'an and have legally supported it, because sanctions are enough to deter the enemies and force them to stop insulting Islam,” he said.

The Ansarullah chief reiterated the importance of Muslim unity in punishing the countries that were involved in burning the Qur'an.

“If Muslims were united to seriously sanction the countries that were involved in the burning of the Holy Qur'an, these countries would refrain from doing it again and they would give up,” he concluded.

The frequency of insults against Islam and its holy book has been on the rise in Europe.

Several European countries have been playing host to such despicable acts on their soils over the past months, drawing far-and-wide condemnation from the world's Muslim countries.

In January, dual Danish and Swedish citizen Rasmus Paludan burned a copy of the Holy Qur'an in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, and later again in front of a mosque.

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