Quran burning: Molotov cocktail hurled at Swedish embassy in Lebanon

 

August 10, 2023

The Swedish consulate in the Lebanese capital Beirut Thursday went under assault after a dissident tossed a Molotov mixed drink at its structure, which the neighborhood specialists said could be a response to many Quran defilements in the Scandinavian country.

"We affirm that there was a Molotov mixed drink tossed at the veneer of our consulate last night, which didn't detonate," as indicated by AFP.

The "culprit figured out how to take off", the AFP detailed citing a conciliatory source.

Pressures have erupted among Sweden and Muslim nations following a few fights including public spoilings of the Quran in Stockholm — including setting pages land.

Multi-confession booth Lebanon saw fights at mosques, while the head of Hezbollah has required the Swedish minister to be removed.

Lebanese security powers had supported measures around the consulate in midtown Beirut because of a paranoid fear of assaults.

Swedish Unfamiliar Pastor Tobias Billstrom said: "It was sheer karma that nobody was harmed in Wednesday's assault and that staff were protected."

"The occurrence is as of now being explored," he said in an explanation Thursday, taking note of that "Lebanese specialists have a commitment under the Vienna Show to safeguard conciliatory missions."

Before the end of last month, two Iraqi men set a duplicate of the Quran land outside the Swedish parliament in Stockholm, in a demonstration like others as of late that had drawn far reaching judgment.

Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem trampled the Muslim blessed book, and set its pages burning, as they did at a dissent outside Stockholm's principal mosque in June.

The team likewise organized a comparable dissent outside Iraq's consulate in the Swedish capital on July 20, where they trampled the strict message.

Iraqi dissenters had raged the Swedish government office in Baghdad two times, lighting fires inside the compound on the subsequent event.