ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday strongly condemned yet another incident of the desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden, vowing to launch a campaign to end the sacrilege of holy books in the Nordic state.

The government will help create a common strategy to eradicate evil from the platform of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the prime minister said.

The prime minister’s remarks came after a refugee, Salwan Momika, on Thursday stepped on the Holy Quran but did not burn it, as he had done less than a month earlier at a similar protest outside Stockholm’s main mosque, triggering renewed condemnation and calls for protest across the Muslim world.

Moreover, the prime minister said that the OIC must play its role in representing the sentiments of the Muslim Ummah and combat with this evil. The PM pledged to launch a campaign to reverse the decision to allow the desecration of the Torah, the Bible and the Holy Quran.

He said the permission to desecrate the holy books, persons, and rituals was not the freedom of expression, but rather a way to constantly torment the world.

The sequence of events indicates that this was not an issue of freedom of expression, but rather part of a political and satanic agenda, he said.

“The whole world of Islam and Christianity must collectively stop this conspiracy. Satan’s followers are blaspheming the holy books which gave human beings dignity, rights and guidance.”

The prime minister said that the decision to allow the desecration of the Torah and the Gospel encouraged desecrators.

This promotion of hatred is not allowed under international law, and attitudes of religious incitement, provocation to terrorism, and violence are detrimental to world peace.

“These behaviours are highly abhorrent and condemnable both legally and morally,” the prime minister remarked.