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The al-Nuzha Misdemeanor Court sentenced musician Aḥmad Ḥijāzī to six months in prison and a bail of 2,000 Egyptian pounds (roughly $64.65) on charges of contempt of religion after he appeared in a video singing verses the Holy Qurʾān to the tune of the oud.
This text about Dutch Arabist and scholar of Islam Prof. Dr. Johannes (Hans) G. Jansen (1942-2015) is based on Cornelis Hulsman’s personal experiences with Prof.
This study analyses recent Qurʾān desecration incidents in Europe and some of the ways they have been addressed, with a particular focus on the Netherlands.
Geert Wilders, the controversial Dutch politician known for his extremist views, recently expressed his anger towards the Palestinians, calling for their expulsion from their own country or their relocation to Jordan.  
A Palestinian thinker and theological writer, Priest Dr. Mitrī al-Rāhib, said that attacks on religious sites in occupied Palestine were not a new development, and that they did not occur in Gaza alone, but in fact happened in all the lands of historical Palestine.
The Muslim Council of Elders, led by the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, warned that the continued violations by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people and the blessed al-Aqṣā Mosque could have grave consequences.
Secretary-General of the Arab Lawyers Union (ALU), Mekkaoui Benaissa, strongly condemned the incident where a copy of the Holy Qurʾān was torn apart in the Netherlands.
The Muslim Council of Elders, chaired by Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, rejected the desecration of copies of the Holy Qurʾān by “some extremists” and the following assaults on churches in Pakistan, which were also committed by “some extremists.”
Whether North European countries stopped licensing the burning of copies of the Holy Qurʾān, or any other holy book, or not, or whether the UN adopted an agreement banning contempt of others’ sanctities and beliefs, or not, this disgraceful act is a shame on the authorities that protect it!
What freedoms of opinion and expression were gained in Europe, and the West in general, since the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, published cartoons insulting the Prophet Muḥammad in 2005?

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