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Protests across the Middle East against Quran burning

Earlier this month, a far-right activist from Denmark received permission from police to stage a protest outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm where he burned the Quran, Islam's holy book. Days later, Edwin Wagensveld, Dutch leader of the far-right Pegida movement in the Netherlands, tore pages out of a copy of the Quran near the Dutch Parliament and stomped on the pages.

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Protests were held on Friday in several predominantly Muslim countries to denounce the recent desecration of Islam's holy book by a far-right activists in Sweden and the Netherlands.