Sana'a: The Shura Council strongly condemned the act committed by extremist Republican congressional candidate Valentina Gomez, who burned a copy of the Holy Quran. In a statement issued today, the Council stressed that this act is not merely an individual behavior but a deliberate and systematic provocation against the feelings of millions of Muslims, and a blatant assault that reflects deep hostility toward Islamic sanctities and symbols.
According to Yemen News Agency, the Council denounced the use of such actions in political and electoral campaigns, which continue to be tolerated by the U.S. administration-an administration openly hostile to Islam and Muslims in order to appease global Zionism. It further pointed out that the repetition of such provocative acts targeting Islamic sanctities, coinciding with the genocidal crimes, starvation policies, and siege carried out by the Zionist enemy against children, women, and the elderly in Gaza-with U.S. and Western support-would not have occurred without the current state of weakness, silence, and complacency afflicting the Muslim nation.
The statement emphasized that freedom of expression does not justify insulting religions and sacred values or declaring hostility against Islam and Muslims. It called on Arab and Islamic nations and peoples to express their outrage and escalate responses at all levels, including the activation of economic boycott campaigns against countries that allow such acts.
The Council also urged the Association of Senates, Shura and Equivalent Councils in Africa and the Arab world to strengthen Arab and Islamic solidarity in confronting these acts, which are linked to the hate speech promoted by extremist groups in the West and threaten peaceful coexistence among nations.