Sana’a: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates and the State Legal Office organized a protest on Tuesday condemning the repeated desecration of the Holy Qur’an and reaffirming Yemen’s firm position in supporting, standing with Palestine and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
According to Yemen News Agency, participants in the protest, attended by the Advisor to the President of the Supreme Political Council for Diplomatic Affairs, Ambassador Abdulilah Muhammad Hajar, along with several deputy ministers, department heads, and general directors from the ministry and the legal office, expressed solidarity with the Islamic resistance in Lebanon and Iran, and declared high readiness for any military developments involving the American and Israeli enemies.
They chanted slogans condemning the criminal act by the American ‘Jake Lang,’ who burned a copy of the Holy Qur’an in a deliberate provocation of the feelings of Muslims worldwide and an affront to the most sacred Islamic sanctities.
A statement issued by the protest, read by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Political and Consular Affairs, Ambassador Abdullah Sabri, stated that the continuation of crimes and violations against Islamic sanctities and the provocation of millions of Muslims around the world does not represent individual behavior alone. Rather, it comes amid an atmosphere of hate speech and Islamophobia, which is increasingly spreading in Europe and the United States with the support of global Zionism and under the protection of security agencies in those countries.
The statement expressed regret that this systematic targeting of Islamic sanctities does not sufficiently stir the conscience of the Islamic nation and its peoples, nor does it prompt the necessary legitimate anger or responsible and calculated action-thereby encouraging further humiliation, subjugation of nations, and control over their affairs.
It condemned all forms of attacks on Islamic sanctities, including the latest attempt to burn a copy of the Holy Qur’an in the United States, calling on Arab and Islamic governments to take clear positions against U.S. and Western policies and to expose practices that openly demonstrate hostility toward Islam, Muslims, and the deliberate insult of their sacred values and sentiments.
It also denounced repeated attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque, its storming and desecration by Zionist war criminals and extremist settlers, considering silence on these violations as encouragement for the Zionist enemy to continue its declared plans to demolish Al-Aqsa Mosque and build the alleged temple.
The statement affirmed the right of the Lebanese people and their Islamic resistance to respond to Israeli aggression and to liberate every inch of Lebanese territory, warning the Lebanese government against conspiring against Hezbollah in service of the Israeli enemy, under American pressure, and urging it to align with the resistance as the only source of strength and victory for the Lebanese people.
The protest statement renewed its pledge to the Palestinian people, the axis of jihad and resistance, affirming the readiness of the armed forces for any military escalation in accordance with the ‘unity of arenas’ equation and in response to the comprehensive aggression equation.
It concluded by stressing the importance of vigilance among Arab and Islamic nations, and the need to assume responsibility in expressing rightful anger toward these serious violations of Islamic sanctities, to stand with free peoples of the world in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their legitimate rights, while confronting the US-Zionist offensive against the region and the nation.