Israel’s latest Quran burnings a war on Islam that must be condemned, says rights group

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation in the United States, demands that the administration of US President Joe Biden condemn the recent burning of Quran copies and destruction of mosques by Israeli soldiers in Gaza.

CAIR asserts that the desecration of Islam’s sacred text further demonstrates that the Israeli actions in Gaza are targeting both Islam and the Palestinian people.

One video reportedly shows Israeli soldiers burning and tearing copies of the Quran in the Bani Saleh Mosque in northern Gaza. Another video allegedly depicts Israeli forces destroying the Grand Mosque in Khan Younis, one of Gaza’s oldest mosques.

“By once again filming themselves burning Qurans and destroying mosques, the forces of the far-right Israeli government have confirmed that their war on the Palestinian people in Gaza is also a war on Islam itself,” said CAIR’s national executive director, Nihad Awad.

“The Biden administration must condemn this religious desecration and suspend weapons transfers to the Israeli government to end its campaign of slaughter and starvation in Gaza.”