Rabbi Menachem Margolin, head of the European Jewish Association, called on the Swedish premier to address the loopholes in the country’s legislation that allows such actions.

In a letter to Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, European Jewish Association Chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin condemned the planned burning of a Quran in Sweden, reportedly due to take place outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm.

‘The Europeran Jewish Association is deeply concerned that such recurrent incidents, which are allowed to take place by the police, send the wrong message to all religious communities across Europe: that they are not welcomed or respected here,’’ he wrote.

‘’A constitution should be designed to protect all its citizens. It is clear that the burning of religious books and symbols are simply an abuse of the privileges flowing from the constitution by those who have a deeply negative and divisive agenda,’’ Rabbi Margolin added.

‘’It is absurd to approve a request for a demonstration when the organisers clearly state in advance that they will burn a Quran or any other sacred text in order to provoke and offend the followers of this religion. Instead we must work together to amend the constitution, and close loopholes that are allowing those who seek confrontation and division to flourish in Sweden,’’ he added.

Rabbi Margolin also condemned all violence towards Swedish officials or nationals at home or abroad, and the storming of the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad.

‘’Such actions are unacceptable. This can never be the answer, no matter how offended one may feel,’’ he stressed.

A Quran was burnt outside the Stockholm mosque in June, sparking fury in the Muslim world.

Last Saturday, a Muslim activist who had planned to burn a Jewish Bible in front of the Israeli embassy in Stockholm backed down.

The man, who received approval from police to demonstrate, said he hed “never intended to burn Jewish or Christian holy books”, and that his gesture was “only to protest against the recent burning of the Quran with a symbolic rally in the name of freedom of expression”.

According a recent survey commissioned by the Swedish public television, a majority of Swedish people support a ban on public burning of religious texts.