Sweden's left-wing opposition party demanded an emergency parliamentary meeting Tuesday about the ongoing Qur'an burnings, Anadolu Agency reports.

"We are calling for the foreign policy committee to be called to an extra meeting as soon as possible as a result of what is now happening," Social Democrats' Foreign Policy spokesperson, Morgan Johansson, said in a statement.

Johansson urged the government to take measures "to protect Swedish lives and the Swedish interests."

He said Sweden has found itself in "an extremely serious situation which has been getting steadily worse."