The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) praised the Moroccan-submitted United Nations Normal Meeting (UNGA) decision on “the promotion of interreligious and intercultural dialogue and tolerance in opposition to hate speech,” adopted on July 25, which stresses the significance of respecting its content material.
This emergency assembly on the desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden and Denmark was a chance for the Group’s Secretary-Normal and ministers from a number of Member States to commend this decision, which reinforces the group’s method to combating in opposition to Islamophobia, hate speech, rejection of others, and contempt for religions.
The assembly, held by videoconference, centered on the examination of two points regarding the desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden and Denmark, and the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli authorities officers.
In an announcement issued following its assembly on the Overseas Ministers degree, the Group expressed its thanks and gratitude to non-member states for condemning the acts of auto-da-fé and desecration of the Holy Quran and rejecting such racist assaults displaying Islamophobia and xenophobia.
The assertion additionally emphasised the significance of selling interreligious dialogue, understanding, and cooperation interculturally and amongst civilizations to attain peace and stability on the planet, stressing that selling the values of tolerance and peace is the easiest way to battle in opposition to hate speech, extremism, violence, and incitement.
The Group of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) expressed its deep concern on the upsurge in instances of discrimination and acts of violence around the globe, in addition to the resurgence of racist actions and right-wing extremism in a number of elements of the world following repeated acts of provocation by excessive right-wing supporters and assaults on the non secular symbols of Islam, together with the repetitive desecration of the Holy Quran.
The assertion strongly condemned the repeated blatant assaults on the sanctity of the Holy Quran, most lately in Stockholm and Copenhagen in Sweden and Denmark.
The OIC Member States’ international ministers thought of the failure of the Swedish and Danish authorities to take measures to forestall the recurrence of such acts contradictory to the United Nations (UN) Safety Council (SC) decision on tolerance, worldwide peace, and safety.
The international ministers known as on Islamic civil society establishments in Member States to cooperate with their counterparts in international locations the place anti-Islamic assaults have taken place in opposition to the Holy Quran and different sacred values, exhaust native authorized procedures, and refer instances to worldwide judicial our bodies.
Minister of Overseas Affairs, African Cooperation, and Moroccan Expatriates, Nasser Bourita, affirmed that Morocco strongly rejected provocations that offend the sanctity of Islam and known as for the promotion of the values of coexistence and dialogue.
Bourita added that “as a lot because it condemns all obscurantist and barbaric violence dedicated within the title of Islam, Morocco denounces provocative assaults on the sacredness of Islam, whereas calling for the promotion of the values of coexistence and dialogue between societies, in addition to the tradition of peace.”
In a speech, delivered by the Director of the Mashreq, Gulf, Arab, and Islamic Organizations on the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, Minister Bourita emphasised that freedom of expression couldn’t, beneath any pretext, justify provocation and abusive assaults on a faith that’s sacred to over two billion individuals around the globe, underlining that “the examination of acts that offend Islam questions us all, greater than ever, on the need to search out methods to battle in opposition to and restrict such abuses.”