AMMAN: The General Secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held an emergency meeting to discuss actions towards the repercussions of the Quran burning incident in Sweden on the first day of Aidiladha, reported Jordan News Agency (PETRA).
Saudi Arabia’s OIC permanent representative, Saleh bin Hamad Al-Suhaibani, in his keynote speech, expressed the Kingdom’s strong condemnation and denunciation of those repeated, despicable acts of burning copies of the Holy Quran.
The Kingdom also called for the international community and the OIC to take decisive action to prevent the recurrence of these practices that contradict with human values and moral principles.
For his part, the OIC secretary-general Hussein Ibrahim Taha urged OIC member states to take a unified stance and collective measures to prevent the recurrence of incidents of desecration of copies of the Holy Quran and insult to Prophet Muhammad.
He stressed the need to send a clear message, stating that these acts are not just ordinary Islamophobia incidents, and to remind the international community to urgently implement international law, which clearly prohibits any advocacy of religious hatred.
On June 28, a Swedish citizen of Iraqi origin reportedly tore up a copy of the Quran and burned it in front of a Stockholm mosque during a demonstration authorised by the Swedish authorities.
The incident occurred as Muslims around the world marked the Aidiladha holiday. Earlier, in January, a right-wing extremist had burned a copy of the Quran near the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, triggering outrage in the Muslim world. – BERNAMA-PETRA
