Tehran, IRNA – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has held a meeting to review possible actions against recent cases of desecration of the holy Quran in Europe.
OIC’s extraordinary meeting was held on Tuesday at the organization’s headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
According to a report on OIC’s official website, the meeting was held to “express the organization’s common stance against the recent desecration of The Holy Quran in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Denmark as well as to discuss possible actions that could be taken by the OIC against the perpetrators of the despicable Islamophobic attacks.”
At the meeting, the OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha said the insults directed at Quran in Europe were “criminal acts…to target Muslims.”
“…the relevant governments must take severe counter-measures, especially because such provocation have been committed repeatedly by far-right extremists in their countries,” Taha was quoted as saying in the report on OIC’s website.
As he stated, such insults “must not be seen as just an ordinary incident of Islamophobia… such act is a direct insult to the entire 1.6 billion Muslim population” of the world.
Desecration of the holy Quran in several European countries have trigged condemnations from many countries and entities around the world.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, Turkiye, Egypt, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Jordan, and Morocco, as well as some organizations and entities including the Persian Gulf Cooperation Organization, Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Palestine’s Hamas have all condemned the insults while calling for measures to prevent a repetition of such incidents in European countries.
