The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held an emergency meeting to discuss actions towards the repercussions of burning a copy of the Holy Qur’an in Sweden on the first day of Eid Al-Adha.

In a keynote speech of the Saudi OIC permanent representative, Saleh bin Hamad Al-Suhaibani, expressed the KSA’s strong condemnation and denunciation of those repeated, despicable acts of burning copies of the Holy Qur’an, and called, in its capacity as President of the Islamic Summit in its current session and Chairman of the OIC Executive Committee, for taking decisive action by the international community and the OIC 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 Qur’an and insult to our Holy Prophet Muhammad, Peace be Upon Him, stressing the need to send a clear message stating that these acts are not just ordinary Islamophobia incidents, and to remind the international community on urgently implementing international law, which clearly prohibits any advocacy of religious hatred.

Source: Jordan News Agency