CAIRO — An Islamic grouping of 57 states mentioned on Sunday collective measures are wanted to forestall acts of desecration to the Koran and worldwide regulation needs to be used to cease spiritual hatred after the holy guide was burned in a protest in Sweden.
The assertion by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, most of whose members have a Muslim-majority inhabitants, was issued after a rare assembly in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah referred to as to debate Wednesday’s incident.
“We must send constant reminders to the international community regarding the urgent application of international law, which clearly prohibits any advocacy of religious hatred,” OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha mentioned.
A person tore up and burned a Koran exterior Stockholm’s central mosque on Wednesday, the primary day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holidays. The act angered OIC member Turkey whose backing Sweden wants to achieve entry to the NATO navy alliance.
Swedish police had granted permission for a protest to happen. But after the burning, police charged the person who carried it out with agitation towards an ethnic or nationwide group.
The incident has triggered massive protests in Baghdad in entrance of the Swedish Embassy. It has additionally been condemned by the United States.
Turkey in late January suspended talks with Sweden on its NATO utility after a Danish far-right politician burned a replica of the Koran close to the Turkish embassy in Stockholm. — Reuters
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