The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday called for collective measures to avoid future desecration of the Holy Quran, just days after such an incident outside a mosque in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. The 57-member body met at its Jeddah headquarters to respond to Wednesday’s incident in which an Iraqi refugee in Sweden, Salwan Momika, 37, committed the Islamophobic act. On Sunday, the OIC urged member states to “take unified and collective measures to prevent the recurrence of incidents of desecration of the Quran”, according a statement released after the “extraordinary” meeting. OIC Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha, “stressed the need to send a clear message that acts of desecration” of the Quran are “not mere ordinary Islamophobia incidents,” the statement added. However, Sweden’s government condemned on Sunday the “Islamophobic” act outside Stockholm’s main mosque, “committed by individuals at demonstrations in Sweden [that] can be offensive to Muslims”.

Source: The Express Tribune July 03, 2023 17:17 UTC