GENEVA (SONNA) – The UN Human Rights Council has stated that it’ll maintain an pressing debate on the current desecration of the Muslim holy ebook, the Quran, in Sweden.
The pressing debate might be held on July 11 in Geneva, the council stated in a press release, including that the “alarming rise in premeditated and public acts of non secular hatred as manifested by recurrent desecration of the Holy Quran in some European and different international locations,” might be mentioned.
The pressing debate has been scheduled in response to an official request by Pakistan on behalf of member states of the Group of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), together with these which are members of the Human Rights Council, in keeping with the assertion.
This would be the Human Rights Council’s ninth pressing debate since its inception in 2006.
In a press release on behalf of OIC, Pakistan’s Ambassador Khalil Hashmi stated: “We see this pressing debate and its end result as a possibility to display this Council’s unity, mutual respect and understanding and to succeed in consensus on a forward-looking textual content.”
“We depend on the Council members to assist the holding of this debate and lend assist to an end result that charts a transparent path to deal with acts and advocacy of hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence, that the world confronts at the moment,” Hashmi stated.
Final week, a 37-year-old man of Iraqi origin, Salwan Momika, below police safety, burned a duplicate of the Muslim holy ebook in entrance of a Stockholm mosque.
The act was intentionally timed to coincide with Eid al-Adha, a major Islamic spiritual competition noticed by Muslims worldwide.
The incident has sparked widespread condemnation from a number of international locations, together with Türkiye, with the Group of Islamic Cooperation calling for collective measures to forestall such acts.
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