Organisation of Islamic Cooperation calls for collective measures to prevent Quran desecrations, days after a copy was torched outside a Stockholm mosque
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."Countries including Iraq, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco have summoned Swedish ambassadors in protest. / Photo: AFP
On Sunday, the OIC urged member states to"take unified and collective measures to prevent the recurrence of incidents of desecration of copies of the" Quran, according a statement released after the"extraordinary" meeting.
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