Allowing this anti-Islamic act under the guise of ‘freedom of expression’, which Muslims Targets and insults our sacred values, which is totally unacceptable. Islamophobia begins in the name of freedom of expression.West is not even ready to accept the trend of anti-Islamism. And they hide anti-Islamic actions in their country under the guise of freedom of speech. Publishing satirical sketches and cartoons of Hazrat Muhammad ﷺ, welcoming so-called writers who make fun of Islam, and honoring them with the title of “Sir” by giving them prizes and honors, is the beloved pastime of the West, Taslima Nasreen from Salman Rushdie. How many names are proof of this.
Muslims believe that the Qur’an is the word of God, and it is considered the most sacred book in Islam. Deliberately damaging or insulting the Qur’an is unacceptable for Muslims.
The Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif has strongly condemned the desecration of Holy Quran in Sweden. The Prime Minister says that words are not enough to condemn the heinous act of desecration of the Holy Quran by an extremist in Sweden.
The Prime Minister says that the cloak of freedom of expression cannot be used to hurt the religious sentiments of one and a half billion Muslims around the world. This is unacceptable.
Islamophobia, racism and discrimination in Europe have reached dangerous levels. Due to Islamophobia, Islam and Muslims are viewed with hatred and contempt in the western world
Islamophobia is a term coined to defame Islam and Muslims. Its use began in the French language in 1910 and in the English language in 1923.
Islamophobia is a combination of the word ‘Islam’ and the Greek word ‘phobia’ (meaning fear). It refers to Islamic civilization and fear of Muslims. To create hatred against Islam and Muslims by poisoning against Islamic teachings. What creates fear of Islam in the hearts of non-Muslims is called Islamophobia.
With the efforts of Pakistan and the OIC, recognizing Islamophobia as a crime, the United Nations has approved a resolution to celebrate “Islamophobia Day” on March 15 every year.
On 26 September 2018, the European Parliament launched the Anti-Islamophobia Toolkit in Brussels and distributed it to various governments, civil society organisations, the media and other law makers. The move was aimed at combating Islamophobia and curbing its growing effects.
At this time, the wave of Islamophobia in the whole world in general and in Western countries, Europe and America in particular, is becoming more and more severe, discrimination against Muslims, defamation of Islam, insulting of its holy figures and places and it is being ignored. Eradication cases are common in the West.
The captive of Islamophobia has an aggressive attitude towards all Muslims, Islamophobia can be described as a new form of racism.
The BJP, the party campaigning Islamophobia in India, has crossed every circle of terrorism. Anti-Muslim violence and terrorism have been committed in India, mosques and shrines have been targeted, women have been robbed of their dignity, and Muslim homes have been burnt down, the clearest examples of which are the bloody scenes in Gujarat, Assam and Burma. Discrimination against Muslims can be seen in airports, courts, police stations, schools, colleges, corporations and hospitals etc. At the global level, Muslims have been made victims of mental humiliation in the prisons of Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. Anti-Islamic films were made.
If you look at history, when Muslims were at their peak, Islamophobia in the West was still on the rise. Bigoted Christian pastors and leaders used to spread propaganda against Islam, the Prophet of Islam and Muslims throughout Europe.
The Crusades were fought with religious fervor based on false propaganda. This misleading propaganda is detailed in the classical writings of Isthiraq. It is an obvious fact that extremism exists in every society and every religious unit. In Germany it has emerged in the neo-Nazism movement, while in America it is represented by the evangelical sect. In Denmark, the Netherlands and England, some political party leaders and many Christian pastors are leading the campaign to burn the Quran.
Anti-Islamic rants by many pastors and women debaters can be heard on YouTube. After 9/11, an Islamophobic group in the US even raised the offensive slogan of Bomb The Kaaba. In France, ultra-secular groups and the government fear the Muslim woman’s hijab (scarf). Mosque minarets are feared in Denmark. In satirical cartoons of the Prophet of Islam, cross is expressed. The migration of poor and destitute Syrian refugees to Europe is also terrorizing some people in the West.
The major media conglomerates, pro-Israel journalists like Friedman, pastors like Jerry Falwell, big orientalists like Daniel Pipes and Bernard Lewis, are in cahoots.
Fox News, CNN, CNBC reports and analyzes show bias. Most of their anchors and reporters have animosity toward Muslims and Arabs and a soft spot for Israel.The recent desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden, the unfortunate incidents of insulting the Prophet, the cursed cartoons and similar scandals are part of Islamophobia.
After three years of efforts by Pakistan and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the United Nations General Assembly, through a resolution in 2022, approved the observance of March 15 in the Organization’s calendar as the Day of Combating Islamophobia.
The background of this is that on March 15, 2019, a gunman attacked worshipers of two mosques with multiple weapons and killed 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was the largest massacre in New Zealand’s modern history.
The West is not even ready to accept the trend of anti-Islamism. What the West is doing, it has to do, it should be that our religious and national leadership, giving evidence of an awakened mind, should train the nation on the lines that they can live according to the Quranic orders and the teachings of the Prophet so that His behavior led to the redress of Islamophobia propaganda.Muslims around the world are protesting against the desecration of the Holy Quran. While Pakistan has strongly condemned the desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden, OIC Secretary General Hussain Ibrahim Taha says that the desecration of the Holy Quran and the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) cannot be tolerated under international law. There is a need for immediate implementation of measures that prevent hatred from spreading. All Islamic countries should adopt a common strategy and take concrete measures to prevent such incidents. In the meeting of the executive committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the incident of desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden, Secretary General Hussain Ibrahim Taha has emphasized that all Islamic countries should take action to prevent the incidents of insulting the Holy Quran and the Prophet of Islam. Take collective and concrete actions.It should be remembered that an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was held at the organization’s headquarters in Jeddah on the recent incident of desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden. Pakistan, Jordan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Azerbaijan, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain were present at the meeting. Members of the executive committee of the member countries were also present.
Secretary General Hussain Ibrahim Taha emphasized in his speech on this occasion that all Islamic countries should take collective measures to prevent the incidents of insulting the Holy Quran and the Prophet of Islam. On this occasion, OIC Secretary General Hussain Ibrahim Taha said It was said that desecration and insulting of Holy Quran and Prophet of Islam cannot be tolerated under any circumstances. This requires the immediate application of international law, which prevents the spread of hatred.
Secretary General OIC emphasized that all Islamic countries should adopt a common strategy and take concrete measures to prevent such incidents.
Pakistan’s ambassador to OIC, Fawad Sher, described the desecration of the Holy Quran by Pakistan as abhorrent and said that on the one hand, the entire Muslim Ummah was celebrating Eid-ul-Azha and on the other hand, the burning of the Holy Quran was a heinous act. An intolerable act has been done which has caused great pain to the entire Muslim world. The Pakistani delegate further said that the government of Pakistan and the political leadership strongly condemn this act. The desecration of Holy Quran is hateful and racist. Such incidents cannot be justified in the name of freedom of expression or protest.
He said that states are bound by international laws not to allow incidents like religious hatred to happen. In the past few years, anti-Islamic incidents have come to light in the West.Pakistan has strongly condemned the desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden. Spokesman of the Foreign Office of Pakistan says that the desecration of the Holy Quran has hurt the religious sentiments of one and a half billion Muslims. Hurting the religious sentiments of Muslims is freedom of expression. I don’t come Human rights leaders should take responsibility to prevent hateful acts, human rights leaders should take responsibility not to incite people to violence, Islam is a religion of peace. The spokesperson said that Muslims around the world, including Pakistan, believe in respecting all religions. Keep in mind that there is tension between Sweden and Turkey regarding NATO membership. Sweden wants to join NATO, but Turkey has been opposing it since May last year. Turkey says that Sweden should first deport critics of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Kurdish leaders, but Sweden is not accepting these demands. Meanwhile, the leader of Sweden’s far-right extremist party, Rasmus Ploden, has announced that he will protest outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm on Saturday and plans to burn the Holy Quran.
The Swedish authorities had allowed Rasmus to desecrate the Koran, on which Turkey also expressed great anger, while the Swedish ambassador was summoned twice in two days to record the protest. Turkey’s NATO membership issue. But the scheduled visit of the Swedish Defense Minister for talks has also been canceled and he has said that there is no purpose left for negotiations. Swedish Defense Minister Paul Johnson has said that the relationship with Turkey is very important, we are trying to resume negotiations. It should be noted that anti-Islamic movements have been carried out by Rasmus Plaudan and his party before. In 2022 and 2020, Plaudan along with his colleagues tried to organize a ceremony to burn the Holy Quran, after which Mass protests broke out in Sweden. Mass protests broke out in Sweden against the burning of the Holy Quran by right-wing anti-Islamic extremists. Extremist Dutch politician Resmus Pluden has also tried to participate in the ceremony of burning the Holy Quran along with his colleagues. Dutch politician Plowden was banned from entering the country for two years after police stopped him from desecrating the Holy Quran and burning it, sending the Dutch politician back across the border. Extremists started demonstrations in the southern Swedish city of Melmo after the anti-Islamic Dutch leader was denied permission to participate in a ceremony to desecrate the Holy Quran. Right-wing anti-Islam protesters torched several vehicles and torched shops in clashes with the police. The police spokesman says that many policemen and officers were injured in the clashes with the protesters, while 10 people have been arrested for rioting. Storm Kris, the Danish leader of the extremist group, was sentenced to a month in prison in Denmark last year on charges of racial discrimination.
It should be remembered that there was an incident of burning and desecrating the Holy Quran on the day of Eid al-Adha outside the mosque of Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. had refused permission to burn the holy Quran, but the local court declared the police’s decision against freedom of expression.
After which the accused set fire to the Holy Quran and desecrated the holy book of Muslims. Strict security arrangements were made by the police on this occasion.
The Muslims there strongly protested against the desecration of the Holy Quran and raised slogans of ‘Allahu Akbar’, while the police detained a Muslim on the charge of throwing stones. It should be noted that even earlier in Sweden, anti-Islamic extremists had set fire to the Holy Quran, after which large-scale protests broke out.
All Muslim countries, including Pakistan, strongly condemned the heinous act of desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden.
Muslims are protesting all over the world over the desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden and rallies are being held in many countries.
Thousands of people protested at the Swedish embassies in Iran and Iraq. Iraqi protesters also demanded the end of diplomatic relations with Sweden.
The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a strong protest by summoning Sweden’s Comptroller of Affairs in Tehran. The OIC statement at the meeting said that while warning about the seriousness of such actions, it harms mutual respect and harmony among people while spreading values like tolerance and moderation and extremism. In contrast to international efforts to reject the declaration, the declaration urged the governments of the countries concerned to prevent these ‘heinous attacks’, including condemning all attempts to desecrate the Quran and other Islamic values, symbols and sanctities. Take effective measures to prevent such incidents.
The OIC reiterated the obligation of all countries under the Charter of the United Nations to respect and promote the observance of human and fundamental rights without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion. The right to freedom of expression should be exercised responsibly and in accordance with relevant international human rights laws.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation emphasized the importance of promoting dialogue, understanding and cooperation among religions, cultures and civilizations for world peace and harmony.
The European Union has also strongly rejected the incident, calling it an “aggressive, insulting and provocative act”. The European Union issued a statement on the incident of desecration of the Quran in Sweden and said that it rejects the act of desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden, this incident is a clear act of offensive, disrespectful provocation. According to the European Union, this action does not in any way reflect the opinion of the European Union. The act of desecration was committed when Muslims were celebrating Eid al-Adha. The European Union stands for freedom of religion or belief and freedom of expression. Racism, hatred Excitement, intolerance has no place in Europe.
The European Union says that the time has come to stand together for mutual understanding and respect, it is also time to stop escalating conflicts.
