Iran Calls on OIC to Convene on Insult to Quran
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The foreign minister of Iran urged that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) should hold an emergency meeting on a recent sacrilegious move against the Holy Quran in Sweden.
In a Friday telephone conversation, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and the OIC Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha discussed the sacrilegious burning of a copy of the Quran outside a mosque in the Swedish capital, Stockholm.
Amirabdollahian said the OIC foreign ministers should hold the meeting at the earliest possible time to address the desecration.
He said the meeting can be convened at the same time as the Ministerial Meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement in Baku, Azerbaijan, on July 5-6.
The top Iranian diplomat once again censured the recent "offensive and provocative" act against the Quran.
In a repeated and state-authorized instance of sacrilege against the Muslim holy book, two men stood outside the central mosque in Stockholm on Wednesday and burned a copy of the holy book following a go-ahead given by a Swedish court.
The move was made to coincide with the Muslim festivity of Eid al-Adha, which marks the conclusion of the annual Hajj pilgrimage that is partaken by millions of Muslims from across the world.
Many Arab and Muslim countries have condemned the move.
The OIC chief, meanwhile, hailed Iran's leading role in the organization and the attention it gives to the condemnation of the blasphemous act. He said the OIC plans to convene an emergency meeting in the Saudi city of Jeddah at the level of ambassadors and permanent representatives toward that end.