The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday called on the member states to direct their cinematic, television, radio, journalistic and social media to present products to combat Islamophobia and insults against religious symbols.
This came in the statement delivered by the Director of the OIC Information Department Wajdi Sindi at the emergency meeting of OIC States Broadcasting Union (OSBU) to discuss a mechanism for confronting desecration of religious sanctities in the media following the incident of burning a copy of the Holy Quran in the Swedish capital.
Sindi indicated that the final communique of the OIC emergency open-ended meeting of the Executive Committee, regarding the incident, held Sunday, included 26 items that constituted a road map and an integrated plan to address the recurrence of such incidents and insulting sacred religious symbols.
It also called for collective efforts at the level of national parliaments, the media and civil society organizations, to pronounce the OIC position and urge the relevant authorities to take the necessary legislative measures to criminalize such attacks.
Sindi pointed out that, the OIC is making great efforts with its partners, to enhance understanding of the responsible use of freedom of expression in the media, and to establish national mechanisms to hold accountable the media that continue to feed hate speech and intolerance, and implementing the OIC media strategy to combat Islamophobia.
Source: Kuwait News Agency
