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Right Chief: Repeated Desecrations of Quran to be Discussed at UN Council

Nidiya Fitriyah - Tuesday, 12 September 2023 - 12:39 WIB

Tuesday, 12 September 2023 - 12:39 WIB

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Geneva, MINA – UN rights chief Volker Turk on Monday said the recent attacks against the Quran, the Muslim holy book, will be discussed in the UN Human Rights Council on Oct. 6.

According to Anadolu Agency, Turk made these comments at the 54th Human Rights Council’s opening session in Geneva, which began with a moment of silence to express solidarity with Morocco after the devastating earthquake.

Instead of unity of purpose and clear, cooperative leadership, Turk said the world is witnessing “politics of division and distraction,” such as the creation of fabricated debates over gender, migration, or imagining a “clash” of civilizations.

“The repugnant series of some 30 incidents of burning the Quran recently is the latest manifestation of this urge to polarize and fragment – to create divisions, within societies, and between countries,” he said, adding that the situation will be discussed in depth on Oct. 6 in line with resolution 53/1.

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In the previous session of the Human Rights Council in July, Turk called on states to combat “the weaponization of religious differences for political purposes.”

“These and other incidents appear to have been manufactured to express contempt and inflame anger; to drive wedges between people; and to provoke, transforming differences of perspective into hatred and, perhaps, violence,” he said.

He added that regardless of whether what the law says is permissible or not, and irrespective of one’s own religious beliefs or lack of belief, “people need to act with respect for others.”

Islamophobic figures and groups in Northern Europe in recent months have repeatedly carried out Quran burnings and similar attempts to desecrate the Muslim holy book, drawing outrage from Muslim countries and the world.(T/R3/RE1)

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Mi’raj News Agency (MINA) 

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