The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday said that measures need to be taken to avoid repeated acts of the Holy Quran’s desecration, Saudi State TV reported.
The announcement was made during an emergency session over the Holy Quran’s desecration in Sweden last week.
A man, who fled from Iraq to Sweden several years ago, tore up and burned the Holy Quran outside Stockholm’s central mosque on Wednesday — the first day of Eidul Azha in the country.
He was charged by Swedish police with agitation against an ethnic or national group and a violation of a ban on fires that was in place in Stockholm since mid-June.
The act drew strong criticism from several countries, including Pakistan, Turkiye, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Iraq and Iran.
The OIC had announced a day after the incident that it would be convening an emergency meeting of its executive committee to discuss the matter.
The intergovernmental organisation of 57 countries had said in a statement that the meeting was called by Saudi Arabia in its capacity as chair of the Islamic Summit Conference and would take place at the OIC headquarters in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
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