{"id":59161,"date":"2023-07-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2023\/07\/06\/the-united-nations-human-rights-council-discusses-the-incident-of-burning-the-quran\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T00:00:00","slug":"the-united-nations-human-rights-council-discusses-the-incident-of-burning-the-quran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2023\/07\/06\/the-united-nations-human-rights-council-discusses-the-incident-of-burning-the-quran\/","title":{"rendered":"The United Nations Human Rights Council discusses the incident of burning the Quran."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, a representative announced that the United Nations Human Rights Council will convene an emergency meeting to address the incident involving the desecration of the Quran in front of a mosque in Sweden, following a request from Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson, representing the Geneva-based council, indicated during a press conference that the session focusing on the rise of religiously-motivated hatred is anticipated to occur later this week.<\/p>\n<p>The act of burning the Quran has elicited a wave of condemnation across the Islamic and Arab world, which included the summoning of Swedish ambassadors by several countries.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) urged the adoption of &quot;collective measures&quot; in response to the &quot;recurrent desecration of the Quran&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The OIC highlighted that &ldquo;the desecration of the Quran and the affront to the Prophet are not run-of-the-mill incidents of Islamophobia&rdquo;, stressing the &ldquo;imperative of enforcing international law to curb religious hatred&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the OIC had expressed vehement condemnation of the incident through a statement, alerting to the &quot;seriousness of such acts that erode mutual respect and harmony amongst peoples and are at odds with global efforts in fostering values of tolerance and moderation.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, a representative announced that the United Nations Human Rights Council will convene an emergency meeting to address the incident involving the desecration of the Quran in front of a mosque in Sweden, following a request from Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":59528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}