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JEDDAH, June 24 (KUNA) -- Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) warned
against the continuation of heavily publicized political campaigns against
Muslim immigrants.
"These political campaigns are moving gradually to the United States," the
OIC's report of 2010-2011, on the phenomenon of "Islamophobia", said on Friday.
The report will be submitted to freign ministers of the OIC's member states
in their upcoming conference in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.
"Animosity against Islam and Muslims are not considered individual and
spontaneous acts any more. It has become a calculated phenomenon of hostility.
If developed from mere direct insults to a full-fledged distortion of Islam,
then it would lead to a real threat of cultural clash," the report cautioned.
This Islamophobia methodology, which was stirred from the ideologies of
some European right-winged parties, has started moving to the United States,
the report noted.
Therefore, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton warned against blowing this phenomenon out of proportion,
especially after the increasing European demands on prohibiting wearing hijab
(head cover for Muslim women) and applying more restrictions on Muslim
immigrants.
The most influential incident that triggered Islamophonia was the Holy
Quran burning campaign launched by Pastor Terry Jones against building an
Islamic center near Ground Zero, in New York, the report said.
It also mentioned that Studies and surveys done by European institutions
said that European society elites take advantage of the Muslims immigrants'
economical and social Muslim burdens to serve their political agendas; hence
negatively effecting the Muslims' chances of getting job and better health
care services. (end)
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