Morocco Leads Push for UN World Day Against Islamophobia

Morocco is deploying its diplomatic offensive with a view to establishing a World Day against Islamophobia. Since last July, it had submitted this initiative to the other Islamic countries members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

In this sense, the Ambassadors of Islamic countries accredited to Rabat will take part, on Wednesday, September 18, at the headquarters of the Moroccan legislative institution, in a broad consultative meeting around this proposal, according to parliamentary sources.

With the support of the OIC, the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO, headquartered in Rabat), UNESCO and allied countries, Morocco intends to lobby the UN General Assembly, so that the establishment of the World Day against Islamophobia becomes a reality.

"We aim to make this day an international opportunity to call for tolerance, coexistence and to recall the just mean of Islam. This will be a way to refute the (hateful) discourses against Islam and Muslims that have become a real ideology to demonize Islam," it was indicated in July, during an extraordinary meeting of the OIC, in Rabat.