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“The meeting expressed serious concern over the increase of intolerance and discrimination against Muslims resulting into the upsurge of Islamophobia, a phenomenon which is an affront to the human rights and dignity of Muslims.”
In regard to the latter the communiqué called for the implementation of a 2011 UN measure, Resolution 16/18, which sought to balance free speech with attempts to counter speech regarded by some as blasphemous.
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Implementing the resolution, the OIC ministers said, would help to “deprive terrorist groups of any justification for violent extremism on the grounds of ethno-religious stigmatization and discrimination.”
(CNSNews)
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