{"id":50854,"date":"2022-03-16T07:21:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T01:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=50854"},"modified":"2022-03-16T07:21:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T01:51:54","slug":"un-makes-march-15-international-day-to-combat-islamophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=50854","title":{"rendered":"UN makes March 15 International Day to Combat Islamophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Date is anniversary of infamous New Zealand mosque attacks that killed over 50 worshippers<\/em><\/li><li><em>Pakistani envoy: \u2018Islamophobia is a reality. Its manifestations are proliferating in several parts of the world\u2019<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arab.news\/9hbd9\">Arab News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN has adopted a resolution proposed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Pakistan to designate March 15 the International Day to Combat Islamophobia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resolution was adopted two years to the day since a right-wing extremist murdered over 50 Muslims in a New Zealand terror attack on two mosques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It means that the day will be cemented as an annual reminder of the need to combat Islamophobia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resolution was introduced on Tuesday by Pakistan\u2019s ambassador to the UN, Munir Akram, on behalf of the OIC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIslamophobia is a reality. Its manifestations \u2014 hate speech, discrimination, and violence against Muslims \u2014 are proliferating in several parts of the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSuch acts of discrimination, hostility and violence towards Muslim individuals and communities constitute grave violations of their human rights and violate their freedom of religion and belief. They also cause great anguish within the Islamic world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akram cited the words of the UN\u2019s special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, who said: \u201cSince the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, institutional suspicion and fear of Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim has escalated to epidemic proportions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women and girls have often found themselves at the sharp end of this hatred, said Akram, adding: \u201cThe gender aspect of Islamophobia is also gaining prominence, with girls and women being targeted due to mode of their dress and the general notion that Muslim women are oppressed and thus must be liberated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He warned that Islamophobia is a \u201cpoorly understood\u201d phenomenon that often intersects with anti-immigrant and anti-refugee sentiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, he said, it is \u201cessential\u201d to promote information about this \u201cdisturbing global trend\u201d that can reach the very top of governments in many parts of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The adoption of the resolution follows years of discussion about the need for an international day to combat Islamophobia, initiated in Makkah in 2019 following the New Zealand mosque attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time, OIC members, including Saudi Arabia, \u201cstressed the necessity to combat hate and fear of Islam and Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date is anniversary of infamous New Zealand mosque attacks that killed over 50 worshippers Pakistani envoy: \u2018Islamophobia is a reality. Its manifestations are proliferating in several parts of the world\u2019 Arab News The UN has adopted a resolution proposed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Pakistan to designate March 15 the International Day to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}