Imran Khan: “The top of Muslim nations ought to have taken a stand on this.”
Islamabad:
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday stated Islamophobia grew after the 9/11 terror assaults and went on unchecked as a result of the Muslim nations did nothing to examine the incorrect narrative that Islam was equated with terrorism.
Addressing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) assembly in Islamabad, Imran Khan stated that there’s no distinction between kinds of Islam, and added that the religion has nothing to do with terrorism.
He requested how the western world can differentiate between average and radical Muslims once they equate Islam with terrorism.
“I’ve spent loads of my life in England, touring everywhere in the world as a global sportsman. I perceive western civilisation in all probability significantly better than most individuals. …I noticed this rising (Islamophobia) after 9/11,” Imran Khan stated.
“This Islamaphobia stored rising and the explanation was — I’m sorry to say — we the Muslim nations didn’t do something to examine this incorrect narrative. How can any faith have something to do with terrorism? How was Islam equated with terrorism? And as soon as that occurs, how does a person within the western nation differentiate between a average Muslim and a radical Muslim. How can he differentiate? Therefore this man walks right into a mosque and shoots everybody,” the Pakistan Prime Minister stated whereas referring to New Zealand’s Christchurch Mosque taking pictures incident 2019.
“Sadly, what ought to have been completed, however wasn’t… the top of Muslim nations ought to have taken a stand on this. However loads of heads of states stated that they have been moderates,” he added.
This speech comes below the shadow of Imran Khan going through a no-confidence movement by opposition events. Underneath the management of the cricketer-turned-politician, the Pakistan authorities can be confronted with a extreme financial downturn.
The forty eighth Council of the International Ministers (CFMs) of the OIC started earlier as we speak in Islamabad.
The summit is happening below the theme: “Constructing Partnerships for Unity, Justice, and Growth.”
Pakistani media stated that over 100 resolutions will likely be thought of in the course of the two-day session. Though the assembly is being convened to advertise OIC efforts in Afghanistan, Pakistan is more likely to rake up the difficulty of Kashmir even because it fails to talk about Shia Muslims in their very own nation.
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