{"id":6986,"date":"2022-03-15T16:10:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T16:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=6986"},"modified":"2022-03-15T16:10:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T16:10:37","slug":"un-finally-recognises-grave-islamophobia-challenge-confronting-the-world-pm-imran-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/un-finally-recognises-grave-islamophobia-challenge-confronting-the-world-pm-imran-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"UN finally recognises grave Islamophobia challenge confronting the world: PM Imran Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Tuesday congratulated the Muslim Ummah after the United Nations (UN) finally recognised the grave Islamophobia challenge confronting the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, the UN has finally recognised the grave challenge confronting the world: of Islamophobia, respect for religious symbols, and practices and of curtailing systematic hate speech and discrimination against Muslims,&#8221; the prime minister said in a series of tweets.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, as he congratulated the Muslim Ummah, said &#8220;our voice against the rising tide of Islamophobia has been heard&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The premier shared that United Nations, comprising 193-member states, has adopted a landmark resolution introduced by Pakistan, on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), designating 15 March as &#8220;International Day to Combat Islamophobia&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The OIC observes March 15 as the day to combat Islamophobia every year after the organisation passed a resolution \u2014 presented by Pakistan \u2014 at the 47th session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers in the year in November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>PM Imran Khan has raised his voice against the rising trend of Islamophobia at international forums intermittently, including at the UN, and called on the global community to combat the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had said that Islamophobia is not acceptable at any cost and vowed to make his country safer for Muslims.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today UN has finally recognised the grave challenge confronting the world: of Islamophobia, respect for religious symbols &amp; practices &amp; of curtailing systematic hate speech &amp; discrimination against Muslims. Next challenge is to ensure implementation of this landmark resolution.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI\/status\/1503753272251027456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In December 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin had said insulting Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) does not count as freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>Insults to the Holy Prophet (PBUH) are a &#8220;violation of religious freedom and the violation of the sacred feelings of people who profess Islam,&#8221; Putin had said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/in-few-days-imran-khan-to-be-called-ex-prime-minister-saeed-ghani.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In few days, Imran Khan to be called ex-prime minister: Saeed Ghani<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Tuesday congratulated the Muslim Ummah after the United Nations (UN) finally recognised the grave Islamophobia challenge confronting the world. &#8220;Today, the UN has finally recognised the grave challenge confronting the world: of Islamophobia, respect for religious symbols, and practices and of curtailing systematic hate speech and discrimination against Muslims,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,3],"tags":[4198,4462,3288,4086,1212],"class_list":["post-6986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-world","tag-canadian-prime-minister-justin-trudeau","tag-muslim-ummah","tag-oic","tag-organisation-of-islamic-cooperation","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}