The State of Kuwait delegate at the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Nasser Al-Hain, affirmed that Kuwait had hurriedly confronted, in the United Nations Human Rights Council, latest crime of burning the Quran.
Ambassador Al-Hain, in a statement to KUNA, said the State of Kuwait has also supported a draft resolution, submitted to the UNHRC, to confront the phenomenon of burning the Quran, in line with human rights mechanisms that prohibit hatred rhetoric, namely blasphemy targeting religious sanctities.
This draft resolution is backed by the Arab and Islamic Groups at the UNHRC that unanimously agreed on standing firmly against such acts that contravene all principles, criteria and logic.
Such heinous acts have nothing to do with freedom of expression that does not cover assaults on religious sanctities.
Ambassador Al-Hain added that he had me with the UNHCR Higher Commissioner Volker Turk — accompanied by Arab states’ ambassadors — demanding that he must take an explicit stand condemning this abhorrent act and oppose to classifying sanctities’ desecration as some freedom of expression or any alike view under any circumstances.
The diplomatic action by the Arab and Islamic Groups at the UNHCR should constitute a robust deterrence to states that have not fathomed sensitivity and danger of disrespect of the religious holy symbols, he said.
The world is formed of multiple cultures, religions and races, thus there must be mutual respect to enable peoples live in stability.
The UNHRC is due to hold an urgent session to discuss Islamic states’ rejection of acts that belittle the religious sanctities. The draft resolution will be included in a number of proposed decisions, to be voted upon during the ongoing council’s 54th session, due to conclude on July 14.
The State of Kuwait had strongly decried the latest of such acts, setting a copy of the Quran in Sweden, amid bids to justify the despicable act as some form of freedom of expression.
Europe, in particular, had witnessed recurrence of such provocative acts over the past years.
Source: Kuwait News Agency