The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has issued a statement to condemn in strongest terms the recent Qur’an burning in the Danish capital on March 24.

The OIC General Secretariat considered that such provocations by the same individual and far right groups, under the guise of freedom of expression, were meant to spread hate and intolerance targeting Islam and Muslims.

The OIC General Secretariat urges the Danish authorities to take necessary measures against the perpetrators of this hate crime and to prevent such provocations.

The incident makes the second of anti-Islam provocation in Europe in less than three months.