The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will meet at the end of this month over the spate of attacks on Islam’s holy book, the Qur’an in Europe. Iraq and Iran requested an emergency meeting.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the goal of the meeting is to discuss effective and deterrent measures to prevent the incessant desecration of the Qur’an and other divine scriptures.

Over the past month the Qur’an has been set alight in Sweden and Denmark. The desecration has taken place outside a Stockholm mosque and some embassies.

These provocative acts of sacrilege are being staged under the guise of freedom of expression. It has sparked protests in several Muslim majority countries with calls for the criminalisation of racism and anti-Islam bigotry.