UN General Assembly
2023

We believe that cooperation in those areas contributes to preventing the waves of refugees that have become a real problem for Europe as well as for African and Asian countries. Allow me to pinpoint the need to combat racism and campaigns of incitement against entire peoples, religions and civilizations. On this occasion. I would say to my Muslim brethren that it is implausible for us to get distracted by an idiot or a biased person whenever it occurs to them to provoke us by burning the Holy Qur’an or by other trivial means. The Qur’an is too holy to be desecrated by a witless person. God Almighty said: “Embrace forgiveness, enjoin what is right and turn away from the ignorant” (The Holy Qur’an, VII: 199). At the same time. I would say to all those who seek to justify those hideous acts as freedom of expression that compromising the sanctity of others deliberately should not be seen as an example of the freedom of expression.