The 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) yesterday urged the United States to bring the officers responsible for the desecration of the Holy Qur'an to immediate justice. "The US must live up to its responsibilities and not be lenient with the perpetrators of the desecration and should bring those responsible for the despicable crime to justice immediately," said OIC spokesman Ambassador Atta El-Manan Bakhit. The spokesman for the world's largest Muslim organization also called for urgent measures to calm the tension caused by the incident in the Islamic world and ensure that such abhorrent acts are not repeated in the future.| Here's an idea: I think we should issue a warning that we'll take any desecration of any symbol of the United States, to include its flag, to be a criminal act and that we'll expect the perpetrators to be immediately and publicly punished. Further, in any country where it's against the law to speak "disrespectfully" of the chief of state, the same standards must be applied to discussion of American officials, starting with President Bush. |
