The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) denounced the terrorist attack on a US-owned gas factory near the city of Lyon in southeastern France today, Friday, 26 June 2015, where a body was found and several people were injured. The OIC considered the barbaric act of decapitating the victim as shocking and brutal. The OIC Secretary General, Iyad Ameen Madani, expressed his distress at the execution of such a heinous crime, underlining that the perpetrators are an affront to humanity and all moral and religious values, and called for bringing them to justice. He reiterated the OIC's firm and principled stand condemning all forms of terrorism, which has no objective other than to spread fear, destabilization and conflict. He emphasized the need to consolidate international efforts in the fight against terrorism and address the political, social economic and security dimensions. Madani conveyed his deepest sympathies to the bereaved family as well as the best wishes for the earliest recover of the wounded victims.
