The General Secretariat of the Rabat-based Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) was upset about negative positions taken by some officials in a number of European countries towards the hostile campaign launched against Islam by some European media. In a statement issued here yesterday, ISESCO referred to comments by a senior official in a European country criticizing the convening of what he called anti-Judaism symposium in Iran while ignoring recent Danish and Norwegian magazines' cartoons blasphemous to the Prophet (peace be upon him). The statement called such positions as dual standards by Europeans biased against Islam, the religion of more than 1.25 billion Muslims all over the world, noting that the behavior runs contrary to ethical principles, religious instructions and international law.
