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Friday 22 May 2015 - 13:49 Makkah mean time-4-8-1436
 Jeddah (IINA) – There was an intensification of Islamophobia and animosity against Muslims in many parts of the world during the period from May 2014 to April 2015, according to the annual report of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Islamophobia issued Thursday.
The report said that the period in question was a hard one, especially for Muslim minorities in non-Muslim majority countries. What aggravated matters most was the portraiture of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as a legitimate advocate of Islam by some section of the world media and some others even though the fact is that the outfit is nothing to do with Islam and its tenets.
It reviewed the roots of the problem of Islamophobia including the freedom to assault Islam in the West as a form of free speech.
The report said the Western media during the period carried enormous media attacks on certain Islamic matters such as the wearing of "hijab."
Furthermore, the report noted some positive approaches toward Islamophobia in the West by condemning harsh rhetoric from the far right groups bent on hating Muslims.
It urged international cooperation to curb Islamophobia and to stand behind the universal principles of peaceful coexistence and tolerance.
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