Healing the cartoon row wounds

A two-day conference on Islamophobia jointly organised by the OIC General Secretariat and Wilton Park, a UK based conference centre working closely with the British Foreign Office, began 2 May 2006. This is the first international conference organised by the OIC on the issue as part of its efforts to counter Islamophobia in implementation of its Ten-Year Program of Action to Face the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century, which was adopted by the landmark 3rd Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference held in Mecca in December 2005.

OIC: Press Release, 2 May 2006: Inaugurating Wilton Park Conference on Islamophobia. OIC Secretary General suggested historical conciliation between West and Muslim world http://www.oic-un.org/document_report/OIC_annual_islamophobia_2007.doc

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