[caption id="attachment_704" align="alignleft" width="1200"] Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkiye. Photo: Collected[/caption] If we act as one heart and one wrist, no one in the world would dare to attack sanctities of Muslims, Turkish President Erdogan tells a gathering of Pakistani expats in US. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkiye, has emphasized the importance of taking action as a group to combat growing racism and Islamophobia in Western countries. "The vile attack on our sacred book, the Quran, in Sweden on the first day of Eid al Adha reveals the terrifying dimensions of Islamophobia," he said in a video sent to 46th Annual Convention of the Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America on Saturday. Erdogan stressed on the responsibility of all Muslims to prevent a recurrence.

"All of us, all Muslims, have a great responsibility to ensure that such acts, to which we react very strongly in Türkiye, do not recur. If we act as one heart and one wrist, no one in the world would dare to attack the sanctities of Muslims," he said.

Erdogan also acknowledged the strong bond between Türkiye and Pakistan as two brotherly nations, highlighting exceptional relations between the two countries. Following the burning of a Quran on Eid al Adha in front of a mosque in Stockholm by a guy who Swedish media identified as an immigrant from Iraq who was a Christian, anger has increased in Muslim nations. Sweden gave its approval to the law. But subsequently, the nation's authorities launched an inquiry into the assailant. Sweden experienced tremendous opposition from Muslim countries, including Christian minority, in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Thousands of people demonstrated in Pakistan and Iraq, Morocco recalling its ambassador to Sweden, Iran delaying the appointment of a new ambassador to Sweden, and other nations condemned Stockholm for the move. SOURCE: TRTWORLD