{"id":17859,"date":"2023-03-16T15:42:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T15:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/?p=17859"},"modified":"2023-07-02T19:02:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T19:02:25","slug":"the-secretary-general-message-on-the-international-day-to-combat-islamophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/?p=17859","title":{"rendered":"The Secretary-General Message on the International Day to Combat Islamophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16787\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16787 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Antonio-Guterres.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Antonio-Guterres.jpg 800w, https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Antonio-Guterres-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Antonio-Guterres-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio Guterres secretary general sg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>15 March 2023\/HORNA-Vienna<\/p>\n<p>On this International Day to Combat Islamophobia, we focus attention \u2013 and call for action \u2013 to stamp out the poison of anti-Muslim hatred.<br \/>\nThe world\u2019s nearly 2 billion Muslims reflect humanity in all its magnificent diversity.<br \/>\nBut they often face bigotry and prejudice for no other reason than their faith.<br \/>\nBeyond structural, institutional discrimination and the wholesale stigmatization of Muslim communities, Muslims suffer personal attacks, hateful rhetoric, and scapegoating.<br \/>\nWe see some of the worst impacts in the triple discrimination against Muslim women because of their gender, ethnicity, and faith.<br \/>\nThe growing hate that Muslims face is not an isolated development: it is part of the resurgence of ethno-nationalism, neo-Nazi white supremacist ideologies, and violence targeting vulnerable populations including Muslims, Jews, some minority Christian communities and others.<br \/>\nDiscrimination diminishes us all. And it is incumbent on all of us to stand up against it.<br \/>\nWe must strengthen our defenses by pushing for policies that fully respect human rights and protect religious and cultural identities.<br \/>\nWe must recognize diversity as richness and ramp up political, cultural, and economic investments in social cohesion.<br \/>\nAnd we must confront bigotry by working to tackle the hate that spreads like wildfire across the internet.<br \/>\nFor well over a millennium, Islam\u2019s message of peace, compassion, and grace has inspired people the world over.<br \/>\nEvery great faith and tradition summons the imperatives of tolerance, respect, and mutual understanding.<br \/>\nAt the heart, we are dealing with universal values: they animate the United Nations Charter and lie at the core of our quest for justice, human rights, and peace.<br \/>\nToday and every day, let us strive to realize these values and counter the forces of division by reaffirming our common humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 March 2023\/HORNA-Vienna On this International Day to Combat Islamophobia, we focus attention \u2013 and call for action \u2013 to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17861,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17859\/revisions\/17861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}