The Universal Justice Network, of which IHRC is a founder member, has written to all the leaders of the member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation urging them to step up and discharge their responsibility to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Rebuking their inaction so far, the letter reminds them of the founding purpose of the OIC in the wake of a Zionist arson attack on Masjid al-Aqsa in Jerusalem, the third holiest mosque in the world.

At the time of writing over 42,000 people have been butchered, the majority of them women and children, all under the eyes of a watchful but largely acquiescent or directly complicit international community.

The mass pogrom of a predominantly Muslim population is taking place at the hands of an occupation regime described by the International Court of Justice as apartheid and illegal.

“If the industrial scale slaughter of Muslims is not sufficient cause for the OIC to act, then it should declare itself unfit for purpose and disband”, says the letter.

It also warns the leaders that their inaction is endangering other Muslims around the world: “The failure to act against the rampant Islamophobia that produces violence against Muslims encourages the perpetrators because it sends them the message that Muslim lives are cheap and that no one is prepared to defend them.”

The OIC has 57 members including Palestine.

The Universal Justice Network seeks to bring together justice-oriented NGOs from around the globe in order to work for a just and peaceful world. In addition to the Islamic Human Rights Commission, it has another secretariat, Citizens International, based in Malaysia.

The full letter is available to read here.

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