Identifying countries that shows the most concerning trend of Islamophobia.
Through Resolutions No. 34/47-POL on Combating Islamophobia and Eliminating Hatred and Prejudice against Islam, the OIC Member States “Requests the OIC Islamophobia Observatory to prepare a list of ‘countries of concern’ where Islamophobic policies and actions are prevalent. ” (OP-22) Accordingly, the OIC Observatory has been working to identify countries that shows the most concerning trend of Islamophobia during the period under review, thereafter being referred as ‘hotspots’. The Observatory manages to secure 10 (ten) countries which require particular attention in term of Islamophobia, namely: France, India, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Germany, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and Australia. In this report, the Observatory would pick some hotspots by showing how, more or less, the Islamophobia had developed at top speed during the reviewed months.