Turkish official: West ignores their own norms facing Muslims

RELIGIONS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – The Speaker of the Turkish Parliament, Mustafa Sentop, said on Sunday that Western countries ignore their own norms and values when it comes to Muslims.

Sentop, as Anadolu reported, made his comment during his meeting with his Algerian counterpart, Ibrahim Boughali, on the fringe of the 17th Conference of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States in Algiers.

Sentop praised the “important” conference, which deals with the common problems of the Islamic world.

He said that 400 million Muslims who live in non-Islamic countries around the world are subjected to systematic or individual violations of human rights.

Islamophobia, he pointed out, is a growing phenomenon, as are xenophobia and racial discrimination. Indeed, Islamophobia has almost become official policy in some countries.