Wednesday 18/June/2025 – 12:30 PM
The Islamic Research Academy in Al -Azhar Al -Sharif confirms, on the international day to combat hate speech, which falls on June 18 every year, that this hateful discourse is a direct threat to community peace, humanitarian standards, and feeding violence and discrimination with all its forms; This makes his confrontation with a common moral and humanitarian responsibility.
Islamic research on the international day to combat hate speech: a threat that threatens peace and requires a firm world stand.
The synod stresses that preserving the dignity of a person, regardless of his religion, color, or sweat- is a duty that does not accept complacency, and that the increase in manifestations of hatred, especially against Muslims in a number of Western countries predicts growing dangers, in light of the transformation of some media and sophisticated platforms to the platforms of this The foundations of living and peace are undermined among peoples.
The complex condemns this remarkable escalation of the speech of hatred against Muslims in these countries, and the accompanying campaigns of distortion, misinformation and promotion of the negative stereotype that reflects on the policies of exclusion, discrimination and violence against members of the Muslim communities, and lead to stripping them of their most basic rights, and depriving them of equality and respect in their societies, Stressing that these practices contradict the principles of international law, and violate the moral values that are supposed to form pluralism and religious freedom.
The synod is also very concerned about what was revealed by the report of the Arab Center for the Development of Social Media on the unprecedented upwardness in the hate speech against the Palestinians through communication platforms; As more than 12 million inflammatory publications in the Hebrew language have documented during the year 2024 AD, they included explicit calls for violence, healing and racial discrimination, in targeting a systematic system that is inconsistent with the simplest human and legal values.
In the face of this crisis reality, the synagogue indicates that facing the speech of hatred, especially against the Palestinians and Muslims in some Western countries- requires a firm global position that rises to the level of principles that the countries calling for democracy and freedoms have long called for, some of which have become a collusion with silence or the conflict of this rhetoric, Some of its media and sophisticated platforms contribute to its systematic promotion, in light of the remarkable rise in these squares of the extremist right currents, and the increasing adoption of exclusion and discrimination policies; This requires a serious review of these policies, and stopped the conscience or direct support of any speech that incites human hatred because of his religion or identity.
