UNGA deems Islamophobia ‘emerging terror threat’
July 3, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), in an initiative by Pakistan to recognise Islamophobia as an emerging threat, has unanimously adopted the revised Global Counter Terrorism Strategy (GCTS) calling upon the international community to take measures to address new terrorist threats on the basis of “xenophobia, racism and Islamophobia”. “The initiative for the recognition of Islamophobia as an emerging terrorist threat under the GCTS was spearheaded by Pakistan, together with other OIC (Organisation of Islamic Cooperation) countries,” the ex-paratrooper, was accused of murdering Mr Wray and Mr McKinney on Bloody Sunday on January 30 1972, when troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in Derry’s Bogside, killing 13 people.