Racism is hating someone or denying services to someone gratuitously, because of his or her race. Islam is not a race, and there are Muslims of all races. Islam is a belief system. If the UN goes for this, and it very well may, it will classify analysis of how that belief system incites some of those who believe in it to violence as “racism” and “Islamophobia.” But this analysis is not gratuitous dislike for or discrimination against anyone; it is simply an attempt to discover the root causes of jihad terrorism.
The freedom of speech, and free societies in general, will be lost to this kind of muddled thinking, which is really an attempt to force non-Muslim countries to accept Sharia blasphemy restrictions on criticism of Islam.
“OIC urges UN to tackle Islamophobia, declare it a form of racism,” Express Tribune, March 23, 2019:
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Saturday urged the UN Secretary General to convene a special session of the UN General Assembly to declare Islamophobia as a form of racism and to assign a special rapporteur for monitoring and combating the menace in the western countries.
The Emergency Meeting of the OIC Executive Committee, convened in Istanbul, also strongly condemned the “horrendous and despicable Islamophobic terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand”.
The meeting concluded with a unanimous call that the OIC must play a proactive role in countering demonisation and denigration of Islam and Muslims and adopt a comprehensive strategy in this regard, Radio Pakistan reported.
A final communiqué, issued at the conclusion of the conference, appreciated the New Zealand government for its unequivocal condemnation of the terrorist attacks. It called upon all member states to respect the freedom of religion of all Muslims and not to deny them the right to exercise their civil and cultural rights.
All presumptions of guilt or attributions of potential crimes, extremism and terrorism to ordinary Muslims were also firmly rejected….
The foreign minister said that the rise in Islamophobia in the western countries and India had morphed into violent expression of this abhorrent manifestation of racism. “The international media must refrain from propagating narratives of stigmatisation of Muslims and their negative stereotyping,” he emphasised.
The foreign minister called upon the global Muslim community to douse fire with water, falsehood with truth, bigotry with understanding and intolerance with compassion….