Maldives foreign minister Abdulla Shahid with PM Modi
India’s strategically located neighbour in the Indian Ocean, Maldives, has come to its rescue before an increasingly hostile OIC.
Malé told the OIC in an address this week that singling out India for Islamophobia would not just be factually incorrect but also detrimental to religious harmony in South Asia.
Malé further declared that it wasn’t going to support any action by OIC which singled out India.
For India, the statement coming out of the OIC member-state is very reassuring at a a time the organisation, which describes itself as the collective voice of the Muslim world, has stepped up attacks on India over not just developments in J&K but also the alleged discrimination against Muslims.
The Maldives Permant Representative in New York, Thilmeeza Hussain, said that while her country stood firmly against Islamophobia, xenophobia or any form of violence to promote political or any other agenda, it also believed targeting a specific country will be like side-stepping the real issue.
“In this light, let