Anwar, Erdogan condemn Quran burning, hate speech

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan strongly condemned the recent burnings of the Quran and populist discourse that incites hate speech against Islam.

In a joint statement issued Wednesday after the leaders' meeting in New York on the margins of the 78th United Nations (UN) General Assembly, they also expressed concern over the emergence of a "new form of racism" characterised by xenophobia, negative profiling and stereotyping of Muslims.