Hyderabad, Feb. 1 -- The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) called on the governments of European countries to take strict punitive measures against those who insult the Quran by burning copies in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Denmark.

This came in a statement by the organization- which includes 57 countries - after an emergency meeting at its headquarters in Jeddah on Tuesday, Saudi Arabia, days after copies of the Quran were burned in incidents that sparked widespread condemnation from Arab and Islamic countries.

The organization in a statement said, that it held an extraordinary meeting of its executive committee in order to express the organization's unified position regarding the burning of copies of the Holy Quran in Sweden,...