What will the solidarity registry achieve for Muslims?

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) led efforts in the UN to set March 15 as the International Day to Combat Islamophobia. It is unlikely to produce the desired impact without further steps to incentivize and strengthen this initiative. To institutionalize the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, The March15^th Forum is establishing a solidarity registry to record the names of participants organizing and supporting various high-visibility events aimed at effectively increasing awareness at all levels about combating Islamophobia.

The registry data will be made available for public dissemination, for anyone to check who is and who is not onboard in the struggle to combat Islamophobia. This has the potential to create a market based competitive environment for those combating Islamophobia.

While crafting the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, the framers enshrined within the declaration a mechanism to combat Islamophobia, requiring the participants to “organize and support high-visibility events aimed at effectively increasing awareness at all levels about curbing Islamophobia.”

Participation in high-visibility events will set apart the entities with us (commemorating the International Day to Combat Islamophobia).

It is public knowledge that corporate private sectors profit in the billions of dollars in the Muslim countries, the United States, Canada, the U.K., and the European Union. Some of those billions are remitted to fund Islamophobia. Like the US sanctions on Islamophobia, the corporate private sectors must prove that Islamophobia does not play a part in their corporate social responsibilities.

What better way to test the corporate private sectors than by checking their participation in high-visibility events to combat Islamophobia?