Muslim leaders, gathering for a major summit in Cairo, will on Thursday call for the world to adopt anti-hate legislation to fight Islamophobia, reported local media.
A draft final statement of the summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) recommends imposing a global binding ban on fanaticism, discrimination and hatred on religious or ethnic grounds, said the Egyptian state-run newspaper al-Ahram.
The OIC leaders are to endorse the statement at the end of the summit later Thursday, added the paper.
The call comes four months after violent protests erupted across the Muslim world against an anti-Islam video privately produced in the United States.
The final statement of the summit, which began Wednesday, is also to urge the Syrian opposition to get engaged in a "serious dialogue" with government officials who have not been “directly involved” in a clampdown on the uprising, reported the al-Shorouk newspaper.
The paper quoted the draft as calling on Syria's National Coalition opposition grouping to "expedite the formation of a transitional government representative" of all Syrians.
Syria is not attending the summit as the OIC suspended its membership last year to protest President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on the opposition and rebels fighting to overthrow him.
The conferees are to express backing to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Mali against Islamist militants, reported al-Shorouk.
However, the final statement is expected to make no mention of France's military intervention in Mali.
France began airstrikes against Islamist insurgents in Mali in January, after they began advancing south toward the capital Bamako from their northern strongholds.
French and Malian forces have driven the rebels out of the main urban areas they had controlled for nine months, but the insurgents remain active in the desert hinterland.
The 57-member OIC is the Muslim world's biggest bloc. The summit is its first in Egypt since the organization was created in 1969.