The Organization of the Islamic Conference, a collection of virulent Jew-haters and Islamic supremacists responsible for supporting and encouraging the global jihad through “diplomatic” means, is holding a conference in Eurabia to denounce the “rising tide of Islamophobia:” Islamophobia Focus of OIC’s London Conference.

JEDDAH, 2 May 2006 — A major international conference on how to check the rising tide of Islamophobia in Europe begins in London today. It is being described as the first of its kind on the issue.

The two-day conference, under the theme, “Challenging Stereotypes in Europe and the Islamic World: Working Together for Constructive Policies and Partnerships,” is being organized by the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

The conference brings together eminent scholars, politicians, journalists, nongovernmental organizations and diplomats from both the Western and Islamic worlds. In the aftermath of the cartoon controversy, OIC Secretary-General Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, who will inaugurate the conference today, repeatedly emphasized and even castigated the rising cases of Islamophobia and had called for major conferences to discuss the issue.

Many in the Muslim world believe the publication of the blasphemous cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, in a Danish newspaper in September last year, and an ensuing controversy earlier this year when other mostly European papers re-published the images, were a result of the deep resentment toward Islam harbored by a huge number of Westerners, especially Europeans.

Tackling Islamophobia was also one of the issues mentioned in the OIC’s 10-year action program to face the challenges of the 21st century, which was adopted at the Makkah Summit in December last year.

First step in the “action plan”—make sure the infidels are afraid to criticize Islam.