OIC: Islamophobia Causes Terrorism

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Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 4:55 pm PDT • Views: 453

The virulently antisemitic, terror-enabling Organization of the Islamic Conference issued a “report” today that says if the West continues to exercise free speech, many more Muslims will become violent terrorists. If we keep criticizing them, they’ll kill us, and it will be our own fault.

Almost in so many words. ‘Islamophobia’ a threat to world security, say Muslim states.

DAKAR (AFP) - The world’s Muslim countries warned Wednesday that an “alarming” rise in anti-Islamic insults and attacks in the West has become a threat to international security.

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) called on Europe and America to take stronger measures against ‘Islamophobia’ in a report prepared for a summit of the group’s 57 members in Dakar on Thursday and Friday.

The report by a special OIC monitoring group said the organisation was struggling to get the West to understand that Islamophobia “has dangerous implications on global peace and security” and to convince western powers to do more.

Islamic leaders have long warned that perceptions linking Muslims to terrorism, especially since the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda attacks on the United States, would make Muslims more radical.

But believe it or not, there is actually a “humanist” organization that sees through this nonsense and is calling on the United Nations to stand up for real human rights (good luck with that): Islamic states seek world freedom curbs: humanists.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Islamic states are bidding to use the United Nations to limit freedom of expression and belief around the world, the global humanist body IHEU told the U.N.’s Human Rights Council on Wednesday.

In a statement submitted to the 48-nation Council, the IHEU said the 57 members of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) were also aiming to undermine the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

“The Islamic states see human rights exclusively in Islamic terms, and by sheer weight of numbers this view is becoming dominant within the U.N. system. The implications for the universality of human rights are ominous,” it said.

This wouldn’t be a Reuters report, of course, if they didn’t twist themselves into semantic knots to justify the Islamic thuggery:

But this argument is rejected by Islamic states, who say outright criticism — and especially lampooning — of religion violates the rights of believers to enjoy respect.

Trying to parse that weird argument is a guaranteed headache-inducer.

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