Muslim foreign ministers at the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Malaysia have drafted their own resolution, calling for the US to be “evicted” (their words) from Iraq, and for the UN to map Iraq’s future—so they can get to work turning Iraq into another third world hellhole, just like all of their own countries.

Meanwhile, the OIC briefly touched on the disastrous conditions that prevail throughout the Islamic world, before getting down to the much more serious business of blaming it all on the US and Israel: OIC meet paints bleak picture of Islamic world.

OIC secretary general Abdelouahed Belkeziz warned that the “dangers” confronting Muslims were “unprecedented in (their) contemporary history.”

Belkeziz said “Muslims are filled with feelings of impotence and frustration as some of their countries are occupied, others are under sanctions, a third group threatened and a fourth group accused of sponsoring terrorism,” he said.

“Muslims abroad are considered with suspicion, besieged, deprived of their rights.”

Belkeziz also pointed to the economic weakness of Islamic states, many of which depend heavily on oil revenue that can no longer meet the needs of their growing populations, causing rising unemployment and poverty.

“Our economic conditions are fragile and weak compared to large economic blocs and we cannot achieve minimum economic coordination,” he said.

The world seemed to have forgotten about the high values of Islam after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, stressing only the violence perpetrated by extremists, Belkeziz added, deploring the inability of politicians and the media to correct this image.

“Islam itself is being accused in its culture, civilisation and message. Our religion is a religion of peace and tolerance… it stresses the sanctity of human life, it upholds the noble values and calls for welfare.

“Our media is unable to confront the false accusations and joint Islamic political action is unable to confer to us protection and pride,” he said.