I foolishly thought the OIC had dropped their goals at the UN to make it a crime to criticize anything Islamic. Now, it appears they negotiated a partnership to do this with the U.S. State Department! This is according tothe OIC's own news agency, the International Islamic News Agency:
During the next few months, Washington plans to host a coordination meeting to discuss with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) how to implement resolution no. 16/18 on combating defamation of religions, and how to prevent stereotypes depicting religions and their followers; as well as disseminating religious tolerance, which has been endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council last March, in agreement with Western countries. The resolution was adopted after lengthy discussions held between the OIC and countries in which the phenomenon of Islamophobia is in the rise.
The U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had announced the intention of the U.S. State Department to organize a coordination meeting during her participation in the meeting which she co-chaired with the OIC Secretary General, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Istanbul on 15 July 2011. The meeting issued a joint statement emphasizing the dire need for the implementation of resolution 16/18.
According to informed sources in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the two sides, in addition to other European parties, will hold a number of specialized meetings of experts in law and religion in order to finalize the legal aspect on how to better implement the UN resolution..."
Naturally, the article didn't mention the killing and harm done everyday by those multiply attacks carried out by Islamist extremists worldwide. If the OIC get their way (with the help of the U.S.?) it would be impossible, possibly criminal, for anyone to complain about anything Islamic, including those attacks.
THE OIC is the world largest Islamist inter-government agency. It's Saudi based and backed and seeks a greater role in influencing the world. Recently, it demanded a seat at the UN Security Council. It is considered by some a caliphate in the making.
What is not known, at the moment, is if the U.S. role in all this is accurately described by the OIC's new agency.
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Also see:
UN Resolution 16/18 adopted WITHOUT a vote in April
My other posts on the OIC
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