Muslim Leaders to Meet in Makkah(barforama)

Arab News ^ | 25, October, 2005 | Siraj Wahab

[mdittmar]

JEDDAH, 25 October 2005 — World leaders will meet to tackle the tough issues facing the Muslim world in a two-day summit beginning in Makkah on Dec. 7.

The Extraordinary Islamic Summit, being held under the mantle of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, offers Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah his first opportunity after ascending the throne to address the leaders of the 57 Muslim countries. The summit follows a September meeting in Makkah where many of the world’s leading Muslim scholars and intellectuals helped formulate a new vision for the OIC and to set the agenda for the prestigious summit.

Among their recommendations for discussion were Islamic solidarity and joint Islamic action, creation of a poverty fund, institutionalization of Islamic good governance, conflict prevention and confidence-building, terrorism, dialogue and civilization, Islamophobia, political and human rights of Muslim minorities in non-OIC countries. The scholars and intellectuals had also called for the restructuring of the OIC.

The reinvigorated organization hopes to give the Muslim world a chance to speak in a powerful, unified voice and have the best minds come up with the best resolutions to difficult challenges, from Iraq and Palestine to economic and educational issues.

King Abdullah extended an invitation during last year’s Haj to convene a summit, the purpose being to review the current state of the Ummah and to explore new horizons for the evolution of a vision that would enable the Muslim world to face up to the challenges of the present day and of tomorrow.

With the clout of its members behind it, the OIC can play a leading role not only in defusing volatile issues, such as terrorism and Iraq, but in ensuring that Muslim positions on global issues get a fair hearing, as well.

“We at OIC are trying hard to represent moderation, to represent the real values of Islam, which is peaceful coexistence, and which has been so throughout the history of Islam,” OIC Secretary-General Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told PBS in a recent interview. “It’s enshrined in the holy books of Islam that you accept the other; you respect the other, particularly the other Abrahamic religions, Judaism and Christianity. This is part of the Islamic doctrine, as it has been all throughout, and this has been the practice of Muslims for centuries under different nations.”

Professor Ihsanoglu said the OIC will seek resolutions to problems that don’t create more ills than the ones they sought to cure.

“There was tyranny, but no terrorists,” Professor Ihsanoglu said of Iraq under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. “Now, Iraq has become the focus of terrorists, and this movement was not there during the previous regime. In a way, this unhealthy development will breed more terrorists if we don’t proceed in a rational way to address these matters.”

Based in Jeddah, the OIC is the world’s largest Islamic organization. Founded in 1969, it now represents 57 Muslim nations. Its mandate is to increase political, economic and social cooperation among Muslim nations. It also fights religious extremism and promotes understanding between the West and the Islamic world.

OIC spokesperson Atta Al-Mannan Bakheet told the Saudi Press Agency yesterday that the summit will be preceded by a preparatory meeting of OIC foreign ministers on Dec. 6.

[mdittmar]

“There was tyranny, but no terrorists,” Professor Ihsanoglu said of Iraq under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.

Really?,guess that depends on what your definition of a terrorist is.

Kurdish civilians stand beside scores of coffins that hold the remains of some 500 Iraqi Kurds from the Barzani tribe during a ceremony in Arbil, northern Iraq. The human remains were brought from a mass grave discovered in al-Muthanna province in southern Iraq. Iraqi forces, commanded by former dictator Saddam Hussein are accused of the 1983 massacre of the Kurdish tribe of Mullah Mustafa Barzani, the founding father of Iraqi Kurdistan. Saddam's regime allegedly rounded up around 8,000 men from the tribe in northern Iraq took them into the desert and executed them.(AFP)

[ncountylee]

....57 Muslim countries....

Yikes, we have a lot of work ahead.

[Dog Gone]

Since most of the terrorists in Iraq are not Iraqis, it seems to me that the source of trouble is not Iraq.

If you focus on the wrong problem, the probability of coming up with the right solution is pretty small.

[tet68]

political and human rights of Muslim minorities in non-OIC countries.

Hmmmmm, no mention of political and human rights
of Non-Muslim minorities in OIC countries.

[leadhead]

What is this ? The Goathumpers Union having a meeting?

Or, is it the Association of Dirt Eating Countries who keep their population mezmerized with tales of the here after so they won't notice how they're being abused by their own now?

[AmericanArchConservative]

P.R.O.P.* PING!

Hmmm, and WHO founded the OIC in 1969...?

And what were it's initially stated, and never-retracted goals?

And how have those goals been pursued in the interim? And by whom?

SO many questions...

...so many unpleasant answers.

A.A.C.

"The Final Crusade has commenced!"

[LoudRepublicangirl]

I guess times were better for the muslim world when only Kurds, Jews and Christians were being slaughtered. Welcome to our world!

[Fred Nerks]

Ok, I'm fine with that, all those sunni and shiite scum together, let's hope they have a huge fall-out (nice pun?) and declare a fatwa on each other.

The reason they can mouth off about Iraq is because the sunni were killing the shia and we all know don't we that sunni think shia are lower than dogs and don't deserve to live...allah akbar!

[gaspar]

The OIC is a cave of the winds. In its history very little good has come of its meetings. Lots of bla-bla-bla.

[Texas WOP]

The judicious application of a dozen JDAMs should bring a satisfying conclusion.

[mdittmar]

The Kurds that were slaughtered were Muslims, just not the right kind.

We are at war with some crazy beliefs.

Religious wars will never end.

There is no "live and let live" in the Muslim world.

[QQQQ]

Only fully loaded B-52...

[quantim]

World leaders will meet to tackle the tough issues facing the Muslim world

Sometimes there are no words.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Prediction:

as with all other meetings where muslim leaders get together to discuss things, there will be a lot of talking and arguing, a few insults involving the words "camel" and "dog" will be shouted by the usual suspects, they will solve nothing or produce even a plan to solve something, the joos and americans will be blamed for everything wrong in the middle-east, and then go back to their hotel rooms to bang some european prostitutes.

[Candor7]

While they are all in the same place, psyops should bomb them with partially cooked pork sausage, and spray them with pigs blood from spray aircraft. They will be tainted ever after and 57 countries will lose their leaders !!

There is altogether too much reverence for these camel porking neanderthals.

Of course Iraq had terrorism prior to US invasion. Ask the Kurds who were gassed, or the shiites whose religious festivals had been outlawed for years!

I f they thought Saddam was so great, why didn't they
invite him to their respective nations before he was apprehended? Simple. He was a wild , maniac terrorist, ditrusted by his fellow religious despots.

[jackson29]

small stuff

they are all bass ackward third nations for a reason ~ their stupid religion keeps them down

their stupid leaders keep them in the 7th century

Solution:

let them learn to read and view the net!

let their teenagers listen to marilyn manson

send them the (dime cigar) $400 basic macintosh

hell! gift them to their schools.....GIVE them macintosh labs

that will mess them bad! access to the world, education and knowledge will implode their nations

all we have to do is be nice and generous.


trust me , they are not a problem

[thoughtomator]

57 nations and not one is even remotely civilized.

We may have a lot of work to do, but not nearly as much as they do.

[Valin]

You remind me of me when I was young and stupid.

[ApplegateRanch]

Did I hear someone say they needed Crusaders?

[AmericanArchConservative]

>>Hmmmmm, no mention of political and human rights
of Non-Muslim minorities in OIC countries.<<

What? Their black-hearted moon-rock god is letting some of the dirty kuffar live...for now.

Are you saying that isn't enough?

/extreme sarcasm

A.A.C.

"The Final Crusade has commenced!"

[LoudRepublicangirl]

There is no "live and let live" in the Muslim world.


That's why it's sad that our troops are being forced to fight a conventional war with a non-conventional foe.