Posted on 05/16/2007 6:29:51 PM PDT by Cornpone
Pakistan’s president issues warning in opening address to the annual summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. One proposal made is to deploy an Islamic peacekeeping force to Iraq. In the meantime Musharraf is facing rising street protests in favour of an independent judiciary and calls for investigation into yesterday’s deadly attack in Peshawar.
Islamabad (AsiaNews/Agencies) – A peacekeeping force with troops from Islamic countries under a UN mandate should be deployed in Iraq to stabilise the country is one of the proposals made yesterday, the first day of the 34th annual summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) now underway in Islamabad, Pakistan.
In his opening speech to the three-day conference, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf urged the representatives of the 57 member-states to reform the OIC to stop the Islamic world from sliding into obscurantism compared to the West.
“We must face the fact that the disparity with the Western world is increasing, not decreasing,” General Musharraf said. “We have to reject extremism and terrorism and go on the path of socio-economic development,” he added, calling for the organisation to be restructured into a “futuristic and dynamic” player in world affairs.
Musharraf, whose sincerity in fighting terrorism has been questioned, is currently under considerable pressures from different fronts. On the one hand, he has been harshly criticised for removing from office Supreme Court Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on false corruption charges; on the other, a suicide bomber killed 25 people in Peshawar, not far from the border with Afghanistan.
The conference in the Pakistani capital, which ends tomorrow, will also deal with an array of issues ranging from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the strife in Somalia and Afghanistan to the conflict over Jammu and Kashmir and the peace process between India and Pakistan.
The conference is also expected to express support in its final communiqué for Iran’s right to develop its civilian nuclear programme.
He could always blame American policies and win a few polls while he’s at it.
It is like a mass of vampires sitting around discussing the merits of drinking blood....
$5 says one of the problem issues will be “Israel.”
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A very safe bet! The issue is that Israel is a DEMOCRACY, yes, the D-WORD that the Islamic dictators and rulers hate. That is WHY they hate Israel. Israel is a giant signboard advertising the success and merits of freedom and democracy. Those scumbag Islamics cannot stand the light of day that Israel shines on their stone-age repression of their peoples.
let’s grease the slide
Actually I was suggesting that he take the Ron Paul route and blame us but Mushareff seems to be placing blame where it belongs.
putting more muslims into iraq would only increase the problem. will everyone please read future jihad by walid pharis. some eyeopening info there
Actually his suggestion isn’t a bad one.
The UN Directed Islamic peace force moves into Iraq and we move out - into Iran and Syria. They can pick up the pieces after we pulverize those lunatics and then move out.
Ron Paul (who I have voted for, before I was out of his district) made the worst argument for Jeffersonian isolation I have ever heard. But Mushareff is placing blame correctly you got that right.
“Stop Islamic world’s slide into obscurantism...”
WHY? Why would we want to stop the destruction of a death cult ideology? Obscurity is precisely where Islam belongs.
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