Islamic conference wants global caliphate, and we are the "Islamophobes"

The Parliamentary Union of OIC (PUIC) on Wednesday, Jan 18 condemned the Islamophobia running rampant in the West, and issues a veiled call for a new global caliphate.

So what else is new from the world of Islam?


From The National Jan 19 by Kareem Shaheen

PUIC delegates condemn the West's Islamophobia

ABU DHABI // Delegates at a major Islamic summit here condemned sectarian violence in Muslim countries and the Islamophobia that it says is plaguing the West.
They also called for the immediate lifting of economic sanctions on Islamic countries, including Iran, and accused the Israeli Mossad of orchestrating the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists.

"It is essential to work on halting the tide of Islamophobia," Abdulaziz al Ghurair, the speaker of the UAE Federal National Council and head of the executive committee of the Parliamentary Union of OIC member countries (PUIC), said yesterday.

"Islam with its principles and values has become a target that is mixed with terrorism in a lot of Western circles," he said.

Could it be that it is those very principles and values which has caused this mixing? 

But some of the resolutions adopted highlighted the gulf that exists between the collective demands of Muslim parliaments and the actual policies of individual nations, as well as the limited reach of the supposed representatives of Muslim people.

If only Muslims were united under one banner...

Indeed, delegates say they often do not have the power to issue decisions and that their role is limited to proposing solutions to the leaders of Islamic countries.

"We have collective issues, but there are also specificities for each country that must be kept in mind," said Zeinab Radwan, the deputy speaker of the Egyptian parliament.

...maybe a caliphate would do the trick.

Mr al Ghurair said that Western attempts to interfere in the Muslim world under the guise of protecting the region's Christians were "a natural extension of Islamophobia", a result of a "lack of Western trust and knowledge of the tolerant reality of Islam".

So since we know nothing of Islam, we are Islamophobic, and thus should not try to protect the regions Christians.

Oohkay.....

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