Ms Weiss, you have been observing Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for many years now, an organization unknown to most Westerners. What is the OIC really, and what are its goals?
Deborah Weiss: First, I want to thank you for inviting me to interview with Citizen Times. I appreciate your interest in this important and under-reported topic.
The OIC is the second largest international organization in the world, behind only the UN and it is the largest Islamic organization in the world, claiming to represent 1.5 billion Muslims around the globe. It’s comprised of 56 UN Member States plus the Palestinian Authority, and they tend to vote together as a block. Essentially, it is the largest voting block in the UN.
It is an
Islamist supremacist organization, which has the ultimate vision of achieving a worldwide Islamic State which recognizes no territorial boundaries, is ruled by a Caliph, and governs by Sharia law.
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In 1990, many of the OIC countries abstained from voting for the UNDHR, claiming that it does not take into account the cultural and religious context of Islamic countries. Instead, they proffered an alternative, called the
Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam. Though the OIC countries claim that this is a viable alternative to the UNDHR, in fact it really is
not a human rights document in the true sense of the term.
First, it is not a religion neutral document, but asserts
the superiority of Islam over all other religions. In so doing, it seeks what is in the best interest of the Islamic Ummah rather than the rights of the individual.
To the extent that it appears to list individual rights, all of the enumerated rights are expressly
limited to the confines of Sharia law. Because Sharia law severely restricts many of the rights listed in the
Cairo Declaration, what the
Cairo Declaration gives with one hand, it takes with the other and they really aren’t rights at all.
However, in reality, it would always wind up being applied more often to Islam than to other religions because you just don’t see a situation where
Jews, Christians or Buddhists go running to court if someone criticizes or insults their religion. Generally, they ignore it or answer back in a non-legal and non-violent way, like writing op-eds or letters to the editor to get their counter-view expressed.
Unfortunately, the pattern appears to be that it’s primarily Muslims who are filing lawsuits, asking for protective legislation from speech against their religion, and committing violence in response to cartoons, videos or otherwise “offensive speech.”
I want to be clear that I am not saying all Muslims are doing this. I am merely saying that when this conduct occurs, it occurs within the Muslim community because it is
part of their religion not to be permitted to criticize it. It is also
part of their “religion” that non-Muslims should submit to this idea, which is tantamount to compliance with Islamic blasphemy codes.
Well, Europe is much farther advanced in the process of being Islamized. Parts of Europe have
“no-go zones” which are Muslim enclaves that govern themselves by Sharia law. Many times police are afraid to enter those zones for fear of being attacked.
Additionally, there are parts of Europe where large numbers of
Muslims just violate laws and the police just stand by and do nothing. For example, in London and France, sometimes large gatherings of Muslims will get together and pray in huge numbers outside blocking traffic in violation of zoning laws.
As I mentioned earlier, most EU countries already have some kind of laws providing deterrent punishments for “hate speech” or the like.
People think it can’t happen in America,
but we are just around the corner. All it takes is the passage of hate speech laws and five Supreme Court judges who believe this is constitutional, even if they are wrong. People need to be vigilant about keeping their freedom. We are the last country left on earth that truly has it.
