Bat Ye’or: The OIC and the Modern Caliphate

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The world’s leading scholar on Islam in the West and Islamic anti-semitism, Bat Ye’or, has penned a seminal piece on the OIC in a recent American Thinker.

Read it and then read it again. Bookmark it. Much of what you see on the ground, the imposition of Islam on our public square and secular institutions, the attacks on free speech, the delegitimization of Israel, the dismantling of the West, is a result of the work of the OIC.

Understanding who and what the OIC is is critical to winning the war declared on the West. Americans need to understand who and what is behind seemingly innocuous but relentless actions of islamization. It is hardly innocuous, hardly random.

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Bat Ye’or is an international treasure. We owe Bat Ye’or an incalculable debt.

OIC and the Modern Caliphate By Bat Ye’or

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OICis a religious and political organization. Close to the Muslim World League of the Muslim Brotherhood, it shares the Brotherhood’s strategic and cultural vision: that of a universal religious community, the Ummah, based upon the Koran, the Sunna, and the canonical orthodoxy of shari’a. The OIC represents 56 countries and the Palestinian Authority (considered a state), the whole constituting the universal Ummah with a community of more than one billion three to six hundred million Muslims.
The OIC has a unique structure among nations and human societies. The Vatican and the various churches are de facto devoid of political power, even if they take part in politics, because in Christianity, as in Judaism, the religious and political functions have to be separated. Asian religions, too, do not represent systems that bring together religion, strategy, politics, and law within a single organizational structure.
Not only does the OIC enjoy unlimited power through the union and cohesion of all its bodies, but also to this it adds the infallibility conferred by religion. Bringing together 56 countries, including some of the richest in the world, it controls the lion’s share of global energy resources. The European Union (EU), far from anticipating the problems caused by such a concentration of power and investing in the diversification and autonomy of energy sources since 1973, acted to weaken America internationally in order to substitute for it the U.N., the OIC’s docile agent. In the hope of garnering a few crumbs of influence, the EU privileged a massive Muslim immigration into Europe, paid billions to the Mediterranean Union and Palestinian Authority, weakened the European states, undermined their unity, and wrapped itself in the flag of Palestinian justice, as though this would supply some protective system against the global jihad, which it endeavored to focus on Israel.
Religion as the main aspect of the OIC emerges from its language and its targets. It seems that the OIC is restoring in the 21st century the Caliphate, the supreme controlling body for all Muslims. In their Charter (2008), Member States confirm that their union and solidarity are inspired by Islamic values. They affirm their aim to reinforce within the international arena their shared interests and the promotion of Islamic values. They commit themselves to revitalizing the pioneering role of Islam in the world, increasing the prosperity of the member states, and — in contrast to to the European states — to ensure the defense of their national sovereignty and territorial integrity. They proclaim their support for Palestine with al-Quds Al Sharif, the Arabized name for Jerusalem, as its capital, and exhort each other to promote human rights, basic freedoms, the state of law (shari’a), and democracy according to their constitutional and legal system — in other words, compliance with shari’a.
They also undertake to stimulate noble Muslim values, to preserve their symbols and their shared heritage, and to defend the universality of the Islamic religion — simply put, the universal propagation of Islam (da’wa). They state that they are promoting women’s rights and encourage their active participation in all walks of life, in accordance with the laws of the Member States. They agree to inculcate Muslim children with Islamic values and to support Muslim minorities and communities outside the Member States in order to preserve their dignity and their cultural and religious identity.
The Charter’s strategic targets seek “[t]o ensure active participation of the Member States [of the OIC] in the global political, economic and social decision-making processes to secure their common interests” (I-5) and “[t]o promote and defend unified position on issues of common interest in international forums” (1-17).
Among its targets, the OIC Charter specifies the propagation, promotion, and preservation of Islamic teachings and values, the spread of Islamic culture, and the preservation of the Islamic heritage (I-11). Article I-12 promotes the protection and defense of the true image of Islam, the fight against its defamation, and the encouragement of dialogue between civilizations and religions. The other objectives deal with protecting inherent Islamic family values (I-14) and the preservation of rights, dignity, and religious and cultural identity of the Muslim communities and minorities in non-Member States (I-16). This issue points to the OIC authority over immigrants abroad and its pressure on the governments of the non-Muslim host countries through the channel of dialogue, including the Alliance of Civilizations, whose Report backs OIC programs, and interfaith and immigration networks.
The OIC supports all the jihadist movements considered to be resisting “foreign occupation,” including those in “occupied” Indian Kashmir, and condemns the “humiliation and oppression” of Muslims in India.
The Charter stipulates that the International Islamic Court of Justice shall become the Organization’s main legal body (Chap. X, Art. 14) and that “[t]he Independent Permanent Commission on Human Rights shall promote the civil, political, social and economic rights enshrined in the organization’s [OIC] covenants and declarations and in universally agreed human rights instruments, in conformity with Islamic values” (Art. 15). It implies that the covenants which do not conform with Islamic values will not be followed.
One can note that Sudanese President Omar al Bashir, accused (according to Western criteria of justice) of genocide committed in southern Sudan and Darfur, has not been troubled by the Islamic Court of Justice. His colleagues at the OIC do not consider him in any way a criminal and receive him with great respect, as does Turkish PM Erdogan.
The Islamic Court of Justice has an international mandate and could try foreigners, both Muslims and non-Muslims (blasphemers, apostates, resisters to jihad) who have broken the laws of shari’a anywhere. Moreover, the claim by the OIC to be the guardian and protector of Muslim immigrants living in all countries that are not members of the OIC implies an extension of its jurisdiction and political influence over all the Muslims of Europe, North and South America, and the other non-Member States. This situation exacerbates the danger incurred by non-religious European Muslims, whether atheists, apostates, or free thinkers.
Within its organization, the Charter presents characteristics similar to those of the EU; however, in terms of its spirit, functions, principles, and objectives, it is the EU’s very antithesis. Even if it employs the language of international organizations, the meaning of the words is different by their being rooted in the conceptual world of the Koran, which contradicts the basis of secular Western thought. Thus, Article 32-2 states, “The Council of Foreign Ministers [of OIC countries] shall recommend the rules of procedures of the Islamic Summit.” This implies an Islamic view and understanding on policy.
Such a combined political and religious institution is at the very outer rim of Western thinking, anchored as it is in the separation between politics and religion. Even if interference between the two fields has persisted, the principle of such separation has facilitated emancipation in the intellectual and political arenas from religious authority and the development of critical thought.
Present-day aspiration of the Ummah to submit to a caliphate which embodies a combined political-religious institution can only surprise the Westerner and highlight the gap that separates the two. Rooted in individualism, Europeans cultivate the search for happiness and cherish freedom of thought and of rational, scientific exploration, which are perceived as a human being’s greatest privilege and finest adventure.
Conversely, aspiring to the Caliphate indicates the longing for a supreme authority owing its infallibility to Allah and his human intermediary, Mohammed. According to Ibn Khaldoun, this institution placing politics at the service of worldwide, religious expansionism was created as instrument for the mandatory Islamization of mankind. Faced today with this political archaism, a divided and broken West seeks refuge in denial and grasps at the demise of tiny Israel as though at a lifebelt. Taking in water from every side, this West that abandons its own identity for multilateralism and multiculturalism and ruins its citizenry by buying security has little chance of survival.

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arius
arius
13 years ago

Read her last sentence several times. She is right. The West in its cowardice to defend its inheritance and identity has become self destructive and ‘has little chance of survival’. I follow events very closely and do what I can but the greater trend is obvious. The US is going the way of Europe. Expect the rapid Islamization of the US over the next ten years and its rapid decline.

TL Winslow
TL Winslow
13 years ago

Don’t count the U.S. out just yet, it has defeated every enemy so far quite handily. Do your part by remaining vigilant by keeping up on daily news and op-ed articles on the Islam threat free with the Historyscoper like the Obama admin. and world govts. do at:
http://tinyurl.com/islamwatch

knightemplar2
knightemplar2
13 years ago

Civilisations don’t die, they commit suicide. (video)
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/04/are-you-islamophobe.html

Beagle
Beagle
13 years ago

The US under Obama sent a US delegate to the OIC. He memorized the Quran as a boy if I remember the story.
The Islamic gloss on human rights discussed above is also found in the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam (1990). The most important articles are the last two which makes sharia the ultimate authority in all cases.
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/cairodeclaration.html
Quote:
ARTICLE 24:
All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Shari’ah.
ARTICLE 25:
The Islamic Shari’ah is the only source of reference for the explanation or clarification of any of the articles of this Declaration.
(end, bolding mine)

NEVER FORGET!!
NEVER FORGET!!
13 years ago

After 9/11, Bin Laden stated that “they, the Freedom Fighters, won’t relent because the West will not fight, the West(Gov’t & Individuals) would rather make deals-accept/get used to the killing-not want to risk their way of life in the present for the sake of the future, and over time, we will win easily. We, the Freedom Fighters, will prove to you that your Government can not protect you 24hrs a day/7 days a week/365 days a year thru our relentless attacks over time which will force the Govt’s of the West to spend themselves into oblivion. You people of the West will learn that the only thing that can protect you is your conversion to Allah!”
The OIC’s influence within the UN needs to be restrained, and our Leaders need to read, understand, and do something about the great information provided by Pam Geller, Robert Spencer, Bat Ye’or, Geert Wildwrs, and all the others who are relentlessly trying to educate/warn us what is coming & won’t stop every single day! Exactly like Mr. Netanyahu’s warning to “Wake Up America, They are Coming, they say it every single day!”
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/netanyahu.htm
http://www.netanyahu.org/bennetimmes.html
NEVER FORGET!!!!!!!!!

this too
this too
13 years ago

any of you history geeks out there better start to chanel your inner churchill.
you goofballs who don’t know what that means got a helluva lotta history to catch up on.

pam
pam
13 years ago

Doesn’t Pamela Gelle looks from the middle east?…. maybe she hates her so much that she has to fight whit herself!! what a complete idiot.

Richard 2
Richard 2
13 years ago

I don’t think this is going to happen, Europe is starting to oppose the Moslems and may yet win their freedom, the US is now moving against the left and will start working to remain free from the Moslems.

Richard 2
Richard 2
13 years ago

The UN needs to be disbanded and a alliance of nations willing to fight for freedom formed.

Richard 2
Richard 2
13 years ago

This war is going to be a long hard and nasty one, we are going to live through several periods of fighting and armistices the naive will consider the armistices to be peace but they are really going to be breathing spaces between campaigns. Always remember that the West was divided and to a large extent broke when the last Islamic conquest started, yet they managed to stop the conquest and finally remove the Moslems from control of the portions of Europe that had been conquered. This time we are starting from another position of weakness and are split with internal political divisions but with the help of God we will succeed in stopping the attacks and restore freedom to the sections of the world from which the left and Islam have removed it.
For those who think we are down and out with no chance I recommend watching the musical 1776, the facts are correct, the dialogue was taken from speeches of the person who is being portrayed, the only exception is where they changed John Adams saying that within 1 hundred years slavery would tear the US apart. The military situation at the time was considered to be hopeless and serious consideration was being given to building a redoubt between the mountains and the Mississippi river for the patriots to retreat to when the coast was lost. They had the nerve to fight on and won, we can do the same thing if we will remain willing to fight. America has always been an exceptional nations populated with exceptional people, are we going to give up because someone seems to have a long hard fight before it.
You can also take a hard look at WWII, when we are attacked on December 7, 1941 the US Army was one of the smallest in the world, and after the attack the majority of our navel power in the Pacific was sunk. We fought on despite the odds and 6 months later at the battle of Midway we destroyed enough of the Japanese Fleet that they were on the defensive for the rest of the war. Another time when we didn’t give up because the odds were against us, as Robert Heinlein said, “You can’t enslave a free man, the worst you can do is kill him.”, are you free men and women or are you going to give up and accept the slave chains the Moslems are trying to force on us?

Arius
Arius
13 years ago

Muslim penetration into the US government has proceeded consistenly from the 1990’s through the 2000’s from Clinton to Bush to Obama, and Obama has put it on steriods. Up to this year I didn’t see any burka sack women in the small town where I live, but this year I have started to see them every day. Don’t kid yourself, the Republicans are infiltrated just as much as the Democrats. Look into Grover Norquist. There is a Republican that is an internal enemy. All politicans and VIPs of both parties are taking money from Muslim interests and doing their bidding. It won’t make any difference if the Republicans sweep the elections, the infiltration will continue and will continue to accelerate.

grumpy24nm@yahoo.com
13 years ago

Are you afraid of Muslims? We should be afraid of these guys too! Teapartiers? Republicans? Dems? Who cares, this is scary and we should all make sure our goverment officials dont act or do things like this! It practically backdoor nazism.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101018/el_yblog_upshot/senate-candidates-guards-handcuff-journalist-after-event#mwpphu-container

amwiserkafira
amwiserkafira
13 years ago

I am sure this has everything to do with the idea of a “sustainable community” and the UN’s Agenda 21 – which seeks to deny us our property rights and way of life/ lifestyle to make way for a growing population of mass immigrants -namely Muslims. After all Saudi Arabia could not buy an iceberg and water is an every elusive resource for those countries and they know it. As long as the Middle East remains dry they will always be on the move in search of water to keep Islam alive.

Richard 2
Richard 2
13 years ago

It is too early in the war to declare defeat, instead of saying we have lost we need to start fighting.
As for the infiltration of the US Government, in the Cold War there were a lot of Soviet Agents in the US Government, the KGB files that were released proved this, but we still won the war. If we keep fighting we can win this one.

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