Boycott of the International Jihads institutional arm: No good can come of the OIC meeting in Chicago

The Center for Security Policy today called on the Obama administration to withdraw from a meeting taking place in Chicago from September 28-30 that will be sponsored by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) – the anti-Constitution, anti-human rights, anti-Israel organization claiming to speak on behalf of 56 Muslim nations (plus “Palestine”).  On this occasion, U.S. government officials would not only be meeting with the senior leadership of the OIC.  They would also be interacting with leaders of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial.  The FBI formally halted its “outreach” to CAIR almost two years ago, a long-overdue policy shift that the Obama administration would effectively reverse were it to attend the conference next week in Chicago.

Among the senior U.S. government officials advertized as participating in such (renewed) “outreach” are: the White House Deputy Counsel whom Mr. Obama designated as “his” Special Envoy to the OIC, Rashad Hussain;  Dalia Mogahed, an advisor to the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships; and Farah Pandith, Special Representative to Muslim Communities at the State Department.

The insidious role being played by the OIC and the Muslim Brotherhood in spreading the supremacist politico-military-legal program authorities of Islam call “shariah” is the subject of the just-released, ground-breaking report by a group of prominent national security experts:  Shariah: The Threat To America (www.ShariahtheThreat.com).  This study is slated to be profiled in the “Week in Review” section in Sunday’s New York Times.

Known as Team B II (a reference to a similar “second opinion” provided during the Cold War) and sponsored by the Center for Security Policy, the panel determined that these and other organizations involved in a stealthy “civilization” jihad are as dangerous to free societies as the overtly violent jihadists like al Qaeda.  That is particularly true insofar as the former exploit – and even foment – the latter to advance their shared goals: the triumph of shariah world-wide and the reestablishment of a Caliphate to rule pursuant to it.

Center for Security Policy President Frank J. Gaffney Jr. observed that:

“Obama’s outreach to the OIC and Muslim Brotherhood Chicago meeting is, unfortunately, just the latest example of the administration’s abject failure to understand and oppose the threat posed by shariah.  Its legitimating and accommodation of such stealthy, pre-violent jihadist entities can only be interpreted by our enemies as acts of submission, the response to which – according to shariah – is a resort to violence to secure the ultimate victory over the United States and other parts of the infidel dar al-Harb (House of War).

Gaffney underscored a primary recommendation of the Team B II report: “U.S. government agencies and organizations should cease their outreach to Muslim communities through Muslim Brotherhood fronts.”

According to a newsletter dated September 15, 2010, the Saudi Arabia-based OIC organized the Chicago meeting on “Islam and Muslims in America” to “discuss the possible contributions of the OIC to the Muslims in the U.S. and create ties between OIC, and the Muslims and Islamic organizations there.”  The meeting agenda indicates that the Secretary General of the OIC Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu will speak on September 28.

As noted in Shariah: The Threat to America, Ihsanoglu used the occasion of an earlier speech to an OIC Council of Foreign Ministers’ conclave to declare war on freedom of speech:

In [the OIC’s] confronting the Danish cartoons and the Dutch film “Fitna,” we sent a clear message to the West regarding the red lines that should not be crossed. As we speak, the official West and its public opinion are all now well-aware of the sensitivities of these issues.  They have also started to look seriously into the question of freedom of expression from the perspective of its inherent responsibility, which should not be overlooked.

Of late, the Organization of the Islamic Conference has taken to the United Nations its war against expression that gives offense to Islam.  Last September, the Obama administration actually co-sponsored  a resolution with Egypt (representing the OIC) in the UN Human Rights Council, calling on the United Nation’s member states to limit such expression, as part of the OIC’s ongoing campaign to have the UN recognize Islamophobia as a form of racism subject to prosecution under international law.

This effort to establish what it calls “deterrent punishments” for shariah slander is only one example of OIC activity at odds with American interests and the U.S. Constitution.  Other examples include:

• Disrupting U.S. Efforts in Afghanistan: In the July 2010 edition of the OIC’s “Islamophobia Observatory” Bulletin, the OIC sharply criticized Gen. Petraeus’ counter-insurgency manual as “a manifestation of Islamophobia”;
• Damaging Middle East Peace Negotiations: Since its founding, the OIC has pursued an aggressive anti-Israel campaign, including creating a fund for the intifada in 2001;
• Denying Civil Liberties and Freedom to Muslims and Non-Muslims: The OIC for decades has tried to deny American Muslims and others the protections of the UN Convention on Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution, insisting instead that they comply with the shariah apartheid doctrine formally adopted by the OIC’s members as the so-called “Cairo Declaration of Human Rights.”

According to the conference agenda published by the OIC New York UN Permanent Mission, the executive director of the Chicago franchise of the Hamas-linked CAIR, Ahmed Rehab, will moderate a panel entitled: “The Role of the OIC and the Scope for its Relation with American Muslims.”

In yet another ominous move, the Organization of the Islamic Conference has announced that it will meet on September 30 with American Muslim leaders – many of whose groups the federal government has identified in court as Muslim Brotherhood fronts – for the purpose of creating the “American Muslim Liaison Council to the OIC.”  It remains to be seen whether the Obama administration will be represented at this organizational meeting, as well.

Shariah: The Threat to America will be available as a book in October 2010, and can be downloaded and free reproduced at www.shariahthethreat.com.  It is based on the statements of the following world’s leading Shariah authorities and Shariah academic scholars including: Yousuf al-Qaradawi, Muhammad Taqi Usmani, Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee, Majid Khadduri, Shamin A. Siddiqi, Asaf A.A. Fyzee, Abdur Rahman I. Doi, Mohammed Hashim Kamali, Mohammed ibn Isma’il Bukhari, Burhan al-Din al-Farghani al-Marghinani, Abu al-Walid Mohammed ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd (a.k.a. Averroes), Mohammed ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani, Sayyid Qutb, The Reliance of the Traveller (‘Umdat al-Salik:  A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law), as well as the Quran, and other texts.