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by Judith Bergman • September 21,
2018 at 5:00 am
- The OIC's media
strategy encourages "accurate and factual portrayal of
Islam. Emphasis should be directed at avoidance of any link or
association of Islam with terrorism or the use of Islamophobic
rhetoric... such as labeling criminal terrorists as 'Islamic'
fascists, 'Islamic' extremists."
- That part of the
strategy has already had much success across the Western
world, where authorities and media do not want to label Muslim
terrorists as Islamic, but routinely describe them as
"mentally ill."
- The OICs highly
ambitious plans to do away with freedom of speech go severely
underreported in the West. Mainstream journalists do not
appear to find it dangerous that their freedom of speech
should be supervised by the OIC, while Western governments,
far from offering any resistance, appear, perhaps for votes,
to be cozily going along with everything.
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is
trying to curb your freedom of speech -- yet again[1].
In June, the first "I 1st Islamic-European
Forum for examining ways of cooperation to curb hate speech in the
media," initiated by the OIC, ironically but sadly took place
at the Press Club Brussels Europe.
The director of the information department of the
OIC, Maha Mustafa Aqeel, explained that the forum is part of the
OIC's media strategy[2] to counter "Islamophobia":
"Our strategy focuses on interacting with the
media, academics, and experts on various relevant topics, in
addition to engaging with Western governments to raise awareness,
support the efforts of Muslim civil society bodies in the West, and
engage the latter in developing plans and programs to counter
Islamophobia."
Unlike almost all other intergovernmental
organizations, the OIC wields both religious and political power.
It describes itself as:
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