The Organization of the Islamic Conference's (OIC) recent condemnation of extremist Muslim violence would be absolutely remarkable except for one small problem – there's no reason to believe that the OIC actually meant a word of it.
.... The crucial difference between the two statements is that, while the OIC's condemnation of Aftenposten was quickly posted to the OIC website in English, French, and Arabic, the earlier condemnation of Westergaard's attacker has yet to be posted in Arabic.
Considering the OIC's continued attempts to globally criminalize 'blasphemy,' there is no reason to doubt its sincerity in condemning newspapers like Aftenposten. However, if the OIC were serious about condemning attacks like the one on Westergaard as anti-Islamic, it would have conveyed the message in the language its own people are most likely to read -- Arabic. [The Legal Project] Read more
