The loudest voices within the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) are Turkey and Pakistan. That’s because they are persistently driving the “Islamophobia” subterfuge against the West. Yet the OIC “this week honored Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at a high-level forum. Invited by host Pakistan, Wang attended the 48th session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers in Islamabad as a special guest and spoke at the summit opening.”
Never mind China’s persecution of Muslim Uighurs. For the OIC, it’s all about subjugation of the West and the obliteration of Israel. Not long ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came out swinging in defense of China, strongly condemning Olympic boycotts of China, while he ignored and continues to ignore China’s persecution of Muslims.
The OIC’s “ Islamophobia” canard is tailor-made to societies based on Judeo-Christian values. So as much as the Campaign for Uyghurs and other human rights defenders draw attention to China’s treatment of Muslims, you won’t see the most prominent Muslim groups and the loudest voices in OIC countries — which claim to advocate for Muslim rights and human rights — launch the kind of aggressive campaigns against China’s “islamophobia” that they pursue against the West.
“Organization of Islamic Cooperation Accused of Ignoring Uyghur Muslims in China,” by Asim Kashgarian, VOA, March 25, 2022:
A U.S. declaration that China has committed genocide and crimes against humanity against its mainly Muslim minority in western Xinjiang province appears to have had little impact on the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which this week honored Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at a high-level forum.
Invited by host Pakistan, Wang attended the 48th session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers in Islamabad as a special guest and spoke at the summit opening. He followed up Thursday with a surprise visit to Afghanistan, whose Taliban-led interim government is eager for Chinese investment and support.
The confluence of events was distressing to the Campaign for Uyghurs, a Washington-based rights group, which condemned both Wang’s attendance at the summit and OIC’s silence on China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority, including mass incarceration in so-called reeducation camps.
“It was appalling to see that Pakistan invited Wang Yi as a ‘guest of honor,’ while Uyghur Muslims do not have the right to identify as Muslims or practice Islam,” Campaign for Uyghurs said on its website….
PMK says
For most of the world, the Uighurs are out of sight, out of mind. Like it or not, the OIC has its greatest chance of impacting policy in the West. We allow them to immigrate and we take in many of their people as ‘refugees’. They use our values and good will against us. Unfortunately for us, the OIC and China have more that unites them than divides them. First and foremost is an unrelenting hatred of the West.
Infidel says
I wonder which country wouldn’t like to be in the diplomatic situation that China is in, where despite actually persecuting their muslim population, they get a free pass from the OIC, particularly Pakistan and Turkey??
Regardless, no non-muslim country – be it Israel, India, US, Canada, Poland, Hungary, anybody – should ever for a moment entertain any charges of islamophobia from anybody – OIC, Pakistan, Turkey – since all those entities/countries have turned a blind eye on the Uyghur issue
Bikinis not Burkas says
Uyghur Muslims in China were butchering people in China!
Why should anyone protect the adherents to the MURDEROUS IDEOLOGY of ISLAM?
gravenimage says
American rights group slams Organization of Islamic Cooperation for Ignoring Uyghur Muslims in China
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Funny how Muslims are saying little about China…