“In the intellectual and political fields, there are major issues, such as establishing the values of moderation and tolerance, combating extremism, violence and terrorism, countering Islamophobia, achieving solidarity and cooperation among Member States…”

The OIC is not “more worried about cartoons than terrorism.” It only seems that way when the only information you get about a religion and a culture is from extremists whose sole purpose it to demonize a culture in order to drum up support for invading their countries.

The top news story on the OIC website right now is how “a delegation from the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) headed by its Executive Director, Mr. Mike Smith, met with OIC senior officials on March 25, 2008 at OIC Headquarters in Jeddah and discussed cooperation on raising counter-terrorism capacities of Member States.”

I guess Jihad Watch didn’t cover that story.

I would add: When religions like Islam enter the political world, endanger free speech and demand that non-Muslims convert or die, everything is poisoned.
In my slightly Polly-Anna world, I like to think that religions evolve. The Catholic Church of The Crusades was poisonous as well. The problem with Islam is that it hasn’t evolved, (is bigoted, intolerant, dictatorial and violent) and it can’t (but they do!) blame that on anyone or any group aside from themselves. Just try to tell them that–they will prove the point.
Thank God for Robert Spencer.

In France, the Catholic Church sued a fashion designer over an ad that showed “designer-clad women in the place of Jesus and the apostles, one of them with her arms around a half-naked man in jeans. ‘When you trivialise the founding acts of a religion, when you touch on sacred things, you create an unbearable moral violence which is a danger to our children. Tomorrow Christ on the cross will be selling socks,’ said lawyer Thierry Massis.”

AFP, “Catholic Church sues fashion house over Last Supper advertisement,” March 10, 2005

“THE Catholic Church says it is an offensive, scurrilous insult to the Christian religion…The Catholic Church yesterday sought an injuction in the Victorian Supreme Court to ban the photograph, titled Piss Christ, from being displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria.”

“The public display of the photograph would constitute the common law misdemeanour of publishing a blasphemous libel.” -Cliff Pannam, QC, for the church

The Daily Telegraph, “Judgment day for art or blasphemy / Church sues to stop urine photo,” Oct. 9, 1997

A new video from Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, this time on the Organization of the Islamic Conference’s bold decision to defend Islam from political cartoonists and bigots by suppressing free speech, while ignoring the jihadis in their midst: …

ReligionThe totalitarian lust for power poisons everything.

JayHaw Phrenzie on March 24, 2008 at 8:20 PM

Fixed that for you.

It’s not “religion” in general that is the problem here, as evidenced by the fact that there are no prominent sites that are a “Jihad Watch”-equivalent for Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Baha’ism, Pastafarianism, etc.

It is the particular Arabian religio-political system known as Islam. And in fact, it is a minority of the people that practice Islam (which is still a lot of people, I know) who are “poison[ing] everything.” I dare say that most Muslims in the world are too busy trying to pay their bills, raise their kids, and put food on the table — basically, live their lives — to worry about tearing down the personal freedoms of folks on another continent.

Only those hypocritical jackasses who are enjoying the freedoms and the prosperity of Western civilization are carefree enough and protected enough (by those very freedoms) to busy themselves with ruining it for everyone else.

My vote is that we track down the unappreciative, hypocritical, culturally-treasonous killjoys and run them off the continent on a rail — preferably after a bath of hot tar and feathers…or maybe bacon.

(Mmm…bacon)

You Tube > search for “Jihad Watch” > sort by date. Just watched the whole thing with no glitches. Very well done. Robert is an excellent speaker. Thanks for putting it up there, guys!

Cool can make a video “Wake up and smell the cowardice” a cologne for French men.

William Amos on March 24, 2008 at 9:27 PM

Wouldn’t that just smell like the urine in his pants?

…amazing how they manage to gather such a vast representation of Islamic/Muslim leaders at one time in one place and they don’t use any portion of that opportunity to address the issue of worldwide Islamic terrorism, Islamic oppression, the lack of basic human rights in Islam, and the murderous barbaric acts perpetrated on innocent men, women, and little children, in the name of Islam. It’s far more important that the Islamic leaders gather in their masses and discuss ways to force the free world to be shut up, and shut down.

Imagine that.

Given the fact that the United Nations is a mindless, toothless, and gutless entity with Muslim’s at the helm, I’m sure the U.N. will be riding the OIC coat-tails at the OIC’s beck and call to help nudge things the OIC’s way.

Watching and listening to Islamic and Muslim leaders, observing their works, their prioritys, and learning more and more about them by virtue of their works, their actions (or inactions as the case may be), and their orations, it’s almost like watching evil incarnate right before our very eyes. They’re anti-everything that defines freedom and democracy and goodness, and pro-everything that defines oppression and subjugation and suffering. What a horrible existence. What a terrible threat to the entire world.