Islam attacks the West with everything at its disposal, from bombs to 
law suits, and the west responds with the odd angry shot (Graham Kennedy 
style), a film, and a few cartoons, which causes the OIC to go into 
meltdown & demand that the West stop its ovicious campaignoe against 
peaceful followers of the false prophet Mo...

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Time for West to Stop This Vicious Campaign
Aijaz Zaka Syed

A journalist friend of mine, his tongue firmly in cheek, calls it "Oh
I See!" 
in a not so veiled reference to the seldom-fruitful deliberations of the OIC. 
Which is why it's interesting to see the body representing the 1.6 billion
Muslims take on some real issues for a change at its summit in Dakar, Senegal 
this week.
 
Giving voice to the fury of their people, Muslim leaders and heads of state 
have protested against the growing Islam-bashing in the West warning of 
"serious implications for global peace and security".
 
The warning articulates the outrage over the republication of the Prophet's
(peace be upon him) caricature by 17 Danish newspapers and the film attacking 
the Holy Qur'an by a Dutch lawmaker.
 
When the Jyllands-Posten first published that despicable caricature three 
years ago, our friends in the West had explained it as a necessary phenomenon 
of a free press.

[...]

Which is why it's such a shame that the West should tolerate these 
disgraceful attacks on Islam and its Prophet.
 
But this has gone far enough. It's time the Western governments are told 
in unambiguous terms that this vicious campaign against Islam must stop 
and stop right away. Not because it really hurts the Muslims everywhere,
which it does, but because it is not in the West's interest.
 
Successive generations of young Muslims are growing up loathing the West 
for this pathological campaign against their faith. It's good that the 
Muslim states at the OIC summit have expressed their outrage at growing 
Islamophobia in really forceful terms, without any spin and without beating 
about the bush.

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Source: "Arab News"
http://arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=107922&d=17&m=3&y=2008

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