OIC Watch

OIC Bank Chief Pushes UN to Increase Sharia Finance for Sustainable Development

July 21, 2015

The Chief Economist for the global Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's ("OIC") Islamic Development Bank pushed at the recent UN International Conference on Financing for Development for the mainstreaming and expansion of sharia-compatible/compliant financing instruments for new global sustainable development initiatives.
OIC Chief Calls on Muslims Worldwide with Ramadan Message

July 21, 2015

The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") called on Muslims worldwide to mark the end of Ramadan by offering the world an Islamic model of tolerance and rejecting "voices that betray and smear Islam and equate it with extremism, violence and primitivism."
OIC Expands Global Media Strategy for Achieving Its Goals

July 13, 2015

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") is expanding its strategic use of global media to promote the organization's objectives as the self-defined protector of Muslims worldwide, announcing a new effort by the International Islamic News Agency ("IINA") to train journalists and dedicate coverage to the OIC's platform of "countering Islamophobia and combating extremism and terrorism."
OIC Pushed US to Blame Benghazi Assault on "Anti-Muslim Speech"

July 01, 2015

Recently released documents show that the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") urged the White House and US State Department to blame the fatal Islamist assault on the US Embassy in Benghazi, Libya on anti-Muslim speech and images and to impose free speech limitations in the US.
OIC Raises Turkey's Profile as Geopolitical Islamist Center

June 26, 2015

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") underscored the importance of Turkey as a geopolitical pivot for the work of the global, multilateral OIC, identifying Istanbul as the "Islamic World Youth Capital" and host for the OIC Youth Summit in 2016.
OIC Politicizes Qatar World Cup as Muslim World's Right Threatened by Islamophobic West

June 24, 2015

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") adopted a resolution calling on the governments and media in its 57-member-states to condemn "the Western media campaign against Qatar as the host of the 2022 World Cup," referencing the scandal that has engulfed the International Federation of Association Football ("FIFA") administration regarding questionable bidding practices for World Cup host-countries, as Islamophobic, built on "bias and prejudice" that violates the "right of all the peoples of the Muslim world."
OIC Meets at UN to Seek Support for Rohingya Muslims

June 24, 2015

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC")'s Ambassador to the UN convened a meeting of OIC delegates to the UN in order to finalize the OIC's proposal for submission to the UN Security Council calling for support of Rohingya rights in Burma and for provision of asylum and humanitarian relief to Rohingyas migrating to Malaysia and Indonesia.
OIC Charges Western Media with Bias and Hate in Coverage of Qatar World Cup

June 24, 2015

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") weighed in on international media coverage related to Qatar as host of the 2022 World Cup, and the 57-member-state global multilateral organization's charges of Western media bias echoes claims by OIC member-states from the Gulf Cooperation Council ("GCC") of a Western media "hate campaign" against Qatar.
Former OIC Chief Elected to Turkey's Parliament with Far Right Party

June 09, 2015

The former, two-term Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu was elected to Parliament in this past weekend's elections in Turkey, as a member of the country's extreme-right Nationalist Movement Party ("MHP").
Pakistan Pushes for OIC to Galvanize Action on Rohingya Muslims

June 09, 2015

Pakistan's government announced plans to press the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") to galvanize international public opinion by mobilizing at the UN for action to help Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim population currently facing human rights abuses.