OIC Watch

UNGA Becomes Turf for Turkey's Pitch on Kashmir and for Global Islamist Leadership

September 25, 2019

This week's opening of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has become the space for Turkey's Islamist President Recep Tayip Erdogan's latest pitch for leadership of global Islamist activism, highlighting that NATO member-states movement away from the country's Western alliance connections.
OIC Supports Islamization through Cultural Capital Programs in Africa

September 13, 2019

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)'s Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO) is expanding its regional footprint and international action plan, with week long cultural programmes in 2020 slated for Mali and Egypt, to highlight, revive, and spread Islamic civilization and values across the African Continent.
OIC Calls Foreign Ministers Meeting to Respond to Israel PM's West Bank Annexation Plans

September 13, 2019

Saudi Arabia has called for an emergency meeting of the foreign ministers from all 57-member-states making up the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in order to discuss the global Islamic entity's range of possible responses to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's declaration of his plans, if re-elected in upcoming Israeli elections, to annex sizable part of the West Bank of the Palestinian Territories.
Turkey’s Islamist Infighting Infuses Tensions Into UN & OIC

August 20, 2019

Turkey’s Islamist government is taking its feud with and its former Islamist ally of the Fetullah Gulen grassroots movement to the global platforms of the United Nations (UN) and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), but both intergovernmental groups have rejected Ankara’s efforts to use politicize the global platforms for an intra-Islamist battle.
OIC Ministers Condemn Israeli Actions to “Judaize Jerusalem”

July 18, 2019

The foreign ministers of the 57 member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have issued a condemnation of Israel’s recent launch of the Jewish Pilgrims archaeological project in Jerusalem as a “colonial activity” that will accelerate the Israeli government’s attempt to “Judaize Jerusalem.”
OIC Encyclopedia Promotes Islam as Religion of Peace, Tolerance

July 03, 2019

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) forthcoming International Islamic Encyclopedia of Tolerance aims to promote Islam as a religion whose “universal message of peace, moderation, and tolerance” and, according to the leadership of the global Islamic organization, will help to “counter Islamophobia.”
OIC Takes Aim at Israeli Development Project

July 02, 2019

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the 57-member-state group whose mission is to act on behalf of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims, has condemned Israel over its new antiquities and tunnel project in Jerusalem.
OIC Campaign Equates Islamophobia with Anti-Semitism

July 01, 2019

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is intensifying its campaign for a UN resolution condemning defamation of religions as a way of silencing all criticism of Islam by trying to equate Islamophobia with anti-Semitism.
OIC Expands West African Inroads

June 21, 2019

The Saudi Arabia-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is deepening its influence in West Africa, as Saudi Arabia is preparing Gambia to host the 57 member states’ annual leadership summit with a massive infrastructure and development grant.
Islamic Bloc Rejects Israeli-US Position on Jerusalem

June 03, 2019

The leadership of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned Israel and the US for their position that Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel, calling on the OIC’s 57 member states to “boycott” any country with an embassy in Jerusalem.