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Head of Islamic org seeking global blasphemy law is Arizona State grad

Posted on June 18, 2013 by creeping

A reader notified us of this via ASU:

Iyad bin Amin Madani ’69 B.S. was elected Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

More via Iyad bin Amin Madani – Wikipedia:

Iyad bin Amin Madani (born April 1946) is a Saudi public figure who served in different cabinet posts. In addition, he is elected as the secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. He will be the first Saudi official to hold his position.[1]

Madani was born in Mecca in April 1946.[1][2] He holds a bachelor’s degree in production administration, which he obtained from Arizona State University.[1]

Madani was awarded by the Malaysian government the prize, the Darjah Kebesaran Panglima Setia Mahkota (Knight of the Most Distinguished Order of Crown), in March 2009 due to his efforts in reinforcing solidarity of Muslim Ummah…

His appointment was officially announced after the 12th Summit of the OIC in Cairo on 8 February 2013.[3]Madani’s term as secretary general of OIC will be effective in January 2014.[16]

Those Saudi student visas are so beneficial to the United States. More on the infamous OIC: OIC Ramps Up ‘Islamophobia’ Campaign

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has long been on the forefront of the Islamist mission to establish the equivalent of Islamic blasphemy laws in the West. Now, during its 12th Islamic Summit held in Cairo February 7-8, 2013, the OIC set forth new and creative ways to silence, and ultimately criminalize criticism of Islam.

The OIC is a 57-member state organization that claims to represent 1.5 billion Muslims around the globe. As the second largest international organization in the world, behind only the UN, and as the largest Islamic organization in the world, it is obviously quite powerful. Though it is arguably the largest voting block in the UN, most people have never heard of it.

One of the OIC’s primary aims for at least the last fourteen years has been the international criminalization of speech that is critical of any Islam-related topic, including Islamic terrorism, Islamic persecution of religious minorities and human rights violations committed in the name of Islam.

Since 1999, the OIC has set forth UN resolutions that would “combat defamation of religions.” These resolutions condemned criticism of religion, but in the OIC’s interpretation, it applied only to Islam. True statements of fact constituted no exception.

The OIC is fastidiously working on the creation of legal instruments to address and combat “Islamophobia.” Renewing its commitment to mobilize the West to comply with Islamic blasphemy laws, the OIC vowed to push for nation states to enact laws that will criminalize the “denigration of religions” during in its next Istanbul conference, anticipated to take place this June.

At the Summit, OIC members also unanimously elected Iyad Madani to the post of OIC Secretary General. His term is to commence in 2014 when current Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu’s term expires. This is the first time that the OIC will be headed by a Saudi.

Though the current OIC regime is comprised of sticklers for Islamic blasphemy laws and staunch advocates for the obliteration of Israel, it is likely that the OIC will become even more extreme under Madani.