Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Collective Voice of The Muslim World
Date: 23/12/2009
A senior official-level meeting was held between a delegation from the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the League of Arab States on Wednesday 23rd December 2009 at the Arab League’s headquarters in Cairo, with a view to examine and adopt joint action plans and evolve an integrated vision to face up to the various prejudicial phenomena such as Islamophobia and the aggressive campaign led by certain political, media and intellectual quarters in the Western societies against Islam and Muslims. The OIC delegation was led by the Oorganization’s Assistant Secretary General, Amb. Abbullah Abdurrahman Alim, who delivered a statement at the opening of the two-day meeting, in which he stressed the OIC’s readiness to further boost its existing outstanding relations with the Arab League, and its desire to map out modes of cooperation and coordination with the League on all issues of common interest to the Arabo-Islamic world and to face up to the phenomenon of Islamophobia and the widespread hate campaigns in the West against Islam and Muslims. Amb. Alim outlined the various actions undertaken by the OIC in countering the phenomenon and invited the Arab League at the same time for joint action in various fields, particularly in the area of information. Amb. Alim also emphasized the need to remove the confused picture held by the public opinion in the West and in America where a deliberate amalgam is made between Islam and terrorism, and the need to underline Islam’s inherent rejection of all acts or manifestations of violence and extremism.
