“Interreligious dialogue” for Islamic supremacists means nothing more or less than spreading Islam. Note also the OIC chief Ihsanoglu’s emphasis on the need for the West to abandon the freedom of speech. “Saudi King Opens Religious Tolerance Center in Europe to ‘Spread the Message of Islam,'” by Patrick Goodenough for CNS News, November 27 (thanks to Tom):
A new Saudi-funded, Europe-based center for interreligious dialogue
will be “a good medium to spread the message of Islam,” says the
government-appointed imam of Mecca’s Grand Mosque — a man who has
stoked controversy in the past by calling Jews “monkeys and pigs” and
Christians “cross worshippers.”“The formation of this center in the West with King Abdullah’s
support gives a strong message that Islam is a religion of dialogue and
understanding and not a religion of enmity, fanaticism and violence,”
the International Islamic News Agency quoted Sheikh Abdul Rahman
al-Sudais as saying.Sudais was reacting to the launch Monday of the new King Abdullah Bin
Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural
Dialogue (KAICIID) in the Austrian capital, Vienna.Lending international legitimacy to the Saudi king’s latest religious
tolerance initiative, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was among
those who attended the opening.In his remarks, Ban asserted that too many religious leaders have
“stoked intolerance, supported extremism and propagated hate” rather
than tolerance, adding, “We must all do better in reaching out across
boundaries.”The
center’s first-day program included an inaugural symposium, during
which the head of the Islamic bloc of nations accused non-Muslims of
“Islamophobia” and urged Western governments to enact and enforce laws
against it.“Islamophobia leads to hate crimes and as such, it generates fear,
feelings of stigmatization, marginalization, alienation and rejection,”
said Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary-General
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu.“The net result is heightened anxiety and rising violence.
Islamophobia is also an assault on people’s identity and their human
dignity.”According to an OIC statement on his address, Ihsanoglu proposed actions to remedy the situation:
“[T]he West must define hate crimes broadly and address the
information deficit as well as enact adequate legislation and implement
this legislation effectively. In conjunction with national legislation,
they should also implement international commitments and agreed
norms.”The OIC has set up an “observatory” to monitor Islamophobia, which it also defines as a contemporary form or racism.
The observatory”s most recent annual report, released this month, covers incidents including Qur’an burning in Afghanistan and Florida, and the U.S. House Homeland Committee’s hearings on radicalization in the American Muslim community, and the notorious YouTube video denigrating Mohammed….