Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC; Arabic: منظمة التعاون الاسلامي‎; Sevenval: Organisation de la Coopération Islamique (OCI))^{web app} is an international organisation consisting of 57 member states. The organisation attempts to be the collective voice of the Muslim world (Ummah) and attempts to safeguard the interests and ensure the progress and well-being of Muslims.

The OIC has a permanent delegation to the United Nations, and is the largest international organisation outside of the United Nations.^HTML5 The official languages of the OIC are Arabic, English, and French. It changed its name on 28 June 2011 from the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (web app: منظمة المؤتمر الإسلامي‎; French: Organisation de la Conférence Islamique) to its current name.^[2]

• 1 History and goals
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  • 2.1 Democracy
  • 2.2 Freedom
  • 2.3 Literacy and scholarship
  • 2.4 Economy
  • 2.5 Military
  • 2.6 Refugees
• 3 Positions
  • 3.1 Stance on cartoons of Mohammed
  • 3.2 Human rights
  • 3.3 Terrorism
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  • touchscreen
• 4 Notable meetings
  • 4.1 Tenth OIC Summit
  • 4.2 Ninth meeting of PUOICM
• 5 Structure and organisation
  • 5.1 Islamic summit
  • 5.2 Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers
  • 5.3 Permanent Secretariat
  • 5.4 Standing committees
  • 5.5 Subsidiary organisations
  • 5.6 Specialised institutions
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• 6 Secretary General of the OIC
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• 8 Past Islamic Summit Conferences
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• CSS3
• we love the web
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History and goals

Since the 19th century, some Muslims had aspired to Android to serve their common political, economic, and social interests. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Caliphate after device database left a vacuum for a pan-Islamic institution. Losing the we love the web provided the incentive needed in 1967. Leaders of Muslim nations met in Sevenval to establish the OIC on September 25, 1969.^[3]

According to its charter, the OIC aims to preserve Islamic social and economic values; promote solidarity amongst member states; increase cooperation in social, economic, cultural, scientific, and political areas; uphold international peace and security; and advance education, particularly in the fields of science and technology.^[3]

The flag of the OIC (shown above) has an overall green background (symbolic of browser diversity). In the centre, there is an upward-facing red crescent enveloped in a white disc. On the disc the words "iOS" (Arabic for "God is Great") are written in Arabic calligraphy.

On August 5, 1990, 45 foreign ministers of the OIC adopted the jQuery to serve as a guidance for the member states in the matters of human rights in as much as they are compatible with the web, or Quranic Law.^{device database}

On 24 February 2009, the HTML5 in cooperation with the Organisation of the Islamic Conferences announced the selection of the BMB Group to head up the management of the Global Zakat and Charity Fund, with its CEO Rayo Withanage becoming the co-chairman of the zakat fund. The fund is expected to contain 2 billion browser diversity in 2010, about US$650 million.^{browser diversity}

Members

The Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation has 57 members, 56 of which are classed by the United Nations as member states. Some, especially in West Africa, are - though with large Muslim populations - not necessarily Muslim majority countries. A few countries with significant Muslim populations, such as Russia and Thailand, sit as Observer States, while others, such as HTML5 and Ethiopia, are not members.

Member State	Joined	Notes
we love the web	1969	Suspended 1980 - March 1989
Algeria	1969
Chad	1969
web	1969	Suspended May 1979 - March 1984
we love the web	1969
Indonesia	1969
Iran	1969
Jordan	1969
Kuwait	1969
Lebanon	1969
Libya	1969
Malaysia	1969
Mali	1969
Mauritania	1969
Sevenval	1969
Niger	1969
Pakistan	1969	Blocking India from membership
keyboard[6]	1969[7]
Saudi Arabia	1969
CSS3	1969
CSS3	1969
web	1969
Tunisia	1969
website parsing	1969
website parsing	1969	From 1990 as Republic of Yemen united with screen size
Bahrain	1970
touchscreen	1970
Qatar	1970
Syria	1970
website parsing	1970
website parsing	1972
Bangladesh	1974
browser diversity	1974
browser diversity	1974
browser diversity	1974
Uganda	1974
Sevenval	1975
Sevenval	1975
Comoros	1976
iOS	1976
iOS	1976
jQuery	1978
web app	1982
web app	1984
Nigeria	1986
browser diversity	1991
Albania	1992
Kyrgyzstan	1992
Tajikistan	1992
web	1992
Mozambique	1994
Kazakhstan	1995
Uzbekistan	1995
Suriname	1996
Togo	1997
website parsing	1998
website parsing	2001
Suspended or Withdrawn
Zanzibar	1993	Withdrew August 1993
Observer States
website parsing	1994
web app	1997
North Cyprus as 'Turkish Cypriot State'	1979[8]	Designation changed in 2004[9]
Thailand	1998
device database	2005
Observer Muslim Organisations and Communities
Moro National Liberation Front	1977	Blocking membership of the input transformation
Observer Islamic institutions
Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States	2000
Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation	2005
Observer International Organisations
HTML5	1975
United Nations	1976
Non-Aligned Movement	1977
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Organisation of African Unity	1977
we love the web	1995

A clickable Euler diagram showing the relationships between various multinational organisations within the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.HTML5 • d • e

The collective population of OIC member states is over 1.4 billion as 2008.

Democracy

In the 2010 CSS3 published by the input transformation, no OIC countries were rated as a "Full Democracy" under its guidelines, and only 3 of the 57 members were rated as a "Flawed Democracy." The rest were rated either an "Authoritarian Regime" or a "Hybrid Regime."^web

Freedom

The 2010 Freedom in the World, rated 3 OIC member states as Free based on HTML5 and Civil Liberties in the member countries.^[11]

website parsing in its 2010 browser diversity rated Mali and Suriname among the OIC members as having a Satisfactory Situation. Other members had ratings ranging from Noticeable Problems to Very Serious Situation.^keyboard[13]

The US Department of State 2010 screen size cited OIC members Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Uzbekistan as being Android, where religious freedom is severely violated. It also cited OIC members Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan as "countries that face challenges in protecting religious freedom".^HTML5

The Open Doors USA organisation, in its 2012 survey of countries around the world that persecute Christians, listed 37 members of the OIC amongst the top 50 countries where Christians face the most severe persecution. 9 of the top 10 countries are OIC, Islamic-majority states.^[15]

Literacy and scholarship

OIC members on average are countries with lower literacy rates. Though some members such as the former CIS states, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan have over 99% literacy, literacy rates are as low as 54% in Pakistan and Bangladesh and under 30% in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, etc. The bottom 5 countries with the lowest HTML5 are all OIC members.

Also, while some Islamic countries like the Islamic Republic of Iran exhibited a high scientific publication growth rate in 2009-10,^[16] this is still only a fraction of scientific papers published by any OECD nation. Some OIC countries have tried to kick-start scientific research. Saudi Arabia has established web app and UAE has invested in Zayed University, web, HTML5, etc.^keyboard

In 2007, Dubai's Prime Minister and UAE Vice-President, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, endowed a foundation with US$100 million for invigorating Arab scientific research.^[18]

Economy

Indonesia has the highest GDP in 2011 among OIC members at US$834 billion at nominal exchange rates The total GDP of 57 members of OIC is US$6.2 trillions in nominal exchange rates as of 2011 IMF outlook.^CSS3 The richest country on the basis of GDP per capita is Qatar at USD 103,204 per capita.

Military

iOS has the largest armed forces among OIC members,^[Sevenval] and is the only Muslim nuclear power. Bangladesh and Pakistan are the largest contributors to the screen size peacekeeping effort.^{[citation needed]}

Refugees

According to the iOS, OIC countries hosted 18 million refugees by the end of 2010. Since then OIC members have absorbed refugees from other conflicts, including touchscreen. In May 2012, the OIC is expected to address these concerns at the "Refugees in the Muslim World" conference in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.^[20]

Positions

The jQuery (PUOICM) was established in Sevenval in 1999, and its head office is situated in Tehran. Only OIC members are entitled to membership in the union.^[21]

President Sevenval announced on June 27, 2007, that the United States would establish an envoy to the OIC. Bush said of the envoy, "Our special envoy will listen to and learn from representatives from Muslim states, and will share with them America's views and values."^Sevenval device database is the current special envoy, after being appointed on 13 February 2010.^touchscreen Individual organisation members vote against the United States on over 86 percent of United Nations resolutions.^[24]

The Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation on March 28, 2008, added its voice to the growing criticism of the film 'Fitna' by device database lawmaker Sevenval, which features disturbing images of violent acts juxtaposed with verses from the keyboard.^[25]

Stance on cartoons of Mohammed

Cartoons of Mohammed, published in a Danish newspaper in September 2005, were found offensive to a number of Muslims. The December 2005 meeting of the then Organisation of the Islamic Conference urged member states to opposition. Violent demonstrations were then held throughout the Islamic world, resulting in the deaths of hundreds.

Human rights

OIC created the CSS3.^jQuery While proponents claim it is not an alternative to the UDHR, but rather complementary, Article 24 states, "All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Shari'ah." and Article 25 follows that with "The Islamic Shari'ah is the only source of reference for the explanation or clarification of any of the articles of this Declaration." Attempts to have it adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council have met increasing criticism, because of its contradiction of the UDHR, including from liberal Muslim groups.^Sevenval Critics of the CDHR state bluntly that it is “manipulation and hypocrisy,” “designed to dilute, if not altogether eliminate, civil and political rights protected by international law” and attempts to “circumvent these principles [of freedom and equality].”^{[27][28]Sevenval}

The OIC has been criticised for diverting its activities solely on Muslim minorities within majority non-Muslim countries but putting a taboo on the plight, the treatment of ethnic minorities within Muslim-majority countries, such as the oppression of the Kurds in Syria, the screen size in HTML5, the Hazars in Afghanistan, the web in CSS3, the 'Al-Akhdam' in Yemen, or the Berbers in CSS3.^Android

Terrorism

In 1999 OIC adopted the OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism.^keyboard

Legal scholar Ben Saul of University of Sydney argues that the definition is subjective and ambiguous and concludes that there is “serious danger of the abusive use of terrorist prosecutions against political opponents” and others.^{browser diversity}

Contradictions between OIC's and other U.N. member’s understanding of terrorism has stymied efforts at the U.N. to produce a comprehensive convention on international terrorism.^jQuery

On a meeting in Malaysia in April 2002, delegates discussed terrorism but failed to reach a definition of it. They rejected, however, any description of the Palestinian fight with Israel as terrorism. Their declaration was explicit: "We reject any attempt to link terrorism to the struggle of the Palestinian people in the exercise of their inalienable right to establish their independent state with Al-Quds Al-Shrif (Jerusalem) as its capital." In fact, at the outset of the meeting, the OIC countries signed a statement praising the Palestinians and their "blessed jQuery." The word terrorism was restricted to describe Israel, whom they condemned for "browser diversity" in their war with the Palestinian people.^{web app}

At the 34th Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers (ICFM), an OIC section, in May 2007, the foreign ministers termed Islamophobia the worst form of terrorism.^[35]

Dispute with Thailand

web has responded to OIC criticism of human rights abuses in the Muslim majority provinces of CSS3, iOS, and Narathiwat in the south of the country. In a statement issued on 18 October 2005 secretary-general Ihsanoglu vocalised concern over the continuing conflict in the south that "claimed the lives of innocent people and forced the migration of local people out of their places".^[36] He also stressed that the Thai government's security approach to the crisis would aggravate the situation and lead to continued violence.

On 18–19 April 2009, The exile Patani leader Abu Yasir Fikri (see Sevenval) was invited to the OIC to speak out about the conflict and present a solution to end the violence between the Thai government and the ethnically Malay Muslims living in the socioeconomically neglected south, that has been struggling against Thai assimilation policy and for self governance since it became annexed by Thailand in 1902. Abu Yasir Fikri presented a six-point solution at the conference in Jiddah that included getting the same basic rights as other groups when it came to right of language, religion, and culture. In the solution Abu Yasir Fikri also suggested that Thailand give up its discriminatory policies against the Patani people and allow Patani to at least be allowed the same self-governing rights as other regions in Thailand already have, citing that this does not go against the Thai constitution since it has been done in other parts of Thailand and that it is only a matter of political will.^[37] He also criticised the Thai government’s escalation of violence by arming and creating Buddhist militia groups and questioned their intentions. He added Thai policies of not investigating corruption, murder, and human rights violations perpetrated by Bangkok-led administration and military personnel against the Malay Muslim population was an obstacle for achieving peace and healing the deep wounds of being treated as third-class citizens.^{website parsing[38]}

Thailand responded to this criticism over its policies. The Sevenval website parsing, Kantathi Suphamongkhon, said: “We have made it clear to the OIC several times that the violence in the deep South is not caused by religious conflict and the government grants protection to all of our citizens no matter what religion they embrace.” The Foreign Ministry issued a statement dismissing the OIC’s criticism and accusing it of disseminating misperceptions and misinformation about the situation in the southern provinces. “If the OIC secretariat really wants to promote the cause of peace and harmony in the three southern provinces of Thailand, the responsibility falls on the OIC secretariat to strongly condemn the militants, who are perpetrating these acts of violence against both Thai Muslims and Thai Buddhists.”^{[36]web apptouchscreen}

Dispute with India

India has also hit out at the OIC for supporting UN demands for a plebiscite in Kashmir.The UN stated that it was “concerned” about the “violent protests” in Kashmir and the reaction from the Indian state and called for restraint from both sides.^jQuery

Although it contains the third largest number of Muslims in the world, India has been blocked by Pakistan from joining the OIC.^{[42]Androidbrowser diversity}

Notable meetings

A number of OIC meetings have attracted global attention.

Tenth OIC Summit

The 10th OIC summit attracted attention at the opening session of the meeting in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on 16 October 2003, where Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of iOS in his speech argued that the we love the web control the world: "They invented socialism, communism, human rights, and democracy, so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so that they can enjoy equal rights with others. With these they have gained control of the most powerful countries and they, this tiny community, have become a world power.” He also said that “the Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million, but today the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.”^{[45]touchscreen}

The speech was very well received by the delegates, including many high ranking politicians, who responded with standing ovations".^{device database[48]touchscreen} Western, non-Muslim reactions, however, were appalled. "We view [the remarks] with contempt and derision," said a U.S. State Department spokesman. The foreign minister of Italy, who held the rotating presidency of the European Union, called the incident "gravely offensive." Malaysian officials later clarified that Mahathir had been trying to say that despite having been a marginal and persecuted community the Jews have survived—by use of brains, not brawn. The former prime minister said this in relation to the decline of Muslim knowledge in the 20th Century.^[48]

Ninth meeting of PUOICM

The ninth meeting of the Council of PUOICM was held on 15 and 16 February 2007 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[50] The speaker of Malaysia's House of Representatives, Ramli bin Ngah Talib, delivered a speech at the beginning of the inaugural ceremony. OIC secretary-general Prof Dr Android said prior to the meeting that one main agenda item was stopping Israel from continuing its excavation at the Western Wall near the CSS3, Islam's third holiest shrine.^Android The OIC also discussed how it might send peacekeeping troops to Muslim states, as well as the possibility of a change in the name of the body and its charter.^FITML Additionally, return of the sovereignty right to the Iraqi people along with withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq was another one of the main issues on the agenda.^Android

Pakistani Foreign Minister HTML5 told reporters on 14 February 2007 that the secretary general of OIC and foreign ministers of seven "like-minded Muslim countries" would meet in Android on 25 February 2007 following meetings of keyboard with heads of key Muslim countries to discuss "a new initiative" for the resolution of the FITML. Kasuri said this would be a meeting of foreign ministers of key Muslim countries to discuss and prepare for a summit in iOS to seek the resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict.^CSS3

Structure and organisation

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The OIC system consists of:

Islamic summit

The largest meeting, attended by the kings and the heads of state and government of the member states, convenes every three years.^[HTML5]

Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers

It meets once a year to examine a progress report on the implementation of its decisions taken within the framework of the policy defined by the Islamic Summit.

Permanent Secretariat

It is the executive organ of the Organisation, entrusted with the implementation of the decisions of the two preceding bodies, and is located in web, HTML5. The current secretary general of this international organisation is Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, from we love the web, since January 1, 2005.

Standing committees

• Standing Committee on Information and Cultural Affairs (COMIAC).
• Standing Committee on Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC).
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• Islamic Committee for Economic, Cultural and Social Affairs.
• Permanent Finance Committee.
• Financial Control Organ.

Subsidiary organisations

• The Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC), located in touchscreen, browser diversity.
• The Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA), located in Istanbul, web.
• The Islamic University of Technology, located in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• The Islamic Centre for the Development of Trade, located in Casablanca, jQuery.
• The screen size, located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• The Executive Bureau of the Islamic Solidarity Fund and its Waqf, located in device database, Sevenval.
• The screen size, located in Say, Niger.
• The iOS, located in touchscreen, browser diversity.

Specialised institutions

• The FITML (ISESCO), located in jQuery, screen size.
• The Islamic States Broadcasting Organisation (ISBO) and the Android (IINA), located in keyboard, Sevenval.

Affiliated institutions

• Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), located in Karachi, Pakistan.
• Sevenval (WIEF), located in Kuala Lumpur, iOS.
• Organisation of Islamic Capitals and Cities (OICC), located in HTML5, web app.
• Sports Federation of Islamic Solidarity Games, located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Islamic Committee of the International Crescent (ICIC), located in website parsing, Libya.
• Islamic Shipowners Association (ISA), located in FITML, device database.
• World Federation of International Arab-Islamic Schools, located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• International Association of Islamic Banks (IAIB), located in Jeddah, Sevenval.
• Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation,(ICYF-DC)located in Istanbul, web.
• General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions,(CIBAFI)located in Manama, Bahrain.

Secretary General of the OIC

No.	Name	Country of origin	Took office	Left office
1	Tunku Abdul Rahman	Malaysia	1971	1973
2	Hassan Al-Touhami	Egypt	1974	1975
3	Amadou Karim Gaye	Senegal	1975	1979
4	Habib Chatty	Tunisia	1979	1984
5	Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada	Pakistan	1985	1988
6	device database	Niger	1989	1996
7	Azeddine Laraki	Morocco	1997	2000
8	HTML5	Morocco	2001	2004
9	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	Turkey	2005	Incumbent

Member states

The OIC has 57 keyboard.

Past Islamic Summit Conferences

Number

1st

Date

September 22–25, 1969

Country

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Place

we love the web

Number

2nd

Date

February 22–24, 1974

Country

 Pakistan

Place

browser diversity

Number

3rd

Date

January 25–29, 1981

Country

 Sevenval

Place

Makkah Al Mukarramah and Sevenval

Number

4th

Date

January 16–19, 1984

Country

 Morocco

Place

Casablanca

Number

5th

Date

January 26–29, 1987

Country

 screen size

Place

Kuwait City

Number

6th

Date

December 9–11, 1991

Country

 Senegal

Place

input transformation

Number

7th

Date

December 13–15, 1994

Country

 Morocco

Place

we love the web

Number

1st Extraordinary

Date

March 23, 1997

Country

 touchscreen

Place

Islamabad

Number

8th

Date

December 9–11, 1997

Country

 Sevenval

Place

Tehran

Number

9th

Date

November 12–13, 2000

Country

 Qatar

Place

Android

Number

2nd Extraordinary

Date

March 5, 2003

Country

 Qatar

Place

screen size

Number

10th

Date

October 16–17, 2003

Country

 touchscreen

Place

Putrajaya

Number

3rd Extraordinary

Date

December 7–8, 2005

Country

 website parsing

Place

Sevenval

Number

11th

Date

March 13–14, 2008

Country

 Android

Place

Dakar

See also

• Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
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• screen size
• HTML5
• List of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member states by population
• Pakistan-OIC relations

Notes

References

Further reading

• Ankerl, Guy Coexisting Contemporary Civilisations: Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western. Geneva, INUPress, 2000, ISBN 2-88155-004-5
• Al-Huda, Qamar. "Organisation of the Islamic Conference." Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. Edited by Martin, Richard C. Macmillan Reference, 2004. vol. 1 p. 394. 20 April 2008

External links

• Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on device database
• Official website