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ORGANIZATION OF ISLAMICCONFERENCE (OIC)

Group Members:WaleedVirkKhizerAsif

UsmanAbidMohammad Azeem

Organization Of Islamic Cooperation

Presented By:

Abu Bakar Ch.M. SalmanM. Usman

Umair Riaz CheemaUmair Zafar SiddiqiBBA III

Section :G

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Introduction

The formation of the OIC happened shortly afterthe 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Leaders of Muslimnations met in Rabat to establish the OIC on

September 25, 1969. ( 12t h Rajab 1389 H ijra )

OIC is an internat ional organizat ion with a

permanen t delega t ion to theUnitedNat ions

The forty-year-old Organization of the IslamicConference (OIC) is the second largest

international body after the UN.

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Membe rs

It comprises of fif ty seven na t ions spread overfour cont inents. (Along WithObserverStates)Its headquar ter is in Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaIts Official Languages are Arabic, English andFrench

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S tructur eT he OIC system consists of

The Islamic Summit

T he largest organ, att ended by the Kings andthe Heads of State andGovernment of the member s tates, convenes every three years.

The Islamic Conf ere nce of Fore ign Minist er s

It mee ts once a year to examine a progress report on the implementat ion of its decisions taken within the framework of the policy defined by theIslamic Summit .

Se cre ta ry gener al

T he current secretary general of this interna t ional organizat ion is

Ekmeleddin hsano lu , fromTurkey, since January 1, 2005 .

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Goals

To safeguard people of the member s tates andMuslims.

Strengthen Islamic solidarity .

C onsolidate C oopera t ion among members s tates insocial,cultural and scient ific fields

Safeguard the Holy places.

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Support t he struggle of the Pales t inian people.

Eliminate racial discriminat ion and all forms of colonialism.

To represent Muslim people and to strengthencooperation among Member States in political,economic cultural and social fields.

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Ch all e ng e s

D ifficult iesin coordinat ion.

Geographically dispersed (Africa, Asia, MiddleEast ,Southeas t Asia).

Polit ically diverse. (Islamic Republics,

Monarchies,D

emocracy,MilitaryD

ict atorships)

Nat ional Income differences (Richest like SaudiArabia and poorest Afghanistan)

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Greatest challenge is the Sep 11 att acks since 2001 .OICcondemned the a tt acks on US but Iran, Iraq and Syria havealso condemned the US.

T he richer and more influen t ial members lack the polit ical willtobein the driver s seat t o guide the direct ion of the OIC .

T his lack of polit ical strength is further reduced by seriousdisunity amongO IC countries, especially inWest Asia.

It is now an open secret t hat t he world does no t place muchimportance to OIC in resolving conflict s affect ing Muslimcountries.

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Any suggest ion that OIC countries converge towards analliance with military implicat ion would be polit icallysuicidal.

Prevailingcircumstances will not allow OIC to develop anyform of common security policy or arrangemen ts.

Moreover , the even t of September 11, 2001 has madeIslam, and the Muslim world suspect s.

T herefore, an y att emp t on the par t of OIC to promo te amilitary coopera t ion would be seen as threatening to therest of the world.

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Human Rights

OIC created the C airo D eclarat ion of HumanRights in Islam. Which States that

"All the rights and freedoms s t ipulated in thisD eclarat ion are subject t o the IslamicShari'ah.

It has been adop ted by United Nat ionsHuman Rights C ouncil

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An tise mitis m

T he OIC att ract ed a tt ent ion at t he openingsession of the mee t ing in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on16 Oct ober 2003 , where Prime Minister

Mahathir Mohammad of Malaysia in his speechargued that

T he Jews control the world. T hey inventedsocialism, communism, human righ ts anddemocracy, so that persecut ing them wouldappear to be wrong, so that t hey can enjoy equalrights with others

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Terroris m

In 1999 OIC adopted the OIC C onvent ion onC omba t ing Internat ionalTerrorismC ontradict ions between OIC 's and o ther U.N.member s understanding of terrorism hassty mied efforts at t he U.N. to produce acomprehensive convent ion on interna t ionalterrorism (Palest ineAnd Kashmir)At t he 34t h Islamic C onference of ForeignMinisters in May 2007 , the foreign ministerstermed Islamophobia the worst form of terrorism

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OI C s Passiv e Exist e nc e:

Unfulfill e d Dr e a ms?T he Organizat ion of Islamic C onference (OIC ) hascome a long way and to nowhere.

Muslims forms onethird of the worldspopulat ion and UN membercountries,controlling vast natural resources and strategic waterways.T hus, potent ial forthe OIC to emerge as aninfluent ial grouping is indeedtempt ing.

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T

he issue that propelled the Muslimcountries tocampaign for greater co operat ion, the desecrat ionof the Al Aqsa Mosque ( Jerusalem ) , is nowovershadowed by other interests.

Af ter 38 years of existence, OIC remains on themargin of world affairs, even whenthey concernMuslims and Muslim states.What is then wrong with OIC? Why does such anorganizat ion with large membership andgeographical diversity has litt le role in internat ionalaffairs?

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Criticis m

T he OIC has been crit icized for divert ing itsact ivit ies solely on Muslim minorit ies within

majority non-Muslim countries but putt ing ataboo on the plight , the treatmen t of ethnicminorit ies within Muslim-majority c ountries,such as the oppression of the Kurds in Syria,the Ahwaz in Iran, the Hazars in Afghanistan,the Baluchis in Pakistan, the 'Al-Akhdam' inYemen, or the Berbers in Algeria.

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R e asons for OI C s failur e

One of the mos t visible failures of OIC is the non-resolut ionof the Palest inian problem.

It remains an issue of content ion anddissat isfact ion for the Muslim world.

T he recent Israel-Lebanon conflict againdemons trated this paralysis and themarginalizat ionofOIC in internat ional affairs.

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T he geopolit ical diversity and polit ical differences of its members redu ced its cohesion and ability t oinfluenceininternat ional affairs.

A former Prime Minister of Malaysia, D r MahathirMohammad remarked that t he disparity of supportbetween the economically powerful and polit icallyinfluent ial Muslimcountries and the less fortunate

ones is somewha t glaring.Keen supporters of OIC , such as Pakistan, are poor ,polit ically weak and lacking in economic resources.

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Muslimcountries such as Saudi Arabia andtheGulf states are oil andcapital rich

But their billions of dollars worth are carted away for investment and safekeeping in Europe andthe United States .

T his high degree of economic and financialdependen cy of these countries make themvulnerable to European and American domes t ic and foreign policies

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Technical and economic assistance provided inthe form of foreign aid to poor countries bybett er off Muslim countries has failed to makesignificant impact .T his is due to the inability of recipient countriesto fruitfully ut ilize such coopera t ion.

Such is the case of the Malaysian TechnicalC oopera t ion Programme to several Africancountries leaving the donor country with a senseof frustrat ion.

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Conclusion

With all those constraints and more, the OICthus remains very much an observer ininternat ional relat ions.

OIC has been unable to act as a polit ical forceand to presen t a united front in the face of

risingchallenges of globalizat ion.D ue to this, the gap be tween western andIslamic civilizat ions is widening.

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T he weakness of O IC is also surprising when we seethat a number of its members are mili tarily strong.

Iran , Pakistan , Egypt , Turkey and Indonesia havelarge armies , with Iran and Pakistan having nuclearambit ion.

A number of Muslimcountries; Malaysia , Pakistan ,Bangladesh and Turkey have par t icipated in many of the UN Peacekeeping missions, demons trat ing theirability t o contribute towards internat ional peace andsecurity .

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Without t his, OIC s existence as an imaginedcommunity .

Its role as a passive act or in interna t ionalrelat ions will be ensured.

Its relevance and ability t o adequa telyrespond to the challenges of the 21st centurywill be a quest ion.

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R e co mme ndationsC an the OIC be polit ically united and e conomicallyempowered tomakeitself relevant ?

T his is a responsibility and commitment t hat majorcountriesinOIC must be willingto undertake

OIC must enhance and consolidate its collect ivepolit ical,economic, strategic and cultural values.

While at t he same t ime strive towards grea terdialogue, interact ions and unders tanding with otheract ors on the world stage.

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