Last June, 2007, President Bush, during a re-dedication
ceremony for the Saudi-funded
Islamic Center Washington, DC announced that a special US
envoy to the 57 Muslim nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
would be appointed. According to the President, this envoy’s mission would be
to “listen and learn.” Within a day of
Mr. Bush’s announcement, investigative journalist Steve Emerson warned
that the appointment of such an envoy was a potentially serious error,
observing appositely,
…that hours after his speech, CAIR [the Council on American _Islamic
Relations], the un-indicted co-conspirator in the Hamas case in Dallas, congratulated the president on the
appointment of a representative to OIC. With friends like these, who needs
enemies?
On Wednesday
February 27, 2008, Sada Cumber, a Pakistani Muslim immigrant to Texas,
and technology tycoon, was formally designated as the first US
special envoy to the OIC. When interviewed on March
16, 2008, within 3-weeks later, about his first formal “listening and
learning” experience at the OIC’s recent Dakar (Senegal) conference, Cumber opined,
“…the way things are going on in this conference I can almost see the new
leadership moving into moderation and that alone is very encouraging news.”
Cumber also endorsed the OIC’s
fulminations over the Danish cartoons, and Dutch
Parliamentarian Geert Wilders’ soon to be released short documentary on
Koranic incitement to violence and hatred, “Fitna.” Our man at the OIC then stated
his immoral equivalence plainly: “Very few people do this anti-religion, and
they don’t leave Jews alone, they don’t leave Christians alone and they don’t
leave Muslims alone…They are bigots and bigotry will always be
there.”
But Cumber ignored, indeed he appeared willfully blind to,
the OIC’s ongoing, openly espoused efforts to impose Universal
Islamic Blasphemy Law—reiterated
in Dakar—and continued
failure to condemn,
unequivocally, homicide bomb mass murder “jihad martyrdom” attacks on all
potential civilian targets—including Israelis.
Cumber’s bowdlerized pieties about the OIC’s so-called
“moderate” leadership, and his breathtaking assertion—OIC attempts to suppress
freedom of expression, and OIC failure to condemn religiously-inspired mass
murder, notwithstanding—“oh my goodness, I think the Muslim values
that they are aspiring here are exactly in sync’ with American values”—cast
grave doubts on his suitability as US envoy, and the basic propriety of this
position overall.
The depressing spectacle of our great nation’s supplication
before the OIC—expressed so vividly in the very first pronouncements of our
fawning Muslim American envoy to this de facto “Islamintern”—brings
to mind a remarkably candid assessment by the 18th century Moroccan Sufi
“master” Ibn Ajibah from his Koranic commentary, a work I was made aware
of by my colleague, Dr. Mark Durie.
Describing unabashedly the purpose of the humiliating Koranic
poll tax (as per Koran
9:29) of submission for non-Muslims brought under Islamic hegemony by
jihad, Ibn Ajibah makes clear the ultimate goal of its imposition was to
achieve what he called the death of the “soul”, through the dhimmi’s execution
of their own humanity:
[The dhimmi] is commanded to put his soul, good fortune and desires to
death. Above all he should kill the love of life, leadership and honor.
[The dhimmi] is to invert the longings of his soul, he is to load it down more
heavily than it can bear until it is completely submissive. Thereafter nothing
will be unbearable for him. He will be indifferent to subjugation or might.
Poverty and wealth will be the same to him; praise and insult will be the same;
preventing and yielding will be the same; lost and found will be the same.
Then, when all things are the same, it [the soul] will be submissive and yield
willingly what it should give. [Tafsir ibn ‘Ajibah. Commentary on
Q9:29. Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ibn 'Ajibah]
Unless and until we are prepared to have our special envoy
to the OIC speak candidly about this international Muslim religio-political
organization’s complete failure to address how living, institutionalized
Islamic doctrines and practices adversely impact the most fundamental human
rights of both non-Muslims and Muslims, we should terminate this recently
created position.
At stake is nothing less than our nation’s soul.