Saudi Gazette report MAKKAH — The two-day extraordinary Islamic Solidarity Summit, which concluded here Wednesday, called on Muslim countries to unitedly fight the fissiparous tendencies out to sow seeds of sedition and division in the Ummah. A communique read out by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), urged all Muslim countries to avoid using sectarianism for political upmanship. “We all have to shoulder our responsibilities to fight sedition and achieve the expectations of world Muslims,” he said, adding that it was the bounden duty of all to introspect and take corrective measures. On the burning issue of Syria, the communique said Muslims should unitedly fight oppression and atrocities committed by the Syrian regime against innocent and unarmed people of that country. The communique reiterated the legitimate right of the Palestinians to establish an independent state with Al-Quds as its capital. It also held Israel responsible for the atrocities and prevarication on going ahead with the peace process. On the situation in Myanmar, the summit denounced the inhumane crimes perpetrated on the Rohingya Muslims. “The Muslim World expresses anguish and concern over the plight of the Muslims there,” the communique said. It is the responsibility of the government of that country to bring the culprits to book and end atrocities against the Rohingyas immediately and assure them of their just rights, the communique said. Talking about extremism and terrorism, the communique said these deviant ideologies have no place in Islam. The summit reiterated that all Muslim countries would unitedly combat extremism in all its forms. The summit welcomed the proposal of King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, to set up a dialogue center for Islamic schools of thought. Earlier taking part in the debate, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad advised Muslim countries not to play on the field prepared by the enemy. “Today, all of us have entered into a plan without realizing it, a plan that has been devised by the enemy. We are showing hostility toward each other without any clear reason and perhaps based on false information and under various personal, ethnic, historical, and even religious pretexts. And, as it is obvious, we have been providing the enemy the best opportunities for free, and material, media, and military resources are being used against each other, and media warfare has reached its climax,” Ahmadinejad said. In the current circumstances, the enemy has found an opportunity to prevent Muslim countries from utilizing their potential in the regional and international arenas and to rob them of the opportunity to make progress, Ahmadinejad noted. “My question is: Who is killing who in our region? Who have aligned themselves against who in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, and other countries?” King Hamad Al-Khalifa of Bahrain said the summit comes in a crucial time of the Islamic nation's history. He praised the speech of King Abdullah in which he called on rallying Muslims' ranks and promoting intellectual, economic and political cooperation among them to best serve Islam and mankind. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi stressed the importance of cohesion between Islamic countries, especially at this crucial stage. Moncef Marzouki, President of Tunisia, reiterated Tunisia's firm position in support of the Syrian people and against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad, saying, in this regard, “the Syrian regime has lost its legitimacy with the continuation of the policy of murder, bloodshed and massacres against its people.” Marzouki added: “We, Arab peoples and leaders, cannot accept the continued violations of human rights and freedom.” He hoped that the summit leads to “severe” and “radical” positions against Assad's regime, underlining that efforts were underway to exert pressure on Iran, Russia and China to change their positions supporting the murderous regime in Syria.
