Agenda topics for the recently concluded Islamic summit in Senegal last week:


Address Women's Rights
Address Internecine hatreds
Address economic deficiencies
Address lack of religious freedoms
Whine like petulant children over meaningless cartoons and perceived “insults” EYUP

Yeah, because as any ethically bereft relativist knows, goofy cartoons of a seventh century camel herder turned prepubescent girls boy toy turned marauding thief/mass murderer/prophet are on the same moral plane as jailing bloggers, terror against Israelis, beheading of American infidels in Iraq, etc.

For some strange, inexplicable reason—a tear in the space/time continuum, perhaps—somehow, Christianity and Judaism managed to survive The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ respectively. No fatwas, no mob violence, no assassinations. And yet the Islamic universe is torn asunder by The Satanic Verses, Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Submission, and Muhammad cartoons in a Danish paper.

Muslims nations: Defame Islam, get sued?

By RUKMINI
CALLIMACHI, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 14, 6:26 PM ET

DAKAR, Senegal -

The Muslim world has created a battle plan to defend its religion from political cartoonists and bigots.

Concerned about what they see as a rise in the defamation of Islam, leaders of the world's Muslim nations are considering taking legal action against those that slight their religion or its sacred symbols. It was a key issue during a two-day summit that ended Friday in this western Africa capital.

The Muslim leaders are attempting to demand redress from nations like Denmark, which allowed the publication of cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad in 2006 and again last month, to the fury of the Muslim world.

Though the legal measures being considered have not been spelled out, the idea pits many Muslims against principles of freedom of speech enshrined in the constitutions of numerous Western governments.

"I don't think freedom of expression should mean freedom from blasphemy," said Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, the chairman of the 57-member organization of the Islamic Conference. "There can be no freedom without limits."

Delegates were given a voluminous report by the OIC that recorded anti-Islamic speech and actions from around the world. The report concludes that Islam is under attack and that a defense must be mounted. "Muslims are being targeted by a campaign of defamation, denigration, stereotyping, intolerance and discrimination," charged Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the secretary general of the group.