It would be interesting if OIC would discuss about human rights abuse going on in Chechenya by the Russians. I would like to see how Russian observers would react.
EUROPEAN AID TO CHECHNYA, A CHRISTMAS PRESENT?
MOSCOW, (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev) - One rather mysterious part of President Putin's recent visit to Germany may shape Europe's policy for the coming years. Mr. Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder discussed Chechnya. Very little is known about their discussion except that in the fall, Germany sent Mr. Putin a set of proposals on Chechnya in preparation for the visit and recently, in Hamburg, Mr. Putin said he "agreed completely" with the proposals. The next day in Schleswig, Mr. Putin said, "we are ready to discuss them [problems of Chechnya] with our partners in Europe." And finally, on the train to Schleswig, the press services announced that the Russian president and the German chancellor had discussed Chechnya. Europe displayed pro-Muslim leanings in the 1990s, when it sided with the creeping expansion of Islamic terrorist organizations in Serbian lands in Kosovo. And then its urban population demonstrated their anti-Muslim reflexes during the dramatic dispute about girls wearing headscarves in schools. Europe has also shown contradictions in its attitude toward Israel and Palestine, Iran and Iraq. Some European countries participated in the US-led war in Iraq when others stood on the side. In general, it is total intellectual and political chaos. It does not helpthat the purely cultural problem has been compounded with Islamic terrorism in Chechnya, Palestine and Iraq...