via Islamic summit opens with calls for Syrian dialogue | Reuters.
Leaders of Islamic nations called for a
negotiated end to Syria’s civil war at a summit in Cairo that began on
Wednesday, thrusting Egypt’s new Islamist president to center stage amid
turbulence at home.
The summit of the 57-member Organisation
of Islamic Cooperation opened on a day when the assassination of a
leading Tunisian opposition politician highlighted the fragility of
“Arab Spring” democratic revolutions in North Africa.
Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki
canceled his trip to the Cairo meeting after Shokri Belaid, a staunch
secular opponent of the moderate Islamist government, was shot dead
outside his home, triggering street protests.
In a keynote address, Egyptian President
Mohamed Mursi called on “the ruling regime” in Damascus to learn the
lessons of history and not put its interests above those of the nation,
saying that rulers who did so were inevitably finished.
Mursi urged all OIC members to support the Syrian opposition’s efforts to unite and bring about change.
The Syrian opposition is funded and armed by Barrack Obama.
Mursi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood,
sought to project his country as the leader of the Islamic world in his
speech, seven months after becoming Egypt’s first democratically
elected head of state.
He told the assembled kings, presidents
and prime ministers that the “glorious January 25 revolution” that
toppled Egypt’s autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011 “forms the cornerstone in
the launching of this nation to new horizons of progress”.
Egypt is taking over the OIC chair…
Again, thanks to team Obama the Muslim Brotherhood is now as close as anyone to ruling the near-global caliphate.
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