Check out the list of OIC countries in order of population. Ask yourself if you want to take advice on human rights from those countries.
Pakistan?
Bangladesh?
Iran?
Algeria?
Sudan?
Uzbekistan?
Afghanistan?
Saudi Arabia?
Yemen?
Syria?
Some are better than that, certainly, but many of them are also dubious as “Islamic states” even if you accept (as I don’t) the idea that a majority Muslim state is an “Islamic state.” Nigeria, Uganda, Mozambique? And anyway “better than Syria” isn’t much to boast of.
I hate that I hate Obama so much right now.
So jilted…
Is there any beacon of human rights outside OECD, really?
even if you accept (as I don’t) the idea that a majority Muslim state is an “Islamic state.”
Tell me about it. They have Albania on that list. I’ve lived there; it is a country in which about 70% of the population identify as Muslim, but all but a very thin percentage are about as secular as they come. I suppose it was that thin percentage that got them on the OIC. Not a very high threshold to reach.
Nigeria’s religious divide is currently driving it to the edge of civil war, Uganda has banned homosexuality and was considering making it a death penalty offense quite recently and Mozambique has 18.7% of its population professing no religions belief – versus the 17.9% who are Muslims.