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President Obama’s decision to appoint an envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has focused renewed attention on the Saudi-based body, and what role a U.S. envoy should play.
The OIC describes itself as “the second largest intergovernmental organization in membership after the United Nations, with 57 member and five observer countries, and … the voice of 1.5 billion Muslims in the world affairs.” Its 56 member states are scattered across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, along with one in Europe (Albania) and two in South America (Guyana and Suriname). The 57th is “Palestine,” which is not a sovereign country.
Partly overshadowed by the controversy surrounding statements Rashad Hussain made six years ago about a man indicted for supporting terrorists, is the question of whether the U.S. should have an envoy to the Islamic bloc in the first place...
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