MUSLIM GROUP WOULD USE KEROSENE TO PUT OUT THE FIRE: The article starts off with the noblest of intentions:

Muslim States Should Create Islamic Peace Organisation

KUALA LUMPUR, July 18 (Bernama) -- Muslim states should create an Islamic Peace Organisation (IPO) to end the violence that plagues too much of the Muslim world, an Iranian academician said Wednesday.

Dr Muhammad Legenhausen, a lecturer of the Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute, said the IPO could be coordinated through the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC).

"The programmes undertaken by the IPO should include conflict transformation and resolution efforts, conciliation and arbitration, recovery and post-traumatic aid and long-term peace building," he said.

But is this really the way to go about it?

He said Islamic states in this globalised world needed to cooperate to form a civilian peace service comprising Muslim clerics, diplomats and other Muslim men and women trained in conflict transformation.

Considering the countless videos of imams condemning Jews as sons of monkeys while urging their followers onto jihad against Israel and the US, is this really what Islam and the world needs? The kind of 'conflict transformation' they indulge in is the kind we don't need.

[Hat tip: Hot Air]

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