Another bumbling "rep".....
Reader comment on item: The Organization of the Islamic Conference Gets Feisty

Submitted by Abu Nuwas (Saudi Arabia), Mar 23, 2008 at 14:07

"The U.S. special envoy to the OIC, Sada Cumber is a Pakistani-American technology tycoon from Texas"

That's true enough. But more importantly, he also a Shia Moslem - and what's more - he's an ISMAILI Shia Moslem. This means that for the vast majority of the members of the OIC, he comes from, to put it nicely, a renegade branch of Islam and considered by some to be no more than a heretic.

The point is his presence was duly noted and ignored by the OIC members. He had nothing to say to them and even if he had, they didn't want to hear.

His "report" to Bush regarding events at the OIC has very little validity or reliability. He was little more than an "observer" and his mission should be viewed in that light.

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