Revealingly, although there was outrage when, on Oct. 17, 2005, the Egyptian newspaper Al Fagr published the cartoons on its front page, there was nothing like the furious demonstrations elsewhere until after the Organization of the IslamicConferencesummit meeting in December 2005.
Malaysia, which is hosting the summit of the 57-nation Organisation of the IslamicConference (OIC) and will chair the organisation for the next three years, argued that only fellow Muslim nations should have troops in Iraq and that they should operate under the United Nations' control.