On a separate issue, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week criticized international efforts by Islamic countries to ban anti-religious speech.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

The two countries have not had formal relations since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution and interaction between the two countries' diplomats has been infrequent.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa told the 57 Islamic Conference states, as well as dozens of other countries and aid agencies, that such political efforts must be joined by developmental strategies.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

And in Islamic countries Mormons face at least as many obstacles as other non-Muslim believers do.

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The OIC is an international organization of 57 Islamic countries, most of them barbaric tyrannies.

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Japan was late in developing its economic system compared with other Asian and Islamic countries.

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