The resolution that was adopted by the Council at the end of the special session is seriously flawed. Despite the obvious urgency of the ISIS threat, the resolution requests a report on violations of human rights law in Iraq for presentation seven months from now in March 2015. The text - pushed by the United States among others - congratulates the UN and Iraqi partners (ie the United States) for helping the Iraqi national authorities, notwithstanding the horrors already endured, and the continuing onslaught against Yazidis, Christians and other minorities. The resolution focuses on Iraq and never mentions ISIS operations in Syria, as if the terrorist organization recognizes state boundaries.
For many participants, the special session became an opportunity to focus on a new ISIS victim: Islam. Various states and the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) were primarily worried that atrocities committed by ISIS would reflect badly on Islam:
- OIC: "The Secretary-General of the OIC has expressed himself several times on the situation in Iraq...Terrorism has no religion...he noted with surprise and regret impetuous statements on the subject of Islam and Muslims emanating from certain European leaders and called on them to examine their own consciousnesses."
- Algeria: "Islam has no connection whatsoever with similar crimes."
- Saudi Arabia: "This behavior has nothing to do with Islam...Muslims are in fact first prime victims of this."
- Kuwait: "It is regrettable that this organization is associating with Islam... Islam is totally innocent...Islam is a religion that abhors fanaticism."
- Cuba: "The situation in Iraq and wider Middle East whose root causes are intrinsically linked to illegal and unjustified aggression unleashed on this fraternal Arab nation in 2003 by the government of the US acting together with some of its allies from NATO and it is they who are actually responsible for sowing the seeds of death, hunger political chaos among the Iraqi people."
- Venezuela: "No mention has been made of its [situation in Iraq] link with illegal Anglo-US invasion of 2003 supported by NATO allies. For 10 years they tormented civil war ...plunging the country into chaos."
- China, which notoriously violates freedom of religion on a daily basis, complained of violations of "rights of religious minorities" and the "right to religious belief."
- Misogynistic Iran "condemned" "crimes against women, children".
- Ecuador compared the suffering of the Iraqis to the "suffering" of the "government of Syria" - "I would like to express our solidarity with the government of Syria who are suffering the same as Iraqis from terrorist groups."