Posted on 12/13/2011 3:41:24 PM PST by bayouranger
Yesterday marked the opening of the international conference announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a high-level meeting on Islamophobia that she co-chaired, held last July in Istanbul and hosted by the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). At the time, Secretary Clinton described this weeks conference as a move to implement U.N. Human Rights Council Resolution 16/18 on combating [religious] intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization.
This State Department conference, entitled The Istanbul Process, is proving to be a very bad idea. It remains to be seen whether speech limitations to protect religion generally and Islam specifically will be officially endorsed by the conference similar recommendations have already been adopted by the OIC and by the EU conference participants but, judging from the opening session, at least some of my misgivings seem well founded.
The three-day conference was closed to the public, but I was invited to its opening session (as well as to the closing session to be held on Wednesday) by virtue of my being a commissioner on the official but independent U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Chatham House Rules, which State directed us to abide by, forbid releasing anything about a specific delegation or quoting for attribution.
To speak more generally, then: Legal and security officials of a delegation which will remain unnamed gave a sweeping overview of American founding principles on religious freedom and how they have been breached time and again in American history by attacks against a broad variety of religious minority groups including now against Muslims. A raft of current cases were mentioned; Americas relative exemplary and distinctive achievement in upholding religious freedom in an emphatically pluralistic society was not. That same speaker reassured the audience, which was packed with diplomats from around the world, that the Obama administration is working diligently to prosecute American Islamophobes and is transforming the U.S. Justice Department into the conscience of the nation, though it could no doubt learn a thing or two from the assembled delegates on other ways to stop persistent religious intolerance in America.
Across the room, smirking delegates from some of the worlds most repressive and intolerant regimes could be spotted, furiously taking notes.
The Saudi Justice Minister was recently in the U.S. but unfortunately departed before the conference opened and wont be making any presentation on how the Saudis stop religious intolerance. Nor will his delegation be making any apologetic mention of the Saudi ban on churches, its repression of its large indigenous Shiite population, its textbooks teaching that Jews should be killed, or its beheading yesterday of a woman for sorcery, in addition to another recent beheading of a Sudanese man for the same crime.
Meanwhile, at U.N. headquarters in New York, a new resolution following on 16/18 has been introduced by the OIC and will soon be voted on by the General Assembly, where it will no doubt passed with U.S. approval. It singles out for praise regarding the promotion of religious tolerance one state Saudi Arabia.
Filthy koranimals & their dhimmis can go to hell.
Nobody’s going to keep me from telling the truth about Islam and its pervert prophet. FUHC.
... and the barf alert is— where?
:-(
Geez...they preach and teach kill all the Christians and Jews and we’rer suppose to be tolerant?? Ridiculous. And those non-radical members of Islam...Who do you think you are supporting when you go to Mecca or give at the door??
So Hillary is against the atheists getting 11 of 14 sights in Santa Monica, leaving just three for Christians to use for the celebration of Christmas. /s
Good to know...
As if it were anything new, we now have religious pimps in addition to race pimps.
Hillary always gets that strange smile on her face when she’s pimping for Mohammed. She hasn’t had so much fun since kissing Suha Arafat, after a lunch at which they discussed the evils of the Jews.
How about a conference on “Christophobia”. Oh wait.. that’s not even a word.
Presumably, the conference will also address the intolerance of Christians and Jews by Islamics.
/sarc
Gotta love secret international meetings that threaten freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
not
I’ve posted this before and I feel it important to post it again and again. Share it with friends and family. this is what our so called elected officials are protecting and supporting and encouraging behind our backs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfbYkXtHuA
“Obama administration is working diligently to prosecute American Islamophobes and is transforming the U.S. Justice Department into the conscience of the nation”
Seriously, I would have expected the same sort of rhetoric and misuse of a government department from Hitler or Stalin. Also wouldn’t making a law that only protects one religion out of many be a breach of your constitution.
Mel
I’ve posted this before and I feel it important to post it again and again. Share it with friends and family. this is what our so called elected officials are protecting supporting and encouraging behind our backs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfbYkXtHuA
I’ve posted this before and I feel it important to post it again and again. Share it with friends and family. this is what our so called elected officials are protecting supporting and encouraging behind our backs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfbYkXtHuA
I’ve posted this before and I feel it important to post it again and again. Share it with friends and family. this is what our so called elected officials are protecting supporting and encouraging behind our backs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfbYkXtHuA
Hllary looks like a puppet.
Isn’t islamophobia just another word for “survival instinct”?
Hillary has aged rapidly in office and has grown every more ugly by the day. At this rate, she’s going to be the monstrous Portrait of Hillary Dorian Gray.
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