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Islam: Banned for Blasphemy?
FrontPage Magazine ^ | February 16, 2015 | Raymond Ibrahim

Posted on 02/16/2015 7:31:51 AM PST by Albion Wilde

Soon after Muslim gunmen killed 12 people at Charlie Hebdo offices..., the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)—the... second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations—is again renewing calls for the United Nations to criminalize “blasphemy” against Islam, or what it more ecumenically calls, the “defamation of religions.”

Yet the OIC seems to miss one grand irony: if international laws would ban cartoons, books, and films on the basis that they defame Islam, they would also, by logical extension, have to ban the entire religion of Islam itself—the only religion whose core texts actively and unequivocally defame other religions, including by name.

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TOPICS: Islam; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics; Theology
KEYWORDS: blasphemy; freespeech; islam; islamic; islamistsblaspheme; muslim; oic
The author, Raymond Ibrahim, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a Judith Friedman Rosen Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum and a CBN News contributor. He is the author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (2013).
1 posted on 02/16/2015 7:31:51 AM PST by Albion Wilde
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To: Albion Wilde
...the only religion whose core texts actively and unequivocally defame other religions...

Demonstrably false.

2 posted on 02/16/2015 7:36:25 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Albion Wilde
rewing calls for the United Nations to criminalize “blasphemy” against Islam

What is criminal is Islam's reaction to blasphemy.

3 posted on 02/16/2015 7:38:48 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: Albion Wilde
...the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)—the... second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations—is again renewing calls for the United Nations to criminalize “blasphemy” against Islam, or what it more ecumenically calls, the “defamation of religions.”

Islam is not a religion. It is a seventh century socio-political system masquerading as a religion.

4 posted on 02/16/2015 7:39:40 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Albion Wilde

True, every copy of the Koran blaphemes against Christianity, and Judaism as well.


5 posted on 02/16/2015 7:39:56 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; abb; AppyPappy; Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi; CatherineofAragon; Celtic Conservative; ...

ping


6 posted on 02/16/2015 7:40:34 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: jjotto

Could you expand on that? While the Bible wasn’t down with Diana worship or Baal, those religions have either died out or have been absorbed into islam.


7 posted on 02/16/2015 7:41:56 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: Albion Wilde

“....have to ban the entire religion of Islam itself—the only religion whose core texts actively and unequivocally defame other religions, including by name.”

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What’s your problem? Born with too much logic in your veins?

You have to learn to think in terms of one-way-global-government and the UN where there is no room for Christianity.

See any of our “Christian” congress critters worry about Islam? We are at war with “radical” Islam.

Repeat after me: radical, radical, radical.


8 posted on 02/16/2015 7:42:06 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: 353FMG

If it weren’t for lies and obfuscation, we wouldn’t have any governmental communiations at all.


9 posted on 02/16/2015 7:44:17 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: Albion Wilde

And let me take a wild guess how this might possibly fit in with the Net Neutrality theme and the move to make political speech illegal all occurring around the same time. Might they have another slot for Islam blasphemy but not Christian blaphemy? Why yes they probably do. Folks, this cannot be taken lightly in view of the pace and direction this president has been taking in the past few months. The left don’t comment on it because they want to slip this under the door. The LIVs certainly arent paying attention and don’t even realize what’s happening (yet they’re the ones that will call you racist, hater, and bigamist when that as nothing at all to do with the issue; they’re obviously just too stupid to understand it). The right is the only thing that stands in the way of evil at this point.


10 posted on 02/16/2015 7:46:42 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Albion Wilde

Seriously?

You don’t think various brands of Christianity ‘defame’ each other? Do Christians think they’re defamed by Judaism? Do Mormons defame Christians? Do you think attacks on Pharisees don’t defame Judaism?

Defamation isn’t a serious word, unless one small group gets to decide what it is.


11 posted on 02/16/2015 7:51:50 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Boogieman

> True, every copy of the Koran blaphemes against Christianity, and Judaism as well.

Yet was written hundreds of years almost a millineum after Christ was crucified on the cross. And borrowed extensively from it. Thats how you create a counterfeit. And thats exactly what it is. The false word. Sounds like deception? Thats what Satan does. Tell me how many times Allah has appeared to them. None. Now tell me how many times has Jesus appeared to Muslims who wanted to know the truth? There are many documented cases of it.


12 posted on 02/16/2015 7:52:36 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Albion Wilde

Islam needs to be eliminated for sedition.


13 posted on 02/16/2015 7:58:03 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: jjotto
The article said "whose core texts actively and unequivocally defame other religions, including by name. Certainly individuals and even groups regard each other with suspicion; but the author is pointing out here that Islam's actual scriptures defame other thriving world religions. I believe he is speaking of large world relgions, not what Scientology has to say about Kabala.
14 posted on 02/16/2015 8:13:02 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: jjotto

“...including by name.” <— closed quotes.


15 posted on 02/16/2015 8:14:32 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: Albion Wilde

Islam defames Christianity by denying the resurrection.

I guess it must be banned.


16 posted on 02/16/2015 8:46:50 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: Albion Wilde

Darn, I thought Islam was being banned because it’s blasphemy such as in when it encourages murder rather then following the commandment Though shall not murder.


17 posted on 02/16/2015 9:11:04 AM PST by This I Wonder32460
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To: Albion Wilde

mohammed was a child rapist.


18 posted on 02/17/2015 1:09:04 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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To: jjotto
"Demonstrably false. "

I'm waiting?

19 posted on 05/11/2015 7:05:35 PM PDT by semaj (People get ready, Jesus is coming!)
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To: 353FMG; Albion Wilde

“We are at war with “radical” Islam.”

YES! We are at war with Islam...all Islam is Radical! The Koran testifies to that. CAIR testifies to that. Islam is evil. Islam is against all that God ordained.


20 posted on 05/11/2015 8:19:09 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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