Posted on 03/07/2020 5:31:51 PM PST by ransomnote
WASHINGTON, D.C. March 6 (C-Fam) According to the UN’s special expert on freedom of religion, the fringe views of UN human rights bodies must take precedence over the mainstream beliefs of many leading world religions, when it comes to law and policy.
In his newly-launched annual report, Ahmad Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, wrote about the intersection of religion and gender equality. He concluded that laws based in traditional morality, often religious in nature, should be repealed if they conflict with the opinions of human rights scholars and UN experts.
“States have an obligation to guarantee to everyone, including women, girls and LGBT+ people, an equal right to freedom of religion or belief,” he said, “including by creating an enabling environment where pluralist and progressive self-understandings can manifest.”
In order to enable these “self-understandings,” laws criminalizing abortion or various sexual behaviors would need to be overruled.
Shaheed noted that laws regarding abortion and homosexual behavior often arise from the application of religious teachings regarding the sanctity of life, the family, and sexual morality. While stopping short of directly calling on major world religions, such as Christianity or Islam, to change their doctrines, he attempted to differentiate between “patriarchal” and “gender equal” interpretations of religious teachings. The report cites the work of scholars who have worked to promote “progressive” reinterpretations of faith traditions, adding that the source of gender-based violence or discrimination is not necessarily religions, but, rather, certain interpretations of them, “which are not protected per se.”
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Wouldn’t they just love that?
Ahmad Shaheed. yeah right, like that Muslim is someone Americans should listen to.
Kick his jihadist a$$ out of the U.S. along with Omar and Tlaib !
US out of the UN and the UN out of the USA. Use the building for the cornavirus patients that will soon abound in New York City.
Even more indication that the snatching away of the believers in Christ is very close at hand.
Amen to that!
UH...No. The globalists must be quashed, by any means necessary.
The very fact that an elitist group of arrogant, amoral pond scum seeks to put their will above the supremacy of the individual is reason enough to isolate and imprison them, forever.
Thanks, but no thanks, Ahmad.
Ole Ahmad needs to take a long look at his religion.
Apostasy—the abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief—of Islam is punishable by death in almost every Muslim nation.
What happens when some Imam rules a fatwa against him?
From an objective standpoint, it seems that’s how it works. 1/2 truths and omissions don’t make for good credibility. I didn’t read the full report, but that’s why I prefer the original source/report over someone’s review, regardless on who is giving their view.
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
You shall have no other gods before me”
This includes the UN.
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
You shall have no other gods before me”
This includes the UN.
Must be worth repeating, I guess.
UN experts should learn to duck.
Ahmad Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, is biased against religion and needs to be fired.
I can’t think of a better place to relocate the UN than Somalia.
What a great idea! Let the Eurotwits pay for the relocation, just get the hive of scum and villainy out of the USofA.
I think all true Muslims are jihadi.
They’re not even trying to hide it anymore.
Incredible!
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