Don't criticise Islam, says UN

(UK) The Telegraph ^ | 12/31/2007 | Damian Thompson

[markomalley]

It didn’t attract much notice, but the General Assembly of the United Nations ended the year by passing a disgusting resolution protecting Islam from criticism of its human rights violations.

Lots of non-Muslims voted for it – a sign that more and more corrupt Third World governments are identifying with the ideology of Islam, even if they don't accept its doctrines.

The resolution goes under the innocuous title "Combating defamation of religions" – but the text singles out "Islam and Muslims in particular". It expresses "deep concern that Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism".

[weegee]

Run searches here...

http://unbisnet.un.org:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=voting&menu=search&submenu=power#focus

And here are the details:

http://unbisnet.un.org:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=DP9C377247122.18014&profile=voting&uri=full=3100023~!849577~!0&ri=1&aspect=power&menu=search&source=~!horizon#focus

UN Resolution Symbol: A/RES/62/154
Meeting Number: 76
Title: Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
Related Document: A/62/439/ADD.2
Vote Notes: RECORDED
Voting Summary: Yes: 108, No: 51, Abstentions: 25, Non-Voting: 8, Total voting membership: 192
Vote Date: 20071218

UNITED STATES voted “NO”

Detailed Voting: Y AFGHANISTAN
ALBANIA
Y ALGERIA
N ANDORRA
Y ANGOLA
Y ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
A ARGENTINA
A ARMENIA
N AUSTRALIA
N AUSTRIA
Y AZERBAIJAN
Y BAHAMAS
Y BAHRAIN
Y BANGLADESH
Y BARBADOS
Y BELARUS
N BELGIUM
Y BELIZE
Y BENIN
Y BHUTAN
Y BOLIVIA
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
A BOTSWANA
A BRAZIL
Y BRUNEI DARUSSALAM
N BULGARIA
Y BURKINA FASO
BURUNDI
Y CAMBODIA
Y CAMEROON
N CANADA
Y CAPE VERDE
Y CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Y CHAD
A CHILE
Y CHINA
A COLOMBIA
Y COMOROS
Y CONGO
Y COSTA RICA
Y COTE D’IVOIRE
N CROATIA
Y CUBA
N CYPRUS
N CZECH REPUBLIC
Y DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Y DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
N DENMARK
Y DJIBOUTI
Y DOMINICA
Y DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
A ECUADOR
Y EGYPT
Y EL SALVADOR
Y EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Y ERITREA
N ESTONIA
Y ETHIOPIA
Y FIJI
N FINLAND
N FRANCE
Y GABON
Y GAMBIA
N GEORGIA
N GERMANY
A GHANA
N GREECE
Y GRENADA
A GUATEMALA
Y GUINEA
GUINEA-BISSAU
Y GUYANA
Y HAITI
Y HONDURAS
N HUNGARY
N ICELAND
A INDIA
Y INDONESIA
Y IRAN (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF)
Y IRAQ
N IRELAND
N ISRAEL
N ITALY
Y JAMAICA
A JAPAN
Y JORDAN
Y THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN
A KENYA
REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI
Y KUWAIT
Y KYRGYZSTAN
Y LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
N LATVIA
Y LEBANON
Y LESOTHO
Y LIBERIA
Y LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA
N LIECHTENSTEIN
N LITHUANIA
N LUXEMBOURG
A MADAGASCAR
A MALAWI
Y MALAYSIA
Y MALDIVES
Y MALI
N MALTA
N MARSHALL ISLANDS
Y MAURITANIA
Y MAURITIUS
A MEXICO
N MICRONESIA (FEDERATED STATES OF)
N MOLDOVA
N MONACO
A MONGOLIA
N MONTENEGRO
Y MOROCCO
Y MOZAMBIQUE
Y MYANMAR
Y NAMIBIA
REPUBLIC OF NAURU
A NEPAL
N NETHERLANDS
N NEW ZEALAND
Y NICARAGUA
Y NIGER
A NIGERIA
N NORWAY
Y OMAN
Y PAKISTAN
N PALAU
A PANAMA
A PAPUA NEW GUINEA
A PARAGUAY
A PERU
Y PHILIPPINES
N POLAND
N PORTUGAL
Y QATAR
N REPUBLIC OF KOREA
N ROMANIA
Y RUSSIAN FEDERATION
A RWANDA
Y SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS
Y SAINT LUCIA
Y SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
N SAMOA
N SAN MARINO
Y SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Y SAUDI ARABIA
Y SENEGAL
N SERBIA
SEYCHELLES
Y SIERRA LEONE
Y SINGAPORE
N SLOVAKIA
N SLOVENIA
A SOLOMON ISLANDS
Y SOMALIA
Y SOUTH AFRICA
N SPAIN
Y SRI LANKA
Y SUDAN
Y SURINAME
Y SWAZILAND
N SWEDEN
N SWITZERLAND
Y SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
Y TAJIKISTAN
Y THAILAND
N THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Y TIMOR-LESTE
Y TOGO
KINGDOM OF TONGA
Y TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Y TUNISIA
Y TURKEY
Y TURKMENISTAN
Y TUVALU
Y UGANDA
N UKRAINE
Y UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
N UNITED KINGDOM
A UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
N UNITED STATES
Y URUGUAY
Y UZBEKISTAN
Y VANUATU
Y VENEZUELA (BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF)
Y VIET NAM
Y YEMEN
Y ZAMBIA
Y ZIMBABWE

[weegee]

To break this down (and I may have accidently deleated some nations but none are misattributed):

N ANDORRA
N AUSTRALIA
N AUSTRIA
N BELGIUM
N BULGARIA
N CANADA
N CROATIA
N CYPRUS
N CZECH REPUBLIC
N DENMARK
N ESTONIA
N FINLAND
N FRANCE
N GEORGIA
N GERMANY
N GREECE
N HUNGARY
N ICELAND
N IRELAND
N ISRAEL
N ITALY
N LATVIA
N LIECHTENSTEIN
N LITHUANIA
N LUXEMBOURG
N MALTA
N MARSHALL ISLANDS
N MICRONESIA (FEDERATED STATES OF)
N MOLDOVA
N MONACO
N MONTENEGRO
N NETHERLANDS
N NEW ZEALAND
N NORWAY
N PALAU
N POLAND
N PORTUGAL
N REPUBLIC OF KOREA
N ROMANIA
N SAMOA
N SAN MARINO
N SERBIA
N SLOVAKIA
N SLOVENIA
N SPAIN
N SWEDEN
N SWITZERLAND
N THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
N UKRAINE
N UNITED KINGDOM
N UNITED STATES

ALBANIA
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
BURUNDI
GUINEA-BISSAU
REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI
REPUBLIC OF NAURU
SEYCHELLES
KINGDOM OF TONGA

A ARGENTINA
A ARMENIA
A BOTSWANA
A BRAZIL
A CHILE
A COLOMBIA
A ECUADOR
A GHANA
A GUATEMALA
A INDIA
A JAPAN
A KENYA
A MADAGASCAR
A MALAWI
A MEXICO
A MONGOLIA
A NEPAL
A NIGERIA
A PANAMA
A PAPUA NEW GUINEA
A PARAGUAY
A PERU
A RWANDA
A SOLOMON ISLANDS
A UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

Y AFGHANISTAN
Y ALGERIA
Y ANGOLA
Y ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Y AZERBAIJAN
Y BAHAMAS
Y BAHRAIN
Y BANGLADESH
Y BARBADOS
Y BELARUS
Y BELIZE
Y BENIN
Y BHUTAN
Y BOLIVIA
Y BRUNEI DARUSSALAM
Y BURKINA FASO
Y CAMBODIA
Y CAMEROON
Y CAPE VERDE
Y CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Y CHAD
A CHILE
Y CHINA
Y COMOROS
Y CONGO
Y COSTA RICA
Y COTE D’IVOIRE
Y CUBA
Y DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Y DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
Y DJIBOUTI
Y DOMINICA
Y DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Y EGYPT
Y EL SALVADOR
Y EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Y ERITREA
Y ETHIOPIA
Y FIJI
Y GABON
Y GAMBIA
Y GRENADA
Y GUINEA
Y GUYANA
Y HAITI
Y HONDURAS
Y INDONESIA
Y IRAN (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF)
Y IRAQ
Y JAMAICA
Y JORDAN
Y THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN
Y KUWAIT
Y KYRGYZSTAN
Y LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
Y LEBANON
Y LESOTHO
Y LIBERIA
Y LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA
Y MALAYSIA
Y MALDIVES
Y MALI
Y MAURITANIA
Y MAURITIUS
Y MOROCCO
Y MOZAMBIQUE
Y MYANMAR
Y NAMIBIA
Y NICARAGUA
Y NIGER
Y OMAN
Y PAKISTAN
Y PHILIPPINES
Y QATAR
Y RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Y SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS
Y SAINT LUCIA
Y SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
Y SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Y SAUDI ARABIA
Y SENEGAL
Y SIERRA LEONE
Y SINGAPORE
Y SOMALIA
Y SOUTH AFRICA
Y SRI LANKA
Y SUDAN
Y SURINAME
Y SWAZILAND
Y SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
Y TAJIKISTAN
Y THAILAND
Y TIMOR-LESTE
Y TOGO
Y TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Y TUNISIA
Y TURKEY
Y TURKMENISTAN
Y TUVALU
Y UGANDA
Y UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Y URUGUAY
Y UZBEKISTAN
Y VANUATU
Y VENEZUELA (BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF)
Y VIET NAM
Y YEMEN
Y ZAMBIA
Y ZIMBABWE

[Mr. Mojo]

Exactly right — criticism of Islam: unacceptable. Criticism of Israel: required.

[MinuteGal]

Thanks, Weegee, for going to all this trouble. Don't have time at the moment to analyze all this, but first glance shows the Bahamas and other Caribbean Islands who voted for this appeasement resolution (and not with us) are the non-grateful recipients of billions of U.S. tourist dollars over the years.

Delegates from uneducated, jealous, ungrateful, commie, U.S. hating "nations", some barely out of the stone-age stage, are having a ball banding together to screw the west in this and many other pro-Islamic resolutions.

And they screw us out of our money, also....yours and mine. We finance this anti-American organization and it's high-living corrupt U.N. representatives who know the American public is complacent and soft.

There's absolutely no effective patriotic leadership in this country any more....in either party.

God help us.

Leni

[weegee]

I was surprised to see much of the West reject this. Pleasantly surprised but surprised all the same. There may be hope yet.

“With us or against us”.

Then again, the Carribean hasn’t had much first hand experience with riots from the Religion of Peace getting upset over a teddy bear or editorial cartoon.

[MinuteGal]

I personally don't feel there's any hope at all. There's no future hope with anything connected with the U.N.

How many decades have we been "hoping" now?

Nothing ever changes, except for the worse.

Things will only get more bizarre and frightening as the U.N. consistently admits into its syndicate a string of 5th-world countries with populations of 20 aborigines and a warlord who takes our money for his "administration" (his own pocket) and then instructs his thug delegate to vote against us.

Leni

[Levante]

Levante to UN: Go eat crap.

[NRA2BFree]

When I want to call Muslims, demons, koranimals, evil and say that Islam is a satanic cult of death, I’m going to do it. To hell with the UN and to hell with Islam!

[knighthawk]

Islam taking over the UN...

Islam-list

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

[knighthawk]

No more UN for US-list

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

[dennisw]

I like the Sikhs. They know what a fraud Islam is and how crazed aggressive the followers

[oneamericanvoice]

Stockholm Syndrome?

[oneamericanvoice]

How about passing a resolution telling Islam that it can’t criticize the rest of the world in any way, shape, or form! Oops, forgot! Pigs don’t fly...yet.

[Rosemont]

The UN is a 3rd World Supremacist organization

[blinachka]

The UN can kiss my infidel butt!

[PsyOp]

Too bad we can’t link Islam to Global Warming. What a quandry that would be for the UN.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thank you for the ping.

[ZULU]

That’s pretty much it in an nutshell.

And how many candidates for President in EITHER party have expressed opinions against the U.N.?