Posted on 12/03/2008 3:44:37 AM PST by IbJensen
The United Nations General Assembly is considering passage of a resolution called "Combating Defamation of Religion."
Angela Wu of The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty notes the resolution mentions only the protection of Islam -- and that is one of several concerns for her.
"Because it's protecting defamation against religion -- an idea -- rather than defamation against a person, it essentially controls what people can say about religion, which we think is ultimately quite dangerous to have the state moderate what people can and can't peacefully say about religious ideas," she contends.
Christianity and Judaism, according to Wu, are not specifically protected by the resolution, nor is any religion other than Islam. "And even if Jews and Christians were protected under the resolution, the question is: do you really want the state telling you how to discuss Christianity or how to discuss Judaism?" she asks.
While the resolution is expected to pass in the General Assembly, Wu believes it will not be the last word on the issue.
No cartoons.
....Except online.
Plus any UN resolution have little enforcement powers anyways.
Not to get too off topic, but I stubled upon this absolutely great series on Showtime (though it hard to find) that in some ways blows away 24:
“Sleeper Cell”:
http://www.sho.com/site/sleepercell/cast.do?castid=michael
The series deals in better details the struggle within “the Muslim community” between good and evil, although on last night’s episode it did stray into the simplistic “We need all the good Muslims to step up to the plate if we are going to beat radical Islam” at which point I turned it off. The Hell we do, I still have more faith in the following:
http://www.hyscience.com/kill_them_all_let_allah_sort_them_out.jpg
Overall: it’s as good if not better than 24.
UN Islam ping
Meanwhile.........Jews and Christians are persecuted and murdered every day.
Screw. Them.
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