Posted on 12/10/2010 4:22:49 PM PST by jazusamo
The United Nations wants to criminalize religious heresy, provided that those making the claim are Islamists.
Later this month, the United Nations General Assembly will vote on the nonbinding Defamation of Religions Resolution, which would give international sanction to the type of religious persecution commonplace in Muslim-majority countries. Superficially, the resolution contains feel-good human rights language routinely churned out by the U.N. The intent of this resolution, however, is to give sanction to repressive mechanisms that primarily Muslim countries use to stifle critiques of their state-sanctioned sects. This lends international legitimacy to criminal penalties against people who exercise their freedom of worship.
The resolution has been pushed in various forms for over a decade, largely by the 57 states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. These countries have Shariah-based legal systems that boast the most stringent requirements for public worship and the harshest penalties for not adhering to the official religious orthodoxy. Islam is the only religion expressly mentioned in the resolution.
The proposed language discusses the Sept. 11, 2001 jihadist attacks on America, not to condemn them but to call attention to "the ethnic and religious profiling of Muslim minorities" that allegedly took place afterwards, which was part of a purported "intensification of the overall campaign of defamation of religions and incitement to religious hatred in general." It claims, "Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism and,..
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Of course, only Muslims can be persecuted. It doesn't apply when Muslims persecute Jews, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists...
Wow. The UN should be in the business of expanding freedoms, not reducing them.
If this goes through, then there’s no limit as to what will come next.
Another budget reduction idea: defund the UN
What should happen next is, someone should fly a couple of low altitude cruise missiles into the UN building...preferably while the murderering-dictators are debating.
Amen to that, it's way over due!
Mohammed was a genocidal pedophile.
Allah must be a pretty sucky G-d, because if you look at the horrors visited upon his subjects regularly, it’s pretty clear Allah is either powerless or punishing.
I hate Islamists who use Islam as a justification for cold-blooded murder of innocents.
Agreed, and I really can't understand how a resolution like this could get the approval of the majority of nations. I suppose many are willing to side with the murdering theocracies to "teach" the West a lesson.
The UN is still the communist and cannibal club.
How dare you insult that baby-raping, genocidal, drunken, murderous pervert? islam is simply a great religion for those women-fearing nitwits too stupid for scientology.
This resolution would probably ban me from using my handle.
I’ve gotten hate mail because of it.
BOOYA, and Flame On!
And I HOPE THEY DON’T LIKE IT!!
At some point, you draw the line and say “No Farther.”
Islam is shit.
Always was.
Always is.
Always will be.
It will stop being shit when it turns into fertilizer.
Otherwise known as the Marxist Debating Society ( ^8 }
BTTT!
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