Posted on 01/20/2011 8:57:40 AM PST by William Tell 2
On 31 January 2011, the Council of Foreign Ministers of the European Union will meet to discuss measures to implement a resolution that promotes and protects religious freedom. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini - along with the Foreign Ministers of France, Poland and Hungary - asked Catherine Ashton, the High Representative for EU Foreign Policy, to schedule this matter.
During the past two years the Italian government has requested the EU to do something to prevent the persecution of Christians around the world. These efforts resulted in an Action Plan that would monitor the treatment of religious minorities everywhere.
Mr. Frattini said, “The latest episodes—the violence in Nigeria and bombing in Alexandria, Egypt—are tragic confirmation that the phenomenon of religious intolerance, with special regard to Christians but that does not spare other religious minorities …is absolutely unacceptable ….It is therefore time for a strong and unequivocal political response…. The European Union, for which human rights are a basic constitutional principle, must be in the forefront of this battle, and that is what Italy is asking of it.”
Frattini wants a more substantive action by the EU. Italy is also preparing to present a UN resolution on religious freedom to protect persecuted Iraqi Christians.
Meanwhile, Pope Benedict XVI thanked Italy for hosting the Iraqi Christians injured during the attack in the Baghdad Cathedral the October 31, 2010. Fifty-eight people were killed in that terrorist attack.
The Bishops' Synod for the Middle East asked for a U.N resolution in October 2010. They wanted a condemnation of Christophobia – in the same way the UN condemned Islamophobia. Cardinal Peter Turkson, of Ghana, President of the Pontifical Suggestion for Justice and Peace, said that minority religions in the Middle East must not suffer discrimination or violence either. He said the UN resolutions against religious discrimination should not only be for Islam and not only directed against the West.
Why has the United Nations not acted before now to address the issue of Christian persecution in Muslim nations? Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights commits the UN to enforce religious freedom. Yet, the UN has been silent about this. It did, as Cardinal Turkson alluded, approve a resolution against religious persecution and discrimination on 21 December 2010. The resolution was presented by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) - to condemn Islamophobia. The resolution was adopted with 79 in favor, 67 opposed and 40 abstentions.
But the resolution does not refer to the system of international protection of human rights. It is used only in Islamic lands to limit freedom of expression and religion. According to the opinion of many - including the International Association on the Religious Liberty, Open Doors International and many nations - this resolution encourages the adoption of laws such as the one about blasphemy in Pakistan used to threaten to kill the Christians.
Is the UN favoring the rights of the Islamic world to the detriment of Christendom? What will be the response of the UN to Italy’s request? What will the European Union do?
The answers to these questions will determine the fate of Christians and of the Christian religion in the Levant as well as throughout the world.
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Does a bear SH%t in the woods/Is the Pope Catholic? Next question...
I tried to formulate an articulate answer, but honestly, “Well, duh!” does it perfectly.
So you are saying this post was a waste of time? That the person who wrote this wrote something stupid? Is that what your sarcastic comment means?
It is a statement of the extremely obvious.
lemme give you a hint...
Moamarr Ghadaffi carries the proxy for 83 African nations. They voted him as “king of kings”. Now add in the OIC’s votes.
Clearly it is a muslim organization. You see it manifest itself in their ongoing pronouncements against the only democracy in the mid east ~ Israel.
But it is obvious that the Democratic Party is leftwing that Obama is a liberal but that does not stop anyone from writing about that does it?
So you are saying Limbaugh should shut up and Free Republic should shut down because most of the stuff Limbaugh says we already know and most of the stuff on FR is obvious.
Is that what you are saying?
But it is obvious that the Democratic Party is leftwing that Obama is a liberal but that does not stop anyone from writing about that does it?
So you are saying Limbaugh should shut up and Free Republic should shut down because most of the stuff Limbaugh says we already know and most of the stuff on FR is obvious.
Is that what you are saying?
lemmee give you a hint
Most of the stuff on FR is ‘extremely obvious.’ The same with the Limbaugh show.
But are you going to tell me that you knew everything that was written in the article already?
Or are you just reading the headline and making a comment because thinking is a difficult task for you?
popcorn
You’re trying to create a fight. I was agreeing with the article. Now drop it.
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