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Islamic states push for global anti-blasphemy resolution
cna ^ | December 3, 2010

Posted on 12/03/2010 1:24:18 PM PST by NYer

Madrid, Spain, Dec 3, 2010 / 03:58 pm (CNA).- The Organization of the Islamic Conference has sponsored a draft resolution at the United Nations that would condemn the “defamation of religion” and create a global “anti-blasphemy law.”

The draft resolution was presented by Pakistan in the name of the Islamic conference, which holds a majority of the seats on the U.N. Human Rights Council, according to the Spanish daily ABC.

The Muslim organization hopes to secure passage of the resolution by the U.N. General Assembly. However, the resolution has been met with widespread rejection, especially for its condemnation of the criticism of radical Islam by the media.

The United States and European countries have warned that a resolution of this kind constitutes an attack on freedom of expression and could lead to greater persecution of religious minorities.  Experts say “defamation” can only be liable to legal sanction when it involves persons and not concepts or feelings.

According to the Spanish daily, many Muslim states have a legal system based on Sharia (Islamic law) and have established anti-blasphemy laws that in practice only condemn insults against the prophet Muhammad but not against other religions.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; freespeech; islam; pakistan; un; us
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To: Noumenon

Sounds good to me.


21 posted on 12/03/2010 2:23:00 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS= Obama's Mosque, taxes, painful death. Is this what you want?)
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To: NYer

Fine. Start with the blasphemy that is Islam. I volunteer to drive the bulldozer that takes down the abomination that they call the Dome of the Rock, and the flea market next to it that they call a mosque. It was a noble sanctuary before the Muslims showed up.


22 posted on 12/03/2010 2:49:15 PM PST by naturalized
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To: NYer
It's impossible to blaspheme a Satanic abomination faux religion like Islam. The best you could hope to do would be defile its irrelevant concepts of piety, like peeing on a Koran, or smearing pig fat all over a convenient imam, or failing to genitally mutilate your daughter.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

23 posted on 12/03/2010 3:03:22 PM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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To: NYer

I think there will have to be an eventual war between Radical Islam and everyone else.


24 posted on 12/03/2010 4:02:20 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: NYer
Islam -- in any form -- is the problem, period, end of story.

We see no distinction in quality between Islamic terrorism and Sharia law: only a distinction in degree. -- Terrorism By Degrees

25 posted on 12/03/2010 4:40:35 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (oy.)
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To: NYer

Get the US out of the UN! While we are defunding NPR lets defund the UN as well..... The followers of the Pedophile tyrant, goat-humping, terrorist inspiration Mohammed can make their resolutions without OUR tax dollars....


26 posted on 12/03/2010 7:38:07 PM PST by jakerobins
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To: SandRat

...And the flea bitten camels they rode in on!


27 posted on 12/03/2010 9:29:13 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: NYer

28 posted on 12/07/2010 10:42:32 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead

You’ve got the wrong pair dancing on the altar...it should be Satan.


29 posted on 12/07/2010 10:45:48 AM PST by Snardius
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