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.
Late last week, I attended a Capitol Hill briefing about an obscure United Nations resolution on "defamation of religions" that some call the "soft jihad. Lined up in front of a hearing room in the Rayburn House Office Building were six panelists including David Harris, a Canadian who was sued for libel in 2004 by the Canadian branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for remarks he made on a radio show.
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We in the United States have a robust tradition of free speech on any and every subject. Whatever the topic - politics, business, sports or philosophy - we take for granted our right to speak up and speak out, to grapple with ideas, to seek to persuade others and to agree to disagree. Occasionally, feelings are hurt and sometimes citizens speak irresponsibly, but we consider this risk a small price to pay to safeguard the spirit of the First Amendment. The right to speak one's mind is essential to life in a free nation.
... again on the verge of introducing a resolution that goes against everything the world body suppos...
After the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, a white reporter asked Mal- colm X to respond to a statement in reference to the civil rights move- ment: "You feel, however, that we are making progress in this coun- try." Malcolm X answered, "No. You stick a knife into my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that's not progress. Such is the condition of Asiya Bibi, a Pakistani Christian mother of five accused of blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad. Ms. Bibi allegedly committed "blasphemy" while fetching water in her village near Lahore in 2009. After an 18-month imprisonment, a district court handed down a death sentence for Ms. Bibbi two weeks ago under Section 295B of the Pakistani Penal Code.
..., these laws form the basis for the defamation-of-religions resolution pending before United Nati...
... of international justice and dispute resolution, the law of 9/11, the law of international agreeme... members to ban speech that "defames" religions, such as the Danish cartoons. At this session, we ... Conference's highly problematic "defamation of religions" resolution, even while continuing to...
On Inauguration Day, after it got the United Nations to pass a gag rule on insulting religions, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) told our new president in a New York Times ad that Muslims "have compelling strategic and moral reasons to cooperate and peacefully coexist with the United States in particular, and with the West in general. Many Muslims here and elsewhere want that partnership; but some, jihadists in the name of Islam, disagree violently. In its address to our new president, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (which has permanent status at the United Nations) made no mention of its own strategic skills that resulted, on Dec. 18, in the passage by the U.N. General Assembly of a nonbinding resolution (with strong advice to its members) that condemns "de...
... and coercion resulting from defamation of religions and incitement to religious hatred in...
GENEVA -- Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery -- essentially a ban on blasphemy that would put them on a collision course with free speech laws in the West. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that Algeria and Pakistan have taken the lead in lobbying to eventually bring the proposal to a vote in the U.N. General Assembly.
... to agree that a treaty protecting religions is necessary. The move would be a first step towar... has successfully passed a nonbinding resolution at the General Assembly condemning "defamation of ...
... erosion of support for the "Combating Defamation of Religions" resolution sponsored by the Organiza...
Good riddance to the aughts, naughts or ohs. By whatever name, the first decade of the 21st century has been devastating for religious liberty in much of the world. The statistics are numbing. According to a study released last month by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, nearly 70 percent of the world's 6.8 billion people now live in countries with high restrictions on religious beliefs and practices.
...General Assembly adopted yet another resolution condemning "defamation of religions" and calling f...
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