UN, OIC pass resolution criminalizing “defamation” of religion (mainly islam)

by Kal El on March 31, 2009 · Comments

The UN is looking more and more like the old SS in 1903’s Germany.  Consider that if one insults Jesus, Christianity, Judaism, God, etc… no one really cares. You might hear the usual hellfire and brimstone speech from a pastor, affirming that God is not mocked, but you don’t have Christians or Jews or Hindu rioting in the streets, burning, and blowing themselves and others up to defend allah and islam’s honor.

UN body OKs call to curb religious criticism

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top human-rights body approved a proposal backed by Muslims nations Thursday urging the passage of laws around the world protecting religion from criticism.

The proposal by Pakistan had drawn strong criticism from free-speech campaigners and liberal democracies.

A simple majority of 23 members of the 47-nation Human Rights Council voted in favor of the resolution. Eleven mostly Western nations opposed it and 13 countries abstained.

The resolution urges states to provide “protection against acts of hatred, discrimination, intimidation and coercion resulting from defamation of religions and incitement to religious hatred in general.”

“It is individuals who have rights and not religions,” said Canadian diplomat Terry Cormier. Canada’s criticism was echoed by European Union countries, all of which voted against the proposal.

The council is dominated by Muslim and African countries. Muslim nations have argued that religions, in particular Islam, must be shielded from criticism in the media and other areas of public life. They cited cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad as an example of unacceptable free speech.

“Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism,” the resolution said.

A coalition of more than 100 secular and faith groups had called on governments to oppose the resolution, warning that it could lead to accusations of defamation among different faiths.

The United States did not vote on the resolution because it is not a member of the council. The Bush administration announced it was virtually giving up on the body and would participate in debates only if absolutely necessary because of the council’s anti-Israel statements and its failure to act on abuses in Sudan and elsewhere.

India, which normally votes along with the council’s majority of developing nations, abstained in protest at the fact that Islam was the only religion specifically named as deserving protection.

India’s Ambassador Gopinathan Achamkulangare said the resolution “inappropriately” linked religious criticism to racism.

Funny how muslims never bat an eyelash when one of their own inbred f*cktard imam’s calls Jews the sons of apes, or Christians dirty animals. But call a muslim terrorist a muslim terrorist and they cry like a bunch of 6 year old girls (with apologies for insulting 6 year old girls). Free speech is enshrined in our Constitution, so the UN and the Organization of the islamic council can suck a kielbasa.

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  • Walter Lane
    The UN can kiss my white Anglo-Saxon protestant a**
  • JEWHAWK
    United Islamic Nations,of course,is determined to protect Islam
    while the muslims can bash Judaism at will.Nice,huh?

    I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THIS MORALLY CORRUPT
    ORGANIZATION.
  • Storm_Rider
    “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington
  • G
    Just Another attack on free speech. check the pic i got for this.

    http://iblowminds.com/2009/04/01/un-oic-pass-re...
  • G
    U.N. Says Afghan President Signs Law Legalizing Rape in Marriage

    http://iblowminds.com/2009/04/01/un-says-afghan...
  • hellosnackbar
    Once more the primitives on the globe get together in a backslapping self congratulatory jamboree;and think they count for something;as they piously pass some silly resolution concerning the civilised world.
    Then they have the temerity to act as though their dignity is impuned,when they represent some third world sewer,where moral justice has never existed.
    Black humour?
    ;
  • Shukri
    Criticising religion is fine and this law does not negate that. Rather, it prohibits the "defamation" of religion.

    Insults are not the same as criticism.
  • Beejj
    When you say, Shukri, that criticising religion is fine, is it fine to indulge in such criticism in Saudi Arabia and Iran? I seem to recall reading that these countries have religious police forces, a novel concept in my experience of the world, and a phenomenon that suggests that criticism of Islam is beyond the pale. But perhaps I am mistaken: perhaps they welcome religious criticism so that healthy, invigorating discussion might ensue. No doubt you will enlighten me.

    You take issue, though, with defamation of a religion: you frown upon insults directed at religion. My first reaction to this is to contemplate the shelling of the ancient and irreplaceable statues of Buddha by Muslims. Bit of an insult, I would suggest. Agreed? I wonder, too, why anyone should be denied the right to insult any religion, given that religion is nothing more than superstition.
  • Shukri
    The Buddha's survived centuries of Muslim's rule. The reason for their destruction was political, because the Taliban were denied aid for people, but offered aid for preserving statues:

    From the USA Today report:

    "As the Taliban see it, the UN and others (such as New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, Taiwan's National Palace Museum, and even such Taliban friends as Iran, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) will give millions of dollars to save un-Islamic stone statues but not one cent to save the lives of Afghani men, women, and children.

    It doesn't help when a Japanese parliamentary delegation offers humanitarian aid in exchange for moving the statues out of the country. As journalist Hebah Abdalla wrote on March 2: "There was no 'worldwide horror' or 'international outrage' when UN officials announced Friday that more than 260 people have died in displacement camps in northern Afghanistan, where an additional 117,000 people are living in miserable conditions. … Perhaps the only consolation in all of this is that these refugees may never know how much the world cared for two statues and how little it cared for them."

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/archaeolog...
  • Beejj
    Please don't resort to red herrings, Shukri. Stick to the point.

    Your claim that the actions of Muslims have nothing to do with religion, but are political, is absurd, as is your griping about failure (or refusal?) of the UN to provide financial support for Afghanistan. For one thing, Americans and others are sacrificing young lives in order to bring sanity to that benighted country (one American life is worth far more than 100 female camels), while for another, the oil-rich Islamic states have a glorious opportunity to render such assistance to starving Afghans, but they prefer to indulge in personal luxuries.

    The fact that "260 people have died in displacement camps", etc, has nothing to do with the destruction of ancient statues of the Buddha, so don't try to make out that these 260 deaths in some way excuse these acts of vandalism. (Don't try to tell us that such deeds are a recent phenomenon: travel the Silk Road one day to see the ravages caused by early Islam as it spread East.) But again, you avoid the issue: is the destruction of such statues an insult to a religion?
  • Shukri
    Again, the Taliban's destruction of the Buddhas was based on political motives, and had nothing to do with Islam.

    From the article, "...it is important to recognize that the [destruction of the Buddhas] has little to do with religion." and everything to do with the Taliban being denied international aid for the people of Afghanistan.

    Again, from the article:

    "the Taliban government for more than a year has been requesting international humanitarian aid for a country ravaged by drought, earthquakes, and war. No aid is forthcoming as long as the Taliban harbor international terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, an anathema to key voting members of the UN Security Council, including the United States, Russia (where the Taliban are working with the Chechnyan rebels), and China (where the Taliban are active among Muslim separatists).

    As the Taliban see it, the UN and others (such as New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, Taiwan's National Palace Museum, and even such Taliban friends as Iran, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) will give millions of dollars to save un-Islamic stone statues but not one cent to save the lives of Afghani men, women, and children"
  • Beejj
    Do you seriously contend, Shukri, that the destruction of the Buddha statues had nothing to do with religion??? Why, then, did these Muslim apes target them? As I said previously, Muslims have been defacing and wrecking Buddhist sacred statues for many centuries. Political acts? Yeah, and Mohammed was an Irishman.

    Are the Taliban so brainless that they think their destruction of the Buddhas will cause the world to come to aid of Afghanistan? Of course not. They know damn well that such vandalism can only result in their being considered even worse than was formerly the case, but they went ahead and did it out of their primitive religious beliefs which forbid such statues. Purest evil. Islam is superior, so we'll defecate upon the sensitivities of Buddhists.

    Why was there such great need for humanitarian aid to Afghanistan? Might it have had something to do with the religious cruelty of these stout-hearted fighters for Islam? What is the aim of the Taliban? To thrust Sharia law upon those under their control. This is political rather than religious?

    Your views are laughable, but you truly excelled yourself when you wrote to Jewhawk to tell him that a fatwa is but a legal opinion - the opinion of a scholar rather than the religion itself. Um ..... WHAT KIND OF SCHOLAR, Shukri?
  • Shukri
    According to the article, the Bamiyan Buddha's destruction had nothing to do with religion.

    There was and continues to be great need in Afghanistan because since they were invaded by the Soviets, their country has been ravaged, and they have also experienced severe drought.

    edit:

    Fatwa - definition: "A fatwā (فتوى; plural fatāwā فتاوى), in the Islamic faith is a religious opinion on Islamic law issued by an Islamic scholar" http://tinyurl.com/5ywmf
  • Beejj
    The writer of the article needs his head examined. He no doubt has his own agenda, though. If Afghanistan is in such desperate need fof financial assistance, why doesn't Saudi Arabia do something to help? I have already said that America, Britain, etc, quite apart from the hideous cost of their military exertions to bring sanity to that country - a forlorn hope in a land where the tribes hate each other's guts - sacrifice the lives of their finest. How much is that worth? (As a matter of interest, what are the major sources of income for Afghanistan ........?)

    So you agree, having provided your definition, that a fatwa IS a religion-derived opinion. Good.
  • Shukri
    Saudi has been sending aid to Afghanistan: http://tinyurl.com/cfpshx
  • hellosnackbar
    Well well the Saudis giving aid.
    They'd do a lot more good if they'd stop funding Salfist sedition on a world wide basis.
  • Shukri
    I agree.

    Let us not forget, however, that it was the British who brought the Wahhabi's to power.

    The Ottoman Muslim Caliphate destroyed the Wahhabi's when they first appeared, and had their leaders executed in Istanbul.

    http://tinyurl.com/d5hzwc

    http://www.onwar.com/aced/nation/eat/egypt/fwah...
  • Beejj
    Well, they had better send more, hadn't they?
  • Beejj
    Then they had better send more, hadn't they?
  • JEWHAWK
    What religion issues FATWAS against those whom are
    disagreeing with?

    Did any Jew issued a FATWA against Mel Gibson?
    Is he living in some obscure hideout?Nope.He lives
    without any concern about his safety in Malibu.

    Did any Jew issued a FATWA against David Duke?
    Nope.

    CARTOONS:

    Did any Jew issued a FATWA against the several
    hundreds of blatant anti-Jewish cartoons that
    are published on a DAILY BASIS throughout the
    muslim world?
    Nope.

    IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT,GET THE HELL OUT OF THE KITCHEN.
    If muslims think that they are free to criticize,bash the others,then should
    keep their mouths shut when us,the infidels,REACT.
  • Beejj
    Very pithy, Jewhawk. I love it.
  • Shukri
    A fatwa is a "legal opinion". The mere opinion of a scholar is not the religion itself.
  • JEWHAWK
    And my opinion is that you're a LIAR,Mr.Shukri.
    Your DEATH CULT that you call "ISLAM" is the
    NEMESIS of EVERYTHING the Western Civilization
    fought very hard to achieve for centuries,whereas you stood
    still dormant in the seventh century.

    Islam as a whole concept is a creepy,revolting,gross
    thing that makes me puke.You're a disease.Period.
    When I was a kid,I thought that Nazism was the worst
    thing the human race ever created,but I was wrong,for
    Islam is FAR WORSE than what Adolf Hitler and his
    lackeys did.
  • Shukri
    Hitler killed 6 million+ people of the Jewish faith. There is nothing that anyone has done to Jewish people that is worse than that.
  • JEWHAWK
    I keep my opinion.Islam is worse than Nazism.And
    you know that I'm speaking the truth.

    There's abolutely NOTHING on Earth that I hate more
    than I hate Islam and everything attached to it.

    If you didn't like it,so be it.
  • Shukri
    I understand your viewpoint, but I also feel that we have to take facts into consideration when we decide what to believe in...
  • Beejj
    The only reason Israel continues to exist, Shukri, is because every time the united armies of Muslims attack them, with the avowed aim of driving them into the sea, Israel always manages to give them a hammering. In other words, they would love to do something akin to what Hitler did.
  • Shukri
    The only thing Muslims have against Israel is the hundreds of thousands of refugees who lost their homes in modern day Israel, and now live in decrepit refugee camps.

    http://tinyurl.com/8dxbua
  • Beejj
    If only the situation were as simple as that, Shukri!! You would do well to read a decent history of Israel's birth. The refugee problem came into existence immediately the State was born when it was attacked by combined Arab forces. The Arab population would not listen to ben Gurion, electing instead to abandon their homes. Many did this believing that Transjordan and Syria would accommodate them, but they were deserted by those countries who played dirty, callous politics with their own people.
  • Shukri
    I don't disagree with what you said.

    However, the vast majority of Israeli's are foreign immigrants, and have not lived in the region for centuries. Look at the targets of the rocket attacks, for example. The residents of Sderot are actually immigrants from Morocco and Kurdistan.
  • Beejj
    Shukri, I don't care if they came from Mars. They are flesh and blood people who deserve our respect and consideration. Israel IS, so live with it.

    By the way, it was fun being addressed by you in a previous post as "dude". Makes a nice change from being addressed as "sir".
  • Shukri
    All human beings deserve respect.

    "We have honored the sons of Adam..." Quran 17:70

    That does not mean that people are allowed to claim the land of others, though.

    Btw, I didn't intend any disrespect with "dude", its just the way I talk.
  • Beejj
    Shukri, people have been dispossessing people of lands since the dawn of history. As a Welshman, I could say, "English people, get out of my country". And the Irish, my brothers as I am proud to call them, could say much the same thing. That's history whether we like it or not. When I read the Old Testament about the slaughters perpetrated by the Jews (those of the "Thou shalt not kill" persuasion) in the so-called Promised Land, my very soul cries out in anguish, but victory goes to the strongest. That's the way things are, like it or not. It's a hard world. Modern Israel, though, did not come into existence in such manner. It was a UN decision (I LOATHE the UN), the Brits having not the guts to do their duty by the Balfour Declaration. You say that people do not have the right to claim the land of others, but you are wrong. "Might is right", by and large. Just examine the Treaty of Versailles (that by its very nature ensured WWII - don't blame Hitler). Think about this, though: on several occasions Israel conquered vast slabs of Arab lands in warfare, but they always gave it back. Would the Arabs have behaved similarly? I think not.

    Please refrain from quoting the Koran to me. It upsets my delicate stomach.
  • Shukri
    The Jewish people's beef was with the Nazi's, hence they had no right to take land away from Palestinians who had been rightfully living there for centuries.

    There will never be peace in the Middle East until Israel gives the refugees their land back.

    http://tinyurl.com/8dxbua
  • Beejj
    Wrong, Shukri. The Jews were given that land- that unclaimed land - by the United Nations. They had "beefs" with Arabs long before Hitler was born.

    Yup, there will never be peace in the "Middle East" until religion dies and people see themselves as biological brothers. Religion keeps them apart; nothing else.
  • Shukri
    If it was unclaimed land, how come there are hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees living in decrepit refugee camps?

    http://www.un.org/unrwa/refugees/gaza.html
  • Kal_El
    Because they fled when the Arab armies promised to push the Jews into the
    sea, as opposed to staying, like the Israelis asked them to. How did that
    work out for the mighty armies of allah? Oh wait, we all know. Y'all got
    your asses handed to you. Repeatedly (1948, 1967, 1973, 2006, 2009).
  • Shukri
    They fled because of news of anti-Arab massacres by Israel.

    In the end, it doesn't matter why they fled--their property is still their property, even if Israel steals it and gives it to somebody else.
  • hellosnackbar
    Define insult as opposed to criticism Shukri.
    I think you'll find that most thin skinned muslims will interpret criticism as insult.
    Etymology has never been their strong suit.
    And epistemology is even weaker amongst the religously retarded.
    On the other hand they are fervent believers in eschatology as evidenced by the asinine warnings I've had as to my future afterlife.
    Relentless ridicule of the death cult seems to insult muslims; and my guess is that you'll be hearing it for years to come.
  • Shukri
    insult: abuse; a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; To demean or affront

    criticism: disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings
  • Kal_El
    Any time we point out islam's fault's we are labeled islamophobes and accused of racism. Take the whole thing about calling Muhammad a pedophile. He DID marry a child and have sex with her, which is what pedophile's do when given the opportunity. For saying that, I receive numerous threats and insults, here and in my email. I express my disapproval but pointing out that islam was created by a pedophile. How is that an insult?
  • Shukri
    The pedophile slur is a tired Christian missionary argument.

    Please read:

    http://tinyurl.com/43t48s
  • Beejj
    Wondrous, Hellosnackbar. Wish I had written that.
  • GeorgeOfTheJungle
    Well, the civilized countries of the world have to understand and know that this ridiculous UN resolution actually works in their favour. Now, with this resolution, the sensible and civilized countries ave the legal means to take to court and prosecute all those hateful and ignorant mullahs, clerics, and hateful web-site owners who try to spread stupid, ignorant, and uneducated hate against Jews, Christians and other faiths. This resolution also provides civilized countries the legal means to have international arrest warrants against all those uneducated, ignorant, and barbaric mullahs, clerics and web-site owners, and have them arrested and brought to the Court in Hague. It works both ways, you know.
    islam is NOT a religion. islam is NOT a religion, it is NOT even a faith. It is a death cult of the most barbaric and savage ethos. It is NOT a religion, but a despicable and archaic ideology comparable to and worse than any fascist ideology the world has seen. It is NOT a religion, but a death cult based on the lunatic and psychotically deranged ramblings of an illiterate pedophile who indulged in child rape when he "consummated" his marriage to a 6-year-old CHILD when she reached the age of 9 years old. All the pleadings of liars like this Shukri should fall of deaf ears... because this is all this is, a lie and more lies from people who still live in the tribal and barbaric 7th century.
  • Shukri
    What you are seeing on the mass media is not the message of Islam.

    Islam is the third and final Abrahamic message and is a continuation what was taught by Jesus and Moses. Did you know that there is an entire chapter of the Koran devoted to Mary? Many chapters are also devoted to the story of Moses and Noah and all of the Biblical prophets and their messages. The Koranic message is the remembrance of God, in Arabic "dhikr". See http://tinyurl.com/246x8g
  • GeorgeOfTheJungle
    Have you heard of Taqqiya? Taqqiya is lying to people and countries to promote and defend the death cult of islam. moslems love using Taqqiya to web and spin stories about how great the so-called prophet was (yes, he was a great pedophile), and how great the science is in the Cowran (nearly all borrowed from Greek and Hindu science), and how the Cowran is the last message of so-and-so. It's all rubbish, all lies, and all Taqqiya to mislead sensible and thinking people.
    If you really want to know how evil islam is and how deranged and psychotic the rantings are in the Cowran, then go to this web site... there you will find the real truth about this death cult.

    http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Prophet_of_Doom_Pr...

    Forget about the lying and whining of this Shukri... all is a lie, as he is just practicing Taqqiya as his death cult tells him to.
  • Shukri
    (14) It is of the adab of the high path of Islam to be honest when one speaks. The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “Honesty certainly leads to goodness, and goodness leads to paradise. Truly, a man keeps speaking the truth until he is inscribed as being true through and through. And lying leads to going wrong, and going wrong leads to hell. Truly, a man lies and lies until he is inscribed as being a liar through and through” (Muslim, 4.2012–13: 2607. S).

    (15) It is of the adab of the high path of Islam to completely abandon and shun guile, deceit, scornfulness, or sarcasm because these are unlawful. Allah Most High says, “O you who believe, let no men scorn other men, for they might well be better than they are. And let no women scorn other women, for they might well be better than they. And do not find fault with one another, or give each other insulting nicknames” (Qur’an 49:11). And Allah Most High says, “Woe to whoever demeans others behind their back or to their face” (Qur’an 104:1). And the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “Let there be no harming another, or harming him back. Whoever harms another Allah shall harm, and whoever gives trouble to another Allah shall give trouble to” (Hakim, 2.58. Hg).

    http://masud.co.uk/ISLAM/nuh/adab_of_islam.htm
  • hellosnackbar
    Would that, that were true George.
    But Ihave a sneaking feeling that should some definitive counter measure be taken against Islamic hate.
    Then shrieks of Islamophobia and racism would echo across the globe;.
    but looking on the bright side it would be fun if the Islamoturds were "hoisted by their own petard".
  • Farside
    The Farsideology section of Wikiislam.com has the utmost respect for Islam and its Prophet Muhammad.

    http://www.wikiislam.com/wiki/Farsideology

    Enjoy,
    Farside
  • Couldn't agree more. Many of us in the UK are pissed off with bleating Muzzies. We offer them a home, and they want to turn it into Britainistan.
  • We offer them a home, and they want to turn it into Britainistan.
    That about sums it up...
  • j
    Why not if it applies to all religions? Then the idiotic ranting of all the Imams and other religious fanatics will be prosecutable under the UN rule. Probably a backfired policy pushed by inept leaders of the backing nations.
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