Alongside a resolution adopted by the U.N. General Assembly this week calling for a moratorium on the death penalty, the world body passed a raft of other human rights-related motions. One of them, introduced by Islamic nations, focuses on combating the “defamation of religions.”……Introduced by Pakistan on behalf of the OIC, it passed on Tuesday by a 108-51 margin, with 25 abstentions. As with many of the other votes, the U.S. lined up with democracies in Europe, Asia and elsewhere against developing nations, including repressive regimes.Although the resolution refers to defamation of “religions,” Islam is the only religion named in the text, which also takes a swipe at counter-terrorism security measures.
It expresses alarm about “discrimination” and “laws that stigmatize groups of people belonging to certain religions and faiths under a variety of pretexts relating to security and illegal immigration.”
Muslim minorities are subjected to “ethnic and religious profiling … in the aftermath of the tragic events of 11 September 2001,” it says.
The resolution decries “the negative projection of Islam in the media” and voices “deep concern that Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism.”
Link: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200712/INT20071220a.html
Muslims targeted? I should hope so. Considering that Islam is more like an fascist ideology than a religion, and the proponents have been responsible for thousands of deaths in the name of “Allah”. It damn sure wasn’t Catholics, Protestants, Baptists, Espiscopalians, or wacky snake-handling Pentacostals from Appalachia who killed 3000 people on this soil in a single day, stuck a knife in the chest of Theo Van Gogh, or threatened authors, journalists, and cartoonists with death over ‘religious insults’.
The United Nations was a platform for communist nations and their sympathizers for over 50 years. Now, they’ve switched to being a mouthpiece for Islamic zealots attempting to legitimize their religious-based terrorism.
The government’s response to this lunacy has been pretty weak. There’s a growing Islamic malignancy in this country abetted by the media and apathetic Americans.
If this keeps up, the U.S. Capitol will soon be replaced by a Minaret.
Army Sergeant,
As I said: It damn sure wasn’t Catholics, Protestants, Baptists, Espiscopalians, or wacky snake-handling Pentacostals from Appalachia who attacked this country and killed 3000 people in the name of their religion. I’m an agnostic, so quite frankly I’m not enamored with intitutionalized religion. Here’s a better scenario: What if Christians had started unprovoked attacks against the entire Islamic world with the same methods and ideology? Instead of worshiping peacefully, what if the Vatican had orchestrated a planned, well-coordinated attack on the millions of muslims circling the Kaaba at Mecca?
It ain’t just a “few extremists”. It’s the religious doctrine of Islam as a whole. Read the Koran sometime.
SFC MAC
At the same time, though, targeting any religion on the basis of its extremists is a dangerous precedent to set. What if Christianity were to be targeted, next, due to the crazy people who bomb abortion clinics?