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A free speech killer UN warns: Don't defame religions, especially Islam
WashingtonTimes ^ | 2/2/09 | Nat Hentoff

Posted on 02/02/2009 7:43:19 AM PST by Sammy67

OP-ED: 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 "defamation of religion," especially Islam.

In an 83 to 53 vote, with 42 abstentions, the U.N. General Assembly urged nations to provide "adequate protections" in their laws or constitutions against "acts of hatred, discrimination, intimidation and coercion resulting from defamation of religions and incitement to religious hatred in general."

Only Islam and Muslims are specifically named in this resolution against religious defamation, sponsored by Uganda on behalf of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference, and cosponsored by Belarus and Venezuela. Opponents included the United States, a majority of European

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1 posted on 02/02/2009 7:43:19 AM PST by Sammy67
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To: Sammy67

Keeping the First Amendment alive each time Islamofascist Speech Limitations are discussed.

2 posted on 02/02/2009 7:44:23 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Congress declares a National Dividend in the amount of $9,000 per taxpayer instead of Porkulus.)
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To: Sammy67

I wouldn’t do that (defame Islam). They do a good enough job of that myself.


3 posted on 02/02/2009 7:45:56 AM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Gotta’ love “Mad Mo’ the Child Molester”...;-)


4 posted on 02/02/2009 7:46:09 AM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("Democrats: Seeking an easy life at someone else's expense for 150 years")
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly

When Mohammed married 6 year old Aisha, and consummated the marriage at 9 years of age, are you calling Mohammed a Pedophile?

Inquiring minds want to know!


5 posted on 02/02/2009 7:47:30 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Congress declares a National Dividend in the amount of $9,000 per taxpayer instead of Porkulus.)
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To: knighthawk

Crush islam Ping


6 posted on 02/02/2009 7:48:27 AM PST by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
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To: Sammy67

This religious anti-defamation proclamation is ONLY about Islam.

They don’t even try to hide it very well, besides its Orwellian name.


7 posted on 02/02/2009 7:49:10 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: Sammy67

Can we kick these !@#$%^ out of New York already and move them to the Hague?


8 posted on 02/02/2009 7:50:10 AM PST by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: Uncle Miltie

9 posted on 02/02/2009 7:52:41 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR......Monthly Donors Wanted)
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To: Sammy67

Intimidation is a major weapon of the Islamists and the Left. They have similar tactics and both intend to rule the world. The loser in this battle is freedom.


11 posted on 02/02/2009 7:56:10 AM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: Right Cal Gal

“Can we kick these !@#$%^ out of New York already and move them to the Hague?”

Heck no!!!

Either move the UN to Mogadishu or Gaza.


12 posted on 02/02/2009 7:56:35 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Control the information, you control the people.")
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To: Right Cal Gal

Yes...but their liberal, globalist, and free trader friends would pitch a fit if their beloved UN was moved out of New York...and putting them in The Hague will have the America-haters running to the Intl Criminal Court every time an American exerts one of their God-given rights.

I would prefer the UN permanently disbanded


13 posted on 02/02/2009 7:57:05 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (Open Borders should be only for bookstores, not the third world hellhole known as Mexico)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Mohamed married Aisha when he was 53 and she was six...


14 posted on 02/02/2009 8:04:41 AM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("Democrats: Seeking an easy life at someone else's expense for 150 years")
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To: Sammy67

Islam is the POS scum-bag religion of death for pig-faced idiots.


15 posted on 02/02/2009 8:05:19 AM PST by blam
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I wonder how Bob the BO’s lawyer will answer to this?

PHONE: 202.628.6600

Robert (Bob) Bauer is currently counsel to Obama for America and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees, and has served as co-counsel to the New Hampshire State Senate in the trial of Chief Justice David A. Brock (2000).

607 Fourteenth Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005-2003

PHONE: 202.628.6600 FAX: 202.434.1690


16 posted on 02/02/2009 8:07:13 AM PST by FreeManN (Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

post #10=PERFECT


17 posted on 02/02/2009 8:13:13 AM PST by peace with honor
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To: Uncle Miltie; Sammy67; blam
I had a picture of the word Islam with the "s" replaced by a swastika on my Photobucket account. They have removed it because it violates their policies.

Photobucket

18 posted on 02/02/2009 8:31:25 AM PST by bigheadfred (Negromancer!!!! RUN for your lives!!!!)
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To: Sammy67

Oh yeah, islam sucks...


19 posted on 02/02/2009 8:31:57 AM PST by Camel Joe ("All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others"- The Pigs)
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To: MrB

We can expect the UN to condemn muslim nations intolerance of other faiths (including second class citizenship), when exactly?


20 posted on 02/02/2009 8:35:08 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Obama thinks spending tax $ on abortions in Mexico helps more than controlling illegal immigration)
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