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D.C. Islamophobia Conference Was a Bad Idea
nationalreview.com ^ | 12-13-11 | Nina Shea

Posted on 12/13/2011 3:41:24 PM PST by bayouranger

Yesterday marked the opening of the international conference announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a high-level meeting on Islamophobia that she co-chaired, held last July in Istanbul and hosted by the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). At the time, Secretary Clinton described this week’s conference as a move to implement U.N. Human Rights Council Resolution 16/18 on “combating [religious] intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization.”

This State Department conference, entitled “The Istanbul Process,” is proving to be a very bad idea. It remains to be seen whether speech limitations to protect religion generally and Islam specifically will be officially endorsed by the conference — similar recommendations have already been adopted by the OIC and by the EU conference participants — but, judging from the opening session, at least some of my misgivings seem well founded.

The three-day conference was closed to the public, but I was invited to its opening session (as well as to the closing session to be held on Wednesday) by virtue of my being a commissioner on the official but independent U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. “Chatham House Rules,” which State directed us to abide by, forbid releasing anything about a specific delegation or quoting for attribution.

To speak more generally, then: Legal and security officials of a delegation which will remain unnamed gave a sweeping overview of American founding principles on religious freedom and how they have been breached time and again in American history by attacks against a broad variety of religious minority groups — including now against Muslims. A raft of current cases were mentioned; America’s relative exemplary and distinctive achievement in upholding religious freedom in an emphatically pluralistic society was not. That same speaker reassured the audience, which was packed with diplomats from around the world, that the Obama administration is working diligently to prosecute American Islamophobes and is transforming the U.S. Justice Department into the conscience of the nation, though it could no doubt learn a thing or two from the assembled delegates on other ways to stop persistent religious intolerance in America.

Across the room, smirking delegates from some of the world’s most repressive and intolerant regimes could be spotted, furiously taking notes.

The Saudi Justice Minister was recently in the U.S. but unfortunately departed before the conference opened and won’t be making any presentation on how the Saudis stop religious intolerance. Nor will his delegation be making any apologetic mention of the Saudi ban on churches, its repression of its large indigenous Shiite population, its textbooks teaching that Jews should be killed, or its beheading yesterday of a woman for sorcery, in addition to another recent beheading of a Sudanese man for the same crime.

Meanwhile, at U.N. headquarters in New York, a new resolution following on 16/18 has been introduced by the OIC and will soon be voted on by the General Assembly, where it will no doubt passed with U.S. approval. It singles out for praise regarding the promotion of religious tolerance one state — Saudi Arabia.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: filthykoranimals; freedomofspeech; freespeech; hillaryclinton; islamophobia; istanbulprocess; jihad; obamaadmin; oic; religiousliberty; secrecy
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Filthy koranimals & their dhimmis can go to hell.


1 posted on 12/13/2011 3:41:28 PM PST by bayouranger
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To: bayouranger

Nobody’s going to keep me from telling the truth about Islam and its pervert prophet. FUHC.


2 posted on 12/13/2011 3:43:40 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: bayouranger

... and the barf alert is— where?

:-(


3 posted on 12/13/2011 3:44:38 PM PST by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: bayouranger

Geez...they preach and teach kill all the Christians and Jews and we’rer suppose to be tolerant?? Ridiculous. And those non-radical members of Islam...Who do you think you are supporting when you go to Mecca or give at the door??


4 posted on 12/13/2011 3:47:12 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: bayouranger
At the time, Secretary Clinton described this week’s conference as a move to implement U.N. Human Rights Council Resolution 16/18 on “combating [religious] intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization.

So Hillary is against the atheists getting 11 of 14 sights in Santa Monica, leaving just three for Christians to use for the celebration of Christmas. /s

Good to know...

As if it were anything new, we now have religious pimps in addition to race pimps.

5 posted on 12/13/2011 3:47:33 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Why back in '88, Conservatives backed Gore in Texas. What Reagan revolution? What laegacy?)
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To: bayouranger
Ever see The Shining?
Hitlery looks just like the woman in room 237.
Argghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ...
6 posted on 12/13/2011 3:48:40 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: bayouranger
how about a high level conference to protect the Christians from Islam's threat????
7 posted on 12/13/2011 3:54:14 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: bayouranger

Hillary always gets that strange smile on her face when she’s pimping for Mohammed. She hasn’t had so much fun since kissing Suha Arafat, after a lunch at which they discussed the evils of the Jews.


8 posted on 12/13/2011 3:58:05 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: bayouranger

How about a conference on “Christophobia”. Oh wait.. that’s not even a word.


9 posted on 12/13/2011 4:01:29 PM PST by Blado (2008: Year Zero of the Zombie Apocalypse.)
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To: bayouranger
At the time, Secretary Clinton described this week’s conference as a move to implement U.N. Human Rights Council Resolution 16/18 on “combating [religious] intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization.” This State Department conference, entitled “The Istanbul Process,” is proving to be a very bad idea.

Presumably, the conference will also address the intolerance of Christians and Jews by Islamics.



/sarc

10 posted on 12/13/2011 4:03:24 PM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - Another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: bayouranger

Gotta love secret international meetings that threaten freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

not


11 posted on 12/13/2011 4:04:45 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: beethovenfan

I’ve posted this before and I feel it important to post it again and again. Share it with friends and family. this is what our so called elected officials are protecting and supporting and encouraging behind our backs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfbYkXtHuA


12 posted on 12/13/2011 4:05:50 PM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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“Obama administration is working diligently to prosecute American Islamophobes and is transforming the U.S. Justice Department into the conscience of the nation”

Seriously, I would have expected the same sort of rhetoric and misuse of a government department from Hitler or Stalin. Also wouldn’t making a law that only protects one religion out of many be a breach of your constitution.

Mel


13 posted on 12/13/2011 4:06:08 PM PST by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong....)
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To: beethovenfan

I’ve posted this before and I feel it important to post it again and again. Share it with friends and family. this is what our so called elected officials are protecting supporting and encouraging behind our backs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfbYkXtHuA


14 posted on 12/13/2011 4:06:16 PM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: beethovenfan

I’ve posted this before and I feel it important to post it again and again. Share it with friends and family. this is what our so called elected officials are protecting supporting and encouraging behind our backs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfbYkXtHuA


15 posted on 12/13/2011 4:06:33 PM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: beethovenfan

I’ve posted this before and I feel it important to post it again and again. Share it with friends and family. this is what our so called elected officials are protecting supporting and encouraging behind our backs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfbYkXtHuA


16 posted on 12/13/2011 4:06:40 PM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: bayouranger

Hllary looks like a puppet.


17 posted on 12/13/2011 4:09:56 PM PST by razorback-bert (Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
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To: bayouranger

Isn’t islamophobia just another word for “survival instinct”?


18 posted on 12/13/2011 4:14:19 PM PST by circlecity
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To: bayouranger

Hillary has aged rapidly in office and has grown every more ugly by the day. At this rate, she’s going to be the monstrous Portrait of Hillary Dorian Gray.


19 posted on 12/13/2011 4:14:26 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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