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Islamic Countries Seek Ban on Insults at The United Nations
The Washington Times ^ | Monday, September 24, 2012 | Guy Taylor

Posted on 09/24/2012 7:42:05 PM PDT by DogByte6RER

Muslim-led nations seek ban on insult

As the U.N. General Assembly convenes this week in New York, several leaders of mostly Muslim nations are suggesting that the world body consider sanctions on blasphemy, amid widespread protests against an amateur movie that denigrates Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will focus at least part of his remarks on the film when he addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.

“I am the prime minister of a nation, of which most are Muslims, that has declared anti-Semitism a crime against humanity. But the West hasn’t recognized Islamophobia as a crime against humanity. It has encouraged it,” Mr. Erdogan told reporters last week.

Turkey heads the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, a body of 57 nations, which has long pushed for a U.N. resolution condemning the “defamation of religion.”

Nonbinding versions of the resolution have been adopted, but the effort was crushed last year by religious groups and human rights activists who argued that it represented a dangerous step toward an international law against free speech.

The debate has been reignited by “Innocence of Muslims,” a crudely produced film made in the United States that has sparked fury in the Muslim world. Protesters have breached the walls at U.S. embassies and desecrated American flags in sometimes violent demonstrations. A protest in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi ended with the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appealed Monday to Muslims to show “dignity” and not resort to violence as they protest the film, the Associated Press reported.

“Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially with violence that can never be justified,” Mrs. Clinton said at her husband’s Clinton Global Initiative.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: comedyisntpretty; fatwa; freespeech; insults; islam; islamofascism; jihad; muhammdsminions; muslims; obamunism; selfesteem; takemymuslimplease; totalitarianism; un; unitednations
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Oh ... poor Don Rickles. He can hide out at my home where he can insult me and my family until the fatwa is over. ; )

1 posted on 09/24/2012 7:42:15 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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Mel Brooks too.
2 posted on 09/24/2012 7:43:37 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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I'll even hide out this dirty dog ...
3 posted on 09/24/2012 7:46:59 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

Oh the hell with them. Throw in the UN too.


4 posted on 09/24/2012 7:47:51 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (Mitt better grow a pair or this thing will be over soon.)
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To: JohnD9207

Sanctions against blasphemy? I don’t think they want to mess with that.


5 posted on 09/24/2012 7:50:00 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: DogByte6RER

Fat wad? The Islamists going to send fat wads out after us?


6 posted on 09/24/2012 7:50:58 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: DogByte6RER

Exactly how does one insult the stupid death cult founded by a murderous drunken pederast?


7 posted on 09/24/2012 7:51:11 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Hopey changey Low emission unicorns and a crap sandwich)
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8 posted on 09/24/2012 7:52:36 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: DogByte6RER

Muslims are turning ‘thin skinned’ into an art form... Gad, what a load...


9 posted on 09/24/2012 7:54:25 PM PDT by GOPJ (You only establish a feel for the line by having crossed it. - - Freeper One Name)
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To: DogByte6RER
Patrick Henry speaks for America if free speech is an issue here. It's none of the business of the Islamist pukes over there -- and if any Islamist jerks living here demand that we not criticize them then they are committing treason against our Republic and they should be interned for the duration of their war against us.

Patrick Henry: "The questing before [you] is one of awful moment to this country . . . in proportion to the magnitude of the subject [there must] be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that [you] can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should [you] keep back [your] opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, [you] should consider [your]self as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which [is] above all earthly kings . . . Are [you] disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? . . . whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, [you must be] willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it."

10 posted on 09/24/2012 7:57:58 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: DogByte6RER
somebody needs to “brand” a very large hog with a picture of Mohamed, and then apply for a grant from the NEA!
11 posted on 09/24/2012 8:03:23 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: DogByte6RER

Dear arab/muslim un members,

Regarding your demand that insults to your so-called prophet be outlawed, I suggest you shut up, get over it, and just shut your freaking pie holes!

Otherwise, I suggest “The Crusades, v2.0!”

Mark


12 posted on 09/24/2012 8:05:10 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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Ah, sounds like they have found the Theme for the next session of the UN


13 posted on 09/24/2012 8:05:44 PM PDT by molson209
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To: Kansas58
Danish Cartoon Pictures, Images and Photos Maybe we could just use this image as a USDA stamp of approval for a side of ham?
14 posted on 09/24/2012 8:06:09 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: molson209

Yes. Our would-be tyrants are very tempted to get around the first and second amendments via UN treaty.

Of course, in either case it would lead to CW2, and tyrants swinging from lamp posts.

That sort of makes them tread softly toward their goal.

See “What I saw at the coup” for one way it could happen.


15 posted on 09/24/2012 8:08:49 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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16 posted on 09/24/2012 8:10:48 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: DogByte6RER

Islam is a war plan with no altruistic incentives.


17 posted on 09/24/2012 8:20:22 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: DogByte6RER

Since an insult is in the mind of the beholder, my existance could be an insult.

This is just not going to work.


18 posted on 09/24/2012 8:28:17 PM PDT by super7man
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To: Gene Eric

here is a excellent lecture on Islam over the last 1400 years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y
You will probably enjoy it.


19 posted on 09/24/2012 8:32:33 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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Them Islamists here sure got pretty mosques ain't they? They keep committing treason against our inalienable rights and the American government just might take them mosques and put the Islamists in camps.
20 posted on 09/24/2012 8:34:31 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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