Posted on 09/25/2012 3:38:17 AM PDT by markomalley
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.
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His daughters are elitist who will not marry because it is beneath them to do so
The Muslim community can NOT force me to bow to Islam. Can't be done. I will die before blaspheming the name of God and accepting that religion which is directly opposed to God, Christ and Christianity. We allow them to practice their religion here (which IS a mistake) and they where they live do not allow the practice of any other religion as much as is possible for them to prevent it. Total hypocrisy.
Dang. I think you're on to something.
Yep, it’s a set up and Islamism is incompatible with American liberty.
NB: Erdogan knows and has named his enemy.
When you are dealing with a pedophile 6th century sand monkey who has created one of the largest hoaxes on humanity and has caused nothing but death and destruction, just exactly how do you insult him? Seems no matter how harsh the words, they are true.
Why not just ban Muzzies ?
Insult is that Abomination sitting on the HOH of the Jewish Temple site!
The Jews were there first. Our God gave it to them first. It's theirs.
The slimes built there intentionally as an INSULT!
The most hate-filled people in the world are these very radical muslims who hate everyone who is not like them. Their satanic faith is worth being on the very bottom of the ash heap of history.
I never really noticed that islam had a body of 57 nations.
The stupidity and evil of muslims always took my mind elsewhere and pushed such details aside.
Why don’t all the mooslims protest by leaving intolerant America...yeah!!!
Yeah well I urinate in the direction of mecca and I am in disgust of this gutter “religion”.
But still I have a higher opinion of this than I do of the U.N.
> Turkey heads the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, a body of 57 nations ...
Odd, how that 57 number keeps coming up in anything muzzie.
Mohammed was a child rapist.
It bears repeating Islam’s sordid history. Every time they try to shut us up.
I'll tell you what - let's compromise and just declare Islam a crime against humanity.
I wonder if this is “offensive” or “an insult” that would have to be internationally banned:
John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
On 911 my opinion was to kill them all and let God sort it out — my opinion has not changed.
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