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UN Gives Islamic Countries a New Excuse to OPPRESS
Washington Times/Yidwithlid ^ | Yidwithlid
Posted on March 26, 2009 6:37:27 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
Today the UN’s human-rights council approved a proposal by Muslims nations Thursday urging passage of laws around the world to protect religion Islam from criticism. The resolution urges states to provide:
“protection against acts of hatred, discrimination, intimidation and coercion resulting from defamation of religions and incitement to religious hatred in general.”
Ironically most of the Muslim countries that submitted the proposal, BAN the practice of any non-Muslim religions in their countries, sometimes with the threat of Jail or even worse. The real purpose of this proposal is to ban any negative talk about Islam.
“Defamation of religions is the cause that leads to incitement to hatred, discrimination and violence toward their followers,” Pakistan’s ambassador Zamir Akram said. “It is important to deal with the cause, rather than with the effects alone.”
Normally one would say that this will have little effect on life in the US, however, given the President’s love of the UN and the fact that there have been so many unconstitutional proposals coming out of the treasury department lately, you can never say never.
One thing is sure, this will be used as an excuse for an increase of oppression in the Muslim countries:
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