ShareThisA group of Islamic nations, led by Algeria and Pakistan, is lobbying to bring before the U.N. General Assembly a proposed treaty banning mockery of religion, according to the Associated Press. The pact would, in effect, be a global anti-blasphemy treaty and an obvious and alarming threat to freedom of expression.
The move seems to have its roots in the backlash four years ago against a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. The often-violent overreaction at home and abroad shocked many Western European nations, which began to wonder what kind of intolerance had been growing in their midst.
In a letter in support of the campaign for the treaty, Pakistan, writing on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, said it "believes that the attack on sacredly held beliefs and the defamation of religions, religious symbols, personalities and dogmas impinge on the enjoyment of human rights by followers of those religions." The letter writer did not see fit to note that some members of the 56-nation conference are hardly paragons of human rights.
The letter seeks to outlaw utterances that are "grossly abusive or insulting" to religion without defining precisely what it deemed grossly abusive. That kind of spongy language leads many to suspect that the treaty would be used against political dissidents as much as it would be used to protect the feelings of the devout.
The United States is said to be working to kill the proposal and hopefully other nations are, too. In the unlikely event the United Nations did vote to propose an anti-blasphemy pact as a global treaty, it technically would be binding only on those nations that ratify it. No nation that believes in free speech would do so.
(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.scrippsnews.com)
Islam--the religion of submission
Islam--Religion of Submission
* Claiming “Islam” means “peace” is fraudulent to begin with. Islam is an Arabic word. And the word for peace in Arabic is “solh,” and not Islam. Islam is derived from the root word “taslim,” which means submission or surrender. Hence, Islam’s true name, surrender, is in fact most descriptive of what it is: total, unconditional submission and surrender of the individual and the community to the will and dictates of Allah as revealed by his “rasool,” messenger, Muhammad.
* A quick scan of the daily news shows the adherent of the religion of peace engaged in unspeakable acts of mayhem and murder in much of the world. There is hardly any need to allude to them here. But the Islamists have an answer for that too. Islam is not responsible, they say. It is only a bunch of opportunists who commit these acts for their own political and economic objectives. We are to believe that those daily suicide bombers explode their vests in the midst of marketplaces, funeral processions, and even mosques are doing so to further their own personal agenda.
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Islam = SLAVERY
This attempt is not just a threat to "freedom of expression," it is a deliberate attempt to enslave the entire world under Islamic domination.
The sooner everyone understands that FACT, the sooner we will be able to prevent this hideous assault on true human civilization.