U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution Curtails Free Speech, Critics Say

[Chris_]

U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution Curtails Free Speech, Critics Say

Religious groups and free-speech advocates are banding together to fight a United Nations resolution they say is being used to spread Sharia law to the Western world and to intimidate anyone who criticizes Islam.

The non-binding resolution on “Combating the Defamation of Religion” is intended to curtail speech that offends religion -- particularly Islam.

Pakistan and the Organization of the Islamic Conference introduced the measure to the U.N. Human Rights Council in 1999. It was amended to include religions other than Islam, and it has passed every year since.

In 2005, Yemen successfully brought a similar resolution before the General Assembly. Now the 192-nation Assembly is set to vote on it again.

It “stresses the need to effectively combat defamation of all religions and incitement to religious hatred, against Islam and Muslims in particular.”

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[LC EFA]

The UN is nothing more than a collection of kleptocratic dictators, and has been for decades.

It serves no positive cause to western nations and should be consigned to the trashcan of history like its predecessor.

Without the cash, political pull, and blood of the American Taxpayer it would have long since ceased to exist as a meaningful entity.

[Thor]

The UN is nothing more than a collection of kleptocratic dictators, and has been for decades.

It serves no positive cause to western nations and should be consigned to the trashcan of history like its predecessor.

Without the cash, political pull, and blood of the American Taxpayer it would have HAS long since ceased to exist as a meaningful entity.

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