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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.
This is the start of the "Islamification" of the Western industrialized nations. The UN is being used as the vehicle to spread Islam and the Sharia Law to the "infidels" of non-Islamic countries. This is a very dangerous resolution.
Ridiculous. As is the UN. People are being brutalised and killed in places like Darfur, Zimbabwe, etc., and they're wasting time, money and effort on this rubbish.
Of course this only pertains to Islam. For slagging off Christianity is deemed perfectly acceptable, especially in the art world.
so , you all are agree with freedom of offensing the relegions !!!!! you all agree with freedom of telling lies about other relegions
you see it as a positive step toward free speach others see it as negative step toward the peace and respectfull relations between different faiths
which of them most important ? free speech which cause violence or peacefull life without hatred emotions
that's why we consider our relegion peacefull relegion , we try to prevent the violence from it's sources
bth , these laws will serve all the relegions , not just islam , so why always we find it satisfied by muslims and annoying christians????
sounds of logic tell me that muslims have respect for the other faiths , and christians wants to feel free in offense other faiths , particularly the islam
elwill, how can you possibly claim Islam is a religion of peace when people are imprisoned and worse for merely expressing their opinions? Below is a snippit from the OP's link.
- An Afghan student is on death row for downloading an article about the role of women in Islam, FOXNews.com also reported.
-- In December 2007 “a court reportedly sentenced two foreigners to six months in prison for allegedly marketing a book deemed offensive to Aisha, one of the Prophet Muhammad's wives,” the U.S. government said.
-- A British teacher was sentenced to 15 days in jail in Sudan for offending Islam by allowing students to name the class teddy bear Muhammad in November 2007.
-- In February 2007 in Egypt an Internet blogger was sentenced to four years in prison for writing a post that critiqued Islam.
-- In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was murdered after the release of his documentary highlighting the abuse of Muslim women.
From what I've heard just about everything a westerner or Christian says or does offends those who follow Islam. It also seems that many Christians are offended by those of us who do not believe as they do. Our faiths are different. Can we not respect each other as humans in spite of differences of religion? I mean no disrespect to anyone, this is just my experience.
This is the start of the "Islamification" of the Western industrialized nations. The UN is being used as the vehicle to spread Islam and the Sharia Law to the "infidels" of non-Islamic countries. This is a very dangerous resolution.
I say let the various Religious Pressure Groups and Advocates protest and create as much stir as they want. This will be the final nail in the coffin for them. Wait till Obama or McCain is elected and pressured into this New World Order government. Then you'll see protests the likes of which any of us have ever seen before.
Any religion that is oppressive, people have the right to judge it, if a person chooses to belong to an oppressive belief system that is their business. However, to stand up and say that one doesn't have the right to express their opinion on a belief system is oppressive in itself. The Sharia law of Islam is quite possibly the most oppressive set of laws ever inflicted upon mankind, these laws do nothing to advance the state of humanity, but, to drag humanity backwards, the only thing that Sharia law has accomplished was to create an Islamic Dark age.
Christianity was no different during the Inquistions of Pope Gregory IX, but thankfully Christianity dropped this practice.
so , you all are agree with freedom of offensing the relegions !!!!
Freedom of speech dude. I mean, Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church has a right to offend 2/3 of America every day...
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