Comment at end
UPDATED 28th March: DEFAMATION OF RELIGION VOTE. Adopted by a recorded vote of 21 to 10, with 14 abstentions. The voting was as follows:
In favour: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cameroon, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Indonesia,
Jordan, Malaysia, Mali, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar,
Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka.
Against: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia,
Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Abstaining: Bolivia, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Japan, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mexico, Peru, Republic of Korea, Uruguay, Zambia.
Russia, China and South Africa were in favour? Check WHICH countries were ineligible to vote. This is clearly NOT the entire list. Read UNHR report here
26th March, 2009
UNITED NATIONS HR BODY PASSES ANTI-RELIGION (aka ISLAM) BAN
This Reuters report says that 200 secular, religious and media groups from around the world on Wednesday urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to reject a call from Islamic countries for a global fight against “defamation of religion.”
It goes on – “The groups, including some Muslim bodies, issued their appeal in a statement on the eve of a vote in the Council in Geneva on a resolution proposed by the 56-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
But here Frank Jordans says that the UN body OKs call to curb religious criticism. So is that it?
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top human-rights body approved a proposal backed by Muslims nations Thursday urging the passage of laws around the world protecting religion from criticism.
The proposal by Pakistan had drawn strong criticism from free-speech campaigners and liberal democracies.
A simple majority of 23 members of the 47-nation Human Rights Council voted in favor of the resolution. Eleven mostly Western nations opposed it and 13 countries abstained.
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.”
“It is individuals who have rights and not religions,” said Canadian diplomat Terry Cormier. Canada’s criticism was echoed by European Union countries, all of which voted against the proposal.
The council is dominated by Muslim and African countries. Muslim nations have argued that religions, in particular Islam, must be shielded from criticism in the media and other areas of public life. They cited cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad as an example of unacceptable free speech.
“Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism,” the resolution said.
A coalition of more than 100 secular and faith groups had called on governments to oppose the resolution, warning that it could lead to accusations of defamation among different faiths.
The United States did not vote on the resolution because it is not a member of the council. The Bush administration announced it was virtually giving up on the body and would participate in debates only if absolutely necessary because of the council’s anti-Israel statements and its failure to act on abuses in Sudan and elsewhere.
India, which normally votes along with the council’s majority of developing nations, abstained in protest at the fact that Islam was the only religion specifically named as deserving protection.
India’s Ambassador Gopinathan Achamkulangare said the resolution “inappropriately” linked religious criticism to racism.
Filipino Muslims protest outside the Danish Embassy over the Danish cartoons, Feb 15th 2006
A religion is not a HUMAN
Nor is criticising a religion racism AGAINST a human!
If this report HAS been passed, and if you are persuaded that there is an agenda which has nothing to do with race, little to do with religion, but EVERYTHING to do with Worldwide domination, you’re probably right.
Some of us, including me, have been warning about this for months as the motion was being put forward at successive meetings of the Human Rights Council.
But we were told we were all scaremongering.
So it’s here. You have few choices now.
REVOLT and insist that the UN Human Rights Council – if not the United Nations itself – is replaced by a body/bodies that understands the limits of its powers and the meaning of HUMAN Rights.
NO religion, or belief system HAS any right to “human rights”
More information on the UN & the Durban Review Conference, April 2009
DURBAN REVIEW CONFERENCE
The Durban Review Conference, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, 20-24 April 2009, will evaluate progress towards the goals set by the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa, in 2001.
The Review Conference will serve as a catalyst to fulfilling the promises of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action agreed at the 2001 World Conference through reinvigorated actions, initiatives and practical solutions, illuminating the way toward equality for every individual and group in all regions and countries of the world.
UN FREEDOM OF SPEECH VIDEO
Thanks to beer n sandwiches for this video, which can be viewed with many others at this YouTube channel “victimlesscriminal”
Israel envoy still concerned by UN racism draft
Bush administration denounced this law in September, 2008 What does Obama think?
World Net Daily – UN to make criticising Islam illegal
And on the other hand this is what we are dealing with. Do you like how the commenter there says: ‘OIC? dunno when it starts to act. i am speechless what has happened with the Muslim nation now.’ WHAT? “the Muslim nation?” WHICH one? ALL OF IT?
American pastor says: Don’t vote for HR 256 and HR 262
Hate Law Jihad: Criminalizing Islam’s Critics – Rev. Ted Pike (7min30)
Visit http://www.HateLawsExposed.org
UN panel says world should ditch dollar as its reserve currency
Why is democracy the least worst option?
Tags: ban on criticising religion UN, UN passes anti-religion laws, United Nations gone bananas
March 27, 2009 at 2:29 pm |
This Is The Way The World Ends…
The liberal democratic world, anyway.
As for the rest, phht, like it matters. Get back to me in century or two, when you decide that your people are better listened to than killed.
The UN Human Rights Council, ever striving to prove just how irrel…
April 4, 2009 at 12:15 pm |
Oh the irony of it all. The one hand giveth – freedom of speech. The other hand taketh away – the right to criticise religion. The UN is compised of butt monkeys.
October 7, 2009 at 1:31 am |
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