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26
Mar
New Motto: “We Were Just Kidding About That Article XIX Thing”
Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to adopt a resolution to encourage member states to create laws that would punish speech critical of religion.
In case you didn’t catch that, the Human Rights Council is encouraging its members to punish speech critical of religion.
A host of countries around the world already imprison bloggers, and others, for such speech. The most high-profile example is Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman, or Kareem Amer, the Egyptian blogger sentenced to four years in prison for criticizing Islam. Perhaps the fact that it took the UN two years to condemn that sentence but two weeks to approve this measure is not coincidental.
The measure “Deplores the use of the print, audio-visual and electronic media, including the Internet, and any other means to incite acts of violence, xenophobia or related intolerance and discrimination towards any religion, as well as targeting of religious symbols and venerated persons.”
Kareem was just the start. The UN is now giving his abusers legal cover and making a mockery of Article XIX.
Free speech is fantastically unpopular around the world. Although countries like Egypt, Iran, Burma and China may be the most egregious and flamboyant punishers of unfettered speech, it is nearly as unpopular in “Western” countries. That is, it is praised right up to the point where it offends someone, as though offense taken could be a sensible benchmark for allowing freedom of expression.
We have come to expect the patent-leather tinhorns and the religious torturers to dish out sentences based on laws like those the United Nations is encouraging, but let’s never forget that the grey little men in places like Brussels and DC, Ottawa and Canberra make them possible.
- Published by Curt Hopkins in: Reports
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2 Responses to “United Nations Adopts Anti-Free Speech Resolution”
If ever this piece of ideological totalitarianism becomes “world law”, it will be a law eminently deserving of contempt, resistance and violation on a mass scale. No piece of religious imperialism like this is going to either override my rights of free speech as an American (more to the point, as a human being) or intimidate me into submitting to mind control. Let’s be real: this is it – the big play, the push for an Orwellian world run by the thought police.
If there are any poor chumps out there still so naive as to think this is nothing more than an attempt to stop “nasty” people from saying “hateful” things about another person’s religion – wake up already. First of all, even if that were all it was, it’s STILL an assault on human freedoms. But that’s not nearly all it is. Keep in mind that, from the Islamic point of view, even to say that the Koran is not the word of God, that Mohammed made it all up, that where the Koran presents an altered version of accounts from the Old and New Testaments (like, for instance, Judas dying on the cross in Jesus’ place), the Koran tells blantant, culturally and ideologically motivated fabrications – all this is “hate speech”, deserving of death. And if you don’t think the Moslem societies will capitalize in every way possible on a law like that being suggested here in order to control and shape world thinking and impose their beliefs, well, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
In one way, this proposed law is incredibly dangerous, but in another way it’s meaningless. Dangerous because of the threat to our freedoms, and yet… meaningless because, ultimately, such a moronic law cannot trump human freedoms. The truth ultimately prevails.
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