Friday, March 30, 2007

No More Pope Jokes?   [Michael Ledeen]

That wonderful UN Human Rights Commission has just passed what we might call the "No More Cartoons about The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) Act." It's a Hate Speech Ban taken to its logical insanity:

The key elements are objectively reported by al-AP:

GENEVA (AP) - Islamic countries pushed through a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday urging a global prohibition on the public defamation of religion—a response largely to the furor last year over caricatures published in a Danish newspaper of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.

The statement proposed by the Organization of Islamic Conference addressed what it called a "campaign" against Muslim minorities and the Islamic religion around the world since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.

The resolution, which was opposed by a number of other non-Muslim countries, "expresses deep concern at attempts to identify Islam with terrorism, violence and human rights violations."

It makes no mention of any other religion besides Islam, but urges countries "to take resolute action to prohibit the dissemination of racist and xenophobic ideas and material aimed at any religion or its followers that constitute incitement and religious hatred, hostility, or violence."

It passed easily, 24-14.

How long before Borat is hauled up to face charges in some august "world court"? Or charged by some multiculti eager beaver magistrate?

Now what was all that talk, just a few years back, about the global triumph of liberal democracy?

03/30 10:11 PMShare