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Originally posted by O-D

A U.N. resolution seeks to criminalize opinions that differ with the Islamic faith. – By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine – News article about it
http://www.eyeontheun.org/assets/att…ments/6979.pdf – The aforementioned documentation.

Note staight away in the second link that ‘Islamophobia’ is used often when it’s been proven to be a nonsense word.

its very unlikely to be immediately adopted as law as is but is hardly surprising the Islamic nations are trying this as they have been handed power due to our oil dependence.

What this is is a draft document for negotiation – what is worrying is how its been very carefully worded in such a way that conservative religious types of other religions, rather than dismiss it outright, could work towards consensus to try and force through a law that gives all religious groups (more) power worldwide.

There is already a known trend of conservative Christian nations (including the USA) voting together with Islamic nations to fight against womens rights to abortion and other human rights, particularly those linked to free speech and sex/sexuality.

Incidentally the whole reason drugs are illegal worldwide is to a very large extent because of the powerful religious nations refusing to budge on the concept that drug taking is sin and who all agreed the drugs laws at the UN many years ago.

he would have been banned under existing British law, not UN law.

Note I mentioned “immediately”.

At the moment the UN have been debating a far less controversial set of legislation about changing the safety signs on drums and containers of chemicals so every nation has the same signs.

This was debated in 2001, supposed to be implemented in 2006-08 but is still ongoing, as each nation says its piece and whinges about how much it will all cost.

with this planned religious legislation, Islam is not the only danger here. If this legislation is not shelved or voted out, the real danger is when every other religion says their piece and tries to (re)introduce strict religious societies. There are plenty of politicians in both West and East who would like to see a return to this, plus the credit crunch is driving a lot of people back to their organised faith groups.

unfortunately this is true due to the dependence on oil and business/trade agreements from the Islamic nations which means the businessmen of the Islamic nations have power, including substantial investments in Europe.

Such is the paradox of how the “free market” enslaves us all.

However groups what insult other religions can still end up being persecuted.

There are many artists and writers who cannot get work or get a market in the USA or even some parts of European nations because their work offends Christian sensibilities. Lots of UK artists are denied entry into the USA because they support drugs or drug culture or have been nicked, I think its called “moral turpitude”.

it could be and may well expanded to go in a lot harder than that to protect all organised religions, at the expense of everyones freedom.

Although Islam is mentioned as a paragraph the wider document as well as a paper the wider aim here does appear to be the Islamic nations using a resolution to protect all religions from criticism so more nations accept at least part of it…

I think its far bleaker than that; unchecked, religious fundamentalism and pointless wrangling could destabilise the entire world… that said I do think China certainly isn’t going to stand for it…

what annoys me more is “debates” like this are taking up time and resources what could be better used by the UN to do more positive stuff like deal with the health and safety labelling I mentioned earlier, or better still to tear up the Single Convention on Narcotics which makes drugs illegal worldwide…