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<b>UN Gag Order</b>

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->By Joseph Klein
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, January 11, 2008

The Islamic propaganda machine has turned Western democratic values inside out to the Islamists’ advantage. <b>Cloaking themselves in the rhetoric of multiculturalism and tolerance, Islamists succeeded in getting the United Nations General Assembly to pass a resolution late last year condemning the defamation of religions – but the only religion mentioned in the resolution was Islam.</b> This follows in the wake of a declaration by the UN “expert” on racism, who told the UN Human Rights Council last September that “Islamophobia today is the most serious form of religious defamation” and constituted a threat to world peace.

This was payback time for those insulting Danish cartoons that so upset the Islamic world and led to the very specter of violence in the name of Islam that the cartoons were meant to critique in the first place. Totally ignored were all the cartoons, editorials and television programs in Muslim countries that regularly promote hatred of Jews, Christians, and members of other faiths.

Playing on “enlightened” Westerners’ guilt and their fear of being branded Islamophobes, the Islamists managed to silence any vigorous defense of the virtues of free expression and freedom of conscience. Next the Islamists intend to leverage their UN resolution to pressure Western countries into adopting blasphemy statutes aimed at protecting their religion from “hurtful” or “defamatory” remarks of any kind. A spokesperson for the Organization of Islamic Conference, the 57-member state group that pushed for the defamation resolution, said last March that there is “a dire need to fill the judicial vacuum of deficiency in dealing with the question of respect for religions” and demanded “effective and legally binding measures for combating defamation of all religions.” In their conception of “Truth,” since Islam is the only true religion and Islam forbids Muslims to criticize their religion in any way, it would simply make no sense to allow the lesser among us who are infidels to show any disrespect to Islam.

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