 The Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) ended its 12th biannual conference on Tuesday with a joint statement calling on the United Nations to issue a resolution prohibiting the vilification of all religions.
| What's that word I'm looking for... Oh, yes. "No." |
During the past two days, Arab delegates have been discussing ways to lobby the international community on this issue. “Vilifying religions has become one of the plagues hitting the modern world, exactly like terrorism,” Deputy Mamdouh Abbadi (Amman Third District) told delegates at the conference.
| No, it's not exactly like terrorism. Any corpses that result from a cartoon are self-inflicted. |
Abbadi said the UN must take a firm stand against this practice, “which is being committed under the pretext of freedom of expression.”
| It's not a pretext. It's an exercise. |
He called on the Arab parliamentarians to lobby the International Parliamentary Union to support the move. Kuwaiti Parliament Speaker Jasem Khurafi said on Monday that he hoped the international community would respond positively to the Arab initiative. |