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Islamic Nations Seek Legally Binding Way to Counter Religious 'Defamation'
2009-11-17
(CNSNews.com) -- As support wanes for its campaign to secure controversial but non-binding "defamation of religion" resolutions at the United Nations, the Islamic bloc is pushing ahead with an alternative route -- one that would carry the weight of international law.

The OIC is now attempting to have a key U.N. panel amend an existing international treaty to encompass supposedly religiously defamatory speech.

Unlike the resolutions, changing the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) to cover religion would be legally enforceable.
Posted by:Fred

#19  It would be an easy choice, even for those in Washington because they know they'd never survive the next election and as corrupt as they are they have keen survival instincts (notice the lackluster support for Obamacare)
Posted by: rjschwarz   2009-11-17 18:01  

#18  James, I'm sure there would be enough "votes" to overturn anything O'Bumble does. They just may not be paper ballots, that's all.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2009-11-17 16:42  

#17  Mitch, would there be the votes to impeach?
Posted by: James   2009-11-17 16:32  

#16  Please, Barack, give us an excuse to impeach you in 2011. Sign a UN treaty which gives away ironclad First Amendment protections to a transnational Islamist lynch mob.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2009-11-17 15:55  

#15  Indeed: a very easy choice.
Posted by: Secret Master   2009-11-17 14:16  

#14  Steve, I'm afraid that it would also be an easy choice for most of the Washington clique also...and not the same choice.
Posted by: AlanC   2009-11-17 14:13  

#13  BP, easy choice for most of us at the Burg ...
Posted by: Steve White   2009-11-17 13:43  

#12  I hope this passes, you guys in the U.S. are then in a constitutional conundrum: remove the first amendment, or leave the U.N.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2009-11-17 13:23  

#11  #6 and #7 ... Cornsilk Blondie, you nailed it perfectly. Thanks!!
Posted by: WolfDog   2009-11-17 11:07  

#10  The way I see it they are trying to redefine Islam as a RACE and not a Religion (or Political movement).
Posted by: CrazyFool   2009-11-17 09:19  

#9  P2K, you missed the spot where they redefine religion as Islam and only Islam. Any other "religion" is therefore, ipso facto, a defamation and all adherents put to death.
Posted by: AlanC   2009-11-17 09:05  

#8  So, you're ready to have all those comments defaming the Jews by your community apply against yourselves as well? /rhet question.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-11-17 08:35  

#7  Oops...I meant "washing it down with an occasional beer or margarita". Should not post without caffeine.
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2009-11-17 08:21  

#6  Okee dokee. How about this....you can move to an Islamic paradise like Saudi Arabia instead of having to deal with all the icky infidels in Europe, North America, Australia, etc.

Then, not only can you pass all the "blasphemy" laws you like, you don't have to worry much about your wimmen gettin' uppity and demanding things like basic human rights.

Meanwhile, I'll just stay here in the West, eating pork BBQ, washing it down with an occasional, and wearing shorts.....and I promise to not say anything about how backward, medieval, and generally unappealing your society is to the rest of the world. I'll even stop sexually insulting your "mighty swords of Allah" and some of your co-religionists inability to deal with female desires for gratification. Deal?
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2009-11-17 08:20  

#5  Your "holy book" defames my religion. Does that count? I thought not.
Posted by: Spot   2009-11-17 08:06  

#4  I guess this means every time a muslim calls for death to infidels or call them pigs and monkeys that a cruise missile of justice will be on the way. Right Barack?
Posted by: ed   2009-11-17 07:25  

#3  Anyone who defames Islam is a Nazi.. or something.
Posted by: tipper   2009-11-17 04:59  

#2  The OIC is now attempting to have a key U.N. panel amend an existing international treaty to encompass supposedly religiously defamatory speech.

You idiots are just shooting yourselves in the a$$.
Posted by: gorb   2009-11-17 02:36  

#1  How about I say what I like and you go pound sand?
Posted by: mojo   2009-11-17 02:03  

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