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U.N. Inhumane Wrongs Council

From Mats Tunehag´s blog:
"The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted – yet again – a “defamation of religions” resolution. The text refers to Islam and suggests that it should be forbidden to criticize Islam. The council ought to change its name to United Nations Inhumane Wrongs Council. Human rights are to protect people, not ideas or religious views.

Pakistan – which has a blasphemy law – has been taking a lead, supported by the 56 Muslim countries of the Islamic Conference. These Muslim countries are misusing the U.N. to legitimize blasphemy laws, and thus restricting freedom of speech and religion as well as press freedom.

Approximately 200 Human Rights organisations from 50 countries filed interventions and petitions against this resolution. But the Muslim nations and other dictatorial countries voted for, whereas democratic nations voted against. The oppressive regimes won – freedom of speech lost.
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Some Muslims are offended by drawings of the prophet Mohammed, but seemingly find it non-offensive to attack embassies, burn churches, execute those who leave Islam, stone women who have been raped, kill film producers they dislike, or murder in cold blood priests and missionaries just because they reside in Muslim countries. We obviously have different views of what is to be deemed offensive.

I propose that the U.N. Human Rights Council close down - or change its name to U.N. Inhumane Wrongs Council.
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