Re: ---------->ffs...

Groove Champion · by Groove Champion on Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:03 pm

I loved that last quote.
Pirate

Andrew.C · by Andrew.C on Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:52 am

Apparently it made it through...

Article wrote:A United Nations forum on Thursday passed a resolution condemning "defamation of religion" as a human rights violation, despite wide concerns that it could be used to justify curbs on free speech in Muslim countries.

The U.N. Human Rights Council adopted the non-binding text, proposed by Pakistan on behalf of Islamic states, with a vote of 23 states in favor and 11 against, with 13 abstentions.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE52P60220090326

Article wrote:What exactly is it the drafters of the council resolution are trying to outlaw? To judge from what happens in the countries that lobbied for the vote—like Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan—they use the word “defamation” to mean something close to the crime of blasphemy, which is in turn defined as voicing dissent from the official reading of Islam.

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13413974&source=most_commented

Glenjamin · by Glenjamin on Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:34 pm

So it seems Sharia law is now an internationally accepted thing...

Andrew.C · by Andrew.C on Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:07 am

Yeah. Yet another example of how international law continues to render itself unenforceable.

Glenjamin · by Glenjamin on Wed May 13, 2009 12:17 pm

And how Political correctness is dumb... "we can't say no to stupidity it's discrimination!"