"defamation of religion" is now a human rights violation?!?!?!?!

[Strong Atheist]

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The U.N.'s top human rights body has approved a proposal by Muslim nations urging the passage of laws protecting religion from criticism.

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/26/1004038/human-rights-body-passes-religious-defamation-resolution

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iRHXSIoJJdXQpG3kPrRO2LWMnWTAD975RDM00

:puke:

RIP, free speech...

[msongs]

1. one particular major superstition set is so weak it must outlaw criticism. well they are all so

weak they cannot stand a little investigation and criticism. easier to snuff out the opposition than to stand on their own merits perhaps.

Msongs

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. Shit.

[shraby]

3. Offhand, I'd say that a UN ruling can't supercede

our constitution.

[KansDem]

4. Intriguing, considering religion and human rights are about as opposite as...

...superstition and reason.

[terisan]

5. The campaigns to end free speech re religion and to impose Sharia law have been

problems around the word and i think they will be developed here also.

[Cronus Protagonist]

6. It's a hate crime

n/t

[Strong Atheist]

8. What's a hate crime? Criticism? Was criticizing * a hate crime?

:wtf:

[Cronus Protagonist]

11. "Hate Crime" is a slippery slope - this is where it leads

n/t

[Strong Atheist]

14. Are you saying that CRITICIZING religion is a HATE CRIME?!?!?!?

Glad I don't live in in the theocratic gulag that would entail...

yet...

[Cronus Protagonist]

15. I thought I was clear

Apparently not. I'll try again another time.

[Goblinmonger]

12. You forgot the :sarcasm: thingy.

Criticizing religion is a hate crime? Have you ever said anything bad about RW fundies on here? Don't lie, I'm a member so I can search (not that I give two shits). If you have, you are a hate criminal.

It says that CRITICISM is wrong. Not oppressing. Not killing. Not discriminating. CRITICIZING. Good Christ on a damn pogo stick, if religion can't take a little criticism, it should put it's big girl panties on and grow up.

[Cronus Protagonist]

13. I agree with you

But not on the sarcasm thingy.

[varkam]

22. Being critical of religion is a hate crime? eom

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. No more than it was the last year, or the year before, or the year before ...

back to 1999, at least.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5339985&mesg_id=5340450

[Strong Atheist]

9. Didn't see that. Thanks. I think that it should be here, too. nt.

[rrneck]

10. That's it. I'm founding

my own religion.

Fuck all y'all. You are all worthless until I tell you otherwise.

You are all going to Dick Cheney's basement to hold targets in his shooting range while listening to Rush Limbaugh at 200 decibels.

Unless you tell me how wonderful I am. Then you will get some really neat stuff in a really nice place AFTER YOU DIE. I promise.

Now shut up and send me a check.

[Occam Bandage]

16. The US is boycotting for that very reason. nt

[Odin2005]

17. The UN "Human Rights" council has ALWAYS been a sick joke.

It's dominated by countries that think Human Rights are "Western Cultural Imperialism."

[JerseygirlCT]

18. Oy

That's a very, very bad idea. Frighteningly bad.

I fully support ensuring that people the world over have the right to practice their religion. But this? This is incitement to violence and repression.

Bad, bad news.

[Why Syzygy]

19. Be sure to see the thread linked in #7.

There was another related in the past few months in which struggle4progress did quite a bit of research.
U.S. Constitution would never allow it.

[Dorian Gray]

20. So does that mean

that when certain imams rally against Christian or Jewish infidels, they'll be brought up to The Hague to be tried for human rights violations?

This is the most insane BS ever. What countries supported this nonsense? We didnt, did we?

[Strong Atheist]

21. No, we did not, though we might have done so if we were still under *. Lucky that it is a

new day, here...

[cosmik debris]

23. Doesn't this still have to pass the General Assembly?

It looks like the reports are that it has passed a committee test, but that it has not had a final vote.

And as we know, a lot of things pass the committee and never even get a vote on the floor.

It is not uncommon to for politicians to introduce measures that they know will never pass, just to pander to their constituents. I think that this is one of those.

[rd_kent]

24. Good thing the UN doesnt make OUR laws!

[Neo Atheist]

25. No. This is a non-binding resolution.

This body of the UN has the same amount of enforcement power over nations as women have rights in Saudi Arabia (none). The main body of the United Nations rejected any binding legislation concerning CRITICISM (calling religion stupid isn't defamation, just a plain statement of truth) of religion.

This is all a result of Muslims still seething over the Mohammed cartoons in Denmark, and Geert Wilders having the right to be an asshole.


edit to violate non-binding resolution from toothless UN body:

[muriel_volestrangler]

26. Ironically, that image gives me the following message:

"Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /blasphemedia/Mohammed03.jpg on this server"

OMG, the UN HRC got there first!!!!!!

[Neo Atheist]

27. these people are as nefarious as the Illuminati, and Freemasons!

I think my webhost is simply acting like a shithead.