"The caliphate is alive and growing within Europe. . . . It has advanced through the denial of dangers and the obfuscating of history. It has moved forward on gilded carpets in the corridors of dialogue, the network of the Alliances and partnerships, in the corruption of its leaders, intellectuals and NGOs, particularly at the United Nations.” Bat Ye'or
July 15, 2011: Shown here are Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu at a meeting in Istanbul. Such prominence is given to this totalitarian organization. The photo reminds me of Neville and Adolph.
The respect and deference the United States is paying to the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) is deeply troubling. OIC: Oppression and Submission. The very idea that the OIC is meeting to discuss "religious tolerance" is monstrous, considering the complete and utter absence of "religious tolerance" of non-Muslims living in Muslim countries under the sharia.
What this really is, in the ongoing onslaught of deceit and obfuscation, is the restriction of free speech in Islam's war on the West. Muhammad said, "war is deceit."
"Respect and empathy and tolerance," coming from the most brutal and oppressive ideology on the face of the earth, reminds me of "peace and equality"promised in the campaign posters of the Nationalist Socialist Workers (Nazi) party.
Free Speech Concerns Ahead of Meeting With Muslim Nations on Religious Tolerance FOX news
A looming meeting with Islamic leaders hosted by the State Department has religious scholars and advocacy groups warning that the United States may "play into" the push by some Islamic nations to create new laws to stifle religious criticism and debate.
The meeting on religious tolerance, which is scheduled for mid-December, would involve representatives of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation — a coalition of 56 nations which more or less represents the Muslim world.
Critics describe the get-together — the first in a series — as a Trojan horse for the long-running OIC push for restrictions on speech. They note the track record of nations that want the dialogue, including Egypt, where recent military action against Coptic Christians raised grave concerns about intolerance against religious minorities.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton originally announced the meeting this past July in Turkey, where she co-chaired a talk on religious tolerance with the OIC. The event was billed as a way to foster "respect and empathy and tolerance" among nations. Delegates from up to 30 countries, as well as groups like the European Union, are also invited.
A State Department official told FoxNews.com this week that the meeting is meant to combat intolerance while being "fully consistent with freedom of expression."
A key worry is that the meeting could become a platform for Islamic governments to push for hate-speech laws which, in their most virulent and fundamentalist form, criminalize what they perceive as blasphemy.
While Clinton has drawn a line in the sand, saying nations should not "criminalize speech," the upcoming meeting is seen by some as a misstep on a very sensitive issue….
Jacob Mchangama, director of legal affairs for Denmark's Center for Political Studies, noted that the U.S. has resisted following Europe with hate-speech laws, but the Obama administration may be willing to "relax" its approach. He noted the administration co-sponsored a resolution with Egypt in 2009 that expressed concern about "negative racial and religious stereotyping," and said the upcoming December conference lends credibility to the OIC agenda.
The push by Islamic nations, especially Pakistan, for global religious sensitivity on its surface sounds innocuous. But the debate often pits their cause against free speech, and western officials have long complained the nations spearheading the push are keen on shielding Islam specifically from criticism.
In some countries, perceived protections against religious insult are used as license to threaten, bully and attack those who offend, intentionally or not. Most recently, the office of a French satirical newspaper was attacked after it published a Muhammad cartoon. That follows widespread 2006 protests over the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper.
And in Pakistan, whose blasphemy laws are internationally renowned for their broadness and severity, the legal protections on religious insult are used most often to protect Islam. Being charged with a blasphemy offense — or criticizing the laws themselves — can open the door to intimidation, or worse. Earlier this year, two Pakistani officials who had been critical of the laws were assassinated.
The OIC, looking for international cooperation on the issue of religious tolerance, has pushed for so-called "defamation" resolutions before the United Nations for over a decade. Those resolutions were Islam-focused and called on governments to take action to stop religious defamation.
Though the OIC took a pass on the resolution this year, the U.N. Human Rights Council in March approved a watered-down version that expresses concerns about religious "intolerance, discrimination and related violence.” The adoption was generally seen as a successful move by the U.S. to replace the far-tougher resolutions the OIC has pushed over the past decade.
But the upcoming meeting has been hailed by some OIC officials as a way to craft a tougher approach to curbing religious criticism.
An August article from the International Islamic News Agency cited OIC "informed sources" saying the meetings were meant to develop a "legal basis" for the March resolution.
The State Department official noted that the Human Rights Council’s resolution does not call for limits on free speech or provide support for defamation or blasphemy laws.
"Instead, the text notes the positive role that the free exchange of ideas and interfaith dialogue can have in countering religious intolerance," the official said. "We believe that implementing the specific, appropriate steps called for in the resolution will help to undercut support for such restrictions on expression and religious freedom."…
The meeting has been set for Dec. 12-14, and is expected to be hosted by Suzan Johnson Cook, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. It's unclear whether Clinton will attend. The meeting was announced around the same time as the Norway terror attacks, carried out by an individual said to harbor anti-Muslim views.
December’s meeting is the first in a series — focusing on engaging religious minorities and training officials on religious awareness, as well as "enforcing laws that protect against" religious discrimination, according to the State Department.
Lindsay Vessey, advocacy director with Open Doors USA, said her group is "cautiously optimistic" about the meetings. Vessey, whose organization advocates for persecuted Christians and has criticized the "defamation" resolutions in the past, said her organization remains hopeful the upcoming conference will turn out to be a "good thing."
The conservative Traditional Values Coalition last month sent a letter to Clinton asking that the group be included as part of the discussion. President Andrea Lafferty told FoxNews.com her organization is "very concerned" the administration is becoming "cozy" with the OIC, which she claimed wants to "silence" voices critical of Islam.
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Obama made NO mistake, he wants USA.. OUR AMERICA to be OIC 57th state!!
Please report this too !! Great job !
deeply troubling ? !
doesn’t make sense ? !
it makes all the sense in the world
if you accept the facts that
obama is a mohammedan
his administration is pro-islam
obama et al are communists
American Christian voters seem to be willfully ignorant about growing Islamic influence. Otherwise, Christian voters would not have voted twice George Bush II to become president.
It is almost all American presidents’ intentional approach in our modern time of legitimizing Islamism by deliberately promoting Islam both home and abroad.
To Ronald Wilson Reagan, Soviet Communism was pure EVIL and Islam was FREEDOM.
To George Bush II, Islam was a religion of peaceful harmony.
To Baraq Hussein, Jr., Islam is his religion as well as his Kenyan polygamist father’s religion. American Christian voters couldn’t have so mistaken here!
Islam’s triumph means the end of human conscience.
Yet, hundreds of billions of tax-payers’ dollars are spent annually by the U.S. government for the promotion and the sustenance of Islam, Islamism, and Islamic supremacy.
I am often told, America exerts its influence on its Islamic allies with the promise and delivery of billions of tax-payers’ dollars annually.
Obama’s Secratary of State Mrs. Clinton, an assumed champion of women’s equality, champions the sharia (which promotes FGM, wife beating and honor killings)with complete disregard for the US Constitution…. need I say more
No Apologies
No Sharia
Good news for a change we can believe in:
Families of Fort Hood Shooting Victims Suing Obama Government
http://theulstermanreport.com/2011/11/12/families-of-fort-hood-shooting-victims-suing-obama-government/
OT@Mad Jewess
If you’re going to go off topic, the least you can do is announce it so the those of us trying to follow the thread of the topic can choose to ignore it or read it later.
It’s more than obvious that Shillary and the anointed one are selling your country down the river. Do they have to hold a garage sale to get your attention? If you haven’t figured it out by now and are unwilling to fight back, then maybe you deserve to lose it. Once you do there will be no turning back.
SOS Hillary Rodham Clinton follows the Islamic customs without openly admitting in public.
With SOS Hillary Rodham Clinton’s consent, her husband loves to have sex with other women while being married to her, which is very much Islamic.
A Muslim woman will say, Islam elevates Muslim women’s rights by virtue of hijab, Burqa, polygamy, wife-beating, gang-rape, anal-sex, stoning for adultery, separation of females from males in work-places, divorce by words without having to pay child-support and alimony, etc.
Police arrest EDL members to ‘avert planned attack’ in London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/11/edl-arrests-london-occupy-armistice-day
“The photo reminds me of Neville and Adolph.”
I was thinking more like Beavis and Butthead.
The OIC and their quisling collaborators have shown Islam’s weak spot. Islam isn’t susceptible to rational or ethical arguments, because Muslims reject reason in favor of the Koran, and they live in a different moral universe from the rest of us where evil is good, good is evil and might is right.
But Islam can be destroyed by ridicule and being made into a laughing stock, especially by mockery and satire of their ‘prophet’, as explained here: http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-destroy-islam-non-violently.html
@When*Pigs8Fly ….
The only problem with allowing America to be lost to Islam is that it will inevitably impact Canada! I really don’t want our neighbours to the South to be under Islamic rule…I’m praying that they fight tooth and nail for their freedom because I will do so here in Canada if the Islamics think they will then take my freedoms away! I refuse to live in a cloth coffin or have my children and grandchildren doing so. I’d rather die fighting them (Islamics) than dying slowly living with them!
Sorry, Hillary,Obama and the rest of the traitors will never speak for me—no matter what they think — we will fight till the end and die free—period!!!
@ Redneck Woman
I’m with you, fight to the death BUT nothing can make people fight to protect their freedoms, they have to want to, and most are too stupid to want to until it’s too late and their freedoms are nothing but a distant memory. You can’t fix stupid or ignorant or brainwashed or lazy and you can’t fix sheeple, they have to do it themselves.
Morality for sale to highest bidder, inquire
within.
Clintonistas.