[ April 19, 2024 ]
The OIC has relentlessly pursued resolutions on restrictions on free speech for decades. So their caving on this is astounding. This is a testament to the work of vocal counter-jihadists in the West. When people began to understand that it was not about "insulting" or "offensive" speech but really about imposing the blasphemy laws under the sharia, freedom-loving peoples were not having it. Not. at. all. I believe the ummah will continue to agitate for free speech restrictions in the streets and in smoky rooms behind closed doors of the EU and other world bodies. And we see the media and political hacks already self-enforcing the sharia without these proposed resolutions. But even so, this is a major victory. Savor it.
This is fine news indeed, especially since he says he is giving up in
the face of immovable opposition from the U.S. and Europe. But with so
many recent calls for the imposition of Islamic blasphemy laws in the
West under the guise of "hate speech" laws, and with many of them coming
from Western journalists, we're not quite out of the woods yet in
regard to Islamic supremacist assaults upon the freedom of speech.Story continues below advertisement"West's free speech stand bars blasphemy ban – OIC," by Tom Heneghan for Reuters, October 15 (thanks to David):
(Reuters) – Western opposition has made it impossible for
Muslim states to obtain a ban on blasphemy, including anti-Islamic
videos and cartoons that have touched off deadly riots, the Islamic
world's top diplomat said.Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary general of the Organisation of
Islamic Cooperation (OIC), said his 57-nation body would not try again
for United Nations support to ban insults to religion, but appealed for states to apply hate-speech laws concerning Islam."We could not convince them," said the Turkish head
of the 57-member organisation which had tried from 1998 until 2011 to
get a United Nations-backed ban on blasphemy."The European countries don't vote with us, the United States doesn't vote with us."
Western countries see the publication of such images and materials as a matter of free speech….
Ihsanoglu told a conference in Istanbul at the weekend that the OIC
had failed to win a ban at the United Nations and would not revive its
long diplomatic campaign for one.Asked about recent media reports that the OIC wanted to resume the
campaign for a blasphemy ban, he said: "I never said this and I know
this will never happen."…Ihsanoglu's statement clarified the OIC stand at a time when Muslim
religious leaders have stepped up demands for an international blasphemy
law and politicians have accused Western states of spreading
anti-Muslim hatred under the protection of their free-speech laws.Starting in 1998, the 57-nation OIC won majorities in U.N. rights
bodies and at the U.N. General Assembly every year for non-binding
resolutions on "combating defamation of religions" that Western states
opposed as potential threats to free speech.But support for these texts steadily fell to just over 50 percent by
2010, because of strong Western and growing Latin American opposition,
and the OIC opted for a weaker resolution against intolerance towards
all religions last year.That more general resolution, drawn up with the United States and the European Union, passed unanimously.
The long dispute highlighted differing views of free speech in
Western and Muslim countries. Ihsanoglu said Western states had a "strange understanding" of free speech if it could be abused to hurt and insult others….Muslim politicians have stepped up their denunciations of Western
free speech policies following the video and cartoons lampooning Prophet
Mohammad. Muslims consider any criticism of him as highly offensive and
beyond free speech protection."We cannot accept insults to Islam under the guise of freedom of thought," Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told the Istanbul conference.
"We Muslims want the same respect shown to Jewish culture, which we support," Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.
But while editorialists and religious leaders have renewed calls for a
worldwide blasphemy ban, few national leaders have actually ended their
rhetorical reactions with that demand.One who did at the United Nations last month was President Asif Ali
Zardari of Pakistan, whose own national blasphemy law has come under
increasing criticism at home and abroad as open to widespread abuse
against minority Christians.Ihsanoglu, speaking at the conference on a panel with Pakistani
opposition leader Imran Khan, encouraged countries with blasphemy laws
to apply against insults to Islam, and then quickly added: "not
particularly the one in Pakistan".
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11 years ago
Two plus two will always equal four.
11 years ago
“We cannot accept insults to Islam under the guise of freedom of thought,” Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told the Istanbul conference.
“We Muslims want the same respect shown to Jewish culture, which we support,” Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.
What a crock. Muslims showing respect to Jewish culture. Give me a break. Thats the funniest line I’ve read all day. Such Bullshit. Muslims hate Israel, Muslims hate the west. If muslims want respect, they can start showing it by respecting our constitution as they expect us to respect their rag of a book called the Koran. I’d burn the Koran anyday before burning the constitution. Screw all Muslims who come here with intentions of changing our culture and our laws.
11 years ago
Ahmadis, Scientologists, Mormons and others, believe that prophecy existed through the 19th and even 20th Century. The Koranic belief that Mohammed was the last prophet is therefore blasphemy.
Do these Mohammedan really want to criminalize reverence of Mohammed?
To Jews and Christians, every word of the Koran is blasphemy. The false prophet Mohammed claimed to receive visions from the angel Gabriel: he didn’t. It was a lie, as attested to by the Christian and Jewish religious leadership of the time. So every word of the Koran, which falsely claims to be prophecy, is blasphemy.
So do these Mohammedan really want to criminalize possession of the Koran?
To some Religious Zionists, the State of Israel is believed to herald the messianic era. So any criticism of Israel equates to criticism of the Messiah or even G-d. In other words, blasphemy.
So do these Mohammedan really want to criminalize criticism of Israel?
The only way this makes any sense is that they don’t want to criminalize blasphemy. If so, every Mohammedan would be a criminal. They want to criminalize criticism of Mohammed. That’s fine – they are allowed to believe whatever cockamamie crap they want. But those who worship Mohammed have NO RIGHT to impose their satanic beliefs on Humanity.
Wars have been fought over less important issues. (Though if they want to start it, a world war against the Ummah at this time wouldn’t be the worst outcome.)
11 years ago
We won!!! Finally. Against the UN. Let’s take it. Celebrate for a millisecond because these bugs will always rise again. Until we stop them, which is my most fervent wish. Has anyone noticed that in any Islamic uprising, always planned, tens or hundreds or thousands are all men, and they all look like bugs, all buzzing, all irrationally mad. Mad buzzing bugs. I always think: There go the mad bugs again, where is Rage Boy? Do they ever get tired? Do they ever think ONE RATIONAL THOUGHT? It made me think of our house problem a wee while ago: Hornets, wasps, yellowjackets. All nasty, had to finally call an exterminator. whatever, have to call the exterminator. He killed a bunch of them, some wobbled for a few days, easy to kill with the flyswatter cause they were weak, he came again and sprayed them again, and put an end to the problem, once and for all. He killed them and I was glad, because I could not have these virulent yellow jackets in my home, threatening me and my children and my pets. They were eradicated from my life and I was happy. It took an expert to kill them and our house was happy again.
11 years ago
Savoring.
11 years ago
Is anyone here delusional enough to believe a word of what these muslime liars at the OIC spew? Islam is a religion that ADVOCATES lying for crissakes!
11 years ago
Burn churches and kill Christians till you get the same respect Israel gets…
How about doing what Israel does? How many Nobel prizes in Islam? Only muslim I know that got one was Obama. We are still waiting for him to do more than vote “present”.
Seems the only thing they know how to do is kill. Well I guess everything is a nail to them and they are the hammer. Rome fell from this barbarian type. We better be careful and remove them from civilization. Send em’ back!
11 years ago
Beware the rope-a-dope.
Remember about how the House Dems talked about deem-and-pass and several other controversial parliamentary stunts before Obamacare, and how the talk show hosts charged off criticizing those, and then how Dingy Harry finally said it was off the table because, after all the negotiations, they just couldn’t come up with the votes.
That was immediately before they passed it.
All the statements before were just to get us off our guard, or pursuing the wrong detail.
11 years ago
IMO it would be a masterstroke of genius for SOIA et al. to begin calling for recognition of the OIC as the Global Islamic Caliphate of the Umma. Why? 1) Because that’s what it is and 2) because the OIC members and the Umma are playing the non-Muslim world for fools through the artificial separation of the OIC member “states” and the NGO’s and trans-national terrorist organizations that act on their behalf.
The non-Muslim world insists on seeing the world through the lens of the Westphalian model of sovereign nation states. Thus we recognize the 57 “states” of the OIC because they fit the Westphalian model. The Westphalian model does not recognize the Umma as a single political entity with the requirement of a primary political allegiance for all Muslims wherever they reside. This needs to change, and the OIC is the means to drive the change. SOIA should clearly call for the political recognition of the OIC as the Global Islamic Caliphate (GIC) whose constitution is the Quran and whose law is Sharia. There are several critical implications that follow from this:
1) At present, the individual OIC “states” are free to support NGO’s and trans-national terrorist organizations, either overtly or covertly, to advance the political agenda of the GIC including by force of arms (jihadists). The “states” currently have political deniability since the jihadist actors do not represent recognized “states.” Recognition of the GIC as the political entity of the Umma, no matter where located, properly places all of these NGO’s and jihadist groups under the political realm of the GIC and denudes them of the cover they now enjoy. Action by terrorists becomes military action by the GIC with the clarity that has been missing. Similarly, influence campaigns become recognized for the subversions that they are on behalf of a foreign political entitiy.
2) Recognizing the Quran as the constitution of the GIC and the Sharia as its law clarifies the status of the GIC and its citizens, and the non-Muslim world in critical ways. a) The Quran openly declares war of conquest on the non-Muslim world. This would finally be recognized as the status of relations between the GIC and all else. b) the Quran requires primary loyalty to its deity and its prophet, and by extension to the GIC. Thus recognizing the GIC and the state of war should be linked with the re-desgnation of citizenships of Muslims wherever they reside as GIC citizens. You can keep “dual citizenship” if you prefer, but that seems ill advised. c) The primary allegiance of Muslims to the GIC in an openly declared war provides legal justification for systematic population exchange of Muslims to the GIC and non-Muslims from the GIC.
Look at what is happening around the world today … the fall of Mindanao … the fall of southern Thailand … the fall of Kosovo … the fall of Dearborn …
Until the non-Muslim world recognizes the Umma as the united political entity that it is, undertaking global conquest on a distributed basis, we will continue to suffer the death of 1000 cuts and the loss of the free world, one nibble at a time.
11 years ago
So by what other method and under what other guise are the islamonazis of the OIC hoping to enforce blasphemy laws worldwide now? My vote, hate speech legislation, because islamonazi blasphemy laws smell just as rank by any other name.
11 years ago
57 Nations. Hmm. Where have I heard that before?
11 years ago
“We Muslims want the same respect shown to Jewish culture, which we support,” Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.
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Like hell you do.
11 years ago
The Muslims want a one state Chalifa, so I say, give it to them. All the Muslim States should be merged into one state. That way, their voice in the UN would be more properly placed, one voice. I would even put the in the Security Council. So then their one voice would be put up against the one voice of America, England, France, Russia etc etc. And just to make everything equal, put Israel on the Security Council too. Hey, why not just abolish the General Assembly, and leave the Security Council by it’s little lonely?
11 years ago
I wouldn’t trust him for a second. Remember, deception in the furtherance of the religion of peace is commanded in their holy book. This is nothing more than deception. Don’t fall for it. We have won nothing. Total eradication of their thought process and entire being is the only thing that will work. They can live on, but the religion of peace and the political system that uses the religion as a cover must end.
11 years ago
The Turkish islamonazis “support Jewish culture” to such an extent that when two synagogues were blown up in the early 20th century (and 26 people killed) the longest sentence handed down to the islamonazi perpetrators was SIX years, and many only got THREE years. The Turkish islamonazis “support Jewish culture” to such an extent that the blowing of the shofar is prohibited (along w/the ringing of church bells) yet the daily call to prayer blasts out unimpeded.
11 years ago
Cancel the victory dance. You have not won; OIC has not surrendered. They only abandoned one battlefield to concentrate on two others; one public, the other running beneath the radar.
Ishanoglu will be lobbying for passage of national blasphemy laws as demanded by previous UN resolutions. That is the public campaign.
Next March, the HRC’s Ad Hoc Cmte. On Elaboration of Complementary International Standards will meet for the firs of two ten day sessions.
Their mission is to code the defamation of Islam resolutions into a binding protocol to ICERD which will make them enforceable in court. Once that protocol is passed, signed and ratified, you can kiss the free speech clause goodbye.
My blog post on this subject will include an embedded 80 page pdf file compiled from 7 previous blog posts. It will be at dajjal.posterous.com/ .
