Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Anti-Blashpemy Laws at the UN

Resolution 62/154 (nonbinding) is an attempt to block free speech when such speech offends Islam. The entire resolution is some bit of Orwellian quackery that boggles the mind when one attempts to imagine what kind of person would write it. One paragraph from the preamble reads thus:
Underlining the importance of increasing contacts at all levels in order to deepen dialogue and reinforce understanding among different cultures, religions, beliefs and civilizations, and welcoming in this regard the Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the Ministerial Meeting on Human Rights and Cultural Diversity of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Tehran on 3 and 4 September 2007.
Excuse me? "Deepen dialogue", "reinforce understanding"? Can someone show me where exactly Muslims are attempting to "reinforce understanding" between religions? Would that be in Saudi Arabia where no Churches or Synagogues are allowed to exist? Where you must be Muslim to be a citizen? Where the Qur'an is its constitution which says that on the Day of Judgment (Yawm al-Qiyama) that Islam is the only religion acceptable to Allah and "No other religion will be accepted from them"? Is this the kind of reinforcement we are hearing about? Or is it the reinforcement of understanding that the Iranians engage in when they persecute Baha'is? Or when they host Holocaust denial conferences? Is this the reinforcement that mandates the persecution of Ahmedis?

This is just the beginning, much like Hitler militarizing the Rheinland, it is only a small taste of what is to come. It is a central tenet of the Shariah that those who insult Muhammad be put to death. This is one of his self aggrandizing proclamations, rendering himself, and his faith, above reproach. Such self laudatory proclamations are the norm of Muhammad and his ficticious Allah. This became a problem in Andalusian Spain when the Zahiri (a now defunct literalists school of Sunni jurisprudence) and Maliki Qadis (judges) found themselves in an awkward position as Christian monks would scamper down to the local court and defame Muhammad and generally blaspheme in all directions in order to incur a death sentence and become a martyr for Christ.

This is where we are heading. Islam is not a faith which makes concessions, it isn't a faith that will say "You give us Shariah, and we will go easy on gays in Iran". No, it is only one way. Nothing is gained for civilized society by allowing such a resolution to become even "non-binding". Here is another passage from the "resolution":
...while manifestations of cultural prejudice, intolerance and xenophobia towards people belonging to different cultures, religions and beliefs generate hatred and violence among peoples and nations throughout the world.
Oh this is too rich. Where were these multitudes of Muslim humanists when Yusuf Qaradawi said of Jews:
"Oh Allah, take your enemies, the enemies of Islam. Oh Allah, take the Jews, the treacherous aggressors. Oh Allah, take this profligate, cunning, arrogant band of people. Oh Allah, they have spread much tyranny and corruption in the land. Pour Your wrath upon them, oh our God. Lie in wait for them. Oh Allah, You annihilated the people of Thamoud at the hand of a tyrant, and You annihilated the people of 'Aad with a fierce, icy gale. Oh Allah, You annihilated the people Thamoud at the hand of a tyrant, You annihilated the people of 'Aad with a fierce, icy gale, and You destroyed the Pharaoh and his soldiers — oh Allah, take this oppressive, tyrannical band of people. Oh Allah, take this oppressive, Jewish, Zionist band of people. Oh Allah, do not spare a single one of them. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one."
Wouldn't this count as generating "hatred and violence among peoples and nations throughout the world"? But you see, the Jews really deserve it, I suppose. This explains the nearly ubiquitous praise for Hitler which emenates from every anti-Israel rally where Muslims are present.

There will be no reciprocation of "tolerance", there will only be more rope taken, just like appeasing Hitler in his violations of the Treaty of Versailles, we will be setting ourselves up for catastrophy. We cannot afford to appease this any longer. It is one thing to have Muslims dictate the parameters of society in Muslim countries (this is self determination) but now we have the whimpering cowards in the west who will be allowing Muslims to dictate the parameters of our own societies. Stop the Quislings, stop Shariah.

First they came for Geert Wilders, but I wasn't a conservative, so I didn't speak up....

Now they are coming for you. It is time to speak up.

3 comments:

Diacanu said...

This is the stuff that makes me ill, and lose sleep at night.

What can be done? who are the right people to lobby?

Ibn al-Rawandi said...

Write to you representatives. They probably won't read it. But if enough constituents do write in the person who reads the emails will mention the influx.

I think the US will play it well and bail on this nonsense. Canada and half of Europe already have. Israel will have none of it as well. So I think this will cause a brief division in the UN. Watching video of the UN it is very obvious what is going on, you can sense the feeling of members when the Muslim states stand up and start ranting about defending "Shariah".

Jacques Hughes said...

I say let it pass. No-one is complaining now. Let's see how folks react after the event. Let's see who has a good excuse why it wasn't reported in the mainstream press. If no-one feels the necessity to protect freedom of speech, they don't deserve to have it.

Back to the 12th century, rescind women's rights, own slaves, kill anyone who disagrees with you. What's not to like. Of course I'm male, so I don't have anything to worry about. Sorry Mom. And little Sister.

OK, sarcasm finishes.

My real reply? Over my dead body.