The Administration Takes on ‘Islamophobia’

[Valin]

NRO:

The White House is giving free-speech opponents a megaphone.
Nina Shea
9/1/11

An unprecedented collaboration between the Obama administration and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC, formerly called the Organization of the Islamic Conference) to combat “Islamophobia” may soon result in the delegitimization of freedom of expression as a human right.

The administration is taking the lead in an international effort to “implement” a U.N. resolution against religious “stereotyping,” specifically as applied to Islam. To be sure, it argues that the effort should not result in free-speech curbs. However, its partners in the collaboration, the 56 member states of the OIC, have no such qualms. Many of them police private speech through Islamic blasphemy laws and the OIC has long worked to see such codes applied universally. Under Muslim pressure, Western Europe now has laws against religious hate speech that serve as proxies for Islamic blasphemy codes.

Last March, U.S. diplomats maneuvered the adoption of Resolution 16/18 within the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC). Non-binding, this resolution, inter alia, expresses concern about religious “stereotyping” and “negative profiling” but does not limit free speech. It was intended to — and did — replace the OIC’s decidedly dangerous resolution against “defamation of religions,” which protected religious institutions instead of individual freedoms.

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This initiative is shaping up to be one-sided. As Akram said, “The Resolution 16/18 was driven more by the kind of discrimination in Europe and the West in general against Muslims.” He added: “I don’t think any country in the Muslim world is deliberately discriminating against minorities.”

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[Argyle58]

Here's a thought, lets work on getting radical Islamists to quit killing innocent people in the quest for world domination. If you can manage that, there would be no "Islamophobia".

[Valin]

Here's a thought, lets work on getting radical Islamists to quit killing innocent people in the quest for world domination. If you can manage that, there would be no "Islamophobia".

 

 

Well that's one plan. Another plan might be.....

 

Just trying to present another option.

[SrWoodchuck]

Valin! Are you talkin' about this?

 

[Evad]

Here's a thought, lets work on getting radical Islamists to quit killing innocent people in the quest for world domination. If you can manage that, there would be no "Islamophobia".

 

 

Well that's one plan. Another plan might be.....

 

Just trying to present another option.

I'm going for option B