Tolerant intolerance
by Bridget Geegan Blanton
In a manner as openly deceitful as the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2624, Islamic extremist front groups are abusing the court system as they deride the true meaning of the first amendment, and drag it through the dirt with petty grievance lawsuits that scarcely conceal their primary intent, which is to suppress free speech.
These groups cloak themselves with a smokescreen of multiculturalism and lash out http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3168 society across the globe. Their intentions are accomplished by using the very freedom that defines the West, against the West, in order to promote or perhaps validate a radicalized version of Islam.
In late 2007, The United Nations General Assembly passed a ‘defamation of religions’ motion that had been promoted by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Although the motion appears to refer to all religions, Islam is the only religion actually mentioned in the text of the resolution.The motion focuses primarily on the “negative projection of Islam in the media” yet fails to address the persecution of non-Muslim minorities in Islamic countries. Essentially, it recommends a weakened right to freedom of expression regarding anything that might be construed by the ‘thought police’ as “insulting” to Islam.
It is crucial to note that absent from the motion is any reference to the fact that human rights atrocities such as kidnappings, beheadings, suicide bombings, honor killings, terror and murder are committed in the name of radicalized Islamic teachings. According to this flawed motion, the very act of pointing out such a critical oversight is nothing less than Islamophobic in nature. This resolution paints radicalized Islamic factions as victims rather than the aggressors that they have shown themselves to be.
The passage of this motion establishes a dangerous precedent for the future of free speech especially considering the rising power of a world court. The ‘defamation of religions’ motion is nothing more than an overt suppression of criticism for radicalized Islamic teachings.
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