OIC To Push For Global Law To Criminalize Insulting Islam, Claims “Danger To Global Security. Would you follow this law?
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The bid follows uproar across the Muslim world over a crude Internet video clip filmed in the United States and cartoons in a French satirical magazine that lampoon the Prophet Mohammad.
But it appears unlikely to win acceptance from Western countries determined to resist restrictions on freedom of speech and already concerned about the repressive effect of blasphemy
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), said the international community should “come out of hiding from behind the excuse of freedom of expression”, a reference to Western arguments against a universal blasphemy law that the OIC has sought for over a decade.
He said the “deliberate, motivated and systematic abuse of this freedom” were a danger to global security and stability.
Separately, the Human Rights Commission of the OIC, which has 57 members and is based in Saudi Arabia, said “growing intolerance towards Muslims” had to be checked and called for “an international code of conduct for media and social media to disallow the dissemination of incitement materialmy laws in Muslim countries such as Pakistan
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Greg 2012/09/20 13:48:44No, kiss my non-Muslim ass
Muslims have been killiing Christians, Jews, Gays, rape victims, and anyone else who they don't feel like being in the midst of for centuries. They want a monopoly on crudely, hatefully, murderously insulting those they don't agree with.
Screw that!
Clean your own house before you think you're going to tell me how to clean mine!
OIC and ISLAM and the U.N can KISS MY REDNECK ASS.
nobama 2012
Was that pathetic video offensive? Yes.
Too bad.
(I'm laughing because I'm assuming you're making a joke and not talking about that "Obama is a Muslim" junk.)
what a crew.
NOBAMA NO CLINTONS 2012