human rights
Obama administration values feel-good religionism over free speech
A good friend just sent me an article about an op-ed the talented Jonathan Turley wrote for USA Today (which is generally a little less talented, journalistically speaking, but that’s a different post). He discussed that the Obama administration helped pass the UN resolution we discussed in March which would recognize exceptions to free speech [...]
Defamation of religion is now a human rights violation (Updated)
It’s sad to note that yesterday the United Nations voted 23 to 11 with 13 nations abstaining to make defamation of religion a human rights violation. The resolution was championed by the Organization of Islamic Countries wishing to prevent the defamation of Islam, as in the case of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons. Critics, including the World Jewish Congress, see the resolution as an attack on freedom of expresion and philosopher A.C. Grayling has called it the “deification of stupidity.”
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