This is just fucking crazy. On March 26th, the U.N. Human Rights Council adopted a non-binding resolution calling “defamation of religion” a human rights violation.
I don’t think so. When, under Islamic law, Saudi Arabia beats a woman half to death and then throws her in jail for the heinous crime of being gang-raped, that’s a human rights violation. When Christian fundamentalists dehumanize and incite hatred against homosexuals in a misanthropic crusade against gay marriage, that’s a human rights violation. When Israeli troops murder 960 civilians and use civilians as human shields because Israel refuses to give up part of the holy land, that’s a human rights violation. When the Catholic Church tolerates and covers up the molestation and rape of young boys by priests, that’s a human rights violation.
When I say that religions breed intolerance, injustice and a host of diabolical, megalomaniacal motherfuckers, I am stating an empirical fact. If the UN wants to call that a human rights violation, they only serve to delegitimize whatever claim they may have had to moral authority.
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Absolutely right.
And our leaders seem very eager to drag us down to their level with each little thing they do to appease these people. Little by little, turning our society over to these barbarians. All out of fear of being called intolerant or racist. If opposing animals (not people) like this makes me intolerant and racist, so be it. I’ll wear that label with pride, damn it.
Here’s one that is currently on the front page of Digg: http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/04/03/8986241-sun.html
Hey, you should start a collection of stories about the true nature of this religion of peace!
It’s time to stop being tolerant. It’s getting us nowhere and is getting them everything they want.
@H, I didn’t mean to imply that we should dehumanize those that dehumanize others. I support ignoring the opinions of demonstrably evil people, but I do not support mistreating them.
Well the people who make the decisions are NOT ignoring their opinions. Somebody else has to send them back to the hole they crawled from.
Goddamn, when I first read about this I’d really been hoping that it was aimed at sectarian violence, or malicious rumours about religious minorities à la ‘Jew eat babies!’. I guess not.
I’d love to know if there’s anything we can do about this. It might be worth contacting our UN representatives to (in the cases of Canada, India and the EU at least) thank them for opposing this resolution and urging them to keep on opposing it if it crops up again. I haven’t read about any petitions or group statements against it, but if there are some out there I’d love to hear about them.
H, I hate this resolution and the people who made it and their motives. However, while ‘stop being tolerant’ and ‘send them back to the hole they crawled from’ sounds very tough and manly, I’m not sure what exactly you mean. Do you mean leave the UN? Sever diplomatic ties with Muslim countries? Expel anybody practising Islam from [your country]? Make religion illegal in [your country]? As far as speaking out against this particular motion goes, the US and Canada have done so already; hopefully if enough of their citizens voice their opposition to it, they will do so again next time it comes up.
I mean exactly what I said.
When they clean up their act and join civilization, they can come into our free countries. Otherwise they can stay the fuck in their desert hellhole.
Christians are welcome because they aren’t stoning and beheading people anymore, for example.
Christians don’t riot in the streets, suicide bomb, and threaten to murder people who make fun of Jesus.
Just act a little more civilized and get a sense of humor. That would be a good start.
@H and M, the key problem, as I see it, is that if you want to sever diplomatic ties and create embargoes against nations that spit on human rights and incite terror and violence in the world, the country on the top of the list is the good ol’ US of A.
H, there may not be many christian suicide bombers, but there’s plenty of christians shooting up schools and offices. Christians do riot in the streets, after every Stanley Cup final for example, and last I looked, a so-called “Christian Nation” with a born-again-christian president killed around a million Iraqis, threw out the whole innocent-until-proven-guilty thing and tortured innocent people at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and a host of CIA secret prisons. This isn’t a muslim/christian thing, it’s a crazy/sane thing.
what a load of rubbish read first dont judge till you get both sides
what rubbish
@efram, it seems simple enough. There’s the people who would impose there religions on others, and the people who believe in freedom of expression. The religious fundamentalists are wrong, in every possible sense. Any move to limit a person’s freedom to criticize ANYTHING is bound to stifle critical thought, which is the foundation of scientific and cultural progress. You have a counter argument, or are you just committed to the fallacy of the middle ground on principle?
The Arabic woman was sentenced because she was in a car with a stranger not because she was raped. it is like police arresting you after you are shot by a burglar who acquires your illegal firearm. Burglar goes to jail because he is a burglar and attempted to kill you. you go to jail because you owned an illegal weapon.
by the way, you just proved that UN resolution has a point.