Monday, October 8

Freedom of Speech under threat, this time at the United Nations

You have heard about the Swedish issue with the cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad? But now something more troubling is underway. And that's the attempts by several governments to clamp down on free speech on an inter-governmental basis. This has to be fought back as much as possible. Just read the hypocritical statements and puke:


The Iranian foreign ministry protested to Sweden, while Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asserted that "Zionists," "an organized minority who have
infiltrated the world," were behind the affair.
Pakistan complained and said that "the right to freedom of expression" is inconsistent with "defamation of religions and prophets."
The Turkish Ministry of Religious Affairs called for rules specifying new
limits of press freedom.
Speaking for the OIC, Pakistani diplomat Marghoob Saleem Butt then
criticized "unrestricted and disrespectful enjoyment of freedom of
expression."

Each and every of these governments do things which are much more against Islam and the Prophet than any kind of cartoon can ever do. So besides being hypocritical and party to repression internally, now they are trying to wrap themselves in a pious flag and complaining about freedom of speech and defamation of religion/prophet. But I do hope that the governments in the United Nations reject these calls firmly. Bloody cheek!

Look at this half-baked abortion of a bill in the UK which has now gone into law. In other words, a cartoon like the Swedish one couldnt have been published in the UK. See here for a good argument against this stupid bill. Bizarre, i tell you.

All this to be taken with a grain of piquant salt!!!

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