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U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution: With Christopher Hitchens
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February 25, 2009 on CNN's Lou Dobbs with Christopher Hitchens
The United Nations Anti-Blasphemy Resolution aims to curtail speech that offends religion, specifically Islam. Critics, religious groups and free speech advocates say the resolution is spreading Sharia law to the Western world. Christopher Hitchens joined Lou.
The United Nations Anti-Blasphemy Resolution aims to curtail speech that offends religion, specifically Islam. Critics, religious groups and free speech advocates say the resolution is spreading Sharia law to the Western world. Christopher Hitchens joined Lou.
Feb 28, 2009 5:05 AM
Re: U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution: With Christopher Hitchens
If america doesn want it passed then it won't. USA holds a position along with Russia China UK France and -I think- Germany, plus 2 random countries (which are rotated) where they can veto legislation from the UN. The UN can't do anything without all of their approval.
tl;dr This won't happen ever.
tl;dr This won't happen ever.
By: cheezsteak
Re: U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution: With Christopher Hitchens
It could still happen in all of the countries who vote for it. Like climate change legislation.
By: poonhound
Re: U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution: With Christopher Hitchens
Well that's their choice.
By: cheezsteak
Re: U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution: With Christopher Hitchens
cheezsteak, you're thinking of the security council and they can only veto security council resolutions not legislation from the general assembly (I'm pretty sure that's how it works). Still, just because the UN passes it doesn't mean a member nation is going to implement it.
By: mangobunny
Re: U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution: With Christopher Hitchens
thank you for clarification
By: cheezsteak
Re: U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution: With Christopher Hitchens
bwa ha ha ha ha, thats a good one. The US would never, ever agree or abide by that. At worst, it'd be passed but never enforced.
What lunatic thought this up thinking that this would actually be helpful to Islamists?
What lunatic thought this up thinking that this would actually be helpful to Islamists?
By: spongebathe
Re: U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution: With Christopher Hitchens
What does the UN actually do ?
Weapon inspections ? They didn't find anything there and there are still troops in Iraq and Afgahnistan (my apologies if it is spelled incorrectly)
Where's the resolution that stops people offending atheists ?
To put it bluntly, the UN can suck my balls, but no doubt they'd do that poorly.
Weapon inspections ? They didn't find anything there and there are still troops in Iraq and Afgahnistan (my apologies if it is spelled incorrectly)
Where's the resolution that stops people offending atheists ?
To put it bluntly, the UN can suck my balls, but no doubt they'd do that poorly.
By: D3NIS
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Unfortunately, the UN is pretty useless
By: ADiSH
Re: U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution: With Christopher Hitchens
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." -- Article 19, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Ratified December 10, 1948, by the General Assembly of the United Nations.
I think some U.N. delegates need to read more than one book. Not a chance this thing will go anywhere. That poll question at the end is pretty funny though. I wonder what the correct answer is.
I think some U.N. delegates need to read more than one book. Not a chance this thing will go anywhere. That poll question at the end is pretty funny though. I wonder what the correct answer is.
Re: U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution: With Christopher Hitchens
Islam. Cry babies of the religious world.
Re: U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution: With Christopher Hitchens
Much ado about nothing. It's just sensationalism for CNN and Lou Dobb's.
Never going to pass, never would be enforced in democratic open societies, esp. not the US.
You guys realize, right, that the UN has no teeth at all?
Nonetheless, it is disturbing that these sort of things can even pass. Notice that it goes under the rubric of "hurting people's feelings" -- something that the U.K. of recent years seems to take seriously, shamefully.
Those of us who believe in open societies and free speech should extend the implications of this story beyond the mere "Muslims / Christians are crybabies" and into the more universal "Protecting free speech means protecting hurtful and controversial speech."
Liberals are just as guilty as conservatives of attacking free speech when it offends their ideals.
All of us need to realize that free speech means that you hear things that you think should not be heard at all....
Never going to pass, never would be enforced in democratic open societies, esp. not the US.
You guys realize, right, that the UN has no teeth at all?
Nonetheless, it is disturbing that these sort of things can even pass. Notice that it goes under the rubric of "hurting people's feelings" -- something that the U.K. of recent years seems to take seriously, shamefully.
Those of us who believe in open societies and free speech should extend the implications of this story beyond the mere "Muslims / Christians are crybabies" and into the more universal "Protecting free speech means protecting hurtful and controversial speech."
Liberals are just as guilty as conservatives of attacking free speech when it offends their ideals.
All of us need to realize that free speech means that you hear things that you think should not be heard at all....
By: StrangeAttractor
Re: U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution: With Christopher Hitchens
Right.
The true gauge of democracy is the citizens' ability to listen to views that they disagree with. That's how democracy is measured. And in that respect, Islam has been found spectacularly wanting. That said, I have to add that most of our so-called "western" "democracies" are slowly showing signs of becoming backward theocracies, mostly by being spineless and accommodating, and by not having the spirit, the character, and the principles it takes to assert their values of Reason (?) and Honesty (?).
There can be no "thought crime" in the 21st century. Tolerance does NOT mean curtailing people's fundamental rights of free speech. Tolerance should be looked up in a dictionary, pronto.
The true gauge of democracy is the citizens' ability to listen to views that they disagree with. That's how democracy is measured. And in that respect, Islam has been found spectacularly wanting. That said, I have to add that most of our so-called "western" "democracies" are slowly showing signs of becoming backward theocracies, mostly by being spineless and accommodating, and by not having the spirit, the character, and the principles it takes to assert their values of Reason (?) and Honesty (?).
There can be no "thought crime" in the 21st century. Tolerance does NOT mean curtailing people's fundamental rights of free speech. Tolerance should be looked up in a dictionary, pronto.
By: keyser_soze
