http://www.slate.com/id/2212662/
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The Muslim religion makes unusually large claims for itself. All religions
do this, of course, in that they claim to know and to be able to interpret
the wishes of a supreme being. But Islam affirms itself as the last and
final revelation of God's word, the consummation of all the mere glimpses of
the truth vouchsafed to all the foregoing faiths, available by way of the
unimprovable, immaculate text of "the recitation," or Quran.
If there sometimes seems to be something implicitly absolutist or even
totalitarian in such a claim, it may result not from a fundamentalist
reading of the holy book but from the religion itself. And it is the
so-called mainstream Muslims, grouped in the Organization of the Islamic
Conference, who are now demanding through the agency of the United Nations
that Islam not only be allowed to make absolutist claims but that it also be
officially shielded from any criticism of itself.
...
Rather than attempt to put its own house in order or to confront such other
grave questions as the mass murder of Shiite Muslims by Sunni Muslims (and
vice versa), or the desecration of Muslim holy sites by Muslim gangsters, or
the discrimination against Ahmadi Muslims by other Muslims, the U.N.
resolution seeks to extend the whole area of denial from its existing
homeland in the Islamic world into the heartland of post-Enlightenment
democracy where it is still individuals who have rights, not religions. See
where the language of Paragraph 10 of the resolution is taking us. Having
briefly offered lip service to the rights of free expression, it goes on to
say that "the exercise of these rights carries with it special duties and
responsibilities and may therefore be subject to limitations as are provided
for by law and are necessary for respect of the rights or reputations of
others, protection of national security or of public order, public health or
morals and respect for religions and beliefs." The thought buried in this
awful, wooden prose is as ugly as the language in which it is expressed:
Watch what you say, because our declared intention is to criminalize
opinions that differ with the one true faith. Let nobody say that they have
not been warned.
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Religion of Peace (tm) strikes again!
- Bob
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