Refleksi : Apakah tidak keliru kalau Organzation of Islamic Conference (OIC) - 
Organisasi Konferensi Islam (OKI) mengutuk diskriminasi agama berarti Indonesia 
dan MUI juga dikutuk. Patut dicatat bahwa Indonesia adalah anggota OKI.


http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article330915.ece

 OIC commends resolution on religious discrimination
By ARAB NEWS 

Published: Mar 26, 2011 23:33 Updated: Mar 26, 2011 23:33 

JEDDAH: The UN Human Rights Council unanimously adopted a new resolution on the 
elimination of forms of discrimination and violence based on religious beliefs.

The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), which represents the Islamic 
group at the council participated in the March 24 discussion. The United States 
and the European Union too were represented.

Informed sources in the OIC General Secretariat here said that the new 
resolution related to combating religious intolerance and negative stereotypes, 
stigmatization, discrimination, and incitement to violence, and violence 
against individuals based on religion and belief is not a substitute for an 
earlier resolution adopted by the UN on combating defamation of religions, 
which the Human Rights Council had adopted many times in the past several years.

The sources stated that the new resolution is a qualitative breakthrough 
because it was adopted unanimously, adding, it gives the widest margin of 
freedom of expression, with the rejection of discrimination and incitement and 
stereotypes used by the other or against the symbols of the followers of 
religions.

The sources emphasized that the OIC approved the new resolution from a position 
of strength, particularly after the adoption of the Human Rights Council 
resolution on defamation of religions over the past four years with a clear 
majority.

However, the sources stressed that the issue of acceptance of the new 
resolution comes as a goodwill gesture by the organization in order to reach 
the necessary consensus, bridge the gap, and partner with the West in 
addressing the anti-Islam sentiments that prevailed in some Western communities 
toward Muslims.

The new resolution came after the OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu 
proposed last year, a number of proposals on the possibility of reaching a 
common ground toward a solid platform for its adoption.

According to informed sources, the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had 
invited the OIC to lead, along with both Washington and the European Union, the 
efforts to draft a new resolution to ensure the foundations adopted by the 
previous resolution, giving a wider margin of freedom of expression.

The sources confirmed at the same time that the decision regarding defamation 
of religions has not been abandoned.

This is the most contentious of the resolutions, because in countries with 
strong protections on speech and other forms of expression, the idea that a 
religion can have the same defamation protections as living individuals is 
considered an affront to individual rights.


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