Saturday, March 31, 2007
Defamation of Religion: You Have to be Kidding
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070330/un-islam
The link is an A.P. story from yesterday about the UN calling for a ban on the defamation of religion. Right.
I like the UN. I like the idea of the UN better than I like this, though. This idea, calling for a global ban on dissing religion, is reactionary and stupid. It’s tailor-made to please fundamentalists of all varieties. That it came from the Muslim block in the UN and not the fundamentalist Christian right-wing here in the United States is an example of how similar fundamentalist minds work, regardless of ideology.
I’m against such a ban, of course. Anything that squashes free speech is appalling. First they want to go after free speech and then they take after the ideas. Swine.
The link is an A.P. story from yesterday about the UN calling for a ban on the defamation of religion. Right.
I like the UN. I like the idea of the UN better than I like this, though. This idea, calling for a global ban on dissing religion, is reactionary and stupid. It’s tailor-made to please fundamentalists of all varieties. That it came from the Muslim block in the UN and not the fundamentalist Christian right-wing here in the United States is an example of how similar fundamentalist minds work, regardless of ideology.
I’m against such a ban, of course. Anything that squashes free speech is appalling. First they want to go after free speech and then they take after the ideas. Swine.
