Obama's Resolution to Stifle Free Speech on Islam

by Deborah Weiss
FrontPage Magazine
October 16, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/521/obamas-resolution-to-stifle-free-speech-on-islam

Excerpt:

On October 1, 2009, the Obama administration in conjunction with the Egyptian government, introduced an anti-free speech measure to the United Nation's Human Rights Council (HRC).  It was adopted the next day without a vote.

Earlier this year, when the United States sought a seat on the HRC, it was a controversial decision.  Many who found the HRC neither credible nor useful, opposed the move.  Yet, others were more optimistic that America could change the HRC from within.  Perhaps the U.S. could spur debate stemming from its opposition to China, Sudan, Libya, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia on critical human rights votes.

Little evidence suggests that Americans on either side of the aisle contemplated the US entering the ring and supporting the opposition's anti-freedom measures.  Yet now, the current administration has done worse:  it's leading the charge.

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