Your Freedom of Speech Ends at My Religion

by Steven Groves and Brett D. Schaefer
National Review Online
April 21, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/article/275

Excerpt:

Geneva — The Organization of the Islamic Conference has launched a full-throated defense of their effort to constrain freedom of speech at Durban II.

Bahrain, for instance, objects that freedom of expression might permit defamation of religion. That, they say, is dangerous.

Pakistan states that "one of the most insidious forms of contemporary racism is the defamation of religions, in particular Islamaphobia . . . Muslims all over the world are justifiably alarmed at being deliberately targeted in certain countries on the basis of their faith behind the pretense of 'freedom of expression'."

Odd how those countries most vociferous in chastising nations that value free speech for allowing "defamation of religions, in particular Islamaphobia" have no qualms about severely constricting freedom of religion in their own states.

Particularly troubling was the OIC statement:

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