Infamous Anti-Blasphemy Resolution Doomed by Bhatti Assassination

by Nina Shea
National Review Online
March 18, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1218/infamous-anti-blasphemy-resolution-doomed-by

Excerpt:

Since 1998, a U.N. resolution to universalize Islamic rules against blasphemy, introduced by the Organization of the Islamic Conference, has been annually adopted in the General Assembly, the Human Rights Council, or both.

This year, however, this atrocious "Defamation of Religions" resolution appears to be a non-starter. A high-level State Department official has told me that the March 2 assassination of Pakistani minister for minorities Shahbaz Bhatti, who had sought repeal of that country's blasphemy law, has doomed the anti-blasphemy push in the Human Rights Council, now meeting in Geneva.

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