An Anti-Blasphemy Measure Laid to Rest

by Nina Shea
National Review Online
March 31, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1265/an-anti-blasphemy-measure-laid-to-rest

Excerpt:

A long-term campaign by the U.N.'s large Muslim bloc to impose worldwide blasphemy strictures — like those in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran — was given a quiet burial last week in the Human Rights Council, the U.N.'s main human-rights body. At the session that ended in Geneva on March 25, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), sensing defeat, decided not to introduce a resolution calling for criminal penalties for the "defamation of religions" — a resolution that had passed every year for more than a decade. This is a small but essential victory for freedom.

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