U.S. Embassy Favors Religious Feelings over Free Speech, Attacked Anyway

by Nina Shea
National Review Online
September 11, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/3017/us-embassy-favors-religious-feelings-over-free

Excerpt:

The U.S. Embassy in Cairo has posted on its homepage a special message for 9/11 today. Its only purpose is to condemn what they call "religious incitement." While calling for religious harmony is understandable and welcome, this short statement goes much further: It essentially upholds the Muslim anti-blasphemy standard that the Egyptian government applies in its ban on "insult to heavenly religions," and that has long been championed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in U.N. resolutions calling for the universal criminalization of religious defamation and in its campaign against all forms of "Islamophobia." Most U.N. member-states supported these OIC resolutions, but, year in and year out over a decade, the United States has opposed them.

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