Message #15106

[Mark]

'Bashing' Islam to be crime in U.S.?

Bloggers and talkers beware: The Obama administration is working to make Islam "bashing" a crime.

Clare Lopez is a former CIA operations officer and strategic policy and intelligence expert with a focus on Middle East, homeland security, national defense and counterterrorism issues. In an article published at Big Peace last week, she warned Americans to pay close attention to what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu did while in Washington last week.

According to blogger Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs, "The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is a religious and political organization. Close to the Muslim World League of the Muslim Brotherhood, it shares the Brotherhood's strategic and cultural vision: that of a universal religious community, the Ummah, based upon the Koran, the Sunna, and the canonical orthodoxy of Sharia. The OIC represents 56 countries and the Palestinian Authority (considered a state), the whole constituting the universal Ummah with a community of more than one billion three to six hundred million Muslims."

Back to Lopez: "From 12 to 14 December 2011, working teams from the Department of State and the OIC are going to discuss implementation mechanisms that could impose limits on freedom of speech and expression. The OIC's purpose, as stated explicitly in its April 2011 Annual Report on Islamophobia, is to criminalize 'incitement to hatred and violence on religious grounds.'"

In a follow-up, CNS News reported that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last Wednesday "told the closing session of the meeting at the State Department that the adoption of [United Nations] Resolution 16/18 had 'ended 10 years of divisive debate where people were not listening to each other anymore.'"

"Critics have been doubtful about the OIC's sincerity, however," CNS News reports, "noting the top priority it has given to the drive to curb speech and actions [that] it views as insulting to Islam – ranging from the Mohammed cartoons and threats to burn the Qur'an to anti-shari'a campaigns and post-9/11 security profiling."

"U.N. Resolution 16/18, formally entitled 'Combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of, and discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against persons based on religion or belief,' is championed by the Obama administration," the report concludes.

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