The United Nations Votes to Move Against Freedom of Speech

Every year since 1999, the U.N. has voted in support of a resolution which is misleadingly named “Combating the Defamation of Religion.”

This resolution is sponsored by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a powerful group of Islamic nation states which dominates the U.N. General Assembly.

This resolution “stresses the need to effectively combat defamation of all religions and incitement to religious hatred, against Islam and Muslims in particular.” In other words, this resolution combats the freedom of speech which free people all over the world hold so dear.

Former U.S. Ambassador John Bolton speaks very clearly to this issue when he says “It’s obviously intended to have an intimidating effect on people expressing criticism of radical Islam, and the idea that you can have a defamation of a religion like this, I think, is a concept fundamentally foreign to our system of free expression in the United States.”

The entire purpose of free speech in our society is to protect those who would criticize ideas and beliefs held by the rich and powerful. Ideas and beliefs are never above review. This resolution is a slap in the face to the founding fathers of this great nation, men who fought and died to give the gift of freedom to their children.

This resolution is sponsored by totalitarian states who give no protection to freedom of speech or religion to the powerless minorities in their countries. Clearly, this is not the sort of behavior which the people of any free nation should be encouraging.

We must act now to protect and defend our values, before they are overrun with the values of a seventh century death cult.