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Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) drops pursuit of U.N. Human Rights Council Defamation of Religion Resolution


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This is absolutely super news folks.

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) – comprising 57 Islamic nations – have been trying for years to introduce a ‘Defemation of Religion” UN resolution. They have now dropped this pursuit.

This would have only favoured Islam and ushered in a dangerous global blasphemy law.

I think we’ve all seen how blasphemy laws are used in Islamic nations to terrify, subjugate, and in some cases, murder religious minority groups.

Previous posts on this can be found here and here.

Islamic countries set aside their 12-year campaign to have religions protected from “defamation”, allowing the U.N. Human Rights Council to approve a plan to promote religious tolerance on Thursday.

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