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11/15/2010: U.S. Activists Lobby Against U.N. Religious Defamation Resolution - Huffington Post PDF Print

By Adelle M. Banks

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/15/us-activists-lobby-agains_n_783803.html


"The OIC-sponsored U.N. resolutions on this issue instead provide justification for governments to restrict religious freedom and free expression," the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said in a policy statement.

The draft OIC resolution calls defamation of religions "a serious affront to human dignity, leading to the illicit restriction of the freedom of religion of their adherents and incitement to religious hatred and violence."