No longer content with using the UN Human Rights Council to protect themselves from criticism, Arab and Muslim countries now seek to use it to curtail free speech elsewhere:
Arab and Muslim countries defended Tuesday a resolution they pushed through at the United Nations to have the body’s expert on free speech police individuals and news media for negative comments on Islam. . .
Pakistan’s ambassador, Masood Khan, speaking on behalf of the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference, denied the resolution would limit free speech. It only tries to make freedom of expression responsible, he said.
“Responsible” speech, of course, is speech that we don’t disapprove of. Well, surely this was controversial, right? They only won narrowly, right?
The statement proposed by Egypt and Pakistan . . . passed 32-0 last week at the council.
Oh.
(Via LGF.)
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