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March 8, 2006
Spain: Zapotero's Government To Collaborate With Islamists On UN Blasphemy Laws
Today, AKI reports the somewhat alarming news that Spain is engaged in a joint deal with Pakistan to present a draft resolution at the United Nations, designed to outlaw defamation of religions and religious symbols.
In Islamabad, Spain's foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos (pictured) met with his Pakistani counterpart, Khurshid Kasuri. After the meeting, Kasuri said that both parties had agreed for a need for inter-faith harmony. Also, Kasuri said both had agreed to support an offer by Pakistan to hold the joint Spanish/Turkish "Alliance of Civilisations" initiative. He announced that Moratinos would be speaking to UN secretary-general Kofi Annan to this end.
Moratinos stated: "I can assure the Pakistani people that Spain and Pakistan will work together on the issues of utmost importance such as the need for promoting understanding and dialogue between culture and religions."
This pathetic display of left-wing appeasement, if it is accepted by the UN, would effectively outlaw all representations of the Prophet Mohammed, and would lead to international bans on freedom of speech.
The government of Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, which only became elected in a kneejerk response to the Ansar government's poor reactions to the Islamist attacks in Madrid, wants to take Spain and the rest of the world back to the pre-Enlightenment, when religious prejudices had more weight than individual freedoms.
The Pakistan government is barely clinging on to power, while the MMA, the six-party opposition of Islamist groups wait for their moment to take over. Musharraf's government appears desperate to appease these Muslim interests by showing its commitment to pro-Islamist policies. Spain's leftist government appears willing to assist in such collaboration, and expects the rest of the world to support this lunacy.
Pakistan already has laws enabling the death penalty for defaming the "prophet" Mohammed, and is currently engaged in an exercise of blocking internet sites which have displayed the Jyllands-Posten cartoons.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at March 8, 2006 7:05 AM
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On Friday last 30th March the Islamic Conference blasphemy proposal was adopted at the UN Human Rights Council with 24 to 14. The EU as a bloc voted against. I found this piece of news totally by accident on a Dutch Calvinist newspaper. I am hunting which MSM carried it, but no luck so far. Believe the proposal was originally done by Pakistan's president Musharaf, probably to appease the Islamists at home.
Cheers,
Cassandra,
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