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OIC Secretary General: "Your freedom ends where mine starts."

The OIC is a Saudi-based and backed inter-governmentsl global Islamist organization.  Here's what Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, its Secretary General, said recently in an interview with the Council on Foreign Relations posted on October 1st about their efforts to take on a broader role in the world and bring it under international rule: 

...The OIC adopted a separate Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in 1990, a parallel document to the UN's 1948 Universal Human Rights Declaration. Why do Muslims need a separate declaration? Are there provisions of the 1948 declaration that Muslims think are not, indeed, universal?

I believe that universal human rights are compatible with Islam, and I have no problem on that. I had made a statement in Geneva in the Humans Rights Council that we look forward to integrating our system [the Cairo declaration] with the United Nations system, and now we have established a new human rights committee for us.

...In the United States, you are free to ridicule your leaders, you can burn the flag, you can desecrate any sacred object. But in other countries it is not the case.

You don't need to ridicule Jesus Christ or to burn the Bible. This is an insult. Is burning the Quran or the Bible a sign of freedom? If I come and punch you, is it a sign of freedom? This is not ideas. There is a limit of decency. There is a limit of freedom. Your freedom ends where my freedom starts. You need freedom and responsibility. Otherwise it will be jungle.

Who decides what is sacred and what's not sacred?

The international community decides. We are not are not encroaching on freedom of expression. We invite people to respect our values as they expect us to respect their values..."

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UNHRC Votes by Narrower Margin to Condemn "Defamation of Religion" March 2010

Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam  University of Minnesota

"...Reaffirming the civilizing and historical role of the Islamic Ummah which Allah made as the best community and which gave humanity a universal and well-balanced civilization, in which harmony is established between hereunder and the hereafter, knowledge is combined with faith, and to fulfill the expectations from this community to guide all humanity which is confused because of different and conflicting beliefs and ideologies and to provide solutions for all chronic problems of this materialistic civilization..."

UK Times: UN evacuates non-essential personnel after attack

The United Nations is reported to be evacuating its non-essential personnel after the Taliban killed 5 of their foreign employees in Kabul, Afghanistan yesterday:

...The official decision at today’s meeting was that individual UN agencies should decide whether to advise “non-essential” staff not involved in the run-off to take leave, according to two participants.

But UN officials told The Times that many of the roughly 1,000 foreign UN staff not working directly on the election had been instructed to return to their home countries for the next three weeks because of the security threat in Kabul.

“The problem is the places where we live,” one said. “No one feels safe.” Most of the foreign UN staff in Kabul live in small hotels and guesthouses like the one that was attacked by a Taleban suicide squad on Wednesday, and security arrangements at all of them are now under review.

UN staff were particularly concerned that the Taleban appeared to have such detailed information about the guesthouse, many of whose residents were directly involved in organising the election...

U.N. climate change goals: rich nations give money to poor nations

The goal of the so-called "climate change" treaty the U.N. wants to implement world-wide is for rich nations to give money to poor nations:

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu speaks at the U.N. today

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gave a passionate and moving speech before the United Ntions today.  If you get a change please watch it.

Video (one of four):

Obama Criticizes Israel In First UN Speech 

Cantor says Obama not 'true friend' to Israel; Dems respond Jewish Telegraphic Agency

President Obama's speech before the U.N. General Assemby

Right now President Obama is speaking before the United Nations General Assembly.

he text of his speech is here.  His tone, IMO, was to reset America's standing in the world which was in larg part torn down by the relentless and  cruel criticism by Democrats, Islamists and others of a sitting President who tried to protect America from another attack after 9/11/01.

Below is a small excerpt:

"I took office at a time when many around the world had come to view America with skepticism and distrust. Part of this was due to misperceptions and misinformation about my country. Part of this was due to opposition to specific policies, and a belief that on certain critical issues, America has acted unilaterally, without regard for the interests of others. This has fed an almost reflexive anti-Americanism, which too often has served as an excuse for our collective inaction.

...No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation. No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed. No balance of power among nations will hold.

The next speaker to follow Obama is Libya's president Muamar Gaddafi.  Gaddafi, if you remember,  referred to Obama as a Muslim before last November's election

Now Gaddafi is speaking.  During his long and rambling speech he mentioned he wished Obama could stay president forever.

Gaddafi  is the new head of the African Union, which has Permanent Observer status at the U.N.  Libyan diplomat, Ali Abussalam Treky, was elected in June to the presidencyof the whole U.N. General Assembly!  Libya, in case you don't remember, was designated a state sponsor of terror from 1979 to 2006 by the U.S.  The U.N. Human Rights Council is largely dominated by Islamic Countries.  There's more Islamic influence at the United Nations.  I believe it is the goal of the Islamic world to bring the U.S. under more and more control by the U.N.

Now, that's change you can believe in.

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African Union may seek billions from the West for climate change compensation

African Union may seek billions from the West

Just a few days ago, I wrote about possible political reasons for Scotland to let the Lockerbie terrorist go free and the hero's welcome Libya gave to him.   I questioned whether Muammar Gadhafi (Gaddhafi), the president of Libya new power as head of the African Union, and that a Libyan diplomat has been elected as the new president of the U.N. General Assembly migh have had anything to do with it. 

Now, read about their posturing regarding climate change: Africa to Seek Billions in Climate Change Compensation.  The meeting was called by Gadhafi:

The African Union is considering a proposal to demand at least $67 billion a year in environmental damages from developed countries at the Copenhagen Climate summit in December. Africa is seeking a common position to increase its bargaining power in Copenhagen.

Representatives of several African heads of state met at AU headquarters Monday to determine how much the continent should ask in compensation at the UN climate summit in December.

A concept paper obtained by VOA says the flow of money to support 'adaptation to changes in climate' must be at least $67 billion a year by the year 2020.

...At the opening ceremony, AU Rural Economy and Agriculture Commissioner Rhoda Peace Tumusiime said Africa is one of the main victims of global warming.

This is a laughing out loud moment, right?

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For the first time, Gadafi is coming to the U.S.:

New Jersey town outraged over upcoming Gaddafi visit

guardian.co.uk - Ed Pilkington - ‎20 hours ago‎

Muammar Gaddafi is planning to attend the UN general assembly in New York next month. Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters Community leaders in Englewood, ...

 

Anger grows at Gaddafi visit

The Age - Ed Pilkington - ‎26 minutes ago‎

LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi often lugs a Bedouin tent along on his foreign trips and has pitched one in Cairo, Rome and even next to the Elysee Palace in ...

U.S. elected to seat on anti-Israel U.N. Human Rights Council

The Bush administration didn't participate with the U.N. Human Rights Council due, in large-part, to their anti-Israel bias.  Now it will remain to be seen how the U.S. will fit in with their agenda:

"The United States won election to the U.N. Human Rights Council for the first time on Tuesday, joining 17 other nations picked for the body, after the Obama administration ended a U.S. policy of boycotting it.

U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said Washington still believed the body was flawed, but added: "We are looking forward to working from within with a broad cross-section of member states to strengthen and reform the Human Rights Council."

The United States was one of 18 countries elected or reelected to three-year terms on the 47-seat Geneva-based council in a vote by the U.N. General Assembly, joining 29 others who are in mid-term.

...But the U.S. decision to enter the council divided both politicians and advocacy groups. On Monday, former Czech President Vaclav Havel called the elections a farce.

U.S. Representative  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican, said U.S. membership would not change the "grim reality" of the council. "It will only legitimize the council's anti-freedom, anti-U.S., anti-Israel actions," she said.

...Hillel Neuer of Geneva-based group UN Watch said the presence of China, Cuba, Russia and Saudi Arabia on the council would result in "the foxes guarding the chickens." He said the council's credibility was at stake over its failure to hold an emergency session over the bloody fighting in Sri Lanka.

Reuters

U.S. to join the U.N. Human Rights Council

The U.S. will join the U.N. Human Rights Council, you know the one that just passed a resolution to make defaming religion, specifically Islam, a crime. 

"The Obama administration decided Tuesday to join the U.N. Human Rights Council, reversing a decision by the Bush administration to shun the United Nations' premier rights body to protest the influence of repressive states, according to U.N. diplomats and rights activists.

The United States will participate in elections in May for one of three seats on the 47-member council, joining a slate that includes Belgium, Norway and New Zealand. New Zealand has offered to step aside to allow the United States to run unchallenged, according to a U.S. official..."

Now, will the U.S. support the resolution that asks governments to make it a crime to criticize Islam?

The Washington Post

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The Sword of Islam, the Pen of the UN The New American

The new threat to freedom of expression

Christian Science Monitor - ‎Mar 30, 2009‎

The UN passage of a resolution barring defamation of religion, especially Islam, should be a wake-up call. By Paula Schriefer Washington - "In the future ...

CSW decries passing of UN defamation resolution ChristianToday

UN urged to reject bar on defamation of religion

Reuters - ‎Mar 25, 2009‎

The OIC resolution says "Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism" and calls on UN member states "to combat ...

U.N. Council ignores mass petition - OIC and Islamic countries wins!

Islamic countries, through the OIC, have won again with the adoption of a defamation of religions resolution for the 2nd or 3rd year in a row calling for criminal prosecution of those who criticize religion down to the local level. 

Where is the outrage from President Obama, our American leader who should stand strong for the principles of human rights and freedom?

This is very bad news for freedom, especially in weaker countries where it will be easier now for Islamists to move in and try to take over parts of these countries since to criticize their actions would be considered defaming Islam.  Over time, their goal will be to take over all the country.  Other countries, who want the U.N. to be more powerful (President Obama?), can be in peril, as well. 

This won't happen overnight but stayed tuned:

"The U.N. Human Rights Council adopted a “defamation of religions” resolution (note: which only mentions Islam) on Thursday, ignoring a mass petition signed by over 180 non-government organizations from more than 50 different countries.

"Human rights protect people, not ideas," responded L. Bennett Graham, Becket Fund representative to the U.N., in a statement after the resolution was passed. "The passage of this resolution by the Human Rights Council is a disaster for people of all faiths."

...Critics of the defamation of religions resolution warn that it could be used to legitimize anti-blasphemy laws and intimidate human rights activists and religious dissenters. Instead of protecting adherents of religions, including those of religious minorities, the resolution protects religions themselves, they say.

“Unfortunately these resolutions seek to undermine the very principles we were celebrating just last December with the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” said U.K.-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide advocacy director Alexa Papadouris. “They attack freedom of expression and freedom of religion and seek to protect powerful governments at the expense of often powerless individuals.”

The OIC rejected the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and created their own Sharia-compliant onein 1990 which is tied to the principles of the Koran, the Sunnah, and the sharia protecting Islam over individuals rights.

The OIC is a forming caliphate and is a danger to the entire world.

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Z: Organization of Islamic Conference meets strong opposition

The OIC & the UN: Islamophobia and "defamation of religion".

The draft declaration recommends that local, national and international laws and human rights covenants be reviewed and amended as necessary so that "defamation of Islam" is made a criminal offence, losing the protection it has long enjoyed under the "pretext" of "freedom of expression, counter terrorism or national security". It recommends that legal instruments be established to punish offenders -- that is, those who "defame" Islam by associating it with violence, human rights abuses or terrorism.

World Jewish Congress Blasts UN Vote Threatening Freedom of Expression

Z: Ambassador Susan Rice: UN is indispensable  1/30/09 (May God help us...)

Z: Other posts on the OIC

Organization of Islamic Conference meets strong opposition

Islamic countries, through the Organization of Islamic Conference, are trying to impose Sharia Law on non-Muslim countries through the U.N. as it pertains to criticizing Islam.

Today a group of 187 NGOs from 50 countries launched their campaign against this assault on freedom.

No religion should EVER be above criticism:

"UN Watch, Freedom House, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and the International Humanist and Ethical Union and 183 other non-governmental organizations from more than 50 countries around the world today called on U.N. member states to reject a "pervasive and mounting campaign" by Islamic states to ban criticism of religion under international law. (See joint NGO statement below.)

"It’s an attempt to gut the concept of human rights of its original meeting, which is to protect individuals from harm or state control, not to shield a set of beliefs from critical inquiry," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch, an independent human rights monitoring organization.

"Our freedoms of speech and religion are facing a combined assault by multiple regressive resolutions this week at the U.N. Human Rights Council, and proposed provisions for next month’s Durban 2 conference that endorse the Islamic proposal to change a core UN treaty on racism."

Within the letter, which is linked below these bullet items should be reviewed:

Alarmed by the draft resolution on freedom of expression circulated by Egypt, whose amendments seek to restrict, not promote, protections for free speech;

Alarmed by the recently-announced initiative of the U.N. “Ad Hoc Committee on Complementary Standards” to amend the International Convention for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) by adding a protocol on “defamation of religions”;

Alarmed by provisions in the latest draft outcome document of the Durban Review Conference that, through coded language and veiled references, endorse and encourage these anti-democratic initiatives;

1. Call upon all governments to oppose the “defamation of religions” resolution currently tabled at the UN Human Rights Council, and the objectionable provisions of the freedom of expression resolution;

2. Call upon all governments to resist the efforts of the “Ad Hoc Committee on Complementary Standards” to alter the ICERD;

3. Call upon all governments not to accept or legitimize a Durban Review Conference outcome that directly or indirectly supports the “defamation of religions” campaign at the expense of basic freedoms and individual human rights.

You can read who signed the letter here

Update 3/26/09 4:10 PM:  UN body adopts resolution on religious defamation:

A United Nations forum on Thursday passed a resolution condemning "defamation of religion" as a human rights violation, despite wide concerns that it could be used to justify curbs on free speech in Muslim countries.

The U.N. Human Rights Council adopted the non-binding text, proposed by Pakistan on behalf of Islamic states, with a vote of 23 states in favour and 11 against, with 13 abstentions.

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Other posts on the OIC

Free speech threatened by U.N.

This is a must watch video of the inherent danger facing the world and our freedom which I've been discussing for quite a while now:

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More posts:   Organization of Islamic Conference, the Saudi-backed global Islamist body, in other words, the next caliphate in the works, is behind these actions

Ambassador Susan Rice: UN is indispensable

Barack Obama's Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, made her debut speech before the UN yesterday. 

Pardon me while I need to take a few moments to regain my composure:

"..."We expect Israel will meet its international obligations to investigate (possible war crimes) and we also call upon all members -- to refrain from politicizing these important issues," Ambassador Susan Rice said in her debut speech before the U.N. Security Council.

Rice said that Hamas had been guilty of violating international law "through its rocket attacks against Israeli civilians in southern Israel and the use of civilian facilities to provide protection for its terrorist attacks."

"There have also been numerous allegations made against Israel some of which are deliberately designed to inflame," she told the council during a meeting on international humanitarian law.

...Rice made it clear that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama had a very different view of the role of the United Nations from George W. Bush's government, whose officials were often suspicious of the world body and occasionally spoke of it with disdain.

She said Obama's long-term goals included enhancing global peace and security, fighting terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, dealing with climate change, alleviating poverty and improving respect for human rights worldwide.

"The United Nations is indispensable for advancing these goals and making our world a better, safer place," she said.

She also hinted that Obama had a different attitude towards The Hague-based International Criminal Court, the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal..." 

Alert Net

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2/6/08:  Obama's foreign policy adviser, Dr. Susan Rice, called Obama a "secular Christian"

Top Hamas political leader killed in Gaza was employed at UN school!

Said Siam was one of Hamas' more radical leaders and its Interior Minister.  On Thursday he was killed by IDF as forces push  deeper into Gaza.  Siam and was a close associate of Hamas' leader in exhile Khaled Mashaal, according to the Jerusalem Post.  Mashaal, as you may recall, was in Oklahoma City at a major Hamas fund-raiser conference in 1992 where many of our Muslim neighbors attended.

Siam was employed as a teacher at a UN-run school! 

"...Troops also opened fire at two UN vehicles in the Strip on Thursday. One of the cars, the IDF said, did not have markings identifying it as a UN vehicle. The other was marked as a UN car, but gunshots were fired from it at IDF troops, who returned fire.

Earlier in the day, the IDF shelled the UN headquarters in the Gaza Strip after Givati Brigade soldiers came under anti-tank fire from gunmen standing next to the compound, defense officials said. The IDF responded by firing artillery shells at the gunmen, and it appeared that one of the shells accidentally hit a UN warehouse, setting it afire, the officials said..."

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Slain Hamas security chief was widely feared

"...he worked as a math and science teacher at local U.N.-run schools and became a leader of the local teachers union. He joined Hamas in the 1980s as one of its earliest members.

U.N. Agency That Runs School Hit in Gaza Employed Hamas and Islamic Jihad Members

Hamas fighters transported by UN ambulance!

King Abdullah wants UN to create body to oversee religious dialogue

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia may propose to the UN they create a UN interfaith body that oversee all religious dialogues.  His kingdom forbids the practice of religious freedom so why would he encourage interfaith talks that are forbidden in Saudi Arabia?  It makes no sense. 

Today and tomorrow, the UN is holding an interfaith conference at the request of King Abdullah.  It is clear, based on previous reports, his goal is to protect Islam, rather than protect religious freedom.

Will he succeed?

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Saudi Arabia to Lead U.N. Faith Forum

Anti-American spy network at the U.N.?

The UN should be dismantled:

A former Russian top spy says his agents helped the Russian government steal nearly $500 million from the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq before the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Sergei Tretyakov, who defected to the United States in 2000 as a double agent, says he oversaw an operation that helped Saddam's regime manipulate the price of Iraqi oil sold under the program — and allow Russia to skim profits.

Tretyakov, former deputy head of intelligence at Russia's U.N. mission from 1995 to 2000, names some names, but sticks mainly to code names. Among the spies he says he recruited for Russia were a Canadian nuclear weapons expert who became a U.N. nuclear verification expert in Vienna, a senior Russian official in the oil-for-food program and a former Soviet bloc ambassador. He describes a Russian businessman who got hold of a nuclear bomb, and kept it stored in a shed at his dacha outside Moscow.

"It's an international spy nest," Tretyakov said of the U.N., during an interview this week with The Associated Press. "Inside the U.N., we were fishing for knowledgeable diplomats who could give us first of all anti-American information."

Tretyakov defected to the United States with his wife and daughter in 2000, after serving as a double agent passing along secrets to the U.S. government. He calls his defection "the major failure of Russian intelligence in the United States" and warns that Russia, despite the end of the Cold War, harbors bad intentions toward the United States.

The decision to defect, he said, was made only after his mother died in 1997, and he had no other close relatives alive in Russia who could be used to blackmail him. The Tretyakovs now live in retirement in an undisclosed location.

Source:  Fox News