Freedom of Faith & the UN
Freedom of faith—the awareness that every being in Creation has their own link to the Creative Source—is not an ideology favored by persons hungry for worldly power. Unlike the United States where freedom of faith and of speech was set down as two of the cornerstones of democracy, many other regions of the world have not been blessed with such an intelligent approach to government.
After World War II, as nations sought intelligent means of cooperation among nations, the ideals that had led the United States into the world’s major power became the model upon which the United Nations was established in 1948. Freedom of speech and faith was recognized as the premium means of encouraging understanding and tolerance among nations. Thus these principles of man’s equal rights became enshrined as a universal Declaration of Human Rights to which every member nation must set their sign of approval. And guided by that Declaration the United Nations has continued to function as the forum where promotion of peace and human rights have been honored and upheld.
But there is an upcoming annual attempt by some member nations to slyly undermine those noble principles which they declared to have accepted. The cover for that annual move to curb religious freedom bears the innocuous sounding title The Defamation of Religion Resolution. Buried beneath that headstone, however, is the intent to silence the words or actions that are judged to be detrimental to a particular religion—and that religion just happens to be Islam. In other words, the true purpose of that annual proposal is the attempt to silence anyone who might hold a differing faith, or no faith at all.
The driving force behind that annual move to savage the UN Declaration of Human Rights is none other than the Organization of Islamic Conference composed of 57 countries with a heavy Muslim majority. Their objective, when analyzed, is hardly a peaceful one. It is clearly, as Leonard A. Leo, chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom observed, a deceitful attempt to “create a global blasphemy law.”
Certainly the Muslim proposed Resolution is not concerned with genuine religious freedom; it is concerned totally with protecting their own man-conceived religious practices. Tolerance, charity and love are not exactly the strong points of Islam, as is indicated by their repressive governments where anyone deemed as offensive or who dares to speak out against a favored sect or religious practice is punished severely—even with death.
Questioning the Quran and its contradictions, for example, is enough to allow gross violations of human rights. There are “blasphemy laws” in Pakistan, as an illustration, that are routinely used against Christians and other minorities as reason for arrests and inhumane treatment. If the UN ever voted in favor of the deceptive Defamation of Religion Resolution, the world would then find the blasphemy laws held up as justification for selectively restricting religious speech of minority communities. It is then but a tiny step toward selectively curtailing civil dissent and muzzling any criticism of the political structure in power.
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