WASHINGTON D.C. Islamophobia Conference Was a Bad Idea
WASHINGTON D.C. Islamophobia Conference Was a Bad Idea
By Nina Shea
www.nationalreview.com
December 13, 2011
Yesterday marked the opening of the international conference announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a high-level meeting on Islamophobia that she co-chaired, held last July in Istanbul and hosted by the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). At the time, Secretary Clinton described this week's conference as a move to implement U.N. Human Rights Council Resolution 16/18 on "combating [religious] intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization."
This State Department conference, entitled "The Istanbul Process," is proving to be a very bad idea. It remains to be seen whether speech limitations to protect religion generally and Islam specifically will be officially endorsed by the conference - similar recommendations have already been adopted by the OIC and by the EU conference participants - but, judging from the opening session, at least some of my misgivings seem well founded.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Nina Shea
www.nationalreview.com
December 13, 2011
Yesterday marked the opening of the international conference announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a high-level meeting on Islamophobia that she co-chaired, held last July in Istanbul and hosted by the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). At the time, Secretary Clinton described this week's conference as a move to implement U.N. Human Rights Council Resolution 16/18 on "combating [religious] intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization."
This State Department conference, entitled "The Istanbul Process," is proving to be a very bad idea. It remains to be seen whether speech limitations to protect religion generally and Islam specifically will be officially endorsed by the conference - similar recommendations have already been adopted by the OIC and by the EU conference participants - but, judging from the opening session, at least some of my misgivings seem well founded.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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