Muslim plan to stifle free speech moves up a gear (from the National Secular Society of UK)
The International Humanist and Ethical Union – of which the NSS is an affiliate – has warned that Islamic governments are trying to use the United Nations to shut down free speech. The warning comes as a bloc of Islamic states held a summit to discuss how supposed widespread “Islamophobia” can be legally challenged in Western countries.
Roy Brown of the International Humanist and Ethical Union attempted to make a statement about this at a recent meeting of the UNHRC in Geneva, but was prevented from doing so in full because of repeated interruptions by Islamic representatives. The statement was a follow-up to IHEU’s written statement describing Islamic efforts to undermine the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. You can see how IHEU’s attempt to raise the issue was ambushed by Muslim states on this Youtube video of the event.
Keith Porteous Wood of the National Secular Society will be telling of his own experiences in the UNHRC and the OIC at the 160th Anniversary of the French secularist organisation Libre Pensée, which will be held at the French Senate in Paris on Saturday. Read his speech here.
Source: the National Secular Society
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