The following is a quote from journalist Johanm Hari:
The UN rapporteur who is supposed to be the global guardian of free speech has had his job rewritten – to put him on the side of the religious censors
(Full article here)
If this is true, then it is worrying.
Admittedly, I haven't seen anything else about this subject, to give another side to the story, but it's an interesting and thought-provoking article.
Let's keep 'em peeled.
This has been brewing for quite a while. There was a piece about it in the Leicester Secularist blog back in April.
ReplyDeletehttp://secsoc.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html
It may eventually lead to the break-up of the UN into Western and Islamic groups.