Saturday 1 August 2009

The UN - a worrying move?

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.

1 comment:

  1. This has been brewing for quite a while. There was a piece about it in the Leicester Secularist blog back in April.

    http://secsoc.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

    It may eventually lead to the break-up of the UN into Western and Islamic groups.

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