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Algeria at UN: Limit free speech, protect Islam
Associated Press, by David Stringer
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Posted By:NorthernDog, 9/29/2012 2:48:03 PM
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| UNITED NATIONS — Algeria demanded new efforts Saturday to limit freedom of expression to prevent denigrating attacks on Islam, appealing to the United Nations to take a lead as nations engaged in new debate on the tensions between free speech and religious tolerance. In an address to the General Assembly, Algeria's foreign minister Mourad Medelci called for global action under the auspices of the United Nations to respond to violent demonstrations provoked by a U.S.-produced video that mocks Muslims and the Prophet Muhammad.
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Comments: Obama's response: ''Wait until I have more flexibility''.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
AnnG, 9/29/2012 2:57:10 PM (No. 8898743)
Move the UN out of the US. This is becoming ridiculous.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
aasilver, 9/29/2012 2:59:10 PM (No. 8898749)
Go to hxxl!!!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Attila DiMedici, 9/29/2012 3:07:01 PM (No. 8898762)
I think it is time for the West to give Muslims the answer Gideon's father gave the Baal worshipers after Gideon tore down his altar to Baal: "Why are you defending Baal(Allah)? Will you argue his case? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If Baal(Allah) truly is a god, let him defend himself and destroy the one who broke down his altar!”
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
addicted_to_coffee, 9/29/2012 3:10:07 PM (No. 8898770)
If you mess with my First Amendment, you'll have to deal with my Second.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Teleologicus, 9/29/2012 3:12:04 PM (No. 8898775)
Islam is fundamentally and incorrigibly incompatible with modern Western values, including, but by no means limited to, freedom of speech.
Violent demonstrations, mobs, murder and mayhem are matters for the police or the army. Attempts to abridge freedom of speech lest someone become violent misunderstand the nature of the problem. Mob rule is not the solution but the problem.
It is understandable that foreigners and fanatical Muslims would think suppressing freedom of speech is the solution to mob violence. That some Americans and other Westerners agree with them is harder to explain - until one recalls that the Western Left has long been in favor of limiting freedom of speech, and has effectively done so in many venues, e.g. the schools and universities. And the excuse given for such infringements of liberty is always the same: some speech upsets others, hence should be limited. The more people who are upset, and the more they are upset, e.g. to murder and rioting, the more obvious it seems to the Left to restrict freedom of speech. This mentality is what led to the takeover of American universities in the Sixties by student radicals. Too many universities refused to call the police when the problem was one that required police intervention. Instead, they attempted to appease, placate, negotiate with and meet the "demands" of the radicals. We are still living with the catastrophic consequences of such moral and physical cowardice.
The Left will do everything it its power to oblige those Muslims who want to make criticism of Islam unlawful. Muslims, for the Left, are just another oppressed, marginalized, victimized minority to be treated with special care, tenderness and privileges.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
srhcb, 9/29/2012 3:24:24 PM (No. 8898795)
Walk out of the UN.
Move it to Algeria.
Turn that country into glass.
Problem solved.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
TheMotherCO, 9/29/2012 4:27:57 PM (No. 8898923)
The mooslims riot here and they should be deported back to whatever country they prefer. They are like rabbits and building mosques everywhere. They mean to take over the world and we need to be ready to shoot, shovel and shut up.
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Reuters, by Matt Spetalnick, Jeff Mason
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Posted By: EagleEye- 4/26/2013 9:34:06 PM
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Washington - President Barack Obama warned Syria on Friday that its use of chemical weapons would be a "game changer" for the United States but made clear he was in no rush to intervene in the civil war there on the basis of evidence he said was still preliminary. Speaking a day after the disclosure of U.S. intelligence that Syria had likely used chemical weapons against its own people, Obama talked tough while calling for patience as he sought to fend off pressure for a swift response against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "Horrific as it is when mortars are being fired on civilians and people
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