The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the United Nations is threatening free speech with talk of a blasphemy code of practice. Details of the story are here and there will be more comments about this on the blog later today.
Update: According to the Sydney Morning Herald:
The European Union and a group of Islamic countries said they backed UN action to stop "defamation of religion".
The Organisation of the Islamic Conference is lobbying for the UN to include language against blasphemy in the tenets of a new human rights body. The EU’s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, said he supported the idea.
This in effect represents complete capitulation to the Islamic extremists by the EU. If implemented it would represent a victory of savagery over rationality. Free speech is man’s most basic right and this represents another step on a very deliberate slope of European appeasement.
Meanwhile in Malaysia, the Prime Minister has closed down a Chinese language daily for two weeks for printing cartoons of one of Islam’s alleged icons.
