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This scares me:

Danes face growing Muslim storm

Denmark has advised citizens against travel to Saudi Arabia, amid growing anger across the Muslim world at Danish depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.

A newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet, one of which pictured a bomb hidden in his turban, apologised on Monday for offending Muslims.

Islam bans any depiction of the Prophet Muhammad or Allah.

The backlash has included a boycott of Danish goods, diplomatic sanctions, and Islamic militant threats.

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Meanwhile pan-Arab organisations have begun efforts to reach a UN resolution, backed by possible sanctions, to protect religions from insults.

No, please... no. NO.

LWotP: muslimus -i m. "Muslim."
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Everyone just ignores the UN anyways. :D
I don't want to end up being arrested for watching Father Ted! Which is what such a sanction could end up doing if it got out of hand. Similar proposals from the British Government have gathered a lot of opposition from people who are worried about Freedom of Speech issues
I can understand why!

No, you don't want to be arrested for watching that. The thought makes me shudder!

Such a UN resolution could make it so that if a preacher said something incredibly hateful, he could cite UN precedent to protect his fanaticism so that a "reasonable" person would not be allowed to call him a fanatic or criticize his beliefs. It is not out of realm of possibility that creationists could cite UN precedent as an excuse to push creationism into the school systems.
Religion deserves the same rules in regards to tolerance as sexual preference and color receives. Intolerance is bad regardless.

However, I think this is going much too far. Of course, I could say the same about certain other special protections given to "victim groups."
I have no problem with stopping actual incitement of hatered, I just worry about the possible effect things like this could have on freedom of speech and such. I agree that if someone is trying to get people to attack other people on religous grounds that it is bad. But you could be able to criticise things, as long as you aren't trying to incite hatred and violence, without worrying about being arrested.
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