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UN adopts Moroccan resolution against Qur’an burning;

it isn’t consistent with free speech laws

JUL 29, 2023 9:00 AM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

There is a big problem with a reference contained in a Moroccan resolution over Qur’an burning that was adopted by the United Nations:

The resolution strongly condemns all acts of violence perpetrated against individuals based on their religion or beliefs and the desecration of sacred texts, stressing that such behavior violates international law.

Invoking the term “international law” has become a favorite tactic of Islamic supremacists. They resort to this frequently when referencing Israel’s retaliation against jihadists. What they mean by “international law” is Islamic laws and sentiments. The problem with the wording and meaning of the Moroccan resolution is that no violence is perpetrated against any human being in Qur’an burnings. So the question presents itself: is this remark an intentional deception to exaggerate the action of Qur’an desecration. or is the Qur’an itself in the view of Muslims regarded as an individual? Given the facts about minority persecution and the absence of vigorous condemnation of such persecution by Organization of Islamic Cooperation member nations, it would appear that the Qur’an itself is placed far above human life in value. Therefore, burning a Qur’an is presented as if it were an act of violence against an individual, which is, of course, a concept that is foreign to secular societies.

The West places human life above any inanimate object. On the other hand, the only international law and human rights code recognized by OIC nations is Sharia law, and the Islamic view of human rights that is in accordance with it. The OIC is no longer functioning under the UN Declaration of Human Rights; since 1990, the body has functioned officially under the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights, which is based on the Sharia. The member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation affirm:

…the civilizing and historical role of the Islamic Ummah which God [Allah] made the best nation that has given mankind a universal and well-balanced civilization in which harmony is established between this life and the hereafter and knowledge is combined with faith; and the role that this Ummah should play to guide a humanity confused by competing trends and ideologies and to provide solutions to the chronic problems of this materialistic civilization.

This document declares the supremacy of the Islamic ummah over the entire world. The Qur’an burnings increasingly expose why there is no compatibility between Western laws and those who ascribe to the Sharia. The challenge now is that the Islamic world is being increasingly exposed in its overt efforts to subjugate the West. Up until now, these efforts were stealthy, using deception and intimidation via the “Islamophobia” subterfuge, championed by the OIC, and now accepted by the UN. And on a more practical level, Islamic countries have been buying out UN agencies.

America remains the highest (dhimmi-paying) contributor to the United Nations, contributing a fifth of the its budget at over 12 billion dollars.

It is time for America to withdraw from the UN or support a new one, consistent with democratic nations that ascribe to the original UN Declaration of Human Rights.

UN Adopts Morocco-Presented Resolution Against Burning of Quran, Hate Speech

by Sara Zouiten, Morocco World News, July 26, 2023:

Rabat – The United Nations General Assembly, comprising 193 member states, unanimously adopted a resolution presented by Morocco against the burning of the Quran and hate speech targeting religious symbols.

The resolution strongly condemns all acts of violence perpetrated against individuals based on their religion or beliefs and the desecration of sacred texts, stressing that such behavior violates international law.

Championing the cause of peace and tolerance, Morocco has garnered widespread acclaim for its role as a regional and global leader in promoting peace, tolerance, and interreligious and intercultural dialogue.

The presentation and adoption of the resolution come amid rising concerns about Islamophobia and the challenges that Muslim communities face in Europe, with the most recent incident being the burning of the Quran in Sweden.

The event garnered widespread attention and condemnation from the international community, with many warning that such actions create an environment of fear and hostility for Muslims.

It seems to me to be more of a concern that such actions create an environment of threats and hysteria among Muslims. If they didn't overreact exponentially, there would be no Quran burnings. The purpose of the desecrations is to provoke Islam to reveal its true nature, a nature that has no resemblance to a religion of peace, and it works every time.

During the presentation of the resolution to the General Assembly, Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Omar Hilale underlined that this resolution builds upon resolution 73/328 adopted in 2019, which was the first of its kind on hate speech.

It also builds on resolution 75/309, which proclaimed June 18 as the “International Day for Countering Hate Speech,” to be observed each year.

Hilale noted that the adoption of the new resolution aligns with the visionary, solidarity-driven, and humanitarian approach of King Mohammed VI in standing against hate speech, extremism, and all forms of racism.

The ambassador recalled the monarch’s speech during the opening of the 9th World Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, which took place in Fez in November 2022……

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European Parliament Takes Strong Stand

On Palestinian Schoolbooks, Then Capitulates

JUL 29, 2023 10:00 AM BY HUGH FITZGERALD

“And what they undid, did” (Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II)

Just two months ago, I posted a hopeful piece here about the decision of the European Parliament to call on the European Commission to end all aid to the PA, because it has failed so singularly to fulfill its repeated promises to remove the antisemitic material from its schoolbooks. This is what I wrote at the time:

The European Parliament on Wednesday passed a resolution calling on the European Commission to suspend aid to the Palestinian Authority’s educational system until antisemitic and violent themes are removed from textbooks issued to K-12 students.

The resolution, passed with 421 yes votes with 577 members of parliament participating, “deplores the problematic and hateful material in Palestinian school textbooks and study cards which has still not been removed” and noted that the content is influencing a rise in terrorist activity among Palestinian teenagers.

This was not the first time the European Parliament has passed such a resolution. And the European Commission has similarly demanded, following such resolutions, that the PA revise its schoolbooks, cleansing them of objectionable material, but it never has. The European Commission has never followed through on its threats for long. Only once, for 13 months, did it halt aid to the PA, but then reinstated it when the Palestinians convinced the then-president of the EU, Ursula von der Leyen, that “all difficulties had been taken care of.. ”It appears that this time the European Commission, weary of being played for a sucker by the Palestinians, really will stop all of its aid to the PA.

That’s what I wrote on May 12, 2023. Now I have just learned that the European Commission has reversed itself; it will not, after all, “freeze aid” to the PA, even though the PA has done nothing about its antisemitic textbooks. More on this reversal can be found here: “The EU-Funded Education for Jihad and Martyrdom,” by Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute, July 25, 2023:

…Even the European Parliament condemned the Palestinian Authority over the “hateful” content of its textbooks. The European Union, for the past two-and-a-half years, withheld assistance from the Palestinian Authority while demanding political reforms and the purging of incitement to violence from Palestinian textbooks. A resolution passed this year by the European Parliament went so far as to directly link the content of the textbooks with Palestinian terrorism, particularly attacks by young people. The resolution also acknowledged that there is antisemitism in the textbooks and demanded that it be removed….

The Palestinian Authority, however, has not removed from its textbooks material that promotes either violence or loathing Jews.

Nevertheless, despite repeated talk by the European Union on the need to change Palestinian textbooks, it is apparently resuming unconditional financial aid to the Palestinian Authority. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced last year during a visit to Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinians, that EU funds will be resumed “rapidly.”…

Questions in the Arabic Language exam, for instance, include a poem that praises Jerusalem’s “knights” who “go to their death with a smile,” and the importance of preparing for violent Jihad against Israel.

Students are also tested on passages in the Palestinian Authority’s Islamic Education textbook, that praise murder, violence and death. One question asks students to explain that Jihad is “the apex of Islam;” another questions them about a passage that describes martyrdom as a great honor. The Islamic Education exam emphasizes the importance of Jihad as “one of the gates to achieving martyrdom.”

In May, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to ask the European Commission to end all aid to the Palestinian Authority, given that it had failed to fulfill its repeated promises in the past to clean up its textbooks. The antisemitism and anti-Israel venom is still there, found in the study plans, the lessons, the homework assignments, even the exam questions, all about the treacherous Jews who must be expelled “from the river to the sea” to make way for the independent state of Palestine, and other lessons on the supreme duty of jihad against not just Jews, but also against all Infidels.

The European Parliament’s overwhelming vote to have the European Commission end aid to the PA as long as its schoolbooks remained unchanged seemed to have made a difference. Many said that “this time” the Europeans would not be satisfied with the PA’s assurances. But just two months later, Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, has announced a complete resumption of the EU’s aid to the Palestinian Authority.

Mahmoud Abbas must be quite satisfied. Again the Europeans made threatening noises about how the PA’s unchanged textbooks would trigger an end to aid, and again the Europeans have backed down. A deplorable result.

And as for the European Commission putting pressure on the PA to end the “Pay-For-Slay” program by which it both rewards past, and incentivizes future, terrorism — don’t even ask. That’s a matter that the pusillanimous EU still won’t address.

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