Muslim U.N. Official Warns of Islamic Suicide Bombers if Global Ban on Blasphemy Rejected

Muslim U.N. Official Warns of Islamic Suicide Bombers if Global Ban on Blasphemy Rejected

Muslim U.N. Official Warns of Islamic Suicide Bombers if Global Ban on Blasphemy Rejected
Thursday, November 19, 2009 | Kristinn

Posted on Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:45:10 PM by kristinn

"Stop portraying the Prophet Mohammed as a suicide bomber or more Muslims will become suicide bombers and murder you blasphemers." That's pretty much what Algeria's Ambassador to the U.N., Idriss Jazairy, who serves as chairman of the U.N.'s Ad Hoc Committee on Complementary Standards told the Associated Press in an interview about efforts by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to pass a U.N. treaty banning blasphemy against Islam.

The exact quote from the AP:

"If we keep hitting this glass wall and say there's nothing you can do about Islamophobia — you can do something about anti-Semitism but Islamophobia is out of bounds — you give an ideal platform for recruitment of suicide bombers,"

The blog UN Watch reported on November 12th on a letter dated October 29th sent by the OIC to the Ad Hoc Committee about the proposal. (PDF file of letter here.) The letter was submitted by Pakistani Ambassador Zamir Akram.

The letter says religious insults and ridicule "creates social unrest and is a form of psychological violence."

The letter decries several European nations: Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands and Switzerland for having offended Islam.

In 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a series of cartoons by various artists depicting Mohammed, whose image in any form is prohibited under Islamic law.

The AP reports the Obama administration has been engaging in diplomatic "trench warfare" to "squash the proposal."

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke out strongly against the proposal last month.

The complaints in the letter and by Ambassador Jazairry that Jews are already protected is laughable--and cynical coming from the one religion with many adherents dedicated to eradicating Jews from the planet.

The OIC letter complains of "negative stereotyping" and "violence" against Muslims. The OIC needs to have a talk with Ambassador Jazairry about his threat of suicide bombers if Islam is not protected by the U.N. He certainly is promoting violence and reinforcing a negative stereotype about Islam.