Religioner kan inte ärekränkas. Det är det bara människor som kan.

Jag brukar inte blanda in mitt andra internetliv (annat än SL alltså) i den här bloggen särskilt ofta, men nu är det dags igen. I mejlen damp det ner en epost från en diskussionslista jag är medlem i som jag som FN-vän hajar till inför.'

Från: Atoms and the Void [mailto:AVOID-L@HAWAII.EDU] För David Sheffield
Skickat: den 27 februari 2009 06:34
Till: AVOID-L@HAWAII.EDU
Ämne: Anti-Blasphemy Resolution Passed by UN

The UN, an organization that was created to stop global conflicts, becomes yet another way for clerics to impose their religion on the world. Of course Muslin nations have been pushing to get rid of the concept of human rights for a couple of years and last year they got a nonbinding anti-blasphemy resolution passed. Well, it now looks like they have followed up that nonbinding resolution with an actual resolution to get countries to make blasphemy illegal. Of course they say it's against defamation of religion but that's blatantly crap. I've had trouble finding anything from BBC or CNN on this topic to see what the status of this resolution is but it has passed the general assembly. PZ Myers has most of the content I've seen about this so far on his blog http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/02/talk_fast_we_might_be_criminal.php including an interview of Hitchens by Lou Dobbs.

David

Kanada verkar vara den enda nation som reagerat på ett adekvat sätt mot detta löjeväckande (men skrämmande) försök att blanda ihop äpplen och päron:

"Canada rejects the basic premise that religions have rights; human rights belong to human beings," said Catherine Loubier, spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon.

Se också: http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=9b8e3a6d-795d-440f-a5de-6ff6e78c78d5