ECLJ Report
Combating Defamation of Religions
Tomorrow, the ECLJ will be submitting a report on Combating Defamation of Religions to the UN Office of the High Commissioner. The report shows how the concept of defamation of religion is antithetical to international norms of freedom of religion and speech and leads to increased violence towards religious believers, especially religious minorities in Muslim countries.
In order to illustrate more clearly how defamation of religion laws are already being enforced in most Islamic and some Western countries, and to show the inherent danger in internationalizing this issue, the ECLJ has compiled an appendix of international cases and incidents involving claims of defamation of religion to be included with the submission to the UN. The sampling of cases involve prosecution or legal action for alleged defamation of religions (nearly always Islam), and not defamation of individuals. Many of the Islamic countries with the worst anti-blasphemy laws are included, such as
World Magazine Story
The ECLJ and Terry McKeegan are quoted in the World Magazine feature titled Toward a New European Union, which describes the efforts of a coalition of pro-life Members of the European Parliament to debunk calls from the European Union and international groups that there is a fundamental right to abortion. The ECLJ was also interviewed extensively on the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Click here to read the full story.
The ECLJ is closely following the preparations for the the Durban Review Conference, a follow-up to the highly controversial and anti-Semitic UN Durban Conference on racism of 2001. This review conference, which is now set for next April in
a highly visible, amply funded, well-advertised and attended gathering that will focus the worlds attention on the Wests defamation of Islam and racial discrimination against its adherents, as well as on
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