Shenanigans at the UN

The International Humanist and Ethical Union tried to call on the UN to condemn suicide bombers. They were blocked from reading their speech to the UN Human Rights Sub-Committee in Geneva. Can you guess by who? You got it. The Islamic members objected on the grounds it attacks their religion.

The Islamic members of the Sub-Commission objected to the speech as an attack on Islam. The text however is a report on recent critical comment on Islamist extremism by a number of notable Muslim writers and is a call to the UN Human Rights Commission by the NGOs "to condemn calls to kill, to terrorise or to use violence in the name of God or any religion".

The text referred to recent decisions by high-ranking Muslim clerics
confirming that those who carry out suicide bombings cannot be treated as apostates and remain Muslims(1), a fatwa by a Saudi cleric that innocent Britons were a legitimate target for terrorist action(2), and remarks by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, dean of the College of Sharia and Islamic Studies at Qatar University who has visited Britain, that terror attacks are permissible.Front Page Magazine

The truth hurts, doesn't it? Some Islamic clerics are using their religion to justify the slaughter of innocents. Most religions condemn suicide and murder as sins, ones which will not get you into heaven nor 72 virgins. The above is just a brief example of the fight that is ongoing. Some Muslims are objecting to the indiscriminate killing of innocents in the name of Islam and they are being blocked at every turn. Not by Westerners who welcome this condemnation but by their co-religionists. The voices of Islam who condemn killing, suicide bombers, and other violence in the name of Islam must grow louder to drown out and overcome those in Islam who glorify these heinous acts.