The whole point is to stop people from telling everyone the truth about Islam – until it’s too late.
Nina Shea: America Again Submits to the Istanbul Process
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu
Round three of the “Istanbul Process” opens today, December 3, and runs through Wednesday, at Canada House, in London, hosted by the U.K. and Canada. The Istanbul Process is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s major transnational law initiative, undertaken in partnership with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). It was established last year to “implement” measures against speech and expression that negatively “stereotype[s]” Islam and Muslims, with a particular emphasis on enacting them in the West.
This initiative was started as an inexplicable, gratuitous gift to the Muslim world following the March 2011 adoption of a non-binding U.N. Human Rights Council resolution (16/18) on the same theme. While the Obama administration claims that it doesn’t intend for the process to adopt regulations beyond the American free-speech standard, our partner, the OIC, is only too eager to do just that.
For over a decade within the U.N., the OIC has relentlessly pushed for a universal law to punish blasphemy, or “defamation,” of Islam. This 56-member-state organization, an essentially religious body, is in fact chartered to “combat defamation of Islam.” It issues fatwas and other directives to punish public expression of apostasy from Islam. Its current action plan calls for “deterrent punishments” in all states for “Islamophobia,” a term that encompasses a broad range of constitutionally protected speech, judging from the OIC website’s black list of Americans and other perpetrators of “Islamophobia.” The OIC’s stated understanding of the Istanbul Process is that it will “help in enacting domestic laws for the countries involved in the issue, as well as formulating international laws preventing inciting hatred resulting from the continued defamation of religions.”
Corner readers will remember that the Istanbul Process’s first conference was co-chaired by Clinton and the OIC secretary general in July 2011, in Istanbul, with the foreign ministers of the Muslim countries in attendance. The second was held over three days of closed-door meetings last December, at the offices of the U.S. Department of State in Washington. That meeting drew enough controversy within free-speech circles to raise questions about whether the process would continue. But thanks to a leak last week by OIC head Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, we now know the event will go ahead, even if its agenda is still being treated like it’s “classified.”
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More here.
Here’s the OIC “hit list” in PDF format. No, 1389 Blog isn’t on it, but Rev. Terry Jones and our colleagues at Gates of Vienna certainly are, as are various other authors that we quote from and link to.
Tags: Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Istanbul Process, OIC
From the pdf-file:
Neither Spencer from Jihad Watch/Islam Watch, nor the owner of Gates of Vienna nor Paul Belien from Brussels Journal are “lonely elderly men” but married. Pam Geller from Atlas Shrugged is not even a man. I don’t know much about Tundra Tabloid, Vladtepesblog and The Green Arrow but the analysis of this “journalist” Andreas Malm seams to be a bit far fetched. Did he even try to find out who they are ?
@ Guggi:
Sounds rather boiler plate. Their boogey man is the white male.
Remember the beltway sinper? For the longest time the gleeful profile from the MFM was a disgruntled middle aged white male. Turned out it was a couple of black muslime jihadists who may have been killing other infidels to help cover the murder of john mohamhead’s wife.
Btw.: since the “report” is referring to Breivik once and again could the authors of the “report” please explain why thousands and thousands of Iraqi Christians were killed and hundred thousands driven out of the country by their Muslim brethren ? Why were all those Egypt Christians killed by their Muslim brethren ? One could go on and on…maybe we should call this Christianophobia ?
@ Guggi:
Don’t think so that is not how the double-speak has been implemented.
Just like blacks cannot be racist.
However you are racist for noticing the double-standards, hypocrisy, and ignoring facts.
Since Mr. İhsanoğlu is from Turkey maybe he can explain to us why Christians in Turkey like in Egypt are not even allowed to renovate their existing chruches not even to speak about building new ones ?
Tolerance, respect and acceptance are NO one way streets, Mr. İhsanoğlu.
citizen_q wrote:
Yea and lefties can’t be anti-Semites by their own definition.////
I could run amok
@ Guggi:
They aren’t anti-Semites, they are anti-Zionists, and proud of it. Of course, anti-Zionist is a dog-whistle for Jew HAter, but they don’t care. The Jews vote for them anyway.
years ago when my daughter asked me if
I was a racist I told I’m not a racist
I’m a realist. when she went to college
she told me “now I know what you were saying”
Iron Fist wrote:
I guess I’ve some understanding for this. Don’t forget that the Reps in the past (before 1970) were not in favor for Jews and did everything to keep them out of their circles e.g. to keep them out of the country clubs. They were often treated like second class citizens by conservatives. Many Jews who came to the U.S.A. befor, during or short after WWII didn’t forget this and told their children.
Completely OT, but RE one of my early AM posts on the OOT, “The Right Stuff” was just on some channel or other. That one sucks me in every single time…
@ Guggi:
But at that same time the Democrats were the party of the Ku Klux Klan. Neither party was perfect, but I see the Democrats as being far worse. Either way, that is history. The Democrats of today are very hostile to Israel and by extension Jews in general, but the Jews, some 70+% of them, vote for Democrats reliably. I don’t really understand that.
@ Guggi:
Republicans were not Conservative until the 80′s. But your larger point still stands.
Guggi wrote:
No one cares about persecuted Christians. All these so called Christian Conservative politicians who rail about the degenerate culture, gay marriage or “Christian” values say nothing about Christians facing real persecution. They are fraudsters and I wish more Conservatives would realize this.
@ Iron Fist:
Most Americans Jews don’t care about Israel. Like many other groups that vote for Democrats they are either Progressives or just hate Republicans.
@ Rodan:
Yes, that is apparent from their voting habits. It is ironic that Evangelical Christians are more concerned about the fate of the Jewish State than American Jews, but that is where we are. Obama doesn’t care about pissing off Evangelicals, because he knows he doesn’t have their votes anyway.
Rodan wrote:
Not true; many care about Israel, but that care does not extend to the point where they are willing to think clearly or look at the evidence in front of them.
When you’re actually poor, or on the receiving end of genuine expressions of prejudice, you can’t afford to live wrapped in self-delusion. Get two generations removed from genuine privation and overt expressions of prejudice, and your thinking starts to cloud.
Jews have been very fortunate in America, for the most part—so much so that, like the German Jews of the 1920s and 1930s, they cannot believe that something really terrible could happen to them, or to anyone they know. Why, “the world” would never allow it!
Wise Latina rules in favor of a Muslim inmate’s Ramadan dinner on religious freedom grounds, but denies Hobby Lobby a religious freedom exemption from Obamacare.
Love this whiney quote (from page 66):
Note how the Islamists are working with the Progressives (Center for American Progress, ThinkProgress, People For the American Way (PFAW) …) as the source for most of their lies and smears.
PFAW started in 1981 as an anti-Christian group by television producer and political activist Norman Lear using millions of dollars from the Tides Foundation.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
there is no excuse any more for clouded thought. therefore i must assume that jews who vote for democrats are either not really jews or they are fools. same goes for catholics who vote for dems
@ Iron Fist:
Check your mail!
Iron Fist wrote:
My personal take is that they think we are too stupid to realize anti-Zionist = Jew hater, so it makes a convenient cover.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
If they did not have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.
@ Fritz Katz:
Think Progress openly supported al-Qaeda in Iraq, Hizb’Allah and the Muslim Brotherhood.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Muslims have religious freedom rights. Christians do not. America is fast becoming an anti-Christian nation.
@ coldwarrior:
or they are fools
70% of people who vote for Democrats are fools. 30% are scared of the Republican Party.
@ Iron Fist:
In Foreign Policy the US has been anti-Christian since 1982 when we stabbed the Lebanese Christians and Israelis in the back. The US has been the biggest anti-Christian Power since the Ottomans Turks.
@ Rodan:
Replied
@ Iron Fist:
Got it and agree!
Rodan wrote:
Actually, some of them vote for Democrats because of machine politics: their ill-gotten income, or that of their family members, depends on the Democrats.
I would call them thugs and plunderers and tyrants rather than fools, but YMMV.
Rodan wrote:
Indeed.
@ Rodan:
What are the 70% foolish about, and what are the 30% afraid of? Please be specific. I could come up with some convoluted numbers about the Republican party also, but they wouldn’t be true. Put up or shut up.
@ 1389AD:
Both parties have an anti-Christian foreign policy.
theoutsider wrote:
I’ll answer your question if you answer this.
What will happen to the US economy when the debt hits 150% of GDP?
@ Rodan:
Pssst, here’s a hint…
He would need to have a little bit of elementary-school arithmetic skills to get the idea, though.
coldwarrior wrote:
As I’ve noted before, Reform Judaism has been described as “the Democratic Party with holidays.” But Jews have a nice long history of self-destructive behavior, from Korach in the desert through the followers of Ba’al in Elijah’s time up through the leftists of our own day.
Rodan wrote:
And people keep saying, “Sofa, so good. It’s divan, simply divan.”
theoutsider wrote:
What is the upper limit for US debt?
waldensianspirit wrote:
The Obama Administration’s version of the space program is to build a stack of IOUs from Washington to the flag planted by Neil Armstrong.
@ Rodan:
It’s never going to happen, so can you answer now?
theoutsider wrote:
And your basis for saying this is….?
Can you answer now?
@ theoutsider:
Look spokeshole, what is the upper limit for US debt?
@ theoutsider:
Wrong. It happens by the end of Obama’s secondf term. We are on schedule to go another $1.6 trillion in debt this year. Do you really think that can go on forever?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
That’s classic right there!
Rodan wrote:
Not bad, not bad at all…
@ Mike C.:
It’s hysterical and rhymes!
theoutsider wrote:
Your answer to my question validates my earlier statement. 70% of people who vote for Democrats are fools.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
And all the commies rejoice!
Jews are not alone in some counter intuitive loyalty
to the Democrat Party.
Obama declared war on the Catholic Church, yet
half of my fellow Catholics voted for him anyway.
@ RIX:
Hey more Mormons voted for George W.
@ waldensianspirit:
Than voted for Romney?
@ RIX:
yep
George W. 80%
Romney 78%
RIX wrote:
Yes and that is why it drives me nuts when people keep mentioning Jews voting for Obama (I have little use for liberal Jews) when so many Catholics in Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Ohio voted for The One. Stupidity knows no religion.
Harry Reid is a Mormon.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
The OFA website doesn’t say anything about it, so he can’t answer.
Michael Moore
✔
@MMFlint
Leave Piers alone! So sad that the host on American TV to speak out the loudest against this madness is not one of us, but a Brit.
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Isn’t this special?
Speranza wrote:
Ahem, when I wrote this people helped me out:
@ RIX:
How about if we deport him, too?
@ lobo91:
I’m all for it!
@ lobo91:
The Government of Wales will resist
RIX wrote:
@ Speranza:
WASPS in California, Virginia, Vermont, Maine and Wisconsin voted for Obama as well.
RIX wrote:
Is there a YouTube video of Moore thrashing around and weeping, with mascara running down his fat, bestubbled cheeks?
@ lobo91:
He’s still awaiting his talking points email from OFA!
lobo91 wrote:
Rodan wrote:
“Obama for Assholes?”
@ buzzsawmonkey:
That should be the name!
Asaad M Ismail@devlonictus9
Asaad M Ismail@devlonictus9
@BreakingNews @AP to the hell Norman…..deep in the hell u terrorist
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The Religion of Peace checks in.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
@ Speranza:
Yes, but it is more suicidal when the Jews do it. No one wants to exterminate the Catholics, just force them to pay for abortions. The Muslims want to exterminate the Jews, and the “anti-Zionist” Left is aiding and abetting them on it. By voting Democrat, the Jews are voting power into the hands of those who would wipe them from the face of the earth.
RIX wrote:
Isn’t MM a member of the NRA ?
US Soldier Suicides Outnumber Combat Deaths In 2012
While their CIC parties
@ Guggi:
If so, he should be thrown out…
@ Guggi:
I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure that he has armed security.
Guggi wrote:
Buying a share of stock in a corporation so as to be able to mount a stockholder insurgency, or joining an organization which you oppose in order to be able to cover your activity by saying, “I’m a member!” is one of the most time-honored tactics of the Left. In a similar vein, you have Potemkin Jews used to front anti-Israel organizations like J Street.
This is one of the reasons the Left constantly decries people like Tim Scott as “Uncle Tom” and “token.” They themselves routinely engage in false-flag memberships and allegiances—Marxist taqiyya, if you will—so it is natural that they should presume anyone on the opposing side who does not fit their narrative would be the same thing.
RIX wrote:
liar
How’s that gun control workin’ for ya, Rahm?
Chicago reaches 500 homicides with fatal shooting.
@ huckfunn:
Well obviously MORE gun control is needed. Won’t solve the problem, of course, but they could make a few bucks off it.
@ huckfunn:
Chicago is getting pretty close to the Juarez murder rate.
Mike C. wrote:
Interesting note. Not all of those homicides were committed with a firearm so it’s a safe bet that gun control had no effect on murder committed by knives, blunt instruments, bare hands or guns. One could speculate on how many of those deaths, by any means, would have been stopped had the victim been armed.
huckfunn wrote:
Appropriate, since half of Guadalajara now lives in Chicago.
huckfunn wrote:
Someone must’ve murdered the right people in Juarez
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Do you know the origin/original meaning of the name Guadalajara?
Okay, okay -- not everybody all at once. The original Guadalajara is obviously in Spain. But the name is from the Moorish occupation of Spain and was originally “Waddi al-Harra.” The Arabs gave the original that name because the river was always brown from the sediment load. “Waddi al-Harra” means “river of shit.”
True…
Mike C. wrote:
So the Guadalajara in Mexico was given that name for sedimental reasons?
Harry Reid has a lucid moment.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Wish I’d thought of that one. Everybody loves a good geology joke.
Don’t they?
NASA says Jesco von Puttkamer died Thursday after a brief illness.
Mike C. wrote:
Watson: Holmes! What kind of rock is this?
Holmes: Sedimentary, my dear Watson.
Mike C. wrote:
Not entirely true, the original river of shit was the mass of muslims flowing out of Saudi Arabia into the civilized world.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Yup, that’s exactly what he did. In order to be able to vote, you have to either be a Life member or an annual member who’s been a member for 5 years.
All it takes to become a Life member is a check for $1,000.
Dianne Feinstein wants to violate the US Constitution. Yea, real shocker…
Iron Fist wrote:
It’s Orthodox Christians that everybody wants to exterminate.
Even Romney declared Russia to be an enemy.
So did Allen West.
Both lost.
True, they would have needed a miracle to win, and they didn’t get one.
Maybe it’s because the Russians pray for their land and their Church.
Guggi wrote:
That was attempted in the NRA some decades ago. It failed.