Another Victory for the 'Stealth Jihad'
 By Kathy ShaidleFrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, November 28, 2008

In what one observer decried as "a very Orwellian moment," the fight against radical Islam suffered a setback in the halls of the United Nations last Monday. Islamic countries won UN backing for an anti-blasphemy measure called "Combating Defamation of Religions," which passed 85-50 with 42 abstentions in a meeting of the UN General Assembly's Third Committee on November 23.
The measure calls on all countries to ensure their legal systems provide protection against "acts of hatred, discrimination, intimidation and coercion resulting from defamation of religions."
Sponsors of the proposal say it is merely "aimed at preventing violence against worshippers regardless of religion," and indeed, "Combating Defamation" is at first glance slightly less Islamic-centric than previous UN resolutions with similar aims.
However, the resolution is part of a ten year plan launched by the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) in 2005, to "ensure the renaissance of the Muslim Ummah" or worldwide Islamic community. Sure enough, the document claims that "Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism."
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