Prairie Fire Journal

While the United Nations keeps plenty of people employed, its usefulness beyond that is questionable. I can't think of one major conflict in the past 20 years where the UN was instrumental in resolving the problem. That's why I don't usually pay much attention to what's going on there.

Since the UN has failed miserably in carrying out its mission of resolving international conflict and defending human rights, it has now embarked on a mission to legitimize the totalitarianism of Islam. At the urging of the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the UN Human Rights Council has been pushing for passage of a resolution that would ban the defamation of Islam. In other words, they want to ban free speech criticism of religion, especially any criticism of Islam. A UN conference scheduled for April in Geneva will be exploring ways to accomplish this.

That a so-called human rights council is actively working to advance this resolution shows just how far off course the UN has strayed. One of the most interesting parts of the resolution is where it voices concern that Islam is "frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism." Wrongly associated with human rights violations? Countries under Islamic Sharia law are nothing more than barbaric totalitarian regimes who deny basic human rights to women, torture and execute nonbelievers and people of other faiths, and imprison those who peacefully challenge or criticize Islamic beliefs. The facts look clear enough to me. There's not an article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that has not been violated by Islamic dictatorships, especially when it comes to women and girls.

If this is what the United Nations considers to be standing up for human rights, then I think it's time we pull out of this front group for the expansion of Islamic terrorism. Denial of fundamental human rights is itself a form of terrorism, and until Islamic regimes renounce such human rights abuses, they are terrorists as far as I'm concerned.