Ad Hoc Cmte: War on Free Speech

The UN’s war on freedom of expression is waged in
two parallel plains: resolutions and international covenants.  The
former have no enforcement mechanism; the latter have the force of
international law binding on signatories.   On the covenant plain,
the weapon is the Ad Hoc Cmte. and the mechanism is ICERD.  The
OIC
and its allies seek to insert Islam’s blasphemy laws into ICERD through
a binding protocol which would establish new norms criminalizing
criticism of Islam.

This plain of conflict is under reported and little
known.  the action takes place below the radar. Unfortunately, it
is the most dangerous to our cherished liberty because its outcome will
have the force of international law.

The committee holds two ten day sessions each
year.  Those sessions
have been marked by conflict which has resulted in narrowing the scope
of its deliberations, excluding Islamophobia.  This resolution is
an
expression of frustration and demand for results.

Once ICERD is amended to criminalize criticism of
Islam, the
creators of Fitna, Innocence of Muslims and the Motoons could be
persecuted in national and international courts and sentenced to prison
or death.

The HRC and GA resolutions give immoral support to
national
blasphemy laws used to persecute indigenous Christians in Indonesia
& Pakistan, but they have no teeth. The mission of the Ad Hoc
Committee has venomous fangs.

http://www.eyeontheun.org/assets/attachments/documents/10556ad_hoc_committee.pdf

2lStSession of the Human Rights Council

Agenda Item 9

Elaboration of international complementary standards to the
lnternational

Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

 

Recalling its decision 31103 of 8
December 2006, in which it decided to establish, in accordance

with the provisions of paragraph 199 of the Durban Declaration and
Programme of Action, the

Ad Hoc Committee of the Human Rights Council on the Elaboration of
Complementary

Standards, with a mandate to elaborate, as a matter of priority and
necessity, complementary

standards in the form of either a convention or additional protocol(s)
to the lnternational

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,
filling the existing gaps in

the Convention and also providing
new normative standards aimed at combating all forms of

contemporary racism, including
incitement to racial and religious hatred,(NHRCiResll0;30)

normative standards

The best way to translate this code phrase is to
provide examples from Shari’ah: Reliance of the Traveller, O8.7, which
lists 20 acts entailing apostasy, which carries the death
penalty.  The provisions of O8.7 are applied to dhimmis through O11.10

-5- or mentions
something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless
him and give him peace), or
Islam.

What is impermissible?

-4- to
revile Allah or His messenger (Allah bless him and give him
peace);

-5- to
deny the existence of Allah, His beginingless eternality, His
endless eternality, or to deny any of His attributes which the
consensus of Muslims ascribes to Him (dis: v1);

-6- to
be sarcastic about Allah’s name, His command, His interdiction, His
promise, or His threat;

-7- to
deny any verse of the Koran or anything which by scholarly
consensus (def: b7) belongs to it, or to add a verse that does belong
to it;

-16- to
revile the religion of Islam;

incitement to racial and religious hatred

Translation of this code phrase is best accomplished
by reference to a concrete example: Fitna,
the short video by Geert Wilders which juxtaposed verses from the
Qur’an & hadith with the rabid rants of Imams and their violent
consequences.     Fitna exposed incitement, it did not
incite.  Observe what the Secretary General of the UN said about
it.

Reuters quotes U.N. Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon about Fitna:“There is no justification for hate
speech or incitement to
violence,” Ban said in a statement. “The right of free expression is not
at stake here.”

Ban’s spokesman used similar terms to describe Innocence
of Muslims:

He
condemns the
hateful film that appears to have been deliberately designed to sow
bigotry and bloodshed.

The clear intention is to criminalize all criticism
of Islam.  The condemned videos do not incite violence, they
expose incitement.  Linking Islam to incitement to violence
constitutes reviling Islam, which carries the death penalty.  By
that standard, I could be persecuted, fined and imprisoned for exposing
the fact that the practice of Islam entails violence and terrorism,
like this:

Islam is inseverable, 2:85 condemns selectivity; Muslims must accept the
entire package, including genocidal, terrorist conquest.
Religious violence & terrorism are incited in the Qur’an (3:151, 8:12, 39, 57, 59, 60, 65, 67, 9:5, 29, 111, 120, 123, 33:26, 47:4, 49:15, 59:2, 59:13 & 61:10), in hadith (Sahih Bukhari 1.8.387, 4.52.177, 1.7.331 & 4.52.220, Sunan Abu Dawud 14.2635, 23.3455 & 14.2497), and Shari’ah (Reliance of the Traveller:
O9.0-9 & Hedaya Vol. 2, pg 140-230).

Under the standards demanded by the OIC, Arab
League, Non-Aligned Group and European Union, this blog post would be
illegal because of the proceeding paragraph.

Underlining the imperative need for the
Ad Hoc Committee to achieve its mandate (NHRCI

13118 updated)

I. Decides that the Ad Hoc
Committee shall convene its fifth session from 13 to 24 May

2013; (AIHRCI 13118
updated),

l.(bis) Takes note of the report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Human
Rights

Council on the Elaboration of lnternational Complementary Standards to
the

lnternational Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination,

2. Invites the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Ad Hoc Committee to

hold informal consultations, within existing resources, with
regional and

political coordinators during the inter-sessional period between the
fourth

and fifth sessions of the Ad Hoc Committee, with the aim to

prepare the fifth session and collect concrete proposals for

discussion on the topics of xenophobia, establishment, designation or

maintaining of national mechanisms with competencies to protect against
and

prevent all forms &-and manifestations of racism, racial
discrimination,

xenophobia and related intolerance; and procedural gaps with regard to

the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial

Discrimination, in accordance with its mandate; NEW (AIHRCl21159)

The Cmte.’s fourth session produced a 47 page report :

http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session21/A-HRC-21-59_en.pdf