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Critics pan Saudi-led UN religion and peace confab
by Scott Gilbreath ~ November 12th, 2008
Saudi Arabia is leading a UN conference on religion and peace. Once again, the UN allows itself to be used to lend legitimacy to a malicious cause.
Seven years after 15 Saudis hijacked U.S. jetliners and flew them into the World Trade Center, Saudi Arabia is leading a UN forum in New York this week to promote peace and interreligious dialogue.
Saudi King Abdullah is hosting the “Culture of Peace” gathering at United Nations headquarters on November 12-13.
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However, critics question the UN interreligious conference being led by Saudi Arabia, which does not allow other faiths to be practiced on its soil. Like June’s Madrid forum, this week’s meeting will not be attended by Saudi Arabia’s top Muslim clerics, including its grand mufti.
The Christian Science Monitor points to the elephant in the room: Saudi Arabia is also leading a drive by Islamic nations for an international agreement to outlaw criticism of Islam.
Saudi King Abdullah, who initiated this week’s special session, is quietly enlisting the leaders’ support for a global law to punish blasphemy – a campaign championed by the 56-member Organization of Islamic Conference that puts the rights of religions ahead of individual liberties.
If the campaign succeeds, states that presume to speak in the name of religion will be able to crush religious freedom not only in their own country, but abroad.
To add a final comic flourish, Iranian students have reacted with horrified indignation to the fact that Israel is invited to the conference.
Head of the Muslim World Students’ Front Hojjat Khodadadi told IRNA on Wednesday that the invitation extended to Zionist regime’s foreign minister Tzipi Livni by Saudi Arabia, as the country leading the UN inter-faith meeting, means that Saudis have practically opened the door for normalization of ties with the Zionist regime.
Khodadadi said that the Zionist regime does not have the least belief in any religion and religious school of thought.
Right!
h/t for Christian Science Monitor: Persecuted Church Weblog
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