Religious Dissent and Criticism in Islamic Nations

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/10/30/Islamophobia

Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Paul Marshall discusses harsh punishments faced by critics of Islam in many predominantly Muslim countries.

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"The U.N.'s Racism Conference, 'Islamophobia,' and the Campaign to Crush Debate and Dissent within Islam," featuring discussants Anne Bayefsky, Paul Marshall, Sheikh Ahmed Subhy Mansour and Fahad Nazer. Nina Shea moderates.

Preparations are underway for the 2009 U.N. World Conference on Racism and, as a result of intense lobbying by the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), the issue of "Islamophobia" will be a prominent focus. The World Conference could ensure that a prohibition against "Islamophobia" will be endorsed by the world community as the newest international human right.

Hudson's conference explained the proposed bans against "Islamophobia," comparing them to blasphemy strictures that have been used to curtail freedoms of expression, press, and religion by some of the OIC's most repressive member states - Hudson Institute

Paul Marshall is senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, and at the Center for Religious Freedom, Freedom House, Washington, D.C. He is a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute and the author and editor of over twenty books on religion and politics, especially religious freedom. He has just completed a world survey on religious freedom, to be published this December, and is heading a research project on blasphemy and political repression.

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[GrandmasterTigerfist]

50-60 muslim nations not a single which is stable in Africa nations like somalia, Niger is facing huge millitancy and hunger. Over 60% of Niger population is estimated to die of Hunger ( all of them are muslims) this is what islam have brought dictatiorship and slavery just like Darfur.

Muslims should realize that their ideology is failed name 1 muslim nation as powerfull matching china?

[kash959]

<-- exmuslim atheist

muhammad lied

islam is a plague and delusion

[jaychristopher5]

These Muslims treat non-Muslims horribly in all their Islamic nations. The USA treats Muslims like gold compared with how Muslims treat non-Muslims in their Islamic countries!! This is the truth that the Muslims like to hide. The Muslims love to come into the nice Western World to enjoy it. I can't blame them with the way Islam has ruined every nation it dominates.

[SpringChatty]

@rabruin

opinions are like assholes.

[rabruin]

@SpringChatty you are a very weak minded person

[SpringChatty]

I HATE RELIGION and political religous bullshit.

[zaks4rill]

Take An Examples there are two things when it comes to religion issues which are : Religion (It can never be changed) and Follower (But Followers of religions might decide to do things their own way which the religion doesn't say and its wrong, like Suicide Bombing, in Islam who so ever kill a life will be purnished, it has been stated How precious life is in the Holy Book not even life of Muslims but life of everyone) so now you should analyse before been judgemental.

[buddcinder]

We are working on fixing the wrongs done to the blacks and natives. We have abolished slavery and we have given large amounts of land to the natives. We give our native special hunting and fishing and logging rights.

When westerners start to migrate to your country in huge numbers then you can speak about how bad it is here.

Why are so many muslims coming to our country if we treat people sooo bad.

[beancube2008]

Well, religions are always selfish. Ours must be the selfish because it try to make us the right one.

[cangeloc127]

If Paul Marshall's defense of the freedom to choose a belief system for oneself alerts us to the genuinely oppressive regimes of Islam, then leave it to me to support his continual attempt to bring attention to this matter, or vice-versa.