* UN body says only religious scholars should be allowed to discuss
matters of faith
GENEVA: Muslim countries have won a battle to prevent Islam from being criticised during debates by the UN Human Rights Council. Religions deserve special protection because any debate about faith is bound to be “very complex, very sensitive and very intense”, council President Doru-Romulus Costea said Wednesday.
Scholars: Only religious scholars should be allowed to discuss matters of faith, he told journalists in Geneva.
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Most folks I know are crying foul about this. Me? I think it’s great.
UN: Mr. Ambassador, why does your country mutilate the genetalia of its children and brutually murder its women?
Ambassador: This is a religious issue and we shall not make a comment on it.
UN: Very well, if you have no reply for why you are comitting these human rights violations, I hereby vote to have you removed from the United Nations.
Ambassador: No! This is religious discrimination.
UN: I’m sorry, Ambassador, but we are not allowed to discuss your religion here in the UN. All in favor?