Those Islamic countries pushing for a binding resolution making any criticism of the Islamic actions as heresy against the Koran and Islamic culture are directly threatening the most basic of human rights, the right of free expression. This right has been won through fair evolutionary democratic developments in our history. Our secular parliaments guarantee us this right and protect it. our democracies are created by us, the voters, and express the will of the people.The Islamic position is the imposition of dictatorial and authoritarian imposition of a theocratically based culture and politics. A clash of civilizations is looming and appears to be imminent.

I believe that these Islamic authorities have mistimed their drive. Only Pakistan has nuclear weapons.at present. That is why Iran is in a frenzy to develop its own to add to the nuclear arsenal to back up their demands. They have developed a death love and dont mind becoming martyrs as a quick way of going tio paradise. We dont embrace that option. We need to see clearly the underlying apocalyptic scenario and take steps to counter it forcibly.

There must be NO COMPROMIOSE OF OUR RIGHTS AND DEMOCRATIC IDEALS.

I have no idea how a human rights activist thinks. However, Muslim nations hijacking the UN with Jew hatred is easily explained. Dr Andrew Bostom, author of The Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism:

"When I put together the Koranic verses on the Jews," he continues, "they read like an indictment, prosecution and conviction. It was virulently anti-Semitic. Going into the hadith and the histories of Muhammad - where his assassination is attributed to a Khybar Jewess, for example - only strengthened this conviction.

"So when I juxtaposed that with the notion that there was no theological anti-Semitism in Islam, it was stunning. It's just so in-your-face that to claim that the foundational sources don't create anti-Semitism or aren't inherently anti-Semitic... it's absurd."

Forced conversions, rapes, pogroms, the wholesale slaughter of Jews in North Africa during the Almohad invasions of the 12th century and innumerable other incidents catalogued in The Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism attest that this Jew hatred was more than a literary holdover of Muhammad's contempt for the Jews for rejecting his prophecies. Bostom also makes it plain that, with common motifs spanning from North Africa to India, from the eighth century to the 21st century and from Sunnis to Shi'ites and Sufis as well, anti-Semitism cannot be explained by cultural influences but is, in fact, inherently Islamic.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1213794275309&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

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More from Dr Andrew Bostom on Islamic anti-Semitism:

The recent annihilationist sentiments regarding Jews, as expressed by Hamas cleric al-Zarad, are also rooted in Islamic eschatology [end of times theology], and incorporated permanently into the foundational 1988 Hamas Covenant. As characterized in the hadith (the words, deeds, and even unspoken gestures of Muhammad as ostensibly recorded by his earliest pious Muslim companions), Muslim eschatology highlights the Jews' supreme hostility to Islam. Jews are described as adherents of the Dajjâl -- the Muslim equivalent of the Anti-Christ -- or according to another tradition, the Dajjâl is himself Jewish. At his appearance, other traditions maintain that the Dajjâl will be accompanied by 70,000 Jews from Isfahan wrapped in their robes, and armed with polished sabers, their heads covered with a sort of veil. When the Dajjâl is defeated, his Jewish companions will be slaughtered- everything will deliver them up except for the so-called gharkad tree, as per the canonical hadith (Sahih Muslim, Book 41, Number 6985) included in the 1988 Hamas Covenant (in article 7). ...

Hamas' views on the jihad against Israel, and Islamic Jew hatred, are entirely concordant with those of the most authoritative religious educational institution within Sunni Islam-Al Azhar University, in Cairo, Egypt.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/confronting_hamas_genocidal_je.html

Irfan,

I know that there are Arab/Israelis, and they are treated much better than they would be in Muslim countries.

But, how many of them make up your “fair chunk”?

You don’t know, do you? Just like you couldn’t answer my question about the numbers of Muslim terrorists and the numbers of non-Muslim terrorists.

What sort of a lawyer would accuse Manny Waks and others of ‘libel’ if he couldn’t prove that most terrorists were not Muslims?

Leigh, the onus is on you to provide evidence that the vast majority of terrorists are persons who are of Muslim faith, heritage and/or background. You need to provide evidence that you have with you a comprehensive list of all terrorists, and that you have checked the background of each terrorist.

Alternatively, you need to provide evidence that you have compiled a comprehensive list of each terrorist act. You then need to show that the majority of these acts are committed by persons of Muslim faith and/or background and/or heritage.

In addition to this, you need to provide a definition of terrorism that is universally accepted.

Once you've done all that, we can talk about the alleged religious affiliations of terrorists. Without such evidence, your claims about terrorism are reflective of little more than your own prejudices.

While you're at it, Leigh, you might define what you mean by the term "Muslim".