...you were
wrong. Wielding the power of a 57-country voting bloc, Muslim countries led by Pakistan introduced and passed a non-binding resolution through the UN Human Rights Council (note the irony) aimed at protecting religion, in particular, Islam, from criticism. It's fairly obvious why totalitarian Islamic theocracies would want to proscribe freedom of speech within their borders. Attempting to extend such repressive measures toward secular, pluralist democracies, however, should sound an alarm. The resolution states that "Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with terrorism." Meanwhile, a suicide bomber killed 50 people praying in mosque in Pakistan
today. Fun.
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