> > The Muslim religion makes unusually large claims for itself. All religions > do this, of course, in that they claim to know and to be able to interpret > the wishes of a supreme being. But Islam affirms itself as the last and > final revelation of God's word, the consummation of all the mere glimpses of > the truth vouchsafed to all the foregoing faiths, available by way of the > unimprovable, immaculate text of "the recitation," or Quran. > > If there sometimes seems to be something implicitly absolutist or even > totalitarian in such a claim, it may result not from a fundamentalist > reading of the holy book but from the religion itself. And it is the > so-called mainstream Muslims, grouped in the Organization of the Islamic > Conference, who are now demanding through the agency of the United Nations > that Islam not only be allowed to make absolutist claims but that it also be > officially shielded from any criticism of itself. > > Though it is written tongue-in-cheek in the language of human rights and of > opposition to discrimination, the nonbinding U.N. Resolution 62/154, on > "Combating defamation of religions," actually seeks to extend protection not > to humans but to opinions and to ideas, granting only the latter immunity > from being "offended." The preamble is jam-packed with hypocrisies that are > hardly even laughable, as in this delicious paragraph, stating that the U.N. > General Assembly: >
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