Proposed Global Ban on Blasphemy

Wonderful security protocol you're using there. (Insert rolly-eyed emoticon here.)

So what if you INTEND to incite but nobody bites? Aren't you still guilty of intent to incite?

This is a ridiculous conversation

The filmmaker could be prosecuted under U.S. law only if there is evidence that he conspired to provoke violence with the film (probably very difficult to prove).

Edit: I mean, unless he's saying, "Go home, get your guns, we're gonna kill all the sons-of bitches." kind of thing

....if they shared the fact that they expect their hate speech to provoke a violent reaction. Evidence would include correspondence, e-mails, recorded conversations where the person states he expects that his message will cause violence.

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....if they shared the fact that they expect their hate speech to provoke a violent reaction. Evidence would include correspondence, e-mails, recorded conversations where the person states he expects that his message will cause violence.

So let me get this straight if you expected ahead of time that there is a real chance that by your exercising your free speech rights would cause someone to riot that should end stop your rights to express your opinions?

You are for giving mobs of people in other nations the power to stop free speech rights in the US under pusnishment of law?

Not merely "a real chance" but actual evidence that you are conspiring to cause violence through your message. This would be very hard to prove.

UN must implement resolutions against blasphemy: OIC
(PressTV.com, October 1, 2012)

The secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has called on the United Nations and Human Rights Council (HRC) to implement their resolutions against religious defamation.

Speaking to Turkish reporters in New York on Sunday, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu referred to the resolutions approved by the UN and the HRC that ban insulting religions, saying “These laws must be implemented.”

The UN General Assembly and the Human Rights Council have passed two resolutions that ban insult against religions, he added.

The remarks by Ihsanoglu come amid the growing global outrage over a US-made movie that insults Prophet Mohammad. The anger was further fueled by sacrilegious cartoons published in a French magazine.

The OIC foreign ministers recently adopted a resolution against the recent profane movie and the blasphemous caricatures.

The resolution termed these acts of profanity as a violation of freedom of speech and “sheer acts of incitement to hatred, discrimination and hostility towards Muslims, their peaceful religion Islam and the Holy Prophet Mohammad.”

Muslims in Iran, Turkey, Sudan, Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Pakistan, India, Iraq, Gaza, Morocco, Syria, Kuwait, Nigeria, Kenya, Australia, Britain, the United States, France, Belgium, and some other countries have held many demonstrations to condemn the blasphemous film.

The angry protesters demand an apology by the US government over the anti-Islam movie.

The American-made anti-Islam movie is said to have been made with the help of the Zionist donations totaling USD five million.

The American-made anti-Islam movie is said to have been made with the help of the Zionist donations totaling USD five million.

Both the film and the cartoons are malicious and deliberately provocative. The film in particular provides a disgracefully distorted image of Muslims. The High Commissioner said she fully understands why people wish to protest strongly against the film, and the same goes for the cartoons, and it is their right to do so, but peacefully. She also utterly condemned the killings in Benghazi. Some 30 people in all are now believed to have died in events linked to the film. And there have been other violent and destructive reactions. The High Commissioner urged religious and political leaders to make a major effort to restore calm. We welcome the fact that a number of senior Muslim figures have been making similar statements about the need to rise above the provocations.

The film and cartoons are the latest in a string of deliberately provocative acts or products targeting particular religions and their followers – several of which have led to similar violent reactions and killings. The High Commissioner said that sometimes the best way to deal with such provocations was to ignore them. “Deliberate and obnoxious acts of this type should be deprived of the oxygen of publicity,” she said. Given what happened last week, and the fact that people are being killed, Charlie Hebdo is doubly irresponsible to publish these cartoons.

As both the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner have stated, the fault line is not between Muslim and non-Muslim societies, but between a small number of extremists on different sides, with a vested interest in stirring hostility and conflict.

In March 2011, the Human Rights Council passed a unanimous resolution (Res 16/18) that provides a comprehensive road map for a coordinated national and international effort to ensure that certain rights and freedoms are not misused to undermine other rights and freedoms. In addition, over the years, a number of human rights mechanisms have contributed to efforts to clarify where the lines should be drawn between free speech and hate speech.

Essentially the debate revolves around Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (freedom of expression) and Article 20 (which is about incitement to hatred). Since October 2008, the High Commissioner for Human Rights has been spearheading a global effort to promote a legal framework based on international human rights standards to discuss freedom of expression and the need to enforce the prohibition of incitement to national, racial or religious hatred.

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