Christopher Hitchens warns about the UN's attempt to criminalize opposition to Islam.

Christopher Hitchens takes on the UN's attempt to criminalize any opinions that differ with Islam. Hitchens quotes paragraph 6 of the UN resolution that "[n]otes with deep concern the intensification of the campaign of defamation of religions and the ethnic and religious profiling of Muslim minorities in the aftermath of the tragic events of 11 September 2001."

No one defames a religion by merely quoting the hate spouted by its preachers and the murders perpetrated by their followers in the name of the faith. Rather than attacking non-Muslims who oppose violence committed by Muslims, the UN and Muslims in general should demand that such violence end.

I don't see many Methodist preachers calling on Methodists to blow themselves up to kill some Muslims. I see continual calls by Muslim preachers for the faithful to kill Jews and Christians in the name of Muhammad. Aren't the Muslim preachers engaging in defamation of the religion of Islam far more than Christians' pointing to actual violence perpetrated by Muslims?

Why don't the UN and Muslims take on the Muslim preachers for their identification of Islam and Muhammad with beheadings and murder of non-Muslims? Of course, if they took such action, they would have to begin with the Islamic traditions that describe Muhammad as a murderer and leader of thieves and murderers. They would have to take on the Qur'an that calls for continual war against Christians and Jews.