Posted by: Nizar on: March 8, 2009
No thanks, I am not prepared nor willing to live a life were I am not allowed to question or think critically of topics concerning religions, nor allowed to express my opinions and views on these topics publicly.
Keep your Sharia laws to yourselves and your likes.
UN Declaration of Human Rights was never extended to Arabs so it means nothing for us to change it or abolish it or shove it. it’s a non issue actually. it’s not like we enjoy freedom of speech in Jordan. but if some people’s definition of freedom is to offend other people and their religious beliefs than i am happy to know that they will have less of this freedom. it seems Jordan and the Arab world is developing a new class of parasites who don’t see progress as defined by democracy, equality, human rights, technology, social justice but instead to them progress is sex, drugs, and adulation of corrupt dictators.
Tania: ‘offending’ is relative. Some religious groups get offended if you merely question their religion. So now we can’t question either? It seems to me that religion can no longer defend itself in the face of new scientific discoveries (and even old ones) so it is hiding behind the cloak of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
March 9, 2009 at 2:14 am
I think it is disgusting that the UN is actually going ahead with this. Does this mean they are going to crack down on websites? Freedom of expression is no longer part of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, what next, the UN Declaration of Human Rights being completely and utterly abolished?
The UN was established as a neutral body, and now it is merely a body there to appease religious nations.
I will not be oppressed by the United Nations and by those countries who voted this ridiculous amendment to the Declaration of Human Rights.