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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsIslamic "Human Rights" at the UN
By Ed Brayton
Austin Dacey and Colin Koproske have an important article in the latest issue of Free Inquiry, a Humanist journal, about a drive to pass a Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights (UIDHR). The article is a condensed version of a longer report called Islam and Human Rights: Defending Universality at the United Nations (PDF). Dacey and Koproske argue, quite correctly in my view, that the world needs to stand up in opposition to a movement from Islamic countries to transform resolutions that declare the need to protect individual rights into resolutions protecting a collective right of Islam to violate individual rights. And they're doing so largely through slight-of-hand.
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