Tag: UN Human Rights Council
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U.N. votes to criminalise the desecration ‘holy books’ in a move slammed as imposing ‘blasphemy laws by stealth’
MEMBERS of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) this week voted in favour of a resolution for the “deliberately and publicly” burning of the Quran or “any other holy book” to be prohibited by law. The UK-based National Secular Society (NSS)—which, along with Humanists UK, played a key role in the abolition of blasphemy laws…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 