Free speech divides United Nations

The annual U.N. General Assembly meeting, which is intended to celebrate the world's common values, this year is exposing instead the gulf between Western and Islamic perspectives on freedom of expression, posing an unexpected challenge for President Obama when he speaks here Tuesday.

Prompted by the anti-Islam video produced in California that has stirred deadly riots around the world, delegations from major Muslim nations have arrived at the U.N. prepared to demand international curbs on speech or media that they believe defame their religion or the prophet Muhammad.

Western leaders say they won't give ground on free speech, but the clash is souring the mood at a gathering that diplomats had hoped would yield new collaboration on Syria, the dispute over Iran's nuclear development and the challenges newly elected governments face a year after the "Arab Spring" toppled authoritarian rulers in the Middle East and North Africa.

The demand for limits on anti-Muslim expression is coming from leading Islamic groups such as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and leaders as diverse as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004047180339 John Adams

I guess they don't want anyone to know about the violence and pedophelia of their "prophet".
mesaman

All the more reason for us to "free" ourselves from the clutches of a bogus, sinister organization which has the encapability of offering peaceful solutions to the most trivial international arguments.
I say to congress and the senate, stop all US funding of the UN, evict them from New York and the US, and send them to another nation, such as Khazakstan or Tajikistan.
- mallen11
  
  I agree and have said that for many years. There are other countries who wants the UN to move there and they should. They are are corrupt and take advantage of our laws to commit all types of crimes as well as spying.
aray

Why does it say there is 1 comment and below it says no one has commented yet? Who is censoring this site?
mallen11

I saw the film and of course the muslim world (including -0) is going to be upset because it tells the truth about their religion. It is my belief that the film had nothing to do regarding the riots on Sept. 11, 2012.
Evermyrtle

Why is it the Christians are not ready to fight for our faith and I d not meant to riot and kill, but just stand fast and refuse to allow our selves be bullied or shamed about out faith.
bigbadude

is the UN mostly muslims? explains why freedom is vanishing they hate us and our freedoms.
hey aren't we fighting them have they ever been friendly twards us from the halls of montzuma to the shores of tripple e
DonL

Why do you continue the lie that the video caused the riots and killing.
This was only and excuse to justify the killing and riots. It was 9/11.
Islam is a peaceful religion? What joike!!!!!
Muhammed was a killer, pedofile, womaniser and false prophet. This is historical fact.
Evidently the Muslims don't like the history of their leader who is now dead and buried.
On the other hand Jesus is lived, died to pay for the sin of mankind and rose from the dead and is alive today. Christians do not kill or riot because someone said something negative about Jesus. We recognize that anything that negative that is said is either ignorance or blasphemy so we try to teach and correct the ignorance or identify the blasphemy as such, but we do not kill and riot.
Islam is the religion of Cain (see Genesis 4) who worshipped God his own way rather that the way God instructed him and was angry because God rejected his worship. When he talked to his brother Able about it (Able had worshipped God according to God's instructlons and was accepted), Cain rose up against his brother and killed him. Cain killed his brother because his own works were evil and his brothers were righteous.
The followers of Cain, uh Mohammed, do the same. There response to someone who tells them they are wrong is to kill them, just like Cain. Able';s response to Cain was to talk to him and instruct him in what he should do to worship God as God had instructed.