For those of you who Cherish Free Speech and the declaration of human Rights !
Here is the Trend:
1. (UNESCO) Islamic States Press for Limits on Free __Expression http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200604/INT20060421a.html
2. Egypt bans French, German papers for comments on Islam By Reuters http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060924/wl_nm/religion_egypt_ban_dc_1
3. OIC to revive news agency, TV network to counter Western ‘bias’ http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2006/September/theworld_September955.xml§ionfiltered=theworld
4. Muslims urged to buy influence in world media.. (Reuters) http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-09-13T142024Z_01_L13903592_RTRUKOC_0_UK-RELIGION-MEDIA-ISLAM.xml&src=rss
5. Mozart Opera Canceled Over a Depiction of Muhammad (NY Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/world/europe/27germany.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
2006-10-13 05:31:35 · 2 answers · asked by Vayu W 4 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
(UNESCO) Islamic States Press for Limits on Free __Expression http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200604/INT20060421a.html
In a drive pursued largely away from the headlines, the Organization for the Islamic Conference (OIC) is promoting the issue at the United Nations and European Union, and having some success.
" the note said, adding that respect for religious symbols and beliefs and freedom of _expression were "indissociable."
The UNESCO move is just the latest illustration of the way the OIC and its 56 member states are using the cartoon episode to apply pressure on the West to comply with Islamic norms.
- but made no balancing reference to freedom of speech.
2006-10-13 05:34:05 · update #1
Egypt bans French, German papers for comments on Islam By Reuters http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060924/wl_nm/religion_egypt_ban_dc_1
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has banned editions of two French and German newspapers, Le Figaro and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, because of articles deemed insulting to Islam, the state news agency MENA said on Sunday.
"They published articles which disparaged Islam and claimed that the Islamic religion was spread by the sword and that the prophet ... was the prophet of evil," it added.
The Egyptian agency said: "The minister of information said that he would not allow any publication that insults the Islamic religion or calls for hatred or contempt of any religion to be distributed inside Egypt ."
2006-10-13 05:34:59 · update #2
OIC to revive news agency, TV network to counter Western ‘bias’ http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2006/September/theworld_September955.xml§ionfiltered=theworld
KUALA LUMPUR — The world’s largest Islamic grouping would revive two Saudi Arabia-based news organisations to counter Western media’s “skewered view” of Islam, a Malaysian official said on Wednesday.
Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar, after a tour of Lebanon , recently complained images and stories displayed a bias toward Israel .
Zahid said Malaysia has offered to set up a center for journalists from Islamic countries, which would be funded by the OIC, the world’s largest political grouping of Muslim nations
Zainuddin said he met representatives from Cuba and Venezuela recently, and four Spanish-language journalists from South America would soon be based at the NAM News Network headquarters in Kuala Lumpur .
2006-10-13 05:35:26 · update #3
Muslims urged to buy influence in world media.. (Reuters) http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-09-13T142024Z_01_L13903592_RTRUKOC_0_UK-RELIGION-MEDIA-ISLAM.xml&src=rss
RIYADH (Reuters) - Muslim tycoons should buy stakes in global media outlets to help change anti-Muslim attitudes around the world, ministers from Islamic countries heard at a conference in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
"Muslim investors must invest in the large media institutions of the world, which generally make considerable profits, so that they have the ability to affect their policies via their administrative boards," OIC chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told the gathering in the Saudi city of Jeddah .
"The fierce attack on Islam in the five years since the September 11 attacks has forced us into a defensive position on our faith and understanding of our tolerant religion," Egyptian Information Minister Anas el-Feki said in a speech.
2006-10-13 05:35:55 · update #4
Mozart Opera Canceled Over a Depiction of Muhammad (NY Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/world/europe/27germany.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
BERLIN , Sept. 26 — A leading German opera house has canceled performances of a Mozart opera because of security fears stirred by a scene that depicts the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad, prompting a storm of protest here about what many see as the surrender of artistic freedom.
The disputed scene is not part of Mozart’s opera, but was added by the director, Hans Neuenfels. In it, the king of Crete , Idomeneo, carries the heads of Muhammad, Jesus, Buddha and Poseidon on to the stage, placing each on a stool.
The cancellation of the performances fanned a debate in Europe about whether the West is compromising values like free _expression to avoid stoking anger in the Muslim world.
2006-10-13 05:36:38 · update #5
Would a counter effort, concerning what is taught in madrases be worthy of presenting to the UN also? Perhaps even what appears in the Muslim media? Anyone wanting to see hate ^ insults can surely find them there. Not excluding the reprisals against Christians living in their lands.
2006-10-13 10:09:03 · answer #1 · answered by mrcricket1932 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
gee, go figure...
2006-10-13 12:36:12 · answer #2 · answered by slabsidebass 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋