Christian author says UN resolution against criticism of Islam a farce

Christian author says UN resolution against criticism of Islam a farce

A Christian author says the United Nations' call for a global prohibition on the public defamation of Islam is "a joke." The resolution recently approved by the U.N. Human Rights Council "expresses deep concern at attempts to identify Islam with terrorism, violence and human rights violations."

The resolution was authored by the Organization of the Islamic Conference, which claims there has been a "campaign" of defamation against Muslim minorities and the Islamic religion since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States. The measure was pushed through by Muslim nations still angry over the publication of cartoons in a Danish newspaper depicting Islam founder Mohammed.

Dave Hunt is author of the book Judgment Day! Israel, Islam and the Nations (The Berean Call, 2006). He says the statement by the U.N. Human Rights Council affirms the world will tolerate anything except truth.

"Every day in Muslim countries around the world, there are cartoons far worse," Hunt contends. "They depict Jews as Nazis, even; as vermin, as rats," he says. "They're anti-Christian, anti-West, and these hypocrites have the audacity to complain and riot and kill because of some mild cartoons -- really very mild -- in a Danish newspaper."

The Christian author feels no credence should be given to the resolution passed by the U.N. Human Rights Council, which condemns "attempts to identify Islam with terrorism, violence and human rights violations." He says Muslims cannot provide him with one example of an instance in which their religion has brought peace.

Islam is violence, Hunt asserts. "It takes over by the sword," he says. "They're doing it in Indonesia, burning down churches. They've burned down more than 3,000 churches in the last three years in Indonesia. It's happening everywhere.

"And what are they doing in Iraq?" the author continues. "They're killing one another, the Sunnis and Shiites," he says. "And they say this is not Islam -- that Islam should not be associated with violence?"

Hunt says there ought to be "an international cry of outrage against Islam and what it does."