In calling for this, Khan is echoing Turkey’s Erdogan, who called for the same thing last Tuesday. Khan and Erdogan want the UN to criminalize criticism of Islam in the guise of acting against “hate speech” and “Islamophobia.” “Islamophobia” is a propaganda term that is used for two unrelated phenomena: vigilante attacks against innocent Muslims, which are never justified, and honest analysis of the motivating ideology behind jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others. The goal of this conflation is to inhibit such analysis and intimidate people into thinking it’s wrong to oppose jihad terror. And it’s working great. This agreement is meant not to “remove misunderstandings,” but to increase them, and to foster ignorance and complacency in the guise of educating people so that they won’t victimize innocent Muslims, which every civilized person knows not to do already.
“Pakistan PM Cites Noam Chomsky, Demands Global Blasphemy Laws at U.N.,” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, September 25, 2020:
Islamist Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan urged the United Nations to support the “universal outlaw[ing]” of criticism, mockery, or other expression deemed offensive to Muslims in his address to the General Assembly Friday.
Like fellow Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey did during his speech on Tuesday, Khan called for the creation of an international day against “Islamophobia.” He further asserted that the Chinese coronavirus pandemic had “accentuated” alleged discrimination against Muslims.
Khan also cited leftist writer Noam Chomsky to make the case that the rise of “authoritarian regimes,” in which he did not appear to include his own, had made the world more dangerous today than it was prior to the two modern world wars.
The Christian aid group Open Doors ranks Pakistan the fifth most dangerous country in the world for Christians, both due to its legalized capital punishment for those convicted of “blasphemy” and for mob killings of those accused of speaking ill of Islam, which the Pakistani government typically fails to prosecute. While Pakistan has never executed anyone convicted of blasphemy, verbal disagreement or criticism of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, is punishable by death. Desecration of the Quran or generalized “blasphemy” can result in death sentences or life in prison.
A Pakistani court sentenced a Christian man, Asif Pervaiz, to death last week for alleged “blasphemous” texts, which the man denied sending. Pervaiz’s lawyer has argued that Pervaiz never spoke ill of Islam but did politely reject his boss’s demands that he convert to the faith.
Khan did not address the widespread persecution of Christians, who have existed in the land constituting modern Pakistan long before its Islamic population, during his address on Friday. Khan did attack European nations for tolerating the expression of sentiments offensive to him.
The Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Khan said, has “accentuated Islamophobia.”
“Muslims continue to be targeted with impunity in many countries … incidents in Europe, including republication of blasphemous sketches by Charlie Hebdo, are recent examples,” Khan said, referring to the French satirical magazine that lost 12 people to a jihadist massacre in 2015. French police are treating a machete attack that occurred hours before Khan’s speech near the offices of the magazine as potential terrorism.
“We stress that willful provocations and incitement to hate and violence must be universally outlawed,” Khan said on behalf of Pakistan. “This Assembly should declare an ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’ and build a resilient coalition to fight this scourge — scourge that splits humanity.”
Khan launched an international campaign to criminalize free expression in the cases of alleged blasphemy in 2018, shortly after taking the reins of the country.
“Pakistan will spearhead a campaign for an international declaration against the defamation of religions,” Khan said at the time, explaining that its goal would be to “prevent people using freedom of speech as a cover for hurting the religious sentiments of Muslims around the world. Pakistan will spearhead the signing of this convention and make using freedom of speech to commit blasphemy a crime.”
Khan more generally warned the assembly that, in his estimation, the world was at high risk for global conflict.
“Today, the foundations of ‘world order’ — non-use of or threat of unilateral force, self-determination of peoples, the sovereign equality and territorial integrity of States, non-interference in their internal affairs, international cooperation — all these ideals are being systematically eroded,” Khan said.
“According to respected professor Noam Chomsky, mankind is at even a greater risk than it was before the 1st and 2nd World Wars in the last century,” he contended, “because of the increased threat of nuclear war, climate change, and sadly the rise of authoritarian regimes. We must come together to prevent such a catastrophe.”…