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2015-03-12 International-UN-NGOs
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Islamic States Reproach UN Human Rights Expert Over Islam-Violence Link
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Maybe we need a category called "Root of the Problem"?
[CNSNEWS] A U.N. human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
expert unsettled some delegates when he delivered a report to the Human Rights Council this week on "violence in the name of religion," prompting several Islamic countries' representatives to reproach him for not being more emphatic in separating terrorism from Islam.
In his report, Heiner Bielefeldt examined what he called "root causes, factors and political circumstances" of the problem, beginning with "narrow-minded interpretations of religion." (Others included "loss of trust in public institutions" and "policies of exclusion.")
Although the 23-page report did not once use the term Islam or Islamic (except in two footnotes, one referring to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, and the other to Islamic Relief Worldwide), it dealt in some depth with issues and phenomena often associated with Islamic actors, including:
--extrajudicial executions (" 'archaic' acts of cruelty seem to be cynically 'staged' in order to cater to modern media voyeurism") -- a clear reference to filmed ISIS beheadings;
--"mass expulsions, enslavement or systematic destruction of certain communities";
--disproportionate targeting of "religious dissidents, members of religious minorities or converts";
-- attacks against women "whose ways of life are deemed 'immoral' from the standpoint of certain narrowly defined religious codes of conduct";
--Honor killings, forced conversions and forced marriage;
"Acts of violence in the name of religion frequently target individuals or groups branded as infidels, apostates, heretics or blasphemous," Bielefeldt told the HRC. "The likelihood of violent attacks typically increases sharply when such 'offenses' are enshrined in criminal codes."
Those who speak out against the abuse of religion to justify violence are themselves at risk of being accused of betrayal or blasphemy, he said.
After the presentation by Bielefeldt -- a German professor of human rights who serves as the council's "special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief" -- numerous countries' delegates responded to his report and remarks, with some pushing back against the inferred focus on Islam.
"My delegation says that Islam is innocent of all violence and terrorism practiced in the name of religion," said Saudi representative Khaled al-Manzlawiy.
Referring to an appeal in the report for governments to issue quick and unequivocal condemnations of acts of violence perpetrated in the name of religion, he said the king of Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
had done precisely that in a speech last February, and said Bielefeldt should be "guided" by that.
Pointing to a recommendation in the report for countries to repeal blasphemy, anti-conversion and other discriminatory laws, including those based on religious law, al-Manzlawiy said the kingdom "refuses all these recommendations and it's not acceptable."
"Islam is our constitution," he said. "My delegation believes that the special rapporteur through the recommendations he has made has gone beyond his mandate." 
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