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Nick Cohen: The awful squeal of fundamentalism

Posted by Margaret on Sunday, Mar 2, 2008

If the UN were to order us to ‘respect all political beliefs’, conservatives would say they weren’t prepared to respect communists, leftists would say they weren’t prepared to respect fascists and everyone else would burst out laughing. Yet the UN Human Rights Council is proposing in all seriousness to protect religion by doctoring its universal defence of freedom of expression.

Nick Cohen: The awful squeal of fundamentalism | Comment is free | The Observer.

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