Capitalizing on the Muhammad cartoon riots and Western anxieties over the persecution of Muslims, the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution urging member states to prosecute for “religious defamation.” Problem is, those likely to suffer most are religious minorities.
Austin Dacey
Austin Dacey is a contributing editor at Religion Dispatches and the author of The Future of Blasphemy: Speaking of the Sacred in an Age of Human Rights. He is currently a senior consultant to the Youth Free Expression Program at the National Coalition Against Censorship.
