Iran: Obama can be sued in US courts under UN blasphemy law that he signed onto

Actually, it would be hilarious if Obama were to get extradited to Iran under UN laws that he endorsed, and then gets whatever treatment they give him.

“Article 18 and 27 of the ICCPR, adopted by the United Nation [sic], stipulate that the religion and the rights of the minorities should be respected,” Mohammadi said.

So if my religion (a very small minority, consisting of only myself) tells me I have to make a musical about the life of mohammed, these Articles will protect me?

That's nice!

And surely "the rights of minorities" includes free speech?

Bahais, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and virtually every other religion have many great cases against the blood-thirsty, perverted mullahs of Iran.

Notice this creep Mohammadi talks of "divine religions", which is islamo-speak for only Islam, Christianity and Judaism, and of course, the latter two are considered corrupted. All others are worse than corrupted, and can be extinguished outright, e.g., destroying Buddha statues in Afghanistan, Maldives, etc.

Who says Islam is a religion?

Tunisia’s interior ministry on Saturday (September 15th) vowed to apprehend those involved in the Friday attack on the US embassy in Tunis.

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Youssef

To call Islam a divine religion is an insult to the Almighty. One day heads will roll.

"customary reactions"!? I love it! Wasn't the Mohammed movie merely portraying these customary reactions? I saw a trailer and it showed angry mobs, killing of Christians and of Jews. These have been the exact 'customary reactions' ever since the darkening of the earth under the malevolent storm cloud that is Islam. Customary reactions indeed!!!

'Me Sioux Indian but no collect'...

Well, birthers have sued Rasool Obama over a hundred times and lost because they don't have 'standing'...Of course Mahoundians with hurt feelings may have standing under the 'hurt feeling law', that only applies to them...
Hurt feelings should be illegal under international law, no one should be allowed to be in possession of them, or to pass them on to others...Good luck with that lawsuit Mohammadi...Accusations of forgery, fraud, treason and ineligibility, fall on deaf ears with USA courts so far, but hurt feelings is different...If you can establish hurt feelings to the satisfaction of three psychiatrists, and find the right judge, you may just have the 'standing' needed....

Unfortunately I'm not familiar with American law. Is it possible, that some law the president signed can supercede the first amendment that is part of the constitution? I thought the constitution always supercedes, as it's the supreme law, the one the whole country is based on.

Obama is a moron and traitor to his country for signing that crap.

When Obama's thrown out of office, the UN should be torn down and turned into a garbage dump, it would be a better use of the property.
All of his illegal executive orders should be declared null and void.
Likewise for all of the Constitution violating treaties to which he's forged his name as President.

epistemology,

the short answer about the president signing some treaty to over rule the 1st amendment is NO. Treaties aren't binding unless approved by a 2/3 (67 votes) in the Senate and treaties are not allowed to limit the Bill of Rights.

I'm so sick of the media parroting the myth that the "anti-islam" movie was made by a Jew, that it is the cause of all the rioting, mayhem and murder, and that those savage rioters are a small minority of otherwise peace-loving people.

I'm sick of the outright and laughable LIES spouted by "islamic scholars" and government officials about how islam respects all religions.

I'm just so sick of islam in general.

I think the Egyptian Copt who made the movie should sue Egypt for the disrespect shown to Copts as a religious minority in Egypt. Think the ACLU would help him file this suit? (Yeah, sure.)

How about the Catholic Church -- and Evangelical communions that also find portions of Obamacare offensive to their beliefs -- suing Obama and/or HHS? Christians and Jews suing every imam who calls them descendants of apes and pigs?

Once again, yeah, sure. We know it's all lies and hypocrisy.

Bring it (this threatened lawsuit) on. I really want, and the country really needs, to know if a simple treaty can supercede the Constitution itself.

How very gracious of him. I am sure the Sunni will repay this statement of solidarity by blowing up a few less shiite pilgrims this year.

I just read a long article in the NYT explaining this alleged "offense" from the Muslim point of view and how they believe in Egypt the US has laws against people denying the Holocost, and therefore the US is selectively allowing the anti muslim film to go on --- blah, blah, blah.

For F---ks sake, what about all the Church burnings and Christians being killed in Muslim lands? I know death doesn't seem to matter to the fanatics, but wouldn't you have to think Jesus is being defamed by having crosses, churches, statues being torched. Is it not defamation that Saudi blocks any non Muslims period and any display of non Islamic religious items?

And I just love the way the NYT is very selective in what articles they leave open for comments and which ones they don't. You will never see and article on the Middle East open for comments because they obviously don't want to be called on this drivel.

“Protest against insults to religious sanctities should not be limited to time, place and (bold starts) customary reactions and we should undertake legal measures.” (bold ends)

Its clear this is a message but what does the message mean.

Protest against yada yada yada should not be limited to time.

Not limited by time?

Of course the idiocy part is:

That no government can be held accountable for the actions of their private citizens,bar none.

If I read this correctly we can sue the little frilly panties of every single country who's horrid denziens we've seen in Memri TV clips.

They win court cases with everything but the law But we have actually skilled lawyers who have legal educations that actually are worth the paper they are printed on.

While their diplomas might as well be thumbprints on bits of camel dung.

What's the problem with beating the crap out of them in the court room?

Shouldn't WE be making THEM afraid to mouth off?

Well "We the People" have no one to blame but "ourselves". That's right, we never should have elected Obama, but worse, while Obama committed impeachable offenses after impeachable offense (over 50 in the last 4-years),"we the people" stood with our thumbs up our backsides and did nothing.

Not when he went after our Second Amendment rights to gun ownership (back in 2010, Fast & Furious). Now, when our First Amendment rights are under fire I guess we will wave bye, bye to them!

What a pathetic people we are! To lazy to do anything but blogg away the "Greatest Country" that was ever formed.

I'm ashammed!

First, just because the Obama administration signed it, doesn't make it US law. It must first be ratified by the Senate. Second, it cannot conflict with or override the Constitution. However, I suspect Obama (the great "Constitutional scholar") thinks differently.

It occurs to me that when I quote some of the hateful, disgusting, or stupid statements from the Koran or Hadith, I can be accused of blaspheming and insulting Muhammad. Would this not mean that Islam blasphemes against itself and that every mulah/immam can be charged with a crime against Islam under this treaty? (Disclaimer: this is just a legal question. It is not intended to cause a chain of riots, murder, and mayhem throughout Muslim countries by the tolerant religion of peace.)

Muhammadanism is a cult whose members believe that their hero was an ideal human being. But the media has the talent to change that image and portray Muhammad as vile and perverted. In less than a decade the cult would be without membership, the enlightened would jump ship because they had no desire for being associated with a pedophile.

"Mohammadi heaped praise on the Muslims for their massive protests against the movie" ..

Okay couldn't criminal charges be brought against Mohammadi for inciting more violence?

I forgot to mention that even after a treaty is ratified by the Senate, congress must still pass laws to implement a treaty before it will have an affect on US citizen (at least in side the US). This is why you shouldn't vote for any democrat for congress, and be very careful about the republican candidate.

A question that always comes to mind when reading these kinds of articles; if this blasphemy law was passed at the UN shouldn't this be good news to all of us? I mean can't we sue Islam at a whole using the very same law since all what it does is denigrates all other religions? Isn't that blasphemy from our perspective?

Robert would appreciate your input on this.

The First Amendment will never go down to a challenge like this. In some technical legal sense it might be theoretically possible for the First Amendment to be sacrificed to a treaty. But in reality there's no way in current circumstances. Perhaps it could happen if a WMD disaster occurs, or it could happen in a generation, when the world may be unrecognizable to us. But now? No way. Most of the American people would perceive that as Islam doing to the Bill of Rights what it did to lower Manhattan on 9/11/01.

I'd like to see the president sued under international law for blasphemy. Though the suit would not have even a slight chance of succeeding in the current circumstances, it would bring into greater public awareness the totalitarian character of Islam.

Antisemitism is against the Jewish people - in reflection of the death camps that existed in Europe WWII - Islamophobia is about Islam - a religious ideology - a body of ideas - that are in the Muslim world imposed on others unjustly. Which is a crime against humanity.

Which they dream of the day when we will live under these same inhumane conditions one day.

In addition - Erdogan has stated that "no Muslim can commit a genocide" - in callus disregard for the lives of the Ottoman Christians - and all the evidence that shows millions were slaughtered in his country - by the Turkish government!!

"Turks Protest Against the Film 'Innocence of Muslims'"

http://stopturkey.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/turks-protest-against-film-innocence-of.html

These guys are not looking down the road. If they want to make governments responsible for the ill-treatment of other religions, they are opening up a hugely embarrassing can of worms here. If they succeed in prosecuting this youtube guy, they are going to have to answer to all the myriad abuses of other religions in every majority Muslim country in the world.

But I do like how he tried to quality the charge, saying the Islam respect all the DIVINE religions out there. LOL HE will decide which religion makes the cut into the "divine" category, and HE is the guy talking smack about bad-mouthing other faiths.

"Article 18 and 27 of the ICCPR, adopted by the United Nation [sic], stipulate that the religion and the rights of the minorities should be respected"

Is that a direct quote? If it is BO could be in trouble.

I do wonder though if the USA interprets this to mean the rights of the PEOPLES rights are to be respected, not the fantasies/belief systems of people.

Thanks to all who've enlightened me on the subject. I see clearer now, and in spite of all the qualms you might have, I can assure you, the U.S. is much better off than Europe.

In terms of Islamic invasion Europe is a sinking ship. Obviously for the Americans being a people who once fought for their freedom, it's a highly cherished good. You won't give it up. When I look at Britain and Germany, my heart sinks. In England they've got three sharia zones, Bradford, Dewsbury and Tower Hamlets which is right in the centre of London. In Germany the minister of the interior the same man who launched the "missed" campaign against Islamic terrorists wants to ban the the movie. The foreign secretary who is gay, that means he'd be one of the first victims, if Islam takes over, wants to ban pastor Terry Jones from entering the country. It's preposterous. They all suck up to Islam.

My hope is in France, the country of enlightenment. The French banned the burqa and the full veil and I hope they carry on.

As the Brits would say "Piss Off".