The General Assembly

In the coming week the UN General Assembly will be meeting in New York. The UN will be meeting just two weeks after the 9/11 attacks on the US embassies and during the session they will be having a meeting on religious freedom. With the uproar caused throughout the Middle East over a supposed video that cast Mohammed in a bad light, will the UN look to ban all speech against Islam? Islam forbids anyone to make an image of any prophet, so this video offends the masses and the Muslim extremist use it as cover to spread their anti-western hate and violence.

Now back to the UN. On the 27 of September the UN will hold a high level meeting on religious freedom. I am concerned that the freedom of religion the UN is likely to side with is the right of the Muslims to be offended by someone's right to free speech. I look to see the UN try to outlaw any speech that is designed to inflame Muslims. So what does it matter to the US what the UN does? If the US doesn't sign then there is no problem however lets look at this logically because I believe the President will sign as a move of goodwill to appease the Muslim world.

- The US would sign it as the President knows the Senate would never ratify a treaty that limits freedom of speech. Once the treaty is rejected by the Senate, the US would not be bound by it within the US. However the rest of the world would treat US citizens as if it had been ratified because the US signed it. This would allow Muslims to hold Americans accountable for exercising their freedom of speech. So what sounds like a goodwill gesture will eventually limit our freedom of speech as Americans.

I know I sound very conspiracy theorist but that is my concern.