(weaselzippers.us) Via WaTi:
. . .Sec. Clinton’s statement on Thursday bring to light her address to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) after the UN’s Human Rights Council passed resolution 16/18. The resolution was heavily promoted as a method to “combat religious intolerance.” In her remarks, Mrs. Clinton said:
The Human Rights Council has given us a comprehensive framework for addressing this issue on the international level. But at the same time, we each have to work to do more to promote respect for religious differences in our own countries. In the United States, I will admit, there are people who still feel vulnerable or marginalized as a result of their religious beliefs. And we have seen how the incendiary actions of just a very few people, a handful in a country of nearly 300 million, can create wide ripples of intolerance. We also understand that, for 235 years, freedom of expression has been a universal right at the core of our democracy. So we are focused on promoting interfaith education and collaboration, enforcing antidiscrimination laws, protecting the rights of all people to worship as they choose, and to use some old-fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming, so that people don’t feel that they have the support to do what we abhor.
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