Media News - Friday, March 28, 2008
UN rights council deplores media portrayal of Islam
The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday passed a resolution deploring the use of the media to ‘incite acts of violence, xenophobia or related intolerance and discrimination towards Islam’ or other religions. The resolution was adopted by 21 of the council's 47 member states, while 14 abstained and 10 states objected, including Slovenia on behalf of the European Union. Speaking out against the resolution, Slovenia's representative noted that a point on defamation of religions had an ‘inherently one-sided explicit reference to Islam.’ The council's resolution expressed ‘grave concern at the recent serious instances of deliberate stereotyping of religions, their adherents and sacred persons in the media and by political parties and groups in some societies, and at the associated provocation and political exploitation.’ It also expressed deep concern at attempts to identify Islam with terrorism, violence and human rights violations. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)
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