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GENEVA - 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."
Some Western media outlets have come under the spotlight for their treatment on issues relating to Islam.
Danish newspapers have been criticized for printing cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohammed.
On Sunday, an American network provider said it suspended a website that Dutch MP Geert Wilders had reserved to post his anti-Islamic film, which has sparked wide condemnation and fears of a backlash.
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.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storyPage.aspx?storyId=113284
Agence France-Presse
GENEVA - 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."
Some Western media outlets have come under the spotlight for their treatment on issues relating to Islam.
Danish newspapers have been criticized for printing cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohammed.
On Sunday, an American network provider said it suspended a website that Dutch MP Geert Wilders had reserved to post his anti-Islamic film, which has sparked wide condemnation and fears of a backlash.
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.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storyPage.aspx?storyId=113284