More than a dozen years ago, the Obama administration joined with Turkey’s despotic strongman, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and other sharia-supremacist regimes to craft United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution 16/18. The provision bound the concurring governments to enact laws that would prohibit speech or expression that could incite mere hostility to religion. And as should go without saying when it came to the Obama administration, there was only one religion under consideration for this special dispensation — Islam.
Many of us pointed out that an American codification of Resolution 16/18 would be unconstitutional. This was so patently true that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, playing point on the speech-suppression effort and planning a 2016 presidential run, had to backpedal. Finally, she vowed, law or no law, that the Obama administration would “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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