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source: http://malaysia-today.net/blog2006/holds.php?itemid=2916

How many Islamic countries have signed this Universal Declaration of
Human Rights mooted by the UN in 1948? Even amongst those who have
signed, how many actually observe them? The most blatant violators of
human rights are the so-called Islamic States. Has Malaysia signed
this Declaration? I was informed that Malaysia did not sign it. And
Malaysia is supposed to be an Islamic country. And Ayatollah Mahmoud
Hashemi Shahroud made his announcement at the Palace of Justice in
Purtrajaya, the administrative capital of the Islamic country of
Malaysia. And Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroud wants Iran and Saudi
Arabia to spearhead the move to establish Islamic Human Rights. Iran
and Saudi Arabia are two of the most blatant abusers of human rights.
It is like Madonna, a one-time porn star, spearheading a move to ban
pre-marital sex.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights comes in 30 articles. Let us
look at just some of these (you can view the whole document on the
internet if you wish):

Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and
rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act
towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman
or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 9: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or
exile.

Article 10: Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public
hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination
of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11 (1): Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to
be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public
trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his
defence.

Article 18: Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience
and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or
belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in
public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching,
practice, worship and observance.

Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and
expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without
interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas
through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20 (1): Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly
and association.

Yes, these are just a few of the 30 articles. But most Muslim
countries, Malaysia included, violate almost every one of them. We
refuse to sign and endorse the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human
Right. Now we want to set up an Islamic Declaration of Human Rights.
In what way is the Islamic Declaration of Human Rights better than the
'kafir' Universal Declaration of Human Rights established by the UN in
1948? And what is wrong with the UN Declaration that we refuse to sign
it? And why, even when we sign it, do we violate it? Then we say that
the UN Declaration is not Islamic enough and we need a better, Islamic
one. Can you see how Islam is the one that gets the bad name whereas
it is almost like the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights was
'stolen' from the Quran? It is already Islamic. Just adopt these and
do not violate them. That would be the Islamic thing to do

Muslims must first stop stereotyping themselves before they can expect
non-Muslims or the west to stop stereotyping them. As long as they
continue invoking the name of Islam in everything that they say and
do, that will be how long Islam is stereotyped. The problem is not the
non-Muslims or the west. The problem is the Muslims themselves. And my
flue is still bad and I have just taken my second anti-histamine and
feel really very groggy -- so I think I am going to sleep it off now
and allow the Islamists to whack me to kingdom come for what I just
wrote.