- As Dr. Andrew Bostom says:
The 1990 Cairo Declaration, or so-called Universal Declaration of
Human Rights in Islam, was drafted and subsequently ratified by all
members of the OIC. Both the preamble and concluding articles (24 and - make plain that the OICʼs [Organisation of Islamic Conference] Cairo
Declaration is designed to supersede Western Conceptions of Human
Rights as enunciated, for example, in the US bill of Rights and the United
Nationʼs 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The opening
preamble to the Cairo Declaration repeats a Koranic injunction affirming
Islamic supremacism... -- Andrew Bostom, (2012) Sharia Versus
Freedom: the Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism, New York, p.141.
The OIC represents all the Muslim countries in the world. The Cairo
Declaration makes it clear that Muslims place sharia law above universal
human rights. Sharia law systematically discriminates against non-
Muslims and legalizes slavery (something rejected outright by the
Universal Declaration). This means that for decades Muslims have been
telling the world that they reject the concept that the rights of man are
universal. When you look through our version of the Koran you can see
that separating believers from unbelievers is endemic in Islam, and that
unbelievers are to be killed unless they submit to Islam (which is clear
from Koran 9:29).
The only people trying to draw your attention to the Muslim world
having rejected and supplanted our concept of human rights is a group of
independent researchers. See David Littman, (1999) “Islamism Grows
Stronger at the United Nations”, in Robert Spencer (ed), (2005) The Myth
of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims, New
York,pp 308-316; David Littman, (1999) “Universal Human Rights And
‘Human Rights in Islam’”, in Robert Spencer (ed), (2005) The Myth of
Islamic Tolerance, pp.317-325; Bat Yeʼor, (2002) Islam and
Dhimmitude, Lancaster, p.198; Bat Yeʼor, (2011) Europe, Globalization
and the Coming Universal Caliphate, Madison. See also Sultan Hussyn
Tabandeh, A Muslim Commentary on the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, Guildford, 1970. ↵
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