[news] Canada Votes Against Resolution Condemning Islamaphobia

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Canada recently voted AGAINST a resolution condemning Islamaphobia and discrimination against Muslims, at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Below is a statement by Muslim Canadians condemning this decision and calling on Parliament to investigate the decision. Further on is the actual vote record where Canada lines up with the United States and other imperialist countries, such as Germany, France, Italy, Japan and the U.K., in opposing the resolution, along with U.S. client states like Australia, Hungary, Ukraine and the Dominican Republic. Finally, we have Canada's lame justification for it's opposition to the resolution, which also encourages other countries to vote against it, as well. Something tells me that despite Canada's stated opposition to this so-called "selective" resolution, had it been directed against persecution of Christians and others in some predominantly Muslim countries, the results would have been much different.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/22/22256/8883