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It is nonsensical to declare human rights under the umbrella of a religion. Human Rights by their definition apply to all humans no matter which, if any, religion they might have chosen to follow. A group of muslims does not get to unilaterally declare the basic rights of every human. The UN is the place to do that and they did. The Cairo Declaration is the reactionary attempt by some muslim countries to deny some basic human rights to their own people. It's a perverse twisting of the original idea.


Several of the rights in the Cairo Declaration [1] would cover women taking off the hijab. Even more would forbid beating someone to death for their clothing choices.

[1] https://www.fmreview.org/sites/fmr/files/FMRdownloads/en/FMR...


Don't like the Nobel committee decision, take it up to them, not HN


The Cairo declaration is not a UN declaration.




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