U.N. Human Rights Council, Religion, and Free Speech

In my humble opinion, organized religion is tailor-made for satire. What a fat, juicy target.

So the United Nations Human Rights Council, led by Cuba, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Venezuela, and other paragons of human rights, evidently took a break from its usual vilification of Israel and decided to recommend the criminalization of "defamation of religion." So let me join P.J. O'Rourke of the Weekly Standard and get my licks in now.

Defamation-While We Still Can

P.J. O'Rourke emails THE SCRAPBOOK:

The U.N. Human Rights Council-with the championing of human rights led by delegates from -Belarus, Venezuela and Pakistan-has passed a resolution urging countries around the world to make "defamation of religion" illegal. Given the Obama administration's desire for closer cooperation with the U.N., those laws may be on the books in America by the time you read this. But we will defy Attorney General Eric Holder and the fearsome weapons of the U.N.'s black helicopters enforcing his writ. Herewith a last stand for the defamatory rights of free speech:

How many Episcopalians attend church on Sunday? Fore.
What do you get when you cross a Jehovah's Witness with a Unitarian? Someone who goes door-to-door for no reason.
Hey, Presbyterians, if everything is predestined by God, how come the tornado blew your double-wide to God-knows-where?
What caused the Catholic priest to have a sex change? Altar girls.
Then there was the Baptist congregation that put up a sign, "CH_RCH What's Missing?" And they spent all week trying to figure it out.
Why was the Dalai Lama reincarnated as a compulsive gambler? So he'd get Tibet.
Did you hear about the dyslexic Hindu who had 47,000 dogs?
What do you get if you call a Sikh a reckless, insane maniac? A taxi.
And what's the difference between Jews and Muslims? A profit.