Criminalizing "insults to Islam"

Michelle Malkin reports that a group of Muslim "scholars" wants to implement "an international law that criminalizes religious insults and enforces mutual respect of religions." Of course, the only effect of this law would be to criminalize "blasphemy" against Islam.

Wizbang has the best response. Money grafs:

I am not a Muslim.

I do not live in a Muslim country.

So why should I be bound by Muslim law?

Why should my non-Muslim government enforce Muslim laws on non-Muslims?

I find many things insulting to me on any given day.

I tend to ignore them, because I am a mature adult and have better things to do than go hunting for things to outrage me.

Why can't you folks do the same?

I simply don't care what others say about me or what I believe in. I know in my heart what is true, and the words of those who disagree and seek to discourage me are as nothing.

Is your faith so weak that even the tiniest slight from thousands of miles away demands you avenge it?

That's certainly how I look at it. I myself am a Roman Catholic. Let me be more blunt, a ROMAN Catholic, baby!!! We go back all the way to the ROMAN Empire, with Julius Caesar and his ROMAN legions!!!

(By contrast, the best Islam can do is Saladin, which invokes images of iceberg lettuce mixed with shredded carrots and red cabbage, bacon bits, croutons, and fat-free Ranch dressing.)

We get veiled anti-Catholic slurs in Indiana (as a Bible Belt state) all the time. Doesn't really matter to us. We don't riot or make death threats. Take your laughable "family values," which usually include no drinking or gambling. I'll take the Inqusition and Legio X.

Come to think of it, it would be fun to invoke the Inquisition. They'd never expect it. But I digress.

How 'bout one last true money graf from Wizbang:

If this is true Islam, if this is a fair representation of The Religion Of Peace (tm), then fuck Islam and fuck everyone and anyone who pushes it. And if the United Nations even thinks about trying to pass this, then we need not only to bulldoze the whole building right into the East River, we need to think very strongly about invoking the Coulter Doctrine: "we should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

Amen