The Brussels Journal points out the close resemblence between the Arabic word for “Allah” and the logo of the UN Human Rights Commission, which may have been imposed by ” a high-ranking Muslim UN official .” Even if “Allah” is not the official UN Human Rights Commission logo, the UN acts as if it were. Brussels Journals points to “last week’s common declaration signed by EU Foreign Policy Coordinator Javier Solana, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC). The three men pledged to rewrite the UN Human Rights Charter to ‘protect the sanctity of religions and the prophets.’”
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