Muslim leaders say banning speech is not the same as banning speech

How's that for doublethink?

I recently found this interesting bit on Algeria calling for bans to stop controversial speech over against Muslims after a recent video apparently drove them all crazy. You see, Muslims don't think like you and me, and will kill themselves not over foreign occupation of their countries, but because they hate freedom. And since terrorism works, people want the UN to ban things they don't like on a global scale.

 Algeria demanded new efforts Saturday to limit freedom of expression to prevent denigrating attacks on Islam, appealing to the United Nations to take a lead as nations engaged in new debate on the tensions between free speech and religious tolerance.

That's not what this is about at all. Suppressing the views of others is the exact opposite of tolerance. True tolerance goes hand in hand with free speech. Say whatever you want.

Yemen’s President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi told the General Assembly on Wednesday “there should be limits for the freedom of expression, especially if such freedom blasphemes the beliefs of nations and defames their figures.

Wow. It's harder to be more wrong than that. Freedom of speech is there exactly to defend blasphemes, beliefs, and the defamation of figures. People don't call for freedom of speech so that they can talk about the weather. No government should ever suppress ideas. Any idea. Ever. Including ones of revolution.

Banning "hate speech" is no different than banning thoughtcrime. Also, since when did the UN have any legal authority over any countries ever?