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UNITED NATIONS -- For the last nine years, the U.N.'s annual ban on defaming Islam has been non-binding. In March, the United Nations may try to impose its view on Islamic blasphemy on all of its member nations -- including the United States -- thus making criticism of Islam a crime.

In December, the U.N. General Assembly, as it has every year since 1999, passed a resolution titled "Combating Defamation of Religions."

The vote was 86-53, with 42 nations abstaining. The United States opposed the measure.

Originally titled "Defamation of Islam," the name of the resolution has changed over the years but not the intent. The only religion mentioned in the seven-page document is Islam.

The resolution's main sponsor is the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference. Critics charge the OIC's membership, which includes Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia, reads like a Who's Who of religious intolerance.

Saudi Arabia has its own religious police force that cracks down on those who violate the Kingdom's hyper-strict Islamic dress and behavior codes.

In early February, members of Saudi Arabia's Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice arrested a married 37-year-old American businesswoman and mother of three for sitting inside a Starbucks coffee shop w... >>>