United Nations Human Rights Council on religious defamation," 26 March 2009 Retrieved 2009-03-30.

In 2008 the IPA adopted a resolution against prohibiting religious defamation, in light of the UN Ad Hoc Committee session on complementary Standards called at the initiative of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).

Later in 2009 the forum passed a resolution condemning religious defamation as a human rights violation, also noting that "Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violation and terrorism."

The protesters were from Hefazot-e-Islam, a religious movement of usually apolitical Islamic teachers, students and supporters, who were protesting against religious defamation in what secular liberal critics have generally framed as new legislation that would provide for a death penalty for blasphemy.

Ideological opportunists will ask: Doesn't the acrimonious collapse of the Mayor's marriage cast a shadow over his protests at religious defamation by the sensation-seeking Brooklyn museum, his knee-jerk defense of police accused of brutality and his denial of a livelihood to menacing squeegee men?

In 2006, the association organized a concert against the new law regulating religion in Romania, which banned "religious defamation".

The charge against Miss Nasrin was brought under a little-used statute on religious defamation dating from British colonial days.

A Polish court slapped a fine on a popular singer who bad-mouthed the Bible - the latest episode in which authorities grapple with religious defamation in a traditionally Catholic country that is growing increasingly secular.