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31st August, 2008
TIME TO REPLACE THE UNITED NATIONS?
There is plenty of talk these days about the need for a new body to replace the United Nations – a League of Democracies as many western leaders have suggested. This kind of business at OUR United Nations will do nothing to lessen those calls.
Read this article from Skyscraper City, and don’t miss the video. The article writer, Leslie Sachs, is from Family Security Matters, site here. I have also traced the original article by Leslie Sachs.
The British guy on this video, Pat Condell, has made a few videos in this vein before. Don’t know his party political views but a quick look at his website indicates that he’s not a fan of my hero.
Still, we can’t all be right about everything. He has a nice line in criticism of Islam. My mind is still ever so slightly ajar as to whether the problem is the whole Islamic shooting match – sorry about the pun – or just the radical terrorist arms (puns galore). So far, I’m hoping it’s only the latter. True Islam, if it means no harm, should be strong enough to win out in the end. As long as “the end” is near, as it were. Running out of patience here. Still waiting for some serious, authoritative denunciation of fundamentalist terrorism from the good uns, and a clamping down with a heavy hand on the bad uns!
On the video Condell says – “Free speech is sacred”.
He says that the Organisation of Islamic Conference, which he says is a “fancy way of saying a Saudi funded cartel of Islamic dictatorships, has been allowed to highjack the UN Human Rights Council thus rendering it instantly and permanently worthless. Nevertheless [...] their first order of business was to pass a resolution banning criticism of Islam and sharia.”
Article follows:
UN Bans Criticism of Islam
By Leslie Sacks
The Human Rights Council at the United Nations has now banned any criticism regarding Sharia Law and human rights in the Islamic World.
According to President Doru Romulus Costea – and following the efforts of delegates from Egypt, Pakistan and Iran – the Council will no longer tolerate criticism of either Sharia or specific fatwas in the name of human rights.
In many parts of the Islamic world, it is becomingly increasing clear not only that the Koran (the written record of the original oral transmissions of Mohammad’s life teachings) and the Hadith (the later delineations of those teachings) are considered sacrosanct in their perfection, but also the various implementations of these teachings, known as Sharia Law.
No evolution or refinements are required. No matter that nearly every multitudinous Muslim sect or group has a differing interpretation of this God-given Sharia Law. Nor that the stoning to death of women, beheading of men, and all the 6th century niceties of feudal Arabia are still part and parcel of the immovable Islamic tradition. Never mind that Sunni will decimate Shia – and vice versa – over differences of interpretations far more modest than those between (modern) Catholics and Protestants, between Hindus and Buddhists. Islamic sect can war on Islamic sect, Arab can criticize Arab.
Because Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism and all other religions are imperfect, they are fair game for any and all attacks. Since Israel, Zionism, America and the Western World were created and developed outside the Islamic World and its divine perfection, they are likewise subject to criticism.
Now, not only has the Islamic God forbidden outside criticism of the Sharia Law, but the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) is its enjoined messenger on earth.
Of course, observers of the HRC should not be surprised. The ostensibly prestigious body has become a revolving door for countries with an ambivalent (or even well nigh invisible) relationship with freedom and democracy. In the two years following its replacement of the equally dictatorship-friendly Human Rights Commission, Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, China, Cuba, Egypt, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia have all been elected to the Council. As a majority of the Council’s resolutions are concerned with Israel, it would effectively cease functioning were it not for its compulsive focus on the Jewish state.
Due to this resolution the Council – and thus, perversely, the UN – is endorsing a worldview in which human interpretation and understanding has been placed beyond the pale of critical thinking and investigation as long as it’s part of Sharia Law or the Islamic tradition. Perhaps we should rename the United Nations and call it the “Nations of Islam – United in Unique and Ineffable Perfection.” Sounds appropriate.
FamilySecurityMatters.org
Contributing Editor Leslie Sacks is an art dealer and gallerist in Los Angeles.
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Tags: criticism, Islam, Organisation of Islamic Conference, sharia law, UN, United Nations
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