Posted on 06/16/2010 11:18:21 AM PDT by reaganaut1
GENEVA (Reuters) - Muslim states said on Wednesday that what they call "islamophobia" is sweeping the West and its media and demanded that the United Nations take tougher action against it.
Delegates from Islamic countries, including Pakistan and Egypt, told the United Nations Human Rights Council that treatment of Muslims in Western countries amounted to racism and discrimination and must be fought.
"People of Arab origin face new forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance and experience discrimination and marginalization," an Egyptian delegate said, according to a U.N. summary.
And Pakistan, speaking for the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), said the council's special investigator into religious freedom should look into such racism "especially in Western societies."
Acting for the OIC, Pakistan has tabled a resolution at the council instructing its special investigator on religious freedom "to work closely with mass media organizations to ensure that they create and promote an atmosphere of respect and tolerance for religious and cultural diversity."
The OIC -- and its allies in the 47-nation council including Russia, China and Cuba -- dub criticism of Muslim practices and linking of terrorism waged under the proclaimed banner of Islamism as "islamophobia" that pillories all Muslims.
BOUND TO PASS
Diplomats say the resolution, which also tells the investigator to make recommendations to the Human Rights Council on how its strictures might be implemented, is bound to pass given the majority the OIC and its allies have in the body.
The countries of the majority group, which also include India and Brazil, ensure that its members and their friends outside the council -- such as Sri Lanka and Iran -- are shielded from any serious criticism of their rights record.
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So when is someone going to bring up the CHRISTophobia and charge the MUZZIES with THAT!?
I do believe that Islam hasn’t begun to see Islamophobia yet. And while we’re at it, perhaps we ought to file on them for Christianophobia. At least the competing suits would clog each other up in the judicial pipeline.
Just more Grievance Theater
The recent display in Great Britan for the returning war veterans hasn’t done much to sell me on Muslim rights. Seems to me the shoe is on the other foot, but that’s just me.
They don’t belong here.
Period.
A crusade in Europe is long overdue.
Every time they yap something like this, Israel should automatically chime in with the exact same statement, but about themselves:
“People of Jewish origin face new forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance and experience discrimination and marginalization from Arab and Muslim nations.”
This would leave the Muslims apoplectic, loudly denying that they mistreat anyone, followed immediately by screaming “Death to Jews!”
Hypocrites deserve sarcasm to their face, especially if the sarcasm is accurate. Since the UN cultivates such hypocrisy, it should be the place to have the sarcasm thrown in their face.
Yeah, we’ll cry a river about Islamophobia
when Islamic countries allow churches and synagogues
to be built and Christians and Jews to worship openly.
Amazing. Fly occupied planes into occupied buildings and become the #1 victim group, able to whine and complain and get instant recognition.
Sure right around the time, the same UN enacts binding agreements with all Islamic countries codfying religious freedom for all other religions, and even for those who are “infidels”.
Right after that.
Let’s start with Saudi Arabia. Then Iran.
...the most violent, hate filled and intolerant nations on Earth are lecturing the rest of us about tolerance. Very typical of liberaland.
China, which banned all Muslims from all air travel for a month after 9/11. What a joke the UN is.
Islam and the UN have something very important in common.
Both “organizations” are constructs of the DEVIL himself.
Beware.
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