The Ahmadinejad Question

Beyond the Cusp ^ | April 21. 2009 | Beyond the Cusp

[bsaunders]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a speech to open the misnamed UN World Conference Against Racism causing many of the European Union attendees to walk out for the entirety of the speech. The vile racist rant made by Ahmadinejad went so far it caused one nation, Czechoslovakia, to withdraw completely from the Durban II Conference, joining Canada, Israel, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United States. My disappointment is that there are only ten countries that found the venue of Durban II so disgusting and hateful to refuse to validate the conference with their attendance. As expected, the speech given by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized and condemned mainly Israel with some of his bile also used against the West in general and the United States in particular. The only proposal made during his despicable rantings was for the world to, once again, remove the initial criteria for the founding of the Jewish State and for the Jews to be eradicated from the Middle East. Sometimes President Ahmadinejad comes off as a one trick pony, hate the West, Hate the United States, and Hate with an Extra Zest the Jewish People and Israel.

This was not exactly the best idea for an opening speaker to lend any credibility to the presumed Durban II message. This was also not all that surprising as speeches of this ilk were the meat and potatoes of the original Durban Conference. Since Durban II was organized to critique the progress made toward fulfillment of the first Durban Conference which ended with an official mission statement that could have been condensed to simply state, Israel is the center of all evil and must be destroyed and all the rest of the world is just peachy keen, especially the Muslim and Arab world.

So, since this start to Durban II was not a surprise, what new, if anything, can be expected from this conference? To figure this out, all one needs to know are who were placed in charge of the Durban Review Preparatory Committee and thus wrote the mission statement that serves as the basis for the conference. Chairing the planning was Libya, a standout of virtue. Follow this with the co-chair being Iran and the full flavor starts to become obvious. Filling out the planners are South Africa, Syria, Algeria, Iran, Botswana, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Morocco, Cuba, Libya, Egypt, and China.

Other than condemning Israel, the mission statement also stressed the finding that the West in particular is guilty of Islamophobic racism and religious defamation of Islam. With such a stellar start, and probably equally glorious results, I can hardly contain my disgust that I will have when they inevitably hold the Durban III Conference in another five to ten years. The one thing one can depend on from the United Nations is whenever they have a truly horrid and putrid idea, they will repeat it every few years and proclaim it in proudly misleading titles and descriptions on and on ad-infinitum.

Beyond the Cusp

[Truth29]

The obvious error in this posting that Czechoslovakia withdrew from the conference detracts, unfortunately, from the rest of the post. There is no Czechoslovakia and hasn't been for a number of years. There is the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

"UN World Conference Against Racism". Hey UN. Let's talk about Irans treatment of homosexuals.