Posted on 04/18/2005 2:03:24 PM PDT by quidnunc
Geneva – The main global humanist organisation and a group of former Muslims on Monday accused European countries of ignoring violations of human rights in their Islamic communities to preserve "multi-culturalism".
In a presentation to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and at a separate news conference and a seminar, they also argued that Muslim countries were trying to use the body to quash any discussion of their own rights record.
"Western society tends to turn a blind eye to the plight of European Muslim women and girls because 'Muslim culture is different'," Roy Brown, president of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), told the 53-member Commission.
"Yet in Europe many women find themselves subject to domestic violence, undergo forced marriages or are even killed by family members because of some belief that they have tarnished the family honour," Brown declared.
That view was echoed later by three ex-Muslims and self-described atheists — Somali-born Dutch member of parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Iranian exile rights activist Azam Kamguian and historian of Islam Ibn Warraq — and French sociologist Caroline Fourest.
Hirsi Ali, who fled to the Netherlands in 1992 to escape an arranged marriage, told the news conference she condemned "the moral relativism in Europe whereby women from Third World countries do not enjoy the same freedoms as native European women enjoy."
Many Muslim women and girls "are forced to marry, have their genitals mutilated, are taken by their parents to their countries of origin against their wishes, sometimes even killed," she declared.
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That's what "multiculturalism" brings--the barbaric culture destroys more civilized one unless more civilized one sets firm boundaries and is not ashamed to defend itself.
This is really a mental sickness as Micheal Savage says. The reason they don't say anything is because of irrational hatred of self and western culture.
""Yet in Europe many women find themselves subject to domestic violence, undergo forced marriages or are even killed by family members because of some belief that they have tarnished the family honour," Brown declared"
He says it as if those CRIMES were not prosecuted!. And must be, whichever religion, even muslim.
In actuality, the "conservatives" have been correct all along: multiculturalism is stupid. It is a recipe for anticulturalism. The dominant culture in a region determines the civic law, which must as a matter of course forbid barbaric practices. Secondly, the dominant culture should be strongly inclined towards assimilation of immigrants.
Exactly. I can't believe what despicable weaklings the Europeans are being on this issue - just as Neville Chamberlain appeased the Nazis before WWII, so they do the same thing with islamofascists now (never learn, do they?)
And if you really think about it, even though the colonialists so villified by the modern left were guilty of abuses, by and large, they brought CIVILIZATION to places in sore need of it (e.g. the British banning the barbaric burn-widows-alive-on-husband's-funeral-pyre custom in India). No abuse the Western World could inflict comes anywhere near what the "third world" continually does to itself and its own people.
Screw all the politically-correct multiculturalism crap. Some cultures ARE better than others. The evidence is all around you. And anyone who doesn't see it is either blind, dumb, evil, or all three.
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