Posted on 04/29/2010 5:42:34 PM PDT by Ballygrl
Game over: UN elects Iran to its commission on womens rights
posted at 5:52 pm on April 29, 2010 by Allahpundit
I think Neda would have wanted it this way, dont you?
Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged immodest.
Just days after Iran abandoned a high-profile bid for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, it began a covert campaign to claim a seat on the Commission on the Status of Women, which is dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women, according to its website.
This is the same group whose Human Rights Council includes luminaries like China and Saudi Arabia. See now why Ahmadinejad always includes a passage in his annual speech about expanding the number of permanent members in the Security Council or giving more power to the General Assembly? In the interest of equality, theres no laugh test for exerting influence at the UN. The task for its more cretinous members is simply to extend that principle to the real levers of power. Because Irans all about equality, you see.
In light of the fantastic success of the Unites States military, the United Nations took this action in anticipation of the liberation of the women (and men and children and other people) of the Islamic Republic of Iran from their present governance. Oops. I forgot—it’s the United Nations, the dictators’ club, the tyrants’ society, the organization for global totalitarians to realize their schemes for global domination.
“The acid on the girls in Afghanistan,the forced circumcision of woman etc.”
You’re right, of course. Socialists run the UN, and are now in charge of our own government’s foreign and domestic policies. The authoritarian governments who populate the UN, by their very nature, must assume that all cultural practices are morally equivalent. This is because for a dictator to acknowledge that a certain practice is immoral in some fundamental sense would be to limit the power of his own government. So, forced circumcision for women may not be Che Guevara’s style, or Obama’s or Mao’s style, but nothing can taken off the table due to some sense of man’s natural rights.
For example, how can our own leaders make a fundamental moral judgment like condemning the practice of forced circumcision on women on the one hand, and on the other presume to decide who can permission to get get a life saving medical procedure and who may not (even if he wants to purchase it?)
As for women’s groups, what can one expect from them. They like arbitrary government power too. It’s the only way they can acheive their agenda. When Juanita Broaddrick went public with having been raped by Bill Clinton, womens organizations mocked and vilified her. It’s not that NOW was pro-rape, understand, it’s that Clinton wanted to deliver on partial birth abortion, and along comes this “nobody” who damages him politically.
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