In all fairness, this declaration against genocide seems to be too focused. Genocide is widespread, and in some cases is ongoing right now. Not to mention them is an insult. As well there should be a mention of ethnic cleansing.
The 20th Century had a bunch of notable cases of genocide, and there are many disputes that could result in genocide “still on the table.”
There are no famines in the world except where they have been intentionally created by local authorities to persecute hated minorities. Authorities that block and steal food aid.
It does not downplay Islam’s role in this, or that of the Koran, to compare and contrast them with other brutalitarians. And embracing other murderous tyrants, as Muslims have done, does little to generate sympathy for their cause.
Perhaps the most stinging rebuke that could be given to the Koran is to do to it was was done to the Bible, to modernize it and sterilize it of what is offensive. There could be no greater criticism of those writings than to rewrite them to strip away the excuse of “context” from that works calls for murder.
“In all fairness, this declaration against genocide seems to be too focused. Genocide is widespread, and in some cases is ongoing right now. Not to mention them is an insult. As well there should be a mention of ethnic cleansing.”
What a bunch of limp-wristed bullshit! Targeting a specific region, country, or people for condemnation is in no way making any tacit statement of tolerance for, or acceptance of genocide anywhere else.
For reference I posted the resolution in post 9. Though it is focused on Islamic genocide, personally I don't see that as a bar to endorsing it. Obviously genocide is and has been ongoing, the Arab world was far more successful in their destruction of millenia long Jewish culture throughout the Arab world than Hitler in Europe, yet no one has said a peep. Other than Tibet, no current cases of non-Islamic genocide come to mind. As to slavery, other than the Islamic world, that is a historical issue.