Posted on 06/17/2010 9:18:49 AM PDT by walford
GENEVA - 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.
The group ensures that council fire is largely aimed at Israel over its occupation of Palestinian territories and treatment of people living there as well as on the Israeli blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza.
On Tuesday, after hours of wrangling, the group allowed a statement to be read to the council by Norway on behalf of 56 U.N. member states strongly criticizing Iran for its treatment of dissenters.
But although the statement was hailed by U.S. ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe as a victory for the Iranian people, diplomats noted that only just over a quarter of U.N. member states had backed it, of them only 14 countries in the council.
Human rights activists who are allowed to speak at the body if their organizations are accredited by the United Nations said the statement — drafted largely by the United States — was the best available substitute for a formal resolution.
“The Western group knows it could never get such a resolution passed in this council, and this is the only way they have of fighting back,” said Roy Brown, long-time chief representative of the International Humanist and Ethical Union.
Brown said the loophole was likely to be closed in a coming review of the council’s activity since it was launched in 2006 to replace a discredited predecessor.
They have the gall to push this nonsense in the UN while the real abuse and mistreatment of a people is ignored: the treatment of Christians in most all Muslim nations.
All those ‘leaders’ in the West who remain silent about the hypocrisy and lies of the Muslims are cowards and fools (or on the other side), and are doing the nations of the West great harm.
They've learned to play the race card. They're gearing up for war with Israel and are getting ready to label anyone who doesn't side with them a racist.
BITE ME!
You'll never get the stench out.
As long as we’re not beating the hell out of Muslims with sticks, Muslims in the West are treated better than Muslim women in Islamic countries.
Indeed, the fact that other religions than Islam are not tolerated in Muslim countries and yet they expect us to accommodate them in ours speaks volumes about their mindset.
It is always a one-way street with them: THEIR WAY.
"57 states"
Why has NO ONE ever called obumbles on his Freudian slip?
Hear! Hear! And let the incoming batch of congresscritters take note.
If they would stop loving death and violence so much, normal people might start liking them.
And all this whining from the same "religion of peace" that hung a 7-year old child as a spy. They're going to have to reach upward to become slime.
You're right - almost every Muslim country has it ... time to "object" to the UN....
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