"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia affirmed today that it abides by human rights including the rights that are endorsed by the Islamic Sharia," reports IMRA.
The Saudi ambassador to the United Nations, Fawzi Abdul-Majeed Shobokshi, said this in a speech at the UN: "Human rights in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia were those recognized in Islam. They might not extend what the Almighty had prohibited, or transgress what the Almighty Allah had ordered."
It is doubtful, then, that Shobokshi believes in any right of a Muslim to leave Islam, or any right of non-Muslim dhimmis to share equal rights and dignity with Muslims in Islamic societies. For these rights are not recognized in traditional Islamic jurisprudence.
Shobokshi also complained that "some media repeatedly pretended that Islam and Muslims had become the source of terrorism and violence." I trust he will take up this complaint with Osama bin Laden, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, Indonesia's Abubakar Bashir, England's Omar Bakri, the Internet wolf-crier at the Daleel Al-Mojahid Yahoo group, and all the multitudinous other Muslims who have linked Islam to terrorism and violence without any prodding from the media at all.
Is this anything more than a recycling of the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, which devotes 25 articles to stating and restating the proposition that human rights = shari'ah?
A convenient source of the Cairo Declaration is http://www.humanrights.harvard.edu/documents/regionaldocs/cairo_dec.htm but to get the true flavor you can grab the complete Final Communiqué in which it appears from http://www.oic-oci.org/english/fm/foreign-minister.htm (it's the 19th conference).
See also legal resolutions 4 and 7 and social/cultural resolution 7 from the most recent Islamic Foreign Ministers' Summit: http://www.oic-oci.org/english/fm/30/30%20icfm-main-e.htm
As always:
"Islam gives people rights" However, Muslims are repressed all over the Islamic world.
"Islam gives women rights" However, Muslim women are treated like property and lesser beings all over the Islamic world.
Perhaps "Allah gave people rights." Unfortunately, Muslims have yet to respect those God given rights.
And now, Muslims want to export their lack of human rights to the rest of the world via repressive Islam.
Lilith
Dear Robert
As a person loving fairness and equal dignifying rights for all human beings, I thank you for your courageous and essential work. Yours and others' efforts to bring back respect for God and his creation will prevail.
Amen!
Esther
A LIVING HUMAN BEING IS THE EXTENSION OF GODSPIRIT WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ANIMATION; WITHOUT GOD'S SPIRIT NOTHING LIVES THEREFORE ALL LIVING CREATION HAS GOD'S SPIRIT AND THEREFORE ALL CREATIONS HAVE THE MOST POWERFUL GOD WITHIN THEREFORE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUMANS AND THE TROUBLE MAKER THE FALLEN ANGELS FROM HEAVEN AND IF WE ARE GOING TO FOLLOW THEM THEN WE WILL NEVER REACH HEAVEN FOR THEY ARE UNFORGIVING SPIRITS. FORGIVENESS BRINGS BACK THE LIFE. LET FORGIVENESS COME TO ALL PEOPLE OF ALL FAITH FOR FORGIVENESS BRINGS OUR CONNECTION TO ONE ANOTHER THROUGH THE ONE ONLY LOVING MERCYFUL FATHERGOD AMEN. EVEN OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR LORD JESUS PRAYED TO FATHERGOD "FATHER FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO" AND HE ROSE AGAIN FROM DEAD. NEVER UNDER-ESTIMATE A LIVING HUMAN OR AN ANIMAL OR BIRD THEY ALL HAVE THE LIFESPIRIT OF ONE GOD WHO MAKES THEM LIVE AND KICK AND BREATHE BUT HUMAN IS THE ONLY CREATURE WHO ALWAYS FORGETS THIS SO HE ENDS UP IN TROUBLE.THEREFORE ALL HUMANS OF ALL FAITHS ARE IN SOME WAY SEARCHING FOR THE FACE OF GOD BUT GOD LIVES WITH PEOPLE OF CLEAN HEART, LOVING HEART, FORGIVING HEART NOT WITH JUDGMENTAL PEOPLE. JUDGMENTAL PEOPLE MUST CHANGE TO FIND GOD WITHIN THEM AND ALL CREATION AMEN. GOD ALMIGHTY LOVES ALL HIS CREATIONS BUT NOT HAPPY WHEN WE HURT EACH OTHER. GOD DOES NOT LOOK AT MONEY BUT YOUR HEART. IF YOU DONOT HAVE GOOD CLEAN LOVING FORGIVING MERCYFUL HEART PRAY THIS PRAYER "LOVING FATHERGOD CREATE IN ME A NEW HEART AS YOU HAVE FOR I DO NEED A CLEAN LOVING FORGIVING MERCYFUL HEART. THANKYOU FATHERGOD FOR LISTENING TO MY PRAYER IN JESUS YESU NAME AMEN"