"The last spark of life in the initiatives was quashed once and for all with the arrival of a new US administration."
Yet another Which-Side-Is-Obama-On Alert. "Arab countries fail on human rights--report," by Samer al-Atrush for Agence France-Presse, December 9 (thanks to Pamela):
CAIRO, Egypt -- Human rights deteriorated across the Arab world in 2009 with torture widely practiced in several countries, an Arab watchdog said in a report released on Tuesday.The report by the independent Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies surveyed 12 countries and said that most of them repressed human rights activists, press freedoms, and discriminated against religious minorities.
The state of human rights in the 12 countries--Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen--"has worsened compared to 2008," the report said.
"Arab governments remained wedded to a broad array of repressive laws that undermine basic liberties," compared to the previous year, said the report, "Bastion of Impunity, Mirage of Reform."...
"Egypt continued to top the list of countries in which torture is routinely and systematically practiced," it said, adding that dozens had died in the country of torture or excessive force by police.
The report also found torture was "routine" in Bahrain, "rampant" in Tunisia, and practiced in Saudi Arabia against terrorism suspects.
Human rights advocates faced harassment in several Arab countries, with Syria, which has jailed dozens of democracy activists, holding the "worst record in this regard."
Religious and ethnic minorities also continued to suffer discrimination in several Arab countries, such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the report said.
"Despite the Saudi regime's attempt to appear to champion religious tolerance and interfaith dialogue in international forums, in practice the national religious police continue to exhibit violent behavior," it said.
Egypt, where roughly 10 percent of the 80-million-strong population are Coptic Christians who frequently complain of discrimination, "is increasingly acquiring the features of a religious state," it added.
The report also said that US policies were "wholly inimical to reform and human rights in the region," and accused President Barak Obama's administration of abandoning support for reform initiatives in the Arab world.
"The last spark of life in the initiatives was quashed once and for all with the arrival of a new US administration," it said....
The rights group's representative in Geneva, Jeremie Smith, warned at a press conference that Arab countries had exported attempts to undermine accountability to the United Nations Human Rights Commission.
"Arab governments have largely taken strategies that they have perfected at a national level to avoid accountability, and they have exported them to the United Nations system," he said.
Why has Buraq Hussein abandoned the reforms? Remember, his sharia-loving, Fetullah-Gülen-loving, head-tent-wearing mahoundian adviser, Dalia Mogahed, has the job of "telling Hussein what it is that mahoundians want."
And what do mahoundians want exactly? More jizya from the infidel West, more sharia, more minarets (but NOT from the Swiss, hahahahahahaha!), more misogyny, more impunity when they commit crimes against the kufr, no criticism when they commit genocide (since, according to Turkish PM Recep Erdogarab, a "troo beeleevare™" cannot commit genocide), more mahound-worshipping, more respect for their barbaric and primitive practices, more child-brides, more action from the UN (which stands for "The United Arabs and Arab Sandal Lickers") against Israel, more dhimmitude from those from whom they expect their own livelihoods to come from (since mahoundianism cannot generate any real economic activity from hard work; which, though a virtue in Western epistemology, is something to be avoided at all costs from a mahoundian perspective), and you name it... Mogahed has Hussein's complete attention, and he's listening...
"Arab countries fail on human rights..."
And water is wet, what else is new? Nevertheless it's good that independent NGOs to continue document the obvious to at least, to some degree, illuminate the hollowness of these states international calls for "human" rights (i.e. the right not to be offended).
The state of human rights in the 12 countries--Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen--"has worsened compared to 2008," the report said.
I'm sure there must be a common thread if I only look hard enough....now what could it possibly be?....thinking....thinking....thinking....
/sarc
I noticed more and more reports of HRA as soon as The One took office. Sorta the opposite of Iran releasing hostages when Dutch stood up to take the oath.
Gee, go figure.
This is a refreshing report to read, but the CIHR is a somewhat curious organization to be issuing it. Reading over some of the materials printed in their Issues and Opinions section at http://www.cihrs.org/English/NewsSystem/ArticlesListing/16 one finds a decidedly anti-Israeli/pro-Palestinian tilt. It could be their left hand not knowing what their right hand is doing, but my guess is that there is a larger game they are playing.
Wow. I'd love to have been in the office where the final proofreading and revisions were done...
"Look, we cannot use the term 'islamic countries' in this report. You wanna get us shot?"
"I know. But the facts here are obvious. If we don't come out and say it, don't we lose credibility?"
"So we retain our academic integrity and go to the top of the local fatwah list. How's your supply of body armor?"
"How about 'Arab governments' then?"
"Our chances of survival would improve markedly. Print it."
Now, this is just silly—everyone knows that the only real torture in the world today is at Abu Ghraib—prisoners forced to wear women's panties on their heads—oh, the humanity!, and Gitmo prisoners forced to watch their Holy Book used to clog latrines, and one of the Jihadists who had just murdered civilians, dragged them through the street, set their bodies on fire, and hanged them from a bridge, suffered a *bloody nose* upon being captured by savage navy Seals.
Of course, these last two are entirely unsubstantiated, but why should that matter? We know who the "real torturers" are! sarc/off
Didn't Mohammed order the torture of one of those tricky kuffars when he held out the location of the loot from the jihadis? I believe that he had a fire started on the man's chest.
Of course, this must be a "misunderstanding" of Islam.
Didn't Mohammed order the torture of one of those tricky kuffars when he held out the location of the loot from the jihadis? I believe that he had a fire started on the man's chest.
Of course, this must be a "misunderstanding" of Islam.
Robert you must be mistaken with these facts. According to one "certain" blogger, non-muslims are not persecuted in muslim nations.
I mean come on, these have to be false right? Wrong.
Look at this website:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/hrarabtoc.html
Maybe a "certain" blogger should read this. Not that they will believe it since it seems that the Jews and America are to blame for the demise of the world. And the Jews, are torturing unsuspecting Palestinian refugees.
Not that Hamas plants weapons in hospitals and schools, knowing that Israel will not shoot into them or attack them for fear of offenses against innocent civilians. But, Hamas after Israel pulled out of the Gaza strip, continued to fire rockets into Israel killing innocent Israelis, but that is ok with one "certain" blogger.
I mean the persecution of non-muslims in muslim nations has nothing to do with Islam. I mean in Saudi Arabia(an Islamic nation) no churches are allowed let alone reading of the Bible. In Pakistan (an Islamic nation), no new churches can be built and churches are attacked and burned. But hey that is ok with one "certain" blogger.
In the Hamas controlled region of Gaza, Christians are being forced to convert to Islam, Bible are burned, and churches are bombed, but that has nothing to do with Islam or persecution of Christians. It is America and the Jews fault. That is ok with one "certain" blogger.
I mean this one "certain" blogger justifies 3000 deaths because they feel along with their muslim friends and jihadists that America is to blame, so therefore deserved 9/11.
Also, this "certain" blogger justifies the death of 6 million Jews because of no evidence produced that they supported Communism. Even if true, still did not justify the death of 6 million Jews. No more than muslims who help Americans should be murdered.
This "certain" blogger, equates Theo Van Gogh's death to him just being another aggressive western that was killed bacause the morrocan muslim attacker was upset with the Iraq war and not that Theo helped Hirsi Ali, another apostate from Islam who has received death threats from muslims, for his role in the making of the movie "Submission" that showed the oppression of women in Islam. That his attacker left a note pinned to the dead Theo threatening that this will happen to those that insult Islam.
FYI: Dan Brown was not harmed by the Catholic Church or any Christians, or received any death threats for his writing of the "Davinci Code." The only thing that the Catholic church did was condemn it as heresy.
FYI: Ron Howard was not harmed or received any death threats by the Catholic Church or any Christians for the movie production of "The Davinci Code."
They are both alive and well and writing books and producing more movies. Theo Van Gogh is dead by a muslim for helping Hirsi Ali produce the film "Submission" and that got the ire of muslims. But that has nothing to do with Islam, but American policies and the Jews.
Here is a video of the opppression of women in Islam.
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/videos/108/the-violent-oppression-of-women-in-islam/
This "certain" blogger made it clear that America and the Jews are to blame for terrorism and the demise of the world, but has nothing to do with the 1400 yrs of Islam that has killed over 270 million people in its name. But that is ok with this "certain" blogger.
I mean come on, the Jews in this "certain" bloggers eyes can do no right, and that the muslims can do no wrong.
It is not so much to suffice to this "certian" blogger that Jews are not using the Old Testament verses when they fight. Not invoking the name of Yahweh when they fight. But, the Islamic jihadists use the verses from the Koran and their false god allah to invoke violence towards Jews and other non-muslims. They hollar "Allah Akbar"-God is great before they behead, blow up, or shoot up army bases. This has nothing to do with Islam though.
According to this "certain" blogger only Americans are being killed and if the US govt would just stop meddling in middle eastern affairs, Islamic militants would stop attacking Americans. Well newsflash: Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists are being targeted too and this "certain" blogger is ok with that.
But I guess the killing of these Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and that terrorist group Abu Sayeff who is killing Phillipinos in the Phillipines is all due to the American government and the Jews.
The blowing up of the two thousands of year old buddhists statues in Afghanistan were blown up before America set foot in that pissant nation, but that has nothing to with Islam but with the Jews and American foreign policy. Oh, the tolerant religion of Islam.
Btw, I have been having car trouble and instead of blaming the car, I blamed the Jews for it.
The Beslan incident where Islamic Jihadists attacked it, and numerous children were killed, were the fault of the Russian forces and not that of the Islamic Jihadists. According to this "certain" blogger.
This "certain" blogger will give a pass to Islam but not to Judaism.
The burning and vandalism of Coptic Christian shops in Egypt after they "assumed" that a Coptic Christian raped a muslim girl, had nothing to do with Islam or the continued persecution of Christians there. Had to be the Jews's fault and American foreign policy. But I am sure this "certain" blogger will find some excuse to give for this one and not condemn it. I would love to hear it.
This "certain" blogger has it in their heads that we can negotiate with these savage beasts, the same was thought by Neville Chamberlain who thought we could negotiate with Hitler and the Third Reich.
BTW, the muslims supported Hitler and his wanted destruction of the Jews. Here is a video of that and of Hitler visiting with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. It also depicts the real truth of what really happened in the Middle East.
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/
Irshad Manji"s book "The Trouble With Islam Today" A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith, has been threatened by people of her own faith. A muslim calling for reform in Islam, if only more muslims would do that, we would not be in the situation we are today with Islam. That "certain" blogger I am sure has not read that and I recommend it. I am sure this "certain" blogger would just make some excuse as to going back to the 16th century christianity and Deuteronomy 20 in the Old Testament.
Mark Gabriel an apostate from Islam, who converted to Christianity and changed his name, wrote the book "Islam and Terrorism" was beaten, stabbed, and thrown in prison for it. His own father wanted him dead. He fled Egypt, never able to return. He knew the koran by the age of 12 and taught Islam at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo and questioned his faith which is a no no in Islam. This "certain" blogger should read this book.
How about Nonie Darwish, another apostate from Islam who has been threatened and had her speeches canceled due to muslim outrage. The muslims are afraid of the truth like it is the swine flu. Notice that they attack the person with insults and defamatory comments when confronted with something they cannot deny when the facts show it. Have you ever noticed that these muslims will not give a tolerant and mature debate to these claims against Islam. They do not have to, this "certain" blogger debates their grievances for them.
This only give credence to the unrelenting fact that the person they are spewing defamatory comments at is right.
The danish cartoonist who drew pictures of Muhammed had a 1 million dollar bounty on his head, but people everyday defame Mary and Jesus and Christians do not put death threats on them or burn cars, riot, or attack mosques or other "holy" buildings.
Bridgett Gabriel, the founder of ACT for America, grew up during the Lebanese War and had her country attacked by Islamic extremists who slaughtered many christians to make it a muslim nation. She fled to America and fights against Islamic radicalization and the implementation of Shariah law in America. This "certain" blogger should read her book "Because They Hate, A Survivor of Islamic Terrorism."
Robert Spencer, whos books I have read, elaborates on the Islamic history, threat, what the koran really preaches, and the human rights abuse against non-muslims in muslim nations. I am sure this "certain" blogger may have read some of his books, but chooses to remain a constant advocate for Islam and its trademark that is it a "peaceful" and "tolerant" religion.
How about Walid Shoebat, he was a former PLO and became a Christian. I am sure our "certain" blogger should have a chat with him, or any of the people I have mentioned above.
I am sure this "certain" blogger will continue to listen to their muslim friends and believe everything they hear.
I feel that our "certain" blogger should read how the Christians in the Middle East went from a majority to a minority over centuries of Islamic aggression, here are your references how Christianity declined in what was once mainly Christian nations over the centuries of Islamic aggression and oppression. It still continues today.
http://phoenicia.org/christiansmea.html
For those muslim who do speak out against Islam and terrorism and put action to it, I applaud and respect you. Actions speak louder than words.
Until more muslims take a stand against Islamic terrorism, oppression of women, the constant persecution of non-muslims in muslim lands, and demands equality and tolerance for all, demands reform by showing actions and not just saying we are against terrorism or wants to cast the first stone, I will continue to be very critical of Islam.
The Catholic Church has apologized for the Spanish Inquisition and for the support of Hitler's murderous rampage of the Jews, but I have yet to hear any muslim apologize for 1400 yrs of Islamic repression, aggression, and oppression.
I have yet to hear Turkey (an Islamic nation) admit and apologize for the massacre of 2 million Christian Armenians between the years of 1908 and 1915. But I am sure that this "certain" blogger would just make some excuse and revert back to 16th century Christian Europe.
I have a feeling the world will end before that happens.
It is sometimes futile to try and show someone the truth or debate them when ignorance and denial are so prominent.
Blessed are the idiots, for even they can be forgiven.