Pamela Geller sums it up: "This defies western logic, but not the agenda of the OIC-driven, sharia compliant UN. Saudi Arabia, where a 32-year-old woman is jailed for disobeying her father, where a pregnant gang-rape victim is sentenced to 100 lashes for committing adultery, where women are not allowed to drive, where women are lashed for being in the company of any male who is not a relative, where a 75-year-old could be flogged for breaching sex segregation rules, where a Saudi father weds his daughter, 10, to an 80-year-old pervert: "according to the shari'a his marriage is legal as long as the girl's father consents," where a child bride is turned back over to her 80-year-old husband........... must I go on?"
"U.N. Rejects Iran's Bid for Seat on Women's Rights Panel," from FoxNews.com, November 10 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
The United Nations on Wednesday rejected Iran's bid for a seat to the board of the new U.N. agency to promote equality for women after fierce opposition from the United States and human rights groups to Tehran's treatment of women.But the U.N. accepted the bid of Saudi Arabia, which is also opposed by human rights groups.
Iran, which has been criticized for its record on women's rights, received only 19 votes -- short of the necessary 28 votes for approval.
In recent months, Iran sparked an international outcry by sentencing to death by stoning a woman convicted of adultery.
In Saudi Arabia, women are not allowed to drive and are barred from many facilities used by men....
Volumn 007, Book 062, Hadith Number 132.
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Narated By 'Abdullah bin Zam'a : The Prophet said, "None of you should flog his wife as he flogs a slave and then
have sexual intercourse with her in the last part of the day."
I am buying a good whip for my wife to keep her in line now that the Saudis are in charge GOOD GOING
Out-f*cking-rageous!!!
The UN's cat is well and truly out of the bag now, but just you watch, some liberal useful idiots will defend this... because this was we can encourage the Suadis to be more be more liberal [fat chance!].
Many of the deluded are still under the impression that all people learn by example from the superior behavior of others and that all cultures are equal. Unfortunately most of those people are apologizers for islam.
The UN is a joke!
Increasingly, it seems the problem is not with Iran, Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. The problem is with the US. The US has at least one thing in common with the Jihadis - "a suicide pact"
Very true.
By the way, this episode of the Twilight Zone seems to be dragging on for quite a while.
Anyone know when it is scheduled to end.
In a nutshell this tells everybody in the world with a brain where the UN stands today, how far it has fallen, and all that the future for it holds.
I feel so sick that I have to calm my nerves for a while! What is wrong with the world and the mostly Western and Church leaders - who allows the evilness of Islam to spread like cancer!Will the Western Left who's been attacking and criminalizing anti-Islam peaceful demonstrators and activists like Mr. Wilders, and supporting Islamist Turkey EU membership, be demonstrating or even speak up against this?! Don't count on it - somehow their twisted 'love' means "loved to be enslaved, by evilness of Islam"!
Utterly Nuts !
This is comparable to David Duke being put in charge of education at Temple Emanuel.
Saudi Arabia elected to UN's new women's rights agency
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I gave up completely on the UN when they elected Sudan to the Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) in 2004.
What could possibly be more grotesque?
In the last few years of its existence, the commission seated such other "bastions of democracy" as Burkina Faso, Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, the People's Republic of China, Syria, Libya, Pakistan—and our old friend here, Saudi Arabia.
More from 2004, from Wikipedia:
The UNCHR was criticized for failing to apply the charter's standards to all-member states. When issues such as the stoning of women, honor killings, mutilations, and the apostasy death penalty were raised during the 60th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights in 2004, Muslim officials rejected "any criticism as interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state."
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The Commission had no such compunctions about viciously criticizing democratic Israel, however.
It became so clearly ludicrous that the UN eventually abolished UNCHR entirely, even though the commission had been around since 1946—almost the UN's inception.
It was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006.
How have the reforms worked? Well, members have included Bangladesh, Libya, China, Cuba, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt—and our old friend here, Saudi Arabia. this pretty much speaks for itself.
"According to human rights groups, the council is controlled by a bloc of Islamic and African states, backed by China, Cuba and Russia, who protect each other from criticism."
Saudi Arabia is now part of the UN's Women's rights organization. This is like some kind of sick joke. Off course, I already thought the UN was a joke. What's next, the UN appointing Kim Jon Ill to defend free market capitalism?
Reading stuff like this makes me lose faith in the world. Words cannot and will never describe such lunacy.
SA have as much right to be on the UN Woman Right panel as the Far Rightwingt Christian nation like UK and America.
Yep, the Saudi practice of lashing women who get raped is so superior to the Western practice of respecting them, isn't it, barbarian? *rolls eyes*
Off you go back to Pakistan and stop leeching off those you hate and look down upon.
sometimes reality is funny enough, but this isn't funny