Tonight's specials:
Bangladesh-Assam(India)
Dhimmitude from beeb. They r actually aupporting illegal Banglas who now constitute 30% of the states population...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4099118.stm

Uttar Pradesh
Nother BBC story:

Muslim Father-in-law arrested for rape

Muslim council of community elders had ordered the victim to marry her father-in-law.

G'Nite fellas

Posted by: Vikrant_Camberleykar at June 16, 2005 8:00 PM

Irene Zubaida Khan, the head of Amnesty International who declared the American prison at Guantanamo to be "the Gulag of our times" was born in Dacca. A Muslim, she has never shown much interest at all in the greatest denials of human rights, including the slaves in such Muslim countries as Mali, Mauritania, the Sudan, and Saudi Arabia (there is plenty to investigate there, beginning with advertisements for the swapping of girls for late-model automobiles). She has never uttered a word about the Muslim massacres of Christians in Pakistan, just as she has never uttered a word about the persecution and murders of Hindus in Bangladesh, as well as in Pakistan and Kashmir. She has failed to mention the repeated attacks on Buddhist villagers by Muslims in Thailand. She has never discussed the Nigerian soldiers, Muslims, who treats with such contumely the Christian Ibo of southern Nigeria, who continue to be treated in many places as if the Biafran War had just ended. There are many more such examples.

But if Irene Zubaida Khan reserves her harshest words always for the West, and especially for those two offending countries, big America and little Israel, and if she uses the propagandistic language of the enemies of both countries (Guantanamo equals gulab; the Israelis are sitting on "Occupied" Territories rather than territories which they possess, but to which they have a substantial legal, moral, and historic claim that goes far beyond that of military occupier).

She is part of the Islamintern International. She has never once criticized within dar al-Islam the treatment of non-Muslims, precisely for being non-Muslims. And she never will. And for that she has made her organization not only suspect, but guilty beyond any reasonable doubt.

For those who need a little food for thought, here are some excerpts from her 2005 address, the one in which the phrase about the "gulag" appears:

The government of Sudan betrayed the people of Darfur by unleashing a campaign of killing, rape, displacement and destruction. But the UN also betrayed them by doing too little too late. The people of Darfur were held hostage to China’s oil interests, Russia’s arms trade and the US’s aversion to the International Criminal Court. [nothing about the Arab supremacist impulse that causes the Arab government to attack non-Arab Muslims, nor has Khan chosen to discuss the southern Sudan’

Amnesty International’s Global Campaign to Stop Violence Against Women exposed horrendous abuse of women’s human rights by state and non-state actors, in times of peace as well as war. Not only are governments failing to protect women, they are failing to stand up to the backlash from conservative and fundamentalist forces. [nothing about why the position of women is so difficult in Islam; no hint of having thought about what the Qur’an, hadith, and sira make Muslims think about women; no mention of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Azam Kamguian, and other former Muslims working to help Muslim women, nothing at all about Islam – it wouldn’t do]

The failure of governments was compounded by the complicity of big business, the most blatant case being Bhopal in India, where victims are still awaiting justice and just compensation twenty years after the gas leak. [big business can be invokved for what is not a denial of human rights or free speech, but is a case at law, involving charges of criminal neglicance on the part of the producer]

Africa is high on the agenda of the G8 but the call to Make Poverty History will remain an empty slogan unless the international community and African governments work together to tackle the causes that underlie the chronic failures of human rights – the massive corruption, mismanagement, abuse of power, festering conflicts, and political instability. [nothing about some other reasons for economic failure that might be adduced – including, where there are Muslims, not only inshallah-fatalism but insecurity for the Christians)

There can be no sustainable security strategy without justice and respect for human rights. The continued violence in Israel and the Occupied Territories. Despite the building of the Wall – in defiance of international law, the most stringent restrictions on freedom of movement of Palestinians, and the biggest demolition of houses in recent years, the security situation remains precarious. [next to the United States, the country that receives the biggest whipping – this paragraph is only a sample – is of course the mighty empire of Israel.]

In 2004, far from any sign of principled leadership, we saw a new and dangerous agenda in the making, rewriting the rules of human rights, discrediting the institutions of international cooperation and usurping the language of justice and freedom to promote policies that create fear and insecurity. [those bad Americans, daring to defend themselves against a world-wide Jihad, a word that is never used by Irene Zubaida Khan]

The US is leading this agenda, with the UK, European states, Australia and other states following.
The pick and choose approach to international law is being replaced by a "erode where you can, select if you must and subvert where you will" approach. [actually this is a perfect description of what Irene Zubaida Khan does herself – her selective picking and choosing of topics, her targeted indignation, her diseased sympathies’

Guantanamo has become the gulag of our times, entrenching the notion that people can be detained without any recourse to the law. [the first eight words will enter all dictionaries of quotation – from Bartlett’s to the Oxford. IIrene Zubaida Khan enters history, as a fool and a human-rights fraud]

Perhaps Amnesty International does not care that it has lost the support not of the "right-wing fanatics" it loves to hate -- the real right-wing fanatics, incidentally, from David Duke to William Baker to the Eernst-Zundel clone who likes to post here, are all on the side of Islam, and always against those who would direct our attention to the menace of Islam -- but of the intelligent liberals who once supported that once-reasonable organization. But it is now irrational, or rather, its reasons for what it does are so unpleasant, so unjust, so baseless, that decent people can no longer have much to do with it. It was not always thus. Thank Irene Zubaida Khan for the crumbling of its moral authority.

Posted by: Hugh at June 16, 2005 8:59 PM

Brad Adams is forty years out of date about the Bangladeshi state's involvement in or blindness to religious violence. He ought to ask what happened to the once-large Hindu minority in the country. The Bangladeshi treatment of Hindus is perhaps the basest single instance of Islamic ingratitude, considering that, without India going to war and shedding Hindu blood, Bangladesh would never have got out from under the murderous control of Pakistan's Punjabi-led military. It seems to me that, as long as they are murdering and displacing Hindus or Buddhists or Christians, the Muslims of Bangladesh (or wherever) are literally invisible to the international human-rights establishment; it is only when other Muslims, such as Ahmediyas, fall under the knife, that the West suddenly wakes up to the nastiness of it all. This has been going on for decades, I would say as long as I can remember - I, for instance, heard about the war for Bangladeshi independence, with associated Muslim-on-Muslim violence, but never heard of what they were doing to Hindus until I stumbled on a few rather pathetic mimeographed leaflets published by an exile group in London.

As for Amnesty, I fell out of love with it ten years ago, when I noticed the kind of people who were joining. My distaste was largely personal, but, looking back, it also had to with the personal nastiness and PC inclinations of the members I knew. I think what we are seeing now is the inevitable result of what I saw happening then - the rise of the PC generation.

Posted by: Paolo at June 17, 2005 6:47 AM

Amnesty is nothing but a the buggest Islamic Apologetic Org. They've made Human Rights synonymous with jihad and muslim rights.

Posted by: Vikrant_Camberleykar at June 17, 2005 7:14 AM

Equating Guantanamo with the Soviet Gulags shows that Amnesty International = Amnesia International.

Were any of the tens of thousands of Soviet internies in there for any real crimes, let alone acts of violence and repression against unarmed civilians? Are the "Gitmo" internies being starved and worked to death?

Posted by: waterdragon52 at June 17, 2005 9:06 AM

Are the "Gitmo" internies being starved and worked to death?
Are they being deprived of their holy book? Or from practising their religion? Read "Grey is the Colour of Hope" by Irena Ratushinskaya to find out how Christians fared in the Gulags.

Posted by: Granny Weatherwax at June 17, 2005 4:21 PM

She has never uttered a word about the Muslim massacres of Christians in Pakistan, just as she has never uttered a word about the persecution and murders of Hindus in Bangladesh, as well as in Pakistan and Kashmir.

Hugh how can she, isnt she a Bangladeshi???

Posted by: Vikrant_Camberleykar at June 17, 2005 7:21 PM

waterdragon52-

"tens of thousands" in the gulags?

Read A. Appelbaums' conservative estimate -in her book "GULAG: a history of the soviet camps"- of "more than 18 million people" who went through this systematic hell (and another 6 million sent into "exile" outside of "camps"), and in which a minimum of 1,000,000 died, during Stalin's reign alone, with as many more dying under Lenin. (Others put the figure 5 times higher.) "The vast majority of these people were guilty of nothing."

Exactly like Gitmo. WOW!

Where loud rap music and chilly or overly warm cells are compared with: being tortured, beaten, whipped, starved, raped, forced to eat rats and maggots, and driven to your agonzing death digging frozen canals (25,000 dying to scoop out one permafrost trench that turned out to be too shallow for the warships it was intended to transit, ultimately.)

The morons in Congress agreeing with this calumny (Dick 'Turban' Durbin, et al) must have never read "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch", ( someone should send them the video), "The Scourge of the Swastika", or "Year Zero" ("The Killing Fields").

Shameful stupidity and de facto treasonous imbecility by our own representatives ---to encourage our enemies to oppose us with renewed vigor, a heightened "moral" excuse, and with the imprimatur of top members of the U.S. government: "aid and comfort" given by the comfortable and well-paid American legislators for their 'holy' war against the "Great Satan".

Thanks Congressional sh*theads!

We should send a crescent and star duncecap to Durbin. And Joe (Close Gitmo!) Biden. And John (Give the terrorists free lawyers) McCain.

ARE THEY ALL F*CKING CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They need to be put in a SEALED room and forced to watch Nick Berg's MURDER for 24 hours straight, over and over and over and over and over, -----until it sinks into the mush posing as brains inside their tin-plated skulls.

We're at war, boys.

And they're giving terrorists more excuses to kill more of us?!?!

(Not that the jihadists need any, but this crap just gives their lunacy a gratuitous boost and Congressional seal of approval. )

(Excuse me while I go empty a banana clip into a picture of Osama before I get an aneurysm.)

Posted by: BigSleep at June 17, 2005 10:52 PM