Note that Meshaal Bin Ali Al Balawi is not talking about “Islamophobia” as vigilante attacks on innocent Muslims, which are never justified. He is talking about speech that he considers to be promoting “racism, racial discrimination, and xenophobia,” and above all, “Islamophobia.” For years now, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and other Islamic groups have condemned any and all honest discussion of how jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and oppression as “Islamophobic.” If the UN heeds Saudi Arabia’s words, which it will do sooner or later, all criticism of Islam will be criminalized — which is exactly the situation of criticism of Islam in Islamic law.
“Saudi Arabia calls for the elimination of Islamophobia,” by Samir Salama, Gulf News, July 17, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Abu Dhabi: Saudi Arabia has called on Tendai Akum – the United Nations Human Rights Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia – to continue to focus on eliminating “Islamophobia”.
In a speech before the Human Rights Council, the head of the Human Rights Section at the United Nations Mission in Geneva, Meshaal Bin Ali Al Balawi, said, “The Internet is an available space for practicing racism, racial discrimination, and xenophobia, which requires efforts to find solutions to make it a safe and accurately balanced space between respecting freedom of opinion and expression, and combating racism and racial discrimination.”
He explained that spreading ideas based on racial discrimination and inciting racism and hatred using information technology, the internet and social media is a crime, whose perpetrator is punished according to the laws of the kingdom, including what was included in the Information Crime Prevention System of 2007, as it includes punishing those who harm others through various information technology means with imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year and a fine not exceeding SR500,000, equivalent to $133,000 or one of these two penalties.
Regarding the prohibition of organisations that promote racial, religious and national hatred, the head of the Human Rights Section of the kingdom’s mission at the United Nations in Geneva said, “The 2015 System of Associations and Private Institutions includes a ban on the establishment of any association whose regulations include provisions that conflict with the provisions of Islamic Sharia, or public order, or public morals, or violate national unity.”…
jca reid says
Islamic Majority countries should simply be kicked out of the UN. “Human Rights” is contrary to Islamic Teachings. Talk about the tail wagging the dog. They offer nothing & just cause sh*t!
mortimer says
DOUBLE STANDARDS DEMANDED BY SAUDI BIGOTS
They are demanding that non-Islamic countries apply the Sharia blasphemy law. The Arabs are also demanding DOUBLE STANDARDS that are discriminatory
Meanwhile, Muslims continue to denounce, slander and denigrate KAFIRS and their cultures. It is OK for Muslims to hate kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’.
These Saudi propagandists are criticizing non-Muslims for the sort of prejudice and bigotry that is INTRINSIC and COMPUSORY for Muslims in Islam’s ‘essential’ teaching of ‘AL WALAA WAL BARAA’.
http://westindanger.com/wb/walaa-baraa.html
Sun says
+1
Jerome B Bigge says
They had a lot more “respect” for the “West” back in the first half of the 20th Century when we still understood the “realities” that our “liberal” societies now denounce thanks to an ideology that is best considered as “overcivilization”… As a “weakness” that will eventually destroy our societies if we allow it to continue. We spent trillions of dollars developing the military forces we felt necessary to “stop Communism” while ignoring the fact that there was an “enemy” that for the past 13 Centuries opposed everything we believe in. We actually helped chase the Russians out of Afghanistan when the women of that country actually were far better off under the Hammer and Sickle than under the Moon and Star of Islam!
SH Cohen says
No Democracy…no membership of the UN…countries run as family businesses… governments who do not allow the people to oppose their policies…should be kicked out…
Edmund says
There should be not any sentiment to so called “religion” beliefs, becouse some “godness” have told something. it’s XXI century not Dark Ages, when Earth was center of Universe. If such revelation is not compatibile with human rights, it should be criticized and penalized if it’s put into practice.
Facts are simple – Islam is totalitarian ideology, which should be recognized as criminal in any democratic country. His shrines closed, books confiscated. And free speach about whatever is the simpliest human right.
mikehughes says
I agree The Mohammedans follow a religion that hates all other religions and say so in there Koran and curse the Christians and Jews every time they go to the mosque now they try to hide there words to fool us
andra says
“Human Rights” is contrary to Islamic Teachings
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In fact the Muslim countries themselves have proved this statement when they set up the declaration of Kairo. They were unwilling to sigh the Human Rights Charta because they opposed to most of these human rights and set up their Sharia Rights Charta pretending it would mean the same thing.
The moment they signed this Kairo declaration would have been the appropriate time to kick them out of the UN.
Miguel Ángel says
I am very new to jihadi watch & thankful to find like minded sane people. I didn’t know you guys existed due to the fake news & MSM agenda. I live in Scotland & it has crept kn then ambushed us. I don’t claim to have anywhere near the level of knowledge such as yourself & u guys on this. But I am trying to self educate. I thank u for ur comment. It’s another piece of understanding for me of this ‘sleekit’ (glaswegian term for insidious/cute) so called religion & its followers. What I don’t understand is ; the knowledge of the evil injustices & liberties taken from human beings in these Islamic countries; we know it, the powers at be must know it, so even allowing them to be part of the UN is farcical. Stoning people/death for homosexuality/whippings and lashings & that is the lowest level of inhumanity shown. You&I and powerful people must know how bad these people can be. So why is it allowed? Why are they gaining so much power? I believe it is satanic, personally. They should not be allowed to have discussion on human rights. The practice of islam is inhumane. Thanks again, another bit of knowledge for me. Luv&peace from bonnie scotland
Jedothek says
I don’t think we have to kick any countries out. how about withdrawing all u s funding from the u n , and dis-inviting them from n y c? how long would the organization last?
Jerome B Bigge says
Didn’t we used to have “Communism Phobia” at one time? Consider that for women life under Islam is worse than living under Communism. Ending our dependence upon Middle East oil is the best action we could take, even if the price of gasoline has to go back up to what it used to be. Without American dollars and European Euros, the lifestyle that the Middle Easterners now live would quickly come to an end. Remember these countries were all “third world” hell holes before America’s thirst for oil allowed them to enjoy “Western” levels of living. Without those dollars, they would quickly revert to what they were prior to WW2.
Beverly says
A phobia is an irrational fear of something. Nothing irrational about having a fear of Islam. It is a death cult and the only way to get to paradise is to kill for Allah. It’s a disgusting totalitarian theocracy, worse than communism in all ways. Get the US out of the UN and get the UN out of the US. When you have characters like these on human rights councils you’ve lost every shred of credibility.
rubiconcrest says
Exactly Beverly. The fact of the matter is that Islam is phobic. Islam projects it’s phobias on everyone who threatens it. Islam is threatened more by the hour.
James Whitney says
Bravo!
Jayell says
The thing that strikes me is the apparent lack of intellectual capacity of individuals who equate the criticism of islam with ‘practicing racism, racial discrimination, and xenophobia’, when even an educationally-challenged orang-utan should be aware that matters concerning a religion or ideology are quite independent of any consideration of race or nationality. One is forced to assume that this character Meshaal Bin Ali Al Balawi.is either completely ignorant or is attempting to be devious by feigning ignorance with the totally inappropriate invocation of ‘race’ and ‘xenophobia’ to validate his quite spurious attempt at defending islam from proper criticism.
His apparent stupidity is further evident in his mindless recycling of that hackneyed old contrived misnomer ‘islamophobia’ when he is no doubt referring to the informed rejection of islam as an acceptable ‘religion’ by those whose intellectual abilities probably exceed his, and not just any ‘irrational fear’of those who know no better. Or might it be that Meshaal Bin Ali Al Balawi himself actually knows no better?
Also, Meshaal Bin Ali Al Balawi, as a public representtaive of Saudi Arabia, should have the intelligence to avoid any references to racism and xenophobia bearing in mind (a) the appalling record of Saudi Arabia in both these respects, which is public knowledge worldwide and (b) that is also public knowledge that islam itself incorporates a loosely-concealed element of Arab racism.
It is this sort of bigoted nonsense, perpetrated by the likes of Meshaal Bin Ali Al Balawi, that fuels the growing worldwide dissatisfaction with the UN and could cause its ultimate self-destruction within the foreseeable future.
Michael Copeland says
Agreed.
“Islam is not a race. It is an ideology” – Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR
V V Balakrishnan says
It is veily rue.Countries like Russia,China,Turkey and all other Muslim ountries have no locus standi to talk about Human rights,as they are all autocratic expansionist countries who would like to impose their theories and way of life on others.
The irony is they come and lecture about principles of tolerance and sularist approach i to a great country like India,which practiced “Vasudeva Kutumbakam” since time immemorial.
Daniel says
The truth is that if one cannot discuss Islam, then it is not worth being a religion. It’s only cult that is afraid of it being discussed.
Wellington says
Demonstrating again that Islam and free speech have nothing in common.
Meanwhile, the Islamic world engages in massive discrimination against non-Muslims and seeks to have this become a reality in the West.
I am so sick of Islam and any apologies for Islam. Both are rooted not only in error and stupidity, but so very often in unadulterated malevolence as well.
In conclusion, verily, thus and so on, I despise Islam, think it an inveterate enemy of liberty and a true Golden Rule for all, have concluded that non-Muslims making excuses for Islam are useful idiots (Joe Biden comes foremost to mind right now), and I will “top it off” here by quite soon enjoying a Yuengling Porter or two and a BLT or two.
You betcha’.
Linde Barrera says
To Wellington- Enjoy your yummy food and drink! As for me, I am very proud to be Islamophobic. But I do not hate, nor wish harm or death on any Muslims. However, I am an American Christian, or try to be. I wonder if I was a Christian in Nigeria, would I hate Boko Haram.
Wellington says
Linde Barrera: Thanks for your reply. Do you really not hate any Muslim? Not wish some of them harm or death?
Well, I do not hate most Muslims but I do hate some, for instance members of al-Qaeda, Hamas, Boko Haram and Hezbollah. And yes, I wish them dead. A la General Philip Sheridan, the only good Muslim terrorist is a dead Muslim terrorist.
Aussie Infidel says
Human rights under Islam is spelled out in the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI), which was drafted by the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), and is diametrically opposed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and strictly in accord with the Islamic Sharia. This is a matter about which the Saudi representative – and all other informed Muslims – would be well aware. But they simply bank on the ignorance of gullible Westerners who haven’t read their governing documents. Under the Sharia, only Muslim men have full citizenship rights; their womenfolk have far fewer rights; and non-Muslims have fewer rights still – and in Islamic republics, virtually none at all.
Islam is a totalitarian supremacist ideology and has no place in a civilized society. The Islamic countries should be thrown out of the UN until they agree with – and practise – the principles on its website: of “peace, dignity and equality” for all.
gravenimage says
Good point, Aussie Infidel–the only free speech under Islam is Islam.
Eleanor says
So agree with you AI – Islam is a political ideology, not a race, and not a religion. From your sister in NZ.
Michael Copeland says
“an ideological political movement” – Anjem Choudary
mortimer says
We should be able to criticize every political ideology.
Islam is a political ideology.
We should be able to criticize misogyny.
Islam is intrinsically and explicitly misogynistic.
We should be able to criticize racism.
Islam is intrinsically racist, promoting Arabs as the master race and maintaining that black Africans are suited only for slavery under Arabs.
Merri-joy says
Totally agree, as does ECLJ, there’s a Petition on the ECLJ site demanding our right to criticize Islam!
Gordon Dolan says
https://eclj.org/ (petitions)
3 “sister sites” also.
curious says
@mortimer, I agree, and would add that Islam is intrinsically anti-gay, and we should be able to criticize that too. Of note, the Saudis omitted homophobia from the list of things they want to combat. To the contrary, they want to spread that, as part of spreading Islam.
gravenimage says
+1
Merri-joy says
Samir said “He explained that spreading ideas based on racial discrimination and inciting racism and hatred using information technology, the internet and social media is a crime”
The only ideas / ideologies that are “based on racial discrimination and inciting racism and hatred” are Islam, Socialism, Facism, Marxism, Nazism & PC ideologies!
So they are being criminal as per Samir!
Perfect example: Look at how CAIR used the internet against the professor re the test on Islam!
Michael Copeland says
“between us and you enmity and hatred forever”
Koran 60:4
Keys says
“Final solutions” !
This is certainly is not purposeless, undevised terminology chosen by the Saudi Arabians to attempt to exterminate all criticism of Islam and Mohammad.
Hitler, highly admired by hordes of Muslims making “Mein Kamph” a best seller in several Islamic countries, used the same phrasing.
First, kill the criticism; next exterminate the criticizers.
Hence, the plural “final solutions”.
Michael Copeland says
HITLER
WAS A
FILTHY
KAFIR
Suggested placard
Keys says
Perfect for every Muslim bookstore and mosque.
Diane Harvey says
Fines, prisons are only the beginning. When they don’t stamp out the stating of factual aspects of Islam, what do then think will happen?
Right, Muslims will follow the 1400 historical model. May 29, 1453 stands as an example.
Dapto says
This is all happening because the Marxist/Nazi Pope is a convert to Islam and will not under any circumstance defend Christianity.
gravenimage says
I am *no* fan of this dhimmi pope–but no, he is not driving Islam in Saudi Arabia. The Arabian Muslims have been persecuting free speech there for many centuries.
Clive Delmonte says
The Islamic countries wishing to silence all comment, discussion and criticism of Islam are among those pouring out vicious anti-Semitic hatred every day from every source available to them.
The UN General Assembly should be shut down and US funding should be ended.
Political Oracle says
I have been saying all along that parts of the ICCPR are aligned with islamic interests. I feel that I need to create an educative video and point out the bad things of the ICCPR. One has to read all of the ICCPR to see the darkest parts of it.
Michael Copeland says
“No one can regard any field of his affairs as personal and private. The Islamic State bears a kind of resemblance to the Fascist and Communist states.”
Maududi
gravenimage says
At UN, Saudi Arabia calls for “final solutions” to stamp out “Islamophobia,” including prison and fines
……………..
Why do I always get nervous hearing totalitarians ranting about the “final solution”?
Keys says
Because you are not “woke”; but thank God you certainly “get it” !
gravenimage says
So do you, Keys.
Political Oracle says
Of course they would try to usurp the rights of everyone in the world! Saudia Arabia is a wahhabist state! I read a recent article about weird things in Dubai. One of those weird things was Sharia sanctioned wife beating. It was posted in the Dubai news paper recently. I am sure one can find it online.
Rod says
There are indeed some nations which have surrendered the right to call themselves “civilised”, and which should perhaps be ostracised from the world’s community of nations. “kicked out of the UN” as somebody suggested above.
Read on:-
In this wild west moment in international relations, Trump boasted that the US had bought the world’s entire supply of remdesivir, the antiviral drug produced by the US biotechnology company Gilead. Remdesivir is one of the few proven medications for treating Covid-19 patients.
During the 2014 Ebola epidemic, an experimental therapy called Zmapp made headlines. Ebola is one of the deadliest viruses to humans and kills about 70% of people who catch it if they don’t receive medical support. Zmapp had only been trialled in 18 rhesus monkeys, but even in relatively late stages of the disease it was 100% effective in the monkeys recovering. A mass scramble followed, with countries desperate to acquire the limited doses of Zmapp available. Powerful, high-income countries such as the US and Spain were able to procure Zmapp for their health workers, while doctors and nurses in west African countries were largely left without an effective treatment.
gravenimage says
More distraction from the appalling “Rod”. Does he have any problem with Saudi Arabia persecuting women, Infidels, and anyone who dares support freedom of speech? Not so he says.
Instead, he is condemning anyone who tries to protect his people from disease.
And then, he ignores the fact that it is those in the West who are working to eradicate disease all over the world. Here is one story:
“Canada to donate Ebola vaccine to WHO”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28767695
FYI says
Thank you.
We must not spare the rod nor pander to the child he is.
rod the distractor and islamic apologist;rod the virtue-signalling defender of the indefensible.
rod who cannot cope with all the ‘abuse’, all the ‘islamophobia’.
{Maybe we should send him a box of kleenex;it most be traumatic for rod to have to cry through all the ‘hatefilled’ ‘islamophobia’ he has to deal with here.Poor mite}
And certainly we must not take any medical advice from this self-appointed mehical immunologist expert doc rod.
In rod we don’t trust.
Like we don’t trust islam or islamic apologists or islamic ‘scholars’ or ‘mehical’ doctors.
infidel says
If U notice,, these garbage countries of Islam are the ones that play the most dirty politics at the UN and the least developmental work. Just like their toxic senators like Omar who only indulge in hatred and not a single developmental work for their constituencies.
kami-sama says
This is the country that is supported by American weapons, American bases & American & Israeli surveillance technologies when will they stop selling their souls to those devil worshipers for money
Who am i kidding never they are devil worshipers themselves
Jerome B Bigge says
Saddam was more our “friend” than the Saudis we thought we were “protecting”. The Iraqi were better off (for most of them, especially women) than they are now with Islamic fundamentalists in control. I’ve never seen any claim that Saddam was a “threat” to our own interests since he was willing to sell us oil and while a tyrant, was at least willing to allow non-Muslims to live their lives in relative peace. That changed to the worse once the fundamentalists took control of the country.
gravenimage says
Saddam Hussein was really vile–but those who have replaced him are no better, and are in some ways worse.
gravenimage says
No–Americans are not “devil worshipers”.
We should not think that the vicious Saudis are our allies, though.
Unknown guy says
Who is authorized to give fatwa in islam because many muslims say that bin laden was not authorized to give fatwa hence his jihad was not valid?
Edmund says
This is BS like You can read Koran only in Arabic to knew the real “truth”. And the real truth is just kill/slave/rape the infidel and talk as many lies as You need.
gravenimage says
Saying bin Laden had no right to issue Fatwas is mostly Taqiyya.
Miguel Ángel says
What is fatwah exactly, could u explain to me please. Would appreciate
terry sullivan says
no western countries should fund UN–its the enemy
a saudi as human rights commissioner?????
gravenimage says
Yes–grotesque, given they have one of the worst human rights records on the planet.
notnolib says
What about just “pointing things out” about (p)islam? Nothing “islamophobic”, but just pointing out that mohammed the pig-faced dog and inventor of allah the moon-god and (p)islam itself, was a slaveholder? And we know what we do about slaveholders. Nothing bad…..just pointing out.
gravenimage says
Islam should be exposed at every turn.
Proud Kafir says
This universe doesn’t just belong to muscums alone.
Emili says
Muslims are good at blackmailing everyone and aggressively demand for respect of their human rights, but are totally disinclined to give it to people of other Faiths. Come down to Nigeria where I reside and see the horrendous suffering and discrimination to which the religious minority are being subjected to in Muslim majority northern Nigeria
Miguel Ángel says
I feel for u so much. I have been told I’m an empath. After reading your take…please protect & stay safe most of all. But document & highlight every evil doing. Discreetly. But try to build evidence to add to the other horrors the ignoramous brigaders choose to block out about this religion of peace. God bless you & keep you safe. Luv&peace from Scotland
Baba Kofi says
The UN should ask the Islamic countries to allow for total freedom of worship by all people in their country. What are they saying “Islamophobic”, what is it a total intolerant religion. You cannot express your yourself freely about their governance system, or anything at all, you cannot choose to worship or even not to. What kind of religion or faith is that. Total suppression and they want the rest of the world to ban people from commenting on their ills. If UN accept this they will be the first to fall to it.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, Islamic countries and their unfree supporters make up the majority of United Nations countries.
James Lincoln says
The Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) now includes 56 UN member states, approximately 29% of the number of UN member states: 193.
Many of the other UN member states who do not belong to OIC are still sympathetic to their causes.
Also, the percentage of UN member states which are full-fledged democracies is just 45%
http://humanrightsvoices.org/EYEontheUN/un_101/facts/?p=16
gravenimage says
Yes–grim figures.
OLD GUY says
Saudi Arabia speaking out about racism and human rights is a JOKE. The Saudi’s are a closed country and practice sharia law which discriminates against anyone who isn’t Muslims.
Jerome B Bigge says
Civil rights don’t exist in Saudi Arabia. Human Rights? They don’t exist there either…
Miles M Schreiner says
Is this the same Islam that persecutes Jews, Christians, and Hindus indiscriminately, in writing and physically? Talk about hypocrisy. Ridiculous.
drew webb says
Get the US out of the UN then get the UN out of the US, preferably back to Babylon where it belongs.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
Horrific that these butchers are allowed to lecture other people about morality.
Saudi, Qatar, UAE, Iran etc. should all be banned from the UN (and their people should be banned from entering the US)
Miguel Ángel says
Hey rob, fellow brit here. Relatively new to jihadi watch. Grateful to find sense is out there. I mean, what do you actually think her majesty & the true christian believers with sense and knowledge regarding these problems – what would they really believe. As British heritage and culture is destroyed daily by the left and Islam. If we can see it? ,peace&hope most of all I will keep praying for. Best wishes pal from Glasgow
noname says
So where are the fines on religious hatred and abuse against women? Islam owes alot.
Mary says
I have a suggestion for getting rid of Islamophobia. Ban islam. No islam = no Islamophobia.