Does Volker Türk really believe his own blather? Does he have no understanding whatsoever of the fact that the Taliban have imposed Sharia, which they consider to be divine law, upon Afghanistan, and aren’t going to exchange what they think is divine law for a place in the global human rights establishment? Why does every last official in the Western world have such a studied ignorance and incomprehension regarding Islam?
“Afghanistan: Human rights ‘in a state of collapse’, warns Türk,” UN News, September 12, 2023:
The “shocking” and “cruel” oppression of Afghan women and girls by the Taliban against the backdrop of a severe humanitarian crisis has put the country’s future in jeopardy, UN rights chief Volker Türk warned on Tuesday.
“Human rights in Afghanistan are in a state of collapse,” he told the Human Rights Council, before sounding the alarm over ongoing reports of extrajudicial killings, torture and ill-treatment and arbitrary arrests and detentions, as well as serious violations against former Government officials, as documented in a new human rights office (OHCHR) report….
Mr. Türk said that the suspension of the Afghan constitution and of laws protecting women from violence or guaranteeing media freedom, as well as the dissolution of the country’s Independent Human Rights Commission, were elements of the “systematic erosion of the institutions that once provided some protection for human rights”.
The High Commissioner called on the de facto authorities to “change course” and bring Afghanistan back to the international fold with full respect for its international human rights obligations….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Are UN officials really this stupid, or do they just play stupid for the media?
MrLogical says
They really are that stupid…
And fundamentally evil.
Really.
Keith O says
The statement, “how stupid can you be”? is seen as a challenge in the UN.
VictorMc says
NO, or YES. They really are that stupid. Their ignorance of reality is mind-boggling.
I never ever read ANYTHING that comes from any organisation that begins with the letters UN.
They are either too stupid or thieving or both probably.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Thanks, guys!
Hoi Polloi says
Ya think, Volker Türk? Isn’t this just islam’s primary goal, to deprive human beings of all their rights? Except, of course those who are the best of all created beings, of course.
Wellington says
Proving again that the West and the world at large is now led by either fools or the outright malevolent.
A good start (it won’t happen though) would be for many Western nations like the US to officially pull out of the UN. Yes, please re-locate UN headquarters to Tehran, Riyadh, Pyongyang, Bamako, Moscow, Beijing, or sundry other places where liberty is non-existent.. At least it would be refreshingly honest if done so but then there is nothing honest about so much of the era we live in.
Absurdity and evil are in the driver’s seat at present. You bet they are. For confirmation of this only look at those directing the forever foolish, corrupt and stupid Biden, presently occupying formally the single most powerful office in the world. Put another way, mankind is presently in deep shit and the world is drifting, drifting, drifting.
nicholas tesdorf says
Politicians of the ‘West’, these days, are both fools and outrightly malevolent.
Brian Ozzy says
Good post Wellington. You got it in one!
PRCS says
Yes, it is.
Why, oh why, can’t politicians and appointed officials just “get that”?
PRCS says
Meant for Hoi Polloi.
Hoi Polloi says
+1
somehistory says
Back when there were U.S. and other nations’ troops in that country looking for bin laden. much news coverage was undertaken on showing how the taliban treated women, little girls. the young boys who were routinely raped ( during bo’s pretendship, the soldiers were told to not interfere.)
Once bo was in office, it was as if the mozlums in afghanistan had actually installed *democracy* as far as the nedia was concerned.
The original members of the taliban who are still alive, have not changed from twenty years ago. It was kind of like suspended animation…they were still fighting and biding their time.
So, why should anyone expect anything different from the same scum as the original scum?
And, the guy’s expression reminds me of the deputy policeman in the movie, “Beyond Loch Ness” just at the moment he saw the baby dino about to have him for lunch.
Hoi Polloi says
I read an NBC article in that era lauding US progress by way of a swimming pool built for Afghanis. Apart from the question of why we’re building border walls and luxury spas for the rest of the world, they openly admitted that progress was not yet sufficient to allow women (mothers of these children!!) to swim there, only grown men and young children. So the US built and bragged about a building a market for child marriage and bacha bazi pickoffs.
PRCS says
“So the US built and bragged about a building a market for child marriage and bacha bazi pickoffs.”
Laughably stupid just doesn’t cover it.
tim gallagher says
Duh, what a surprise that human rights and islam, especially the pure, devout, hardline Taliban version of islam, do not go together. They never have and they never will. Good photo of this fuckwit from the totally useless UN which seems to be full of braindead idiots like him. He looks as if a little reality has just got through to his miniscule brain, which no doubt inhabits fantasy land, and he looks stunned. He has been mugged by reality as the saying goes. I suppose we have to be thankful for small blessings such as when reality occasionally does get through to fuckwits like this UN clown.
nicholas tesdorf says
Volker Türk has no concept of religious belief left in him and cannot realise that the Taliban has a religious belief driving and guiding it that contains no shred of the moral values that form the basis of Christianity. In Volker Türk’s mind, it is not conceivable that people could take the contents of the Qur’an and Hadiths more seriously than anything else including the Human Rights Council,
Westman says
Is Volker Türk a comedian? There have never been any “human rights” under Taliban rule other than those permitted by early orthodox Islam.
Who painted over those tiger stripes for poor old Volker? Alas, it wasn’t permanent as the Taliban rub it away. Volker never understood that lying to promote Islam is quite natural for Islam and some EU nations have begun doing it themselves.
Aum says
Clown – learn what you are dealing with.
Pray Hard says
Just another NWO joker, a professional liar, a juggler, a street corner con magician who produces nothing of importance to the world except smoke and mirrors.
Pray Hard says
And when were human rights NOT in collapse in the Ummah? And when was the UN nothing but a moslem boys club and sock puppet of the OIC?
OLD GUY says
Human rights are in a state of collapse in all muslim countries and much of the western countries as well.
Walter Sieruk says
If Volker Turk really believes that the vicious and deadly Taliban can by either reason or logic, can be persuaded to “change course” then he’s a very naive and unrealistic man.
As the ancient Greek playwright, Aristophanes, had, rightly, wrote “Even the wisest of the wise can never make a crab walk straight.”
Likewise, the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant had, wisely, written, “Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight things can be made.”
Walter Sieruk says
As for those naive and unrealistic people who hope the Taliban, with their cruel Sharia tyranny can somehow be reformed are actually reaching for a daydream that will never come to be.
The reason why this is so is because completely brutal cruel misogynistic and murderous in an actual vicious, literal, demonic sense.
There is nothing, at all good about the Taliban regime that would serve as a foundation to build genuine reform on.
To explain this in a Biblical way, the Taliban regime is so totally demonically crooked that it can’t even be straighten out with any method of reform. That horrendously vicious and wicked Islamic tyranny is totally lacking in any type of goodness that that it can’t ever be counted as a nation that has any regard or respect for basic human rights.
Likewise, the Bible reads, “What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.” Ecclesiastes 1:15. [N.I.V.]
That horrific Mullah regime” of Iran is only capable of inflicting harm, misery and death. As the Bible informs its reader, “All the days of the oppressed are wretched.” Proverbs 15:15.