Sunday, November 30, 2008
The flat-to-ventrisme of Radio-Canada before the Islamist propaganda, by Anne Humphreys
Your taxes at work: state television in the service of propaganda of political Islam, allegedly in a program devoted to ethics, spirituality and religious practice ... Radio-Canada made a point of honor, in its educational mission, to "correct" the defense of freedom and criticism of Islamofascism, inviting an apologist for political Islam. It is kif kif.
On November 16, Radio-Canada presented a report entitled: Islam as seen by the father and Boulad Lamine Four. Father Boulad is a Christian living in Egypt. Lamine Foura is an engineer of Algerian origin living in Quebec. Here's the synopsis of the report posted on the website of the show:
Jesuit, Father Henri Boulad is a Christian from Egypt who lives in the heart of Islam ever since. He believes that religious freedom does not exist in Muslim societies. Faced with the rise of fanaticism, Boulad father seeks reform, reform through the emergence of a moderate Islam, otherwise we are heading towards a conflagration. And this reform is through dialogue between Muslim liberals and radicals, he argues.
In that speech without concessions Father Boulad, Lamine Foura replica that beyond a rise of fanatic fundamentalism and lack of freedom in Arab and Muslim countries, the sources of tension within Islam are many . Although this Muslim by concedes that Islam needs a new breath, he contends that the speech of Father Boulad confusing Islam and Islamism, a discourse that ultimately plays into the hands of extremists.
The interview with Father Henri Boulad can be viewed by clicking here. The interview with Lamine Four is accessible by clicking here.
Our collaborator Quebeckers Jugurten of Algerian origin, analyzing the interview with Lamine Foura. - Marc Lebuis
The flat-to-ventrisme Radio-Canada before the Islamist propaganda Lamine Four, by Jugurten
In issuing of Second Regard at Radio Canada, Alain Crevier wanted to correct what wines Father Henri Boulad by someone who know better Islam. But before doing this talk connoisseur, our journalist reassured viewers Quebeckers: the person in question is wrapped qualifications and activities much more important and more numerous than those which engages the average Quebecker. Lamine Foura should be listened to with devotion.
Alain Crevier this Lamine Four as a scientific rational mind, however religious practice. But that may say a staunch practitioner of his religion! And what can we say of rational and scientific about dogma. Second Regard called a judge and party to enlighten us on what the Father Boulad. If the goal of Alain Crevier was to give a right of reply to Islam, he gave the floor to an imam.
Why then Lamine Four? Alain Crevier think his illustrious analyst Muslim will be backed by his university degrees and functions snoring. The Quebeckers, tired of their own religious for ages, will be more likely to believe a Muslim citizen "integrated", rational, committed to his community and graduated a single priest who drool.
Radio Canada believes that Quebeckers are bumpkins who believe that more is high on the social ladder, the more one has access to infuse science, it is more intelligent, it is therefore more credible. Hence the almost vulgar exhibitionism Lamine Foura, certainly encouraged by Radio Canada.
Lamine Foura is presented as "of Algerian origin." In fact, it is not "home alone" but Algerian full, leaving no place in Canada. It is Algerian heart, mentality, culture, religion, spirit and paper. He is even a communitarian asset which is in Algeria rebuild against all odds in Quebec. He built his social life around the Arab-Islamic Maghreb nostalgic way Andalusian and likes to invite the Other, Occidental, to take a look brief and superficial in its exotic world communitarian and closed.
I know of Canadian French origin (the so-called pure laine Quebecois), of English, Irish, Greek, Italian or Scottish. Radio Canada would not insist on the origin of these people, nor their diplomas when they are interviewed on Catholicism or Protestantism or anything else. They live it as an indiscretion, perhaps as a mockery, even as "a flower jetage" hiding something. But the Muslim communitarian as it does because it positioned well in the community, enhances its prestige and increases its chances of one day become one of the leaders listened to the community.
It is not useful to recall the origins of French Canadian, Italian, Belgian or Irish because these people are not proselytes of their community or their religion when they. There is therefore no need to reassure others in launching the message: "See therefore brave people like this person is of Irish-educated, hard working, kind, normal and friendly, yet its origin is Irish." Anyway, the Irish question would not do that!
Radio Canada does not know can be what kind of message it distills, but both condescending and flat-to-may make ventrisme some of its guests that more arrogant, more daring in a lie in the manipulation and opportunism Knowing that does not openly blame and that anyway the audience was asleep in the early minutes of the show. But the audience he was really asleep?
Radio Canada, Father Boulad and specialist ovens are agreed that radical Islamists are a minority. Similarly, the proportion of drug traffickers is small compared to the total population of Montreal. The drug therefore represents no danger to society and we can rest on our laurels. We did not even need to warn our children against this scourge.
Only a minority of political and religious leaders produce and broadcast a speech radical Islamist. False because the majority of Muslims do not blame these radicals and are more likely to listen and to follow them. Again, the famous law of Pareto works wonderfully: 20% of causes are responsible for 80% damage! In any totalitarian ideology, there is forming an elite minority holding a majority in breath and leads by the nose. The most courageous among the silent majority, are suppressed, or die, which is kif kif.
Specifically it means all this? The countries where Islam holds political power are totalitarian, freedoms, oppressive and repressive, and we see no need for additional evidence. Elsewhere in the Muslim world, Islam does not despair of reaching govern directly and permanently. The few countries that have allowed Islamist parties to activate legally saw them win elections (Algeria, Sudan, Palestine, Pakistan, Turkey). In these countries, militant Islamist parties are, of course, minority, but their members, sympathizers and their voters were the majority.
The example of Algeria is just typical during the elections of 1990 and during the 1991 Legislature, there was also nominated for so-called moderate Islamist parties and three parties modern democracy. They had made the ridiculous score of 1% to 5% in the 46 departments where the radical Islamic party was established. The two departments where this party was absent because of language, lack of militants and rejected by the people, parties Democrats have won over 90%. At Nationwide, the proportion is the party's most radical Islamist who has won. The party relied on some influential and radical, but how were they to follow? It is irrelevant how many people preach radical Islam. It is more interesting to know how many people listen because they could organize themselves, formalize and disseminate this speech.
After discontinuation of the electoral process, a minority among the radicals took up arms to engage in terrorism. They were 3000, 10 000 40 000? No more. But how many people were spontaneous outings in the streets to protest against barbarism and daily killings? How such a slaughter she could let marble millions of people who are yet to complain of being victims? How many have taken up arms to fight, while the government distributed to all those who wanted to enlist in the militias popular self-defense? How were they to appoint only "Islamic terrorists"? Lamine Foura knows the answers as much as I do, since we were both on site at the time.
How were they in years 80 to rush to go fight in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation? How are they still to declare their readiness to fight in Palestine and Iraq? The dictators of the Arab countries now closely monitor their youth lest it n'inonde Palestine and Iraq. So much so that the first destination of the jihadists has become the West, because then it is easier to reach the Middle East. I wonder, before such courage and determination of young Muslims, how these famous terrorists and other radical evil can strut without fear in their towns and villages, without fearing anyone. There is simply person to fear. Moreover, in Algeria, any terrorist can go to a police station, put his gun and go quietly to rest two or three months before murdering a policeman or a policeman, the offload his weapon and resume the bush. A real paradise for Islamist terrorists, blessed by the popular will and the forgiveness guaranteed by the chairman of the riboublique.
Lamine Foura does not care all that happened in his own country and does not care what happens elsewhere. His only concern INTELLECTUA spoiled child is to understand how we arrived there "referring to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. This questioning is a false intellectual posture trying to fool his audience. When there is carnage in his own community, an intellectual should betray a part of his community, one that is guilty. It does not save everyone, perpetrators and victims under the pretext that they are all his own. This pretext communitarian unconditional pushing Lamine Four to "question" and then serve on a platter disparate reasons which are heard by a miracle child Islamic terrorist regardless of goodwill of culture and religion Muslim.
Like everyone, Lamine Four seeks to create this image dear to European chroniclers of the good old days of the colonies: Islam, perfumes smell of jasmine mixed with orange, during voluptuous women whispering behind their veils rustle, shadow and darkness housing the frolics man and woman in the freshness of the setting sun casting its color purple on the undulating horizon of the Mediterranean .... and potatoes and potatoes. For Lamine Foura, anything that is not unbridled poetry is not Islam. A real slogan for sex tourists to Malek Chebel. We must listen Lamine Foura.
This "intellectual" is completely disconnected from reality and appears to be under the influence of a narcotic. Unless it does that remains elusive. Half the planet today is regularly shaken by Islamist attacks. The free media (the Web not to appoint him) reported every day hundreds of cases of mistreatment and abuse with impunity on women, religious minorities in the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West. Mr Foura wants to "understand how we arrived there." Usually you wonder how after something unfortunate could have happen. We want to find out afterwards calmly, once the unfortunate event behind us, how things have slipped while everything was fine. Here then, it went well?
Lamine Foura plays on words to suggest that usual, Islamic fundamentalism does not exist in its violent and terrorist. I understand the process if Muslim countries have been democracies and the Islamist terrorist adventure was a brief parenthesis in the past now. The fact that Lamine Four is the question while it is happening again is not mere curiosity neutral, but a willingness to immediately appoint officials, even guilty, to immediately bring charges.
The culprits are of course the West and Jews. It lists a series of cases that dummy do any analysis, however short. Saying that "it's complicated" is just a simplistic way of trying to cover their tracks. The technique is to establish a multitude of cases mounted fan to keep spirits as much as possible the only real cause: the violent and aggressive nature of Islam, never ceased children Islamism. Lamine Foura therefore directs viewers to other considerations to prevent it from seeking in Islam itself the rise of fundamentalism (euphemism for terrorism, intellectual and factual). Lamine Foura counting on the laziness of the viewer to get there because there is a caricature showing the viewer slumped on his sofa, liabilities, gobant whole and not reflective.
According Lamine Four, the causes of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism were totally alien to Islam and Muslim societies. See this:
"What happened after the 2nd World War"
What has happened after the second world war that would explain the rise of Islamic fundamentalism today in all Muslim countries and Muslim communities established in the West? Lamine Foura does not say so. But in coded language Islamic Lamine Foura discussed the creation of the State of Israel. For him, this "injustice" justifies the radicalization of Muslim societies and its corollary, Islamist terrorism.
What Lamine Foura cache is that all current Arab states were created after that of Israel or in the same decade. The Arab nation states today in their borders and their sovereignty, have been created by colonial forces as the decolonization movement empower Arab peoples. Most of these reports are mere provinces of the Ottoman Empire or from different governorates Caliphates before the empire. Thus, an Algerian citizen of a sovereign state, Algeria, founded in 1962 is quite normal to challenge the state of Israel yet established in 1948. Israel is the only state unanimously challenged in the Muslim world.
"Colonization"
We notice that most colonial episode is distant history in Muslim countries over Islamic fundamentalism is gaining in thickness in Muslim societies. If colonialism was the cause of the rise of fundamentalism, it would have assisted rather to reverse. The injury is calm and generally heal with time, and with them, resentment and feelings of hatred fed by the colonial fade. Generally, as the memory treats the most tragic episodes in their history, the people calm down and become prone to forgiveness. Thus, Europeans, Russians and Americans today feel no hatred against the Germans, nor to the Japanese, while in the Muslim world, hatred of French and English, former colonizers, is more visceral, including even the Western countries that have colonized any Muslim country (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland). For these countries there are other reasons cited.
"What is happening in the Middle East"
Lamine Foura confirms what everyone has come to believe the problem is not between Palestinians and Israelis, but between the Muslim world and Jews. The conflict between Israel and Palestine can grow Nigerian Muslims to radicalize. Thus, the existence of Israel as much a problem for Muslims in Indonesia, the Berbers of North Africa, the Iranian and I do not know what ethnic group in Nigeria under the jurisdiction of the Sharia. The hypothesis, if true, Israel has despoiled land Arabic to explain the rigor a rise of Arab nationalism. But we see that all Muslims on earth are against Israel. But historically, this land was rather the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, not Islam .. By a sleight of hand to Islamize the Christian and Jewish history that the Muslim conquerors had made a Muslim land since forever and ever. At this "forever" believe that all Muslims Jakarta to Rabat and not to give the Palestinians a viable and modern state.
But beyond its formulation, it is unclear how this problem can explain that Islamist armed group slaughtered thousands of people in Algeria, another raises bombs in Egypt, another crisis in Morocco, another in the Philippines, another India, etc.
"Interventions increasingly intense in the West in Muslim countries"
The only intervention of the West in Muslim countries were in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since then, there have been no other, despite Darfur. Lamine Foura speculates thus adding his "increasingly intense." The rise of modern Islamic radicalism began well before any intervention by the West as a Muslim country. The campuses of the Arab world already teeming young preachers ignited in the late 70s. The war against the Soviets in Afghanistan was carried out by radical Islamists, funded by Saudi Arabia and supported by Pakistan and the West, precisely. The seizure of power by radical Islamists in Iran and Sudan has nothing to do with "interventions increasingly intense in the West in Muslim countries."
The sticking massive Algeria have nothing to do with the West and are certainly not committed to punish the regime, nor denounce the administration.
Lamine Foura what defines us secularism, to us ignorant, advance and the'islam that may fall within the theocracy. It's like say that water can be wet if we do not blunder!
Lamine Foura does not know without doubt Saudi Arabia or the Sudan or Iran. Where potentates govern in the name of religion and Islam. For him, these countries are fictitious and Islam has nothing to do with any form of theocracy. It intends G. Bush to speak well axis and axis of evil, but never heard Khomeini and other Islamic preachers talk about Great Satan is already 30 years. The U.S. of G Bush would be totalitarian, but not Iran or Saudi Arabia or the Sudan, nor any other Muslim country. It must be to allow Radio Canada say that without shy.
Finally, Lamine Four runs in a speech that neither head nor tail. He contends that the lack of religious freedom in Muslim countries is the lack of freedom itself that has nothing to do with religion. However, we see that in countries where Islam is in power that there is less freedom, including religious freedom (Arabia, some Gulf countries, Iran, Sudan). In other totalitarian countries, the lack of freedom is justified by Islam, known by other names, such as "national constants", "Muslim values framework", "our values and traditions" etc ... but all these disguised in secular dictatorships continue to introduce Islam the state religion and to take advice from clerics and other advice from the fatwa. They are all members of the Islamic Summit and all use Islam to end their policies because people ask. All Muslim societies are against "freedom itself" and this is directly related to religion.
In most of these dictatorships, there are political parties and cultural associations in favor of freedom, secularism, democracy, freedom of worship, to diversity. These parties and these associations are tiny, downright invisible. They do not sucked or Algeria or Morocco, or Tunisia or Egypt, or zero otherwise. They simply disappear for lack of human component to promote, disseminate and upholding these values.
This is of course the happiness of dictatorships in place, they know what the people want to hear.
For Lamine Foura, Islam has nothing to do with the catastrophic situation of Muslim countries. It puts everything on the back of colonialism. Nothing has ever happened before colonialism and nothing after. Thus, in Algeria, 46 years after independence, dictatorship and Islamism murderer charged on French colonialism. It does not accuse the West of trade with Saudi Arabia totalitarian, fundamentalist, theocratic and freedoms. No, it makes it responsible for attacks and killings that happen in the West itself.
Christianity and Islam
What about the comparison between Christianity and Islam. Lamine Foura wants to make us fatalistic. For reasons of equity, see equality, we must now leave Islam do what it wants because the Inquisition had done what she wanted in the Middle Ages. We must therefore compare Islam to Christianity today the fourteenth century, which would make lenient.
You must be totally geek to believe that Christians today endorse the Saint Bartholomew, witch hunting and burning heretics to time. Lamine Foura is categorical: Islam will evolve over time. Just be patient, bending the spine and count the dead to pass the time. In five or six centuries, Islam will be the same stage of development as Christianity today. I swear, it Lamine Four and who says we must believe. Otherwise, you would be in bad faith.
Labels: Anne Humphreys, Canada, Human mistake, Islam, Radio-Canada, Religion and fanaticism
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Tarek Fatah . Severing the hand of friendship
A writer from Toronto forwarded a news item claiming, "India's Internal Security Police are now holding and questioning an identified Israeli Mossad agent, who had been in communication with some of the alleged terrorists in India two weeks before the BLACK OP attacks took place."
As ridiculous as this may sound, chances are countless Muslims are deluding themselves into believing that it is not their co-religionists who are responsible for the savagery let loose on India, but some hidden hand that is part of a U.S.-Zionist conspiracy against Islam. If at all there was an intelligence agency whose finger prints can be spotted all over the crime scene, it appears to be Islamist rogue elements from the Pakistan ISI, hell-bent on disrupting a marked improvement in India's relations with neighbouring Pakistan.
For two decades, the Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has been the de-facto government in Pakistan, toppling regimes, aiding the Taliban, giving cover to al-Qaeda fugitives, and running a business empire worth billions of dollars.
In July, the new democratically elected government in Islamabad led by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani attempted to bring the ISI under civilian control, but under threat of a military coup, had to perform a humiliating about-face within 24 hours.
Then last Sunday, Pakistan's foreign minister announced the political wing of the ISI, responsible for rigging elections and blackmailing politicians, had been disbanded, saying, "The ISI is a precious national institution and wants to focus on counterterrorism activities." It seems the foreign minister had spoken too soon. Within hours, BBC reported an unnamed senior security official had contradicted the foreign minister's statement.
While the tussle between the ISI and ruling Pakistan Peoples Party for control of the country's intelligence network was going on behind the scenes, the President of Pakistan, Asif Zardari, threw a bombshell that caught the Pakistan military establishment off guard. Speaking to an Indian TV audience via a TV satellite link this week, President Zardari announced a strategic shift in Pakistan's nuclear policy. He startled a cheering Indian audience by saying that Pakistan had adopted a "no first strike" nuclear war policy.
This apparently did not go down well within Pakistan's military establishment that has ruled the country for decades using the "Indian bogey" to starve the nation of much needed development investment to put the huge military machine on a permanent war footing with no war in sight.
Immediately military commentators denounced Mr. Zardari, with one saying that he believed the president was "not fully informed or completely aware of" Pakistan's policy on the issue.
To further alarm Pakistan's own military-industrial complex, Mr. Zardari borrowed a quote from his late wife, who once said that there's a "little bit of India in every Pakistani and a little bit of Pakistan" in every Indian.
While most Pakistanis welcomed the new air of peace and friendship, the country's religious right was upset.
The founder of one of Pakistan's most feared armed Islamist groups had accused President Zardari of being too dovish toward India, and criticized him for referring to militants in Indian-held Kashmir as "terrorists." Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a major militant group fighting in Indian Kashmir, described Mr. Zardari's comments as "a clear violation and digression from the consistent policy of Pakistan."
Then Wednesday, the so-called Deccan Mujahideen struck against India with the clear aim of triggering a Hindu backlash against the country's minority Muslims, with the obvious danger to Pakistan-India relations. Most security commentators agree the Deccan Mujahideen is merely a tag of convenience and behind this well-planned terror attack lies the secret hand of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Only time will tell whether these Islamists succeed or whether the good people of India -- Hindus and Muslims -- can see through this provocation and embrace the hand of friendship extended by President Zardari.
In the meantime, Muslims around the world will also have to decide whether to enter the 21st century and distance themselves from the doctrine of armed Jihad, or go back to the 12th century and embrace these haters of joy and peace.
Tarek Fatah is the author of Chasing a Mirage:
The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State.
Labels: India, Pakistan, Tarek Fatah, Terror in Mumbai, Terrorism
Great Britain - A British preacher glorifying terrorists in Mumbai, which "avenging the Crusades against Islam", by Iba Bouramine
In a declaration abhorrent, Choudary, quoted by the Daily Star, said that Britons who were killed had themselves to blame for being on the battlefield of the war that engaged the Muslims the world .
LinkLabels: Iba Bouramine, India, Pakistan, Religion and fanaticism, Terror in Mumbai, Terrorism
MCC shocked at Mumbai terrorist attack, by Francis Chartrand
November 27, 2008
MCC shocked at Mumbai terrorist attack
“Doctrine of Jihad must be denounced as inhuman”
TORONTO - The Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC), in expressing shock and dismay at the terror strikes in Mumbai has condemned these egregious acts of violence .
In a statement, the MCC said, there is little doubt that whichever jihadi outfit was behind this heinous crime, it was motivated by hate and a desire to sabotage the recent thawing of relations between India and Pakistan. The bombings come barely a week after peace overtures by President Asif Zardari who stated he did not see India as an adversary and had called for closer relations.
The MCC statement called on world leaders to confront the scourge of Islamist terrorism by challenging the validity of the doctrine of jihad as laid out by the worldwide Islamist movement led by the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, and a myriad of soft jihadi organizations in the West.
Unless and until this doctrine of jihad is confronted at the ideological level, fighting the war on terror is like shooting individual mosquitoes to combat malaria. Without challenging the Islamist doctrine of armed Jihad, it is futile to confront the jihadis. Just as Canada and its allies waged a war against Nazism as part of the war against Germany, today Canada and its allies should expose the doctrine of Jihad as pronounced by such Islamists as the late Syed Qutb and Syed Maudoodi, as inhuman and unfit for the modern world.
The MCC hopes that Muslims all over the world will unite to fight the curse of extremist and militant ideologies that sully the name of Islam and bring much disrepute to Muslims.
The MCC is also calling upon the Canadian government to do all it can to help obtain a speedy release of the six Canadian hostages held by militants.
For more information, please call Sohail Raza, Communications Director of the MCC at (416) 505-1613.
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Labels: Francis Chartrand, India, Religion and fanaticism, Terror in Mumbai, Terrorism
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Canada - Carleton University cancels a fundraiser for cystic fibrosis, a disease that is less than whites, by Noémie Cournoyer
OTTAWA - The Students Association of Carleton University has decided to drop a charity for cystic fibrosis as a beneficiary of funds raised during its annual dinner Shinearama. The student council voted in favor of a motion that argued that the disease is not sufficiently inclusive.
The motion was presented to a students said they recently discovered that cystic fibrosis "less than whites, primarily men." The students voted almost unanimously in favor of the motion.
Each year, around the beginning of the autumn session, as part of orientation sessions for newcomers, students walk through the city and calling for donations to passersby. The motion, "all newcomers and volunteers must feel that their efforts to raise funds to benefit diverse communities."
Nick Bergamini, a third year student in journalism and member of student council, said it was the only adviser present who voted against the motion. This decision is an example of excessive political correctness on campus, he said.
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The public reaction to the decision of the Student Association did not wait. Some have denounced the decision as an example of political correctness, others facetious tried to find what could be considered an illness "inclusive". Finally, some wondered if the decision of the Student Association would affect donations of graduates of the University.
"The reasoning behind this decision is totally ridiculous. Cystic fibrosis is a deadly disease. I do not want it to anyone, "said Marie Lunney, a graduate of Carleton who worked as a volunteer for a foundation. "If I had the choice between making a donation to cystic fibrosis or Carleton, I would give for cystic fibrosis.
Completely disgusting.
Labels: Canada, Human mistake
Canada - For the Human Rights Commission of Alberta, white Christians have no "human rights"
That decision followed a complaint of "hate speech" brought by a citizen regarding a band called Deicide one of the songs on an album available in stores called: Kill the Christian (Kill Christians).
This citizen had also bought a CD by a band called Type O Negative containing a song titled Kill All the White People (kill all whites). The lyrics urged white genocide, "and then we will be free."
As Christian Caucasian, the plaintiff complained of incitement to hatred, contempt and violence against white Christians. The Commission rejected the complaint, citing among other things:
"... Although the content and tone of communications appear on their face as discriminatory, the group is not a vulnerable group. The terms are not used to strengthen existing stereotypes and the message is not a point of issues largely in the public discourse ... "
Let us not forget, however, that the Canadian Human Rights Commission condemned a staff manager for about white openly racist. He welcomed its staff by saying: "I like visible minorities".
Labels: Canada, Human mistake
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Press Freedom Barometer 2008
Afghanistan: Canadian broadcaster’s two local employees freed, by Anne Humphreys
Reporters Without Borders welcomes today’s release of two local employees of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - brothers Shokoor Feroz, a fixer, and Qaem Feroz, a driver - who had been held by the National Directorate of Security, an intelligence agency, since CBC reporter Melissa Fung’s abduction on 12 October.
"We thank President Hamid Karzai and the many other Afghans and Canadians who interceded on behalf of the unjustly detained Feroz brothers," Reporters Without Borders said. "The protests by CBC’s journalists and management illustrated in an exemplary manner that the defence of the local employees of foreign media should be a priority. The Afghan authorities should compensate the two brothers for their six weeks in detention."
The Reporters Without Borders release of 21 November : http://www.rsf.org/article.php3 ?id_article=29368
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Labels: Afghanistan, Anne Humphreys, Reporters without borders
ICC: Congo Ruling Victory for Justice, by Marie-Êve Marineau
(The Hague, November 18, 2008) - The International Criminal Court's decision today to proceed with the trial of a Congolese rebel leader accused of using child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a victory for victims and fair trials, Human Rights Watch said. Human Rights Watch urged the court to explain its decision on the trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo to the communities most affected by the alleged crimes.
Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) lifted a stay on Lubanga's trial, ruling that the reasons for the stay "have fallen away," and scheduled the trial to start on January 26, 2009. The proceedings had been suspended because the prosecution had failed to disclose potentially exculpatory material - information that shows or tends to show the innocence of the accused - collected confidentially prior to the original trial date in June 2008.
"Today's decision assures that victims will have the chance to see Lubanga face justice," said Param-Preet Singh, counsel in Human Rights Watch's International Justice Program. "The judge's insistence on protecting the rights of the defendant also shows the ICC's commitment to fair trials."
Because of concerns that a fair trial could not be assured without access by the defense to certain potentially exculpatory information, Trial Chamber I suspended the trial on June 13 and on July 2 ruled that Lubanga should be released. But he remained in custody because the prosecution appealed the decision to suspend the trial - the basis for ordering his release. On October 21, the Appeals Chamber affirmed the decision to suspend the proceedings, but it reversed the decision to release Lubanga.
Meanwhile, the prosecution took steps, together with the confidential information providers, to remedy the lack of disclosure. Today's decision reflects the success of these efforts.
The suspension of the trial caused significant confusion and disappointment among affected communities in the Ituri district of northeastern Congo, where people were awaiting the start of the trial. Lubanga's supporters in Ituri have also sought to use the suspension as proof of Lubanga's innocence. It is vital for affected communities to have accurate information on developments in the case, Human Rights Watch said.
"Recent developments in the Lubanga case are both anxiously anticipated in Ituri and very complex," said Singh. "If the court is serious about making justice meaningful to those most affected, it needs to find effective ways of reaching them and explaining what happened and why."
Lubanga's trial will be the first trial at the ICC. It is now up to the prosecution to present an effective case and for the trial chamber to continue to guard defense rights scrupulously, Human Rights Watch said. The court will also need to provide ongoing information on the trial's progress to affected communities through targeted outreach campaigns.
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Labels: Congo, Human Rights Watch, Marie-Êve Marineau
Monday, November 24, 2008
ICC: First Warrants Requested for Attacks on Darfur Peacekeepers, by Iba Bouramine
(The Hague) - The request on November 20 by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for arrest warrants for three rebel leaders believed to be responsible for attacks on international peacekeepers in Darfur is an important step toward protecting those who protect civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. Repeated attacks on international peacekeepers have severely compromised the effectiveness of peacekeeping operations in Darfur.
The request for warrants, the first for killing peacekeepers, stems from an attack on September 29, 2007, by rebel forces on an African Union (AU) base in Haskanita, South Darfur, Sudan, that killed 12 peacekeepers and civilian police officers from the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS). At least eight other AMIS personnel were seriously injured. The laws of war and the statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) prohibit attacks against international peacekeeping missions, so long as they are not directly involved in hostilities.
"Civilians rely on peacekeepers for protection, and any hope for restoring security for civilians in Darfur depends on peacekeepers being able to do their job," said Richard Dicker, director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch. "These warrant requests send a strong message that such crimes will not be tolerated."
Peacekeepers are responsible for, among other things, conducting "firewood patrols" to accompany women and girls when they leave displaced persons camps to collect grass and firewood. These escorts, where conducted, have reduced the risk of rape and other sexual violence that is still widespread across Darfur. Following the Haskanita attack, AMIS adopted stricter security guidelines, curtailed all its activities, and confined staff to their bases, severely limiting its ability to protect civilians.
Security concerns remain a serious obstacle for the joint AU-UN peacekeepers (UNAMID) who took over peacekeeping in Darfur on December 31, 2007. The new peacekeeping force has also repeatedly come under direct attack from both rebel and Sudanese government forces:
- On July 8, 2008, unknown attackers killed seven peacekeepers and wounded 22 in a government-controlled area of North Darfur.
- On two occasions in July, unknown attackers shot at patrols in West Darfur, killing a peacekeeper on July 16.
- On July 21, government forces assaulted and arrested a UNAMID security officer in El Fasher.
- In August and September, unknown gunmen fired on peacekeepers' helicopters on at least four occasions.
- On October 6, a group of peacekeepers were ambushed at Menawashei, 75 kilometers north of Nyala, during an assessment patrol from Nyala to Khor Abeche in South Darfur.
- On October 29, a peacekeeper was killed when UNAMID forces came under attack at a water point near the Kassab displaced persons camp in North Darfur.
- On November 9, a peacekeeping patrol was ambushed by a group of well-armed men near Geneina in West Darfur, wounding one peacekeeper.
Since the attack on July 8, all of Darfur has remained at "UN Security Level 4," the second-highest security level, which is severely hampering the humanitarian operation.
"Although the attacks on peacekeepers in Darfur have not been on the same scale as the atrocities committed as part of the Sudanese government's counterinsurgency campaign, they are still serious crimes that interfere with any efforts to protect civilians in Darfur," Dicker said. "If the warrants are issued, all parties to the conflict should assist in the apprehension of the suspects."
On March 31, 2005, the UN Security Council referred the situation in Darfur to the ICC prosecutor. The resolution requires the government of Sudan and all parties to the conflict to cooperate fully with the court and the prosecutor. To date, the court has issued arrest warrants for two men, State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs Ahmed Haroun and a militia leader, Ali Kosheib. Sudan has refused to hand over either suspect. On July 14, the prosecutor of the ICC requested a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Darfur.
The suspects have been charged with war crimes for: murder and causing severe injury to peacekeepers; intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a peacekeeping mission; and pillaging. The names of the suspects in the request for warrants today have not been publicly released.
Labels: Human Rights Watch, Iba Bouramine, Sudan
The challenge of Durban II: freedom of expression, by Mark Dubowitz, Wall Street Journal
The first World Conference against Racism held in Durban in 2001 was the most extreme anti-Semitism since the Holocaust and the High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations at the time, Mrs. Mary Robinson, had rejected the Final Declaration and Action Plan of the Forum of NGOs.
The Durban II conference to be held in Geneva in 2009 promises to be a disaster for freedom of expression in the world. Libya chaired the Preparatory Conference, assisted by Iran and Pakistan. Canada refused to participate. The NDP, which supports the Canadian Islamic Congress in its legal jihad against Maclean's and Mark Steyn blamed the Harper government for this decision, which is a shame for this party ready to sell our freedoms for a few votes.
A few days ago, the President of the Council of Human Rights said that any value judgments on sharia, denial of freedom of conscience and religious practices as the stoning of adulterous women and marriage of girls as young as the age of 9 was Islamophobia.
Welcome to a world where criticism of militant Islam could land you in court or worse. In Vancouver, Canada's venerable Maclean's magazine awaits a hate-speech verdict from a human-rights tribunal for publishing a chapter from syndicated columnist Mark Steyn's best-selling book "America Alone." The accusers charge the author and publisher with "Islamophobia."
Last week, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary general of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), warned a gathering in Kuala Lumpur that "mere condemnation or distancing from the acts of the perpetrators of Islamophobia" would not suffice. He recommended that Western countries restrict freedom of expression and demanded that the media stop publishing "hate material" like the Danish cartoons. "It is now high time for concrete actions to stem the rot before it aggravates any further," he said.
Islamic countries already scored a victory on this front back in March. They pushed through a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Council urging a global ban on the public defamation of religion -- read Islam.
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These are examples of a growing campaign to use judicial power to silence critics of militant Islam. In the U.N. Durban Review Conference, scheduled for April 20-24, 2009 in Geneva, it appears that the OIC and its cohorts have identified the perfect platform to further their agenda.
Recall the first Durban meeting, the 2001 U.N. World Conference Against Racism, which took place only days before 9/11. That gathering deteriorated into a hate-fest against Jews, America and Israel. Disgusted by the vile rhetoric and Stürmer-like caricatures of Jews on display, the U.S. and Israeli delegations walked out.
Hopes that the Durban II conference next year will be a more enlightened event have already been dashed by the fact that some of the worst human rights abusers are setting its agenda. At the urging of the OIC, Libya secured chairmanship of the preparatory committee. Iran and Pakistan each won a seat on the committee. And Egypt, another OIC member, has been representing the 53-nation African Group during floor debates.
And so instead of Durban II rectifying the sins of the past, this latest U.N. forum will seek to undermine free societies by invoking the specter of Islamophobia. The OIC is the U.N.'s most powerful voting bloc. As the democracies at the U.N. have repeatedly learned, the OIC, with 57 members the controlling group in the 130-member bloc of developing countries, can usually push through its agenda with little difficulty.
The likely outcome of Durban II will be to urge all U.N. member states to pass legislation restricting basic freedoms of speech and action -- all in the interest of preventing "Islamophobia." The discrimination or defamation of Muslims, or of any other group for that matter, is of course reprehensible. But "Islamophobia," as defined by Libya, Iran and the other Durban II organizers, covers any criticism of Islam, Muslims or their actions.
If the leaders of these countries have it their way, writing op-eds criticizing Islamic radicalism, or speaking out against Muslim terrorists or, of course, publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, are soon to be considered criminal examples of racism.
During the most recent Durban II preparatory meetings in April and May, OIC members from Iran to Indonesia all insisted that freedom of expression is what causes Islamophobia. "The most disturbing phenomenon is the intellectual and ideological validation of Islamophobia," noted the Pakistani representative to the U.N., Marghoob Saleem Butt, on behalf of the OIC. "While it is expressed in the form of defamation of religion, it takes cover behind the freedom of expression and opinion." Voicing the demands of the Muslim bloc and its many authoritarian leaders, Mr. Butt requested that the Durban process "devise normative standards that provide adequate guarantees" against the intolerance of Muslims promoted by these freedoms.
Human rights advocates worried about this threat to civil liberties have been voicing their concerns with little success. Juliette De Rivero, for example, the Human Rights Watch advocacy director in Geneva, raised the alarm in late April: "Justified concerns about the complex relationship of racial and religious intolerance and hatred should not be the pretext to undermine key freedoms, including freedom of speech," she told the conference organizers in Geneva.
The danger of the Durban process is that it seeks to shape international and national laws. If the OIC succeeds, a broad definition of "Islamophobia" will be incorporated into Durban II's final outcome document. Thereafter, expect U.N. bodies, such as the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, to call countries to task if they fail to implement these recommendations. Other organs of the international system will adopt and cite the Islamophobia definition as well, until it and its ill effects have migrated throughout the international system.
The Durban II recommendations, however, will not stop only at warping international standards on what constitutes Islamophobia -- the OIC aims to export its language into individual countries' domestic laws. The first point in a draft of the conference's final outcome document compels countries to pursue the "enactment of adequate legislation in line with [those] international standards." The same diplomatic draft paper identifies freedom of expression as a "main challenge and obstacle" to addressing contemporary forms of racism.
Only the European Union can now stop this insidious process. Canada has already announced that it will boycott the conference, and the U.S. has also indicated that it will not participate in Durban II unless satisfied that it will not be another fiasco. But only the threat of a European pullout would deal a true blow to the credibility of the proceedings and deny the partisans of "Islamophobia" the U.N. imprimatur they crave.
Next month, France ascends to the EU presidency. It will be up to Paris to lead the fight for Western freedoms and, for once, put Iran, Libya, and other authoritarian states on the defensive. Let's hope French President Nicolas Sarkozy understands what's at stake.
Mr. Dubowitz is executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Labels: Canada, Freedom of expression, Religion and fanaticism, Secularism
The Islamist Role in the 2008 Canadian Elections, by Raheel Raza
If you are Canadian and Islamist, you probably voted for the New Democratic Party (NDP), which won 18.2% of the vote on October 14, 2008. This was an increase in of about 1% in the vote and led to seven more seats from the 2006 elections. However, the party could not budge itself from its permanent 4th place in Canada's parliament. Endorsed by the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), the left-leaning NDP has shown an incredible lack of understanding of the Islamist agenda and how soft jihadis are using democratic institutions by manipulating our respect for multiculturalism.
As a political ideology, in the long-term Islamism seeks to establish an Islamic state in the North America, but this is barely mentioned by the suave and polished young Islamists who appear in expensive suits and with a flourish of legalese and the right disarming accents. While a Taliban style overthrow is unlikely, in the short term, Islamists hope to fundamentally change western foreign policy in favor of the foreign governments that fund them and organizations they ideologically adhere to, such as the Muslim Brotherhood.
Recognizing this threat, Marc Lebuis, who runs http://www.pointedebascule.ca/, invited moderate Muslims Tarek Fatah, Salim Mansur and me to participate in a conference in Montreal to address the infiltration of Islamists into the Canadian political system, where the first real arena has been the NDP.
The NDP was founded by social democrats, and was originally, as noted by Mansur, a critical opponent of Communism, and a key element in "denying communists in Canada the opportunity to acquire any shred of legitimacy by posing as defenders of the working people." Today, however, it allows itself to be used by an equally potent ideological enemy, radical Islamism. The working class in the West now includes immigrants, who as ethnic and religious minorities complain of the classic oppression against which the NDP wishes to be a voice of protest.
But, the NDP fails to distinguish between the socio-economic concerns of Muslim immigrants in Canada and the well-funded, ideological organizations that purport to speak for them.
The Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) is one such organization. The President of CIC, Mohammad El-Masry, is notorious for his anti-Semitic statements, his call for Sharia courts in Canada, and agitation for an anti-Israeli foreign policy.
Canadian Muslims mattered in this national election because they were, some argued a swing vote in certain ridings. El-Masry endorsed the NDP, and encouraged voter registration to bolster it. Jack Layton should have repudiated Elmasry's support but did not.
Toronto NDP candidate and lawyer, El Farouk Khaki caused a stir recently when he defended a Muslim youth convicted for his involvement in a terrorist camp in Canada. After the judge threw out the youth's defense that "no real Toronto terrorist group existed because its goals were too fanciful to be achieved," Khaki stated that if you are Muslim in Canadian courts you will be presumed guilty until proven innocent. He went on to accuse the judge of having an anti-Muslim bias. This plays into the victim-hood complex Islamists want Muslims in the West to fall into. Khaki was not chastised by NDP leader Jack Layton or any other party candidate.
In Montreal, the NDP paraded Samira Laouni, as "the first veiled candidate," in the province. She ran from the riding of Bourassa and made no attempt to hide her support for what she referred to as "real Shariah." She did not win. Jack Layton should have vetted out NDP candidates who favor Sharia like Laouni, whom Mansur has called a "CIC operative."
It seems strange that with Canadian forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, the same support for Taliban style orthodoxy is allowed in Canada. Besides, pro-Sharia politicians like Laouni, Islamists are spreading their message on the street. In Mississauga, Ontario, a woman by the name of Farhat Hashmi runs an Islamic school for girls. Hashmi wears a full niqab (face covering) and encourages young girls to emulate her. She is known for promoting a very conservative Islamic ideology that is based on Wahhabism. She, like other Islamists is in favor of Sharia in Canada.
The results of the Canadian election were an eye-opener because all Muslim candidates from all parties lost, with the exception of Yasmin Ratansi, who for some time has been trying to distance herself from her Muslim identity despite being the first Muslim woman to get elected to the Canadian parliament..
This is a clear indication that because of the incessant and unreasonable demands by Islamists, Canadians punished all Muslims. Most ordinary Canadians, well-meaning and decent folks, are fed up with demands for unreasonable accommodation and are no longer willing to put up with politics disguised as religion in the public sphere. Although Canadians are politically correct and diplomatic in public, the election result shows their true feeling about the trend that Muslims who may have an Islamist agenda are not welcome in Canada. Of course, the usual suspects are already screaming Islamophobia - again.
There is no rampant Islamophobia in Canada - only an attempt at gradual Islamization.
Yasmeen Ratansi was first elected in 2004 but when she sought the nomination of her party, some Imams denounced her as not being Muslim enough because she did not cover her hair and wore skirts. She is currently Chair of the Standing Committee on the Status of women.
In two districts (ridings as they are called in Canada) the Muslim candidates who lost were openly hostile to the Islamist agenda. Wajid Khan in Toronto and Rahim Jaffer in Edmonton. It is rumored that the full force of the Islamist establishment and the mosque structure came out to defeat these two Muslims because they were seen, in the words of one cynic "too good looking to be considered authentic Muslims".
Elsewhere, a leading supporter of the Islamist causes and past Member of Parliament, Omar Alghabra was defeated. He has previously condemned Canadian newspapers that called Hamas and Hezbollah "terrorist" organizations, advocated the complete repeal of Canada's anti-terrorist laws, and supported Sharia law in Ontario. Throughout the urban districts of Canada, many Islamists tried to sneak through but met with thumping defeats. Along with the Islamists, many secular and liberal minded progressive Muslims were also trounced in what may be described as "collateral damage."
The lesson for all Muslims is written on the wall: If they are unwilling to stand up to the Islamists in their communities and stop the influence of Saudi Arabia and Iran, we will all suffer because of the actions of a few.
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Labels: Canada, Elections, Islam, Religion and fanaticism
Canada - The federal Liberal MP Keith Martin of British Columbia present a motion to repeal the powers of censorship
Dr. Keith Martin, Liberal MP representing the riding of Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, presented two notices of motion following the House of Commons:
M-153 - 19 November 2008 - Martin (Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca) - That, in the opinion of the House, subsection 13 (1) of the Canadian Human Rights should be deleted from the Act.
M-156 - 19 November 2008 - Martin (Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca) - That, in the opinion of the House, the government should hold public hearings as part of a review of the Canadian Human Rights Act of the person, the Canadian Human Rights Commission and its tribunal.
Article 13 (1) of the Canadian Human Rights is the provision that allows the Canadian Human Rights Commission to investigate complaints of Internet dissemination of place likely to expose persons members identifiable groups to hatred or contempt. It is under this article that Maclean's / Mark Steyn have been prosecuted as a result of a complaint from the Canadian Islamic Congress.
We encourage you to show your support for MP Keith Martin by sending an email to his Ottawa office:
martin.k@parl.gc.ca
It is a non-partisan issue. Press freedom and freedom of expression are issues that concern all citizens, whatever their political allegiance.
As recently wrote journalist Paul Schneidereit Nova Scotia:
In my world, freedom of expression is the cornerstone that supports all other rights. I can not remember who invented this formula, but I remember it said essentially this: "Remove me all my rights, but leave me freedom of expression. With this freedom I can regain all my other rights."
Or, as eloquently said Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, director of the project on freedom of expression of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association during the debate Saturday at King's College: "We can not seek the truth, fight for a just society, protect the interests of minorities, expose injustice, without a free press and freedom of expression stored in our back pocket in case we would need."
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Labels: Canada, Freedom of expression
Make the capital of Denmark international freedom of expression by Naser Khader, Danish Muslim MP
Naser Khader, a Danish citizen of Syrian origin, is the founder of Muslim Democrats of Denmark. He is a member of the Danish Parliament and leader of the Liberal Alliance. In 2006, he received the Prize for Freedom of Expression Award by the Jyllandsposten (the Danish newspaper that published caricatures of Muhammad). In 2007, he received the International Prize Committee Laïcity Republic, France.
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An international freedom of expression, translation adbouz an interview published in Danish on 3 October 2008 on the site weekendavisen.dk. gathered at the site North Africa.
Naser Khader is struggling to position themselves in the Danish political landscape. Maybe he will do better as a champion of Islam with a human face? Khader participated in the founding of a new international body against Islamism, and he wants to make Denmark a center of freedom of expression.
There are many unknowns about the new organization. How will she be called, a member etc ... Khader is still skeptical.
He is a British businessman who financed the philanthropic work. Recently, they met in a French chateau wine to discuss. They agreed to put aside differences and concentrate on one thing: stopping the spread of radical Islam.
"We're too fixed on the fight against bin Laden, extremists and terrorists, but they are only the tip of the iceberg. The real battle is about values, and the Islamists are gaining influence around the world. We have had discussions about who is really able to fight against Islamism, is that the West and Muslims themselves? With regard to Muslim terrorism weapons and force the West are necessary, but in relation to the fight against Islamism in general, moderate Muslims must undertake. "
"We also discussed the issue of the publication. When a moderate Muslim wrote a book, write Islamists ten pounds. They have publishing houses, they have money and they are also more or less agree, while moderates may be able to agree to fight against Islamism, but from different Political divided. Some believe that the solution is to leave Islam, but my position is that we should be in and fight against it. It does not convince many moderate Muslims in the fight against Islamism in dealing Muhammad of pedophile, calling for the banning of the Koran and so on. It's good to have this position, but I do not think it works, when it aims to convince a change of behavior. We had a discussion on this subject, but we unanimously concluded that Islam is racism. Some will object that it has nothing to do with race, but the fact is that racism in the way that word is used today, is based more on lifestyle and attitudes on race. This is racism of our era, the Islamists themselves as better people than others. The rest of humanity must go to hell".
Khader was more afraid of Saudi Arabia to Iran. He said the Saudis with their money buying everything and everyone. For example, a U.S. documentary on PBS that contributed to Khader, was stopped: Saudi Arabia is a board member who was arrested. According Naser Khader, the West did not understand where the real danger in the struggle for peace and civilization.
"Yes, Iran is dangerous and we must do our utmost to prevent them from getting a nuclear bomb, but Iran is wind compared to Saudi Arabia. I see Saudi Arabia as the country that represents the greatest threat to world peace. The ambition of Iran is to become a regional superpower, but the Saudis have global ambitions and buying influence in the world, "he said, and mentioned the issue of reporting the American journalist Martyn Burke on the internal confrontation between moderate and extremist Muslims. Khader has himself contributed, as the late Danish imam Abu Laban, in the issue, the case of the Muhammad and crisis that followed."
"Martyn Burke is a journalist known to the public channel PBS, but even if it is used there, we said 'no' to spread the story. Why? Because in the board of PBS headquarters a Saudi who has vetoed."
"The Saudis are buying influence in the media, football and stock funds, and with regard to Denmark and freedom of expression meeting held in Saudi Arabia in December 2005 on the cartoons Muhammad, is important for me. They told the meeting that now more important for Muslims is to address freedom of expression, because freedom is used to criticize Islam and Muslims. The Saudis and Egyptians came out to tell the Muslim masses "calm, we bring this matter to the UN." That is why I see Durban II as a continuation of the cartoon row." Here, Khader sees some interesting correlations. States and fundamentalist Muslim movements detected through the power of cartoons freedom of expression. They want to end it by all means. Therefore, one of the guidelines of the Conference of Islamic States is to make Islamophobia a crime, and transform the UN into an organization that will protect Islam."
Durban II is a milestone. Khader think that Denmark should become a center of the struggle for freedom of expression, which the country is de facto through the defense of the cartoons.
Khader wants Denmark organizes every two years a global conference on freedom of expression. He would like the first will take place in parallel with Durban II, in the spring.
"My ambition is to make Denmark the country of freedom of expression, and we are now working to organize a conference on freedom of expression in Copenhagen every two years on the model of Bjørn Lomborg of the conference Copenhagen on climate change. Here we will meet, to review the fight, measure what we have come and write a statement in Copenhagen. The aim is to encourage moderate Muslims around the world."
Naser Khader hopes that the first conference to be held in parallel with the UN conference on racism in Durban II in April of next year, where many Muslim countries and their body OIC will try to prohibition criticism of religion, such as Islam and blasphemy. Only then will the participants will appear openly.
"I have presented the idea and are excited about the idea that the conference will be held in Copenhagen. We will first hold a meeting for ourselves and the day following a public meeting. This does not please the Saudis, it does not bother us, it will be a source of pride. Denmark is a very big star among the freedom fighters. They follow what is happening in Denmark, and when I met the group, they were almost as much aware about what is happening in Denmark as I am here. What we are saying and doing is quickly known to the outside, whether it concerns the fight against Islamism and freedoms."
Khader believes that the battle for the United Nations is lost. He believes that democratic countries should come together to create a new organization. He wants a new UN, where countries can join only if they meet certain basic conditions, the secrecy of the vote, free elections, freedom of expression, association and religion.
"In fact, I wrote a column in 2000 on this point of view, and I was very unpopular among the radical left - you know, all those who speak of dialogue and living together - but I just returned from Geneva to prepare for Durban II, and there is no dialogue. Muslim countries are arcs and alliance against democratic countries. I spoke at the NGO, but I also attended the party official, and the first who spoke, was the representative of Saudi Arabia, who congratulated Sudan for the African nation's most progressive Where women have equal rights and that it is a myth that people are killed. And they have filled the halls of local full of signs, billboards show that Sudanese women use computers. It is absolutely ridiculous."
What will happen to the current United Nations?
"Dictators can continue all alone."
What about China?
"It can not be part of a new United Nations if it is not democratic. It is China which has blocked the aid that we wanted to bring refugees from Darfur, and they sit and oppose vetoes when it comes to human rights".
What will happen to the peace objective of the UN? does not abandon it, if there is a discussion forum common?
"It's a myth that there are talks and dialogue. Durban II is a good example. And now, I'd say go get buggered with this dialogue, go fuck yourself. There is no dialogue."
"The totalitarian use the United Nations to send their families in New York and Geneva and give them good jobs for which they are not qualified."
Translation: adbouz
Source: weekendavisen.dk
His blog: http://khader.dk/
Labels: Arab World, Denmark, Freedom of expression, Human rights, Islam, Secularism
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