Universal Declaration of Fascist Rights

Human rights – ah, what a wonderful concept! If you like the Western ideas about human rights – the ones found in the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence – you’ll love the Arab Charter on Human Rights, especially because it is about to be adopted as official policy by the United Nations.

Take this sentence for example, right there in paragraph 5 of the introduction:

“Rejecting all forms of racism and Zionism, which constitute a violation of human rights and a threat to international peace and security..."

But not to worry, the Arab states have all agreed to:

“To place human rights at the centre of the key national concerns of Arab States, making them lofty and fundamental ideals that shape the will of the individual in Arab States and enable him to improve his life in accordance with noble human values.” [1,1]

Well, that’s a relief. I really like that part about “noble human values”. What might those be?

‘All peoples have the right to national sovereignty and territorial integrity.” [1,2]

Sounds good, no? We could really go for that. But …

“All forms of racism, Zionism and foreign occupation and domination constitute an impediment to human dignity and a major barrier to the exercise of the fundamental rights of peoples; all such practices must be condemned and efforts must be deployed for their elimination.” [1,3]

We all know what “elimination” means. Ask Adolf if you’ve forgotten.

And let’s not forget the fundamental human right to blow people up and behead them, practice polygamy and Female Genital Mutilation, protect the family by “honor killings”, stone rape victims, chop off the hands of thieves, and, most important of all, to videotape the noble exercise of Arab human rights.

“All peoples have the right to resist foreign occupation.”

Now, before you catch a nasty case of Islamophobia, check out this:

“Men and women are equal in respect of human dignity, rights and obligations within the framework of the positive discrimination established in favour of women by the Islamic Shariah, other divine laws and by applicable laws and legal instruments. Accordingly, each State party pledges to take all the requisite measures to guarantee equal opportunities and effective equality between men and women in the enjoyment of all the rights set out in this Charter.” [3,3]

I really am impressed by the 1984-style Newspeak here, the way familiar words take on exactly the opposite meaning. First of all, what does an Arab Charter on Human Rights have to do with Islam and Shariah? Are all Arabs automatically Muslims? Well, if they aren’t yet, the jihadis are already out there in Lebanon, Israel, Iraq and the Palestinian-administered (there’s an oxymoron for you – “Palestinian” and “administered”) hard at work blowing people up to make sure it is true real soon now.

What about this lovely phrase “positive discrimination”? It doesn’t mean “affirmative action”, that’s for sure. It means a lot of religiously-sanctioned negative action, like shooting women who don’t cover themselves up in public from head-to-ground (as in Iran by the government and in Iraq by jihadi vigilantes). It means denying non-Muslims jobs, education and even cemeteries (Iran again, as well as Malaysia, Indonesia and a few other places).

As for “effective equality”, this means, among other lofty concepts, no jail time for brothers who murder their twelve year old sisters who “dishonor” the family by refusing to marry sixty year old Uncle Ahmed.

Did you know that, as late as the early 20^th century, Jews in Iran were not allowed to go out during the rain because the rainwater would become “unpure” when it landed on them and then good Muslims would be unable to drink it from the wells. That’s what “positive discrimination” and “effective equality” mean.

There’s a lot more, and you can read the whole pathetic document at http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/loas2005.html?msource=UNWDEC19001&tr=y&auid=3337655.

And it is not one bit surprising that the United Nations is planning to adopt this Declaration of Fascist Rights as an official document, thus excusing all Arab states from complying with the UN’s own Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Another double standard favoring Islamic supremacism: dictatorship, oppression of women and no freedom of speech or press or anything else for Muslims, and democracy, equality for women and basic freedoms for everybody else, but only temporarily -- until the Islamic jihad overtakes us all.