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There is nothing spontaneous about the violence now erupting in the Muslim world and directed at the United States
- News on the Net Thursday, September 13, 2012 |
This article by Anne Bayefsky appears today on PJ Media.
While the calamitous consequences of President Obama’s foreign policy are being played out on the Arab street, the Obama-backed UN Human Rights Council is fueling the hatred behind such violence. Today in Geneva during its current session, the Council advertised and facilitated a “parallel” event designed to condemn American troops for human rights atrocities.
The title of the session was “Roundtable on Human Rights Issues that Require the Council’s Attention: Iraq.” Here’s a sample of what organizers meant by “human rights.” Daniela Valencia: “U.S. troops are perpetrators of rape, torture and abuse.” Karen Parker: “The U.S. engaged in terrorism…It terrorized the civilian population.” The third speaker Christopher Busby said his research suggested the U.S. dropped “bombs made of uranium in Fallujah,” and finished with “thank goodness the Koran has such enormous power.”
The UN attempts to give itself deniability when it comes to anti-Western and anti-Israeli side-events by claiming in its Bulletin that the advertised events do “not imply any opinion or endorsement by the [UN] Secretariat.” The claim is bogus.
One cannot get into the UN building without a check of credentials and purpose, and subsequently being provided a UN entrance pass. The room is located on UN premises. It is reserved by UN staff having vetted the sponsoring organization and the purpose of its proposed event. And after receiving a UN green light, the event is advertised in a UN document, with the UN Human Rights Council’s name across the top. All involved are fully aware that the point of holding meetings on the side of the Council’s session is to influence Council participants.
Furthermore, there is a pattern to this madness. Advocates of violence were welcomed into similar events at the last two Council sessions. On March 19, 2012 a parallel event featured Ismail al-Ashqar, a Hamas member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and on June 22, 2012 another featured a representative of one of Hamas’ central operating agencies in the United Kingdom.
There is nothing spontaneous about the violence now erupting in the Muslim world and directed at the United States. Only now murder goes by the name human rights. By cultivating the nomenclature and the contrived sense of grievance, the UN Human Rights Council and its supporters make matters inexorably worse.
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