Doudou Diéne at the Battle of Khartoon
Yesterday, the Agora blog posted the considered judgement of UN Special Rapporteur Doudou Diéne on the cartoon wars. The Danes, it seems, are racists and xenophobes.
To get away with saying this sort of thing Doudou must be - or consider himself to be - one of the global great and the good. No stain of racism, no smear of xenophobia attaches to his international personna. Or his Armani.
He is not, however, a very deep Doudou. His UN report, incredibly vital and influential though it doubtless is, has the title, “Situation des populations musulmanes et arabes dans diverses régions du monde - Rapport soumis par le Rapporteur spécial sur les formes contemporaines de racisme, de discrimination raciale, de xénophobie et de l’intolérance qui y est associée.” Pity it’s not more pithy. Some of it has been translated into English by Agora and can be read here, if you have run out of sleeping pills.
I can’t work myself up into much of a lather of indignation at this sort of thing. It’s a rigged game. Can one really expect the UN to pronounce that the Danish constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech, must be upheld? Or that it’s high time Muslims around the world learned to accept mild criticism with humility and a willingness to learn why they are perceived negatively?
Pigs, of course, might fly. But never in the Dar al-Islam. And never in the United Nations headquarters in New York.
Posted by Al Ross on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:16 | #
The UN is a body so putrid with anti-Western multiculturalist cant and idiotic humanitarianism that nobody can possibly take seriousy the malevolent Third Worldists who run the sinecure-providing racket. If ever there was an urgent case for draconian financial constraints of a David Stockman “Starve the Beast” variety, this is it.
The United Nations should urgently be transformed into the Untied Nations.