February 21, 2006

U.N. Hypocrisy on Hamastan

Look at the solicitude the U.N. has for the Palestinians, per United Nations representative, and Kofi Annan's representative to the Palestinian Authority, Álvaro de Soto:

"We want to avoid massive punishment of the Palestinian people," Mr. de Soto said.

Yet the U.N. has continuously condemned Israel. Why isn't the U.N. at least as concerned about the free people of Israel, as it is about the people who have elected the terrorists of Hamastan their leaders? This is hypocrisy and shows how squarely the U.N. is in the corner of the terrorists.

The U.N. has passed many resolutions against Israel, and very few, if any, against the murderous Palestinians who kill as many women and children as they can. The pretense the U.N. makes is that the Israelis have taken Palestinian land. Yet the U.N. utterly ignores the hundreds of thousands of Jews forced from homes in Arab lands. From the documentary, The Silent Exodus, by Pierre Rehov, available on the web site of Walid Shoebat:

Announcer: In 1948, nearly one million Jews lived in Arab lands. But in barely twenty years they have become forgotten fugitives. Expelled from their native lands. Forgotten by history. And the victims themselves, have hidden their fate under a cloak of silence.

First Eyewitness: And these people had to leave without having a choice to remain.

Footage: a man leading a mob, singing a song, the words of which are, "cut the throats of all the Jews."

Second Eyewitness: It was a question of survival. You couldn't stay. And I still remember the fear that we had that every moment mobs will come and invade our house and kill every Jew that they met, even children of six months, women, and old people.

The hypocrisy of the U.N. in taking the side of the terrorists is shocking.

The U.N. could do immeasurable good, and fulfill its own mission under its charter, by taking a stand against world terrorism, and saying to the Palestinian people and Arab nations, "You know what? You forced almost 1,000,000 Jews from their homes in Arab lands, so you have nothing to complain about. Stop killing civilians. It isn't to be tolerated in the world community." But the U.N. isn't likely to do that, because too many of its member states oppress their own citizens.

Pakistani Imam Scoffs at Description of Islam as a “Religion of Peace”

Last Friday I posted about the Pakistani Imam, Qureshi, who has gotten involved operationally in financing a hit against the Danish cartoonists. I noted:

Like the cartoon protests, this action by Qureshi is a test, to see what the Islamists can get away with without repercussions. As Victor Davis Hanson has discussed, the absence of such repercussions is a prelude to war. It is highly advisable for the free world to identify and impose some repercussions on Qureshi for his action in becoming operationally involved with an attempt to murder a citizen of the free world.

Some repercussions have begun. The Danish Foreign Minister has characterized Quereshi's actions as murder:

Mr Moeller also condemned the $1m bounty put on the cartoonist's head by Peshawar cleric Maulana Yousaf Qureshi and his followers on Friday.

"It's murder and murder is also forbidden by the Koran," [Danish Foreign Minister] Moeller said.

Moeller's view of the Koran is inaccurate. Moeller continued:

"Islam is also a religion of peace, mercy and forgiveness. That is why it is my opinion, but also the opinion of many Muslims, this is un-Islamic," he added.

Quereshi scoffs at this view:

Mr Qureshi last week defended his move.

"If the West can place a bounty on Osama Bin Laden and Zawahiri, we can also announce a reward for killing the man who has caused this sacrilege of the holy Prophet," he said, referring to the al-Qaeda leader and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Quereshi doesn't seem to have any interest in anyone's views of Islam as a "religion of peace." He says Islamists can murder anyone they want as far as he's concerned.

The only answer to this logic is that he's right -- and the strongest guy is going to win.

Moeller's response is not yet enough. It is highly advisable for the free world to identify and impose additional repercussions on Qureshi for his sponsorship of murder.