Obliterate Canada Too?
Now, that's head-spinning chutzpah. Tehran gunning for Canada. In response to Canada's official position at the United Nations, condemning that country for its human-rights abuses. In its official position as a country in good standing anywhere in the world, standing firm in its commitment toward upholding the international standards of human rights, and standing by its word by clear actions and commitments, both at home and abroad.But in the netherworld of mystical machinations and their deep commitment to unsettling the world order, Iran steadfastly holds to its claims of representing a true higher order. And in that spirit they have happily bowed to the will of the Divine, in unleashing an unprecedented attack upon Canada. In which cause they have assembled a document purporting to demonstrate Canada's utter failure as a decent, law-abiding exemplar of human-rights.
The document was compiled, written and solemnly distributed to the diplomats of the world's nation representatives as a 70-page indictment of Canada - "in the name of God", no less. God's all-seeing, ever-present, holy and humanity-committed sacred presence, balancing the scale of accusation against Canada, an enlightened democratic country of some 30-million souls assembled from all corners of the world.
Oops, no contest. God wins hands down. Who could possibly begin to doubt, cavil at assertions placed in a public forum as indubitable facts of reality with the imprimatur of the Holy Spirit? That's a tough one, no doubt about it.
Canada has suddenly become a pariah, intent on devouring the very people it is accountable to through the democratic ballot box, by denying them the very essence of life; food, clean water and the right to work. Moreover, unlawful beatings by Canadian police represent an occurrence long a matter of concern by the international community, claims this booklet, Report on Human Rights Situation in Canada.
Can't say the Iranians don't have it on good authority. God has guided them. Encouraged that devoutly theistic government to spread the news so that all may know them by their deeds. That's a tough one, no doubt about it.
"It is a great concern that the rights of women are violated, and no serious attention has been paid in promotion and protection of women's rights in Canada", the book avers. (Bet that'll surprise a whole passel of Canadian feminists.) "Canada's position as a self-declared standard-bearer on human rights has been demoted to a blind-folded-bullied (sic) follower of the new school of unilateralism and the axis of derailment of international human rights law."
Ouch, doesn't that really sting. Gender equality in Iran is a sacred trust not to be denied by the administration there. Which explains why police harangue and threaten Iranian women for immodest dress, and permission is not given for women to attend the most prosaic of sports events. The upholding of basic human rights remains such a sacred trust for Iran that it is of no particular moment that a Canadian-Iranian woman is tortured and murdered in an Iranian jail.
Of course human rights as a commitment must also have its limits. Not extended, for example, to a country like Israel which Iran has deemed has no place in that theocratic geography. But what do we know? God has directed them after all. That's a tough one, no doubt about it.
Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's shared agenda with God and the Hidden Prophet is brought into play to counteract Canada's plans to introduce, for the 5th consecutive year, a denunciation of Iran's "purportedly" dreadful human rights record. Ahmadinejad is comfortably prepared to speak for God, on arguing at the United Nations that Canada stands accused and guilty of the high crime of supreme hypocrisy.
For Canada is, God seems to claim, an unquestioning puppet-state of that Great Satan, with whom it shares a continent. Junior Great Satan stands accused by God of being one with the axis of evil. Now where the hell have we heard that neat little expression before? Ah yes, I recall, the "axis of evil" speech by President Georgie Bush, where Iran, Iraq and North Korea were thus identified as fearfully destabilizing influences on the world body politic.
Gotcha! right? And nah, naw, all you superior Western types who insist on relaying tainted information to the great world at large that democracy is the ideal of governance, and capitalism its running dog of success.
Labels: Political Realities, Religion, Terrorism, Troublespots
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, September 22, 2007
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