Leading The Way...
Canada announced its boycott of the United Nation's "Durban II" Conference a month ago. After which little has been heard of the issue. Now, unsurprisingly, and timely enough, given that it was announced at a conference in Jerusalem on anti-Semitism, Israel too, through its foreign affairs minister, Tzipi Livni has announced Israel is following Canada's lead.How's that for a turn-about? Canada influencing other countries to examine the morality of attending a conference on anti-racism which promises to be a mirror-image of Durban I, where the attending members were asked to condemn racism, while finger-pointing Israel as the epitome of a racist state.
Israel, needless to say, hardly needed to be influenced by any other country's pre-emption of first-past-the-gate, since she's the target.
"I expect other countries to make the same decision, and I believe that, if anything, Canada's withdrawal has given more leverage to those who are combating the voices of intolerance - voices that once more seem to have hijacked the Durban process", said Canada's multiculturalism secretary of state, Jason Kenney, last month.
Where are they? Not yet lining up to join the moral dissenters, but it's yet early days.
It's morbidly risible that Iran, of all countries sits on an executive planning committee for the 2009 conference. Iran, that bastion of human-rights support, the very country calling time and again for the annihilation of the State of Israel. But then, Iran fits right in with the agenda of the committee whose head is none other than Libya as chair.
In their planning for the 2009 conference the big topic appearing front and centre is scheduled to be "Islamophobia", a favourite with Arab and Islamic countries who state a fervid belief in the dreadful presence of anti-Muslim discrimination around the world.
Equating that discrimination, needless to say, with the West's unfortunate preoccupation with anti-terror efforts, imposed by conditions of jihad-bent terrorists claiming to represent Islam.
Taking the name of their god in vain, launching deadly attacks and shrieking Allahu Akhbar!
As though any god, let alone Allah, the Spirit of peace and good fellowship for a billion devout Muslims around the world, would take credit for their abhorrent misdeeds against humankind. Yet to combat their jihadist spirit is to wage war against Islam, and therefore we have the damnable issue of "Islamophobia" to be reckoned with. Too deliciously ironic for words.
So all right already, there are warnings coming out of Washington that they too will boycott the new conference, as it's shaping up. They somehow find it difficult to accept the Islamic argument that Muslim Semitic peoples have become the new victims of anti-Semitism, while at the same time arguing that the Holocaust wasn't all that notable an occurrence...
Even Germany, upon whose near history hangs the ghastly mantle of genocide, may reconsider, and Great Britain whose current political and social atmosphere reeks of anti-Semitism, may find it prudent to withdraw....
Labels: Anti-Semitism, Traditions
posted by Pieface @ Monday, February 25, 2008
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