Posts Tagged ‘Irrelevant UN’

Goldstone-branded souvenir goods on sale in Gaza. What will the owner do now that even Goldstone himself has disowned his report?

Notoriously one-sided and uncritical of the tissue of lies and libels fed to him and his committee by the Palestinians and uncritical left-leaning ‘human rights’ organisations, it painted a wholly false picture of (as usual) the evil Israelis oppressing the poor Palestinians.

Like the fabrication, lies and Taqiyya of the Gaza flotilla incident that was to follow, it was comprised mainly of Muslims proclaiming breathlessly about supposed atrocities committed by Israel, NGOs backing them up – and credulous, story-hungry journalists taking down every word.

The Islamo-Left/mainstream media echo chamber then ensured this was propagated around the world as ‘what really happened’.

And now that Goldstone himself has admitted that his report really was, as we put it in our own Goldstone follow-up article, the ‘Fruit of the PoisUN Tree’, Mr Abu Dia must surely be pondering the fate of his remaindered Richard Goldstone range.

Well, he need worry no longer. We think we might have found someone to take it off his hands:

2008: Iran's highest judicial authority, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, maintains that public flogging is an effective criminal deterrent

An Iranian man who blinded his lover’s husband is to suffer a similar fate in a tit-for-tat sentencing – by having acid poured into his eye.

Iran’s Islamic code allows for ‘an eye-for-an-eye, a tooth-for-a-tooth’ retribution – known as ‘qisas’ – in cases of violent crime.

The convict, named only as Mojtaba, threw acid in the face of his rival Alireza, a taxi driver, after an illicit affair with the victim’s wife, Mojdeh. Read the rest of this entry »

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She’ll be lucky – lucky if she isn’t on the wrong end of a lashing, that is.

Interesting story from Saudi Barbaria this morning – and particularly, er, poignant as it assumes a seat on the new UN Women’s Rights Council:

Year after year, the 42-year-old Saudi surgeon remains single, against her will. Her father keeps turning down marriage proposals, and her hefty salary keeps going directly to his bank account.

The surgeon in the holy city of Medina knows her father, also her male guardian, is violating Islamic law by forcibly keeping her single, a practice known as “adhl.” So she has sued him in court, with questionable success.

Adhl cases reflect the many challenges facing single women in Saudi Arabia. But what has changed is that more women are now coming forward with their cases to the media and the law. Read the rest of this entry »

Seems Pat agrees with our various analyses of the United Nations Human Rights Council, The new UN Women group, Saudi Barbaria and Pohh-ki-stohhn… and as usual, this armed-to-the-teeth UAV of political comedy is bang on target:

Women's rights in action in Iran

Saudi Arabia has a seat on the board of the new UN agency for women – but Iran has been ejected over its human rights record.

Setting up a new UN agency is a fraught business. UN Women, designed to fight for the rights of women in the developing world in a way previous UN agencies did not manage, is no different. Following hard political lobbying from the US and human rights groups, Iran has been ejected from the board. Read the rest of this entry »