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« PreviousUN on Women: Only Israel is Criticized
March 20, 2007, 12:44 pm
By Andrew L. Jaffee
Israel is not one of the nations which abuse women. In fact, the Jewish state treats its women probably better than any nation on earth. But the UN has decided to single out only one country, Israel, in criticizing the worldwide status of women’s rights. Forget the fact that the worst conditions for women are in the Arab/Muslim world where, for example, “A woman is raped every two hours and gang-raped every eight hours in Pakistan…” Yes, your tax dollars hard at work at the UN… Here’s the story, if you can read it without vomiting:
From Tom Gross:
Last Friday, the UN surpassed itself as it finished its annual session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women by singling out Israel and only Israel (which actually has a very good record on women’s rights) as being the only state “found in violation of women’s rights.”
The hundreds of thousands of women who have been killed, raped, mutilated and displaced in Sudan, the women whipped in Saudi Arabia, hanged for “adultery” in Iran, forced to abort in China, murdered in honor killings in Holland, England and elsewhere, all these were ignored by the UN as it attacked only Israel.
The vote against Israel was 40 for and 2 against, with only the United States and Canada voting against.
Amazingly (or perhaps not) Germany, on behalf of the European Union, voted against Israel. …
From the National Review:
Muslim women are in the news everywhere — everywhere, that is, but the United Nations. The U.N.’s lead agency responsible for the promotion and protection of women’s rights the world over, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), ended its 51 session on March 9, 2007, by criticizing only one state — Israel.
The same week the commission focused specifically only on the state of Israel, 33 Muslim women engaging in peaceful protest outside a courthouse in Tehran were abruptly arrested on charges of “endangering national security.” Their goal? To put an end to polygamy and to child-custody laws that strip mothers in Iran of the right to raise and protect their own children. On March 8 — International Women’s Day — 700 women’s-rights activists again gathered in front of the parliament building in Tehran, demanding fair trials for the women jailed a few days earlier. Iranian security forces and ranks of baton-wielding police once more descended on the women, driving them back with physical force, verbal obscenities, and threats of more to come.
In Saudi Arabia, during the first week of March, a 19-year-old girl who was kidnapped at knifepoint, gang-raped, and then beaten by her brother for having “allowed” herself to become the victim of a rape has been sentenced to 90 lashes. Her crime? Meeting a young man who was not a family member. Indeed, one of her judges told this young woman she was lucky to have not gotten jail time.
But at the U.N., the Women’s Rights Commission adopted only one country-specific resolution on “PLO/Hamas Arab Muslim Nazi women.” Apparently, the members had missed the headlines about the arrests in Tehran and the teenager in Riyadh, emblematic of legal systems built on gross and systematic discrimination against women. They also failed to notice the millions of vulnerable women and girls raped, displaced, dead or dying in Sudan, the millions of women forcibly aborted in China, and the thousands murdered or forced to commit suicide for the crime of “dishonoring” their fathers and brothers across the Arab and Muslim world. …
http://netwmd.com/blog/See related: Norway Blesses Hamas
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