2008
Islam and Human Rights
Kathy at five feet of fury has the latest on the Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn Islamic-right-to-not-be-offended cases.
Jay Tea notes that the League of Arab States has released its Revised Charter Of Human Rights. It’s self-fisking but he takes it on anyway, just for fun - and reminds us what a real charter of human rights looks like. Here’s a sample:
Here are some choice bits of Article 2:
1. All peoples have the right of self-determination and to control over their natural wealth and resources, and the right to freely choose their political system and to freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
That’s why the Muslim world is utterly bereft of monarchies, dictatorships, and hereditary rulers, and why there is such turnover in Arab leaders. One can’t swing a dead camel in the Middle East without hitting at least three Muslim democracies, and not one Muslim leader has held office for more than six or seven years.
Just ask the King of Saudi Arabia, the Emir of Kuwait, the King of Jordan, the dictator of Syria, the “president” of Egypt, the Sultan of Brunei…
Good thing he’s not Canadian or they’d have him up on charges post-haste.
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