| "Westophobia" also on rise in the Muslim world |
The United Nations investigator on racism on Friday condemned a rising trend of Islamophobia, especially in Europe, where he said it was being exploited by some right-wing political parties.
 | He has yet to examine the prevalence of Westophobia, especially among people who're fond on turbans and keffiyehs and uniforms with sprockets on them. |
Doudou Diene,
| Doodoo? You can get a high-paying job even if you're named Doodoo? |
| I think it's pronounced 'doe-doe' ... |
UN special rapporteur on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, also accused SwitzerlandÂ’s most popular party, the right-wing Swiss PeopleÂ’s Party (SVP/UDC), of inciting hatred.
| We had that story a day or two ago. Seems the Helvetians want the right to vote on who gets to be a Swisser. They can't quite understand why, having lived there for 3500 years or more, somebody named Doodoo should be allowed to waltz in and tell them they should let somebody else take over. |
He urged the withdrawal of the party’s controversial campaign poster calling for expulsion of foreigners who commit serous crimes, depicting three white sheep booting out a black sheep under the headline “For the Security of All”.
| So what he's really saying, then, is that Yurpeons should allow foreigners to come strolling into their country, do terrible things, and not be penalized for it. |
“In the current context, Islamophobia constitutes the most serious form of religious defamation,” Diene said in a speech and report to the UN Human Rights Council, whose 47 member states were holding a debate on religious defamation.
 We'd beg to differ on that. Christians, Jews, Agnostics, Atheists, Buddhists, Shintos, Wiccans and - for the most part - Hindoos don't riot in the streets hollering "Death of Muslims" or "Behead those who insult [fill in your preference here]." In fact, Christians, Jews, and etc., have gotten along fairly well together for the past 50 or 60 years. With the exception of the Muslim world, there haven't been any pogroms since the heyday of the Nazis. I'm not too sure what Mr. Doodoo makes of that, or even if he's aware of it. |
More and more political leaders and influential media and intellectuals were “equating Islam with violence and terrorism,” and some were seeking to “silence religious practices by banning the construction of mosques”, Diene said.
| Since mosques have demonstrably lent themselves as centers of hatred, subversion, and violence — Finsbury Park is the model — there's actually good reason for that. It's a concept called empirical observation. It's not a phobia if the critter is actually poisonous. |
Pakistan, speaking for the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), called the rise of Islamophobia “alarming”.
 Naturally Pakistain would find it "alarming." Not a week goes by in Pakistain without at least five incidents of religious-inspired violence. Every major terror incident since at least 1998 has had Pak involvement. Hindoos, Sikhs and Buddhists have been chased from Pakistain or forcibly converted, until the remaining minorities are so tiny as to be insignificant. The Ahmadis have been declared non-Muslims, suppressed, and oppressed, and can't even be buried next to their more bloodthirsty neighbors. Christians are routinely subjected the the infamous Blasphemy Laws, killed on trumped up charges, despoiled of their land, their women raped and their children stolen. We live in a world where there is a nation like Pakistain. I find that alarming. |
“Recent acts of defamation in the shape of blasphemous sketches in Sweden and posters in Switzerland reinforce this conclusion. Such blasphemy should not be encouraged in the name of freedom of expression,” Pakistan’s envoy Masood Khan said.
| Pictures on paper are nothing compared to blood in the gutters. But they do provide an excuse, don't they? |
He said the 57-nation OIC, which represents 1.3 billion Muslims, condemned terrorism in all its forms. “The international media continues to use the misguided actions of a small extremist minority as an excuse to malign the entire Muslim world, as well as the religion of Islam,” he said.
 That's probably because way upwards of 90 percent of the acts of terrorism — in all its forms — are committed by Muslims, in the name of their Muslim religion. The spiritual guides of terrorism are all Islamic holy men. The money comes from Muslim tycoons and from zakat. The cheering sections for terrorism are exclusively Muslim — you never see Lutherans or Jains hollering "Holy Shit Allahu Akbar" when some poor fellow gets his head lopped off or a school full of kiddies is wiped out. |
‘Scapegoating’: Diene, a Senegalese lawyer, said in his 21-page report to the Council that Islamophobia had grown since the Sept 11 2001 attacks on the United States.
| That was when Binny's ruthless henchmen hijacked four planeloads of innocents in the name of their religion and murdered 2750 others by smashing the planes into the WTC, the Pentagon, and the ground. |
 Worldwide, an increasing number of traditional democratic parties were “resorting to the language of fear and exclusion, scapegoating and targeting ethnic or religious minorities in general, and immigrants and refugees in particular”, he said.
| They don't have anything against Buddhists or Jains or animists or Rosicrucians, so it's not all religious minorities. And the majority of immigrants and refugees nowadays seem to be coming from places where turbans, kefiyyehs and uniforms hung about with multicolored sprockets are in vogue. |
In Europe, Muslims faced growing difficulties to establish places of worship and carry out their religious practices such as dietary regimens and burials, according to the UN envoy. “Political parties with open anti-Islamic platforms have joined governmental coalitions in several countries and started to put in place their political agendas. In sum, Islamophobia is in the process of permeating all facets of social life.”
| I'm not sure why, but that process seems to have the started in the wake of the public becoming aware of the lunatic speeches prevalent at places like Finsbury Mosque. It gained steam as we became more aware of the intentions and intent of men like Omar Bakri Mohammad and organizations like his al-Muhajiroun. And it really hit its stride when Muslims started slaughtering well-known Yurpeons in the streets like sheep. I'm sure the timing is just a coincidence. |
The Swiss SVP/UDC has launched a referendum to ban construction of minarets in the Alpine country, home to 350,000 Muslims. A similar move is underway in Cologne, Germany.
| If Switzerland has 350,000 Moose limbs, that means they've absorbed most of them in the past 25 years. Their current estimated population is 7,554,661, give or take a few dozen. Muslims make up something under a half of one percent of the Helvetian population, which goes to show that the Swiss are sensible folk, though not that sensible since they have 350,000 turbans among them. |
Switzerland’s delegation defended its system of direct democracy, where multiple issues are put to referendum each year, saying it showed great political transparency although “sometimes with exaggerated, regrettable views being expressed”. “The Swiss government has repeatedly stated its commitment to fight racism and the Swiss government will continue to take a clear stance against all forms of discrimination and xenophobia,” Swiss ambassador Blaise Godet said.
| It's probably time to take a stance and say "Helvetia for the Helvetians." If you want to join the Helvetian club then you gotta know the secret Helvetian handshake. You gotta be able to make a watch in five minutes or less, as timed by a Swiss chronograph. And you gotta be able to yodel. If you can't yodel, you can't be a Helvetian. And you gotta have one of those 15-foot horns. And know how to make cheese. |
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