Sandra Solomon on the Saudi seat on the UN Women’s rights body
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Ann Coulter legal showdown with Berkeley, UN watch on Saudi’s role as protector of women’s rights
United Nations elects Saudi Arabia for Women’s Rights committee
More here at UN WATCH:
The Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch condemned the U.N.’s election of Saudi Arabia, “the world’s most misogynistic regime,” to a 2018-2022 term on its Commission on the Status of Women, the U.N. agency “exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.”
“Electing Saudi Arabia to protect women’s rights is like making an arsonist into the town fire chief,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. “It’s absurd.”
“Every Saudi woman,” said Neuer, “must have a male guardian who makes all critical decisions on her behalf, controlling a woman’s life from her birth until death. Saudi Arabia also bans women from driving cars.”
“I wish I could find the words to express how I feel right know. I’m ‘saudi’ and this feels like betrayal,” tweeted a self-described Saudi woman pursuing a doctorate in international human rights law in Australia.
Panic inside the grand mosque of medina
(The great dilemma was do I title this post, “Happy Fourth of July” or not)
Bosnian muslims warn of Saudi funded ‘extremist’ mosques
Comments on YT are disabled for this video. Unsurprisingly. So I am giving this its own post so people can comment here. It is quite an interesting video with a good collection of under informed analysis and half truths but thats a half a truth more than we usually get about Islam.
To kick off the comments, the statement by the narrator that says that these moderate imams made a categorical and unequivocal condemnation of the Islamic State is false.
In Islam, they would have to declare them “takfiri” or not true muslims. And so far, none of the imams who do the ‘Islamic State is not the true Islam’ have said that. So it means nothing.
When they call them out, it means something in islam. It is in fact, a capitol offense to be a fake muslim, and is exactly what the Islamic State uses to justify its wholesale murder of Shiia muslims when the opportunity presents.
Also one wonders if the sudden flurry of news about KSA funded extremist mosques, something people who have been paying attention to for a really long time, is coincedentally being made and released at the same time that the US Senate passed a bill allowing Americans to sue that despotic and horrifyingly anti-freedom nation for its obvious role in the 911 attacks.
However should it be proven and known that the Saudis had a direct hand in it, one might would think suing people who you give $40B a day to for oil (assuming a $100/brl price) i a stupid solution, as it would just mean paying a few million less to them. Instead, a kinetic solution they would feel twice as much. That would actually have an impact.
USA: Senate passed bill allowing Saudi Arabia to be sued for 911
The Senate by UC just passed bill to allow 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for their possible involvement in the terror attacks
— Alex Moe (@AlexNBCNews) May 17, 2016
Saudi Arabia is a cancer on the world
Peters: “They are barbarians with credit cards”
Six videos on Shiia and Iranian escalated reaction to Saudi execution of Shiia cleric
As the Saudi execution and Shiia reaction promise to spiral into a serious geopolitical event, this post is all videos on that issue. Anyone coming across more materials on this subject, please post to comments on this post so readers can find everything in one link if possible and thank you all who scour the news for us all.
1. Iraq: Shiias march through Baghdad to protest the Saudi execution of a Shiia cleric
2. UK: Hundreds decry govt. support of Saudi Arabia after Sheikh Nimr’s execution
(It is marginally interesting that the Shiia muslims conflate the KSA with the Islamic State as both jurisdictions are Sunni muslim in extremis. Of course it is the great fantasy of the IS to obliterate the KSA as they view the Saudis as corrupt and even marginally apostates. At least in terms of the leadership and government)
3. AFP video on Iranian response to Saudi execution of a Shiia cleric
(Blames Israel! lol!)
4. Euronews: Same
5. Lebanon: Hezbollah’s Nasrallah slams Saudi execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr
6. Iranians in Tehran protest the Saudi killing of a Shiia cleric by burning American flags!
Saudi-Arabia’s Tent City Could House 3 Million Refugees
This is an original translation by Nash Montana
From The Epoch Times
[Editor’s note: The Epoch times I believe is a highly biased anti-Chinese paper basically created to support the case of the Falun Dafa or Falun Gong, an insidious cult in the true sense of the word and demonize the Chinese government at every opportunity. However on other news they seem to be fairly ok]
The wealthiest nation of the Arab states near Syria will not admit a single refugee. But what does the situation look like in terms of their capacity?
For weeks now, Europe has been in a state of emergency. This has been the biggest mass of people wandering through Europe Since World War Two. Many western governments are under pressure. There are even allegations made that they don’t do enough.
But at the same time, there are huge capacities available on the Arabian continent.
There is, for example, Mina, a valley east of the city of Mecca. The area is reserved for pilgrims on the hajj and is capable of housing three million people in huge, climatized tent camps.
This tent city was built in the 1990s on twenty square kilometers.
The tents are eight by eight meters; there are kitchens and baths. Since 1997 the tents have even been fireproof.
As the website ‘Amusing Planet’ reports, “Mina is pretty much empty for the rest of the year.” These tents are occupied only five days out of the year, during the Hajj.
Since the beginning of the civil war in Syria it has become almost impossible for Syrians to travel to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.
Visas and temporary residences will not be extended to Syrians in the near future either in the Arab monarchies.
Daily mail has the Saudi crane story.
3 interesting facts.
This happened on 911
The crane belonged to the Bin Laden family construction business.it was a freak lightning strike that took down the crane killing 63 faithful muslims
From the Daily Mail:
At least 87 people were killed and more than 180 injured when a crane crashed through the ceiling of the Grand Mosque of Mecca amid high winds and thunderstorms today.
Dramatic footage shows the moment the crane toppled in heavy rain, with another video capturing the chaos and confusion inside the building as people run for cover after the impact.
Photos posted on social media shows the polished tiled floor of the mosque covered in rubble, bodies and pools of blood, and people fleeing the area bleeding and covered in soot.
For more photos and the rest of the article please click here
H/T M
Saudi royals ‘bar’ French policewomen from beach
Sharia can spread by a few means, not the least of which is money. We are more used to seeing thugs creating ‘volunteer’ sharia patrols in European and other countries to force sharia on the locals in increments. But the Saudis do it with the kind of influence petro-dollars can force.
Article here at the Local
The article details the recent history of this beach and how the Saudis have taken full control with the consent and cooperation of the far left islamic sympathetic French government.
Saudi Arabia covets the presidency of the Council for Human Rights
An original translation by Oz-Rita with much thanks!
From TDG.Ch
Embarrassment among diplomats, fear and anger among NGOs. The Saudis want to chair the Council for Human Rights.
It all began with a rumor that has spread and reached the corridors of the Palais des Nations. Saudi Arabia covets the presidency of the Council for Human Rights impossible — unimaginable. However, this rumor is no longer a rumor. Faisal bin Hassan Trad, the Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations, in Geneva since January 2014, is indeed campaigning in the Asian group to be its candidate for the renewal, which will take place by the end of the year.
Currently, the Council is chaired by the German Joachim Ruecker, whose qualities and commitment are unanimously lauded. Before him, it was an African, the Gabonese Nganella Baudelaire, who was not well-remembered among the NGOs, who were frustrated by his year as president.
The rotation rule requires that the next president of the Council of Human Rights come from the Asian group comprised of thirteen countries (Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, China, UAE, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Pakistan, Republic of Korea, Qatar and Vietnam). Faisal bin Hassan Trad has a very good chance, and the battle promises to be close. The Europeans will all try to dissuade members of the Asia Group from this choice, considered in advance as disastrous for the IMAGE of the Council for Human Rights. [emphasis added]
Arm-twisting by the Saudis
Saudi Arabia is twisting the arms of these other countries to be designated. If they succeed, it will be a disaster for the Council of Human Rights. “This could send us back to the worst times of the former commission who had sunk into disrepute,” says a Western diplomat on condition of anonymity. Continue Reading →
Islamic State murders a Danish National in cold blood while he drove a car in Saudi Arabia
CORRECTION: The Danish National was not killed. He was hit and injured by a bullet or bullets but is still alive. I have it on excellent authority.
VICE interview with journalist on the Islamic state.
I am only 3 mins 33 seconds in but so far, its extremely accurate.