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Once again, we appear to be living by the standard that those who shout the loudest wield the most influence.

There is man employed by the UN to, in a nutshell, safeguard the freedom of speech of people all over the world. He monitors, investigates and recommends solutions to specific human rights problems. He’s called a Rapporteur.
60 years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was written, and emphasised that “a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief is the highest aspiration of the common people”.

What this boils down to is that everyone has the fundamental right to speak freely about their beliefs. That everyone has the right to agree or disagree with someone else’s beliefs, and to call those beliefs into question when they clash with pesky little things like basic human rights.
This of course isn’t good enough for the shouty-shouty Islamists in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt, who have somehow come to the conclusion that the Declaration is “disrespectful” of religion because it won’t let them torture, intimidate and kill the people they govern. Consequently, they have demanded that the Declaration be rewritten to account for the “unique sensitivities” of religion. Which effectively bans anyone from raising an issue that involves Islamist beliefs and laws.
I’m sorry, what?
We are talking about representatives of 3 states with the worst human rights abuses in the developed world. We are talking about the Egyptian representative refusing to discuss the stoning of women accused of being unfaithful, and refusing to discuss child marriage on the basis that he would not see Islam “crucified” by the council, stating that these sorts of things are within the boundaries of shariah law and consequently untouchable to the infidel West. Allah forbid we ask the followers of Islam to please stop torturing people. How disrespectful of us, eh?

We are also talking about anti-Musharraf judges, lawyers and human rights activists in Pakistan being rounded up wholesale and arrested for peacefully voicing their beliefs, and an authority that has banned the establishment of independent judiciaries.

We are talking about Saudi Arabia and its proclivity to issue Capital Punishment without undue process, which still amputates the hands or feet of those accused of robbery, which still practices beheading as a “humane” method of punishment and which routinely denies that human rights abuses take place at all.

And the worst part of all of this?

The UN complied with their demands to rewrite the Rapporteur’s job spec to include not only naming and shaming human rights abusers – such as Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia – but also to investigate and put a stop to the “defamation of religions and prophets”. And so he protects our rights and freedoms with one hand and takes them away with the other to appease an angry and abusive faction of religious hotheads who are terrified of their citizens thinking for themselves.

Every time the UN rolls over for these abusers is another chip away from the faith we ordinary mortals have placed in it. Every concession granted to these fanatics who play the religion card to get their own way is an erosion of the principals on which the UN was founded. Every time nobody stands up to these evil and heartless men, they get away with murder – literally. And every time we step on eggshells for fear of offending these poor, defenceless tyrants, we allow them to keep pushing us further and further away from the ideals that make the UN such a powerful force for good.
In addition, every day that countries like Britain and the USA support the governments of these and other notoriously tyrannical nations is another day they make a mockery of themselves, their politics and us. They are getting away with demanding that their laws – because they are an integral part of their religion – become unquestionable, infallible and untouchable.
If that’s the case, then they don’t belong in the UN, in any form of governmental agreement with Britain or in the civilised world.

Let’s just get a grip here on the breaking news that the papers have delivered to us three years after the event. With nothing going on in the McCann household, nobody getting their cock out on radio and everyone bored of doom and gloom in the economy it’s time to dredge up some frankly hilarious footage of Prince Harry dicking about with some mates.
My only complaint with Harry is that he needs to be aware that there are cunts with agendas everywhere all the time trying to take whatever he does and make it fit their cause. Newspapers are here to sell newspapers so those in the public eye (and especially the royals) need to be very careful with what they say.
If you had a mate who suggested he called you ‘paki’ then not many people would bat an eyelid but then you aren’t the heir to the throne with a few thousand bitter and twisted middle class journo fuckwits itching to make a few quid by making you look bad. With all the bullshit that the princes have to put up with it’s a wonder they have turned out as such a nice and well rounded pair of individuals. They have impossibly high standards set for them and even if they are mates with the guy and and the name ‘paki’ is a term of endearment there is always going to be some stone faced twat who can sell a few shitty rags by whipping up an outrage.
Let’s look at the sources to see who’s outraged… the person quoted as saying that the term was not used by one mate to another was not the young fellow soldier himself but an uncle who probably picked up about £25,000 from the papers (the going rate for this sort of thing) for his comments. The group calling for Harry to be disciplined are ‘Republic’ a fruitjob anti monarchy group who would say the same thing if Harry had singlehandedly saved the lives of an entire platoon.
Others will jump on the bandwagon but they are most likely easily led politicians who want to draw a bit of limelight by looking suitably outraged, most likely the same tossers who stood up and made pricks of themselves during the Ross/Brand thing.
Guys, this is not a big deal. Harry is a kid who is trying to live up to the expectations of a nation and doing a far better job than the fucktards at the Screws of the World ever could.

As you may know we have our own pet troll on this site who helps us out by providing the counterpoint to our arguements in the form of ignorance and prejudice. Our troll has his own blog where he writes what seems to be a badly punctuated homage to the Daily Mail and it was in this shockingly ugly site that I found the following post:

This morning I met a turkish girl I helped to escape an arranged marriage about ten years ago, her name was Gulisa. A couple of days after she had left for England, to stay with “two mules for sister sarah” in Blackpool, her elderly father came to my house, and shouted something in turkish. I don’t do a lot of turkish. He came back half an hour later with a young fellow-me-laddie, whose purpose it was to translate from turkish into german, sadly I had just arrived in germany and spoke next to no german, and the translater had such a strong accent, I did’nt understand more than a couple of words. no problem, because the german guy I was renting the house off lived over the road, and he could speak english, so I told the old man and his translater side-kick to wait, and went to get the landlord. he came over and the father told the boy, who told the landlord, who told me, that if didn’t tell him (the father), where gulisa was he would kill me. I told the landlord, who told the translator, who told the father, that a few people had already threateneed to kill me in the past, none had succeeded, and they wern’t stupid enough to involve two witnesses before they’d even started. He went away. After a week Gulisa could bare to be away from her betrothed no longer, and decided it was nothing more than a case of pre-nuptual nerves after all. I know this because “two mules for sister sarah” told me. Gulisa came back, but she avoided me, and I never saw her again untill this morning.
she was surprised and embarrassed to bump into me, and I had little to say to her. She reassured me I need worry no more as her father died a couple of weeks ago, which was naturally a great relief to me. she showed me an advert from the local paper, to prove it! you know the ones where they announce births, deaths and marriages, (hatches, matches, and dispatches).
It said in german, “to dad, I miss you very much, you are the best father in the world”* classic!
“I’m sure he’d like that” I said, and carried on with my journey.
some day she might have kids.

The point of the post is a little hard to fathom, is he proud of fact that he conducted a conversation which needed four people in order to take place? I assumed that it was his way of showing the world that he is not scared of an elderly man but it could just possibly be that he is proud of the fact that he got involved in helping a girl ‘escape’ from an arranged marriage.

The concept of the arranged marriage is quite alien to many westerners these days although the idea has been around in Britain for a good long while. Marriage is a serious and lifelong commitment and is entered into for a number of reasons, love being just one. Although I don’t come from a culture where arranged marriages are currently in vogue it was not long ago that an Englishman would not dream about courting a girl until he had sought permission from her parents. Asian arranged marriages operate to a certain extent like a parent sponsored dating service where the parents introduce their daughter to eligible bachelors, much like what was common in this country a few decades ago, and the daughter chooses the suitor she wishes to marry. I have friends who have either been married under an arrangement or are going to when the time comes. They are all completely comfortable with the arrangement and trust their parents, who know them very well, to put forward suitable men.

The tabloids, including our favorite Daily Mail, would have us believe that every day an innocent westernized girl is being kidnapped and forced to marry a tyrant against her will. A recent case involving a trainee doctor who was kidnapped by her parents and forced to marry in Bangladesh has been trumpeted as a fine example of how forced marriages are commonplace and consequently arranged marriages are wrong and must be stopped. The point here is that there is a very large distinction between forced marriages and arranged marriages and the media is all too keen on blurring the lines. While a forced marriage is likely to be a bad thing, the ideals and values behind an arranged marriage are not. Arranged marriages, while not agreeable to all cultures, are not inherently evil or wrong but a bad implementation that crosses the line into forced marriage might be.

There are many systems and ideals that are not inherently wrong but which have been perverted to serve those with their own agenda. Many economists believe that there are merits to both capitalism and communism however the current implementation of the former and the Stalinist implementation of the latter are not true to the ideals. Spiritualism and faith are not inherently evil yet throughout history the greedy, power hungry and plain mad have all perverted the ideals to further the wealth and influence of the various churches. Terrorism, inquisitions, burnings, hangings, stoning, crucifixions, wars, murders and torture have all been carried out in the name of religion. Democracy, supposedly the cornerstone of freedom, has been used as the excuse for carpet bombing large swathes of the Middle East and South East Asia. There have been tortures, wars, murders and hangings all in the name of democracy so the problem of perverted ideals is not limited to matters of faith.

So before you judge an ideal or a system by the actions of those who operate under that flag it is worth remembering that the ideal or system might not be at fault, it is most likely the actions of the individuals that are at fault.

I keep getting inane rubbish posted by an ignorant and racist welshman who lives in Germany. Rather than have them clutter up the grown up discussion I have created this post where he can argue against whatever he disagrees with and set the world to rights in his ignorant knuckle dragging fashion.

Here is my favourite recent comment in response to an article about christmas and how a simple pagan festival of winter has been annexed by the church:

ha ha! “lichtfest lights”, did you make that up? Did you think that slinging in a few german words would make you sound klug? what happens in a few hundred years if people dig up the grave of the unknown soldier and discover he was a farmer, would that dimminish the point of the cenataph?

It would appear that dullbuggery has missed out on lichtfest while living in Germany, but it gets better when he then goes on to more familiar territory with a mention of the cenotaph to stir the hackles of any stray Daily Mail readers. As usual with his comments the point is somewhat lost behind the bile, indignation and readyness for an arguement at any cost. In this case the fucktard seems to have confused the tomb of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey with the cenotaph which is a memorial on Whitehall.