Saturday, June 04, 2005
One year in jail...
Of course, this sort of thing happens all the time, yet we hear not a peep out of Western human rights organizations. The only explanation is that their contempt for Muslims is so profound that they are unwilling to hold Muslim countries to even minimal standards of justice and decency. Or maybe they are just too busy defending their definition of "gulag."
2 Comments:
By 
Lone Ranger, at
Sat Jun 04, 07:11:00 AM:
I suspect human rights organizations (even the credible ones) don't want to tackle this particular tar baby. Muslims are unrelenting drama queens. Arabs lose control of the West Bank during the 1967 Six Day War and then, like spoiled children, spend nearly four decades demanding it back. Someone defiles the Koran and blood flows in the streets. Human right organizations know there's no pressure they can apply to a people that are totally disassociated from normal human behavior. They know they can't apply rational arguments to an irrational society. So, they prefer to turn a blind eye.
By 
, at
Sat Jun 04, 07:17:00 AM:
I agree that Western nations tend to be increasingly zenophobic and culturally isolated. However, when countries like the U.S. or England do take a proactive approach to human rights violations in other nations (I AM NOT talking about the war in Iraq here - that's a completely different story), western leaders tend to be accused of attempting to be the global police or to impose a Western sence of justice on a non-western nation. You see, there is a bit of a catch-22 in the situation you raise - If the Britan, the U.S., or any other Western nations were to take a stand against the 1 year jail sentence, they'd be accused of once again "sticking their nose where it doesn't belong", but if they don't do something, you claim, it's because they "hate Muslims"? Damned if they do, damned if they don't, huh?
