Monday, April 27, 2009

A celebration of tolerance and dignity


UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay summed up the Durban II conference on Friday by calling it "a celebration of tolerance and dignity for all."

A reminder:

Durban II: The UN Platform for
  • Undermining the West and democracy
  • Promoting anti-semitism
  • Demonizing Israel as racist
  • Foiling efforts to combat radical Islamic terrorism
  • Manufacturing Islamophobia everywhere
  • Fomenting religious extremism
  • Curbing free expression
This celebration included the speech by notorious Holocaust denier and would be genocider, Mahmoud Ahmanideinjad, addressed, ironically, to the other seekers of human rights and justice on Holocaust Memorial day:

" A kind of racism that has tarnished the image of humanity ... The word Zionism personifies racism that falsely resorts to religion and abuses religious sentiments to hide their hatred and ugly faces." And Jews control the media! And the major world powers! "Cultural endeavors are not enough. Efforts must be made to put an end to efforts made by Zionists and their supporters. ... Governments must be encouraged in their efforts and their fights to eradicate this barbaric racism."


This speech apparently was "tempered down" for the sake of the conference. A triumphant Mahmoud returned to Tehran and gave there the speech that he would have liked to give:

"Wherever we want to visit and at every conference in which we participate, they [the Western countries] say: 'Who do you want to criticize? [You can] criticize the U.S., Europe, the [Second] World War, the Vietnam War, or the Korean War, but you must not criticize the Zionists.' The people of the West fabricated what is known as the Holocaust and Zionism, and they have sanctified it and placed it at the top of all holy beliefs. They have all united around it, and by hoisting the banner of Zionism, while using violence and aggression, spreading civil strife, and [perpetrating] Zionist crimes, they have taken over the world and wish to rule it.

"I say to them: 'In your countries, you permit [even] the affronting of the divine prophets, the holy of holies of the world.' They respond by saying: 'That's freedom of speech.' But when it comes to [the issue of] the Zionists, they say: 'Shut up, and don't utter a word.' They [the Western countries] have fabricated an idol called Zionism, which they worship and want to force all the nations to worship.

"I declare from [this pulpit] that this idol of Zionism must be shattered in order to save humanity...(1) They must know that the free nations, the Iranian nation, and the people of Eslamshahr will not tolerate this modern idol-worshiping, that they will shatter this idol with force... Indeed, they have already shattered this idol.

"A journalist asked me: 'Do you still want to export your revolution?' I said to him: 'Iran's revolution has already been exported. The world's nations chant the slogans of the Iranian nation, and talk about brotherhood, justice, and peace, and about the confrontation with oppression and with the crimes of the Zionists. The Islamic Revolution of Iran has already been exported. Can't you see that? Can't you discern that? If you go to America, [you will see] that there too people chant the slogans of the Iranian nation."(2)

When Himmler made his famous speech in Posen, he still had some sense of shame about what he was instructing:

I shall speak to you here with all frankness of a very serious subject. We shall now discuss it absolutely openly among ourselves, nevertheless we shall never speak of it in public. I mean the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish race.

It is one of those things which is easy to say. 'The Jewish race is to be exterminated,' says every party member. 'That's clear, it's part of our program, elimination of the Jews, extermination, right, we'll do it.'"

Clearly, Ahmadinejad is not constrained even by Himmler's standards.

This Himmlerian celebration of tolerance and dignity, which UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has endorsed with such unreserved warmth will join other days that live in eternal infamy.

One wonders, these people, have they no shame?

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