It’s bad enough that the War on Terror has been reduced to “Overseas Contingency Operations.” Now the UN has come up with a report urging us to fight terrorists with Overseas Gender Operations.
You can read all about it in this Fox News article on “U.N. Report Demands Repeal of Counter-Terrorism Laws to Promote ‘Gender Equality.’ ” This is yet another product of the same UN Human Rights Council which in April brought us the Durban Review Conference in Geneva (with Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a star speaker) and recently adopted the Goldstone Report on conflict between Israelis and Hamas in Gaza (with a Human Rights Council resolution slamming Israel and excusing the terrorists of Hamas).
The author of this UN report, Finnish law professor Martin Scheinin, wants counter-terrorism policies replaced with gender-equality policies at all costs, such as loosening terror-financing restrictions to help organizations that promote gender equality. In Afghanistan, he wants an end to force and a new policy responsive to the concerns of “women, gay, bisexual, transsexual and intersex individuals in local contexts.”
With the UN at the center of U.S. foreign policy, we may never defeat Al Qaeda, but we can go forwad with confidence that every effort is being made to ensure the ranks of terrorists worldwide include not only women, but a full complement of every gender permutation dreamt of in Martin Scheinen’s counter-terrorism philosophy. Just another case of your tax dollars, and UN diplomacy, at work.
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1. Pajamas Media » UN Wants US to Fight Terror With Overseas Gender Operations:[...] Read the rest of the story here. [...]
Oct 27, 2009 - 3:17 pm 2. RebeccaH:Why is the US still a member of the UN? For that matter, why is any sane nation still a member?
Oct 27, 2009 - 3:39 pm 3. David W. Lincoln:Given that the current batch of deformed souls with their paws on the levers of power inside the Beltway are not in the least bit interested in saying to the UN, “The Emperor has no clothes”, they will continue to be as silent as dead dogs when nonsense like this offends the sensibilities of those who are expected to do the most to keep the UN going. In other words, John & Jane Q. Public.
Well, who is with me in saying that a US government in exile would show it has more credibility than the current gang by saying, it has nothing to do with the UN.
Oct 27, 2009 - 3:45 pm 4. Sebastian Shaw:The United Nations is screwed into so many knots of Gordian proportions it is useless paper tiger debating society filled with slothful corruption.
Oct 27, 2009 - 4:46 pm 5. MrCaribou:Am I reading a cover of the Onion? I would be laughing myself silly if I thought this was satire. Good Grief!
Oct 27, 2009 - 5:47 pm 6. gernot:It is so like the UN to worry about things they can do nothing about. Haven’t they heard that Muslims kill all those they mentioned except wopmen? The is a reason Imanutjob says there are no gays in Iran.
Oct 27, 2009 - 6:32 pm 7. yo UN:We should tell the Taliban that if they can organize 2,500 “gay,
bisexual, transsexual and inter sexual” suicide bombers we will give them the northern territories of Afghanistan.
It will take 100 years to find that many.
Oct 27, 2009 - 6:42 pm 8. Leatherneck:Strange Days.
Spoil the children, and we get millions of girls knocked up, and on the government sugar tit. Allow murder as a form of birth control, and millions of women get depressed, and hate themselves. Socity refuses to enforce a man to care for their offspring, and millions of people turn to a Homosexual life. Now, we have more than two genders, when not to long ago their were just women, and men.
Secular Humanism is nothing more than an attack on morality. Wherever feels good, do it. The UN leads the globe down a dark path. What some people call hell on earth.
My post is hate speech within the New Age.
Oct 27, 2009 - 6:44 pm 9. TriGeek:How will this report save the “full complement of every gender permutations” from the Islamic Fascists and the good old Taliban boys?
Oct 27, 2009 - 6:49 pm 10. Class Clown:Hey, I’m all for it. Why are we fighting these wars when we could, for very little money, just sponsor LGBT programs in Islamic schools?
Oct 27, 2009 - 7:29 pm 11. Moho:You should talk to your colleague, Radosh. He claimed that the report was specifically aimed at Israelis, not Americans. Are you saying he’s a liar?
Oct 27, 2009 - 7:40 pm 12. Moho:Ron Radosh:
http://pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/2009/10/20/an-onion-parody-or-a-un/
As for the latest broadside, “The report therefore discusses, besides the human rights of women, the gendered impact of counter-terrorism measures on men and persons of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, and addresses how gender intersects with other prohibited grounds of discrimination, such as race and religion.” What this gobbledygook legalese means is that when the Israelis engage in counter-terrorism against terrorists and suicide bombers, they are threatening the rights of trans-gendered individuals. How? When a man dresses as a woman, the Israelis might embarrass an honest cross-dresser by subjecting him/her to a humiliating search, thereby interfering with the person’s sexual identity and human rights.
There’s one of two possibilities here. Either Radosh was lying or Radosh doesn’t know what he’s talking about. What do you think Claudia?
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Oct 28, 2009 - 12:47 am 14. Vinny Vidivici:Does “in local contexts” mean the West won’t criticize or interfere with stonings of homosexuals and adultresses?
Oct 28, 2009 - 3:14 am 15. Anonymous:Wait ’til the UN allows islamic terrorists to rape little boys as acceptable “war booty” because it’s “part of their culture” to do so. Think I’m kidding? Just wait and see.
Oct 28, 2009 - 8:58 am 16. Charles Stevens:It is long past time for the US to pull out of the corrupt absurdity called the UN, and tell it to move itself elsewhere (Darfur or Khartoum would be appropriate). No more money should be spent to support it, and no recognition should be given to its authority.
Oct 28, 2009 - 1:38 pm 17. don:Ah, the U.N humans rights council, populated with such paragons of civic virtue and free speech traditions as those Islamic Arab and Persian governments in the Middle East, often claiming Israel is a racist state or that there are no homosexuals in Iran. I wasn’t aware the Saudi national army had a don’t ask don’t tell gay policy regarding perceived gender orientations? The Syrians want gays in their military? The Turks want gender equality in their army? Does this U.N policy apply to non state actors and unlawful combatants, like the Muslim Brotherhood? Since gays and females are under represented in the U.S. Army, does this mean the war on terror is over until the don’t ask don’t tell policy is ended? Gee, minor point, but if the draft is ever reinstated and don’t ask don’t tell is ended, does that mean future American anti war progressives can no longer show up in drag for an induction physical to get out of the next immoral, illegal war?
Oct 28, 2009 - 4:28 pm 18. Berlet98:The U.N., a Boil on the Arse of America
We should have known at the inception of the United Nations when the U.S.S.R. was accorded three separate votes in the General Assembly that the whole idea was a bad deal for the United States.
We should have known but we didn’t, or else we did know and bought into the deal anyway because, ostensibly, it was all in the interests of a lasting world peace, aka, pie in the sky.
Then, too, convicted Soviet spy, Alger Hiss, helped establish the structure of the U.N. However, that was before the Cold War with the Soviet Union so his machinations must have been motivated by the purest and most patriotic intentions.
The fact that the world hasn’t had any real peace since the U.N. entered the geopolitcal picture still hasn’t resonated with many Americans and the fact that nothing the U.N. has ever done has favored American interests. We still pour money and precious military resources into that cesspool.
The U.N. has been and will continue to be the proverbial teats on a bull while posing as mankind’s savior and American suckers will continue to subsidize that sad excuse for a deliberative, international body.
Far worse, the rotting building on New York City’s East River and its thousands of rotten, resident delegates and functionaries represent the most insidious, dangerous force we have ever faced.
Too many books and articles, including any number of articles in this space, have been written on the fraud that is the United Nations to beat that dead horse so let’s just focus on one of its most recent foray into diplomacy.
US Drones May Be Tantamount to Summary Executions: Of all institutions, the U.N. should be the last to speak of drones but this week U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions Philip Alston did just that.
With that ostentatious title, I guess Mr. Alston feels he’s entitled to address any issue he damned well pleases. . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1293)
Oct 29, 2009 - 8:43 am 19. Young Gun Conservative » Blog Archive » News from the Afghan front:[...] Claudia Rosett continues the meme brilliantly by reporting that the UN also wants to repeal Counter-Terrorism Laws and replace them with gender-equality laws. Yeah, the UN is serious about that. Idiots. [...]
Oct 29, 2009 - 10:48 am 20. Kay:My first ‘budget cut’ as president: withdraw completely from the UN and implode the UN buildings in NY with a fireworks show on the 4th of July.
Oct 30, 2009 - 10:23 pm 21. Steynian 394 « Free Canuckistan!:[...] INTERNATIONAL RAPE CULT NEWS– Now the UN Wants Us to Fight Terror With Overseas Gender Operations …. [...]
Nov 1, 2009 - 9:40 am 22. Rugnuts:Just like the bloated U.S. Government, can the UN get anything right?
Nov 1, 2009 - 3:37 pm