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by Giulio Meotti
• December 23, 2016 at 5:00 am
- While the
medieval Saudi system of justice was flogging the gentle blogger Raif
Badawi 50 out of the stipulated 1000 lashes, a delegation of UN
bureaucrats landed in Jeddah to promote an international conference
on religious freedom.
- The Saudis use
these international seats to advance their oppressive agenda, and to
press the Western democracies to punish criticism of Islam.
- Through the
shameful trial of Geert Wilders, Dutch authorities sent a message of
surrender to the Saudis and other rogue Islamic regimes that punish
dissent.
- Did the Dutch
prosecute Wilders on behalf of the Saudis, who threatened to impose
sanctions on the Netherlands?
- The UN and the
Western democracies are putting the defense of human rights and
freedom in the hands of one the world's worst violators of religious
and intellectual freedom.
- Sharia courts
are already fully operating in the Netherlands. They know something
about "human rights": stoning, flogging and chopping off
heads.
- Who will rescue
our right to speak?
Raif Badawi and his children, before he was jailed.
"My husband has been languishing in a Saudi prison since June
17th, 2012. Our children live with me in the city of Sherbrooke, Québec
in Canada. They have not seen their father for five years now... On
January 9, 2015, Raif received the first 50 lashes... Will members of the
United Nations Human Rights Council join the European Parliament and ask
for Raif's release?"
Unfortunately, the UN members did not respond to this appeal by
Ensaf Haidar, the fearless wife of the most famous blogger of the Arab
world, the gentle Raif Badawi, imprisoned and flogged by the Saudis for
his secular ideas. A few days after Ensaf's appeal, the United Nations
welcomed Badawi's executioners, the Saudis, at the UN Human Rights
Council. The Saudi representative, Abdulaziz Alwasil, will be decisive on
three major issues at the UN Palace of Nations in Geneva: women,
religious freedom and the system of justice.
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