Give Me A F’n Break: UN Inquiry Focuses On Bias Against Arabs In US - With Video
You mean like these guys?
We initially told you about this Saturday. Why not a report on the Anti-American bias in the UN? Im SURE it would yield a more interesting report…
The National
United Nations // Arab-American advocates expect a UN investigation of racism in the United States to shine a spotlight on racial profiling and other policies that discriminate against people of Middle Eastern origin.
“Islamophobia” will be “high on the agenda” of the UN’s visiting human rights investigator, said Kareem Shora, national executive director of the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee (ADC).
Doudou Diene, a UN special envoy, began a three-week investigation on Monday. He will assess “racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” in the United States during meetings with officials, lawmakers and campaigners.
The Senegalese lawyer, who has served in the independent position since 2002, routinely visits countries to assess racism and will report his findings to the UN Human Rights Council next year.
Mr Shora said “post-Sept 11 communities” – Muslims, South Asians, Sikhs and Arabs – still bore the brunt of policies adopted following al Qa’eda’s attacks on New York and Washington almost seven years ago.
Mr Shora, whose colleagues will meet with the investigator next month, highlighted the “special registration” of Iranians, Iraqis, Libyans, Sudanese and Syrians entering the United States as one example of racial profiling that began after the Sept 11 attacks.
The Arab American Institute reported on “grave civil liberties concerns” following Washington’s terrorism-busting initiatives, such as the USA Patriot Act that made immigration procedures stricter for those coming from the Middle East.
Lena Alhusseini, executive director of New York’s Arab American Family Support Center, said hate crimes against her members had increased. “There is a complete misunderstanding and stereotyping and we have all been affected.”
A UN panel that examined the US record on racial discrimination in March urged the United States to halt so-called racial profiling of Americans of Arab and South Asian descent and to ensure immigrants and non-nationals are not mistreated.
The separate UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination also issued a strongly worded critique of the US record on racial discrimination in March, urging the government to reform education, housing, immigration and policing policies that impacted racial minorities.
The issue went before the Federal National Council in Abu Dhabi this week, with Mohammed al Zaabi, a Sharjah representative, complaining Emiratis were being “mistreated” at US airports despite obtaining legal visas for entry.
Dr Diene, who will visit eight cities – Washington, New York, Chicago, Omaha, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami and San Juan in Puerto Rico – said in a report last year that Islamophobia had grown worldwide since the attacks on the United States.
The investigator’s visit comes at a time when race issues are topping the domestic agenda, with Barack Obama, the front-runner in the Democratic nomination battle, standing a chance of becoming the country’s first black president. While Mr Obama’s campaign has increased turnout among black voters, it has also alienated some white voters.
Dr Diene is also likely to investigate racial bias in the use of the death penalty in American courtrooms and the alleged inferior legal representation received by defendants from ethnic minorities.
Commentators argue the Human Rights Council has almost no clout when it comes to US domestic affairs and that the body is widely perceived by many Americans as interfering. The United States is not among the 47 member states of the Geneva-based forum, but has observer status.
Zalmay Khalilzad, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said: “We don’t think [the visit] is needed,” suggesting instead that investigators examine “real problems … in countries that are notorious for their violations of human rights”.
Mr Shora said it remained “very important to hold the US accountable for its commitments … whether or not the current president and the current administration is paying attention”.
Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU Human Rights Program, said: “The visit of the special rapporteur is a critical opportunity to shed light on the pervasive and systemic problem of racism and discrimination in the United States.
“In this election year, the eyes of the world will be turned toward America and its long-standing promise to end racial and ethnic inequalities.”
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These guys are more dangerous than Nazis … except for the fact that Islam brain size and intellect is light years behind what the Germans had going on. Still, these mentally impaired, anti-Americans should be closely watched.
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:38 amHOW ABOUT AN ANTI-DISCRIMINATION INVESTIGATION OF AMERICANS IN ALL UNITED NATIONS COUNTRIES?!?!?! Especially Arab countries???
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:39 amgive me a fucking break.
we should just deport the towelheads
RACISM KNOWS NO COLOR OR CULTURE! PERIOD!!!
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:42 amHOW ABOUT AN ANTI-DISCRIMINATION INVESTIGATION OF AMERICANS IN ALL UNITED NATIONS COUNTRIES?!?!?! Especially Arab countries???
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:42 amIs there bias against muslims in America? Hell yes there is! After 9/11, they were celebrating in my town in Misouri. Multiple charities here have been raided by the feds, and a graduate of my alma mater was one of the big wigs in Iraq’s chemical weapons program. Jeez, I wonder why people don’t want them here.
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:42 amWhile they’re at it, they might want to look at anti UN bias in America. They might take the fucking hint and pack their bags.
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:05 amBut Muslims are a peace loving people, guys. And they love Americans.
Or is it, they love to blow Americans to pieces. yeah thats more like it. nevermind, i got confused for a minute
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:08 amsorry about the double post
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:11 amHuman Rights Watch is a socialist sham, nobody with more than 2 working brain cells listens to them.
““special registration” of Iranians, Iraqis, Libyans, Sudanese and Syrians”
–WTF???? Iranians want to kill everybody; Iraqis because until Nov ‘07 they were infiltrated by alqaeda and its sympathizers, Libyans - hello Lockerbie anyone?; Sudanese because there are no Sudanese left in Sudan because the Arab interlopers have taken over that country through genocide, ethnic cleansing and importing “arab immigrants” by the hundreds of thousands - oh ya and EVERY GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD RECOGNIZES THEM HAS HAVING GIVEN SAFE HAVEN TO ALMOST EVERY TERRORIST GROUP AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER INCLUDING OSAMA!; Syrians? seriously? do we even need to answer this one?
Really, people from these nations, REGARDLESS OF ETHNICITY, should count themselves as lucky that we will even let them in. And here’s a fact for you UN idiots…THEY’RE NOT ALL ARABS YOU IDIOTS!!!!! Kurds, Africans and Persians are also included in that list. Hell, if there’s a damn Caucasian coming into the US from Iran they get treated the same way!
Why don’t ya’ll actually do some good and go to Indonesia, Rwanda, Sudan, Nigeria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Balkans, anywhere in northern Africa, Spain, Mexico, France, China, Kashmir, Pakistan, Burma, Somalia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa, India, Turkey, Syria, Cypress, Venezuela. All of those countries have been known for genocide, ethnic cleansing and/or racial subjugation within the past year alone!
Oh yeah, you CAN add Los Angeles to that list because Mexican/South American gangs have been ethnically cleansing their neighborhoods for the past couple years thru killing blacks by the thousands. But of course, that’s just a “turf war” by gangs never mind that innocent kids get gunned down on street corners everyday just because their black and in the “wrong hood”.
F*IN hypocrites.
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:23 amThe UN serves no purpose except as a way for other countries to work to undermine the US. They should just go away.
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:28 am“In this election year, the eyes of the world will be turned toward America and its long-standing promise to end racial and ethnic inequalities.”
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:29 amSo if we do not elect a black man(closet muslim) no matter how unelectable he is we will all be racists. Absolutely brilliant logic.
yeah, why not Spain or France, surely worst than the US, ya forgot UK, Germany, Holland, Belgique, Italy, Switzerland, not talking of Poland, they are good guys there, they still allow yiddish, Czechs, also good guys, the watch the dorks passing… the Russians, Da fourbe, da grand Russia nostalgy, da kills jounalist…
give jobs for the poor UN officers, if that amuses them, es ist mir Scheiss egal
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:32 amWhatever happens to be written in the document will be secondary - first and foremost, this IS a report on anti-American bias at the UN.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:00 amGotta love that 5th column.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:52 amI would love to take these mother fuckers out.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:54 amAre we biased? Hell yea. Of course we are they did blow up three buildings in one day. But I guess that we should just forget that, the LIberals already have
Fuck this anti-Islam actually has basis in reality. every day we see more and more of them blow themselves up and kill women and children.
And now we’re supposed to be NICE to them?!
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:43 amIslamic Thinkers Society?
Something of a contradiction there, ya think?
I think a new flag material is in order. One with a little C4 embedded. It’s set to go off if stomped or set fire.
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:18 amyou know those candles that when burnt play a song. maybe they could make one that when burnt says something very nasty about the koran.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:09 amoh…and you have a choice to live here…you’re not forced. if you don’t like it gtfo
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:10 amWe really should stop funding the UN until they clean house.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:25 amYeah, how about an investigation of anti-Christian discrimination in Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Lebannon. How about an anti-Jew investigation in Syria, Saudi Arabia, et al. How about an anti-Caucasian investigation in the countries that those UN investigators are from? What a joke! Don’t give them a visa!
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:28 amlook what they send to burmeses :
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/un_comes_to_cyclone_stricken_myanmars_rescue_withcondoms/
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:31 am
They have GOT to be kidding me-I give up on the UN
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:48 amWith over 11,500 terrorist incidents since 9-11 by jihadis, 9-11, the bombings in Madrid and London, the Cole, Tazanian embassy bombings, the USMC and French barracks bombings in Lebanaon, the massacre of Jews at the Olympics the bombing of airliners filled with passemgers, massacres of Kurds, Greeks, Jews, Armenians. et al, and the continued murder of other Muzzies, subjigation and enslavement of women, the forced Dhimnitude of non-Muslim minorities…yeah the whiners of Islam should complain.
Islamic Thinkers Society.? What a laugh that is. They aren’t the only ones who’ve studied the words of Saab Quutab.
There’s only one way to handle Nazis…kill them…
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:58 pmI had better never see something like this, ever.
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:52 pmGolly-Gosh! You’d think they’d have given us credit for being
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:06 amalmost about to elect an Arab to the office of President!
Doesn’t that count?
(And a muslim as well)
Everytime i watch this video by the oxymoron group “islamic thinkers” I am annoyed that not one person voices a negative sentiment towards their open declaration of war against the very country that they admit gives them the right to say this shit whilst the countries that espouse Islam alone dont. These muslims contradict themselves constantly, but what annoys me the most is that if we are going to outlaw “hate speech” why isnt the quran or more directly the Phrase “Allahu akbar” not hate speech? it is uttered before and after each act of depravity committed by muslims.
If i were there I would have unzipped and pissed on these fuckers! alone if need be. throw bacon at them or alcohol or better yet desecrate a quran before their eyes that would be the best expression of free speech to counter theirs.
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:41 amgood luck getting allahu akbar outlawed…the purest use is just god is great.
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:41 amI have absolutley nothing against Arabs or people of Middle Eastern descent, but I sure as hell hate Muslims. Every time a Muslim dies the world is made that much better of a place.
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:33 am