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| Iran |
| Sorge’s I-told-you-so Moment |
| 2003-12-12 |
| Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, used the ceremony in Oslo yesterday to send a tough anti-war message to President George Bush’s government in Washington. I can only compare Ms. Ebadi to an angry feminist in the United States. She hates the clerical regime in the United States, but she really, madly hates the United States. The 56-year-old Iranian lawyer and human rights campaigner, her country’s first female judge before being stripped of the job in 1979 following the Islamic revolution, told the audience that it was worrying when human rights were violated by the Western democracies that had first introduced the principles. And I worry when the common thread Nobel "Peace" Prize winners share is their anti-Americanism. Without citing the United States by name, she singled out the Iraq war and the treatment of "illegal combatants" in the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay for condemnation. Did she mention the mass graves in Iraq? How about the ones in Iran? How about the recent wave of repression in Iran? I see, maybe in passing. "In the past two years, some states have violated the universal principles and laws of human rights by using the events of September 11 and the war on international terrorism as a pretext," she said in her acceptance speech. In the past, I don’t know, three thousand years, vastly more States have violated the individual rights of its citizens, but those things appear to be secondary. (Incidentally, when she refers to "human rights" she thinks of the U.N. declaration of rights, an evil document if I ever saw one. "Regulations restricting human rights and basic freedoms ... have been justified and given legitimacy under the cloak of the war on terrorism." Unlike terrorism itself, which is no violation of "rights". She also highlighted the inconsistent way that Western countries treat United Nations Security Council resolutions. "Why are certain decisions and resolutions of the Security Council binding while other resolutions of the council are not?" she said. "Why in the course of the past 35 years have the tens of UN resolutions concerning the occupation of Palestinian territories by the state of Israel not been rapidly applied?" "Blame Israel, blame Israel, everything seems to have gone wrong, since Israel’s come along. Blame Israel, blame Israel... it’s not a real country anyway." She pointed out that Iraq was subject to "an attack, a military assault, economic sanctions and finally military occupation", first with Security Council support and subsequently in spite of the council’s opposition. Blah, blah, blah, blah. The Ms Ebadi’s choice for the prize has polarised opinion in Iran, where hardline Islamists have condemned it as a ploy by the US and Israel. I have to give it to the Mullahs, they have a sense of humor after all. In conclusion, to the people who called me "extremist": I told you so, I told you so, I told you so |
| Posted by:Sorge |
| #6 I was happy when she won prize but only based on articles and an interview on TV; in both of which she sounded secular and open-minded. Remember she was in France at time of announcement. She goes back to Iran, is treated like a queen by supporters but criticized in official press by officialdom. She leaves country to get prize and sounds like an govt. mullah re Israel/USA but damn little on Mullahcrocy, plus a few officials praise her. Huh? Didn't anybody notice the change? Did anybody get to her? |
| Posted by: Michael 2003-12-12 2:58:09 PM |
| #5 I wonder what she has to say about all of her countrymen that have been victimized by the Mad Mullahs and their henchmen? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-12 2:12:21 PM |
| #4 When the hell did Susan Sontag become an Iranian?!? |
| Posted by: BH 2003-12-12 11:50:33 AM |
| #3 Of course I didn't tell you Charles, but there are |
| Posted by: Sorge 2003-12-12 11:34:53 AM |
| #2 Actually, the nominating committee for the Nobel Piss Prize all wear little buttons that say, "remember to ask me why I hate Israel". |
| Posted by: mhw 2003-12-12 11:26:37 AM |
| #1 You didn't tell me this! Not that you needed to, since I already knew about the Nobel 'Peace' Prize and how worthless it's become, along with most of the UN. |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-12-12 10:28:39 AM |