Boycott blow for UN racism forum

[Skybird]

Fine, you got your thing: walkout during Iranian leader's speech:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8008572.stm

And now what? Does this change the event? Does it change the Human Rights Commission? Is it now allowed to mention the human rights abuses of Islamic and third world countries? Will Mugabe and Al Bahsir be made objects of discussion? Will the prosecution of cultural minorities in Islamic countries be discussed? Islam's totalitarian egocentrism? The genocide(s) in Africa? Saudi and Iranian-financed terror in the Middle East? The barbarism of now almost pandemically spreading Sharia law? Etc etc etc

No.

When the Iranian has finsihed, the diplomats will come back and continue as is nothing happened, goiving respectability to this whole conference.

Where is the "protest" in that? Where is the effect? As I quoted him, Frattini said: "Going there and acting as a silent witness does not pay in the end: you only risk becoming complicit in it."

Right he is.

[SteamWake]

Yea I see Achmidemanutjob brought them to their feet !

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Yea I see Achmidemanutjob brought them to their feet !

LOL

[Max2147]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Fine, you got your thing: walkout during Iranian leader's speech:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8008572.stm

And now what? Does this change the event? Does it change the Human Rights Commission? Is it now allowed to mention the human rights abuses of Islamic and third world countries? Will Mugabe and Al Bahsir be made objects of discussion? Will the prosecution of cultural minorities in Islamic countries be discussed? Islam's totalitarian egocentrism? The genocide(s) in Africa? Saudi and Iranian-financed terror in the Middle East? The barbarism of now almost pandemically spreading Sharia law? Etc etc etc

No.

When the Iranian has finsihed, the diplomats will come back and continue as is nothing happened, goiving respectability to this whole conference.

Where is the "protest" in that? Where is the effect? As I quoted him, Frattini said: "Going there and acting as a silent witness does not pay in the end: you only risk becoming complicit in it."

Right he is.

The walkout got a lot more media attention than the initial boycott. It was a huge embarrassment for the UN, and it would have been even bigger had the US and other prominent countries been there to walk out.

I agree that returning to the conference was a bad move - the countries should have walked out and stayed out.

[Skybird]

Well, we disagree on the worth of such symbolic subtelties, but so be it.

At least due to the boycotting countries, people now ask if there is something even beyond Ahmadinejadh's to-be-expectet eclat that causes the boycott. If there would have been no boycott and only just a walkout, everybody would have blamed the Iranian Fuhrer for it - and no questions beyond that would have been asked, and no essays on page one and no editorial comments would have been written in the news pointing at the hypocritic role of the UN human rights comission, the miserable propaganda show Durban-I had turned into, the presence of thugs and dictators in human rights offices, and the participation of intolerant regimes, and the renewed attempt to ban religious criticism as racism.

That'S why I
a.) think a boycott sends a message while a walkout does nothing, and
b.) do not follow your thoughts.

Instead to go forward some going backwards. Before thise new "Hitler" open his big mouth he should look in what conditions his so called "palestinians" live and work in my country and what kind of education they get.

Well mister, if you want to wipe us of the map, let me remind you what happend to others who tried that in the past. They lost and you will face the same fate.

[Happy Times]

Originally Posted by Dimitrius07

Instead to go forward some going backwards. Before thise new "Hitler" open his big mouth he should look in what conditions his so called "palestinians" live and work in my country and what kind of education they get.

Well mister, if you want to wipe us of the map, let me remind you what happend to others who tried that in the past. They lost and you will face the same fate.

It seems that his wish is to finish the degeneration of the ancient state and people of Persia with a mass martyrdom operation.

Even the UN's High commissioner on Human Rights has condemned the comments http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/5511416

[Zachstar]

I just can't believe this actually happened.

This event has only lowered respect for the UN even further. After they let that bozo speak.

http://www.irancartoon.com/120/holocaust/

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Zachstar

I just can't believe this actually happened.

This event has only lowered respect for the UN even further. After they let that bozo speak.

Crikey!!.....talk about self harming/shooting ones self in the foot.

Show a monkey a tree and you can bet your life it'll climb it