Flying Pig Alert: UN Labels Four Pakistanis ‘Terrorists’

World | Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:03:48 pm PST

The United Nations Security Council has actually labeled four Pakistanis linked to the Mumbai atrocities as terrorists.

UNITED NATIONS – A U.N. Security Council panel has designated four men allegedly linked to the Mumbai attacks as terrorists subject to sanctions.

The four men hold leadership positions in the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba that is accused of orchestrating last month’s attacks that left 171 dead in Mumbai.

The four are Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Lashkar’s operations chief; Muhammad Saeed, the group’s leader; Haji Muhammad Ashraf, its chief of finance; and Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq, a financier with the group.

(Hat tip:Nancy)

Un Anti-Semitism

The UN is having a gathering supposedly stopping racism. In reality when the last time this happened at Durban, It turned into an Israel bashing fest. The US, Israel and other nations need to leave the UN. The UN is a Leftist-Islamic organization whose goal is to a establish a Marxist-Islamic hybrid state.

The U.N.’s Racist Conference On Racism

When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism. –The Rev. Martin Luther King, 1968

The remarks above, which the Rev. King reportedly made at a Harvard University dinner, shortly before his assassination, are quoted in a U.S. State Department report released this past March in response to “rising anti-Semitism worldwide.” I came across them while seeking background on a notoriously anti-Semitic United Nations conference held in 2001 in Durban, South Africa. Billed as an effort to fight racism, that Durban conclave focused instead on vilifying Israel–whipping up hatred to such an extreme that then- Secretary of State Colin Powell ordered the U.S. delegation to walk out.

I wonder what the Rev. King would make of the U.N.’s current drive to reprise that festival of prejudice, in the form of a “Durban Review Conference,” scheduled for April 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland. Even more to the point, because Durban II looms as an early foreign-policy test of the next U.S. administration, what will President-elect Obama do about it?

Our Friends the Saudis – The Big Push to Criminalize Blasphemy

At a special session of the United Nations General Assembly, the leader of the religious apartheid kingdom of Saudi Arabia will sit down in the same room with an Israeli for the first time. What would bring Abdullah to do this, an act that must be repugnant to him? Answer: the possibility that he may be able to talk the gullible infidels into criminalizing blasphemy.

WASHINGTON – World leaders gathering at the United Nations this week for a special session of the General Assembly to advance interfaith dialogue should have no illusions that their efforts will miraculously promote mutual respect between religious communities or end abuses of religious freedom.

Saudi King Abdullah, who initiated this week’s special session, is quietly enlisting the leaders’ support for a global law to punish blasphemy – a campaign championed by the 56-member Organization of Islamic Conference that puts the rights of religions ahead of individual liberties.

If the campaign succeeds, states that presume to speak in the name of religion will be able to crush religious freedom not only in their own country, but abroad.

The UN session is designed to endorse a meeting of religious leaders in Spain last summer that was the brainchild of King Abdullah and organized by the Muslim World League. That meeting resulted in a final statement counseling promotion of “respect for religions, their places of worship, and their symbols … therefore preventing the derision of what people consider sacred.”

The lofty-sounding principle is, in fact, a cleverly coded way of granting religious leaders the right to criminalize speech and activities that they deem to insult religion. Instead of promoting harmony, however, this effort will exacerbate divisions and intensify religious repression.

This isn’t a low-level campaign; it will be attended by world leaders, and some of them have already signaled their acquiescence to the agenda: The Big Saudi Swindle.

(Hat tip: Soccer Dad and Nancy.)