It isn’t often that you hear about formal complaints to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) about the violation of women’s human rights occasioned by the Sharia. According to human rights activist Deepti Mahajan, who runs the Coalition CHINGARI, 80 signatories from the US, Canada, Israel, India, the UK, Austria, Australia, Netherlands, Russia, and South Africa signed a petition to the UN Human Rights Council (myself included).
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80 signatories from 10 countries issue formal complaint to UN Human Rights Council over Sharia abuse of women
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CHINGARI advocates for Hindu girls and raises awareness about their abduction and forced conversion in Pakistan. The issue has been covered over the years at Jihad Watch. At least 1,000 Hindu and Christian girls are forcibly converted to Islam each year, despite growing awareness and even protests.
Mahajan stated that signatories include “Muslims, ex Muslim women and men, victims of Sharia, intellectuals, professors, journalists, and professionals.”
The complaint to the UNHRC was submitted in time for International Women’s Day, and the formal press release is below. You’ll notice the many themes covered by Jihad Watch on a regular basis. The UN Human Rights Council is “responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe,” according to its own website, but fails repeatedly. Click HERE for UNHRC’s current membership.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY PRESS NOTE
SHARIA FORMALLY CHALLENGED AS VIOLATING WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS BEFORE THE UNITED NATIONS (UN) HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Women, and men of all faiths from many countries, victims of terrorism, human rights defenders, professors, activists, and concerned persons have jointly and formally lodged a complaint before the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council on the gross, reliably attested, and continuing pattern of the violation of women’s human rights caused by Sharia.
The complaint is not Islamophobic as, according to the UN, “criticism of the ideas, leaders, symbols or practices of Islam” is not in itself Islamophobia, and “international human rights law protects individuals, not religions.” The complaint is on the thematic and transnational topic of continuing violation of women’s human rights caused by three related issues: (a) violence against women, (b) Sharia, and (c) aspects of Islamic culture. Based on extensive and irrefutable publicly available evidence, including UN documents and the lived experiences of women affected by Sharia, it draws attention to Sharia’s incompatibility with international human rights law, especially the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) that came into force in 1981. Some non-exhaustive examples are as follows:
Violence against women: Sharia-linked violence is inflicted upon women in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
This includes the recent extreme sexual violence committed against Israeli women in October 2023 by Hamas proven by the UN; the infliction of sexual slavery on Yezidi women by the Islamic State (IS); killing of Iranian women for not wearing the hijab; the trafficking, kidnapping, and conversion of Coptic Christian girls in Egypt; kidnapping of girls and women in Nigeria by Boko Haram; mass attacks on women in Germany in 2015; the rape of girls in the UK by the so-called ‘grooming gangs’; the forced conversion, kidnapping and murder of Hindu girls in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to name a few.
Sharia: Statistical analysis demonstrates that 71% of the Qur’an’s text gives women lower status than men. In the Hadith, 91% of the text about women state that a woman has a lower status than a man. Key Qur’anic verses sanction male violence to compel a woman’s ‘obedience’; allow child marriage and polygamy, discriminate in inheritance, and prohibit a Muslim woman from marrying a non-Muslim.
Islamic culture: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is widespread in parts of the Islamic world. Immigration from Muslim countries has increased FGM in the West. Islamic culture compels Muslim women to undergo unnecessary surgery to restore their hymen. UN reports show how Islamic culture demeans women. Islamic culture impedes women’s education in some parts of the world and blocks advancement for educated Muslim women. Muslim women do not have equal opportunities to participate actively in sports and physical education and have poorer access to mosques as compared to Muslim men. Head coverings for Muslim women are linked to complex security, health, educational, cultural, and civilizational issues. Muslim leaders have also violated Muslim women’s reproductive right to choose the number of children by advocating the use of Muslim birth rates as a non-military strategy to conquer non-Muslim lands. Warnings have come from ex-Muslim women because of this worldwide and the continuing pattern of Sharia violating women’s human rights.
Action requested: The Human Rights Council should:
i. Request a single consolidated response from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), including one standardized, worldwide codification of the Sharia and an explanation as to why Sharia should not be considered a fundamental cause of violation of women’s human rights.
ii. Appoint two non-Muslim rapporteurs, one who is a Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief and the second, a Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, to mandate them to work in a coordinated manner and report to the Human Rights Council on the following issues:
a. Submit a thematic report on the elements of Sharia that discriminate against and have negatively impacted the lives of Muslim and non-Muslim women. The two rapporteurs should ensure that the views of ex-Muslim, reformist Muslim women, critics of Islam, and others impacted by these norms are the primary sources of data for this report.
b. Advise the Council if the elements of the Sharia are contrary to resolution 16/18 adopted by the Human Rights Council in 2011 which related to ‘combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of, and discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against, persons based on religion or belief’ as they relate to non-Muslims.
c. To work with and assist UN Women to determine the extent to which the elements of Sharia are the root cause of inequality and violence by extremist Muslims against women.
d. To determine if the word “kuffar” violates the UN definition of ‘hate speech.’
e. To work closely with UN Women and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women thereby enabling the Committee mentioned above to hold days of general discussion (DGDs) on ‘The Rights of Women and Girls to be protected against specific norms in the Sharia that violate CEDAW and other human rights treaties on women’ and to further enable the Committee to issue a General Recommendation to State parties.
iii. The Human Rights Council should consider the extent to which elements of Sharia have been demonstrated to cause crimes against humanity and gender apartheid against women, as recorded in its 2016 report on ISIS crimes against Yazidis, and the joint report by the Special Rapporteur for Afghanistan and the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls. Based on these reports, it should contribute to ongoing discussions towards a universal treaty on crimes against humanity and the need to include specific elements of the Sharia as risk factors that heighten the likelihood of such crimes against women.
iv. The Human Rights Council should request the International Law Commission to determine the extent to which elements of Sharia should be classified as harmful practices and therefore null and void as being contrary to international human rights law.
Copy to:
Mr. António Guterres, Secretary-Secretary General, United Nations.
Mr. Volker Türk, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations.
Ms. Ilze Brands Kehris, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, United Nations.
Ms. Sami Bahous is the Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director.
Ms. Rola Dashti, Executive Director, Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General for Counterterrorism, United Nations.
Mr. Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary-General and United Nations Legal Counsel.
Ms. Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General, Department of Global Communications, United Nations.
Mr. Abraham Cooper, Chair, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Ms. Dunja Mijatović, Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.
Mr. Justice Arun Kumar Mishra (retd), Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission of India.
The Overt Assault on the Food Supply and Denying Human Nature with – Dr. Jeff Barke
Heavily Shackled Humanity
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“I studied the Koran a great deal … I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad.” — Alexis de Tocqueville
Despite the terrible massacre of October 7, many politicians in the West continue to talk about Islam as a “religion of peace.” Respected professors, journalists, columnists, and philosophers from Paris to San Francisco share this view. They really want to believe in it; otherwise, the claim that true evil comes from the West only, and the Islamic movement is no more than a form of national struggle of the oppressed people, becomes meaningless. Unfortunately, Hamas, like ISIS and al-Qaeda before, is pure, uncomplicated Islam in its most genuine, original form.
Islam, like some forms of Judaism and Christianity, is a religion that interprets divine revelation literally; they believe that the fulfillment of God’s laws is the only way to perfection, salvation, and harmony.
God in some understandings of these religions is anthropomorphic, omnipotent, and immanent. Like a father, He is strict and at the same time fair to His children; He knows their every step and judges them according to His laws. He may be jealous, merciful, rigid, compassionate, and solicitous. He can reveal his face and can conceal it, but the believer doesn’t have any other option except to believe that the Father in Heaven cares about him, no matter what.
His laws are irreversible. His will determines everything and everyone's tasks of a government, relations between the ruler and his subjects, punishments for crimes, individual freedoms, gender relations and the state of minorities, and public aid to the weak and feeble.
Human intervention in Divine instructions is blasphemy, which inevitably results in a severe punishment. Moreover, the followers of fundamentalist religions are inclined to believe in conspiracies of evil.
Time and misery, humanistic ideals and rational thinking have changed the nature of the once rigid Jewish and Christian beliefs, but not those of Muslims. Many Muslims were never and aren’t aware of their own blind hatred and fanaticism; they are not appalled by these, and they’ve never undergone a catharsis that would allow them to look inside themselves. Islam has never known self-reflection, doubt, and spiritual dissatisfaction, as prophetic Judaism did in the epoch of Judges and Kings, or Christianity in the Enlightenment period. Movements of spiritual protest, as the Essenes were in Jewish history, or Waldenses, Cathars, and Hussites in medieval Europe, are unfamiliar to Islam. It is proud of its own perfection, immutability, and monumentality.
It strives for expansion, which is prescribed by the Qur’an and Hadith. Religious commandments and regulations of Islam are neither a choice nor an allegory. These are literal and undeniable Divine commandments, very specific and covering the areas of human existence to the fullest possible extent. Muslims strongly believe that Allah reveals himself in every sign and every phenomenon they find His name: in the shape of clouds, spots on animals, a mole on skin, interweaving of tree’s branches, contours of stones.
Islam divides humanity into Dar al-Islam (House of Islam) with righteous, divine laws of Islam, and Dar al-Harb (House of War), with chaos, infidelity and false (or at best, imperfect) teachings. The House of Islam and the House of War are doomed to confrontation, which must end with the triumph of “true religion.” The establishment of the “Islamic state” (caliphate) based on Sharia laws via “jihad” is a divine mission of Islam, and other interpretations of the Koran and other sacred texts – such as the Hadith — do not exist.
The problem is not the ruthless uprooting of heresies, but in the fact that the heresies simply do not exist. There were countless attempts in the Medieval Europe to undermine the monolith of Dogma and return spirituality to Western Christianity, from the Troubadours to the Proto-Renaissance to the Lollards and Waldenses.
We haven’t seen anything like this in the Muslim world. Only in Sunni Islam, minor disagreements have occurred about the way to create a World State of Sharia by preserving immutable and indestructible law (the Salafis) or by adopting modern political tools, such as democratic elections, the parliamentary system and legal institutions (the Muslim Brotherhood). But the main goals remain the same. In Shia Islam, only ayatollahs have supreme, exclusive and indisputable power, without any hint of rational or humanist understanding of religion.
The enemies of Islam are subject to destruction and humiliation. Judaism and Christianity for Muslims are the ugly, weak shadow of only one true religion. The Yazidis, followers of dualism, are servants of Evil and must be destroyed physically, and in terrible agony, as children of Satan.
Conspiracy Theories are not prejudices of ignorant masses, but an integral part of the ruling elite. In July 2014, Iranian state TV translated a discussion with Valliollah Naghipourfar, cleric and professor of Tehran University, who claimed that Zionists use genies to undermine Iran; in April 2013, a well-known Iranian cleric and close confidante of Ayatollah Khamenei warned about “global Jewish sorcery”; in December 2010, Said Mohamed Abdel-Fadli Shusha, governor of South Sinai, spoke about a shark sent by “Mossad” to hurt tourists in Egypt”; in Gaza, Hamas arrested 150 women and accused them of witchcraft, and the list goes on.
The doctrine of mainstream Islam sees death through jihad as a blessing, that’s the reason that both the Sunni Hamas and Shiite Hezbollah say that they love death. Therefore, they are doing everything possible to communicate this simple idea to their ordinary, less zealous coreligionists, by slighting and intimidating them.
It is only in our time of neo-Marxist clichés and naivety that Islam could be called a religion of peace. Philosophers and historians of the Enlightenment and the nineteenth century, unlike our contemporaries, were not hypocrites.
David Hume described the Qur’an as an absurd performance of a pretended prophet who lacked a just sentiment of morals. Voltaire called Muhammad the founder of a false and barbarous sect and a false prophet. Helvetius wrote that Islam dreamed of conquering the world “by fire and sword.” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote: “I studied the Koran a great deal … I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad.” The Church historian Philip Schaff wrote: “Mohammedanism conquered the fairest portions of the earth by the sword and cursed them by polygamy, slavery, despotism, and desolation; the moving power of Islam was fanaticism and brute force.” Ernest Renan called Islam the heaviest chains that have ever shackled humanity.
Escapism has always been inherent in people. But it has never manifested itself with such power and scale of an entire civilization, as we witness today.
Alexander Maistrovoy is the author of Agony of Hercules or a Farewell to Democracy (Notes of a Stranger), available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
UN votes overwhelmingly for immediate ‘humanitarian truce’ in Gaza
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The United Nations has voted to call for an immediate “humanitarian truce” in Gaza. What this means is that the UN is demanding that Israel halt its war against Hamas, which aims to destroy Israel by any means possible, no matter how barbaric.
In every war, the worst collateral damage is human lives. This is obviously not a war that Israel wanted to have, but one that aims to obliterate the lethal threat of Hamas, which has justly been likened to the Islamic State. While the UN and Palestinian sympathizers are demonizing Israel, nothing is really different. Israel was always a target, despite the jihad against it.
According to the Times of Israel:
The initiative is completely symbolic but highlights the overwhelming international support for the Palestinians amid Israel’s military campaign following the October 7 Hamas onslaught.
Many in the mainstream media are also complicit in the unfair targeting of Israel. by minimizing the reason for the war on Hamas. Take for instance the necessity of World War II. Some seventy-five million people died; among them were 40 million civilians, many of which included children. There was no UN to call for an immediate “humanitarian” ceasefire on a war against the Nazis. In short, “war is hell“; there is no softening it for countries that respect human life. The choice for war is only made in the face of an extreme threat.
Hamas is also blocking civilians from leaving, in order to rack up casualties in its propaganda war against Israel, while the complicit media collectively downplays this fact while bombarding the public with information about suffering Palestinians, especially kids.
“UN general assembly calls for immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza as Israel expands ground operation,” by Léonie Chao-Fong, Ashifa Kassam, and Helen Sullivan, Guardian, October 27, 2023:
The UN’s general assembly has overwhelmingly called for an immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza.
The resolution, drafted by Arab states, passed with 120 votes in favor, while 45 abstained and 14 – including Israel and the US – voted no.