Saturday March 7, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

Durban II will take place in Switzerland from April 20-25.
Durban II is intended to be a follow up to the original Durban Conference which took place in Durban, in 2001.

Israel and Canada have already said that they will not be attending Durban II.
Durban has a history of turning into one long ranting tirade against Israel. At heart, Durban is a convention of anti-Semitism. The Obama administration says that the US will not participate if the Conference resolutions are anti-Semitic.

In a very uncharacteristic move The EU announced to the UN Commission on Human Rights, the body that oversees the Durban conference, that they will not tolerate the flagrant anti-Semitism that has been permeating the resolutions.

The Dutch, Belgian and Italian ambassadors have all made it clear that they will not accept these resolutions, either.
They also said that they will not accept the idea that defaming a religion is the same as defaming people. They made it clear that religions and ideas do not have the same status as people in understanding human rights.

The religion angle stems from the Muslim world which is still smoldering about the caricatures of Mohammed that appeared in the European press.
The Muslim world wants to stop this from happening again.
If it does happen, they want the act to be labeled as an abuse of human rights.

Durban II is only around the corner and things are starting to heat up.

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