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<p>GENEVA, Feb. 17 – A Pakistani spokesman for the UN’s Islamic bloc sparked outrage today after announcing to the UN’s top rights body that its 56 member states would ignore a scheduled UN rights panel on anti-gay violence, saying they were “disturbed” at the “attempted focus on certain persons” on the grounds of their “abnormal sexual behaviour,” which “have nothing to do with fundamental human rights.”</p>
<p>The Islamic statement, obtained by the Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch and <a href="http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2012/02/17/letter-from-uns-islamic-group-to-unhrc-president-opposing-panel-on-violence-against-gays/">posted</a> on its website, is provoking sharp reactions from human rights activists.<span id="more-1764"></span></p>
<p>UN Watch director Hillel Neuer today called on US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom it lauded for her leadership on this issue at the UN, to condemn the “scandalous assault on the right of gays not to be put to death in countries like Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen. Human rights are universal and there is no religious exemption for barbaric violence against innocent human beings anywhere.”</p>
<p>Diplomatic sources have also reported to UN Watch that the Islamic states are considering a walk-out during the March 7th panel.</p>
<p>The letter by Pakistan’s Geneva envoy Zamir Akram on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation—comprised of 56 Islamic UN member states and the Palestinian Authority—was sent on Valentine’s Day to UN Human Rights Council president Laura Dupuy Lasserre and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. <a href="http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2012/02/17/letter-from-uns-islamic-group-to-unhrc-president-opposing-panel-on-violence-against-gays/">Click here for letter.</a></p>
<p>The OIC declared its unequivocal opposition to the upcoming March 7th panel discussion concerning a new UN report on discriminatory laws and practices and violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity. The OIC will “will not accept its considerations and recommendations.”</p>
<p>The unprecedented panel and <a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/19session/a.hrc.19.41_english.pdf">report</a> were mandated by the council’s historic <a href="http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/17/L.9/Rev.1">June 2011 resolution</a>, which passed by a slim majority of <a href="http://blog.unwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/Vote-L.9-Rev.-1.pdf">23 to 19</a>, with 3 abstentions.</p>
<p>The OIC letter said the panel on anti-gay violence addresses “controversial notions” that have “no legal foundation in any international human rights instrument,” “misinterpreting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”</p>
<p>The OIC warned the debate would “seriously jeopardize the entire international human rights framework,” and “will shift the focus from the real issues that deserve the attention of the Council.”</p>
<p>“The Panel will discuss issues that relate to personal behavior and preferences, and have nothing to do with fundamental human rights,” said the OIC.</p>
<p>To justify its position, the OIC cited UN language, seemingly giving exemptions to universal rights laws, that “historical, cultural and religious backgrounds must be borne in mind. From this perspective, the issue of sexual orientation is unacceptable to the OIC.”</p>
<p>The OIC letter comes on the heels of Wednesday’s Libyan speech to the UN this week accusing gays of threatening the continuation of the human race.</p>
</div> Why Queers for Palestine are on the wrong sidetag:4freedoms.com,2010-10-25:3766518:Topic:298232010-10-25T04:46:57.000ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
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Filed under: Israel Derangement Syndrome — Meryl Yourish @ 4:30 pm<br></br>
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Say, Queers for Palestine: Imagine if this event were held in Ramallah. What do you think would happen?<br></br>
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Arab lesbians quietly defied Islamist protesters and a social taboo to gather at a rare public event Wednesday in a northern Israeli city.<br></br>
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Many of the attendees said they were…
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Filed under: Israel Derangement Syndrome — Meryl Yourish @ 4:30 pm<br/>
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Say, Queers for Palestine: Imagine if this event were held in Ramallah. What do you think would happen?<br/>
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Arab lesbians quietly defied Islamist protesters and a social taboo to gather at a rare public event Wednesday in a northern Israeli city.<br/>
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Many of the attendees said they were sad that the only place safe enough to hold a conference for gay Arab women was in a Jewish area of Haifa, which has a mixed Arab-Jewish population. Israel’s Jewish majority is generally tolerant of homosexuality.<br/>
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I’m thinking the women would be arrested, harmed, or killed. Lucky for them, the event was in Israel.<br/>
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You’re on the wrong side in this battle. Homosexuality is illegal in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and, well, just about every single Arab and Muslim country on the planet (except for Jordan). Gays are executed in some countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran. In Israel, though some religious Jews are against homosexuality, gays are not persecuted, nor arrested, nor murdered—at least not by the state. Can you say the same about the Palestinian Territories?<br/>
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I think not.<br/>
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Driven deep underground for the most part, only 10 to 20 Arab lesbians attended the conference, organizers said. Most blended in with Israeli lesbians and heterosexual Arab female supporters without making their presence known.<br/>
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“We’d like all women to come out of the closet that’s our role. We work for them,” said Samira, 31, a conference organizer who came with her Jewish Israeli girlfriend. Samira agreed to be identified only by her first name for fear of reprisals.<br/>
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Outside the conference hall, 20 women protesters in headscarves and long, loose robes held up signs reading, “God, we ask you to guide these lesbians to the true path.”<br/>
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Security was tight. Attendance was by invitation only, and reporters were not allowed to take photographs, use tape recorders or identify people.<br/>
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Even in Israel, they have to hide from their Arab brothers and sisters.<br/>
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Morcos said her car was vandalized repeatedly and she received threatening phone calls at her family home after her village in northern Israel found out she was a lesbian.<br/>
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Wrong side, QUIT. You’re on the wrong side. Try looking at the Israelis, who do not murder homosexuals, who do not put them in prison for being homosexuals, and who do not discriminate against them for being homosexual.<br/>
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But don’t let the facts get in the way of your Israel-hatred.