BY ANDREW C McCARTHY, PJ MEDIA
I think “crime against humanity” has become a verbal tic for Turkey’s Islamic-supremacist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
In Vienna, at one of the UN’s nauseating “dialogues” between Islam and the West (you know, those conferences where Western leaders explain how much they admire Islam and Islamic leaders reciprocate by explaining how much they, too, admire Islam), Erdogan pronounced Zionism a “crime against humanity,” which he placed on a par with anti-Semitism. The latter is a subject Erdogan knows a thing or two about. As I recount in Spring Fever, The Illusion of Islamic Democracy (just released in paperback this week),:
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Erdogan first burst on the scene almost 40 years ago as the 20-year-old writer-director-star of a theatrical production called Maskomya. As Andy Bostom edifies us, Mas-Kom-Ya is short for Masons, Communists, and, yes, Yahudi — Jews. In Erdogan’s telling, these were evil subversive groups whose common denominator was – all together now! — Judaism.
Spring Fever documents Erdogan’s application of “crime against humanity” label to calls for Muslims in Europe and America to assimilate in the Western societies where they’ve chosen to live. He also said it was a “crime against humanity” for Israel to defend itself in 2008?s “Operation Cast Lead” after over 3000 rockets and mortar shells were fired into Israeli territory by Hamas — the international terrorist organization that Erdogan’s Turkey lavishly funds and whose leaders he receives as dignitaries.
In this week’s Vienna speech, Erdogan reached unprecedented epistemological buffoonery when he explained that not only Zionism but Islamophobia is a “crime against humanity.” Either he does not know what a crime is or he does not know what a phobia is, but since a rational mental state is required for the former the latter doesn’t qualify. Or maybe Erdogan knows exactly what crimes and phobias are, but as an Islamo-fascist he figures such niceties should never get in the way of a good smear. Oh, almost forgot, Erdogan also said fascism was a “crime against humanity.” Between his invocation of anti-Semitism and fascism, we see that Erdogan at least knows how to project.
In 1975, a year after Maskomya had its run, Erdogan’s fellow Islamic-supremacists engineered the passage of U.N. General Assembly Resolution 3379, declaring that Zionism was a form of racism. The condemnation by the United States of this blatant act of anti-Semitism was unequivocal. The late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., asserted, “The United States … does not acknowledge, it will never abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act.” Even the fraudulent enterprise that is the U.N. eventually felt compelled to buckle under forceful American leadership (much of it provided in the Bush 41 State Department by a young assistant secretary named John Bolton). The noxious “Zionism equals racism” resolution was finally repealed in 1991.
Now, Erdogan has seen racism and raised it to a crime against humanity, but we’ve thus far heard no Moynihan-like condemnation from the Obama administration.
Notwithstanding that the prime minister’s claim to fame is imprisoning uncooperative journalists and political opponents on trumped up charges, President Obama has described Erdogan as one of his most “trusted friends” among world leaders. Although Erdogan is a top provider of material support to Hamas, a serious felony in the United States, Obama recently said of him: “The bottom line is that we find ourselves in frequent agreement upon a wide range of issues.” And, indeed, it is Erdogan who has been prodding Obama to repeat the administration’s Libya debacle by overtly supporting the Syrian “rebels” — the jihadist-rife, Muslim Brotherhood-dominated opposition seeking to topple the Iran-backed regime of Bashar al-Assad. It appears Obama and his second-term foreign policy team are poised to give Erdogan his way.
Sigh. Maybe for just a few minutes, Obama could pretend that Erdogan was a Republican and that anti-Zionism was the sequester …
Islamophobia: “A Crime against Humanity”
OIC Attempts to Globalize US for Islamic Law
The United Nations has become a tool to suppress the U.S. and other Western nations into a political and social order orchestrated by dictators, tyrants and powerful individuals whose true agenda is a universal government under global laws. As a result, the U.N. and its arms across the world have become a platform for some of its member to spew propaganda and racial hatred against the U.S. and Israel while cloaking their own crimes against humanity.
At a recent UN Conference in Vienna, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan used the podium to address the 2,000 participants, including the UN Secretary-General, the Emir of Qatar, Presidents from Austria and Romania, Foreign Ministers from Iran and Spain about crimes against humanity. He boldly told the participants of the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations’ forum that “As with Zionism, anti-Semitism and fascism, it is inevitable that Islamophobia be considered a crime against humanity.”
As a nation that advances equality, Americans certainly agree with the outcries of criticism against Erdogan for his remarks that put Zionism in the same category as anti-Semitism and fascism. In light of this, the verbal offense and branding of Zionism as a “crime against humanity” has been denounced by the UN Secretary-General as “hurtful and divisive comments,” “not only wrong,” but “contradict the very principles on which the Alliance of Civilizations is based;” has also been condemned by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at a news conference in Turkey with his statement “We not only disagree with it…we found it objectionable;” as well as the U.S. senior State Department and a White House spokesman adding their comments that this kind of hate speech has a “corrosive effect” on American-Turkish relations.
However, the real subject of Erdogan’s comment was ‘Islamophobia,’ soon to be a crime against humanity if Erdogan and other Islamic political and religious leaders would have their way. Just as Israel, the U.S. and (unbelieveably) the U.N. recognize that Zionism is being branded along with anti-Semistism and fascism we must not let them ignore Erdogan’s inclusion of ‘Islamophobia,’ the silencing of any criticism of Islam, as a crime against humanity, a blasphemy against Islam.
Those in the audience heard: “Islamophobia is a crime against humanity” and along with Zionism we will work to eliminate both. The coupling of Zionism with anti-Semitism and fascism was a planned tactic for the participants and the Muslim world. His remark was a 2-for-1 punch attacking Zionism while silencing the voices that would cut down Islam. His real message took on a different meaning after it left the room.
Erdogan was not the only speaker to make comments to further the Islamic global agenda. His honorable Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, The Emir of Qatar also used the platform to complain about “an increase in the manifestations of misunderstanding about Islam and the Islamic civilization in addition to the Muslims’ suffering from marginalization, discrimination and hatred in many parts of the globe.” The Emir called “the Palestinian cause” the “last colonial issue in history.”
This attitude towards Zionism is just a cover for hatred towards Israel which is no big news story. In fact, it’s refreshing to hear the truth than have it covered over by ‘taquiyya.’ The really important story is Islamophobia and the United Nations.
The groundwork for the campaign against Islamophobia began in 1999 with the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the 52 Islamic nations’ organization chartered to combat defamation of Islam. They sponsoring several non-binding resolutions condemning the “defamation of religion” that were accepted by the U.N. And every year since, the OIC has had the “anti-blasphemy” resolution put to a vote in the Human Rights Council, their pathway through the U.N. into the U.S. and Europe and the goal of a global Blasphemy Law…and eventually Sharia Law.
The OIC’s relationship with the U.N. was firmed up in the General Assembly in 2007 with the adoption of Resolution 61/49. This declaration took into account the desire of the U.N. and the (OIC) to continue close cooperation in the political, economic, social, humanitarian, cultural and scientific fields searching for global solutions to international peace and security, disarmament, self-determination.
Then in 2010, a resolution called ‘Combating Defamation of Religions’ was passed in the Human Rights Council (HRC), a committee of the UN. This was followed later by HRC’s resolution 16/18 called ‘Combating Intolerance, Negative Stereotyping and Stigmatization of, and Discrimination, incitement to Violence and Violence Against, Persons based on Religion or Belief.’
The powerful IOC was also successful in 2012 of involving the Obama administration directly in their attempt to get this resolution 16/18 passed. The State department, represented by past Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, hosted and co-chaired three OIC meetings known as the Istanbul Process. These meetings were strongly supported by President Obama enabling the U.N. General Assembly to pass Resolution 16/18 making it an offense for Non-Muslims to Blaspheme Islam.
The speeches given by both Turkey’s Prime Minister and the Emir of Qatar are continued signs of the never-ending attacks against the Western world, with Israel being front and center. We surely know where this is going…a means to shut down and silence open dialogue about Islamic Ideology and the Qu’ran. It means shutting down individuals like me who are dedicated to exposing the facts about the impending threat of the Islamization of America and Europe, along with the imposition of Sharia Law under the United Nations’ auspices.
While the public dialogue focuses on the audacity of Zionism being accredited as a crime against humanity, we must not be blind to the bigger picture, the criminalizing of any criticism of Islam and the end of freedom of speech. Once this is implemented Western Civilization is only a short time away from Quranic life and Sharia Law.