Iran attacks Canada's human rights record

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/world/ ... 1763c.html

In a bid to discredit Canada at the United Nations, Iran is equipping world diplomats with a 70-page booklet on Canada's alleged human rights violations.

Written by Iran "in the name of God," the document asserts that the Canadian government denies its people food, clean water and the right to work.

"Routine unlawful strip and beatings by Canadian police has been a matter of concern for international community," notes the booklet, entitled Report on Human Rights Situation in Canada, adding that "the practice of police is alarming simply because I it is functioning as if there is no need to have judges."

The publication, which claims its allegations are drawn from "objective and factual information released by authentic and credible international sources", alleges that a range of human rights violations occur in Canada, especially toward aboriginal peoples and immigrants.

"To the great dismay of the international community, it is a great concern that the rights of women are violated, and no serious attention has been paid in promotion and protection of women's rights in Canada."

Moreover, the document concludes, "Canada's position as a self-declared standard-bearer on human rights has been demoted to a blind-folded-and-bullied follower of the new school of unilateralism and the axis of derailment of international human rights law."

Say what you will about Iran, but they may have the best foreign policy machine ever.

"It may well (win Iran support), and Canada will have to stand in the General Assembly and explain its position," said Max Morrison, a former Canadian diplomat at the UN who is now president of the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies.

Last edited by benji on Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:26 am, edited 1 time in total.

Very proud to be Canadian...

A a bag of horseshit! Seriously, this guy is a moron. "We have no homo's in Iran" ya...right, and the sky is purple and now this? What a joke, Iran is digging themselves a bigger hole on the international scene by doing stuff like this. Do they not realize that if they mess with us, the US is going to be all over them as well?

While sure, the Aboriginals here don't live in 5-star houses, it's nothing compared to the shit that goes on in Iran

Proud to be Canadian

He did not say they did not have homosexuals in Iran. It was said in a way to mean, they are not out in the open (lest they be stoned to death clearly), all over the television and such like in America. (Though he did and does mean the Holocaust did not happen.)

Of course it's a joke, just like the UN. The UN focuses endlessly on "human rights" violations in the US, Israel and now Canada, while Libya, Cuba, etc. have sat on the Human Rights Council untouched. It is a body that treats authoritarian states equally with democratic ones, and all those authoritarian ones vote together ensuring their protection.

But I didn't think that needed to be said.

(Though he did and does mean the Holocaust did not happen.)

I don't know what the original quote was, but that's not what he believes. He thinks there should be more studies done to see what exactly happened. He wants to know what is wrong with knowing more and not just believing what we hear. He also questions why the holocoust is the 'excuse' for the conflict with the Palestinians. But he does not maintain a position that the holocoust is a myth.

Last week, he also expressed doubt about the killing by the Nazis of six million Jews during World War II, but Wednesday was the first occasion when he said in public that the Holocaust was a myth.

"They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets," Ahmadinejad said in a speech to thousands of people in the Iranian city of Zahedan, according to a report on Wednesday from Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.

"The West has given more significance to the myth of the genocide of the Jews, even more significant than God, religion, and the prophets," he said. "(It) deals very severely with those who deny this myth but does not do anything to those who deny God, religion, and the prophet."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/14/iran.israel/

Hehe, why did they pick Canada of all places? That's what I'd like to know.

The booklet emerges on the eve of the UN's annual summit, to be attended by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier.

Part of the two men's efforts will be to convince other world leaders to stay on side with a resolution Canada drove through the UN General Assembly in 2006, denouncing Iran's poor human rights record.

I assume as payback?

Ahh, that makes sense. I should've read the whole article rather than depend on snippets, but thank you.