Israel Matzav

Multi-Culturalism run rampant

They told us that if we voted for John McCain, we would get a President who didn't give a damn about democracy or human rights. And they were right.

In this week's issue of Forbes Anne Bayefsky rips the Obumbler's gutless policy on Iran (Hat Tip: Memeorandum).

The president's storyline that we don't know what has transpired in Iran is an insult to the intelligence of both Americans and Iranians. Our absence from the polling booths doesn't mean the results are a mystery. The rules of the election were quite clear. Candidates for president must be approved by the 12-member Council of Guardians. As reported by the BBC, more than 450 Iranians registered as prospective candidates while four contenders were accepted. All 42 women who attempted to run were rejected. So exactly what part of rigged does President Obama not understand?

Instead of denouncing the fake election, President Obama now tells Iranians who are dying for the real thing "the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran." Whose sovereignty is that? The Hobbesian sovereign thugs running the place? Sovereignty to do what? To deny rights and freedoms to their own people? In a state so bereft of minimal protections for human dignity, why should the sovereignty of such a government be paramount?

But President Obama didn't want to dwell on the daily reality of sovereign Iran: A criminal code that permits stoning women to death for alleged adultery and hanging homosexuals for the crime of existing. Instead, he repeatedly invoked "respect" for "their traditions and their culture."

This is the same mantra he espoused to the Islamic world in Cairo when three times he spoke of the "rights" of Muslim women to cover up their bodies. Knowing full well that women in the Muslim world face the contrary problem of surviving after refusing to cover up their bodies, he never once dared to mention that this was also a human right. What part of cultural relativism and traditional oppression does President Obama not know how it plays out?

Unfortunately, in the Obumbler's bizarre world, all nations are created equal, all cultures are created equal and no government has the right to criticize any other government. Human rights in Iran (and Libya and Cuba - to name a couple more) are as well-protected as they are in the United States.

Yes, that's what President Obama believes. What could go wrong?

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:10 PM