Barbados says “no problem worth talking about” as Iran hangs two Gay teenagers.
Barbados has a shameful voting record at the United Nations when it comes to human rights – and that record just got a little worse with our refusal to vote against a bill that says executing people for being gays and lesbians is permissible.
This isn’t the first time that we’ve sided with evil. We actually make a habit of it at the UN in human rights matters. We don’t want to offend any country that might toss a few coins our way.
I have always found it shameful that Barbados – a nation founded with the assistance of chains, whips, rape and cultural genocide – now so easily supports nations involved in slavery and human rights violations. Whether it is our support for Iran’s hanging of children and amputations as punishment, or our “look the other way” while China maintains the world’s largest slave camp system within her borders and uses slave labour in Africa, Barbados long ago lost the moral high ground at the United Nations.
YES – Barbados actually voted at the UN to protect Iran’s use of torture, floggings, amputations as punishment, discrimination and violence against women and executions of children like Ateqeh Rajabi. Rajabi was hanged at 16 years old for the offence of having sex outside of marriage. Barbados supported and still supports Iran’s “right” to execute children.
Now we’ve decided that it’s no problem to us if a country wants to execute gays and lesbians because of their sexual orientation…
United Nations: It’s Okay to Kill the Gay
NEW YORK, NY — Last week, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly voted on a special resolution addressing extrajudicial, arbitrary and summary executions. The resolution affirms the duties of member countries to protect the right to life of all people with a special emphasis on a call to investigate killings based on discriminatory grounds. The resolution highlights particular groups historically subject to executions including street children, human rights defenders, members of ethnic, religious, and linguistic minority communities, and, for the past 10 years, the resolution has included sexual orientation as a basis on which some individuals are targeted for death.
The tiny West African nation of Benin (on behalf of the UN’s African Group) proposed an amendment to strike sexual minorities from the resolution. The amendment was adopted with 79 votes in favor, 70 against, 17 abstentions and 26 absent.
A collection of notorious human rights violators voted for the amendment including Afghanistan, Algeria, China, Congo, Cuba, Eritrea, North Korea, Iran (didn’t Ahmadinejad tell the world there were no gays in Iran?), Egypt, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Sudan, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.
…continue reading this article at The Huffington Post
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I wonder what dynamics would allow a so called civilized society to condone such barbaric behavior?
I think I am going to be very very sick.!
All immigration and travel from such countries should be immediately stopped.
To think that Persia was a respected democracy under Mossaddeqh before Britain and the US ( CIA ) imposed the Shah on Iran and the world, all for cheap oil and military weapons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh
Somewhere here is dirty money
You reap what you sow
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There really needs to be more public discussion on this. Barbados needs to stop ignoring human rights. They should really listen to what Irene Khan said last week at the Central Bank.
i think Barbados abstained from the vote. That is not being for nor against. Approval by silence.
That is not our problem.
I am very disappointed in the leadership of Barbados. If We refuse to take a stand for human rights internationally then doesnt that eliminate us from ever taking a stand for human rights nationally. What will Barbadians do when someone believes they have the approval of the government and brutalizes, maims, or murders a gay or lesbian person just for being who they are? Isn’t the government sanctioning this behavior? Shame on you Barbados. What if all gay& lesbian tourists and their friends and families decide to boycott everything Barbados? Would this stupid and unprincipled stance be worth it then?
Just as a matter of interest, some of our very own non-Muslim (i.e. Christian) Caribbean neighbors, didn’t just abstain like Barbados, but voted for the amendment including Grenada, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St.Vincent and Guyana. Also many supposed “Christian” African nations are all in favour of putting homosexuals to death, thanks in no small part to the work of fundamentalist, CHRISTIAN missionaries.
From the Huffington Post article:
That’s why I say, a pox on all the fundamentalist, religious wackos regardless of the religion they espouse. If the Christian domionist movements ever gets a chance to subvert the US constitution and establish a theocratic form of government in the USA, you could expect the same type of medieval laws and thinking to predominate.
Just get it straight, whatever gays or lesbian get they will have to take.
I do not discriminate against anyone. What does this issue have to do with us. We don’t hang our gay people. And to you Sadiki, that would never happen. We in Barbados have freedom of expression. Excuse my bajan parlance, but nobody doan trouble de bullers bout hay, except de bullers dem selves, stabbing up each other and such.
This is about human rights across the board.
Now we know where two bloggers stand. Its almost the same position as calling a black or colored man the N word.
Shame on you bigots!
My concern is, where does it end? sure it’s gays today, what if it’s darkies tomorrow? the books that condemn homosexuality don’t condemn slavery, they don’t condemn a lot of things, civilized nations have made illegal. Remember the zealot muslim mantra is “convert or death”, so christian groups might be next in the noose.
Its Sad to see that in this day and age that people can think this way, we want to feel in Barbados that we are FREE, are we? We want the money from Canada and the UK and USA and Europe we want their Tourist Dollar, this countries VOTE for Human Rights BIG TIME. We try hard to show how we are so civilized are we? Being Gay is not a choice and no-one chooses a life of ostracism to say the lease, when we can deal with that we can come out of the Third World Mentality until then lets Join our African Brothers and Abstain and see if that Helps
None of them are diffrent from Hitler….i feel disgusted by it.
“They came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up
because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.”
~Pastor Martin Niemöller, circa 1946
Barbados can do what it wants ,we dont have to agree with those hypocrites called the UN.The USA is about to sign a $60Billion arm deal with the Saudis who still chop off people heads and refuse to let women drive cars.
We Barbadians believe in the bible when it applies to any one but us . that is my way of saying that we a bunch of narrow minded, hypocritical , bigoted and self delusional people who go to Church ,to ask our GOD one day to forgive our sins and go out the next day and do the same thing all over again,feeling puff up with pride that we are are better than that sinner down the road.
The only rights we care about is our own and the Jews, GODS precious chosen people who is killing out the Palestinians whose land they stole because God told them too!
Gay to Barbadians are to be killed , after they have help fixed our hair , made our clothes, cook our food teach our children and Entertain us .The ones that areMarried TO WOMEN or are PASTORS or PRIESTS can lived while we pretend that one day they will be cured from the homosexual demon who has taken over their bodies
What’s the big deal ? Odds are, these guys knew the penalty for the crime they committed…They knew, more than likely, they would be put to death for being batty boys…who are we to tell them bend the law so they can continue doing as they feel ? I’m not gonna drive up a one way street and complain when my car is written off…are you ? Nope..let em hang, the rest will learn to move before hand…
if i do something illegal i would hide and do it and if caught suffer the consequences. tommorow im gonna commit a crime in my country and when apprehended i’ll try to petition to make it legal to a part of the world that the crime i did is legal.
this world is truly messed up but it will get worse just wait oh n watch zeigeist addum
the demons are working overtime
Even though I believe that it is the right thing for Barbados to take a stand when it comes to human right. I’m also cognizant of the fact that little Barbados carry little influence in the context of the world socities.
The United Nations itself has a sickening record on human rights and is nothing more than a conduit to facilitate a totalitarian one world government. The UN and all its associated arms is a disgusting deception run by the powerful elite in their quest for world domination.
Before getting all upset and believing that the UN is there to guard against worldwide injustice and criminality, and to protect people of the world from oppression, violence and attacks on their freedom, learn a little more about the organization, where it came from and why, and those behind it. Then look at its involvement in countless occupations, invasions, military aggression and cover ups. Its record on genocide in places such as China, Cambodia, the Belgian Congo, East Timor, Rwanda and many others.
Look at the leaders it has embraced over the years, men responsible for the deaths of millions who have been warmly welcomed into the fold – Mao Tse Tung and Pol Pot among them. Its inaction and complicity in some of recent history’s most shocking, disgusting and murderous regimes is well documented. It’s first head, Julian Huxley, a renowned eugenicist, made quite clear the stated aims of the UN and if anybody reading this thinks that they care one jot for human life, all I can say is that you need to wake up.
Whilst this story might well be shocking in its own right, the blood on the hands of the UN is a far greater and more revolting catalogue of lies, deception, misdirection and abuse and articles such as this serve only to distract people from the reality and their belief in the myth of the UN and what it stands for.
As for the comments regarding some of the member nations’ wonderful record on human rights – the US and UK, they could only have been made by someone with their head buried so deeply in the sand it’s laughable. The Anglo-American empire is responsible for the deaths and suffering of millions of innocent people around the world through what amounts to nothing but state sponsored terrorism, all of course heartily endorsed by the puppets in the UN who have all the morals of an alley cat (although that’s probably unfair to the felines).
It is a criminal organization, nothing more, nothing less and its public face is a ridiculous mask that even a cursory examination can see past. Votes at the UN….come on, they mean nothing and are as worthless as the paper they are written on. The UN is about power, greed and control. Please go and do your own research before holding them up as some kind of benevolent global protector of the oppressed.
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