QUESTION: When Did “Death by Stoning” Become an Acceptable Position on Women’s Rights?
Answer: This week.
NEW YORK — Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged “immodest.”
The United States of America is the world’s beacon of freedom. Why haven’t our leaders spoken out on this? Jennifer Rubin of Commentary Magazine makes the strongest point.
The U.S. couldn’t muster a word of opposition — not even call for a vote. That would be because . . . why? Because our policy is not to confront and challenge the brutal regime for which rape and discrimination are institutionalized policies. No, rather, we are in the business of trying to ingratiate ourselves, and making the U.S. as inoffensive as possible to the world’s thugocracies. We’d no sooner object to Iran on the UN Commission on the Status of Women than we would leave the UN Council on Human Rights.
The Huffington Post couldn’t be reached for comment. They were too busy making fun of Sarah Palin.
Final Thought: The political left in America has screamed the word “torture” for years in defense of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. You would think they’d stick up for the memory of a woman like Neda Agha-Soltan now.
You would be wrong.
