The title strikes you as a contradiction, I’m sure. This is no joke though.
The Islamic Human Rights Commission is an actual organization, founded in the UK in 1997 (as if it could ever have been founded in Iran), and proposing “to campaign for justice for all peoples regardless of their racial, confessional or political background.”
From the ‘About Us’ section of the IHRC:
The Islamic Human Rights Commission was set up in 1997. We are an independent, not-for-profit, campaign, research and advocacy organization based in London, UK. We foster links and work in partnership with different organizations from Muslim and non-Muslim backgrounds, to campaign for justice for all peoples regardless of their racial, confessional or political background.
Our aims are manifold, and our inspiration derives from the Qur’anic injunctions that command believers to rise up in defence of the oppressed. IHRC volunteers and campaigners come from many different parts of the world and many different backgrounds to share in the common struggle against injustice and oppression.
Rise up in defense of oppressed Muslims, not infidels.
Our work includes submitting reports to governments and international organizations, writing articles, monitoring the media, cataloguing war crimes, producing research papers, organizing vigils, taking on discrimination cases and so on.
Aside from our countries index we have a number of country specific projects and research areas e.g. Chechnya, Mauritius, Turkey, Palestine and Nigeria. Our issue related work includes researching war crimes, campaigning for prisoners of faith and other prisoners held for their beliefs, campaigning against religious discrimination and persecution, as well as many other issues in and across areas as far a field as the UK to China, Bosnia to Papua New Guinea , Europe to the United States of America and South Africa.
Um..ok. Let’s look at that statement through the words of their own website for a moment. How about this report I found by doing a quick, simple site search:
WE ARE VICTIMS TOO, SAY DARFUR’S ARAB REFUGEES
13 August 2004
A few miles from a camp at Opash is another at Mossei. One is packed with African refugees, the other Arabs, the dispossessed from the opposing sides of Darfur’s internecine conflict. The perceived view is that the African civilians have been the victims of the murderous Janjaweed militia in a campaign of ethnic cleansing by the Sudanese government.
But the Arabs say they have been so demonised their own suffering is being ignored. They say they too have been attacked, driven from their homes,and abandoned to face pending epidemics of cholera, malaria and hepatitis. They say their persecutors are African tribes in league with the rebel Sudan Liberation Army, with their own campaigns of driving out another community, Ten thousand people are in the three camps at Mossei, near Nyala, the capital of south Darfur. Some are from Arab tribes who supply recruits to the Janjaweed, and are viewed with deep suspicion by the African villagers.
The rumour in the souks is that these people are not refugees, but a fifth column awaiting orders to act. The suspicious say a large number of young men are among the refugees. Some say other men visit the camps at night. The charities which predominate here are from Arab countries, often with strong Sunni links. The same groups have tried to persuade African refugees to return to their homes, and the waiting Janjaweed, with money.
Abdullah Hassan Suleiman, the omdar or chief sheikh at Mossei, vehemently denied links with the Janjaweed, and said this was the kind of false accusation which was putting them in danger. “If we were with the Janjaweed, do you think we’d be sitting here in this misery? We had to flee our village because the Zarghawa and the Daju [tribes] attacked us. They killed 18 of our men and kidnapped three women and two men.
“We have never had any problems with our African neighbours. It was outsiders who came and did this to us. The excuse always is what the Janjaweed are doing, and that seems to make it all right to do bad
things to us.”The three abducted women had returned. They say they were captured returning to retrieve belongings from their village, 22 miles from Nyala, with two male relatives. Noura Abdullah Usman, 45, said: “We were almost home when they caught us. Four men started dragging us from my brother Abdullah and my uncle, Abdul Hamid, when their leader came and took charge of us women. We were put in a car and taken to Hijer, a village where the Africans used to live before they were driven away by bandits. We feared that we would be attacked.
“One of the women started to cry and pleaded with the men not to hurt us. They took us to Lobado [a town to the south] where we were tied up and accused of being the women of the Janjaweed. A man came in and beat us with a belt, and said they’ll do to us what the Arabs did to their women.”
Another woman, Ayasha Abdullah Abu, 20, said: “We saw our men being brought into the building. They looked scared and one of them shouted they were going to be killed. That was the last we saw of them. We were threatened with beatings, but the commander sent three men to guard us and nothing more happened.”
The next morning the three women were driven to Nyala and freed at the camp. The African commander also gave them a note for the police explaining why they were held.
The only Middle East charity at Mossei is the Haiat Al-Amal, from the United Arab Emirates. Dr Mirgani Mohammed Isa, who is Sudanese, said: “All we are doing is providing medical help. I have heard about Sunni Arabs who are said to be trying to convert Africans who are Sufis, but we do not do that. We work closely with Unicef.”
Feelings of bitterness run deep among many refugees. Asif Omar Sayeed, a 23-year-old from the Arab Targim tribe, said: “The foreigners blame us for everything. But I realise what is going on. The Americans and the British want to use this as an excuse to occupy our country, just as they have done in Iraq. Like Iraq, we have oil. What has happened made me realise that as a true Muslim I must fight for my country when the foreigners come.”
By Kim Sengupta in Mossei, Darfur- the Independent
Excuse me, I have to go get a tissue.
The Arabs (99.9% chance they are Muslims) in Africa are calling themselves victims at the hands of the Africans, so Islamic Human Rights Commission picks up the story and the torch? I see. Truth or lies? Hard to tell when dealing with that part of the world, I have to admit. But, considering that the majority of violence in the Sudan has been caused by Arab Muslims raping, murdering and enslaving blacks of both Christian and Muslim backgrounds, I’d hardly jump at the chance to help Arabs in that region without having many suspicions.
Armies do not run on air and water alone. They require support systems and that requires civilians. How do the armies of the United States and Britain maintain themselves? Taxes. Family support. Donations and charities.
Repeatedly the Arabs in the above article cry foul and blame “outsiders” and “foreigners” and (!) “the United States”. The Arab Muslims claim they are being “demonised”, not by the actions of their own, but by everything else but.
I’ll call that a lie.
Obviously I believe that the Islamic Human Rights Commission has a biased agenda, or I wouldn’t be writing this article. But how to really prove it. Well, step beyond the search engine on the IHRC site and get right to the meat and potatoes and you’ll find the ‘Articles’ section. Here is a listing of the most recent topics:
Scant Evidence Found of Iran-Iraq Arms Link
23 January 2007US warnings of advanced weaponry crossing the border are overstated, critics say.
more…How We Can End the Occupation of Iraq:
23 January 2007President George Bush deflects criticism of his war plans by claiming that his critics have no plans of their own.
more…Living Resistance: The Palestinian Fight for Education
22 January 2007A paper first presented at IHRC / NEDA conference \’Towards a New Liberation Theology: Reflections on Palestine\’June 2005
more…The Pentagon vs. Press Freedom
22 January 2007We often hear that the Pentagon exists to defend our freedoms. But the Pentagon is moving against press freedom
more…Bombs Kill at Least 100 People in Iraq
22 January 2007Bombings and a mortar attack struck Shiite targets in Baghdad and north of the capital on Monday…
more…Big Brother: A Mirror of Britain�s Reality
19 January 2007Fahad Ansari looks at the controversy surrounding Celebrity Big Brother and the issues it exposes, including analyses of recent Islamophobic TV coverage like \’Undercover Mosque\’ Channel 4.
more…UN to impose nuclear embargo on Iran
11 January 2007The UN Security Council is poised to order sanctions against Iran today, placing an embargo on sensitive nuclear exports in the international drive to prevent Tehran from building a nuclear bomb…
more…29 Muslim Brotherhood Members arrested, Egypt
08 January 2007The state security forces arrested, on Tuesday at dawn January, 2. 2007, 29 Muslim Brotherhood leaders in the governorates of Sharqiya, Gharbiya and Daqahliya
more…
Guantanamo’s Cost to Our Humanity
04 January 2007January 11, 2007, will mark the fifth anniversary of the first detainees to be imprisoned in the US military prison at the US Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba…
I think that about sums it up. The keywords from above: “occupation of Iraq”, “Islamophobia”, “Undercover Mosque”, “Pentagon vs Press”, “Resistance…Palestinians”, “Scant evidence found….”
Ah, so there’s the bias. Every single article topic is frothing with Arab Muslim-centric bias. I hardly need to point it out. Feel free to scroll through the dozens of article pages and it’s more of the same.
This is taqiya. Again and again. Over and over.
Let me be frank for a moment before I close this topic today: we are at war with the Islamic world because the Islamic world is at war with all of us. This charade of peaceful intent on the part of Islam that so many try to continue will not be upheld here at the Anvil. I wanted to make an example of the IHRC today after coming across its link while I was commenting on a Jihad Watch article, but it serves as just a stepping stone to the larger issue at hand, and that is, we are constantly being bombarded by victimhood on the part of the victimizers, be they disruptive Imams being removed from a US Airways flight, or Arab tribesman complaining in Darfur while their neighbors are murdered by the Janjaweed they little doubt support themselves, the lies and the manipulation and propaganda continue daily and are all of the same purpose: to perpetuate the lie that Islam itself is.
It is not coincidence that murder, famine, disease, rape, rioting, bombings, stabbings, muggings, robberies, illiteracy and war follow in the path of Islamic migration and invasion. It is the cult of Islam itself that has caused the suffering for its own people and all its neighboring states. It is time that Islamic leaders are held accountable for the reality that they have created over these past thirteen centuries. Own the fact that Islam needs reformation — urgently! Own the fact that if such reformation does not occur that the violence and the wars will only get worse and spread further across the globe.
This is just a warning shot. As this decade closes and the next unfolds, I am sadly confident that Islamic aggression will only increase, not diminish, and the the reformation that I just mentioned, will have as much chance of actually manifesting as a snowball might last in Hell.
Perhaps the “moderate” Muslims will prove me wrong. I challenge them now to do so, but with groups like the Islamic Human Rights Commission dealing in outright bias, lies and taqiya, I am somehow quite sure that my statements here will prove cogent and almost prophetic.
Islamophobia is a natural reaction to Islamic aggression. Embrace it. The truth is all around us.
From Daily Times - Pakistan:
The IHRC event was promised as ‘a fantastic evening of comedy’ with a ’satirical look at the year’s events’. The highlight was the presentation of spoof awards to the ‘biggest Islamophobes’. Ariel Sharon won the award for the ‘Most Islamophobic international politician’. The Fox TV news channel won the award for the ‘Most Islamophobic media’. The leader of the racist BNP, Nick Griffin, and the British Home Secretary, David Blunkett, were the joint winners of the ‘Most Islamophobic British Politician of the year’. Melanie Phillips of the Daily Mail obtained the ‘Most Islamophobic media personality’ and so on.
Please add Foehammer to that list for the next IHRC Islamophobia Awards ceremony. Thanks!
Foehammer,
Nicely done and stated. Good luck going forward with your blog and keep fighting the good fight.
Another net in the water will most assuredly yield more fish.
Regards,
Awake