The fact that Saudi Arabia is on the U.N. Human Rights Council at all is more than sufficient to make a mockery out of the entire body. Nevertheless, it appears this ridiculous membership isn’t enough for the Saudis, and the Washington Free Beacon is reporting that the medieval desert monarchy is angling to take over the head position when the leadership position becomes available after 2016.
Apparently the whole thing is funny to Saudi Arabia, which has already beheaded as many people in 2015 as it did in all of 2014.
Now we learn from the Washington Free Beacon:
Saudi Arabia is making a bid to head the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (HRC) just days after it posted a slew of new job openings for executioners who would help carry out beheadings amid a massive uptick in state-sanctioned killings in the country.
Saudi Arabia, which has come under increasing criticism from human rights groups for an uptick in the number of executions in the country, has been a member of the U.N.’s top human rights body since 2014, along with Russia, China, and Cuba.
It is now making a bid to assume lead control over the HRC after 2016, when the presidency rotates to a new nation.
U.N. Watch, a nonprofit group that monitors the international body, disclosed Saudi Arabia’s intentions in a recent report and urged the United States to fight against it, describing the move as “the final nail in the coffin for the credibility” of the HRC.
“We urge U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and EU foreign minister Federica Mogherini to denounce this despicable act of cynicism by a regime that beheads people in the town square, systematically oppresses women, Christians, and gays, and jails innocent bloggers like Raif Badawi for the crime of challenging the rulers’ radical brand of Wahabbist Islam,” Hillel Neuer, the group’s executive director, said in a recent statement.
Neuer compared the possible ascension of Saudi Arabia to the top slot to electing “a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.”
Germany currently heads the HRC, but its term ends in 2016. Elections will be held in early December 2015 for the 2016 term, according to a U.N. official.
David Weinberg, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and lead author of recent report on Saudi human rights abuses, said the autocratic nation would make of mockery of the HRC.
“It’s sadly ironic Saudi Arabia wants to be elected president of the human rights council when its citizens aren’t granted enough civil rights to even have a president or an elected prime minister but are instead ruled by a hereditary autocrat,” Weinberg said.
“Saudi Arabia has already used its position at the Human Rights Council to whitewash the crimes of allied but abusive regimes in places like Bahrain and Egypt, and it no doubt will seek to do further harm to the very concept of human rights in other ways as well,” Weinberg said.
Just in case you aren’t up to speed on the Saudi human rights record:
Need a Job? Saudi Arabia is Looking for Eight Swordsmen to Keep up with Record Beheadings
The New York Post Reports – FBI is Covering Up Saudi Links to 9/11 Attack
New Saudi King Unveils Internal Power Shake-up in Desperate Pivot Toward Increased Authoritarianism
Already 45 Beheadings in 2015 – Saudi Arabia on Pace to Easily Beat 2014’s Decapitation Level
Saudi Arabia Sentences 3 Lawyers to Jail for Tweets
Record Beheadings and the Mass Arrest of Christians – Is it ISIS? No it’s Saudi Arabia
How the NSA is Actively Helping Saudi Arabia to Crackdown on Dissent
Saudi Arabia Passes New Law that Declares Atheists “Terrorists”
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Just when you thought there wasn’t one more outrage that could be concocted by these mental defectives, another one lands in your lap.
Is it cynicism? Mockery? Posturing? Total disassociation from reality? Who knows? Leaders world-wide, with very few exceptions, have “left our galaxy behind” and are questing for the outer reaches of mental aberration.
It is a fascinating display of just how far the human mind can sink when unlimited wealth, power and arrogance combine to create a new species of sub-human. Too bad for us they are the ones with their hands on all the big triggers.
The world is full of sick bastards. Clearly the Saudis have more than their fair share.
[The problem with being a king who lives by the sword is you can end up on the wrong end of your own sword…]
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