Iranian Basij Presents Its Report On Human Rights In The U.S.

Iranian 'Human Rights' in their Natural Element.

Iranian Basij Presents Its Report On Human Rights In The U.S. HT: MEMRI.

"In this society, which has no morals or religion, in which the mind is a tool for actualizing desires, it is impossible to talk about human rights..."

On January 27, 2014, the Iranian paramilitary Basij presented its 2013 report on human rights in the U.S., which was published in Farsi, Arabic, and English. The Basij report details human rights violations by the U.S administration, including execution, torture in prisons, and racial discrimination in the American justice system.
The report includes few statistics and sources, relying largely on the websites of organizations such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International that cannot be accessed in Iran; the Iranian regime has in the past referred to these organizations, which have criticized the Basij itself, as "Zionist." According to the Rooz website, HRW criticized the Basij's role in suppressing the 2009 presidential election protests in Iran.
The United Nations Human Rights Council, also mentioned in the Basij report, once called the Basij an "oppression machine" and dispatched a special envoy, Ahmed Shahid, to Iran to investigate human rights violations there, but the Iranian regime continues to prevent him from even entering the country.
The Basij report was presented at a ceremony at Tehran University, at which regime officials, among them Basij commander Mohammad Reza Naqdi, Deputy Majlis speaker Mohammad Hassan Abu Torabi, and Iranian Judiciary Human Rights Council head Mohammad-Javad Larijani, made anti-U.S. statements. Larijani even called UN envoy Shahid an "evil idiot."

Basij: The U.S. Administration Is Violating Human Rights At Home

The Basij report reviewed several areas of human rights violations in the U.S. Examining the number of executions since 1967, it noted that there had been fewer in 2013 than in 2012, but that the number of inmates on death row had risen 20% over the previous year. Claiming that prisoners' human rights were being violated, it said that at Bagram prison in Afghanistan, 600 Americans are involved in carrying out torture of thousands of prisoners, most of whom are innocent, and in harming their Islamic faith.

Iranian Officials' Statements On The Report

Basij Commander Naqdi: "America Is The Root Of Terrorism"

At the Tehran University ceremony presenting the report, Basij commander Mohammad Reza Naqdi assailed the U.S., claiming that the report cites merely "one thousandth of America's anti-human rights reality." He pointed out the racial discrimination there, and stressed that "America is the root of terrorism" and "the chief source of all anti-human rights behavior in the world."

World peace, he said, depends on "replacing the regime that violates human rights with one that is based on the opinion of the people." 

Naqdi added: "Most prisoners in America are black, while the black population is a minority and a kind of racial bias against [blacks] is coalescing... To date, America has not gone a single day without war or without attacking [other] countries or supporting aggressors... The crimes we see today that are ongoing in all tyrannical countries and against human rights are supported by America. America supported the king of Bahrain [Hamad bin 'Isa Al-Khalifa], the king of Saudi Arabia ['Abdalla bin 'Abd Al-'Aziz Al-Saud], [Iraqi dictator] Saddam [Hussein], [Chilean dictator Augusto] Pinochet, and all those [who are even] more criminal...

"America is the root of all terrorism; it even sets aside a budget for terror operations... For world peace and for the peace of the world's residents, this regime must be replaced with a regime is based on the opinion of the people... America is the chief source of all anti-human rights behavior in the world."

Iran Judiciary Human Rights Council Head Larijani: UN Envoy Is An "Evil Idiot"

Iranian Judiciary Human Rights Council head Mohammad-Javad Larijani called Ahmed Shahid, the UN envoy for investigating human rights violations in Iran, "ahmak sharir" – "evil idiot" in Persian. He added that Shahid's call for Iran to cease executions was unacceptable.

Deputy Majlis Head: 20% Of Female Students In U.S. Are Raped On Campus;

In American Society, Which Has No Morals Or Religion, It Is Impossible To Talk About Human Rights

Deputy Majlis speaker Mohammad Hassan Abu Torabi said at the ceremony: "Women are victims of sexual assault and violence in America. In 2010, according to data published by the National Institute for Justice in America [sic], 20 million women were victims of sexual assault... Approximately one-fifth of female students in the U.S. are raped on the campuses, with 60% of the assaults occurring in the dorms. In this society, which has no morals or religion, in which the mind is a tool for actualizing desires, it is impossible to talk about human rights...

"In Islamic Iran, we discuss freedom and individual rights; we implement them commendably because we have a religious regime at whose center is a just jurisprudent [i.e. Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei]... An immoral society cannot remain alive. This is precisely the secret behind the decline of the West."Read the full story here.

Hmmmm...........Guess this explains why they need ICBM Capabilty.

There was a time when Copts looked for the U.S.'Egypt report on Human right practices with hope - Not Anymore.

There was a time when Copts looked for the U.S.'Egypt report on Human right practices with hope - Not Anymore.HT: CopticNationalism.By Dioscorus Boles.

Senator John F. Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State presented on 19 April, 2013 the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 2012. 

The reports are issued by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, States Department, each year for each country’s human rights practices in the past year; and this has been going on since 1999. An executive summary of the Egypt Report on Human Rights for 2012 is to be found here while the full report can be found here.

In his videoed address, Senator Kerry made the following remarks: “Part of the American spirit is fierce belief in dignity, potential of every person… Human rights belong to all people, and all governments have a responsibility to protect and promote those rights… The Human Rights reports reaffirm America’s commitment to advancing the basic freedoms and dignity of all people;… they send clear message that all governments have responsibility to protect universal human rights.” 

We believe the U.S. is the greatest beacon of freedom in our age – and that is one part of our disappointment and frustration. We also believe that “all governments have a responsibility to protect and promote those rights”; but what we are not sure of is that Kerry’s report, in the light of the current U.S. policy in Egypt, “send[s] clear message that [Egypt’s] government [] ha[s] responsibility to protect the universal human rights [of all its citizens].”

There was a time when the Copts (and other oppressed Egyptians, particularly women and the rest of religious minorities, not forgetting the liberal Muslims) waited with eagerness and hope each year for the U.S. Report on the human rights practices of the Egyptian government. Not anymore. It constitutes a monumental failure on the part of the current administration of the U.S. when not only the oppressive governments despise and regard such reports as toothless and hypocritical but those who are oppressed by such governments too. The U.S., under Obama’s foreign policy, has lost much of its credibility with its natural allies – those who believe in the fundamental freedoms and human rights that are enshrined best in the American Constitution. Perhaps, instead of Kerry repeating what everyone knows and takes it for granted, such as “all governments have a responsibility to protect and promote those [human] rights”, he should say something like this: “The U.S. has a responsibility to protect and promote the human rights in the countries that consider themselves allies to the U.S., particularly those countries that receive billions of American taxpayer’s dollars.”

Egypt receives $1.57 billion each year in military aid and various supplies. Further, the U.S. supports the Muslim Brotherhood government of Muhammad Morsi, even when the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the States Department try to deny it.
 The thing is that no one believes in these denials. In effect, the current administration of the U.S., under Obama, is considered to be assisting, though not directly, in the suppression and oppression of Egypt’s Christian Copts, women and liberal Muslims by the Islamists who monopolise the government in Egypt. No one this time, surprise, surprise, is impressed by the Human Rights Report on Egypt that is issued by the States Department.
The U.S. has a huge influence on Egypt politics – it is actually the strongest of the four power centres in Egypt, which include the army, Islamists and anti-Islamist opposition. It must use its influence to improve the human rights of the 15 million Christian Copts, other religious minorities, women and liberal Muslims. That has to be done through acts not by mere words that are only meant to remain ineffective words.

Video - Palestinian human rights abuses against their own.

“We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.” - Obama's State Department Purges Section on Religious Freedom from Its Human Rights Reports.

“We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.” - Obama's State Department Purges Section on Religious Freedom from Its Human Rights Reports.(CNS).HT: AlwaysOnWatch.The U.S. State Department removed the sections covering religious freedom from the Country Reports on Human Rights that it released on May 24, three months past the statutory deadline Congress set for the release of these reports. The new human rights reports--purged of the sections that discuss the status of religious freedom in each of the countries covered--are also the human rights reports that cover the period that covered the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Thus, the reports do not provide in-depth coverage of what has happened to Christians and other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East that saw the rise of revolutionary movements in 2011 in which Islamist forces played an instrumental role.
For the first time ever, the State Department simply eliminated the section of religious freedom in its reports covering 2011 and instead referred the public to the 2010 International Religious Freedom Report – a full two years behind the times – or to the annual report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which was released last September and covers events in 2010 but not 2011. Leonard Leo, who recently completed a term as chairman of the USCIRF, says that removing the sections on religious freedom from the State Department's Country Reports on Human Roghts is a bad idea. Since 1998, when Congress created USCIRF, the State Department has been required to issue a separate yearly report specifically on International Religious Freedom. But a section reporting on religious freedom has also always been included in the State Department's legally required annual country-by-country reports on human rights--that is, until now. 
And this is the first year the State Department would have needed to report on the effect the Arab Spring has had on religious freedom in the Middle East--had its reports, as always before, included a section on religious freedom. “The commission that I served on has some real concerns about that bifurcation, because the human rights reports receive a lot of attention, and to have pulled religious freedom out of it means that fewer people will obtain information about what’s going on with that particular freedom or right. So you don’t have the whole picture because they split it up now,” Leo told CNSNews.com. Former U.S. diplomat Thomas Farr says it’s possible that the move to totally separate religious freedom from the human rights reports could simply be a bureaucratic maneuver. But another possibility is much more likely. “The other possibility is the Obama administration is downplaying international religious freedom,” Farr said. Far more resources have been allocated by the Obama administration to other human rights issues than have been directed toward religious freedom. “(T)he ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, for example, who is the official charged by the law to lead U.S. religious freedom policy, did not even step foot into her office until two-and-a-half years were gone of a four-year administration,” he said. “Whereas other human rights priorities of the administration, such as the ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, were in place within months. So that tells you something.“It tells me that this has never been a priority for the Obama administration, and it’s not now,” he said. “So it seems to me plausible to at least question the removal of religious freedom from the human rights report, although, as I say, there could be other explanations, less insidious, if you will.”The State Department, meanwhile, has given no indication of when -- or if -- the next International Religious Freedom Report will be released. Hmmmmm........Try Never...Obama “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”Read the full story here.