Video: War against Baby Girls

Fra AEI 14. juni 2011 – selektiv abort er et omsiggribende problem:

A Worldwide War against Baby Girls: Sex-Selective Abortion Goes Global

Sex-selective abortion–terminating a pregnancy based on gender–is a modern phenomenon. As the expense of sex-selection technology like ultrasound plummets, it is being used in a growing number of countries, almost universally to eliminate girls, and generally with the assistance of health care professionals. In her new book, Unnatural Selection (PublicAffairs, June 2011), Mara Hvistendahl, a Beijing-based correspondent for Science magazine, documents how this practice has severely altered the natural balance of boys and girls in increasingly many societies, including China, South Korea, Vietnam, India, and the Caucasus republics. Is the worst yet ahead? Is there hope for reversing this scourge? Join us for what promises to be an enlightening–and sobering–discussion with the author and AEI scholar Nicholas Eberstadt.

Panel: Mara Hvistendahl, Nicholas Eberstadt, Danielle Pletka

Den islamiske verden fører også krig imod kvinder:

For Girls, Idealism Can Be Deadly

Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman – June 15, 2011

President Kennedy urged American youth to consider a stint in the Peace Corps where they could help the world’s poor and spread American values. Thousands have heeded this call, and for many, their time abroad was a valuable learning experience. But for many others, mostly young women, there was a big problem that was swept under the carpet until now: rape. 

The idea that women and men are equally human and entitled to equal opportunities and dignity is very new. The United States and Europe have pioneered this social revolution, but in some places around the world, this notion is either unknown or vigorously rejected. Sub-Saharan Africa and the Muslim world are the worst offenders.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

Og så er ovenstående endda rent flueknepperi. Hvis halvdelen af alle mænd i et samfund har 2 koner, hvem skal den anden halvdel så gifte sig med? Flerkoneri er det største problem af dem alle…

Melanie Phillips om den seneste FN-skandale

Latest UN shocker: ‘It’s ok to kill gays’

By Melanie Phillips - 6th December 2010

Those who persist in the delusion that the Club for the Perpetuation of Tyranny and Terror, aka the United Nations, is the authoritative arbiter of global justice and ‘human rights’ should be asked whether they still think the same thing after reading this:

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 are targeted for death.

Mere HER i The Spectator.

Video og artikler: Lawrence E. Harrison

Jeg blogger lige noget om Harrison igen, – ham skal vi have noget mere af her på stedet:

Haiti and the Voodoo Curse

The cultural roots of the country’s endless misery.

By LAWRENCE HARRISON

Haiti has received billions of dollars in foreign aid over the last 50 years, and yet it remains the least developed country in the Western Hemisphere. Its indicators of progress are closer to Africa’s than to those of Latin America. It has defied all development prescriptions.

Why? Because Haiti’s culture is powerfully influenced by its religion, voodoo. Voodoo is one of numerous spirit-based religions common to Africa. It is without ethical content. Its followers believe that their destinies are controlled by hundreds of capricious spirits who must be propitiated through voodoo ceremonies. It is a species of the sorcery religions that Cameroonian development expert Daniel Etounga-Manguelle identifies as one of the principal obstacles to progress in Africa.

Voodoo is practiced mostly by poor Haitians, who make up the vast majority of the country’s population. But all Haitians feel its influence, as one of my sons-in-law, who is Haitian and holds a graduate degree from Harvard, assures me. Wallace Hodges, an American missionary who lived in Haiti for 20 years, observed: “A Haitian child is made to understand that everything that happens is due to the spirits. He is raised to externalize evil and to understand he is in continuous danger. Haitians are afraid of each other. You will find a high degree of paranoia in Haiti.”

Link til resten af artiklen fra The Wall Street Journal HER – åbner Tufts University’s hjemmeside eftersom Wall Street Journal har en “paywall”.

Lawrence Harrisson er en af de mest oversete kapaciteter i den vestlige verden. Han sidder med nøglen til mange af de problemer, vi ser i ulande og islamiske lande. Så se af at få læst noget Harrison.

I artiklen “The end of multiculturalism”  i The Christian Science Monitor kan man finde et godt radiointerview.

Desuden mange fine artikler her og her. Og slutteligt video, – en debat om hvorfor nogle kulturer er så enormt uopfindsomme, forandringsresistente og fattigdomsskabende – “Religion, Innovation, and Economic Progress”. Deltagere:

• Lawrence Harrison, Director, Cultural Change Institute and Lecturer, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
• Timur Kuran, Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor in Islam and the Social Sciences, Duke University
• Robert Woodberry, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
• Presider:  Peter Steinfels, Codirector, Fordham Center on Religion and Culture

Slaveri findes overalt i Vestafrika

Mauretanien har som en række andre afrikanske lande langs Saharas sydlige grænse haft svært ved at befri sig for århundreders modbydelig tradition, hvor slaveri er en normal del af hverdagen, og hvor en slavefamilie kan gå i arv.

SOS-Slavery skønner, at 600.000 af indbyggerne i Mauretanien er slaver eller tvangsarbejdere, men tallene er her som i andre lande med samme tradition svære at verificere.

Historikere mener, at slaveholdet blev introduceret af fremrykkende arabere i det 7. århundrede under indtryk af islams accept af, at vantro kunne behandles som slaver. Omkring år 1900 var der således op mod fem millioner slaver i de islamiske vestafrikanske lande

Det er nemlig rigtigt. Slaveri et tilladt i islam. Det er Berlingske Tidende, der på det mest politisk ukorrekte fortæller sandheden om slaveri i islam. Der nævnes flere lande i artiklen. Menneskerettighedsorganisationen Anti-Slavery International skønner 

at op mod 40.000 mennesker i Niger lever et liv som slaver et liv de fødes til. 

Den lokale anti-slavery organisation Timidira vurderer ifølge BBC, at 870.000 indbyggere lever som tvangsarbejdere.

Og gennemgangen fortsætter:

i Nigeria, er der den dag i dag også stor efterspørgsel på tvangsarbejdere og slaver. Specielt børn og unge. FNs børnefond UNICEF anslog i 2001, at op mod 200.000 børn og unge i alderen syv til 18 år bliver handlet hen over grænserne i Vest og Centralafrika. I det område kommer de fleste fra Benin og Togo, og de ender i Nigerias olieindustri.

Ifølge UNICEF importerer også lande som Niger og Burkina Faso børneslaver. Som daværende talsmand for UNICEF dengang sagde til CNN: »Slavehandlen stoppede aldrig i Vestafrika«.

Også i Sudan har slaveriet haft gode kår under den årtier lange borgerkrig mellem det arabiske nord og det afrikanske syd. Op mod 40.000 børn og unge fra de sydlige områder blev gennem årene bortført til det nordlige Sudan, hvor de har levet som slaver.

Dertil kommer sexslaveriet, som man altid går let henover. Frihedsberøvelse og tvangsarbejde ses åbenbart som værre end når slaveriet består af både frihedsberøvelse, tvangsarbejde og daglige serievoldtægter.

Og så er der slaveholdet i de arabiske lande. Der er blandt andet slaver i Saudi Arabien. Det nævnes så godt som aldrig i vestlige medier.

Hvordan kan det egentlig være?