Saudi Arabia to lead religious tolerance forum, courtesy of the U.N.
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The United Nations organization has been a farce for a long time, but for those that were unaware, perhaps this situation will illustrate it clearly and forever. The United Nations is holding a two-day conference on religious tolerance, and they are allowing the king of Saudi Arabia to preside over it. Perhaps the Chinese should preside over a conference addressing the problems with workplace conditions. Or Iran could preside over a sexuality tolerance conference. President of Iran at Columbia University: “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals, like in your country.”
If you read the Washington Post article, you’ll find that the forum was the idea of the Saudis. Now a liberal, trial-lawyer logic, offend-no-one-except-conservatives person would accept that at face, praising the commendable effort of the Saudis to change their policy of forbidding the public practice of anything but Islam. A normal person would remember they have not changed their intolerant policies at home, and until they do, forums like this are just Public Relations stunts to temporarily convince the world they are nice people.
This is the pitfall of liberalism: a combination of self-loathing and infinite tolerance of other’s intolerance in the pursuit of appeasement. The liberal praises King Abdullah more than he will praise George W. Bush. Even if you’re a democrat, this is insanity. The liberal trusts King Abdullah when he says he wants religious tolerance, but will scoff when George W. Bush talks about… anything. This is childish nonsense, and potentially dangerous. A liberal is convinced he cannot convince George W. Bush to change his ways, but welcomes the chance to sit down with Iranian President Ahmadinejad and have a rational discussion, let alone change his worldview.