How much whining and complaining have you heard from the UN that the bloodthirsty terrorist prisoners at Gitmo are being denied their human rights: their duck a l'orange is lukewarm or some other nonsense. Every single aspect of America's fight against Islamic terror is subjected to the most intense scrutiny and always with a presumption of guilt. The reality, of course, is that the combatant detainees we hold, who have earned no rights because they have broken every law of war, are granted those rights nevertheless because we, unlike them, are a decent society.

Meanwhile, the UN has no time to rant and rave about genuine human rights violators like Iran:

Last night, Akbar Mohammadi, a 36 year-old pro-democracy activist who was on a hunger strike to protest his own detention and call for the release of all political prisoners, died in the Evin Prison in Tehran. Mohammadi, who had spent several years in prison, had been arrested along with thousands of other students (including his brother Mohammad) following the 1999 students protest triggered by the vigilantes attack on a peaceful campus rally in support of freedom of the press. The attack led to the murder of at least one student, a crime which was left
unpunished. Mohammadi and several others had been initially sentenced to death but their sentences were reduced to 15 years imprisonment as a result of the international pressure on the Iranian government. Mohammadi, who like many other detainees had testified about being subjected to harsh physical and psychological torture, was released for medical reasons. The doctors had determined that his physical condition did not allow him to endure prison conditions. However, the Iranian authorities arrested him again 2 months ago.

Akbar's death should be a serious warning to the international community, which is consumed by Iran's nuclear standoff against the West and its role in the recent conflict in Lebanon. Democracies are the natural allies of pro-democracy activists around the world. They should not ignore the alarming surge in assassinations and the massive
crackdown that Iran has launched against pro-democracy activists who call for the respect of the fundamental freedoms, and an end to discriminations based on religion, gender, and political beliefs.

This is the regime France calls a "stabilizing" force. Does anyone have an answer to the question of why the West, aside from a handful of exceptions, engages in an orgy of self-loathing to criticize itself and refuses to defend its majestic gifts of the Enlightenment - individual freedom and the right to pursue individual thought - but rather bends over backwards to excuse, legitimize and accomodate the violent forces of bigotry, intolerance and hate? If that does not change soon, the West will cease to exist in a timeframe that makes the global warming myth irrelevant.

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