YOU WANT SOME RESPECT, GIVE A LITTLE RESPECT – AT 8:58 P.M. ET:  One reason the UN has essentially fallen apart is the fact that the Islamic nations pretty much control it, and use it for their own purposes.  Thus, this absurdity:

(Reuters) - Islamic states sought on Wednesday to have the United Nations human rights council condemn a U.S. pastor's suspended plan to burn Korans, saying it was part of a pattern of global anti-Muslim violence.

A resolution submitted by Pakistan for  he 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) asks the council to speak out against what it dubbed "the recent call by an extremist group to organize a 'Burn a Koran Day'."

The resolution, which diplomats said was likely to be passed as the OIC and its allies have a majority on the 47-nation body, made no reference to condemnation of the plan by President Barack Obama and other U.S. and foreign leaders.

The arrogance and hypocrisy of this is almost beyond belief.  The resolution will pass, of course, because the "Human Rights Council" would pass a resolution declaring the moon an Islamic state if the OIC asked for it.

But here are nations, many of which are completely intolerant of other religions, where a Bible can be burned with no penalty, and where human rights are flouted as if they're minor annoyances.  And they want the nutty actions of a Floriday pastor condemned, even though the pastor withdrew his call for a bonfire.

And then people wonder why many of these countries live in the tenth century.  They have a misplaced sense of priorities and a perpetual sense of grievance.

European diplomats said they were unlikely to vote against the OIC resolution, as their governments had already condemned the Koran burning idea, but feared it would be used to increase pressure for actions on defamation and "Islamophobia."

Those "actions" would make a mockery of free speech.

The United States joined the Human Rights Council under President Obama.  President Bush refused to join, correctly denouncing the council as a kind of fraud.

Time for us to get out.

September 23, 2010