Monday, December 08, 2008

World Turned Upside Down



The Lech Walesa Institute puts the price of tolerance ... the king of Saudi Arabia!

  This is not a hoax. The lucky winner of the price of tolerance is the king of Saudi ArabiaThis country is human rights (and more to those women who do not even have the right to drive) that North Korea is to democracy: the antithesis.  It is the country of segregation. Segregation of the sexes (women are on the perpetual legal minors under guardianship male), segregation of believers (any religion apart from Islam is permitted, non-Muslims are not allowed to enter in Mecca or Medina), segregation by origin (20% of the population consists of immigrant workers without any rights and even their identity papers. They are employed in conditions close to those of slavery - Which was officially abolished in 1962 under Western pressure. Read this article RFI).The king of Saudi Arabia, price tolerance? And why not Kim Jong-il, price of democracy, and the Taliban, price civilization?


And the price of tolerance goes to ... King Abdullah!

The Lech Walesa Institute, which aims to uphold the "founding values of the Solidarity movement," has just given his award at Saudi King Abdullah.

The Institute recognizes its efforts in "continued dialogue among religions, promotion of tolerance and mutual understanding between cultures and civilizations."  In the honorary committee members, among others, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and former Czech president Vaclav Havel.

"What these people were guided wise and respectable when they awarded the prize to the absolute monarch of a country that the death penalty for apostasy?" Wonders Jedrysik Milada in the daily Gazeta Wyborcza. “  It is an irony of fate because in Saudi Arabia, homosexuals face severe penalties ... "

Source : Courrier International Source: International Mail


7 comments:

Ashan said...

Oh, the irony! The award is in the shape of a cross. Betcha the "tolerant" kingy will chuck that in the trash!

Ρωμανός ~ Romanós said...

Yeah, at first I thought old Lech was handing over a Catholic monstrance (the thingy that holds a consecrated wafer in the center for the adoration of the devout) to the King, but then I saw the hand flashing the peace sign. This must make any real Catholics and Christians in Poland wince.

christian soldier said...

How many $$$$$ did the LWI get from the Saudis?

Anonymous said...

When you mentioned the abolition of slavery in 1962, you forgot to mention that the government paid a compensation of £1000 per slave TO THE OWNERS. This was considered a massive boon to the owners since it was about three times the going rate at the Buryami slave market which was closed at the same time.

Anonymous said...

And this is why they put the handles on the INSIDE of Polish coffee cups.
Couldn't resist that one....

Pastorius said...

He'll chuck it in the trash as soon as he's done laughing.

Anonymous said...

Or he could use it as an infidel bludgeon at his next "kill the infidels" party...or as it's better known his "government"....