"Human rights should not be necessarily in unison with particular western values and standards - Muslims have their own reading of human rights"

From Jihad Watch:

Sho nuff, or, Indeed they do

Absolutely: the restrictions on freedom of speech and freedom of conscience, the institutionalized inequality of rights for women and non-Muslims -- it's just a different vision of human rights, you see.

This kind of thinking will appeal to multiculturalists. But imagine what the world would be like if FDR and Churchill had explained in 1940 that Hitler's Germany simply had a different notion of human rights from the one that prevailed in America and Britain, and that the world should respect that.

"Muslims Have Own Human Rights Systems," by Sadeq Dehqan for Iran Daily, May 18:

Head of the Foreign Ministry’s College of International Relations Bahador Aminian on Sunday said western countries have become used to abusing human rights to exert pressure on other countries.

In an interview with Iran Daily he said Iran as an Islamic state continues to promote human rights.

“The definition that Islam renders about human beings and the value system that it offers is what the masses demand from the international community. As such, Iran should not be accused for non-observation of human rights. We believe that the notion of cultural diversity and human rights can open new vistas for human rights-related issues and hence the college has attended to the issue both from academic and diplomatic perspectives,“ he noted.

On the occasion of the World Day of Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, a two-day international training workshop themed ’Cultural Diversity and Human Rights’ opened at the college on Sunday.

Aminian went on to emphasize that human rights should not be necessarily in unison with particular western values and standards as Muslim communities have their own reading of human rights.

“In the workshop we intend to convey the message that different cultures can offer different subjects which are not necessarily what the West wants to impose on the human race. If we define human rights issues by heeding diverse identities and values, we can reach a better understanding of problems visiting the world and overcome them to a great extent."...