When U.S. is without Sin - Let it then Cast the First Stone!
(Al-Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
"For
the U.S. to talk about a lack of justice in the world is extremely hilarious - not
because it lacks advanced human rights legislation, but because such laws aren’t
applied equally at home and abroad. … The U.S. State Department just published its annual Trafficking
in Persons report, and Saudi Arabia is among12 countries accused. We don't
claim to be above reproach, nor do we claim to be idealists in our treatment of
immigrant workers, but by no means are we greater violators than America. … We
would very much like to point out to the authors of this report the words of Jesus
Christ in defending Mary Magdalene: 'Let he who is without sin cast the first
stone.' From a human rights and moral perspective, is America really 'without
sin'?!"
It is acceptable for the United States to discuss all issues
with respect to global politics and economics, human resources, the classification
of states based on their levels of development and the punishments or rewards
of nations. However, for the U.S. to talk about a lack of justice in the world
is extremely hilarious - not because it lacks advanced human rights
legislation, but because such laws aren’t applied equally at home and abroad.
It is an open secret within the U.S. judicial and
legislative systems that discrimination exists against minorities, religions
and immigrants, and there is no hiding that fact that no woman has ever sat in
the White House as president of the United States, even as Muslim countries
like Bangladesh and Pakistan, as well as Sri Lanka, India and others, have had female
heads of state. Likewise, until recently, no Black, African, Asian, non-White
or non-European was ever elected president.
The United States believes that the world is rife with
sinners and that it alone is composed of elites with standing to criticize
others. What’s missing from U.S. calculations on its standing to indict others
is that it ignores domestic reports on the homeless (the number of which
perhaps exceeds the population of a large city) eating from garbage bins and
the marginalized who find no opportunities for employment, health coverage or social
welfare protections.
In countries in which it wages war, America has a gruesome
record of inhumane practices, whether it be in Germany
or Japan, Korea or Vietnam, and later in Iraq. As Iraq is most recent, we would
have hoped to see the truth of U.S. legal and ethical violations in the country
be disclosed to the world. Instead, the U.S. Defense Department acquitted the
killers of children and families and those guilty of practices so ugly that
they are more fitting for primitive than civilized men.
The U.S. State Department has published its annual Trafficking
in Persons report, and the Kingdom [of Saudi Arabia] is among12 countries
accused. We don't claim to be above reproach, nor do we claim to be idealists
in our treatment of immigrant workers, but by no means are we greater violators
than America, which doesn't acknowledge its mistakes and lacks the courage to outline
its own violations and inhumane practices against, for example, illegal
immigrants. Besides, if there were infringements committed that merit the provision
of rights, it is for the embassies of countries with minorities in the Kingdom
and not the United States to exercise the role of attorney or judge.
Posted By Worldmeets.US
Had such accusations been made by a country with a clean
human rights record and which stood on high moral ground it would be more
acceptable. Indeed, we see no country free of error and with a uniform
application of law, but we would very much like to point out to the authors of this
report the words of Jesus Christ in defending Mary Magdalene:
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." From a human rights
and moral perspective, is America really "without sin"?!
