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Życie na salonach światowego humanizmu

Życie na salonach światowego humanizmu

Andrzej Koraszewski


Ojciec święty ogłosił encyklikę Fratelli-tutti, o braterstwie i przyjaźni społecznej. Nie ma w niej wzmianki o ludobójstwie chrześcijan w Afryce ani o islamistycznym terroryzmie, ani o zaborczych działaniach Iranu, Turcji czy Rosji. Odnosi się wrażenie, że Ojciec Święty najbardziej obawia się kapitalizmu i darzy głęboką miłością innego wielkiego humanistę, szejka Ahmeda al-Tajeba, który stoi na czele Uniwersytetu Al Azhar i jest najważniejszą postacią w sunnickim islamie. Obaj panowie głoszą miłość i pokój, chociaż al-Tajeb z tym braterstwem jest nieco ostrożniejszy. Można powiedzieć, że islamski humanizm jest nieco bardziej agresywny od tego katolickiego, szejk odmówił uznania Islamskiego Państwa Iraku i Syrii za organizację nieislamską, odmówił prezydentowi Egiptu rewizji nauczania islamu, na temat ludobójstwa chrześcijan milczy bardziej surowo niż Ojciec Święty.

Po tej pełnej braterskiej czułości encyklice strona satyryczna The Babylon Bee opublikowała kpiarski felietonik, z informacją, że Ojciec Święty zadeklarował, iż Kościół katolicki nie będzie więcej przyjmował pieniędzy pochodzących z zysków zgarniętych w kapitalistycznym systemie produkcji.

Humanizm w aranżacji instytucji religijnych jest od pewnego czasu odrobinę podejrzany, więc po pierwszej wojnie światowej miłościwi władcy zwycięskich krajów postanowili utworzyć Ligę Narodów. Miała  powstrzymać, jeśli nie wszystkie wojny, to przynajmniej te największe i zapewnić, jeśli nie braterstwo, to przynajmniej redukcję nienawiści. Miały to ułatwić państwa narodowe, tak, żeby narodowe aspiracje nie rozsadzały wielonarodowych imperiów. A jeszcze Narodowy Dom Żydów w Palestynie miał zakończyć ciągłe wykorzystywanie nienawiści do Żydów w podżeganiu nienawiści wszystkich do wszystkich.

Intencje były piękne, ale coś wyszło nie tak.

Po drugiej wojnie światowej zlikwidowano skompromitowaną Ligę Narodów i zastąpiono ją Organizacją Narodów Zjednoczonych, która miała zabezpieczyć ostateczne zwycięstwo demokracji i humanitaryzmu. To ostatnie wymagało własnej konstytucji, wiec spisano Powszechną deklarację praw człowieka, a na jej straży stanęła Komisja Praw Człowieka ONZ. Sędziami wykroczeń przeciw prawom człowieka mieli być przedstawiciele państw członkowskich ONZ wchodzący do Komisji w trybie głęboko przemyślanego i bardzo demokratycznego systemu rotacyjnego.  

Komisja Praw Człowieka ONZ istniała przez 60 lat. Ale chyba coś poszło nie tak, bo w 2006 roku, po kilku dziesiątkach lat krytyk, w których przewijało się podejrzenie, że sędziami, którzy mają orzekać o przestępstwach łamania praw człowieka są przedstawiciele państw  notorycznie popełniających przestępstwa, o których mają orzekać, postanowiono, że skandal jest już zbyt wielki i trzeba z tym skończyć. Przestępcza wspólnota znalazła metodę pozorowania realizacji celów, dla których Komisja została utworzona i zajmowała się głównie ściganiem łamania praw człowieka przez Żydów, ale żeby nikt nie podejrzewał ich o jakiś antysemityzm, ograniczyli się do Żydów w Izraelu, ścigając ich pod radzieckim hasłem antysyjonizm nie jest antysemityzmem.

Próby starannego zamykania oczu na wyczyny tej Komisji Praw Człowieka trwały przez dobre 30 lat, chociaż niektórzy twierdzą, że znacznie dłużej. Sekretarz Generalny ONZ powiedział basta i zamówiono nowe tablice informujące, że to nie jest już żadna Komisja Praw Człowieka tylko Rada Praw Człowieka, która od teraz będzie uczciwie zajmowała się realizacją celów, jakie niegdyś wyznaczono Komisji. W ciągu kilku miesięcy okazało się, że Rada ze zwiększoną intensywnością kontynuuje tradycje Komisji, a kolejni Sekretarze Generalni okazjonalnie dają do zrozumienia, że chyba coś poszło nie tak. Stany Zjednoczone, które niegdyś zaproponowały utworzenie Komisji Praw Człowieka po dwakroć się zaparły Rady Praw Człowieka i obecnie nie uczestniczą w jej obrzędach potępiania jednego państwa, które rzekomo narusza prawa człowieka.

We wtorek 13 października Zgromadzenie Ogólne ONZ wybrało w tajnym głosowaniu na najbliższe trzy lata 15 nowych strażników praw człowieka. Wśród nowych surowych i sprawiedliwych sędziów oceniających przestrzeganie praw człowieka na świecie znalazły się ChinyRosjaKuba Pakistan. Ci, którzy interesują się Afryką mogą się troszkę zdziwić widząc wśród nowych strażników praw człowieka przedstawicieli Wybrzeża Kości Słoniowej i Malawi, Amerykę Łacińską w dziedzinie obrońcy praw człowieka reprezentować będzie Meksyk.

Przedstawiciel państwa reprezentuje w Radzie państwo, więc nikt nie oczekuje, że będzie uczciwym i bezstronnym sędzią. W przeszłości wielokrotnie zdarzało się, że wpływały do Rady raporty o drastycznym naruszaniu praw człowieka przez państwa reprezentowane w Radzie, ale tak się jakoś składa, że były nieodmiennie ignorowane.

Mógłby ktoś zapytać co tam robią przedstawiciele krajów demokratycznych. Krótka i uczciwa odpowiedź brzmi: siedzą. Grzecznie zatwierdzają rezolucje proponowane przez państwa bandyckie, robią dobrą minę do złej gry i patrzą niechętnie na ludzi mówiących, że ta Rada Praw Człowieka Organizacji Narodów Zjednoczonych jest instytucją zajmującą się ukrywaniem i zamazywaniem zbrodni przeciw prawom człowieka.


Andrzej Koraszewski
Publicysta i pisarz ekonomiczno-społeczny

Ur. 26 marca 1940 w Szymbarku, były dziennikarz BBC, wiceszef polskiej sekcji BBC, i publicysta paryskiej „Kultury”.


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The Real Enemy of Islam

The Real Enemy of Islam

Khaled Abu Toameh


    • “The beheading of the French history teacher proves that political Islam has become a real threat to world peace in light of its expansionist tendency, which is currently embodied by Erdogan’s project, which not only targets the societies of Muslim countries, but also other societies that incubate important Islamic communities.” — Al-Habib Al-Aswad, Tunisian journalist, Al-Arab, October 28, 2020.
    • He wants to represent himself as a defender of Islam. Which Islam does he speak for? Erdogan has committed crimes in Libya, Syria and all Arab countries. He is the one who is offending Islam.” — Mustafa Bakri, Egyptian media personality, Al-Dostor Studio, October 30, 2020.
    • The reactions of many Arabs and Muslims show that they view Erdogan as a more serious threat to Islam than Macron or others in the West.

Last week, France condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for comments he made about French President Emmanuel Macron’s mental health and treatment of Muslims. Erdogan had suggested that the French president needed “some kind of mental treatment” because of Macron’s attitude toward Muslims in France. Pictured: Macron (right) and Erdogan at a press conference on January 5, 2018 in Paris, France. (Photo by Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not authorized to speak on behalf of the Muslims, especially regarding the current controversy surrounding France’s attitude toward Islam and Muslim terrorist attacks. That is what many Muslims are saying these days in the aftermath of Erdogan’s attempt to present himself as the grand defender of Islam in a conflict that recently erupted between Muslims and France.

According to several Muslim political analysts and writers, Erdogan is trying to take advantage of the anti-France campaign in the Muslim world for his own political gain. The message the Muslims are sending to France and the rest of the world is that Erdogan is a hypocrite and opportunist, who is acting from personal interest and not out of concern for Muslims or Islam.

Last week, France condemned Erdogan for comments he made about French President Emmanuel Macron’s mental health and treatment of Muslims. Erdogan had suggested that the French president needed “some kind of mental treatment” because of Macron’s attitude toward Muslims in France. “What else is there to say about a head of state who doesn’t believe in the freedom of religion and behaves this way against the millions of people of different faiths living in his own country?” Erdogan said in a speech at a meeting of his Justice and Development Party. He also called on Muslims to boycott French goods.

Erdogan’s remarks came in response to Macron’s pledge to crack down on radical Islamism in France after a Muslim terrorist beheaded history teacher Samuel Paty on October 16. Paty had taught a class on freedom of expression during which he used cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed from the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Even before Paty was murdered, Macron defended the right to caricature the Prophet Mohammed. In September, he described Islam as a religion “in crisis” and announced that he would present a bill to strengthen a law that separates church and state in France.

Some Muslims see Erdogan’s attacks on France as an attempt to divert attention from the growing criticism in the Arab world toward Turkey’s meddling in the internal affairs of a number of Arab countries. Saudi Arabian activists have called for a boycott of Turkish products to protest Erdogan’s repeated attacks on Arab leaders and countries.

Other Muslims see Erdogan’s attempt to position himself as the defender of Islam in the context of the Turkish president’s effort to market himself as a new Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and leader of the Muslim world.

“In an attempt to divert attention from the Arab boycott of Turkish products, Erdogan tried to employ the campaign against France to the benefit of his political calculations,” Arab experts told the Gulf newspaper Al-Ain.

“Erdogan’s statements and his defense of Islam do not bear in their essence any religious dimensions, but rather an attempt to win the friendship of the angry street and also to save his country’s economy, which is suffering badly after the success of the Arab boycott of Turkish goods.”

Noting that Arab business executives and others have called for a boycott of Turkish products to protest the “hostile policies of the Erdogan regime,” the newspaper quoted Egyptian political analyst Tareq Fahmi as saying:

“Erdogan’s talk about adopting the defense of Islam has become unacceptable after everyone realized that the matter is purely political and has nothing to do with the religious dimension. The issue is also related to addressing Arab and Islamic public opinion so that Erdogan appears in the image of the great Arab and Islamic leader. Erdogan aims to ride the current wave and try to employ and invest it politically in his battles against Europe and France.”

Lebanese journalist Joseph Abu Fadel scoffed at Erdogan’s call for the protection of Muslims in France:

“Erdogan calls for the protection of Muslims in France! We ask the Ottoman dreamer Erdogan about the Muslims who were slaughtered by his Muslim Brotherhood group and the jihadists in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Turkey.”

Egyptian political analyst Walid Abbas questioned Erdogan’s motives in defending Islam and leading the attacks on France. “It does not seem that the motives of the Turkish president to launch his campaign against France and its president, Emmanuel Macron, is to defend Islam or Muslims,” Abbas remarked.

“A simple example of this emerged about four years ago, when Erdogan stopped defending the Uighur Muslims in China and even arrested one of the movement’s leaders, who was a refugee In Turkey. He also deported hundreds of Uighur refugees in his country to China in 2019.”

Abbas pointed out that Erdogan was also motivated by his concern over the decline of his popularity in Turkey:

“The Turkish president, since the emergence of his internal difficulties and their impact on his popularity, changed his political strategy and turned to igniting battles on the international scene, in an attempt to assert his regional influence. Paris has been the main party that has consistently opposed these attempts and has always stood against it.”

Erdogan’s main goal, he added, “is to inflame an internal national and religious conflict that allows him to force the Turkish people to rally behind the leader who wages fierce battles with the world under the slogan of defending Islam.”

Tunisian writer Al-Habib al-Aswad, reacting to the crisis between France and Turkey, said “political Islam seeks by all available means to drag Islam into its wars and conflicts, the latest of which is its war on France.” Al-Aswad added that Erdogan was simply trying to demonstrate his power and influence in the Islamic and Arab countries.

“The beheading of the French history teacher proves that political Islam has become a real threat to world peace in light of its expansionist tendency, which is currently embodied by Erdogan’s project, which not only targets the societies of Muslim countries, but also other societies that incubate important Islamic communities… When the Turkish president incited against France and President Macron, his primary concern was not religion or the Prophet Mohammed, but rather his geopolitical struggle with the French in the eastern Mediterranean, Libya, and generally North Africa and the Sahara region. Erdogan is convinced that Macron is a declared ally of countries that Ankara considers its enemies.”

Egyptian media personality Mustafa Bakri said that Erdogan was taking advantage of various crises and cannot be sincere in his defense of Islam. Erdogan, he added, “is not an honest man.”

“He took advantage of the situation against France and claimed to be defending Islam. He wants to represent himself as a defender of Islam. Which Islam does he speak for? Erdogan has committed crimes in Libya, Syria and all Arab countries. He is the one who is offending Islam.”

Emirati writer Mohammed Khalfan al-Sawafi said he agreed with many Arabs and Muslims who consider Erdogan an opportunist exploiting Islam to serve his own political agenda:

“Some populist politicians think only about achieving their personal victories by using powerful and extremist rhetoric… What Erdogan came out with cannot be considered an endeavor to defend the interests of Muslims and the Prophet Mohammed, and he knows more than others what the consequences could be for the Muslim communities living in Western societies.”

Al-Sawafi is apparently worried that Muslims in France and other European countries may face various restrictions, including the closure of Islamic charities and a ban on political activities in response to Erdogan’s remarks.

Syrian journalist Baha al-Awwam said that Erdogan was trying to lead a “renaissance” or “revolution” in Islam as part of his effort to control the Arabs and Muslims. “The Arab region does not need an Islamic ‘renaissance ‘ or ‘revolution,'” al-Awwam argued. Erdogan, he said, is currently seeking to control Libya, Qatar, Syria and Iraq.

“The Sultan [Erdogan] attracts supporters by supporting the peoples persecuted by their rulers… But you do not know that the extremists and blood merchants are the greatest beneficiaries of Erdogan’s support. Not to mention that the ‘Sultan’ persecutes the Turks themselves whenever he is able to do so, and the evidence for this is his imprisonment of tens of thousands of his opponents. Opportunism is the name of the game that Erdogan is playing. He wishes to start a world war against the backdrop of the crisis of the French teacher. Wars represent his only salvation from facing his accumulated failures. Unfortunately for him, this will not happen, and Erdogan will fail in his endeavors.”

The reactions of many Arabs and Muslims show that they view Erdogan as a more serious threat to Islam than Macron or others in the West. The voices of Erdogan’s critics, however, rarely find their way to the mainstream media.

Ironically, Erdogan, who is currently calling for a boycott of French products, is himself being boycotted by a growing number of Arabs and Muslims. It is Erdogan, bemoaning the “insults” to Islam made by Westerners, who is himself being accused by Muslims of killing Muslims and occupying their lands.


Khaled Abu Toameh, an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem, is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at Gatestone Institute.


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Israeli Singer to Release Album Made in Secret With Iranian Musicians

Israeli Singer to Release Album Made in Secret With Iranian Musicians

Shiryn Ghermezian


An Israeli singer with Persian roots is set to release an album next month that she made in secret with Iranian musicians, The Guardian…

The cover of Liraz Charhi’s new album ‘Zaan.’ Photo: Screenshot.

An Israeli singer with Persian roots is set to release an album next month that she made in secret with Iranian musicians, The Guardian reported on Thursday.

Liraz Charhi is also an actress and stars as a Mossad spy in the Israeli thriller series called “Tehran.” Her second Farsi-language album “Zan” (meaning “women”), will come out on November 13.

The album “is filled with electro-dance tracks that revive and remix a 1970s era remembered for a lively Iranian pop scene,” according to The Guardian.

Charhi, 42, said in an interview that she reached out to Iranian artists online, including singers, composers and players of tradition bağlama stringed musical instruments. Many were eager to work with her, although some asked to use a pseudonym. Others expressed interest at first but then dropped out of the project after several months and even changed their social media accounts.

Charhi communicated with her partners by using encrypted instant-messaging apps, such as Telegram, and wired money through third-party countries, including the UK and Turkey. Although she has never been to Iran, she met with some of the artists in Europe.

She explained that while making the album she feared endangering the lives of the musicians in Iran, which in May passed a law criminalizing different types of cooperation with the Jewish state.

“Technically, it was very difficult” Charhi said. “But emotionally, it was much more difficult. I felt night after night that I was doing a bad thing and these people could be arrested.”

One Iranian composer who wrote and sang tracks in the album, who goes by the artistic name Raman Loveworld, said he was aware of the risks he took by working with Charhi. “I know it is dangerous to work on this project. But we are just normal people,” he stated.

Charhi added, “My biggest dream was to write Iranian music with Iranians. Mission accomplished.”

The singer’s parents were born in Iran and emigrated to Israel in 1970, when the two countries maintained strong relations, before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

She said, “My parents kinda or struggled to be Israeli while they put their roots behind them. They kept acting Iranian. For me, it put a big hole in my heart — a big question mark. Who am I? Where did I come from?”

Charhi grew up speaking Hebrew in school and Farsi at home. She learned about mid-20th century Iran from her parent’s songs and stories. She was later exposed to more Iranian culture from her interactions with the large Iranian expatriate community in Los Angeles, where she moved to pursue her acting career.


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