By former Republican Bob Beauprez of Colorado
The
United Nations has elected Iran to the Commission on the Status of
Women. According to their own website, the Commission is “dedicated
exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women.” If so, Iran
would seem beyond just a curious choice as a member.
Current
legal code in Iran actually defines the sexes as unequal. Men’s rights
are codified as superior to women. According to Nobel Peace Laureate
Shrin Ebadi, the first women judge in Iran before the 1979 revolution
and imposition of the current Islamic law, “The criminal laws adopted
after the revolution unfortunately took away a woman’s human identity
and turned her into a second-class being who is incapable and
mentally-deranged.” Ebadi laments the fact that in today’s Iran, the
“law still considers a woman’s life and her testimony worth half a
man’s.”
Iranian law prescribes lashing as punishment for women
judged to be dressing immodestly. Adultery and homosexuality are
punishable by stoning under the Islamic legal code in place. As
reported by the Washington Post, “Condemned men are buried in sand up
to their waists, and women up to their necks, and are pelted with
stones until they die or manage to escape.” Stonings have occurred as
recently as 2009 even though a moratorium has been in place since 2002.
Just last week, a leading Iranian cleric, Hojjat ol-eslam Kazem
Sediqi, made this perplexing announcement during a televised sermon,
“Many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray and spread
adultery in society which increases earthquakes.”
We shall see
if the absurdity of Iran’s election to the Commission on the Status of
Women sparks outrage among feminist organizations and the liberal
dominated media. For our part, it is another demonstration of the
hypocrisy, corruption, and disgusting waste that has consumed the
United Nations. It is time the United States shake the U.N. dust from
our feet and leave it to rot in its own filth.
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