American Aid Is Contingent upon Catering to Homosexuals
Published in Al Ghad
(Jordan) on 8 December 2011
by Jihad al-Muhaisin (link to original)
(Jordan) on 8 December 2011
by Jihad al-Muhaisin (link to original)
Translated from
by Jay Alexander Brown.
Edited by Heidi Kaufmann.
All mandates in the world — including, of course, those of the Arab world, a world still trapped beneath the predominance of the West — have carried clauses affirming the need to protect the rights of minorities. Such clauses have not always been genuinely directed toward ethnic and religious minorities; rather, the West has viewed them as a most attractive grounds for re-intervention in one country or another, should a country feel that it might be able to break free from the orbit of Western economic and political guardianship and become truly independent. With developments in our understanding of Western hegemony and dominance, a new question has come into view concerning the engendering factors of such clauses — a question that does not diminish, but rather supports the necessity of these clauses. This concerns the beginning of the focus on human rights and its role as an excuse or justification for invading one country or another on the pretext of dedication to such rights.
On the strength of developments in the tools of Western domination, U.S. President Barack Obama has launched a new bomb in the conception of human rights. This time the U.S. will use diplomatic devices, including the powerful temptation of foreign aid, in order to promote gay rights across the world!
In the memorandum issued by President Obama in Washington and in the speech given by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Geneva, the U.S. administration pledged to guard human rights throughout the world, vowing to actively confront those who treat homosexual behavior as criminal behavior and who seek to violate the rights of gays and transsexuals. Nor will the U.S. permit anyone to disregard or overlook any such violations. Mrs. Clinton boldly declared before the United Nations Human Rights Council: "Some have suggested that gay rights and human rights are separate and distinct; but, in fact, they are one and the same."
President Obama did not speak to the practicalities of following through with this initiative. And yet there is a real symbolic significance in his elevation of this issue to such a prominent place on his administration's foreign policy agenda. It is reminiscent of the emphasis Jimmy Carter placed upon human rights. And with the 2012 presidential campaign now approaching, the president's announcement could serve to boost support among voters and donors.
The address given by the American president to protect homosexuals (and to link their cause to the aid that the U.S. provides to the world according to whatever serves American interests) affirms that the internal dimension of American politics also pertains to that campaign for protection, particularly as viewed against the fierce Republican rivals to the Democratic administration. The United States is soon to undergo primary elections, and it is up to the Democrats to use all means to drag voters away from the Republicans. Meanwhile, this discourse provides justification for the U.S. to invade or intervene in any location in the world that it believes may affect its strategic interests... under the pretext of protecting gay rights!
On the strength of developments in the tools of Western domination, U.S. President Barack Obama has launched a new bomb in the conception of human rights. This time the U.S. will use diplomatic devices, including the powerful temptation of foreign aid, in order to promote gay rights across the world!
In the memorandum issued by President Obama in Washington and in the speech given by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Geneva, the U.S. administration pledged to guard human rights throughout the world, vowing to actively confront those who treat homosexual behavior as criminal behavior and who seek to violate the rights of gays and transsexuals. Nor will the U.S. permit anyone to disregard or overlook any such violations. Mrs. Clinton boldly declared before the United Nations Human Rights Council: "Some have suggested that gay rights and human rights are separate and distinct; but, in fact, they are one and the same."
President Obama did not speak to the practicalities of following through with this initiative. And yet there is a real symbolic significance in his elevation of this issue to such a prominent place on his administration's foreign policy agenda. It is reminiscent of the emphasis Jimmy Carter placed upon human rights. And with the 2012 presidential campaign now approaching, the president's announcement could serve to boost support among voters and donors.
The address given by the American president to protect homosexuals (and to link their cause to the aid that the U.S. provides to the world according to whatever serves American interests) affirms that the internal dimension of American politics also pertains to that campaign for protection, particularly as viewed against the fierce Republican rivals to the Democratic administration. The United States is soon to undergo primary elections, and it is up to the Democrats to use all means to drag voters away from the Republicans. Meanwhile, this discourse provides justification for the U.S. to invade or intervene in any location in the world that it believes may affect its strategic interests... under the pretext of protecting gay rights!
