Syntax is courtesy Arabic News, not me. I'd have fixed it, but I wasn't always sure what the hell they were getting at. I sometimes find the differences between "human rights" and "individual liberty" startling...
A seminar was opened on Monday in Doha under the title of "Human rights in Islam."
"You have the right to wear a turban. You have the right to stone adultresses. You have the right to have gun sex shoot off your AK into the sky at any time. You have the right to roll your eyes and utter blood-curdling threats of Dire Revenge™..." |
A topic which is debated for the first time in Qatar which recently founded a human rights committee. The higher representative for the UNHCR, Ahmad Madani, who takes part in the seminar underlined the importance UNHCR pins on developing human rights in the Arab states.
| "Oh, yasss! Us UN High Command for Refugees wallahs are very big on human rights..." |
For his part, the chairman of the Shoura council in Qatar, Muhammad Bin Mubarak al-Khuleifi, said in a speech he had delivered on the importance given by Qatar to human rights. In the first work session, four work papers were debated. The first was given by Youssef Muhammad Obeidan, the political sciences teacher at Qatar university that dealt with political human rights. Ahmad Abu al-Wafa, the law teacher and the secretary of the law faculty at Cairo university talked in the second work paper about social rights. Sheikha Hessa Bint Khaleifa Bin Ahmad al-Thani, the special rapparteur for disabled at the UN, presented the third paper which noted the difficult circumstances people of special needs face that hinder their integration in society.
| "Yeah! It's hard to toss rocks at adultresses from a wheelchair, y'know!" |
For his part, Muhammad Mustafa Younis, the international law professor at Qatar university read the fourth paper on guarantees for protecting human rights in cases of emergency, and criterion governing these conditions. |