PUBLISHED ON
April 30, 2010
What can you say when the U.N. elects Iran to its Commission on Women’s Rights, elevating a backwards theocracy that made international news last week when one of its “respected clerics” claimed that immodestly dressed women cause earthquakes? Iran as a nation has a well-documented history of gender inequality and is an oppressive environment for women to live in.
Words fail me. Oh, except for these: Time to defund the U.N.!
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