Quote:............... As president of Socialist International, Guterres envisaged a radical model of government led by a UN parliamentary assembly that would facilitate the emergence of “global citizens”.
During his term as UN high commissioner for refugees, he acted in accordance with socialist ideology by pressuring Western states to open borders and accept a large influx of immigrants from Islamic regimes. Despite the evidence that open border policy facilitated transnational jihadism and the mass murder of Western innocents, Guterres continued to shame governments that protect their citizens with secure borders.
Guterres was president of the Socialist International at its 22nd congress which resolved that: “the goal of the SI must be to parliamentarise the global political system” by the establishment of a “UN parliamentary assembly”. There is nothing sinister about the dream of a peaceful world order led by powers invested in global security and democracy.
However, a UN parliament would produce the opposite. Liberal democratic states constitute a numerical minority which would be overwhelmed by Islamist, communist and socialist states in a global assembly. The consequence is evident in the transformation of the UN over the past two decades.
The largest voting bloc at the UN is the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation. The OIC replaced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with the Islamic Cairo Declaration whose articles are not universal, but established “in accordance with the Islamic Shariah”.
The UN was charged with responsibility for translating the Kantian ideal of lasting peace into an international norm by establishing institutions of liberal governance to encourage states to codify universal human rights.
However, communist and Islamist states diverted the UN’s path from liberal democratic principles to a more totalitarian tendency.
UN leaders have not corrected this downward trajectory. Rather, they accommodate it. In declarations against totalitarianism, the UN consistently criticises fascism while omitting the ideologies of most murderous regimes of the 20th and 21st century: communism and Islamism. In June, outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon admitted to whitewashing a report on children killed in conflict zones that held Saudi Arabia and its partners responsible for 60 per cent of child casualties in the region. Citing external pressure, he decided to: “remove the Saudi-led coalition countries from the report’s annex”.
Over the past two decades, the UN’s organisational mode shifted from liberal internationalism to transactional transnationalism in an attempt to accommodate the influence of wealthy but illiberal regimes. In 2007, as UN refugee chief, Guterres addressed the League of Arab States. He credited Islamic law as an “invaluable foundation for the legal framework” used by his office. He acknowledged that the majority of the world’s refugees were Muslim, but focused on “developed societies”, citing “racism” and “xenophobia” as the primary cause of refugee victimhood instead of holding to account the Islamist regimes refugees flee. Guterres encouraged Islamic states to become “more involved in the UNHCR’s governing body”. Today, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is Jordan’s Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
The UN and Socialist International stances on border policy are virtually interchangeable. The 2015 SI Charter of the Rights of Migrants, which reflects UN and EU articles, is incorporated into the UN’s new migration agenda: the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. In the declaration, the UN brands dissenters from its open border ideal xenophobic. We used to be called realists.
While acknowledging the need to tackle the causes of mass migration, its authors omit the common denominator of the major refugee-producing states: political Islam. Only recently the UN published a report showing that about half of the world’s refugees are produced by three countries: Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia. Instead of investigating the causal link between Islamist government and asylum-seekers, the UN cites environmental degradation, poverty, inequality and conflict as the causes of the refugee crisis.
Guterres is highly critical of Western states that strengthen borders in response to jihadist attacks, stating: “Let us be perfectly clear: Refugees are not terrorists, they are the first victims of terror.”
That is a false dichotomy. The jihadists who entered Europe thanks to the EU socialist bloc’s porous border policy and murdered hundreds of European citizens are both product and cause of Islamist terror. Islamist ideology produces Islamist terrorism which in turn creates refugee crises. The UN routinely denies that reality.
Australia’s border security policy developed by the Abbott government and consolidated by Malcolm Turnbull is earning international praise while the UN open borders approach is viewed increasingly as ideological and harmful. Thanks to our rigorous screening of asylum-seekers, up to 22 jihadists trying to enter Australia as Syrian refugees face rejection. By contrast, the UN has become so irrational that its envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has offered to personally escort 900 jihadists out of Aleppo. ...........
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