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U.N. racism investigator to visit U.S. from Monday

GENEVA (Reuters) - A special U.N. human rights investigator will visit the United States this month to probe racism, an issue that has forced its way into the race to secure the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

The United Nations said Doudou Diene would meet federal and local officials, as well as lawmakers and judicial authorities during the May 19-June 6 visit.

"The special rapporteur will...gather first-hand information on issues related to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance," a U.N. statement said on Friday.

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Here's a little background info on DooDoo Diene.

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Diène is from Senegal, a predominantly Muslim country which is a member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the largest voting bloc at the United Nations. He has consistently sided with that bloc against Western and other democracies such as Japan. His cultural and religious biases have led to his obsession with Islamophobia, which he has called “the most serious form of religious defamation.”

For example, Diène has repeatedly criticized the Danish government for placing freedom of expression above “combating religious intolerance and incitement to religious hatred” on the grounds that it was not quick enough to condemn a private newspaper’s publication in 2006 of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. He has criticized “groups that have instrumentalized the freedom of expression” – a direct assault on the First Amendment guarantees embodied in our most basic instrument of liberty, the U.S. Constitution. Yet Diène failed to condemn a blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon brought to his attention by the Wiesenthal Center that appeared a year earlier in the ArabNews (billed as Saudi Arabia’s first English-language daily newspaper). The cartoon depicted rats wearing skullcaps bearing the Star of David, scurrying backwards and forwards through holes in the wall of an edifice bearing the poster "Palestine House."

Diène was also silent about government-issued schoolbooks in Egypt and Saudi Arabia that promote hatred against Jews and Christians, which UN Watch had asked him to condemn without success. These books, according to UN Watch, refer to Jews and Christians as “cursed,” as “infidels,” as “unbelievers,” and as “enemies of Islam.” They teach schoolchildren that “the Jews are a people of betrayal and treachery” and that “a malicious Crusader-Jewish alliance [is] striving to eliminate Islam from all the continents.”

Diène’s double standard reeks of hypocrisy. He believes that democratic processes in the West are leading to anti-Muslim rhetoric and to immigration-limiting political parties coming to power, shutting off the possibility of his model of a multicultural society. The only catch is that Diène’s definition of a multicultural society applies only to the Western host countries which must continue to subsidize Muslim immigrants with generous welfare payments and at the same time adjust their own enlightened norms of individual freedoms to archaic Muslim sensibilities. Islamic leaders in the West meanwhile remain free to discourage integration of Muslims into Western culture for which they continue to express unbridled contempt.