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Dr. Kamal Qadir: Freedom fighter or
homophobe ? Human rights must be respected
22.2.2008
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February
22, 2008
Shortly, Dr Kamal Qadir’s troubles could be
summarized like that : He writes since many years
some articles criticizing corruption and nepotism of
the Kurdistan government, and exposes for that some
facts, probably verifiable and indubitable facts.
According the criterions of freedom of expression,
it is his absolute right to do it, and even a duty.
And then, during his imprisonment, he has benefited
of defence and support among democratic Kurdish
voices, and from big NGOs also, specialized in Human
rights and freedom of expression. Austrian
government, naturally, cared of one of its citizens. |
Dr. Kamal Said Qadir, Austrian citizen, an
international legal expert, writer and human rights
activist |
As we can say, it appears firstly as a very simple
case : A struggle between “progressist and
democratic intellectuals” vs “retrograde and
arbitrary government”… The first won, Kamal Qadir
has been released, morality is saved.
But… no one noticed that the content of the
“insults” against some members of Barzani clan, true
or false, were opposed to that democratic ideology,www.ekurd.net
pro-Human Rights
principles, on which Qadir and his supporters based
their protest. For the same Human rights claim that
no one could be persecuted or insulted for his
political, religious opinions, as much as his sexual
way of life, if it does not harm other citizens.
However, while treating certain member of the
Barzani family of “homosexual” as an insult, the
same “Dr. Qadir” trangresses the law that forbidden
any attack against private life and offence of
homophobia (the former is generally in Europe equal
to “racist crime”).
Then, writing like (the journalist of the New York
Times) published on Kurdmedia website that Qadir has
enfreint some limit in a way which is not allowed in
the Middle East is not false, but one can doubt that
in Austria, Qadir could have published a paper
criticizing the homosexuality of MPs or politicians…
If he writes such remarks in Europe or in US or
Canada, he could be put in trial by Gay and Lesbians
associations, for these people don’t like that their
sexuality could be used as a black spot on citizens’
faces…
Consequently, when he come back in Austria, Qadir
should be logically prosecuted in the name of the
same principles and rights that allowed him to be
released in Kurdistan…
So we can see at first a case opposing in an
interesting way, 2 worlds, 2 moralities, the
progressists pro-Human rights side and the “old”
eastern societies, “corrupted” and “touchies”
concerning their “sexual honour”. But we can see
also that the main protagonist, the “victim” sat on
2 chairs,www.ekurd.net
calling to freedom and
rights in a side, and denying these same principles
which want that everybody is free to carry out its
sexual life. So Qadir is an interesting sample of
these half-westernized intellectuals, using
sometimes human rights, sometimes old “feudal”
attacks in their way of thinking and writing…
Kamal Qadir also called a “pimp” Masrour Barzani,
the chief of "Parastin", the director of Kurdistan
Intelligence agency, telling that Kurdish
services use prostitutes for their information.
The last point made me laughing a lot… For I wonder
which Foreign and police service in the world does
not use “the oldest job of Human history” to be
informed…
We must keep in mind that Europe is democratic and
human rights are respected, according to latest
news, the bodyguards of Masrour Barzani
physically attacked
Dr. Kamal in Vienna on Tuesday, this action is not
acceptable in Europe and no one has the right to
attack an beat others for any reason. Any reasons
doesn't give Masrour Barzani the right to attack
Dr.Kamal. Europe is not Kurdistan.
Some information for this report was provided by Roj
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