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should not wait until this racist group acquires State
responsibility, before one starts criticizing.
I think what I've just said can be equally valid for societies
which persecute their ethnic groups or for ethnic groups which
wage terrorist wars against others.
We would improve human rights the world over, if we could
stand up to all violations regardless of their authors or origins. On
the other hand, this approach would be quite commensurate to the
preamble of the Universal Declaration which gives the
responsibility of promoting and securing respect for human rights
to every individual and every society together with all its organs,
but not to the State.
The society-wide struggle against human rights violations in
general, against racism in particular is imperative for other
reasons as well. In addition to outright racist acts, racially tainted
attitudes may lead to some unexpected and undesirable
consequences in fields other than that of human rights.
Is it a coincidence that we see religious fundamentalism, ethnonationalist
terrorism and racism at the same time in the world
Can we deny interactions, even interdependence between them
They have at least one common essential point. They all are
exclusive.
The racist who takes as target a Muslim in his own country may
not realize that a fundamentalist in the country of this Muslim may
attack foreigners or a similar ground.
Human rights circles in countries where there is racism support
perhaps unconsciously, the exclusive identity of the ethnonationalist
terrorist which is obviously inspired by racism.
Exclusive identity is almost always criminal, for it does not only
conceptually rejects but also kills or expels the other. Nevertheless,
many human rights circles and public opinions under their
influence support ethno-nationalists while making out of
fundamentalists a new enemy image, most needed after the breakup
of the Soviet Union. They are, however, unaware that what they
have been doing is a little more subtle form of racism.
And the question remains who is going to improve whose
human rights performance.
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