The leader of the Al-Qaeda organization banned in Russia gave a lecture on the harm of the UN. Ayman Al-Zawahiri recorded the video. He examined the UN Charter, the Declaration of Human Rights, and also walked through UNESCO.
First of all, Al-Zawahiri considered it necessary to emphasize the injustice of the organization’s system itself, where the participating countries are forced to obey the decisions of the General Assembly. He does not like that the Security Council is above all. The Islamist called the five states with permanent representation in the UN Security Council “the greatest killers in history.”
Commenting on the articles of the UN Charter, Al-Zawahiri said that they are all unfair to Muslims, because it was written by non-Islamic countries that won the Second World War. By the way, the main result of the war, according to Al-Zawahiri, is the foundation of Israel, which again underlines the injustice of the victors.
As for the Declaration of Human Rights, then the indignation of the leader of Al-Qaeda was caused by the provisions on freedom of religion and gender equality. All this, according to Al-Zawahiri, contradicts Islam, because a Muslim and a non-Muslim, a woman and a man cannot be equal, because it contradicts Islamic law.
It is noteworthy that as illustrations to criticize the provisions of the UN Charter and the Declaration of Human Rights, he repeatedly turned to the confrontation between the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the militants of the Chechen wars. The video even uses a quote from a book by Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, who for some time led Islamists in the Caucasus. In the eyes of Al-Zawahiri, the international community joined Russia’s position in those conflicts, which once again emphasized its predatory position against Muslims.
UNESCO was accused of some materials that offend Islam and for the fact that the organization criticized the trick of Al-Zawahiri’s patrons, the Taliban, when they destroyed Buddha statues in Afghanistan in 2001.
In general, Az-Zawahiri’s claims to the UN boil down to the fact that the organization promotes debauchery, homosexuality, respect for prostitutes, late marriages and gender equality. But most importantly, Al-Zawahiri is convinced that the organization is being used by the enemies of Islam to blackmail Islamic countries, forcing the latter to agree with its charter under the threat of military invasion. However, the leader of Al-Qaeda did not offer a way to resist the dictate of the UN, limiting himself only to general words.