Meet the Alliance of Civilizations
Proposed by Spanish President Jose Luis Zapatero and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, currently run by Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of Qatar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_of_Civilizations https://archive.is/I3B6x
Anyone who watches the Middle East knows that Erdogan is a Muslim Brother and Qatar is a big supporter of the Brotherhood. What about Zapatero?
> Between 2009 and 2011, the Zapatero government funneled more than €15 million of Spanish taxpayer funds to Palestinian and Spanish non-governmental organizations that are among the leaders in campaigns aimed at delegitimizing Israel…
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6374/spain-bds https://archive.is/YfDjf
> Spain's top diplomat on Thursday angrily dismissed accusations that the Socialist government was anti-Semitic after Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero criticized Israel's attacks on Lebanon and posed in a Palestinian-style keffiyeh scarf.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/20/world/europe/20iht-spain.html https://archive.is/jHLB4
Those scarves have political meanings. Red is Hamas. Black is Fatah. This is Middle East Politics 101 here.
So what does this group do?
> The UN Alliance of Civilizations' media program is based on two pillars:
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> * GlobalExpertFinder.org, an online resource which connects journalists with a wide range of opinion leaders who provide quick reactions and analysis on complex political, social and religious issues;
> * A broad array of training programs designed to support journalists and opinion makers in their efforts to report across cultural divides in a fast-changing global media environment.
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> The Youth Solidarity Fund (YSF) is an international program that provides small grants of up to US$30,000 to youth organizations advancing intercultural and interfaith dialogue…
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> Through the development of clearinghouses, the UNAOC serves as a platform for disseminating materials that resonate with its objectives of improving understanding among nations and peoples…
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> The Migration Integration program of the Alliance aims to improve integration, and thereby enhance relations between migrants and host societies.
From an early description of the Alliance in the Daily Signal:
http://dailysignal.com/2009/04/09/did-president-obama-attend-the-alliance-of-civilizations-forum-or-not/ https://archive.is/KsjiV
> The base document for the Alliance of Civilizations focuses on the supposed failings of Western countries while largely ignoring the faults of Muslim nations…
> The AoC also endorses the idea of constraining freedom of media, speech, and expression in order to combat “Islamophobia.”
From even earlier in 2006:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/alliance-of-civilizations/3849
> In a statement, Mr. Kofi Annan said it was clear that religion is not at the root of current tensions.
> “The problem is not the Koran or the Torah or the Bible,” Mr. Annan said. “The problem is never the faith, it is the faithful and how they behave towards each other.”
> That sentiment was echoed in an editorial published in the Houston Chronicle on Sunday by three of the report’s authors, who also said that political repression in the Muslim world contributes to extremism.
> “Denying peaceful opposition movements the freedom to express their views and jailing their supporters generate anger and resentment, encouraging some to join violent groups,” wrote Mr. Tutu, former Indonesian foreign minister Ali Alatas, and Andri Azoulay, an advisor to Morocco’s King Muhammed VI.
> “When Western governments lend their support – tacitly or overtly – to authoritarian regimes, they become part of the problem,” the authors wrote.
We saw what happened when those "peaceful opposition movements" took power in Egypt. They killed their opposition and seized their property.
More recently in 2013:
http://dailysignal.com//2013/02/28/u-n-alliance-of-civilizations-not-doing-much-to-promote-tolerance/
> At the fifth Global Forum of the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations (AoC) this week in Vienna, Austria, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated, “Just like Zionism, anti-Semitism, and fascism, it becomes unavoidable that Islamophobia must be regarded as a crime against humanity.”
In summary, the Alliance of Civilizations funds activist groups to promote an agenda that aligns with that of Islamist terrorists, while also managing an official list of UN-approved journalists and experts.