“A child should never be in a marriage," announce the United Nations.
Here are the ten countries with the highest rates of child marriage:
Niger - 76%
Chad - 61%
Central African Republic - 61%
Mali - 54%
Mozambique - 53%
South Sudan - 52%
Bangladesh - 51%
Burkina Faso - 51%
Guinea - 47%
Somalia - 45%
So why does the UN use a Western girl to represent child marriage, when it takes place in non-Western countries?
It is like illustrating hunger in Africa by using a chubby Scandinavian child: an act of whitewashing that covers demographic and cultural reality and insinuates a horrible colonialist paternalism. Globalism rhymes with racism.
The UN’s choice is not innocent; it is a symptom of an agenda that uses Western woke aesthetics to avoid pointing fingers at non-white cultures, for fear of being accused of “racism" and “Islamophobia". In a world politically correct to the point of absurdity, the UN promotes an “inclusive" narrative that paradoxically excludes the real victims of oppression.
But this is the UN: a bureaucratic leviathan that indulges in distortions bordering on the ridiculous and grotesque.
In 2011, the United States mission to the UN under Barack Obama revealed that “74 cents of every dollar spent by the United Nations is tied to personnel costs."
Now we know we are also paying people who think that child marriage is a problem of Western countries, not in any of the multitude of failed and tribal states which practice it.
Between 1995 and 2019, in the glorious “State of Palestine," 200,000 marriages were registered, 95 percent of which involved underage girls. Iraq has just lowered the legal marriage age to 9. And Syrian girls are married very young even in the glorious multicultural Federal Republic of Germany.
Yet for the UN, the child bride is a white, blonde girl.
Meanwhile, the Security Council, which should be the “adult in the room" regarding threats to global stability and security, in January was led by Somalia, a failed state in the middle of a civil war, known for everything except stability and security-though certainly well known for having many child brides.
Meanwhile, the Islamic regime of Iran, where since 1979 the legal marriage age has been lowered to 9, legalizing pedophilia, has just been elected vice president of the UN Commission for Social Development, whose priority themes will be “the promotion of democracy, gender equality, and the guarantee of tolerance and nonviolence."
President: “I hear no objections."
Only at the UN does one take Francesca Albanese seriously, a character straight out of an Italian novel.
It so happens that UN Women-the UN organization for women’s rights-took months to acknowledge that Hamas committed mass rapes against Israeli women on October 7, while never missing Amal Clooney’s birthday.
It so happens that the UN celebrates the niqab as a tool of female emancipation.
It so happens that a UN conference on press freedom is canceled so as not to upset the Turks.
It so happens that for the United Nations the word “mankind" must be replaced with “humanity." It sounds more woke.
It so happens that UN Secretary-General António Guterres says that Islamic terrorism is caused by …“climate change".
So, child marriages are among whites, Jewish women deserve Hamas’s rapes, Afghan women must be put back in their place by the Taliban, misogyny is defeated with inclusive writing, Christians burn in Nigeria because of CO₂, and the ayatollahs are masters of progress.
As in Orwell, at the UN war is peace, ignorance is strength, oppression is empowerment and reality is malleable.
John Bolton, former US ambassador to the UN, said: “The UN Secretariat building in New York has 38 floors. If it lost ten, it would make no difference at all."
The sooner this circus of corrupt lunatics shuts down, the better off we will all be.
And in place of the UN in New York, they should build a shopping mall, a new Trump Tower or a ‘peace and love’ brothel. Anything would be better than this glass asylum.