The UN’s Inversion of Values

It really is hard for me to find anything good to say about the United Nations, and every good think it does that I can think of could be done much better by smaller, more targeted organizations or on an ad hoc basis. 

UNESCO comes to mind, although perhaps that is only because I have only vaguest sense of what it does. At the very least, I like the idea of protecting the World Heritage Sites, but as for what else it does that is worthwhile I couldn’t say. But it seems to me that the job of cataloguing places in need of preservation could be done as well or better with a historical society of some sort. It’s not as if the UN is necessary to accomplish this goal. 

What I do know is that on the things where the UN should be promoting world peace or human advancement, it does a horrible job. 

A case in point:

Nothing says female leadership like a nicab https://t.co/p4HnR17f4n

— Kellie-Jay Keen (@ThePosieParker) October 19, 2025

Of all the things the United Nations Women’s organization should not be promoting, women being forced into niqabs is not one of them. And the idea that women in niqabs are “leading” is an affront. The whole idea of the niqab is, in reality, the erasure of women as full human beings. 

Women who live in societies where niqabs are expected to be worn are, in some cases, forbidden from even speaking in public. The claim is that the niqab promotes modesty and female dignity, but then again in such societies women are treated as less than human. 

It is important to distinguish between the hijab, the niqab, and the burkha. The hijab, as long as it is not mandatory, need not be a symbol of oppression, but rather an expression of religious piety. As long as it is worn by choice, at least. The Burkha and especially the Niqab, though, are hard to separate out as merely a cultural expression, since the whole point seems to be to dehumanize women at least in public spaces. 

They become, in a sense, black holes with no public persona. A woman in a hijab can fully participate in society, even if, in some places, the hijab requirements exist to control women. The connection is not necessary, at least. 

Yet…the UN is portraying the Niqab as empowering? In what possible universe could this be argued seriously? 

This is of a piece with the UN’s failures across the board to fulfill its basic tasks. It’s peacekeeping forces fail to keep the peace, its humanitarian efforts often result in atrocities (such as when peacekeepers become human traffickers, or spread disease), and its refugee efforts promote terrorism and migration crises.

As far as I can tell, the only argument for the US participating in the United Nations and hosting the body is to keep your enemies closer. 

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