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While a focus on "Islamophobia" is a major part of the conference, there are other troubling aspects. The text of the outcome document also:

"invites governments and their law enforcement agencies to collect reliable information on hate crimes in order to strengthen their efforts to combat racism."

As we saw last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security doesn't need any more encouragement to collect information on its own citizens.

As in all UN gatherings, the United States is a target of criticism at the Durban Review conference which condemns "colonialism" and "foreign occupation" -- diplomatic epithets often hurled America's way in the General Assembly. In the U.S., anybody expressing concern about our open borders policy has been targeted by the Left as racist and hateful -- a charge which the delegates of Durban II are happy to encourage. The UN urges nations to:

"prevent manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance at country border entry areas, in particular vis-�-vis immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers..."

The Durban Review Conference is another example of hypocrisy in action at the United Nations. President Obama was right to stay away from the United Nations this week. I wish that were his instinct toward the institution as a whole. Unfortunately, I suspect that Barack Obama's absence this week will only make his heart grow fonder of the UN.

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Thomas P. Kilgannon is the President of Freedom Alliance and the author of Diplomatic Divorce: Why America Should End Its Love Affair With the United Nations. He is reporting from the Durban Review Conference in Geneva as a correspondent for Radio America.

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Note -- The opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, and/or philosophy of GOPUSA.

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