The document analyzes criteria for selecting countries for permanent membership on the UN Security Council, specifically an Islamic country and African country. It evaluates Turkey, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, and concludes Turkey is best suited due to its modern, secular, democratic system and strong economic performance relative to the other countries. Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt and Indonesia are deemed unqualified due to poor human rights, authoritarian politics, economic underdevelopment and failures to promote modern, progressive values.

1. Turkey for UN SC Permanent
Membership
Turkey for UN SC Permanent Membership
A consideration of criteria for the selection of a Muslim country as permanent
member of the UN Security Council. The Vicar of the Islamic World at the UN
must be a modern, secular, democratic country, and not a barbaric and
analphabetic realm ruled by the lunatic sheikhs of impoverished countries.
A Chance for Global Future: Reforming the UN. Part III
Turkey for UN Security Council Permanent Membership
By Prof. Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
In two previous articles, we advocated the extension of the veto right
(Security Council permanent membership) to India, Japan, Germany, Italy,
Brazil and Mexico (the articles can be found here: "Avoid the French Trap in
Reforming the UN! – 2004" -
https://www.academia.edu/43038240/Avoid_the_French_Trap_in_Reforming_the_
UN_-_2004 / "A Chance for Global Future: Reforming the UN. Part II" -
https://www.academia.edu/43040055/A_Chance_for_Global_Future_Reforming_th
e_UN._Part_II). We argued that this would help the international body reflect
today's realities best and meet a reasonable level of representativeness, which
is condition sine qua non for the democratic organization of the international
community.
We also suggested the extension of the veto right to one Islamic and one
African nations, stating that the two candidate countries would represent two,
partly overlapping areas, which have been extensively colonized and
politically split. Here, we will conclude and indicate the two countries that
make the best choice.
CombinedCriteria in order to select an Islamic nation and an
African country for US SC veto right
It is therefore proper to question in this regard what the truly essential criteria
are for the international body and for the international community in its
entirety; it is critical to first identify the criteria that have to be taken into
account in the decision making process and the selection of two countries that
deserve to be offered veto right in the UN Security Council to represent the
Islamic world and the African continent.

2. As we have already implied, among the aforementioned seven criteria, some
are of purely technical essence, namely population, surface, and – to some
extent – economic power, whereas other criteria are of political – ideological
character.
- Overall economic performance (GDP)
Economic development is certainly a prerequisite in our world, as by itself it
consists in a basic target for every country; as such, it must be viewed as an
important criterion. However, at this point, we have to specify that to some
extent the GDP is a solid and politically correct criterion only relatively. Nazi
Germany and USSR achieved memorable scores in terms of economic
performance, but they hardly represent an international model state and/or
society nowadays. At times, totalitarian states stress their economic success
and highlight the spectacular rise of their GDP; but this only adds to their
regrettable character. Stakhanovism is the bottom line of any problematic
society - not the peak of a national paradigmatic achievement! Attempting to
combine today a form of economic Realpolitik with basics of pluralistic
practices, China deserves its position, despite Beijing's poor democratic
record.
We will not become China’s advocate, if we focalize on three major reasons;
the first reason is historical. As a matter of fact, the country was accepted as
Security Council permanent member at a moment when it was not yet ruled
by a totalitarian Communist regime. The second reason is the volume of
China's GDP and trade; these are significant figures that cannot be ignored.
Compared to them, the combined GDP figures of Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt
and Nigeria (US $ 759 b, 318 b, 295 b, and 115 b respectively) are just an
infinitesimal detail. The aforementioned four Third World countries'
populations amount to approximately half the population of China, but their
combined GDP may almost be as large as one fifth of China's. The third
reason is rather political – diplomatic in the sense that, by letting this huge
country better integrate with the democratic world, the international
community helps in generating local political developments that will herald
democracy, freedom and human rights in China.
- Governmental Budget and Participation in the World Trade
Other economic indicators that have to be taken into consideration – although
they are relative as well – are the governmental budget and the country's
trade. Totalitarian governments have limited budget resources and poor
participation in the world trade. Iran's (70 million people) exports account for
approximately US$ 30 b, whereas Thailand’s (65 million people) exports are
2.5 times larger (US$ 76 b), and Malaysia’s (24 million people) exports are
more than triple (US$ 98 b). Worse than Iran, Pakistan (160 million people)
and Egypt (75 million people) have - practically speaking - nothing to export
(respectively US$ 11 b and US$ 8.8 b). Taking active part in the world trade
necessitates liberal economy and proper dismantling of all the state-run

3. economy's structures; to proceed so, a country has to establish first a
democratic, representative parliamentarian system, which means abolition of
autocracies, theocracies and fake leadership personal cults. Of course, there
are limits in this approach as well, and we all understand that China, despite
its large participation in the world trade, does not represent a model state and
society.
- Per capita GDP – Rail and Paved Highway Networks – Telephony &
Internet Penetration
Per capita GDP is a much safer indicator, since it represents social prosperity
and technological progress rather than overall economic development in
national dimensions. As indicator, it can be strengthened and corroborated by
other significant indicators, such as railway and paved highway networks, as
well as fixed telephone line, mobile line and Internet penetration. Yet, it can
be met with a counter-argumentation, since some small countries, which
advanced tremendously at the economic and technological levels, achieved
excellent scores with regard to all these indicators without developing a truly
humanist culture, a multicultural educational systems and a pluralistic,
democratic political life devoid of discrimination.
In this regard, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Brunei
can hardly be considered as a proper model in our global world. These
nations cultivate sex, ethnic, and religious discrimination; foreign workers are
denied basic international labor rights, although forming a large portion of
the inhabitants, whereas women are treated as almost animals, being
deprived of basic political rights. In most of these countries, 'tolerance' is an
unknown word, whereas the political decision making process is a small
family affair. Yet, the money is there! These semi-cannibalistic societies reflect
the primitivism of the mobile user and BMW car owner, who never heard of
Shakespeare, Voltaire, Goethe, Dante, Tolstoy, and Cervantes, let alone
Gilgamesh, the Codex of Hammurapi, Ullikummi, the Book of the Dead,
Avesta, Bundahisn, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hermes Trismegistus, and the
Vedas. The colossal difference between New Zealand and Kuwait, Norway
and the Emirates, or Malta and Qatar is not economic: it is educational,
academic, intellectual, cultural and political.
- Democratic parliamentarian system, Human Rights, Minority Rights
Unadulterated democracy is the ultimate epitome of all choices, the most
important measure to take into consideration when evaluating a country and
its international position. We should keep in mind that first of all the UN
represents the victory of democracy over totalitarianism, the embodiment of
the defeat of all tyrannies: Fascist, Nazi, Communist or Islamist. As such, the
UN came to surface in 1945; as such, it was reconfirmed in 1989 – 1991, when
we attested the collapse of so many dictators. As such, the UN must be
reinstated through its forthcoming reform.

4. If we do not use today the UN reform as a key tool to eradicate the existing
anachronistic, dysfunctional and totalitarian regimes, if the developed
democracies do not cooperate on this seminal point, the entire world will
soon face serious threats from these ominous establishments. This is the
reason America should better consider exercising influence in this direction,
within the UN and the UNESCO, rather than opting for unilateralism.
Conclusions
Having gone through all that, we can safely claim that in the same way Spain
– as a fascist, anachronistic structure back in the mid-1940s – could not
possibly be selected for UN Security Council permanent membership in 1945,
the four Islamic anachronistic and dysfunctional states, namely Pakistan,
Egypt, Nigeria, and Indonesia, are unquestionably out of any discussion for a
similar position in the year 2004.
What prevents the aforementioned countries from qualifying for any
accreditation to an improved membership within the UN Security Council?
The true response is devastating; here are the main reasons:
- their poor human rights record,
- their deficiency in terms of modern democratic and humanistic politics,
- the deep involvement of their military in politics,
- the criminal embrace of all aspects of social, educational, academic, artistic
and intellectual life by clandestine -and therefore uncontrolled- religious
groups and by uncultured, uneducated, quasi-illiterate and at times
murderous 'sheikhs',
- their underdevelopment - due to prevailing anachronistic and erroneous
conceptions of god, religion, mankind and progress -,
- their unprecedented failure in propagating the humano-centric
Weltanschauung of our modern world.
Beyond their ominous record in terms of democracy, education and culture,
the aforementioned four nonstarters present a tenebrous economic picture
that is – literally speaking – the ultimate denial of progress and development
by all means. It would therefore be quite illustrative to compare them to
Turkey.
Indonesia
With 239 million people (more than triple that of Turkey), Indonesia has less
than half of Turkey's per capita GDP. Indonesian government's income is a
little bit more than half of Turkey’s (US$ 41 b – US$ 67 b), whereas its
expenditures are just half of it (US$ 45 b – US$ 93 b). With a public debt
representing 73% of its GDP, Indonesia is in much worse shape than Turkey,
because precisely of its low budget figures. Indonesian exports are somewhat
larger than the Turkish (US$ 63 b – US$ 49 b), but when this is the result of a
three times larger population, the figure looks disastrous. The real lack of
consumerism in Indonesia is demonstrated through a very low imports figure

5. (US$ 40 b – instead of US$ 62 b for Turkey). The infrastructure is not there
either; although its territory is 2.5 times larger than that of Turkey, the total
rail and paved highway networks are even arithmetically poorer (railways in
Turkey: 8671 km, and in Indonesia: 6450km / highways in Turkey: 131000km,
and in Indonesia: 158000km). When it comes to Communication and
Information Technology, we realize that Turkey and Indonesia are on the
opposite sides of the CIT gap (fixed telephone line subscribers: 19 million /
7.8 million, mobile line users: 29 million / 12 million, Internet users: 5.5
million /8 million).
The conclusion is formulated in just a question: what can Indonesia possibly
represent, within the UN, except the misery of the face and the hatred of the
heart of its silly sheikhs who, instead of focusing on social, educational,
cultural and economic improvement, incite their ignorant and besotted
followers to Anti-Semitic and Anti-Christian hysteria?
Pakistan
Here we enter into the sphere of the economic nightmare! With a population
more than twice larger than Turkey's, Pakistan produces a little more than
half of Turkey’s GDP (Turkey US$ 458 b – Pakistan US$ 318 b), and as a
consequence its per capita GDP is less than one third of Turkey's. The
impoverished Pakistani government's budget is a minimal portion of Turkey's
(income: US$ 67 b – US$ 12 b / expenditures: US$ 93 b – US$ 15 b). The same
is valid for the Pakistani trade with the rest of the world, since Pakistan’s
exports and imports are both at the level of one fifth of the respective Turkish
figures! When it comes to exports, Pakistan (160 million people) is at the same
level with the Sub-Saharan 10 million nation of Angola (US$ 11 b for Pakistan
and US$ 10 b for Angola)! Not much is to be expected from the abode of the
illiterates named 'Pakistan' (literacy rate: 45.7% - Turkey: 86.5% - Brazil:
86.4%). With just 4 million fixed telephone line subscribers (Turkey: 19
million), with less than one tenth of Turkey’s mobile telephone users, with
Internet penetration at the level of 25% of Turkey’s, Pakistan possesses forex
and gold reserves less than one third of Turkey’s. In addition, Pakistan is in
possession of some nuclear bombs that can easily become the prey of some
lunatic sheikhs in their apocalyptic vision against the civilized world; even
more so, since the civilized world is 'Satan' according to their disgraceful and
contaminated mind.
Who dares say that such a country must be left to exist? This is the correct
question we must ask ourselves; not whether Pakistan should be considered
as a speaker for the Islamic countries within the UN Security Council!
Nigeria
Nigeria is the right African counterpart of Pakistan! Ominous realm of
permanent civil war between fanatic Muslim (50% of the population) and
Christian (40%) parties, Nigeria is slightly larger than Pakistan in terms of

6. surface, whereas the Indus river valley country is a little more populated (160
million vs. 137 million). Nigerian population growth (2.45%) promises a
worse future than Pakistan's (1.98%). Literacy figures are somewhat better
(68% instead of Pakistan's 45.7%), thanks to the extensive use of English.
Nigeria presents an abominable economic and social record, even if this is
compared to Pakistan's! Nigerian GDP is at the level of just one third of
Pakistan's, and that is why the African country reaches bottom, when it comes
to per capita GDP (under US $ 1000).
Nigeria's exports and imports are at the level of Pakistan's (US $ 21 b – 14.5 b
respectively for Nigeria, and US $ 11 b – 12.5 b for Pakistan). We have to
stress that a double figure means absolutely nothing, when the level is so
desperately low. However, the Nigerian government is much poorer than the
lords of Islamabad, and the poor Nigerian budget figures (income US $ 8 b –
expenditures US $ 11 b) are lower than the respective figures for Croatia, a
tiny (4.5 million people) and 'poor' Balkan nation! The Nigerian primitivism is
perfectly depicted in the following figures: 853000 fixed telephone line
subscribers (approximately at the level of 20% of Pakistan's), 750000 Internet
users (less than half of Pakistan's), and 3550 km railway network (less than
half of Pakistan's).
It becomes obvious that the Nigerian external debt figures (US $ 31 b) are a
heavier burden than Pakistan's, and it is even more so as Nigeria's gold and
forex reserves are almost half of Pakistan's. Under these circumstances, it
becomes automatically clear why one can find in Google no less than 347000
references, when searching for the notorious 'Nigerian scam'. The
international community should consider the Nigerian administration's
involvement in the notorious scam more seriously and take proper action as
soon as possible. It is difficult to understand why a Conference for the Middle
East, as announced by the British premier, is more urgent for Europe, since
more Europeans fell victims to the Nigerian scam than to the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict.
Offering such a country the veto right within the UN Security Council is
tantamount to total commitment to the expansion of the Nigerian scam. If
some delegates dare vote for such a criminal proposal, the international
public opinion will demand details about the level and the extent of the
bribery involved. And this is the least we can say.
Egypt
One must never confuse the Ancient Egyptian Civilization with the misery,
the poverty, and the contamination that currently prevail throughout the
Valley of the Nile. Before duly shedding light on the ominous economic
performance, on the extreme poverty, on the isolation and on the desolation
of today's Egypt, one should explicitly denounce the unbelievably poor work
done by Western journalists and press establishments in this regard.

7. When presenting features on Egypt, Western mass media focus on tourism
and antiquities, and whenever they do not do so, they focus on international
affairs, namely the relations between Egypt, Israel, and Palestine. This is not
an acceptable level of information. In reality, the Western public opinion has
been totally misinformed about today's Egypt.
Although it is very common for a Western reader to find an article with
details about everyday life in the streets of Istanbul, Singapore or Tbilisi,
about social life and economic development in New Delhi, Lisbon or Athens,
about the favelas of Rio, and about the poverty of the Argentinean Patagonia,
total obscurity characterizes the Western mass media, when it comes to
average daily life in Egypt's impoverished and nightmarish districts of cities
and towns.
Irrespective of location, the millions of rubbish eaters, the homeless, the
beggars, the have-nots who sleep next to the garbage, the dozens of millions
of barefoot people who wear dirty and stinking gallabiyas, the omnipresent,
open air uncollected rubbish, and many other insufferably atrocious social
conditions remain unknown to the Western tourists in Egypt. Even worse, the
average Western reader is prevented from having adequate information about
this situation because of the biased mass media. However, these facts cannot
be disregarded by the statesmen and the politicians, the diplomats and the
high rank administrators of the world's leading democracies.
One could contend that the same situation – and at times even worse –
prevails in China (already a Veto Club member), India, Brazil, and eventually
Mexico (that we support for veto membership). The truth is that per capita
GDP is a relative economic and social indicator. China's per capita GDP is
higher than Egypt’s (respectively US $ 5000 and US $ 4000), and Egypt's is
higher than that of India (US $ 2900). However with economic growth at 8.3%
and with population growth rate at 1.44%, India is expected to have soon a
per capita GDP higher than that of Egypt. On the contrary, the country of the
Nile has an anemic (for Third World country) economic growth (3.1%), which
matched with an ominous population growth rate (1.83%) does not bode well
for the future. However, this is the top choice of the country's socially
influential -yet idiotic, fanatic and extremist- sheikhs, who – in their extreme
dementia – believe that larger population means stronger 'Islam'.
The truly proper answer to all these considerations is that the selection of a
country hinges on many parameters, and when one or two parameters
(population, GDP) make the country in question rank among the two or three
top in the world, one may consider that another parameter may eventually be
relativized to some extent; an earlier example in this regard was our
discussion about China's poor Human Rights record. As a matter of fact, we
cannot afford to exclude China because of its clumsy democratic system, since

8. all the other parameters are very important in China’s case. Quite contrarily
to China, Egypt is insignificant for all the aforementioned criteria. Even when
compared to Indonesia, Pakistan and Nigeria, Egypt looks unimportant and
secondary. It is true that Egypt's per capita GDP is higher than the respective
figures for Indonesia, Pakistan and Nigeria. But this makes no sense, since the
country is much smaller in terms of population without being significantly
better in any of the rest parameters. At the end, if one proceeded in this
manner, one would be justified to suggest Lebanon – instead of Egypt – for a
veto membership offered to a Muslim country!
Iran is a much larger and more important country, but as long as its
totalitarian and terrorist regime remains unchallenged, Iran will be the
outcast of our civilized world. And even if Iran were a democratic country,
we would conclude, through a thorough study of figures, that it is less
developed and less important than Turkey. It is even more so for
undeveloped Egypt.
Turkey for UN Security Council PermanentMembership
Turkey is the only Muslim country to have established – already 80 years ago
– a secular society and a laic educational, academic and cultural system that
matches very well with the country's strong republican commitment, which
took a Jacobin dimension with the military playing the role of the vicars of the
democratic, multipartite after 1938, system. Women's rights were promoted
since the time of the famous Kastamonu meeting (1923) and the social-
political integration of women in Turkey was more rapid than in France;
women voted and were voted for the Parliament in Turkey four (4) years
before they were able to exercise similar rights in France. It will not be a
surprise, if gay marriage is first legalized in Turkey and then in France.
Certainly, the Turkish nationalistic character of the Kemalist state was a
burden for the various minorities of the country, i.e. the Aramaeans of Tur
Abdin, Mardin and Nusaybin, the Kurmanji of Diyarbakir, Urfa, Van,
Erzurum and Hakkari, the Zazas of Tunceli, and the very few thousands of
Armenians, Georgians, and Greeks. Among the aforementioned groups, only
the Kurmanji and the Zazas are truly numerous, but today's Turkey advances
at great speed toward a fully-fledged multicultural society, and the nature
itself of the Modern Turkish language helps greatly in this direction. In this
regard, it is to be noted that around a nucleus of Turkish Grammar, Syntax,
and Vocabulary, the Modern Turkish linguistic treasure encompasses
numerous words from Farsi, French, Greek, and Arabic, making therefore of
the average educated Turk (literacy 86.5%; much higher than in Iran, 79.4%;
let alone Egypt, 57.7%) a very extroverted, at the same time Occidental and
Oriental, citizen of the world.
Certainly, European political relics like Angela Merkel, J.P. Raffarin, L. Jospin,
L. Fabius, and E. Stoiber cannot understand this, since they already attack the

9. bases of Multiculturalism, showing how much retrospective 'their' Europe is
going to be, if no proper action is taken…
Turkey (69 million people, GDP: US $ 458 b) exports products of total value
six times higher than Egypt's (US $ 49 b – 8.8 b), and almost double than Iran's
(US $ 30 b). Turkish imports are larger too (US $ 62 b, compared to Iran's 25 b,
and Egypt's 14.7 b). The Turkish government's budget is far wealthier than
Iran’s or Egypt's (income: US $ 67 b, compared to Iran's 40 b, and Egypt's 14.7
b / expenditures: US $ 93 b, compared to Iran's 40 b, and Egypt's 19 b).
Turkey's forex and gold reserves equal almost those of Iran and Egypt
combined (US $ 36 b, compared to Iran’s 25 b, and Egypt’s 14 b), being at the
same time of higher value than Spain's (27 b) or Australia's (33 b).
Although Turkey's surface (780000 km2) is smaller than Iran's (1.7 m km2) or
Egypt's (1 m km2) territories, the Euro-Asiatic country has larger railway
network (8671 km, compared to Iran's 7200 km, or Egypt's 5063 km), and
larger paved highway network (131226 km, compared to Iran's 94000 km, or
Egypt's 49900 km). When it comes to high tech, Turkey distances Iran and
Egypt in an even more spectacular way. With 19 million fixed telephone line
subscribers (Iran: 14.5 million, Egypt: 8.7 million), 28 million mobile line users
(Iran: 3.4 million, Egypt: 5.8 million), and 5.5 million Internet users (Iran 4.3
million, Egypt: 2.7 million), Turkey eclipses any other Muslim country in
terms of economic progress, as it also does in terms of democracy, social
emancipation, educational advance, as well as of intellectual and ideological-
political progress.
If we truly believe that the Islamic terrorism is a matter of top priority for the
international community to eradicate from the surface of the Earth, then an
outstanding promotion of Kemalist Turkey to UN SC Veto right membership
will convince the enemies of democracy, humanism and progress that the
future does not belong to their false, Satanic, version of Islam. It is essential in
this regard to take into consideration the critical fact that Kemalist, laic and
irreligious Turkey is the world's most hated state for the illiterate, fanatic and
inane sheikhs of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Algeria, Pakistan, etc; this is so because
Kemal Ataturk demonstrated already before 100 years that the only possible
form of Muslim state to exist, progress and prosper is that of Turkey.
Kemal Ataturk heralded the forthcoming extermination of this evil caste of
sheikhs, and today's Islam's disreputable and ignorant religious leaders know
very well that the only serious danger for their existence does not come either
from Israel, US, France or UK, but from the policies and the practices of the
Modern Muslim's World's foremost statesman. This is the reason no 1 for
which Turkey, with a secular government, must be offered Veto right in the
UN SC.
If our world needs a tolerant, humanist and civilized Muslim community,

10. incorporated within a modern secular Muslim state where the Islamic
principles are kept in the hearts of the people
- without the barbaric imposition of the veil (hedjab) on the women,
- without the ridiculous prohibition of alcohol,
- without the hypocritical social – professional burden of theatrical ‘prayers’
performed during the working hours at the workplaces,
- without the pathetic imposition of Friday as weekend,
- without any social prejudice against women and gay people,
- without the social dictatorship of religious militias (all those groups of social
pressure that interfere in the privacy of any single person's life, when -within
these realms of illiteracy and barbarism- neighbors and doormen report to
these religious militias that you entered your house accompanied by a girl,
although you are unmarried, and you then face unprecedented social
oppression and outcry),
- without the false, racist, and criminal education offered in the backward
countries of Islamic lunacy, …
… then we need Turkey to represent Islam within the Security Council and to
be promoted to UN permanent membership.
This is the only civilized Islam; this will be the only Islam possible to exist.
Instead of Western countries interfering, they must let Kemalist Turkey do the
correct job, and shape the modern humanist and secular Islam.
Either we want the free world, be it Christian, Muslim Jewish, Buddhist, etc.
be prosperous and happy…
… or we want duplicitous, colonial, criminal France, uncivilized 'Arab'
dictators, paranoid sheikhs, and lewd, incestuous bogus-king to be victorious.
In the former case, we opt for Turkey as permanent member in the UN
Security Council. In the second case, anything else…..
(to be continued)
By Prof. Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Published: 12/26/2004