The UN and its Secretary-General win the Nobel Peace Prize. A joke and a disappointment. After all, isn't it about time John Paul II gets his due, while he's alive?

Actually, the juxtaposition of the Nobel Literature winner, V.S. Naipul, and this award, are rather interesting, considering that the UN has become a center of West-hating states and movements, and Naipul made many nasty waves recently by stating, among other things, that Islam had a "calamitous effect on converted peoples".

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