Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
A Volunteer Human Rights Group – Choose Love, Not Hate – Love Wins
(U.S.) DC: Crackdowns in China prompt rally on National Mall in Washington DC
— “CSN invites the public for July 19 rally, 3-6pm”
— “Marking the tenth anniversary of Falun Gong persecution in China”
— See also: July 19: DC Rally for Freedom in China and Freedom for Falun Gong
July 13, 2009
Statement to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Special Exception to Zoning Restrictions for Expansion of Islamic Saudi Academy
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
Statement by Founder, Jeffrey Imm
My name is Jeffrey Imm, I was a citizen of Virginia for 14 years, and I am speaking on behalf of the organization Responsible for Equality And Liberty.
Virginia has a historical commitment to the human rights of equality and liberty, which it first declared on June 13, 1776 with the Virginia Declaration of Rights, before there was a United States of America. The Virginia Declaration of Rights was prepared by Fairfax County’s George Mason who declared human beings “are by nature equally free and independent,” and declared the “inherent rights” of “life and liberty.” When Fairfax County’s George Mason and other Virginians prepared that Virginia Declaration of Rights, he was not just addressing the “inherent rights” of just Virginians, but of all human beings.
The government of Saudi Arabia continues to stand against such inherent human rights of equality and liberty for women, for non-Muslims, even for other sects of Islam. The government of Saudi Arabia continues to be condemned by the U.S. State Department and United States Commission on International Religious Freedom for its discrimination, persecution, and intolerance of religious minorities including Shi’a Muslims. Saudi Arabia remains a nation of intolerance and a nation whose institutions defy our universal human rights of equality and liberty. According to the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) itself, the Islamic Saudi Academy’s curriculum “conforms to the system followed in Saudi Arabia.” So we should not be surprised that previous studies have shown a pattern of intolerance in Islamic Saudi Academy textbooks in defiance of our universal human rights of equality and liberty.
We would challenge such indoctrination of intolerance of children in Fairfax County if this were the one-time Apartheid South African government with an institute to teach racial supremacism or if this were Communist China teaching children in Fairfax County to be against our universal human rights of liberty and freedom.
We would challenge this if it was a domestic group like the Aryan Nations’ so-called religious group that preaches intolerance against non-whites and Jews or the so-called “Westboro Baptist Church” that preaches violence, hatred, and intolerance against homosexuals.
Hate is hate. Institutionalized hate has no place in Fairfax County educational institutions. We must challenge institutionalized hate with our love for our fellow human being’s human rights.
We believe that Love Wins by being Responsible for Equality And Liberty.
Virginians are Responsible for Equality And Liberty, as we all are.
Thank you for your time.
Jeffrey Imm, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.), realcourage.org
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See Denise Lee’s testimony online at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_fAQKcSsF4
— Denise Lee at 3:06
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Related Video Links:
Fairfax 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_fAQKcSsF4
— Denise Lee at 3:06, Jeffrey Imm begins at 8:06
Fairfax 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocb_D2oGafI&
— Jeffrey Imm continues beginning of video
— R.E.A.L. postings addressing Saudi Arabia
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List of All YouTube Videos of July 13, 2009 Fairfax County Public Hearing on Islamic Saudi Academy
CNN: “Wave of Iraq church bombings stretches into third day”
— CNN reports: “A church in Iraq was bombed Monday, the seventh Christian house of worship in the country to be bombed in three days.”
— “Three children were wounded in Monday’s attack in northern city of Mosul
— “Car bomb exploded in the morning, damaging church in al-Faisaliya district
— “Six churches in and around Baghdad were bombed over the weekend
— “Many of Iraq’s estimated 1 million Christians have fled the country
— CNN reports: “The car bomb exploded in the morning, damaging the church in the al-Faisaliya district of eastern Mosul.”
— “Six churches in and around Baghdad were bombed over the weekend, leaving four dead, officials told CNN. A total of 35 people have been wounded in the wave of attacks, including the three children Monday.”
— “The first bombing took place Saturday night at St. Joseph’s church in western Baghdad, according to an Interior Ministry official. Two bombs placed inside the church exploded about 10 p.m. (3 p.m. ET). No one was in the church at the time of the attack.”
— “Earlier Sunday, three bombs exploded outside churches, wounding eight civilians, the official said. The bombs detonated within a 15-minute span, between 4:30 and 4:45 p.m. local time (9:30 and 9:45 a.m. ET). Two of the churches are in central Baghdad’s al-Karrada district, and the third is in al-Ghadeer in eastern Baghdad.”
— “Sunday evening, a car bomb exploded outside a church on Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad just after 7 p.m. (12 p.m. ET), the official said. Four people died, and 21 were wounded.”
— “And in southern Baghdad’s Dora district, a bomb outside a church wounded three other civilians.”
— “Most of the churches were damaged in the bombings, according to video footage.”
— “St. Joseph’s was one of six churches hit by coordinated bombings of Christian houses of worship in Baghdad and Mosul in 2004. The church is in the al-Jamiaa neighborhood of Baghdad, a former stronghold of al Qaeda in Iraq. There have been recent reports of an increase in targeted attacks in the area.”
— “Many of Iraq’s estimated 1 million Christians have fled the country after targeted attacks by extremists. In October, more than a thousand Iraqi families fled Mosul after they were reportedly frightened by a series of killings and threats by Muslim extremists, who apparently ordered them to convert to Islam or face possible death. At least 14 Christians were killed in Mosul in the first two weeks of October. ”
— “One Christian Iraqi, interviewed outside Sacred Heart Church — one of three churches bombed Sunday afternoon — said the bomb went off shortly before 5 p.m., as members were arriving for Sunday evening mass. No one was hurt, Sabhan George told CNN, but the bomb damaged the church building and some cars outside.”
— “George said he is concerned about the church bombings. If this continues, he said, ‘there will be no Christians left in Iraq.'”
— Candidate’s ‘Holocaust Revisionist’ Views Spark Reston Write-In Campaign
— Washington Post: “The vote will be held today and tomorrow during the Reston Festival at Reston Town Center”
— Ken Meyercord running unopposed for at-large seat on the board to “Reston Citizens Association, a quasi-governmental body that sets the agenda for the community of 60,000”
— Ken Meyercord has a “a long history of writing about what he says are ‘myths’ of the Holocaust, including a piece called ‘(Holo-) History is Bunk.'”
— Ken Meyercord “dismisses as Allied propaganda the assertion that Nazi Germany embarked on a mission to annihilate European Jews, a plan known as the Final Solution.”
— “He also denies that Nazis used gas chambers to murder Jews, saying gas chambers did not exist, and expresses skepticism that the number of Holocaust victims reached 6 million”
— “Meyercord said his views of history changed after living in the Middle East. After attending Dartmouth, he obtained a master’s degree at American University in Beirut, where he also met his wife, who is Palestinian, and became more sympathetic the Arab view of the conflict with Israel.”
— “His other writings include a piece comparing Israel’s treatment of Gaza to the Nazis’ handling of the Warsaw Ghetto; an apocalyptic fantasy in which an invasion of the United States is an allusion to the war in Iraq”
— “German prosecutors charge Demjanjuk as accessory to murder at Nazi death camp”
— “German prosecutors formally charged John Demjanjuk on Monday with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp during World War II”