— Newsy reports: “The murder of Chechen human rights activist Natalya Estemirova provokes accusations against prime minister Ramzan Kadyrov and the Russian government. The media links her death to a bigger problem.”
Day: July 20, 2009
Malaysia: Muslim model to be caned for drinking beer in Malaysian club
(Malaysia) Muslim model to be caned for drinking beer in Malaysian club
— “‘The [caning] is aimed at making the accused repent and serves as a lesson to Muslims,’ the Syaria High Court judge was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times daily.”
Mississippi: Vandals Spray Paint ‘KKK’ On Madison Co. Home
Sudanese Woman Journalist Invites Press to Her Flogging to Demonstrate Oppression of Women
Sudanese Journalist Who Invited Press to Attend Her Court Hearing and Flogging: I Am Fighting for All Women
— “The issue of abuse of women by Sudan’s public order police recently gained prominence in the Sudanese and other media, after Sudanese journalist Lubna Ahmad Hussein and 12 other women were arrested in Khartoum on July 3, 2009, for wearing trousers. Two days later, 10 of the women were summoned to the police station and received punishments of 10 lashes each. Charges were brought against three others, including Hussein, for inappropriate dress and conduct.”
— “In an interview with Al-Arabiyya TV, Hussein explained that she had given out the invitations because otherwise no one would believe that she was to be flogged for wearing ordinary clothes: ‘I wanted the punishment to be executed in the presence of observers, so that they see for themselves why I was being flogged.'”
(Gaza) Phyllis Chesler: “Free Asma’a al-Ghoul”
Many Nazis remain in the United States
July 21 – DC: Congress to Reintroduce Equal Rights Amendment for Women
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney to Reintroduce Women’s Equality Amendment on Capitol Hill
Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Time: 10:00am – 11:00am (per Congresswoman Maloney’s office)
Location: Across from the Rayburn Bldg
City/Town: Washington, DC
— House Triangle
— (on the Capitol side of Independence Avenue across from the Rayburn building).
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Join NOW with Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney as she Reintroduces the Women’s Equality Amendment. Take Action! Send an Email to Congress and President Obama to say “YES” to Women’s Equality.
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney to Reintroduce Women’s Equality Amendment on Capitol Hill
Take Action!
Tell Congress and President Obama and Congess that it’s time!
Did you know that women are not represented in the U.S. Constitution?
Join NOW and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney
as she proudly introduces the
WOMEN’S EQUALITY AMENDMENT
ON CAPITOL HILL!
Tuesday, July 21st, at 10 a.m.
House Triangle
(on the Capitol side of Independence Avenue across from the Rayburn building).
Show your support for putting women’s rights in the U.S. Constitution.
We need as many organizations and individuals as possible to join the Congresswoman on Tuesday to demonstrate the breadth and intensity of our commitment to equal rights.
Please bring signs from your state, your home town, or your organization.
Invite friends and family.
Include your staff and summer interns.
Come watch history being made.
Lend your voice to the fight for women’s rights!
Call of email Congresswoman Maloney and thank her for her leadership: http://maloney.house.gov/index.php?option=com_email_form&Itemid=73
Washington Office: 202-225-7944 phone,
Manhattan Office: 212-860-0606 phone
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House Triangle
UK: Princess facing Saudi death penalty given secret UK asylum
(UK) Princess facing Saudi death penalty given secret UK asylum
— “Woman feared she would be stoned after giving birth to an illegitimate child in Britain”
Hizb ut-Tahrir America Rejects Democracy
At the July 19, 2009 Hizb ut-Tahrir America (HTA) conference in Oak Lawn, Illinois at the Oak Lawn Hilton, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)’s Jeffrey Imm examined Hizb ut-Tahrir’s rejection of democracy.
HT’s manifesto rejects what they call “Democratic Capitalism,” which is how HTA managed to manipulate the public and the press into believing their July 19 Oak Lawn conference was merely about “economics,” by titling their conference “The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam.”
In fact, Imm addressed that HT is opposed not only to capitalism, but also to democracy itself. Referencing direct quotes from the HT’s manifesto (alternate link), Imm pointed out that HT states that:
– “the democratic system… is a Kufr [infidel] system” (page 25)
– rejects democracy because it “is the rule of people, for the people, by the people” (page 24)
– “Democratic Capitalism” … “is a Kufr ideology and its ideas are Kufr ideas, and its systems are Kufr systems, and they contradict Islam” (page 24)
– “freedom of belief, freedom of speech, freedom of ownership of capital and personal freedom”… “are in conflict with Islam” (page 24)
– “personal freedom does not exist in Islam” (page 24)
– “liberty and democracy, and the Capitalist and Socialist systems… totally contradict with” Islam (page 7)
– freedom of religion is denied by HT, whose manifesto states the “Muslim is not free in the matter of his belief because if he apostasizes from Islam, he is asked to return. If he does not, the punishment is death” (page 24)
Updates:
December 20, 2009 – Lombard, Illinois – Hizb ut-Tahrir America once again speaks against democracy. Abu Baseer continued to attack democracy at the Lombard event, claiming that democracy was part of “British colonial law” designed to subjugate the Pakistan Muslim population, and stating that democracy is something “other than what Allah” demands, which will result in continued “injustices towards the people.”
March 2010 – United Kingdom: Hizb ut-Tahrir in the UK is now telling Muslims not to vote, but to reject democracy.
Chicago: Hizb ut-Tahrir Distributes Flier Calling for “Death Penalty” for Those Who Leave Islam
At the July 19, 2009 Hizb ut-Tahrir America (HTA) conference in Oak Lawn, Illinois at the Oak Lawn Hilton, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) ’s Jeffrey Imm attended the end of the final session “The Rise of Islam” prior to Question and Answer period. When going into the conference, each participant received a package from HTA which included: HTA Conference Agenda, HT glossy pamphlet ” ‘Islamic Reformation’ – Exposing the Battle for Hearts and Minds,” HT flier, and CDs “An Outcry to the Islamic Ummah – For How Much Longer?!” and “The Shield – Islamic Commentary on the State of the Muslims.”
The glossy pamphlet ” ‘Islamic Reformation’ – Exposing the Battle for Hearts and Minds” distributed by the HTA at the Oak Lawn, IL conference was designed to reject the concept of any type of “Islamic reformation” demanding instead the creation of an extremist caliphate. The HTA pamphlet mocked the efforts by Islamic reformer Irshad Manji (page 6), claimed that challenging the Taliban’s rejection of human rights was merely a ploy “to attack Islam” (page 16), mocks “The Fallacy of Western Universalism” (page 21), mocks “allegedly universal values of secularism, freedom, democracy, Human Rights, pluralism, and the rule of law” (page 23), calls for “Shari’ah rule,” demanded separate laws for men and women, and defends the death penalty for “apostates” – who leave Islam (pages 62 and 67).
Regarding the killing of those who seek freedom of religion and choose to leave Islam, the HTA-distributed pamphlet states: “Apostasy is a question of what kind of person would openly and publicly abandon Islam with full knowledge that they will be killed for it, rather than either keeping it to themselves or leave the Khalifah. Hence, the death penalty only applies on those who in Khalifah openly leave Islam, and choose to remain in the state despite knowing the law; this is considered an open attack on the basis of the state which is Islam, essentially it is viewed as treason and a political attack on the Khalifah in order to undermine it.”
Another Hizb ut-Tahrir web site promoting the July 19, 2009 event in Chicago also promotes an online copy of this same pamphlet (page 62) that supports killing those individuals who leave Islam as guilty of “treason and a political attack on the Khilafah”… deserving the “death penalty.”
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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) rejects these views, and supports our universal human rights for all, including freedom of religion. We know that many, many other Muslims in America and around the world also reject such calls for violence and intolerance.
We reject calls for violence against those who seek such freedom, and we reject those who would deny such freedoms.
We urge all to Choose Love, Not Hate – Love Wins.