South Africa: Apartheid leader Eugene Terre’Blanche returns to politics
— Daily Telegraph reports: “Eugene Terre’Blanche, the once-feared white supremacist leader of apartheid South Africa, has returned to politics, pledging to revitalise the Nazi-style Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB).”
Month: October 2009
Italy: 15 Year Old Muslim Girl Threatened in Italy for Loving Italian Boy
— Il Giornale: “I love an Italian, dad kills me” Moroccan 15 years under cover — 15 year old Moroccan girl threatened
— “Request for help is heartbreaking: “Help me, I do not want to end up like Hina and Sanaa. Said the police in tears of Pavia, just a few hours ago, a fifteen Moroccan escaped from home in Voghera.”
— “And the soldiers have moved immediately. Now the student is in a protected location in Sydney, away from parents by herself accused of having threatened to do the same end of Sanaa. Besides its history, for some months now, is similar to that of two girls, which took the lives of ‘guilty’ only of loving an Italian man and not a Muslim. A script already seen.”
— “Start the harassment. Her father beat her repeatedly and the threat of death: “I’ll make an end to the other …” alluding to the most horrific cases of poor Muslim girls massacred because they were trying to break free from a world of fundamentalist and dull. Beatings and threats that have witnessed without blinking, even sharing the “method of education, whether the mother. The girl tries to cling to what is around him, makes contact with friends including Social Services, as I will explain later also to the police. Anyone away from that family that now beats her and insulted almost every day. Phrase you hear is always angry, “Raki daimen Muslima u-maghribiyya (you are always Muslim and Moroccan). These are your sources, you must not forget, and that is why you can not attend the Italian boys who are not Muslims. Your father feels dishonored. And off blows.”
— original report in Italian: “Amo un italiano, papà mi uccide” Marocchina di 15 anni sotto scorta”
Pakistan — ICC report: “Pakistan Court Grants Bail to Six More Muslims Accused of Violence against Christians”
Previous reports of Pakistan violence against Christians in Gojra:
Pakistan Christians Call for Justice while Extremists Oppose Changes in “Blasphemy Law”
Pakistan Christian Post: “Attack on Gojra Christians was supervised by government of Pakistan”
Pakistan – ICC report: “Pakistan Grants Bail to 13 Muslims Accused of Carnage Against Christians”
Pakistan: Extremist blames Gojra massacre of Christians on “Western conspiracy”
NYC: Protest at United Nations HQ against Extremist Religious Oppression and Blasphemy Laws
Pakistan: Christians rally on ‘black day’ against Gojra killings
Pakistan: Christians remember victims of Gojra violence
Wisconsin: Waukesha Teens Appear In Court For Hate Crime
Wisconsin: Waukesha Teens Appear In Court For Hate Crime
— ABC reports: “Police said Kurtis Hickey, Dylan Barnett, and Thor Eggum burned a swastika and the letters KKK into a Waukesha basketball court.”
— “Police said the three didn’t like African Americans playing on the courts.”
— TMJ Channel 4 reports: “Three Teens Charged with Racist Vandalism in Waukesha”
— “Kurtis Hickey, Dylan Barnett and Thor Eggum all faced a judge on the same criminal charge.”
— “Police say in the criminal complaint that Hickey started the fire ‘due to his hate for blacks.'”
— “He goes on to say he knew the ‘KKK’ and swastika would ‘bring about a bad feeling when black people saw these symbols.'”
— “The complaint also reveals that Hickey and Eggum admitted to being racist.”
Congo: UN criticized on Congo offensive
Congo: UN criticized on Congo offensive
— BBC reports: “A joint report by several international aid agencies said the mission had had ‘disastrous’ humanitarian consequences.”
— “It said the offensive against ethnic Hutu rebels in eastern DR Congo had caused widespread killings and rape.”
— “The Congolese and international lobby groups said the UN needed to take immediate action to protect civilians.”
— “The Congo Advocacy Coalition report said disarming the Hutu rebels is a top priority – but that for every rebel who has been disarmed this year, one civilian has been killed, seven women or girls raped, and 900,000 people made homeless.”
— DR Congo: Civilian Cost of Military Operation is Unacceptable
Iranian Journalists Flee, Fearing Retribution for Covering Protests
Iranian Journalists Flee, Fearing Retribution for Covering Protests
— NYT reports:
— “Mr. Maleki, 29, is one of dozens of reporters, photographers and bloggers who have either fled Iran or are trying to flee in the aftermath of the disputed June presidential election. Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based organization that promotes press freedom and monitors the safety of journalists, said the number of journalists leaving Iran was the largest since the years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.”
— “The wave of departures reflects the journalists’ anxiety over the retribution many of them have faced for reporting on the government’s violent suppression of the post-election protests. As bloody clashes unfolded in the streets of Tehran, the government went to great lengths to restrict the flow of information to the outside world. Foreign journalists were banned, and local reporters and photographers were warned to stay at home.”
Necessary Gesture Or Bad Decision? U.S. Cuts Funds To Iran Rights Group — Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
Necessary Gesture Or Bad Decision? U.S. Cuts Funds To Iran Rights Group
— Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
Iran launches legal case against former presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi
Iran launches legal case against former presidential candidate
— APA: “Iran launched a legal case against former presidential candidate and former parliament speaker Mehdi Karoubi over his allegations that his supporters were tortured and raped in jail, APA reports quoting IRNA”
— “Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi said that Karoubi was a cleric and his remarks should be studied at the Shari’ah court.”
UK: “Honor killing girl ‘wanted love'” — Tulay Goren trial – reportedly tortured by father before killed
— BBC: “Honour killing girl ‘wanted love'”
— “A teenager allegedly murdered by her father in a so-called ‘honour killing’ hated her family and wanted to run away, a court has heard.
— “Tulay Goren, 15, a Kurdish Turk from Woodford Green, north London, vanished in 1999 and her body has never been found, the Old Bailey has been told.”
— “Her boyfriend at the time, Halil Unal, 41, told the jury she said she wanted ‘a man who will love me and marry me'”
— “He recalled the time he met Tulay at Stratford bus station, in east London after she had been beaten.”
— “‘I saw that she had bruising to her eye. She told me that her father tortured her and beat her and that her uncle Cuma was pressuring her.'”
— “Jonathan Laidlaw QC, prosecuting, said Tulay was killed ‘to restore the so-called honour’ of the family, who originate from Turkey.”
— “The court heard Mr Unal was brought up as a Sunni Muslim while the Gorens were from the Alevi branch of the faith.”
— BBC reports: “He added: ‘In our honour customs, they are either going to finish off, kill the girl, or they are going to kill both of them. That is definite.'”
— BBC reports: “The prosecution says Tulay was killed ‘to restore the so-called honour’ of the family, as a relationship between she and Mr Unal – who are from different sects of Islam – ‘would not have been tolerated'”
— Daily Mail: “Schoolgirl ‘was tortured by her father’ before she was murdered in honour killing”
Women in Alevism
— “According to Australian anthropologist Dr. Sevgi Kilic, while Alevi women do not experience gender segregation in the private and public domain they are subject to traditional male values about women’s sexuality and constructed within the honour/shame paradigm”