Day: November 6, 2009

Arizona: Terrorism Against Women – Noor Almaleki Just Wanted To Be Normal

— Arizona Republic/AP: “Glendale ‘honor killing’ victim, 20, just wanted to be normal”
— second AP web link to story
— Facebook Page: “R.I.P Noor Faleh Almaleki”

— Other R.E.A.L reports on Noor Almaleki “honor killing”

Arizona Republic/AP: “Glendale ‘honor killing’ victim, 20, just wanted to be normal”

Noor Faleh Almaleki just wanted to be a normal American woman

The striking 20-year-old from Iraq, who’d lived in the Valley since she was a young girl, wanted her hair and makeup to be perfect, her clothes to be fashionable. She wanted a job, a degree and a husband of her choosing.

On her Facebook page, Noor posted photos of herself and wrote: “I am spectacular,” punctuated with a smiley face emoticon. But Noor’s father had a much different ideal for his daughter: a life in strict line with traditional Iraqi culture.

He made her quit her fast-food restaurant job and arranged for her to marry a man in Iraq she didn’t know, according to friends and family.

Finally, police say, 48-year-old Faleh Hassan Almaleki put an end to what he perceived to be his daughter’s rebellious life. Using his Jeep as a weapon, he allegedly ran her down in a parking lot Oct. 20 in what prosecutors are calling an “honor killing” to cleanse what he considered were indiscretions to the family’s honor.

Noor underwent spinal surgery and was in a coma until her death on Monday. Another woman struck by the Jeep, the mother of Noor’s boyfriend, was expected to survive. Marcella Andregg, a friend for seven years, described Noor as independent, but far from rebellious and always respectful of her parents. She said Noor just wanted to live her own life, but that her father wouldn’t let her.

“His whole persona was very controlling, very strong-minded in the ways he wanted it for her,” Andregg said. “He talked down to her very much, made sure she knew she wasn’t good enough and brought a lot of dishonor to the family.”

Meanwhile, she said, Noor “just wanted to be a normal teenager,” and later, wanted to finish college, marry the man she loved, and have children.

Almaleki, who fled after the attack, was stopped at London’s airport and sent back to the U.S. on Oct. 29. He was on suicide watch in a Phoenix jail and has declined requests for comment. It’s unclear whether he yet has a lawyer.

Noor and her family moved to the U.S. in the mid-1990s and lived in Glendale.

In 2008, friends say Almaleki took Noor to Iraq under the guise of visiting family. Actually, he had picked out a husband for her and told her she couldn’t return to Arizona unless she married him. Noor married the man and returned, and friends say he was in the process of trying to move here, too.

But Noor fell in love with another man, friends say, and was living in his home with his mother when she was killed.

About 50 friends and family attended a candlelight vigil Thursday night for Noor in the parking lot where she was run down. Her mother and several others wept as they stood in a circle holding candles, hugging each other and remembering the young woman.

“This was the last place that Noor was herself,” said Andregg, who helped organize the vigil. “It’s a hard place to be, especially for her mom, I know. I just think it was appropriate to be here instead of at a park or a cemetery.”

Despite all her family troubles, Andregg and several other friends say Noor rarely if ever spoke about them.

“She always had a smile on her face,” said Niki Nia, 18, of Scottsdale. “When people weren’t getting along, she would always try to bring peace between them, and I think a lot of that had to do with what was happening at home. She wanted her social life to be peaceful.” Nia said Noor might be in a better place now. “She never would have been able to escape,” she said.

Jim Heinrich, who was Noor’s yearbook teacher at Dysart High School, said Noor affected many students’ lives.

“One of them told me, We had everything we wanted and she had a lot of difficulties and she never complained.’ She always knew her life would be OK,” Heinrich said. “She was one of those people — it’s like her spirit was bigger than her body. You were just very aware that she was there in a good way.”

Phillip Pimentel, another friend of Noor’s living in Japan, wrote in an e-mail that Noor never spoke to him about her troubles at home.

“What I’ll remember and miss most about her is that she seemed happy,” wrote Pimentel, 21. “Worry-free, full of hopes and dreams of the future. Such a shame that such a good person with so much going for herself was taken at such an early age.”

Noor now has a second Facebook page, started by the people who are mourning her death. More than 1,600 had joined as of Friday.

On the page, underneath a photo of Noor shown with a soft smile and her hair blowing, is a message that reads:

“May Noor Almaleki and all other victims of senseless honor killings rest in peace. And may God be the guardian of others who are in danger of sharing that fate. And may we all do something to end honor killings once and for all.”

20-year-old Noor Faleh Almaleki
20-year-old Noor Faleh Almaleki

Other Reports:

Arizona — Noor Almaleki “Honor Killing”: Hassan Almaleki Arraignment Delayed, On Suicide Watch

Arizona — Noor Almaleki Honor Killing: Father To Be Arraigned, Face New Charges

Arizona: Woman in Suspected “Honor Killing” Dies — 20 Year Old Noor Almaleki

Arizona — Noor Almaleki Case: Arizona Jails Father in ‘Honor Killing’ Try

Arizona: Noor Almaleki Case — Father in “Honor Killing” Attempt Captured in UK — Extradited Back to US

Arizona — Noor Almaleki case: Family Says Noor Almaleki “Failed to Live by Traditional Muslim Values” — Woman in Critical Condition in Alleged “Honor Killing” Attempt

Arizona: Noor Almaleki’s Lifestyle may have put woman in hospital

Arizona: Father runs down daughter in Peoria parking lot — Noor Faleh Almaleki attacked for being “too westernized”

Neo-Nazis to March Saturday in Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix, Arizona: “Neo-Nazi group to protest immigration in Phoenix march”
— ABC 15 reports:
— “On Saturday afternoon, Neo-nazi members will take a stand in Arizona.”
— “The members, with the National Socialist Movement (NSM), will be marching to the Arizona State Capitol to protest.”
— ” ‘It’s an American first rally,’ said NSM member Steven Boswell. ‘It’s a demand for our politicians to put Americans first.’ ”
— “Organizers say the protest will focus on immigration.”
— ” ‘We’ve got completely wide open borders and politicians who will bend over backwards for Mexicans or anyone else who is not American,’ Boswell said.”
— “But civil rights leaders say the group is using immigration as a front.”
— ” ‘(They are) injecting their vile agenda into what is a legitimate mainstream issue,’ said Bill Straus with the Arizona chapter of the Anti-Defamation League.”
— “Straus says it’s common for hate groups to take political issues and twist them to gain support.”
— ” ‘They are about their philosophy: That caucasians are superior to other people and this country would be better without people of any color — period,’ Straus said.”
— “The NSM calls itself America’s ‘largest white civil rights organization.’ ”
— “It is also holding similar protests this weekend across the country.”

National Socialist Movement (NSM) Nazis -- (ABC 15 Arizona)
National Socialist Movement (NSM) Nazis -- (ABC 15 Arizona)

Germany: Berlin bans fast-growing neo-Nazi group – ‘Frontbann 24’

Germany: Berlin bans fast-growing neo-Nazi group
— AFP reports:
— “Berlin authorities outlawed a rapidly-expanding neo-Nazi group on Thursday, with police staging dawn raids at the homes of its leading members, according to the city’s interior minister Ehrhart Koerting.”
— “The group, named ‘Frontbann 24’ after a forerunner of Hitler’s ‘storm troops,’ is ‘the fastest-growing neo-Nazi organisation in Berlin,’ according to Koerting.”

— The Local report: “Berlin bans neo-Nazi group ‘Frontbann 1924′”
— Another media report

neveragain

New York City: Extremists Promote Al Qaeda and Extreme form of Sharia Outside NYC Mosque

— CNN reports: “Peaceful preaching inside, violent message outside a New York mosque” :

hate-promoted-outside-nyc-mosque

Video Link

— “Outside a Manhattan mosque where the imam preaches against terrorism, the brothers of the “Revolution Muslim” are spreading a different message.”
— “Protected by the Constitution of the country they detest, radical Muslim converts like Yousef al-Khattab and Younes Abdullah Mohammed preach that the killing of U.S. troops overseas is justified. In their thinking, so were the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States — and so are attacks on almost any American.”
— ” ‘Americans will always be a target — and a legitimate target — until America changes its nature in the international arena,’ Mohammed said in an interview to air on tonight’s ‘AC 360.’ ”
— “Al-Khattab and Mohammed consider al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden their model.”
— ” ‘I love him like I can’t begin to tell you, because he doesn’t seem to have done anything wrong from the sharia,” al-Khattab said, referring to Islamic law. ‘If you’re asking me if I love him as a Muslim, I love him more than I love myself.’ ”
— “They hand out fliers outside the gleaming 96th Street mosque, where up to 4,000 people visit every day. Inside the sleek, modernistic house of worship, Imam Shamsi Ali preaches against the violence that now sweeps many Muslim countries.”
— ” “What we try to do is reminding our people about the real Islam,” Ali said. “We tell them what the real Islam is all about. Islam is about peace. Islam is about moderation. Islam is about friendship. Islam is opposed to any kind of hatred against anybody.’ ”
— “Law enforcement sources have told CNN the men walk right up to the line of protection under the First Amendment, but their message is not going unnoticed.”
— “Al-Khattab handed CNN Correspondent Drew Griffin a business card from an FBI agent who he says is keeping tabs on him. The agent would not comment without clearance from his superiors, except to say, ‘Obviously, if they gave you my card, you know we are watching them.’ ”
— “The mosque has called police on Al-Khattab and Mohammed several times, and passers-by occasionally engage them in heated debates. Ali told CNN that ordinary Muslims are ‘disgusted with their behavior.’ But they insist they don’t fight themselves, and don’t incite others to do so.”
— “Al-Khattab calls President Obama “a murderer, a tyrant, a scumbag,” and says he wouldn’t ‘shed a tear’ if Obama were killed. But he added, ‘Would I incite his murder? That’s not what I teach.’ ”
— “Mohammed calls himself an American “by default” who identifies with Muslims. Al-Khattab, a Jew who lived in Israel before converting to Islam, says he “would like to see a mushroom cloud” over the Jewish state — “but before that, I’d like to see the people guided, and I’d like them to go back to their original countries where they’re from.”
— “But federal agents are not only watching them, they’re watching some of those who are listening.
— “Neil Bryant Vinas, a young New Yorker who has pleaded guilty to plotting to attack trains on the Long Island Rail Road, met with al-Khattab. Al-Khattab said Vinas and “some brothers” traveled to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and had dinner with him. Al-Khattab said they considered him something of a hero because he left Israel and converted to Islam.
— “Al-Khattab also claims friendships with Tarek Mehanna, now under indictment in Boston, Massachusetts, on charges of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, and Daniel Maldonado, who pleaded guilty before a federal judge in Texas to receiving military training from Islamic militants in Somalia.
— “Mohammed says he and his fellow radicals are ‘commanded to terrorize the disbelievers … ‘ “

Somalia: Extremists Stone Man to Death Before Crowd – Pregnant Woman to Follow After She Gives Birth

— BBC: “Somali adulterer stoned to death”
— “Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth.”
— “Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka.”
— “An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has had her baby.”
— “Islamist groups run much of southern Somalia, while the UN-backed government only control parts of the capital.”
— “This is the third time Islamists have stoned a person to death for adultery in the past year.”
— “Al-Shabab official Sheikh Suldan Aala Mohamed said Mr Abdirahman had confessed to adultery before an Islamic court.”
— ” ‘He was screaming and blood was pouring from his head during the stoning. After seven minutes he stopped moving,’ an eyewitness told the BBC.”
— “The BBC’s Mohammed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says that if the woman is also killed, her baby would be given to relatives to look after.”

somalia

Christian Supremacism – Texas: Polygamist convicted of sexual assault on child — “Renegade Mormon Group”

Texas: Polygamist convicted of sexual assault on child
— AP reports: “The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year’s raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had a so-called ‘spiritual marriage.'”
— “Raymond Jessop, 38, didn’t visibly react when the verdict was read after just more than two hours of jury deliberations. Free on bond during trial, he was immediately handcuffed and led to jail. Jurors were expected to return to court Monday to begin deciding his sentence on the child sexual assault conviction. He faces up to 20 years in prison.”

Texas: Child Sexual Assault Charges in Case Challenging Members of “Renegade Mormon Group”

"Yearning for Zion" Ranch (Jack Kurtz/The Arizona Republic)
"Yearning for Zion" Ranch (Jack Kurtz/The Arizona Republic)

Youth for Western Civilization (YWC)’s Kevin DeAnna at Conference with Hate Group Members

On October 31, 2009 members of Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) protested VDARE speakers at a Baltimore-area conference of the “H L Mencken Club.” Members of the racist hate group VDARE at the event included Steven Sailer and Patrick Buchanan.

R.E.A.L reported on this, including racial IQ writer Steven Sailer from VDARE’s keynote speech condemning “Libreal [sic] Jews” and human diversity.  Individuals who were also reported to be part of the H L Mencken Club convention included: Patrick Buchanan, Patrick Deneen, Gene Edward Veith, E. Christian Kopff, James Kurth, Lee Congdon, Kevin Gutzman, George Csatary, John Derbyshire, Richard Spencer, Jeff Frazee, professor and VDARE contributor Paul Gottfried (Gottfried: “Did Pre-MLK America Really Need Redemption?”),  and “Youth for Western Civilization” (YWC) leader Kevin DeAnna.

As Kevin DeAnna has previously claimed to not support racial supremacism, R.E.A.L. wrote Kevin DeAnna to confirm that he would not attend this event.  DeAnna never replied.

However, R.E.A.L. later obtained photographic evidence that  YWC’s Kevin DeAnna did speak at the H.L. Mencken conference in Baltimore.

Youth for Western Civilization's (YWC) Kevin DeAnna at H.L. Mencken Club in Conference with Pat Buchanan, Steve Sailer, Richard Spencer
Youth for Western Civilization's (YWC) Kevin DeAnna at H.L. Mencken Club in Conference with Pat Buchanan, Steve Sailer, Richard Spencer

The H. L. Mencken Club conference was co-sponsored by the Vienna, Virginia-based Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation, which is also on the SPLC list of white nationalist hate groups.

The Fitzergerald Griffin Foundation prominently promotes the writing and work of Sam Francis, such as “Race and the American Prospect: Essays on the Racial Realities of Our Nation and Our Time,” and “Shots Fired.”   (The writings of white nationalist Sam Francis are also promoted by the VDARE web site.)  Sam Francis, who died in 2005, was notorious for his white nationalist views and also was chief editor for the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC).  The CofCC, founded in Georgia, is not headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.   White nationalist Jared Taylor, who is also promoted by VDARE, was a key speaker at the 2009 CofCC national convention.


See also:

— R.E.A.L. Protests VDARE Speakers in Baltimore

— June 20, 2009: R.E.A.L. Protests McLean, Virginia Conference with VDARE Speaker Peter Brimelow