Uganda’s gays: from advocates to outlaws
— AFP: “The bill has baffled legal experts who read it as the product of an over-zealous Evangelical community that is clueless about both Uganda’s constitution and international law.”
Day: November 20, 2009
UK: Rally Challenging Sharia
— “Saturday 21 November 2009 Universal Children’s Day and International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women” – promoted by UK Guardian press and other blog web sites:
— Guardian: “Just say no to sharia law”
— “No Sharia law – Support Muslims fighting religious tyranny”
— Unfortunately, the leader of the event Maryam Namazie is also a leader of the Iranian Communist Party
— see also:
— Why Human Rights Responsibility, Not Communism, is the Answer to Extremism
Egypt Hosts OIC Conference on “Children’s Rights”
On November 23 and 24, 2009, Egypt will host a meeting of the extremist “Organization of the Islamic Conference” (OIC) member states, UNICEF, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and others on the “Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) and Islamic Jurisprudence.”
The event is listed by the OIC as an OIC conference on their web site, and is described as the “International Conference on Implementing by OIC Member States of Convention on the Rights of the Child.”
The meeting to be held in Cairo on “CRC and Islamic Jurisprudence” is promoted as “celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Convention on the Rights of The Child & The National Council for Childhood and Motherhood.”
The concept note for the meeting states that “On the 20th November 2009, we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) by the General Assembly of the United Nations. This event provides us with the opportunity to revisit the implementation of this convention in the Islamic State Parties. Over the past 20 years a number of national seminars and meetings were held to discuss the relationship between the CRC and the Islamic Shari’a. On the other hand, few international gatherings of Islamic countries and international experts on the Rights of the Child, were held for sharing experiences on the implementation of the CRC in Islamic States — analyzing achievements, obstacles and closely identifying challenges. This Conference is an opportunity for Islamic States to exchange views and experiences on ways and means to strengthen their commitment to the CRC. Some Muslim State Parties to the CRC have made reservations to the effect that the CRC would only be implemented if it is not in conflict with the Islamic Shari’a. The Conference will provide an opportunity for Muslim States to examine the extent to which such reservations have varied from one Muslim country to the another. This is an indication that there is a need for consensus in the areas that may or may not be in harmony with the Islamic Shari’a.”
Many nations with preponderence of Islamic adherents who choose to be signatories to The Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) took exception to it based on Sharia law or Islamic law.
The OIC promotes its own “Covenant on the Rights of the Child in Islam,” where children’s rights are all based on Islamic Sharia Law.
The OIC organization rejects the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (UDHR), which is a fundamental basis for the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC). Instead, the OIC organization has promoted the “Cairo Declaration of Human Rights,” where all human rights are dependent on Islamic Sharia law.
The Cairo conference planners seek to have children participants as well to show the press. Child participants are urged to know “what you are NOT prepared to talk about” and “remember you do not have to answer any or part of the questions that are being asked.” The guidelines for child participants in interacting with the media also warn them to consider “Are there people who might want to harm you if they see your story?” and “How would you feel if your story appeared in the media in a few years time/ was still be read many years from now.”
Egypt has recently partnered with the United States in a UNHRC resolution that seeks to challenges freedom of speech or press raised against Islamic views, as “religious stereotyping.”
Egypt has long been notorious for its oppression of Coptic Christian girls and women who have frequently been kidnapped, raped, and forcible converted to Islam. The the Christian Solidarity International and the Coptic Foundation for Human Rights recently issued a report on this human right crisis entitled “The Disappearance, Forced Conversions, and Forced Marriages of Coptic Christian Women in Egypt.”
In addition, Egypt has also been notorious for oppression of religious minorities in general, including extremists threatening leading Egyptian figures, such as Dr. Sayed Mahmoud El Qemany.
On November 17, 2009, AINA reports that “15-year-old Egyptian girl Dina el-Gowhary, who converted from Islam to Christianity, has sent a plea to President Obama, complaining of mistreatment by the Egyptian Government and asking for his mediation.”
The OIC state Cairo conference on “children’s rights” is sponsored by Nike.
Nike is currently marketing new sports shoes to the Middle Eastern market called “Master Control.”
Communist China Praises Role in “Convention on Children’s Rights” – While It Arrests Those Who Speak On Communist Forced Abortions
The Communist People’s Republic of China (PRC) today spoke out in support of its role as a “signatory” to the November 20, 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, a day after it arrested a human rights activist who gave testimony to the U.S. Congress on November 10, 2009 on the role of the Communist government in continuing forced and coercive abortions in Communist China.
While the PRC’s Xinhua called for Chinese “people to offer their love to all children,” just 10 days earlier at the U.S. House of Representatives, human right activists spoke on the horrific and systemic practice of forced abortion of babies and dehumanization of women by the People’s Republic of China. (You can read their testimony here.)
In Washington DC, on November 10, human rights activists testified to Communist China’s pride in “preventing 400 million births,” including the use of forced abortion. Human rights activists also spoke of the “abortion, abandonment, and infanticide of baby girls” due to Communist pressures and the “burgeoning black market in stolen children – 70,000 a year” created by Communist China’s official policies.
They described how women’s babies were treated like refuse. They described how Communist Chinese gynecologists and obstetricians discussed infanticide after induced labor. Women’s Rights without Frontiers’ Reggie Littlejohn provided a translation of the Communist Chinese web site discussions on infanticide, which are still online in Mandarin Chinese.
Such discussion of methods included:
— Damohuyang: posted “Over 90% of 35-week infants died under induced labor. Most of them died of skull puncture.” “Damohuyang” further described that some that were alive “would be left in trashcans. Some of them could still live for one to two days.”
— Xuexia: “Actually you should have punctured the fetus’ skull. By doing this there will be less damage and also you won’t get an infant born alive.”
Another women testified on November 10, 2009 on Captiol Hill how the Communist Chinese doctors forcibly removed and mutilated her baby from her womb.
The Communist Chinese government’s adoption of the Convention on Children’s Rights was based on the caveat that the Communist government “interprets the Convention as applicable only following a live birth.”
Others testified to how Communist Chinese policies had led to the development of a culture of abandoning those children that the Communist government prohibited, for fear of retribution.
Yet the Communist Chinese government today baldly and unashamedly uses the 20th anniversary of the Convention on Children’s Rights to claim its “love” of children.
For the real love of children, those of us Responsible for Equality And Liberty must condemn the inhuman and horrific violence against babies that has been rationalized by the Communist government and the astounding abuse of children in that Communist country.
The June 2009 U.S. State Department report on human trafficking states that “The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation.” According to this report, this includes the operation of an “extensive child forced labor network” in one province “with thousands of children as young as seven years old.” Earlier Congressional testimony on the Communist Chinese Laogai concentration camps deaths have included children and infants.
Communist China, Communist North Korea, and Communist Vietnam are some of the top offenders in human trafficking in the world, including trafficking of children.
Russian Priest and Islam Critic Shot to Death in Church — Daniil Sysoyev
— London Times: “Russian priest and Muslim critic, Daniil Sysoyev, assassinated in church”
— London Times reports:
— “A Russian Orthodox priest known for his outspoken criticism of Islam and attempts to convert Muslims to Christianity has been assassinated in his Moscow church.”
— “A masked gunman shot Father Daniil Sysoyev in the head and chest after asking for him by name, police said. The choirmaster, Vladimir Strelbinsky, was seriously wounded in the attack at St Thomas Church in southern Moscow.”
— “Father Daniil, 35, died of his wounds in hospital late last night. A Russian newspaper reported that he had recently told its journalists of 14 death threats by telephone and e-mail, which he had received as a result of his work among Muslim migrants from former Soviet republics.”
— ” ‘They’ve threatened to cut my head off 14 times,’ the priest told Komsomolskaya Pravda, adding that the Federal Security Service had contacted him last year after uncovering a plot to murder him.”
— “He claimed to have christened 80 Muslims, ‘among them Tatars, Uzbeks, Chechens and Dagestanis’. He said that other priests were unwilling to follow his lead because ‘they are afraid of revenge from the Muslim world’.”
— “The co-chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Nafigulla Ashirov, called Father Daniil a ‘Russian Salman Rushdie’ after he wrote a book in 2007 condemning Islam’s treatment of women.”
— Reuters: “Russia: Masked gunman kills Russian priest at Moscow church”
— Reuters: “A masked gunman entered a church and murdered a Russian Orthodox priest who had received death threats for converting Muslims to Christianity and criticizing Islam, prosecutors and church officials said Friday.”
— “The killing could threaten delicate relations between the powerful majority Russian Orthodox Church, which has close ties to the Kremlin, and the country’s growing Muslim minority of about 20 million.”
— “The gunman approached priest Daniil Sysoyev, 34, in St Thomas Church in southern Moscow Thursday night, checked his name and then opened fire with a pistol, a spokesman for the investigating committee of the Prosecutor-General’s office said.”
— ” ‘The main theory is that religious motives are behind the crime,’ spokesman Anatoly Bagmet said.”
— “Sysoyev was from Tatarstan, a predominantly Muslim region of Russia on the Volga river. He was threatened after preaching to Muslims and Christians from other denominations.”
— ” ‘I have received 10 threats via e-mail that I shall have my head cut off (if I do not stop preaching to Muslims),” Sysoyev stated on a television program in February 2008, according to Interfax. ‘As I see it, it is a sin not to preach to Muslims.’ ”
— Reuters.com report currently omits much of this reporting
— RIA report: “Russian Orthodox priest killed in Moscow”
Pakistan: Report warns of Pakistan’s younger generation losing faith in democracy
Pakistan: Report warns of Pakistan’s younger generation losing faith in democracy
— “Only a third believe democracy is the best system of governance, one third support sharia law, while 7% think dictatorship is a good idea.”
— British Council – Pakistan web site — Download “Pakistan – The Next Generation” report
— Pakistan wasting demographic dividend: British Council report
Liberia: “The new war is rape”
Liberia: “The new war is rape”
— IRIN: “‘The civil war is over,’ said Monrovia resident Tupee Kiadi. ‘But the new war is rape, especially targeting teenagers and babies. During the war we had peacekeepers to prevent further violence… but women do not have peacekeepers to stop rape.’ ”
— “During the war women and girls were subjected to rape (commonly gang rape) and sexual slavery, many becoming pregnant from rape. Since peace was sealed in 2003, sex crimes – and impunity – have persisted throughout the country.”
Mississippi: Ku Klux Klan (KKK) planning rally on November 21 — White Supremacists claim to be defending “Christian, southern heritage and culture”
Another public event from the white supremacist hate group, Ku Klux Klan
— Daily Reveille: “KKK planning rally in Miss.”
— Daily Reveille reports:
— “The Ku Klux Klan will be among the masses descending on Oxford this Saturday when the Tigers play the Rebels.”
— “Shane Tate, the North Mississippi great titan for the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, confirmed via e-mail the KKK will rally on Ole Miss’ campus in protest of the Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones’ decision to remove ‘From Dixie with Love’ from the Ole Miss band’s song selection.”
— ” ‘From Dixie with Love’ is one of Ole Miss’ traditional songs on game day, and the student section has chanted ‘the South will rise again’ during the song for years, said Brian Ferguson, alumni chairman of the Colonel Reb foundation.”
— “The controversy began last month when the Ole Miss Associated Student Body passed a resolution in favor of discontinuing chanting ‘the South will rise again’ to replace it with ‘to hell with LSU.’ The resolution was never fully enacted because it was not signed by the proper officials after passing the senate, said Peyton Beard, Ole Miss Associated Student Body director of athletics.”
— “The student section largely ignored the resolution and other attempts to stop the chant, continuing the chant during ‘From Dixie with Love,’ said Ole Miss English junior Dean Julius.”
— “After a written warning by the Ole Miss chancellor, the student section’s continued chanting resulted in Jones banning ‘From Dixie with Love’ last week, said Barbara Lago, Ole Miss director of media and public relations.”
— ” ‘We cannot even appear to support those outside our community who advocate a revival of segregation,” Jones said in a written address to the Ole Miss student body. ‘Consequently, I have asked the band not to play ‘From Dixie with Love’ at upcoming athletics events. The absence of this song will send a clear message that the university is neither facilitating nor indirectly condoning the chant.’ ”
— “This decision to ban the song has drawn the attention of the KKK, which plans to protest the ban in full robes Saturday from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m, Tate said.”
— ” ‘We are coming to Ole Miss to say enough is enough on attacking our Christian, southern heritage and culture, and it’s time for every person to have a right to freedom of speech,’ Tate said.”
— “Lago confirmed Ole Miss has been contacted by the KKK and said the group has the right to voice its opinions as long as it doesn’t interfere with university activity or the personal rights of others.”
— ” ‘We aren’t coming there to cause problems or cause trouble,’ Tate said. ‘Trouble has already been caused by a handful at Ole Miss, including the black student body president, who wants to shape Ole Miss into yet another liberal sodomite college.’ ”
— KKK to march in Oxford on Saturday – 1:40 p.m.
— Commercial Appeal: “Ku Klux Klan plans rally at Ole Miss to stand for Rebel fight song”
