Month: November 2009

Mississippi – Ku Klux Klan Ex-inmate: Killen boasted in prison – investigation in 1964 deaths of Civil Rights activists Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman

Mississippi – Ku Klux Klan Ex-inmate: Killen boasted in prison

Mississippi – FBI wants public’s help in civil rights killings

— June 21 2009: Mississippi killings under review – Ku Klux Klan (KKK) murders of civil rights activists
— Further Further investigation into living suspects in the June 21, 1964 deaths of Civil Rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner

— Story of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner written in book “We Are Not Afraid”

Story of Murdered Civil Rights Activists Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner written in book "We Are Not Afraid"
Story of Murdered Civil Rights Activists Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner written in book "We Are Not Afraid"

— See other R.E.A.L. Reports on Racial Supremacism

Pakistan: Horrific Violence Against Women Continues – 4,514 Cases in First Half of 2009 – “Honor Killings,” Acid Attacks, Other Violence Rampant

— The News: “4,514 incidents come to light in first half of 2009”
— “Presenting the report findings, Arifa Mazhar said among the total violence cases, 691 were cases of murder, 293 cases of honour killing, 1,046 cases of abduction, 332 cases of domestic violence, 388 cases of suicide and 466 cases of rape and gang rape. There were 1,086 cases of miscellaneous nature, which included ‘vanni’, ‘swara’, custodial violence, torture, trafficking, child marriages, incest, threat to violence, attempted murder, and sexual harassment.”
— “Indicating that the tradition is still alive in our society, the list also includes 37 most horrific cases of stove burning. Research shows that major motives behind stove burning are demand of dowry and divorce and other domestic conflicts. Around 27 cases of acid throwing were also reported in the first half of the year, with 21 of them occurring in Punjab.”
— “Arifa said out of the total 3,067 incidents of violence in Punjab, there were 901 cases of abduction and kidnapping, 393 of murder, 119 of honour killing, 412 of rape and gang rape, 253 of suicide, 129 of sexual assault, 24 of stove burning, and 21 cases of acid throwing.”
— “In Sindh, out of the total 835 incidents, there were 132 cases of honour killing, 135 of murder, 79 of abduction and kidnapping, 103 of suicide, 19 of rape and gang rape, 75 of domestic violence, 18 of sexual assault, eight of stove burning and six cases of acid throwing.”

Arizona Noor Almaleki “Honor Killing”: Father Pleads “Not Guilty” in Murdering Daughter

— Arizona Republic: “Glendale father accused in ‘honor killing’ pleads not guilty”
— “An Iraqi immigrant has pleaded not guilty to charges that he killed his daughter, claiming she had become ‘too Westernized.’ ”
— “Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, is accused of running over his daughter, 20-year-old Noor Almaleki, and another woman in a Peoria parking lot in October. His daughter later died of her injuries.”
— “Almaleki was arraigned in Maricopa County Superior Court Monday morning. He previously missed two scheduled arraignment hearings because he was under suicide watch in a county jail.”
— “Prosecutors have labeled Noor Almaleki’s death an ‘honor killing,’ saying the elder Almaleki killed his daughter because she dishonored the family by not following traditional Iraqi or Muslim values.”

20 Year Old Noor Almaleki - Died on November 2, 2009 - A Victim of An Ideological Violence Against Women
20 Year Old Noor Almaleki - Died on November 2, 2009 - A Victim of An Ideological Violence Against Women

FBI Releases 2008 Hate Crime Statistics

FBI Releases 2008 Hate Crime Statistics
Press Release — Hate Crime Statistics Web Site
— “An analysis of the 7,780 single-bias incidents revealed that 51.3 percent were motivated by a racial bias”
— Anti-Black Racial Hate 2,876, Anti-Jewish Hate 1,013, Anti-Homosexual 1,200, Anti-Hispanic 561
— Anti-Islam Incidents – 105
— Anti-Christian Incidents – 101

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Table 1

Incidents, Offenses, Victims, and Known Offenders
by Bias Motivation, 2008

Bias motivation Incidents Offenses Victims1 Known offenders2
Total 7,783 9,168 9,691 6,927
Single-Bias Incidents 7,780 9,160 9,683 6,921
Race: 3,992 4,704 4,934 3,723
Anti-White 716 812 829 811
Anti-Black 2,876 3,413 3,596 2,596
Anti-American Indian/Alaskan Native 54 59 63 61
Anti-Asian/Pacific Islander 137 162 170 140
Anti-Multiple Races, Group 209 258 276 115
Religion: 1,519 1,606 1,732 632
Anti-Jewish 1,013 1,055 1,145 353
Anti-Catholic 75 75 89 35
Anti-Protestant 56 60 62 34
Anti-Islamic 105 123 130 85
Anti-Other Religion 191 212 222 90
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group 65 67 70 33
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. 14 14 14 2
Sexual Orientation: 1,297 1,617 1,706 1,460
Anti-Male Homosexual 776 948 981 921
Anti-Female Homosexual 154 194 198 156
Anti-Homosexual 307 415 466 336
Anti-Heterosexual 33 33 34 25
Anti-Bisexual 27 27 27 22
Ethnicity/National Origin: 894 1,148 1,226 1,034
Anti-Hispanic 561 735 792 711
Anti-Other Ethnicity/National Origin 333 413 434 323
Disability: 78 85 85 72
Anti-Physical 22 28 28 26
Anti-Mental 56 57 57 46
Multiple-Bias Incidents3 3 8 8 6
  • 1 The term victim may refer to a person, business, institution, or society as a whole.
  • 2 The term known offender does not imply that the identity of the suspect is known, but only that an attribute of the suspect has been identified, which distinguishes him/her from an unknown offender.
  • 3 In a multiple-bias incident, two conditions must be met: (a) more than one offense type must occur in the incident and (b) at least two offense types must be motivated by different biases.

ICC Report: “Religious Freedom Not a US Priority toward Allies Egypt and Saudi Arabia”

ICC reports: “Religious Freedom Not a US Priority toward Allies Egypt and Saudi Arabia”

“Washington DC (November 23, 2009) – A hearing was recently held on Religious Freedom in the Middle East which exposed the failure of the State Department and President Obama to address Human Rights abuses in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.”

“On November 18, Chairman, Gary L. Ackerman (D-NY), as well as other congress representatives, questioned the Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Michael H. Posner, on the State of Political and Religious Freedom in the Middle East.  It was evident that Egypt and Saudi Arabia, both close allies of the US, have not been pressured into compliance with international human rights laws.”

“Egypt, the world’s number two recipient of American aid, having received roughly $1.3 billion per year in military compensation and more than $500 million per year in economic assistance since 1979, blatantly violates international human rights laws without penalty.  The responsibility for the sudden surge of persecution against Coptic Christians, an explicit assault on religious freedom, is deliberately dismissed by the Egyptian government.  When Assistant Secretary Posner was asked if measures are being taken to ensure that Egypt is kept liable for its offenses, no strategic plan was presented.  It was also concluded that America does not use its foreign assistance as leverage to demand that Egypt adhere to international human rights laws.”

“In the same way, Saudi Arabia, a government that denies recognition or protection of any religion other than Sunni Islam, and whose constitutional principles are founded on Sharia law, is not held accountable by the US for its human rights abuses.”

“When asked by Representative Ackerman if the US places any conditionality upon trade with Saudi Arabia or aid given to Egypt in regards to human rights offenses, Assistant Secretary Posner replied, ‘Has it been done?  It’s been done… in various ways and various places.  Could it be done more?  Yes.  Should it be done more?  Yes.’ ”

“Aidan Clay, ICC Regional Manager of the Middle East, said, ‘Avoiding a strategic plan to address the fundamental democratic principles of religious freedom has not been a top priority of the US government toward Egypt for years.  The US is a light to democratic values, and must take the lead in promoting and exporting democratic principles to countries that violate human rights laws.  We ask President Obama to develop a strategic plan by applying human rights sanctions on US assistance to Egypt and US dealings with Saudi Arabia, to nominate a Religious Freedom Ambassador, and to affirm human rights as a core objective of US foreign policy.’

Enough Project on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda and Congo

Enough Project on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda and Congo

— in November 2009 “Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in mid-November passed the bill out of committee and are working to bring it to the Senate floor”
— Related press release

"Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)" (Photo: Guardian)
"Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)" (Photo: Guardian)