Year: 2009

VDARE Racist Web Site Promotes Argument that Fighting Racism is a Communist Plot

— The VDARE “racist” “hate group” has promoted an article by VDARE Contributor Raymond V. Raehn which essentially argues that America’s challenge to racism and support for tolerance of human diversity is a Communist-based plot, disregarding America’s promotion of human equality and liberty as “truths that we hold self-evident,” inherent to America’s national identity.
— In VDARE article “Leon Trotsky, Barack Obama And The Black ‘Vanguard Of The Revolution’,” VDARE’s Raehn writes of the “Marxist social revolutionaries in modern America who strive to promote the disintegration of the white male power structure.”
— VDARE writer Raehn’s other article “The Historical Roots of ‘Political Correctness'” is well publicized on Neo-Nazi and other racialist web sites.
— VDARE provides yet another example of why its consistent support of racist views must be opposed.  VDARE is in the midst of a fund drive to continue to spread racial hate — it seeks to use the Christmas holiday intended to celebrate peace and joy to gain funding for additional promotion of racial hate. We urge their organization and its supporters to end this path of hate.

Once again we urge the VDARE organization and its supporters to drop the burden of racial hate, and rejoin the family of humanity in support of our universal human rights, the truths that we hold self-evident.  Please contact VDARE and ask them to join us in peace, equality, and liberty — ask them to choose love, not hate.

Love Wins.

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R.E.A.L. Postings on Racial Supremacism

UK: “Honor crime up by 40% due to rising fundamentalism”

— Daily Mail reports “Honour crime up by 40% due to rising fundamentalism”:
— “Police have seen ‘honour’ crime surge by 40 per cent due to rising fundamentalism, new figures show.”
— “Honour-based violence, including crimes like murder, rape and kidnap has rocketed in London during the past year.”
— “Reported instances of intimidation and attempts at forced marriage have also increased by 60 per cent.”
— “A report into the scale of the problem by Scotland Yard found there were 161 honour-based incidents recorded in 2007-8, of which 93 were criminal offences.”
— “But in 2008/9 the number of incidents had risen to 256, with 132 being criminal offences.”
— “The latest figures indicate that the trend is continuing, with 211 incidents reported in the last six months until October, of which 129 were offences – more than double the number in the same period last year.”
— “Police define honour crimes as offences motivated by a desire to protect the honour of a family or community.”
— “Diana Nammi, of the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation, said the group is now dealing with four times more complaints relating to honour than two years ago.”
— “She said: ‘More women are coming forward. They are becoming more aware of their rights in the UK, that there is help available and they feel confident enough to report matters to the police.”
— “‘But I also think cases and violence are increasing.”
— “‘One reason is the rise in fundamentalism. The problem is increasing in communities around the UK.”
— “‘We are seeing a rise not only in honour killings, but also in female genital mutilation and polygamy.'”
— “She added: ‘The rise in Sharia courts is another indication of more fundamental beliefs.”
— “‘There must be more support from the Government to organisations who are working to combat this problem.’ ”
— “The Metropolitan Police also records incidents where no offences has been committed, such as complaints by women that they are under pressure to enter into forced marriages.”
— “Recently there have been a series of horrific attacks linked to ‘honour’.”
— “Detectives are still investigating the death of mother-of-two Geeta Aulakh, 28, who was hacked to death with a sword in Greenford, north west London last month.”
— “An 18-year-old student has been charged with her murder.”
— “In July, a 24-year-old Asian man from Denmark lost part of his tongue and was left blind in one eye when he had acid thrown in his face in Leytonstone. ”
— “Police believe he was attacked over his relationship with a married Muslim woman.”
— “Two men are awaiting trial over the assault.”
— “Campaigners believe honour attacks are on the up due to rising fundamentalism in communities around Britain.”
— “Up to 12 people are murdered every year in the name of honour, and police fear a further 500 people are forced into an arranged marriage or attacked.”
— “One of the most high-profile cases was that of Banaz Mahmod who was murdered by members of her own family after falling in love with a man they disapproved of.”
— “The 20-year-old, who had left an arranged marriage and started a relationship with Rhamat Sulemani, 29, was strangled with a bootlace at her home in Surrey in January 2006.”
— “Her father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, and uncle Ari Mahmod, 50, of Mitcham, were later convicted of the killing after the pair decided she must pay ‘the ultimate price’ for bringing shame on them.”
— “Earlier this year, police were issued with new guidance telling them to assume honour crimes have been committed in more circumstances.”
— “Senior officers anticipated that the move would drive up figures as in many cases only limited information is available or a potential victim refuses to help police.”
— “Detective Chief Inspector Gerry Campbell, of the Metropolitan Police, said: ‘The description of this type of crime is misplaced. There is no honour in these crimes.'”
— “Mr Campbell said the Met had improved its intelligence systems to better identify such crimes.”
— “He said: ‘Ten years ago our knowledge was almost absent but we have worked hard and our knowledge has improved substantially.'”
— UPI: Reports of ‘honor’ crimes rise in London

December 10, 2009 – Human Rights Day News Conference

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Press Release

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
Jeffrey Imm,  usa@realcourage.org


Human Rights Day News Conference
December 10, 2009, 12:30 p.m., National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW 13th Floor, Washington, DC
https://www.realcourage.org/news-conference/

Time: 12:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Event Type: News Conference
Sponsored by: Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
Event Location: Zenger Room

Details: Human rights activists discuss importance of religious, racial, ethnic, and gender equality and liberty on “Human Rights Day,” addressing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

Please join us at the National Press Club for a thought-provoking briefing and panel discussion that will address threats to universal human rights from ideologies that seek to deny both human equality and liberty.

The speakers will focus special attention on human rights challenges to women and children. Emphasis will be on increased individual responsibility in defending universal human rights as a shared social priority.

Panelists will include:

* Jeffrey Imm, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.), on women’s and children’s rights, the dual challenge of religious extremism and freedom, the challenges to human liberty by totalitarian ideologies, and growing challenges to racial equality by supremacists
* Dr. Nazir Bhatti, Pakistan Christian Congress, on Pakistan’s blasphemy law, threats, attacks, and killings of Christian religious minorities in Pakistan
* Lisa Tao, Falun Dafa (Falun Gong), on human rights atrocities against the Falun Gong over the past 10 years in Communist China (in Chinese with English Interpreter).

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) has support in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Europe for the mission of renewed focus on national and international policies designed for consistent support of our universal human rights.  The press conference will be a part of other international public outreach events on December 10, Human Rights Day. Jeffrey Imm has spoken at the George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) on the challenge of the ideology of extremism, which was reportedly attended by Fort Hood attack suspect Major Nidal Hasan.

Visit www.realcourage.org.

Contact:
Jeffrey Imm
usa@realcourage.org

December 10, 2009 – R.E.A.L. Europe Human Rights Day Event

On Thursday, December 10, Human Rights Day, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) and Other Human Rights Groups in Europe will hold public awareness events on human rights in Nuremberg, Germany (for more information, email europe@realcourage.org)

—- Nuremberg, Germany — 12:00 – 15:45 Hrs, Chilli’s, Pfannenschmiedsgasse 1.- D90402 – Nürnberg – 15:45 Hrs – Candle light march till Human rights street ( Straße der menschenrechte )

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Speakers will include:

— Jeffrey Imm – via weblink – Responsible for Equality And Liberty – on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and Why It is Essential to Us Today
— Mohammed Yahya, from Damanga, will be speaking on the Human Rights Crisis in Darfur
— Karmen Wynick will be speaking about women’s right violations in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other areas.
— Puneet Madaan will be addressing the oppression of religious minorities
— Thomas P. Gross, From CSI Germany will be speaking about copts in Egypt.
— There will be an address on Sharia finance and its impact on human rights issues.
— Steven Gerson will be addressing the plight of Jewish refugees

Speeches will be held between 12 and 15:30 hrs… from 15:30 to 1600 hrs, the supporters will hold a candle light march until human right street

The following provides an online link to the map

Louisiana: Feb. 22 trial date set for son of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) killing suspect

Louisiana: Feb. 22 trial date set for son of Klan killing suspect — Shane Foster in killing of Cynthia Lynch
— Advertiser reports: “Authorities have said Lynch was recruited by way of the Internet to join a Klan faction led by the elder Foster but that she was shot after saying she wanted to leave the site of a planned initiation.”

Chicago: “Hate Group” Leader Louis Farrakhan: “America’s time is up”

Louis Farrakhan is reported speaking at Chicago’s Mosque Maryam which is the national headquarters for the SPLC-designated “hate group” Nation of Islam (NOI). “Hate group” leader Farrakhan told a standing room only audience in Chicago: “The government already knows that your time to be a slave in America is over!” and that “America has run out of time.”

Farrakhan stated that Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad “met with God… [to]… challenge the government of America, the White people of America and warn them of their inevitable destruction…”  According to the Final Call report, “Farrakhan challenged the Black man and woman to stand up and reclaim their rightful place of rulership.”

Farrakhan concluded that “There is nothing in either (Bible or Holy Qur’an) that teaches integration of the righteous with the wicked.”

The report also stated that “Akbar Muhammad [and Farrakhan associate], a world traveler who has been to 139 countries during his work as international representative of the Nation of Islam, said it is important for the people to know the type of respect and honor Minister Farrakhan receives from prominent leaders within the Muslim world. Regarding the Minister’s message, Akbar Muhammad called it a ‘clear warning’ to those involved in ‘diabolical schemes’ to prevent our rise.”

In 2007, the Nation of Islam’s Akbar Muhammad (aka Larry 4X Prescott) appeared at a Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA) meeting with Siraj Wahhaj, reportedly “to deliver a passionate speech defending convicted cop killer Jamil Alamin.” (Siraj Wahhaj has also been vice president of ISNA, has called for replacement of the U.S. government with an Islamic caliphate, and spoke at the July 4, 2009 ISNA convention in Washington DC.)

According to supporters of Jamil Alamin, MANA’s call for an alliance of “indigenous Muslims in America”  “initiative began almost two years ago when Imam Jamil Al-Amin made a call for the formation of such an alliance.”  In October 2009, when reported Violent Extemism plotter Luqman Ameen Abdullah was killed in a shootout in Michigan, the FBI criminal complaint regarding members of the Masjid Al-Haqq’s role as part of the “The Ummah” was as follows –  “Their primary mission is to establish a separate, sovereign Islamic state (‘The Ummah’) within the borders of the United States, governed by Sharia law. The Ummah is to be ruled over by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rapp Brown, who is currently serving a life sentence in the Florence, Colorado Supermax for shooting two police officers in Georgia.”   MANA’s Ihsan Bagby disputed this FBI report and indicated that while members of “The Ummah” were “anti-government,” they did not promote violence.

The Final Call report on Farrakhan’s speeech in Chicago concludes with demonstrating the power of Farrakhan’s outreach, stating that “Nare Makhan, a Chicago resident who had just returned from Florida early Sunday morning said, ‘There was so much information that was so empowering.’ ‘It was overwhelming. It’s touching in a way. I’ve never owned a Qu’ran, but now I just bought me a Qu’ran and I am going to study it. I just bought everything to catch up as far as what I think is necessary for me to move forward now in life. It’s a serious hour.’ ”

Related Reports:

— “The Nation of Islam” listed as a “black separatist” “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

Fort Hood Attack: ‘Nation of Islam’ Hate Group Leader Louis Farrakhan Discusses Fort Hood Shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan

U.S.: Nation of Islam Hate Group Leader Louis Farrakhan speaks on the Taliban

Farrakhan welcomes Gaddafi

Michigan: Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan will have ‘message for everyone’

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) Reports on Racial Supremacism

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Nation of Islam Hate Group Leader Louis Farrakhan speaks in Memphis on Taliban and other topics (AP Photo/Lance Murphey)
Nation of Islam Hate Group Leader Louis Farrakhan speaks (AP Photo/Lance Murphey)

Turkey: Survey Shows Intolerance Against Non-Muslim Religious Freedom in Turkey

R.E.A.L. reports of multiple media reports on Dr. Ali Carkoglu‘s ISSP-sponsored survey studies of growing intolerance against non-Muslims public meetings or publications in Turkey

— Compass reports: ” More than Half in Turkey Oppose Non-Muslim Religious Meetings”
— “Survey finds nearly 40 percent of population has negative view of Christians.”
— “More than half of the population of Muslim-majority Turkey opposes members of other religions holding meetings or publishing materials to explain their faith, according to a recently issued survey.”
— “Fully 59 percent of those surveyed said non-Muslims either ‘should not’ or ‘absolutely should not’ be allowed to hold open meetings where they can discuss their ideas. Fifty-four percent said non-Muslims either “should not” or “absolutely should not” be allowed to publish literature that describes their faith.
— “The survey also found that almost 40 percent of the population of Turkey said they had ‘very negative’ or ‘negative’ views of Christians. In the random survey, 60 percent of those polled said there is one true religion; over 90 percent of the population of Turkey is Sunni Muslim.”
— “Ali Carkoglu, one of two professors at Sabanci University who conducted the study, said no non-Muslim religious gathering in Turkey is completely ‘risk free.’ ”
— “The report, issued last month, was part of a study commissioned by the International Social Survey Program, a 45-nation academic group that conducts polls and research about social and political issues. The survey quantified how religious the population is in each of its 43-member countries.”
— “Carkoglu, along with Professor Ersin Kalaycioglu, carried out the research in 2008. The completed study with the results of all 43 countries will be released in 2010. The study has been conducted previously three times at roughly 10-year intervals.”
— “This year marked the first time study data has been collected in Turkey. Turkey was the only Muslim-majority population in the study.
— “The survey includes significant nuance. While 42 percent of the population agreed with the statement that religious people should be tolerant, 49 percent of those surveyed said they would either ‘absolutely’ or ‘most likely’ not support a political party that accepted people from another religion. But 20 percent of those surveyed said they had ‘very positive’ or ‘positive’ views of Christians – 13 percent ‘very positive,’ and 7 percent ‘positive.'”

— “New Poll On Religion in Turkey”
—- “Updating his 1999 social survey of Turkey, Sabanci University political scientist Ali Carkoglu along with Ersin Kalaycioglu reported new research findings on religiosity in Turkey under the framework of the International Social Survey Program, or ISSP, which measures religious values from 43 different countries.”

— Hurriyet Daily News: ‘Religion loves tolerance, but is not tolerant’

— 2006 TESEV report — English version of the 2006 report by Carkoglu and Binnaz Toprak, “Religion, Society and Politics in Changing Turkey”

— Hurriyet Editorial: “Professor Carkoglu’s conclusion was a rather sad one. While they agree in principle with the notion of respect to other religions, these people in practice cannot have any tolerance for the ‘members of the other religions’ to express themselves or to publish books.”

— International Social Survey Program (ISSP) Web Site— ISSP Instanbul Policy Center (IPC) – Ali Carkoglu — background
— The Rising Tide of Conservatism in Turkey – by Ali Carkoglu and Ersin Kalaycioglu
— Amazon review

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