Year: 2009

Challenge Group That Says Not to Talk About Freedom

We believe that speaking about freedom and liberty is both the right and responsibility of every human being.  We believe that every human being has the inalienable and universal human rights of equality and liberty.

Not everyone has the same view – we need to challenge those who state that we should be silent on freedom, on liberty, and on equality.

Christian Science Monitor publishes commentary by Chris Seiple:
— “10 terms not to use with Muslims”
— says terms like “Religious Freedom,” “Tolerance,” “Freedom,” among others “not to [be] used”
— says freedom “is best understood in a conversation with the local context and, in particular, with the Muslims who live there”
— says “American foreign policy is only worried about the freedom of Protestant evangelicals to proselytize and convert, disrupting the local culture and indigenous Christians”
— “Chris Seiple is the president of the Institute for Global Engagement, a “think tank with legs” that promotes sustainable environments for religious freedom worldwide.”
— Plans June 17 event at Georgetown University “co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University”

Last April 2008 – it was also learned that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Civil Rights and Civil Liberties branch had drafted a memorandum stating that we should not be talking about “liberty.”  The DHS January 2008 DHS terror lexicon memorandum states that “[t]he struggle is for progress… The experts we consulted debated the word ‘liberty,’ but rejected it because many around the world would discount the term as a buzzword for American hegemony” (p. 7, paragraph 5).

A Universal Doctrine of Women’s Rights

A Universal Doctrine of Women’s Rights – by Phyllis Chesler and NOW’s Marcia Pappas
“It is time for feminists, both women and men, of all faiths, and of no faith, to stand together for a woman’s right not to be murdered in the name of family honor. Indeed, we welcome men and women of all faiths, including Islam, to stand with us against female genital mutilation/castration, forced veiling, child marriage, arranged marriage, polygamy, and ‘honorcide,’ and in favor of a woman’s right to live as a westerner in the West without being threatened and beaten for refusing to wear hijab, wanting to have non-Muslim friends, wear makeup, attend college, drive her own car, or end an abusive marriage. Muslim and Sikh women have been honor murdered in North America for all these alleged crimes against their religion and their culture.”

Read it all…

Making Human Rights A Priority

Join our commitment to be responsible for the inalienable human rights of equality and liberty and defy the forces of totalitarianism and supremacism.

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) is a group committed to our inalienable human rights of equality and liberty as defined in America’s Declaration of Independence and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Our goals:
(1) We seek to educate the public about  those totalitarian and supremacist ideologies and organizations that defy such human rights.
(2) We seek to promote public activism in challenging such totalitarian and supremacist ideologies in public gatherings, meetings, and rallies in support of equality and liberty.
(3) We seek to promote action by government leaders and international organizations  in challenging such totalitarian and supremacist ideologies, as part of our responsibility to equality and liberty.
(4) As individuals responsible for equality and liberty, our members agree to oppose all totalitarian and supremacist ideologies, including, but not limited to, Communist totalitarianism, racial supremacism, Aryan Nazi supremacism, and extremism – as well as the war on women.

For more information on how you can help, email us at realpublic@earthlink.net

India: Arrests in “honor killing” murder of 16 year old Muslim girl

(India) Arrests in “honor killing” murder of 16 year old Muslim girl
— “They have confirmed the claims of other accused Asim and Arif that Imrana’s father had asked them to straighten his daughter as one Irfan used to visit her frequently.”
— original reports
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Villagers-burn-girl-alive-in.5103494.jp
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Lucknow/16-year-old-burnt-in-Gzb-honour-killing/articleshow/4311952.cms

India: Villagers burn 16-year old Muslim girl alive in ‘honour killing’

— for having relationship with a boy…

News report
— “Four residents of her village in Ghaziabad, north India, allegedly set
the 16-year-old Muslim girl alight after they suspected her of having a relationship with a boy.”
— “Police claim residents kept a vigil on her house as they noticed the boy
visited her frequently when her father was away. The four men then beat her, doused her with kerosene and set her on fire.”
— Times of India Report: “The victim had screamed for help for about 20 minutes before neighbours arrived only to find her still smoldering”