Bikya Masr reports:
“The American Coptic Assembly said in a statement last week that the Coptic community in the United States and across the world had sent 4,350 letters to American President Barack Obama in the past week, asking him to take a stand to protect the Copts in Egypt. According to a statement from the religious group, the letters included a list of the problems that the Copts suffer from in Egypt.”
Month: January 2010
Egypt: “In Egypt, Religious Clashes Are Off the Record”
NYT reports on the continuing issues with Copts in Egypt:
— NYT: “In Egypt, Religious Clashes Are Off the Record”
— “A few weeks ago, on the day that Coptic Christians celebrate Christmas Eve, a Muslim gunman opened fire on worshipers as they walked out of church, killing 7, wounding 10 and leading to the worst sectarian violence between Muslims and Christians in Egypt in years. In the days that followed, there were riots and clashes. Stores were wrecked. Homes were burned.”
— “The government responded by sending in heavily armed police officers, banning the news media and insisting that the Jan. 6 attack was retaliation for a rape.”
–“‘There are initial indications connecting this incident to the consequences of accusing a young Christian man of raping a Muslim girl in one of the governorate’s villages,’ the Interior Ministry said after the attack.”
— “The one thing the government would not do was admit the obvious: Egypt had experienced one of the most serious outbreaks of sectarian violence in years. Instead, it said talk of sectarian conflict amounted to sedition.”
— “But the evidence, provided in newspapers, was irrefutable: 14 Muslims arrested, 28 Christians arrested, Christian shops burned, Muslim houses burned.”
West Bank: 2 West Bank mosque arson suspects released to house arrest
West Bank: 2 West Bank mosque arson suspects released to house arrest
— Jerusalem Post reports: “Two men arrested earlier this month in connection with the arson attack on a mosque in the West Bank village of Yassuf were released to house arrest for a duration of 60 days by a Petah Tikva magistrate on Sunday.”
— “The suspects, Zvi Succot and Shlomo Gilbert, have been banned from contacting others, and have had a no-exit ban imposed on them.”
Turkey: Bliss: Turkish hit ducks hot issues of honor killings
Turkey: Bliss: Turkish hit ducks hot issues of honour killings
— Toronto Star: rape victim in film told to be murdered by her family for “shaming her kin”
Jordanian’s Sentence Reduced for “Honor Killing” of Sister
— AFP reports: “Jordanian jailed for sister’s ‘honour killing'”
— “A Jordanian court sentenced a 19-year-old man to 10 years in jail for stabbing his sister to death in order to “cleanse the family honour,” a judicial official said on Friday.”
— “The defendant turned himself in to police after killing his 22-year-old sister last year for many unexplained absences from home, said the official who requested anonymity.”
— “‘The court sentenced the defendant to 15 years in prison for premeditated murder, but reduced the sentence to 10 years after the family dropped any legal claims’ against him, the source said.”
— “‘The defendant killed his sister with knife stabs on April 5, 2009 to cleanse the family honour, because of her many absences from home,’ the official said. ‘He then turned himself over to the police.'”
— “Murder is punishable by death in Jordan but in so-called ‘honour’ cases a court sometimes commutes or reduces sentences, particularly if the victim’s family urges leniency.”
— “Between 15 and 20 women are murdered in honour killings each year in Jordan despite government efforts to fight such crimes.”
Reply To American Renaissance’s Jared Taylor – February 19, 12 Noon, Columbia Heights
Update: American Renaissance’s Jared Taylor has backed down on his “challenge” (and continues to email us with even more excuses) to debate us on human rights, and is apparently unwilling to meet in the public arena. Apparently, Jared Taylor did not expect that we would take him up on his challenge.
We have invited Mr. Taylor and the general public to our outdoor public event at Columbia Heights in Washington DC. The R.E.A.L. public event is on Friday, February 19 at 12 noon.
The American Renaissance conference begins on Saturday February 20; according to the AmRen website, “the program will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m” on Saturday February 20. But American Renaissance’s Jared Taylor states that because there will be hotel registration on Friday night, beginning at 5 PM, he is now unable to speak at 12 noon on February 19, and his other excuse is that “Your event will not be an opportunity to have a proper debate, as you well know.”
Those of us with Responsible for Equality And Liberty have the courage of our convictions, and we demonstrate that courage publicly.
We support our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge white supremacist and “white nationalist” supporters to drop the burden of the hate of supremacism from their hearts, and to rejoin the family of humanity in support of our universal human rights.
Choose Love, Not Hate.
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Mr. Jared Taylor of the American Renaissance organization –
Thank you for taking the time to write to me. R.E.A.L. and our supporters have frequent public events. For example, yesterday I was busy with a Chinese freedom group opposing Communist totalitarian hate. Our organization focuses on numerous threats to our universal human rights, including our promotion of racial harmony and our defiance of racial supremacism. But I wanted to take time to reply to you today.
I believe that you confuse the idea that your freedom of speech to promote “white nationalism,” does not give me the freedom of speech to tell others, including hotels and commercial organizations, what your ideology represents and share what your own website says with others. Our freedoms are not mutually exclusive, however inconvenient that may be for your efforts at planning secret conferences.
You believe that human diversity as a strength should be mocked; this is a point that you made in your VDARE announcement of your planned American Renaissance conference. American Renaissance has a history of articles that belittle the innate intelligence and human dignity of black Americans. These are choices that you and your supporters at American Renaissance have made. These are positions that you publicly espouse and promote. Our rights and our positions also come with consequences. The reason that your events were canceled at the Dulles Marriott and the Washington Dulles Westin have nothing to do with me, and everything to do with you and your American Renaissance’s publicly stated positions. They weren’t assessing what I told them, they were assessing what you and your supporters have told the world. They found your views so hateful that they could not accept your money.
You want to have it both ways. You want to say that you are seeking to promote your ideas with the public, just until companies where you seek to host events find out about the same ideas that you claim you want to promote. In fact, if AmRen had been successful, the hotels you booked conferences at would already know your positions. The truth is you don’t want them to know. The fact is that it is only by concealing the racial supremacist hate that is represented at your conferences that you even have a chance of holding them.
Even now, you are afraid to state where you will move the AmRen 2010 event to. This is because the truth is you really don’t have the courage of your convictions. You claim to seek a public debate even while you doggedly seek to keep your planned location of the AmRen 2010 event a secret. What are you afraid of?
As for Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.), we stand by the courage of our convictions. We have public events and we announce the location to the world. We don’t hide in secret conference rooms, or sulk around with pseudonyms or as you say on your website “nom de guerre.” We don’t fight a war of ideas in the shadows, but we struggle for universal human rights in broad daylight with our own names and in the public.
That is what it means to be responsible for equality and liberty.
Therefore, we have public events, where we announce our location and provide directions. We fear no evil. That too is what it means to be responsible for equality and liberty. In fact, while we have attended and held events at the Press Club, our preference is to have direct contact with the American public. This is why the overwhelming majority of our events have been on the public streets, in Georgetown, at the Lincoln Memorial, at the Capitol, at the Washington Monument, and in street corners and sidewalks around the United States and in Europe.
One of those public events will be held on the street at 1355 Kenyon Street, NW, Washington DC on February 19 at 12 noon, at a park area on the corner of 14th Street NW, Park Avenue NW, and Kenyon Street NW. It is a few blocks away from the Columbia Heights metro stop. I have provided you with our public notice on this to the world below. R.E.A.L. will be addressing the challenge of racial supremacism and why we must choose love, not hate. We will also be urging the public to protest your American Renaissance conference. The public is invited to participate in all of our public events.
So if you have something that you want to say to the American public, you are welcome to meet me on February 19 at 12 noon at the R.E.A.L. public awareness event below.
In addition, you can be certain we will also have an event on April 4, 2010 (like we did last year) which will likely be at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Steps where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, gave his speech “I Have A Dream.”
While Dr. King had a dream, R.E.A.L. understands that we have a responsibility. That is why we are – Responsible for Equality And Liberty.
Choose Love, Not Hate. Love Wins.
Yours in Equality and Liberty,
Jeffrey Imm
R.E.A.L DC Public Awareness Event February 19 on Racial Supremacist Hate
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) will be holding a public awareness event on February 19 at 12 Noon on the challenge of racial supremacist hate, and the upcoming “white nationalist hate group” American Renaissance conference.
Our goal will be to provide a street forum in Washington DC where the public can be made aware of the ideologies to be presented at the American Renaissance conference, still planned for somewhere in the Washington DC area on February 20 and 21. We will invite participation from the public in this public forum.
We will urge the public to protest the planned American Renaissance conference scheduled for the DC area, and urge the public to choose love, not hate.
After having the American Renaissance conference canceled at the Dulles Marriott and then again at the Washington Dulles Westin hotels, the Nazi “white nationalist” website Stormfront is reporting that American Renaissance leader Jared Taylor will reveal the secret location that the event is being moved to “48 hours before the conference.”
“Nazi” leader Don Black has been promoting the American Renaissance conference on his Stormfront web site. His Stormfront members have been eulogizing white supremacist Nazi terrorist James Von Brunn who attacked the DC area U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2009, calling for people to “hate with violent passion,” and praising Von Brunn as a “martyr.” R.E.A.L. objects to hate, and we urge our fellow human beings to choose love, not hate.
We support our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge white supremacist and “white nationalist” supporters to drop the burden of the hate of supremacism from their hearts, and to rejoin the family of humanity in support of our universal human rights.
Choose Love, Not Hate.
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Public Awareness Event Logistics and Details:
The R.E.A.L. public awareness event will be scheduled for:
— Date: Friday, February 19
— Time: 12 Noon
— Location: Public Park area at 1355 Kenyon Street NW, Washington DC
— Near the Intersection of 14th Street NW and Park Avenue NW and the Intersection of 14th Street NW and Kenyon Street NW, across the street from the PNC Bank and the Gala Hispanic Tivoli theater
— Subway Stop: Columbia Heights (Yellow / Green Line) — see WMATA Subway Map
— as this site is very close to the Columbia Heights Metro Stop, we would urge you to use the Metro — the WMATA trip planner indicates that it is 20 minutes from Metro Center to the Columbia Heights metro stop (always check for service disruptions before using the WMATA)
We have submitted our Assembly Plan Notification to the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department, and as always, we will closely coordinate our event with the DC police.
Walking Directions from COLUMBIA HEIGHTS METRO STATION to KENYON ST NW
1. Exit station using main exit
2. Walk approx. 1 block N on 14th St NW.
3. Turn sharp right on Kenyon St NW.
4. Walk approx. 1 block SE on Kenyon St NW.
Logistical Resources:
— Google Map of 14th Street NW and Kenyon Street NW
— Columbia Heights Metro Station Details (WMATA)
— Walking Directions from Columbia Heights to Kenyon Street NW
— Image of Nearby Intersection of 14th Street NW and Park Avenue NW
— Image of Nearby Intersection of 14th Street NW and Kenyon Street NW
— Columbia Heights Metro (Google Maps)
— Columbia Heights Metro (Wikipedia)
Additional Research Resources:
— R.E.A.L. Postings on American Renaissance
— R.E.A.L. Postings on Racial Supremacism
Nazi Stormfront Group Promotes Washington DC Area “White Nationalist” Conference
The “Nazi” and “white nationalist” Stormfront hate organization is actively promoting the February “American Renaissance” conference, still scheduled for the Washington DC area for the weekend of February 20 and 21. The Stormfront leader Don Black has attended previous American Renaissance national biannual conferences in the Washington DC area in 2006 and in 2008.
The UK Mirror reported that BNP leader Nick Griffin met with “former KKK chief and American Nazi Party thug Stephen ‘Don’ Black at racist conferences in the US,” including the 2006 American Renaissance conference. Nick Griffin, who has called the Holocaust the “Holohoax,” is a featured speaker at the 2010 American Renaissance conference in the Washington DC area.
The Stormfront organization has recently posted messages from its members eulogizing the death of white supremacist Nazi terrorist James Von Brunn who attacked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC in June 2009. Stormfront members have called for others to “hate with violent passion,” have described terrorist Von Brunn as a “martyr,” and have praised the way Von Brunn “gave his life” in his terrorist attack on the Washington DC museum.
Stormfront is on the list of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) hate organizations.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) describes Don Black and Stormfront as follows:
“Stephen Donald ‘Don’ Black is one of the most influential white supremacists in the United States, due to his role as the founder and operator of Stormfront, the most popular on-line meeting place for white supremacists around the world, and for his appearances and speeches at racist and anti-Semitic gatherings. A former Grand Dragon in the Ku Klux Klan, Black now devotes most of his time to running Stormfront out of his home in West Palm Beach, Florida.”
“Black espouses a racist and anti-Semitic ideology. His idea of ‘White Pride World Wide,’ a slogan that appears on the Stormfront Web site, involves demeaning and demonizing Jews and non-whites, while his concept of “victory” for whites includes the creation of ethnically cleansed living spaces. Black claims that blacks and non-white immigrants are increasing in numbers and committing crimes, thereby depriving whites of their majority and power in society. In addition to demonizing blacks and immigrants, Black targets Jews as the cause of societal ills.”
The Stormfront organization’s leadership is now actively promoting the “white nationalist hate group” American Renaissance conference planned for a location in the Washington DC area on the Stormfront web site, seeking to get additional members to come to the event.
One problem for the Stormfront members is that they don’t know where the American Renaissance conference in February is going to be held.
As a result of Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) alerting local area hotels to the background of hate associated with the American Renaissance, both the Dulles Marriott and the Washington Dulles Westin have canceled efforts by the American Renaissance “white nationalist hate group” to hold their event at these locations.
The Stormfront organization is reporting that the American Renaissance is planning to hold their event in a secret location that will be revealed 48 hours prior to the event. Instead of recognizing that those committed to our universal human rights and dignity reject hate ideologies, Stormfront members have blamed R.E.A.L. for the cancellations. They have made their threats on their website with smiley faces with machine guns. (We find such juvenile behavior to be pathetic.)
We fear no evil.
We support our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge Nazi, white supremacist, and “white nationalist” supporters to drop the burden of the hate of supremacism from their hearts, and to rejoin the family of humanity in support of our universal human rights.
Choose love, not hate.
Resources and Other Reports:
1. Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) Reports on Stormfront
— Stormfront: Nazis Eulogize Terrorist Von Brunn, Praise His Actions, Call for Hate
— White Supremacist Terrorist Von Brunn Dies – Attacked U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Murdered Guard
— Pittsburgh Police Shooting Suspect Member of StormFront White Supremacist Neo-Nazi Web Site
— Pittsburgh: More on Poplawki’s Links to White Supremacist Nazi StormFront
— Illinois: White supremacists to rally in Illinois town over bus attack
— Tennessee: White Supremacist Terrorist Pleads Guilty – Mass Murder Terror Plot – Paul Schlesselman
— White Supremacist Organization Event Planned for Florida
2. Related R.E.A.L. Reports
— Virginia: “White Nationalist” Hate Group to Meet in Dulles Area – February 19 through 21
— R.E.A.L. reports on American Renaissance
— R.E.A.L. reports on Racial Supremacism
— 900 Reasons to Defy Racial Supremacism – But You Only Need One – by Jeffrey Imm
— Why It is “Right” to Reject Racism
— What to Do About Racial Supremacism – LOVE WINS – by Jeffrey Imm
— We Have A Responsibility – by Jeffrey Imm
— August 28 – Call for End to Racial Hate and Division at Robert E. Lee Memorial
— August 28: R.E.A.L. Event Challenging Racial Supremacism – Robert E. Lee Memorial “Arlington House”
3. Other Reports
— Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Extremism
— ADL on Don Black / Stormfront
— Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Intelligence Project
— SPLC – September 2005: Stormfront grows a thriving neo-Nazi community
— SPLC Listing of White Nationalist Hate Groups
— AgainstNazi.com – founded in 2004
Chicago: White Nationalist Hate Groups to Meet on January 31 to Recruit Members
On Sunday, January 31, 2010, the Chicago chapter of the “white nationalist hate group” American Renaissance is scheduled to meet with another “white nationalist hate group” in the Chicago suburb of Hillside, Illinois.
The “white nationalist” group American Renaissance is on the list of “hate groups” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and is described as “white supremacist” by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). It has been tracked by law enforcement agencies.
The national “white nationalist” American Renaissance group’s conferences draw Holocaust Deniers, leaders of the Neo-Nazi Stormfront organization, and other white supremacists. American Renaissance is planning to hold a conference at an undisclosed location in the Washington DC area on February 19 through 21, 2010; the location of its planned DC area conference is being kept a secret by the organization, as the last two hotels that it was scheduled to appear at, the Dulles Westin canceled their event and the Dulles Marriott canceled their event, after learning of what the American Renaissance / New Century Foundation group was.
For its national conference, the American Renaissance is planning to have a featured speaker that has called the Holocaust as the “Holohoax.” The Neo-Nazi Stormfront organization planning to attend this years national American Renaissance conference has had recent postings on its web site by members praising the terrorist actions by James Von Brunn who attacked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2009, and killed security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns.
This same American Renaissance (AR) group has sought to create local chapters around the country, including in the Chicago area, an idea promoted by AR supporter and Chicago attorney “K. Reilly Smith.” Based on meetings from the national conference, Smith is promoting the success of the Chicago American Renaissance group as an example for other “white nationalists” to create their own local groups.
This Chicago chapter of the American Renaissance (AR) is planning to meet on Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 2 PM at a Hillside, Illinois restaurant, with another group, the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC).
The ADL reports that the ideology of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC) is “White supremacy, white separatism” that has been “established by former activists in the segregationist White Citizens’ Councils.” The ADL reports that the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC) has been linked to former KKK leader David Duke and “white nationalist” Jared Taylor.
Along with the Chicago chapter of the “American Renaissance,” the Chicago CofCC is also on the list of “white nationalist hate groups” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) urges those who support equality, liberty, and human dignity, to contact the establishment that is hosting the Chicago suburban American Renaissance event in Hillside, Illinois, and let them know the white supremacist hate that is represented by this group.
The “Chicagoland American Renaissance” is holding its “white nationalist” group meeting on Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 2 PM Central Time at:
“The Epicurean” Hungarian Restaurant
4431 W. Roosevelt Road, Hillside, IL 60162
Telephone: 708-449-1000 or Toll free: 866-223-4693 Fax: 708-449-0907
E-mail: info@thehungarianrestaurant.com
Web site: http://www.TheHungarianRestaurant.com
The group is meeting as the “AR group” at the “The Epicurean” Hungarian Restaurant in Hillside, IL.
On Friday, January 29, R.E.A.L. contacted restaurant manager Lina Bozse and The Epicurean by fax, email, and telephone. We invited The Epicurean to provide their comment and position to include in this posting by Saturday, January 30. We have not heard back from The Epicurean, and if we do, we will update this posting.
Aside from being a restaurant, The Epicurean also has two meeting rooms that it rents out. On January 29, Lina Bozse indicated to R.E.A.L. that neither of these rooms were rented to “American Renaissance,” the “AR Group,” or any of the names it typically uses. This would suggest that there is either going to be a small turnout for this Chicago American Renaissance event or they will rent their rooms at the last moment.
We urge the public and the press to protest those who believe that spreading white supremacist hate is the answer to our nation’s problems, and to ask those that do support the Chicago “white nationalist hate groups” to drop the burden of hate from their hearts.
Choose love, not hate. Love Wins.
Malaysia charges three over Allah row church fires
— BBC reports: “Prosecutors in Malaysia have charged three Muslim men with firebombing a church in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, earlier this month.”
— “They are the first suspects to appear in court in connection with a series of attacks on Christian places of worship.”
— The violence began when a High Court judge ruled that a Roman Catholic newspaper had the right to use the word Allah to refer to the Christian God.”
— “Up to 11 Christian churches have been attacked in the past three weeks.”
— “The men pleaded not guilty and were released on bail.”
