Gaza: Red Cross Jeep hit by bomb in Gaza
— Explosion occurs near ICRC convoy in Gaza
Day: February 4, 2010
Uganda: Obama Condemns Anti-Gay Bill in Uganda
Racism Filmmaker Calls for “White Nationalists” to “Fight Back” Against Human Rights Group
Filmmaker Craig Bodeker, who has created the film “A Conversation About Race,” has been contacting Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.), via his Facebook site to criticize R.E.A.L.’s efforts to educate the public regarding the American Renaissance group.
Craig Bodeker has written R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm complaining about R.E.A.L.’s informing Washington DC area hotels about the ideological basis behind the planned “white nationalist” American Renaissance group conference, which hotels have been unaware of as the group has been using their lesser known identity as “New Century Foundation.” We note that the studio managing Craig Bodeker’s film efforts is “New Century Productions LLC.”
Craig Bodeker started the discussion by emailing R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm from Craig Bodeker’s Facebook web page.
In Craig Bodeker’s emails, he claims that R.E.A.L.’s efforts by Jeffrey Imm to educate the DC area on American Renaissance’s “white nationalist” ideology has constituted a “war against white people,” claiming that Jeffrey Imm’s public awareness efforts are “anti-white hatred and bias,” ignoring that Jeffrey Imm is himself a white American.
Craig Bodeker vaguely threatens R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm that:
— ” I’d be surprised if someone didn’t decide to correct your behavior :) ”
— “when someone does declares war on us, it’s OK to fight back. With any and all means”
We are not afraid.
Craig Bodeker also denounces humanity’s universal human rights, referring to them as “the bullsh*t rights that you claim are ‘universal.’ ”
The entire discussion is provided below.
In the email discussions, R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm conveys his concern to Craig Bodeker about American Renaissance’s long history of comments and commentary belittling black Americans, and expresses concern about American Renaissance’s heavy promotion by the Nazi white supremacist Stormfront organization whose members have been linked to terrorism, murder, and have recently praised the terrorist who attacked the DC Holocaust Memorial Museum as a “martyr.”
Jeffrey Imm tells Craig Bodeker that:
“we have no war with any race, religion, or identity group. We simply reject hate and promote love and our universal human rights. Those human rights include our right to protest and our free speech. We have not stifled anyone’s ‘rights to free-association.’ We have simply conveyed to businesses who the identity of the New Century Foundation is and what they stand for – something that both hotel chains told me NCF did not do. That is our right of free speech as well.”
Jeffrey Imm also tells Craig Bodeker that:
“I have no anti-white hatred or bias. Responsible for Equality And Liberty and myself both consistently reject hate. We object to the hate promoted by Von Brunn, we object to the hate promoted by Stormfront, we object to the hate promoted by VDARE, we object to the hate promoted by AR.”
“It is our freedom of speech to reject such hate, just like you too have freedom of speech. Our freedom of speech is not declaring war on any one or any race, certainly not my own race or a war on myself. Our goal is to reject hate. We urge others to Choose Love, Not Hate.”
In addition, R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm points that R.E.A.L.’s rejection of groups that promote separatist hate are not limited to “white nationalists,” but includes other extremist groups such as Hizb ut-Tahrir. R.E.A.L. rejects supremacist and separatist hate by any supremacist identity group.
Craig Bodeker claims that R.E.A.L. does not define supremacism, but R.E.A.L. certainly has done so many times. We object to supremacist ideologies that view that their identity group has an inherent superiority that denigrates others and that has an inherent political superiority over others. R.E.A.L. also objects to the hate from American Renaissance that belittles the innate intelligence of black Americans and other non-whites, and that blames non-whites for all crime and ills of the world. Such hate is obvious and clear to anyone, except those that seek to legitimize their hate. We reject such hate, and we call for the promotion of racial harmony, respect, and peace.
R.E.A.L.’s rejection of those organizations and ideologies that promote supremacist hate is never a rejection of our fellow human beings. We know that there are no perfect people, and such imperfection is an inherent part of our very humanity. R.E.A.L. urges those who hate is to abandon hate, and choose love. R.E.A.L. does not offer an upraised fist, but offers an outstretched hand to our fellow human beings in defending all of humanity’s universal human rights.
R.E.A.L. urges those that promote hate, to release the burden of hate from their heart.
Choose Love, Not Hate.
Resources:
October 9, 2009 – SPLC: “A Peek Behind the Curtain: Views of a Racist Filmmaker” – by Sonia Scherr
October 8, 2009 – SPLC: “A Slick DVD Defends Racism” – by Sonia Scherr
Craig Bodeker – A Conversation About Race Website
— Associated Facebook Site Promoting Film
Maine: Swastika Vandalism in Jewish Cemetaries
AP reports on Jewish Community Alliance and members upset by Swastika vandalism in Jewish cemeteries in Portland, Maine
California: Firebomb Suspect Pleads Guilty to Attack on Tattoo Parlor, Restaurant
Nathan Augustine pled guilty to targeting a tattoo parlor in California with firebombs, because they refused to do a tattoo of a image of the president with gun cross-hairs on him. The Monterey County Herald reports: “Prosecutors said Augustine targeted the tattoo parlor because employees refused to give him a tattoo of a swastika and of President Barack Obama overlaid with crosshairs, and the restaurant because a black assistant manager turned him down for a job.”
Turkey: Girl Buried Alive in “Honor Killing” for Befriending Boys
— Hurriyet: “Girl buried alive in honor killing in Turkey”
— Hurriyet reports “A 16-year-old girl was buried alive by relatives in southeastern Turkey in a gruesome honor killing carried out because she reportedly befriended boys, the Anatolia news agency reported Thursday.”
— “Acting on a tip, police discovered the body of the girl, identified only as M.M., in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a 2-meter-deep hole dug under a chicken pen outside her house in Kahta, a town in the southeastern province of Adıyaman, the news agency reported.”
— “The body was found in December, around 40 days after M.M. went missing. She is being identified by her initials because she was under the age of 18. Her father and grandfather are suspected in the murder.”
— “A subsequent postmortem examination revealed that M.M. had a significant amount of soil in her lungs and stomach, indicating that she was buried alive and conscious, forensic experts told the news agency. ‘The autopsy result is blood-curdling. According to our findings, the girl – who had no bruises on her body and no sign of narcotics or poison in her blood – was alive and fully conscious when she was buried,’ one anonymous expert said.”
— “The girl’s father and grandfather have been formally arrested and jailed pending trial over her killing, according to the agency. The father is reported to have said in his testimony that the family was unhappy that M.M. had male friends.”
— “The girl was reported as missing and no clues about her disappearance were found for 40 days. Her mother was arrested along with the father, Ayhan, and grandfather, Memi, but later released. The two men were sent to prison by a local court and did not speak in the court.”
— “Police had found the body of the girl using an anonymous tip saying that M.M. had been killed based on a decision by a family council and buried under the chicken pen, daily Milliyet reported. The family has nine children, including the girl, and was reported to have told neighbors that she was missing. The girl had made a complaint to police about her grandfather two months before she went missing, saying that he beat her because she talked to boys.'”
— see also R.E.A.L. postings:
Turkey: Bliss: Turkish hit ducks hot issues of honor killings
Turkey: Mysterious deaths could be honor killings, says report
Turkey: Lawyers: Abused Turkish woman in hiding — Nahide Opuz
Turkey: More reports of “honor killings” in Turkey
Europe: Number of “Honor Killings’ in Europe Higher Than Thought
Turkey: Top court lenient on ‘honor killing’
Turkey — Extremists Criticize “Feminist” Reporting on So-Called “Honor Killings”
The dirty secret of Turkey’s honour killings
Turkey: Poll — Over a Quarter Support “Honor Killings”
Canada: Preliminary Hearing in Death of Teenage Girls Described by Police as “Honor Killing”
Report on preliminary hearing in death of three teenage girls described by police as “Honor Killing” — Zainab, Sahari and Geeti Shafia
— “A preliminary hearing began on Tuesday in the case of three Montrealers charged in the deaths of four family members.”
— “Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and their son Hamed Shafia were transported under police escort from the Quinte Detention Centre in Kingston, Ontario to the Kingston Courthouse.”
— “The three are accused of killing the couple’s three teenaged daughters — Zainab, Sahari and Geeti — and Shafia’s 50-year-old first wife, Rona Amir Mohammad.”
— “Their bodies were found June 30 in a car submerged in a lock on the Rideau Canal.”
— “The family members were later charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.”
— “Details of testimony under publication ban”
— “After swearing in translators for the three accused — who speak an Afghan dialect of Farsi — the crown questioned a Kingston police identification officer about 159 photos taken at various locations in Montreal and the Kingston area.”
— “At one point in the testimony, at least one of the parents sobbed quietly. Though police investigated claims the deaths were so-called honour killings, the crown has yet to spell out any motive or cause of deaths.”
— “In the afternoon, the court heard from a police officer who interrogated Tooba Mohammad Yahya in Farsi, but the details of that and other testimony are under a publication ban.”
— “The mother is the only one of the three accused who had not conceded that there was enough evidence to go to trial.”
— “The defence lawyers said they had not yet received all the evidence but were allowing the preliminary hearing to continue.”
— “The hearing is expected to last at least one month.”
— July 31, 2009 – National Post: “Kingston canal victim made several attempts to marry: report”
— July 28, 2009 – Montreal Gazette: A timeline of the Kingston canal deaths
— July 24, 2009 – Globe & Mail: Car landed in canal via unlikely route – excerpt – image
Globe & Mail: Police are left to sort through a myriad of theories, each with glaring problems and unlikely probabilities.
“We’re still trying to ascertain the why, the why, the why,” said Constable Menor, a 20-year veteran of the force. “It’s the unknowns. I can’t recall anything like it. It was there for a reason, it didn’t drop out of the sky.” …With picnic tables along the canal shore, the tourists from Montreal may have stopped for a moment before the plunge. But 3 a.m. would be an unusual time for a picnic in the secluded spot.
Perhaps the driver didn’t know the canal was there, or perhaps she didn’t care. Police have not excluded a suicide pact, murder-suicide or something as simple as the bad luck of a misguided U-turn or mistaking “drive” for “reverse.”
Another possibility is that the passengers were already dead and someone else pushed the Nissan into the canal, with the four females inside.
— July 23, 2009 – Canada: “Honor Killing” Investigated in Death of Three Montreal Sisters
— Montreal Gazette: — “Zainab Shafia, 19, and her two sisters Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, were found dead inside a car submerged in three feet of water northeast of Kingston on June 30. Rona Amir Mohammed, 52, was also found dead in the car.”
— July 23, 2009 – CTV: “Father, Mother, Brother charged with killing members of their own family”
— July 23, 2009 – Kingston Police News Conference
Germany: Demjanjuk Loses Bid to Halt Nazi Death Camp Trial
Germany: Demjanjuk Loses Bid to Halt Nazi Death Camp Trial
— Bloomberg reports: “A Munich court rejected requests by John Demjanjuk’s lawyers to halt a trial over charges that he aided in the murder of 27,900 Jews during World War II.”
— “The court threw out a motion claiming Demjanjuk isn’t healthy enough to endure the two daily sessions of hearings scheduled during the trial. The defense wrongly claims its client is degraded into a ‘mere object of the proceedings,’ Presiding Judge Ralph Alt said when delivering the ruling.”
— “It’s Demjanjuk’s ‘own decision not to address the court and to not even deign to look at it — contrary to his behavior outside of the courtroom,’ Alt said. The court respects his habit ‘but it cannot infer from it that he can’t stand trial or that the case must be dropped for any other reason.'”
Serbian neo-Nazi leader arrested in Germany
Serbian neo-Nazi leader arrested in Germany
— Goran Davidovic arrested for inciting hatred near the Austrian border
Russia: Neo-Nazi “Warriors of White Revolution” group says it killed Ghanaian man
Russia: Neo-Nazi group says it killed Ghanaian man
— UPI reports on Nazi group claims and video of murder of Ghanian man
— UPI states: “Neo-Nazi groups killed dozens in Russia last year, with one group posting a video on the Internet of the stabbing death of a Ghanaian man.”
— “Britain’s Sky News reported 71 killings by neo-Nazi death squads in 2009, among them the stabbing death of Solomon Attengo Gwa-jio in St. Petersburg.”
— “The group Warriors of the White Revolution claimed responsibility for the Gwa-jio killing and posted a video of the attack in which the victim was stabbed 20 times. No arrests have been made.”
See also:
— January 14, 2010: Newstime Africa – Racism in Russia as Ghanaian Man is Murdered in Cold Blood
— February 2, 2010 – Sky News: “Russian Neo-Nazi Murder Squads Kill 71 In 2009”