— the Virginia-headquartered, white nationalist hate group Occidental Dissent today called for taking away the rights of women to vote in America in a report “Why Voting Should Be Male Only” — the white nationalist Occidental Dissent group argues that “unlimited democracy with universal suffrage is a terrible idea, and largely responsible for the problems we face”
— the white nationalist group concludes that “regardless of the other failings of society, any state constructed in the future must restrict the vote to men only. A failure to do this will result in disaster.”
— see also screen shots of the Occidental Dissent white nationalist group calling for taking away women’s suffrage: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Both the Occidental Dissent and VDARE have been supporters of the “white nationalist hate group” American Renaissance (AmRen) to hold events in the Washington DC area; Alternative Right has also interviewed AmRen’s Jared Taylor to defend his views on “white nationalism.”
We urge all those who promote racial hate or misogyny to support our universal human rights. Choose Love, Not Hate. Love Wins.
Louisiana: May 3 is latest trial date in Ku Klux Klan (KKK) killing
— AP reports: “The latest trial date for the man charged with second-degree murder in the death of a would-be Ku Klux Klan recruit is May 3, according to the district attorney’s office in St. Tammany Parish.”
— “Raymond Foster of Washington Parish is the suspect in the November 2008 shooting death of Cynthia Lynch of Oklahoma.”
White Woman Cynthia Lynch, 43, Murdered for Deciding Not to Join Ku Klux Klan (Photo: AP)
AP reports: “Ohio Christian convert fights to stay in US”
— AP reports: “A teenage girl who converted to Christianity and ran away from home is being blocked by her Muslim parents from fighting the possibility of deportation, her attorney told a judge Monday in an ongoing custody dispute.”
— “Rifqa Bary, 17, who fled home last year and stayed with a Florida minister whom she met on Facebook, is an illegal immigrant and does not want to be returned to her native Sri Lanka because she fears being harmed or killed by Muslim extremists.”
— “Her attorney, Angela Lloyd, asked a judge to sign an order stating that reunification with her parents is not possible by her 18th birthday in August.”
— “The order would allow Bary, who is in foster care, to apply for special immigration status without her parents’ consent.”
— “Omar Tarazi, an attorney for the parents, objected, telling the judge that he had been unaware of this latest maneuver by Bary’s attorney to apply to an immigration court. He said the parents previously filed an immigration application for the whole family.”
— “Franklin County Juvenile Court Judge Elizabeth Gill declined to issue the order without first holding a hearing next month. She also declined to remove a gag order that prevents attorneys from discussing the case publicly.”
— “Bary and her parents, Mohamed and Aysha Bary, have agreed to follow a counseling plan drawn up by a county child welfare agency to try to resolve the family’s conflict. It requires both sides to work with individual counselors and to try to attend join counseling.”
— “But a face-to-face meeting remains unlikely any time soon.”
— “Jim Zorn, a children’s services attorney, told the judge that Bary continues to believe that a reconciliation with her parents is impossible. Bary’s counselor has indicated that contact with her parents would be premature, he said.”
Rifqa Bary, 17 - reports say she is threatened with death by her family in Ohio for converting from Islam to Christianity
Court won’t give Saudi citizen new trial — Homaidan Ali Al-Turki
— AP reports that Saudi Arabian citizen Homaidan Ali Al-Turki appeal to Supreme Court rejected; Al-Turki blamed anti-Muslim sentiment for his conviction
— AP: “He was convicted of false imprisonment, conspiracy, criminal extortion, theft and unlawful sexual contact.”
— “Al-Turki was convicted of sexually abusing his Indonesian housekeeper and paying her less than $2 per day.”
— “He complained that he wasn’t allowed to question a potential juror about potential anti-Muslim sentiment.”
On April 4, 1968 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered – he was the ultimate individual “responsible for equality and liberty,” who gave his life for his nation, and for freedom itself.
On this day, April 4 – we ask all Americans, and all freedom loving people around the world – to take a moment – and say a prayer of thanks for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and imagine where our world would be today, without his love for all of us, and his courage to be responsible for equality and liberty.
The media has reported on the murder of “notorious white supremacist” Eugune Terre’Blanche, who was murdered apparently over a dispute over backwages owed by him to employees. AP is reporting (according to the mother of one of the suspects) that Terre’Blanche threatened one of his killers. Eugene Terre’Blanche was a leader of the pro-apartheid Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging party (Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or AWB), whose members had previously been convicted under the South Africa Terrorism Act. At one point, AWB sought to declare war on South Africa if it ended apartheid. Terre’Blanche also did prison time for “nearly beating a black man to death.” The AWB reportedly used “neo-Nazi anthems” and was “swastika-like symbols,” and was a major promoting of “hard-line apartheid” ideology. Terre’Blanche reported praised Adolf Hitler. The AWB reportedly has vowed “revenge” for the Terre’Blanche killing. See media reports below.
Guardian reports: “White supremacist Eugene Terre’Blanche is hacked to death after row with farmworkers”
— “A notorious white supremacist who once threatened to wage war rather than allow black rule in South Africa was hacked to death at his farm yesterday following an argument with two employees. Eugene Terre’Blanche’s mutilated body was found on his bed along with a broad-blade knife and a wooden club, police said.”
— “‘He was hacked to death while he was taking a nap,’ one family friend, who did not wish to be named, told Reuters.”
— “Local media quoted a member of Terre’Blanche’s Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging party (Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or AWB) as saying that the 69-year-old had been beaten with pipes and machetes. Police said two males, thought to be workers on the farm, have been arrested and will appear in court on Tuesday.”
— “Terre’Blanche, with striking blue eyes and white beard, was the voice of hardline opposition to the end of racial apartheid in the early 1990s, and the AWB was infamous for its swastika-like symbols and neo-Nazi anthems. But he had been in relative obscurity since his release in 2004 after a prison sentence for beating a black man nearly to death”.
— “Last year he attempted a comeback, announcing plans to rally far-right groups and to apply to the United Nations for a breakaway Afrikaner republic.”
— “His death comes amid heightened racial tension in South Africa, where Julius Malema, leader of the youth wing of the governing African National Congress, has caused anger by singing a struggle song with the words, ‘Shoot the Boer’. Terre’Blanche called himself a Boer, which means farmer in Afrikaans.”
— “Civil rights groups say that 3,000 white farmers have been killed since the end of apartheid and accuse Malema of inciting further violence against them. Last week a high court banned Malema from repeating the lyric but he did so yesterday during a visit to Zimbabwe.”
— “Police in South Africa’s North West province said last night that Terre’Blanche had been attacked and killed at his farm 10km outside Ventersdorp. Captain Adele Myburgh said Terre’Blanche was attacked by a man and a minor who worked for him after they allegedly had an argument about unpaid wages at around 6pm, the South African Press Association reported.”
— AP reports white supremacist threatened worker — AP reports: “When they asked for their money, Terreblanche told them to first make sure that all his cattle had been brought in from pasture and counted. When they did that, Terreblanche still refused to pay them.”
— “‘He (Terreblanche) said ‘I will kill you and throw you to hell,” the mother said, speaking in Tswana, repeating what she was told by her son.”
— “Angry white supremacists mourn S.Africa leader”
— Reuters: “Terre’blanche’s Afrikaner Resistance Movement, marginalised since his failed struggle to preserve apartheid in the 1990s, has vowed to avenge a death it blames on sentiment whipped up by the leader of the ruling ANC’s youth league.”
— The Guardian reports that the AWB organization was reported to be involved in killings of their own, and Terre’Blache and other AWB members have previously been convicted under the South Africa Terrorism Act.
Eugene Terre'Blanche in Ventersdorp, South Africa, in 1995. (Photograph: John Moore/AP)
— Daily Telegraph: “Asked about his attitude to Hitler, Terreblanche praised the dictator as a clever statesman, who led his country out of the depression of the Thirties and transformed the Germans into a fighting people.
Eugene Terreblanche at an AWB meeting in South Africa in the 1980s. Photo: Sipa Press / Rex Features
Guardian: "Eugene Terre’Blanche waves to his supporters after he was released from prison in Potchefstroom in June 2004 after he had served part of a five-year sentence for the attempted murder of a black security guard." (Photograph: Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images)
R.E.A.L Comment: It is deeply disturbing to see people who are victimized for generations become victimizers themselves – but we need to remember that is what is happening in South Africa in some cases. Yes there are atrocities against whites in South Africa and that is deplorable and wrong. But in this particular report, thus far it appears that White Supremacist Eugene Terre’Blanche was simply the victim of a crime over money.
Let’s also be clear that blacks in South Africa have suffered generations of violent oppression under whites there through apartheid. We all know that. We all know what apartheid means and the long history of violent hate that it represented to black South Africans.
We support our unqualified, universal human rights.
We urge people of all race and ethnicity to Choose Love, Not Hate. Love Wins.
Daily Mail reports: “Police clash with right-wing demonstrators during protest against plans for new mosque”
— “Violent clashes broke out between riot police and right-wing protesters today during a demonstration against plans for a new mosque.”
— “About 2,000 members of the English Defence League descended on Dudley town centre in the West Midlands to demonstrate at plans for a new mosque.”
— “Some of the protesters broke out of a pen in a car park, breaking down metal fences and throwing the metal brackets at officers, who were armed with riot shields and batons.”
— “Members of the demonstration started fighting their own stewards who were trying to calm them down as they attacked the fences penning them in.”
— “The EDL had put signs up which read ‘Labour forcing mosques on Britain’ and ‘No one wants this mosque’.”
— “Some demonstrators held placards reading ‘Muslim bombers off our streets’ and ‘Say no to the mosque’.”
— “The national anthem was played on a speaker system while demonstrators waved the flag of St George.”
— “Dudley Council said in a statement on its website: ‘We didn’t invite the EDL to our town and we don’t want them here.'”
— “But the council said it did not have the power to ban the event.”
— “It said: ‘The council has worked closely with the police to do all it can to protect and support local people, traders, businesses and the town centre.”
— “‘The EDL is proposing a static protest (rather than a march) and there is no legal requirement for an organiser of such a protest to notify the police or the council of their definite plans.”
— “‘West Midlands Police is committed to facilitating lawful and peaceful protests, while supporting and protecting all communities.'”
— “The mosque is planned for Hall Street with details on the design and positioning of the building due for submission by July 2011.”
— “In July last year the council lost a high court challenge to prevent the planning application being given the go ahead.”
— “The EDL protesters managed to break out of the car park by pulling down fences and barging their way past riot police officers.”
— “About half the group then ran off through the town.”
— “Lines of riot police officers fought running battles with protesters as they tried to contain the mob who pulled down barriers blocking off roads.”
— “Nick Mainwood, 42, from Oldbury, West Midlands, said he tried to help an elderly woman who suffered a panic attack during the protest.”
— “He said: ‘I came down here for a peaceful protest but it was horrible, absolutely horrible.'”
— “Patricia Taylor, 61, said she was trying to get home after a day out shopping with her 19-month old grandson, Ashley.”
— “‘We’ve been trying to get home since dinner time and the police have told us to go one way and then another but it is all blocked. It’s terrifying with the little one and we just want to get home.'”
— “Unite Against Fascism (UAF) held a peaceful protest in the town earlier today in an area which could not be seen from the rival demonstration.”
Clashes: English Defence League protesters break through barriers during a demonstration through the streets of Dudley (Photo: Daily Mail/PA Wire - David Jones)
Press release from group “Set My People Free to Worship Me”
SET MY PEOPLE FREE TO WORSHIP ME
Presents human rights request to the Arab League
Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, April 3, 2010 – Set My People Free to Worship Me, a new network of individuals, churches and organizations working for the freedom of religious converts to live and practice their faith, to experience equality and justice in their home countries presented a letter addressed to Dr. Amer Musa the General Secretary of the Arab League office on Saturday (Easter Eve) April 3, 2010 at 12 noon in Cairo.
Founder and Leader, Kamal Fahmi said, “Set My People Free to Worship Me would like to request that the Arab League consider giving absolute freedom for all Muslims in the Arab World to choose their belief or religion, to stop all forms of discrimination against all minorities and to protect the freedom of individuals and groups to worship and proclaim their beliefs.”
“We appeal to the Arab League to consider the requests outlined in the petition letter. We are dismayed that religious liberty is curtailed in most countries in the Arab World and would like to appeal for justice, equality and mercy,” said Kamal Fahmi.
“Our plan to hold simultaneous marches in a number of cities has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. We hope to have a simple protest in England and Australia on May 22, 2010. We apologise for any inconvenience caused,” said Kamal Fahmi regretfully. “We want to invite individuals, churches, religious bodies and NGOs to participate in these justice and peace protest in England and Australia.”
Kamal draws inspiration from the involvement of Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement. He believes strongly in religious liberty with the onslaught of religious persecution worldwide, “We call on the Arab League to respond to setting things right as Edmund Burke says, ‘For evil men to triumph, it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.’ ”
Kamal Fahmi brings a strong background in non-governmental organization development. Fahmi has spent over 20 years working in the Middle East and Africa in Christian based organizations. He has also been involved in advocating on human rights issues throughout the years.
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Indonesian Extremists in Bogor Disrupt Otherwise Peaceful Good Friday
— 1,000 Christians had to pray in restaurant after church services disrupted
— Jakarta Globe: “‘Some 200 young people came to our makeshift chapel and asked us to stop our prayers, which actually were already done. We were terrified, but after they negotiated with our church leaders, the group agreed to move their protest to the Parung district office,’ Gabriel said.”
— “To ensure the safety of the congregation, the church leaders decided to move the Good Friday service to a building owned by the local education office, but a miscommunication forced them to move the venue again to a restaurant owned by a church member.”
