— The London Times reports: — “Malaysia has caned three women for having extramarital sex, in a move at odds with the moderate Islamic nation that the Government wants to project to the world.”
— “Announcing the sentence, Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein declined to say who was caned, where the whipping took place and on what part of the body.”
— “One woman was released from prison last week after spending a month behind bars.”
— “Malaysia has increasingly applied Sharia, or Islamic law, to its Muslim citizens, who make up 60 percent of the country’s 28 million people, raising concerns that a more militant brand of Islam is taking hold in a country that prides itself on its multiracial, multireligious image.”
The American Renaissance “white supremacist” “hate group” conference was canceled again on February 17. It had been scheduled to be held at the Capitol Skyline Hotel in Washington DC on February 20 and 21. American Renaissance’s Jared Taylor has stated this will be their “final” cancellation of their planned February 20 and 21, 2010 conference, which has been held bi-annually since 1994. The event had previously been canceled on February 15, and then it was rescheduled again on February 16 at a new venue, which was the Capitol Skyline Hotel.
Along with our public awareness efforts to help educate the DC public as to the identity of “New Century Foundation” as “American Renaissance,”R.E.A.L. had contacted the Capitol Skyline Hotel on February 1. When the American Renaissance event was rescheduled at the Capitol Skyline Hotel on February 16, R.E.A.L. talked with the local hotel manager and once again educated him on the identity of the group. In addition, we offered to provide an alternative counter-message that promotes diversity, equality, and love at the location. We also asked about the hotel’s commitment to diversity, which American Renaissance publicly stated that it sought to ridicule. The local hotel manager stated that he would not comment on these issues, indicating his only focus was on selling rooms.
As with other businesses, we have learned that meaningful discussions on community and public relations issues – the message of respect for human dignity that businesses extend to all of their patrons – requires getting the attention of those who have made a commitment and ownership in their businesses’ brand name. Therefore, R.E.A.L. contacted Rubell Hotels management regarding the planned event by American Renaissance at the Capitol Skyline hotel, as well as the previous “hate group” events held there on February 13 and November 7.
We have learned that many involved with senior management at numerous hotel chains are unaware of “hate group” events being held at individual hotels that they own or manage. For this reason, R.E.A.L. made every effort possible to contact the Rubell Hotels management as soon as we learned of the plans of the national American Renaissance “hate group” to hold their event at the Capitol Skyline. Later, we were informed by Rubell Hotels that the event was canceled. Once again, R.E.A.L. points out that our emphasis was to inform the management on the background of the planned conference, and to ask for an opportunity to provide a counter-message of diversity, hope, and love.
The Rubell Hotels is well-known for the involvement and activity by the Rubell family in its planning and community outreach. Furthermore, we know that leaders in the Rubell family have a commitment to human rights, our shared conscience, and remembering the Holocaust. In March 2009, Jennifer Rubell was an attendee at the Americas Business Council (ABC) Reconciliation forum in Washington DC. Through their internationally recognized art gallery, we know that the Rubell family is also committed very much to freedom of expression. Certainly, in issues simply regarding freedom of expression, such liberties would find no greater advocates than leaders in the Rubell family.
But as we stated in our article “hate, free speech, and American business,” freedom of speech in American businesses serving the public also requires the expectation of our shared trust that our human dignity will also be respected. Hate speech is not tolerated by American businesses by its employees against other employees. The American public also has an expectation from American businesses that hate speech against its other customers will also not be tolerated. Hate hurts all of us, including American businesses serving the public.
Some in the so-called “white nationalist” community which includes the “hate groups” American Renaissance, VDARE, Stormfront, Occidental Dissent, and others have opposed R.E.A.L.’s free speech to challenge “white nationalist” “hate.” We defend our right to free speech in rejecting hate, regardless of the threats against R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm. We recognize that such threats are often used to discourage and intimidate those who challenge ideologies of hate.
We respond, as we always have, with the verse from a famous folk song, “We are not afraid.”
Some have accused us of “lovemongering” to defend our human rights. Our human rights compass is based on our love for our fellow human beings. We reject all threats and hate against our fellow human beings, including threats against those who promote hatred. Those who are misguided by hate are also our fellow human beings. We seek to get those who hate to put such hate behind them, and rejoin us in the consensus of human rights and dignity in our family of humanity. Hate will never stop hate. Hate and threats of violence are always wrong. While we may reject the ideas or ideologies of certain groups, we must not reject them as our fellow human beings, no matter how reprehensible their ideas or actions may be. We must challenge hate with our love for our shared human rights of equality, liberty, and dignity. It is also our responsibility to Choose Love, not Hate.
If we are going to reach the undiscovered country of universal human rights for all, we must make hate our past, never our future.
Over the past year, R.E.A.L. has made it clear that we stand in support of both equality and liberty. That is the very name of our group, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.). We don’t believe that we can be responsible for human equality and allow racial supremacism and racial hate to go unchallenged. We are an all-volunteer organization. Like such volunteer organizations, we have finite resources, and much as we might like, we cannot be everywhere and address every cause. But we have made every effort to address issues of national and even international impact on our fellow human beings. We are not simply a “hate-buster” group, but we offer an alternative of love and hope, based on our larger consensus on our shared universal human rights of equality, liberty, and dignity – for all.
Some have asked us, “why do you care?”
R.E.A.L. exists to answer that question with the answer “because we must care.”
There is no threat against equality, liberty, and human dignity that affects just some of us – of one race, one gender, one ethnicity, one religion. A threat against our universal human rights of equality, liberty, and dignity is not just a threat against one of us – it is a threat against all of us. That is the consensus that we have that we must mobilize to action.
Certainly if a white American like R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm can’t stand up to the ideological threat of white supremacism, who can? Isn’t white supremacism a problem that white Americans are responsible to address? To white Americans, we tell you – this is your identity group, this is YOUR problem. Don’t look to just the victims of white supremacism for the solution. We are all part of the solution by being consistently responsible for our shared equality, liberty, and dignity. Hate hurts us all. Rejecting hate is our shared responsibility.
On April 4, 2009, we reached out to the American public at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool steps, warning about the growing threat of racial supremacism. We stood there, remembering that same day when Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered in 1968, and we prayed for all of us. We especially prayed for those who hate to lift the burden of hate from their hearts.
Two months later, our nation’s capital was under attack by a white supremacist terrorist James Von Brunn, who attacked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10, 2009, and murdered black security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns. Our message then was the same message as it is now – to choose love and reject hate. Other groups have a very different message. The next day, June 11, “white nationalist hate group” VDARE – located in the DC Northern Virginia suburbs, published an article using the attack to condemn plans for new hate crimes legislation. In VDARE Peter Brimelow’s article condemning hate crimes legislation “Holocaust Museum Hullaballoo Reveals ‘Hate Crimes’ Hypocrisy,” Brimelow described Von Brunn as “by all accounts an intelligent man.” R.E.A.L. protested VDARE’s event in McLean, Virginia ten days later, as well as VDARE’s event in Baltimore on Halloween.
Both in Washington DC and around the nation, there have been continuing efforts to promote violent white supremacist terrorism in America. The ideology of white supremacist hate has continued to grow, while too many in the media and in the public have felt either intimidated or unwilling to address such hate.
R.E.A.L. will continue to reject racism and hate. While we may not yet have enough volunteers to challenge it everywhere, we will certainly make every effort to challenge racial “white nationalist hate groups” in our nation’s capital of Washington DC. Groups described by human rights organizations as “white nationalist” or other “hate groups” in the Washington DC area such as American Renaissance, VDARE, and the “American Free Press/Spotlight” group, should know that our commitment to equality means that we will do everything we can to reject ideologies of hate from such groups. New groups that seek to expand a “white nationalist” presence in the Washington DC area, such as the Occidental Dissent, should know we will challenge ideologies of hate promoted here. To those who praise hate and violence on the Stormfront web site, they should know that their efforts to promote events that incite hatred here will not be unnoticed or unchallenged.
Like our businesses, our institutions survive based on trust. On June 10, 2009, Stephen Tyrone Johns died because he was holding the door open for white supremacist terrorist James Von Brunn. The white supremacist terrorist attack on the Washington DC U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was not just an attack on a museum or an institution – it was an attack on our trust for one another. We are not going to let white supremacists wage a war on human trust in our nation or in our nation’s capital. Stephen Tyrone Johns may have been murdered in the white supremacist terrorist attack here in Washington D.C., but he will not die as just another forgotten victim, while the ideology of hate that inspired his death continues to grow unchallenged.
Just like America itself, America’s national capital will continue to reject ideologies of hate.
Stephen Tyrone Johns Will Not Die in Vain (Photo: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Our message has consistently been not only to reject hate, but also to offer an alternative based on our universal human rights. To those who hate their fellow human beings, remember that our universal human rights are also your universal human rights. We challenge hate and we promote human rights, not just for us, but also for you.
We don’t offer you an upraised fist, but an outstretched hand and an invitation to Choose Love, Not Hate.
Pray for and Reach Out to Those Hearts Burdened by Hate - Ask Them to Choose Love, Not Hate
But an American business is not a public street corner.
In virtually every American business, while free speech is respected, so is human dignity and human safety. That is a fundamental expectation of trust that American businesses extend to their customers, no matter what their race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or political views.
In any American business, you expect that the business will have the social conscience to respect your dignity and safety. You don’t expect to have to ask for this. You take it for granted. If you can’t have such basic respect for your human dignity and safety considered by a business, then you don’t do business with them again. You don’t want to be associated with businesses that can’t have that much of a social conscience for its community.
If you go to any restaurant, and you hear a customer shouting racial comments and making derogatory comments about people of other races, you have a choice – you can put up with it and respect their freedom of speech to promote racial hatred in a place of business, or you can leave. Most people would expect the manager to step in and do something about it first. Most people would expect their dignity to be respected in a place of business.
You could go to the restaurant manager and complain about the derogatory racial comments being made, and the manager could shrug and say “what can I do about it? It is his freedom of speech.”
But most businesses understand that you have a basic expectation of human dignity and safety that you should enjoy when doing business with that company. Most businesses understand that and so they respect your dignity and safety, over the unfettered rights of other customers to threaten your dignity and safety with comments that promote hate.
Whether they are comments attacking someone else because of their race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or other identity, in American business, hate simply is not tolerated by businesses’ employees. So why should we expect businesses to tolerate hate by their customers?
This holds true with hotels as well. Jewish Americans have a right to tell hotels that they don’t feel safe and that their dignity is violated by those groups that hold conferences at hotels that promote Holocaust Denial or promote Neo-Nazism. Black Americans and Hispanic Americans have a right to tell hotels that they don’t feel safe and their dignity is violated by those groups that hold conferences that belittle their race and promote white supremacism. These are rights that we all have, regardless of our religion, regardless of our race, regardless of our gender, regardless of our ethnicity.
Like all of us, businesses also have a responsibility to equality AND liberty – and you don’t have one without the other. That is the point of our mission, that is the argument that we make for our universal human rights, which includes defending our human dignity.
There was a day once, when I was a small boy, when too many businesses in America didn’t believe that.
There was a day that I vividly recall in Virginia Beach, where I saw hotels that were so willing to reject the human rights, dignity, and safety of others, that sought to publicly advertise for “White Clientele Only.”
Thankfully, in most of America, those ugly days of public racism and hatred by businesses are long behind us.
American businesses still respect freedom of speech and ideas, but businesses also understand that our freedoms include our human dignity to expect a safe place to do business without being subjected to hate.
Our free speech includes our right to Reject Racism and Hate. Our free speech includes our right to expect that our businesses be safe places that respect our diversity and dignity as human beings. Our free speech includes our right to promote Equality and Liberty.
A Pakistani court sentenced Imran Masih to life imprisonment and fined him 100,000 Pakistani Rupees [$1182] on January 11, after his Muslim neighbor, Hajji Liaquat, accused him of burning the Qur’an.
On July 1, 2009, Masih was cleaning his shop when he came across Arabic literature. Before trashing it, he asked his Muslim neighbor, Liaquat, whether the book was Islamic literature. Liaquat assured him that it was not an Islamic book. However, after Masih burned the book, Liaquat showed the half-burned book to passersby and accused Masih of desecrating the Qur’an. Later, the local mosques incited Muslims to attack Masih by announcing that he had desecrated the Qur’an.
Masih ran for his life and hid at his house before the police arrived and arrested him. At the time of arrest, a mob of 400 Muslims had gathered outside Masih’s home. The mob was able to overpower the police and attack him.
The family of Masih immediately fled from Faisalabad because the Muslim protesters wanted to kill them. According to the family, Liaquat falsely accused Masih of desecrating the Qur’an because he wanted to rent the shop that Masih rented to run his business.
Christians in Pakistan have repeatedly been attacked by Muslim mobs after accusations of blasphemy. According to Pakistan’s law, desecrating the Qur’an is considered blasphemy and results in life imprisonment.
ICC’s Regional Manager for Africa and South Asia, Jonathan Racho, said, “We call upon Pakistani officials to release Imran Masih and ensure the safety of his family. Pakistan must revise its blasphemy law as it continues to be abused by Muslims to settle personal grudges against Christians.”
Please call the Pakistani Embassy in your country and politely ask the officials to release Imran Masih from prison.
Egypt: Another Copt Killed as Alleged Shooters Plead Not Guilty in Egypt
— COMPASS reports:
— “Coptic carpenter killed outside building that Muslims feared would be used as church.
— “ISTANBUL, February 16 (CDN) — Three men accused of killing six Coptic worshipers and a security guard pleaded not guilty on Saturday (Feb. 13) as the Coptic community mourned the loss of yet another victim of apparent anti-Christian violence.”
— Al-Masry Al-Youm reports:
— “Around 3000 Christians gathered Friday at the Virgin Mary and Father Kyrillos Churches in Ezbet el-Nakhl to mark the tenth anniversary of sectarian clashes in the village of el-Kosheh, which left 20 Christians and one Muslim dead. The vigil also came 40 days after the Christmas Eve shootings in Naga Hammadi.”
This includes Washington DC celebrity chef Spike Mendelsohn who spoke to R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm on February 17, stating affirmatively that he rejects hate, white supremacism, and anti-Semitism, remarking “after all, I am Jewish.”
Spike Mendelsohn was surprised to hear of the pattern of hate group events that had been held at the Capitol Skyline Hotel, and sought to affirmatively state that he objected to white supremacism and hate of any kind. Mr. Mendelsohn had been listed as part of previous Capitol Skyline Hotel promotional information. Mr. Mendelsohn also stated that he doubted that the Rubell Hotels was aware of this.
Later on February 17, after R.E.A.L. finally contacted the Rubell Hotels, the “white nationalist hate group” American Renaissance event that was scheduled to be held at the Capitol Skyline was cancelled according to the Rubell Hotels.
We applaud the Rubell Hotels social conscience in taking a stand against hate.
Stormfront Ad for American Renaissance's Jared Taylor as "Guest" on Stormfront Derek Black's Radio Show
Update: R.E.A.L. has also learned that former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke also provided follow-up links to Jared Taylor’s appearance on the Stormfront-led radio show. See image below.
Former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Leader David Duke Also References Jared Taylor's Appearance on Stormfront Derek Black's Radio Show
A week ago, R.E.A.L. had learned the location of the NCF/AR conference was to be scheduled at the Four Points by Sheraton Manassas Battlefield Hotel in Manassas, Virginia. R.E.A.L. had learned this from the national reservation desks of Starwood Hotels & Resorts that provides the corporate umbrella to Sheraton franchises. R.E.A.L. contacted the Four Points Sheraton management and also Starwood Hotels on this issue, to inform them about the New Century Foundation’s links to American Renaissance, as well as NCF/AR’s promotion of “white nationalist” “hate,” as repeatedly documented by human rights organizations. We urged Four Points to allow R.E.A.L. to offer a counter-message of hope and love to challenge the message from NCF/AR.
While the location of the NCF/AR event could have been learned by anyone else, R.E.A.L. made an effort to not promote or publicize this information to the general public, while R.E.A.L. talked to Four Points Sheraton and Starwood management. This morning, we were told by the Four Points Sheraton that the NCF/AR event was canceled at that location. Wehave since learned that at least one other organization also learned of the planned Four Points Sheraton location of the NCF/AF event, and that they informed the public about this on February 13.
We have also been told that American Renaissance’s Jared Taylor plans a news conference for later this week.
R.E.A.L. has had an ongoing regional public awareness campaign in place to educate the public and local hotels and conference centers as to who and what the New Century Foundation and American Renaissance are. We have contacted the Virginia Hospitality and Travel Association, the Hotel Association of Washington, D.C. (HAWDC), the HSMAI, the Maryland Hotel & Lodging Association, the Hilton hotel chain, the Marriott hotel chain, the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) hotel chain, the Hyatt hotel chain, the Crowne Plaza hotel chain, the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain, the Embassy Suites, the Wyndham hotel chain, and the Starwood Hotels & Resorts, among others. We have been actively conducting such a comprehensive regional public education campaign to area individuals and businesses, in the absence of mainstream media coverage on this issue.
It is our belief that this comprehensive public awareness campaign has limited the options for AR/NCF to mislead some businesses as to their identity and their intent. We will continue to oppose ideologies of hate through exercising our own freedom of speech. We believe and support freedom of assembly, and we have invited this group to debate us on a public street corner, and they have declined. Our goal in educating the public on the ideology of the AR has always been so that the American people can honestly and objectively assess for themselves what the AR conference is seeking to accomplish.
Moreover, Jeffrey Imm called Jared Taylor on the telephone to communicate this to him as well, and to once again invite him to join the public at our public awareness event on Friday, February 19 at 12 Noon, as all of the public is invited to this.
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.
Moreover, American Renaissance’s leader Jared Taylor has openly stated that the upcoming conference will mock diversity “It is the idea of 300 of us all in the same room, laughing openly at the idea that diversity is a strength, that is more than the hypocrites who run the country can stand.” We urge other area hotel leaders who might be reading this to be aware of who and what the American Renaissance / New Century Foundation is.
Web Image from “White Nationalist” Hate Group American Renaissance
Both the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) have background on the racist and white supremacist views of American Renaissance leader Jared Taylor. The SPLC describes both the American Renaissance and the New Century Foundation groups as “white nationalist” “hate groups.” Jared Taylor promotes racial segregation, and as ADL states, “promotes pseudoscientific studies that attempt to demonstrate the intellectual and cultural superiority of whites and publishes articles on the supposed decline of American society because of integrationist social policies.”
Jared Taylor’s New Century Foundation describes itself as “a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1994 to study immigration and race relations so as to better understand the consequences of America’s increasing diversity. It sponsors publications and books, and holds occasional conferences.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center reports on the “New Century Foundation” and “American Renaissance” as follows:
— “Jared Taylor, the man who heads the New Century Foundation and edits its allied magazine American Renaissance, is a white supremacist who celebrates the “clear conception of the United States as a nation ruled by and for whites.” The foundation and magazine, based in Oakton, Va., tirelessly advance pseudo-scientific theories linking IQ to race and advocate eugenics — selective breeding to ‘improve’ human genetic stock.”
— “The foundation also puts on bi-annual conferences; the 2002 event was advertised like this: ‘In all parts of the world, whites are afraid to speak out in their own interests. The costs of ‘diversity,’ racial differences in IQ, the threat of non-white immigration — politicians and the media are afraid to discuss what these things mean for whites and their civilization.’ ”
— “Taylor also has noted approvingly that until 1967, ‘strong opposition to mixed marriage was enshrined in law’ in 16 states. In ‘The Myth of Diversity,’ Taylor writes that ‘diversity’ has led to civil rights claims by all kinds of groups he doesn’t like. “Anyone who opposes the glorification of the alien, the subnormal, and the inferior can be denounced,’ he complains. ‘The metastasis of diversity is a fascinating story, but the disease began with race.’ ”
— “After 300 pages of attacking blacks and dismissing white racism, Taylor’s 1992 book Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America notes that most Americans would not agree to use sterilization or forced abortion on those whom the society considers less fit. His solution? Make ‘welfare mothers’ accept a ‘five-year implantable contraceptive.’ ”
— “Taylor is allied with Wayne Lutton, whom he thanks in his book and who is the editor of The Social Contract, a journal published by John Tanton’s The Social Contract Press*. Taylor, Lutton and Richard Lynn are on the editorial board of The Occidental Quarterly, a journal where Sam Francis, top editor for the racist Council of Conservative Citizens*, serves as book review editor. The Occidental Quarterly’s first issue featured a story by the late Keith Stimely, who was also an editor of the Journal of Historical Review, a notorious Holocaust denial publication.”
In addition to “white nationalist” Jared Taylor, other speakers scheduled to appear at the February 19-21 American Renaissance/New Century Foundation conference in Virginia include:
