Author: R.E.A.L.

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) Statement to Virginia’s Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on the Islamic Saudi Academy

July 13, 2009

Statement to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Special Exception to Zoning Restrictions for Expansion of Islamic Saudi Academy

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)

https://www.realcourage.org

Statement by Founder, Jeffrey Imm

July 13, 2009 Fairfax, VA Board of Supervisors Hearing - Responsible for Equality And Liberty's (R.E.A.L.) Jeffrey Imm Testifies on Islamic Saudi Academy
July 13, 2009 Fairfax, VA Board of Supervisors Hearing - Responsible for Equality And Liberty's (R.E.A.L.) Jeffrey Imm Testifies on Islamic Saudi Academy

My name is Jeffrey Imm, I was a citizen of Virginia for 14 years, and I am speaking on behalf of the organization Responsible for Equality And Liberty.

Virginia has a historical commitment to the human rights of equality and liberty, which it first declared on June 13, 1776 with the Virginia Declaration of Rights, before there was a United States of America. The Virginia Declaration of Rights was prepared by Fairfax County’s George Mason who declared human beings “are by nature equally free and independent,” and declared the “inherent rights” of “life and liberty.” When Fairfax County’s George Mason and other Virginians prepared that Virginia Declaration of Rights, he was not just addressing the “inherent rights” of just Virginians, but of all human beings.

The government of Saudi Arabia continues to stand against such inherent human rights of equality and liberty for women, for non-Muslims, even for other sects of Islam. The government of Saudi Arabia continues to be condemned by the U.S. State Department and United States Commission on International Religious Freedom for its discrimination, persecution, and intolerance of religious minorities including Shi’a Muslims. Saudi Arabia remains a nation of intolerance and a nation whose institutions defy our universal human rights of equality and liberty. According to the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) itself, the Islamic Saudi Academy’s curriculum “conforms to the system followed in Saudi Arabia.” So we should not be surprised that previous studies have shown a pattern of intolerance in Islamic Saudi Academy textbooks in defiance of our universal human rights of equality and liberty.

We would challenge such indoctrination of intolerance of children in Fairfax County if this were the one-time Apartheid South African government with an institute to teach racial supremacism or if this were Communist China teaching children in Fairfax County to be against our universal human rights of liberty and freedom.

We would challenge this if it was a domestic group like the Aryan Nations’ so-called religious group that preaches intolerance against non-whites and Jews or the so-called “Westboro Baptist Church” that preaches violence, hatred, and intolerance against homosexuals.

Hate is hate. Institutionalized hate has no place in Fairfax County educational institutions. We must challenge institutionalized hate with our love for our fellow human being’s human rights.

We believe that Love Wins by being Responsible for Equality And Liberty.

Virginians are Responsible for Equality And Liberty, as we all are.

Thank you for your time.

Jeffrey Imm, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.), realcourage.org

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July 13, 2009 Fairfax, VA Board of Supervisors Hearing - Denise Lee Testifies on Islamic Saudi Academy
July 13, 2009 Fairfax, VA Board of Supervisors Hearing - Denise Lee Testifies on Islamic Saudi Academy

See Denise Lee’s testimony online at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_fAQKcSsF4
— Denise Lee at 3:06

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Related Video Links:

Fairfax 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_fAQKcSsF4
— Denise Lee at 3:06, Jeffrey Imm begins at 8:06

Fairfax 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocb_D2oGafI&
— Jeffrey Imm continues beginning of video

— R.E.A.L. postings addressing Saudi Arabia

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List of All YouTube Videos of July 13, 2009 Fairfax County Public Hearing on Islamic Saudi Academy

— Part 1 (YouTube Video)

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Iraq: Seven Christian Churches Bombed – Christians fleeing Iraq when told by Extremists to Convert to Islam or Die

CNN: “Wave of Iraq church bombings stretches into third day”
— CNN reports: “A church in Iraq was bombed Monday, the seventh Christian house of worship in the country to be bombed in three days.”
— “Three children were wounded in Monday’s attack in northern city of Mosul
— “Car bomb exploded in the morning, damaging church in al-Faisaliya district
— “Six churches in and around Baghdad were bombed over the weekend
— “Many of Iraq’s estimated 1 million Christians have fled the country

— CNN reports: “The car bomb exploded in the morning, damaging the church in the al-Faisaliya district of eastern Mosul.”
— “Six churches in and around Baghdad were bombed over the weekend, leaving four dead, officials told CNN. A total of 35 people have been wounded in the wave of attacks, including the three children Monday.”
— “The first bombing took place Saturday night at St. Joseph’s church in western Baghdad, according to an Interior Ministry official. Two bombs placed inside the church exploded about 10 p.m. (3 p.m. ET). No one was in the church at the time of the attack.”
— “Earlier Sunday, three bombs exploded outside churches, wounding eight civilians, the official said. The bombs detonated within a 15-minute span, between 4:30 and 4:45 p.m. local time (9:30 and 9:45 a.m. ET). Two of the churches are in central Baghdad’s al-Karrada district, and the third is in al-Ghadeer in eastern Baghdad.”
— “Sunday evening, a car bomb exploded outside a church on Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad just after 7 p.m. (12 p.m. ET), the official said. Four people died, and 21 were wounded.”
— “And in southern Baghdad’s Dora district, a bomb outside a church wounded three other civilians.”
— “Most of the churches were damaged in the bombings, according to video footage.”
— “St. Joseph’s was one of six churches hit by coordinated bombings of Christian houses of worship in Baghdad and Mosul in 2004. The church is in the al-Jamiaa neighborhood of Baghdad, a former stronghold of al Qaeda in Iraq. There have been recent reports of an increase in targeted attacks in the area.”
— “Many of Iraq’s estimated 1 million Christians have fled the country after targeted attacks by extremists. In October, more than a thousand Iraqi families fled Mosul after they were reportedly frightened by a series of killings and threats by Muslim extremists, who apparently ordered them to convert to Islam or face possible death. At least 14 Christians were killed in Mosul in the first two weeks of October. ”
— “One Christian Iraqi, interviewed outside Sacred Heart Church — one of three churches bombed Sunday afternoon — said the bomb went off shortly before 5 p.m., as members were arriving for Sunday evening mass. No one was hurt, Sabhan George told CNN, but the bomb damaged the church building and some cars outside.”
— “George said he is concerned about the church bombings. If this continues, he said, ‘there will be no Christians left in Iraq.'”

Virginia: Holocaust Denier Likely to be Elected to Board of Reston — Running Unopposed in Reston Citizens Association, Sparks Write-In Campaign

— Candidate’s ‘Holocaust Revisionist’ Views Spark Reston Write-In Campaign
— Washington Post: “The vote will be held today and tomorrow during the Reston Festival at Reston Town Center”
— Ken Meyercord  running unopposed for at-large seat on the board to “Reston Citizens Association, a quasi-governmental body that sets the agenda for the community of 60,000”
— Ken Meyercord has a “a long history of writing about what he says are ‘myths’ of the Holocaust, including a piece called ‘(Holo-) History is Bunk.'”
— Ken Meyercord “dismisses as Allied propaganda the assertion that Nazi Germany embarked on a mission to annihilate European Jews, a plan known as the Final Solution.”
— “He also denies that Nazis used gas chambers to murder Jews, saying gas chambers did not exist, and expresses skepticism that the number of Holocaust victims reached 6 million”
— “Meyercord said his views of history changed after living in the Middle East. After attending Dartmouth, he obtained a master’s degree at American University in Beirut, where he also met his wife, who is Palestinian, and became more sympathetic the Arab view of the conflict with Israel.”
— “His other writings include a piece comparing Israel’s treatment of Gaza to the Nazis’ handling of the Warsaw Ghetto; an apocalyptic fantasy in which an invasion of the United States is an allusion to the war in Iraq”

—- NOTE: We are told that “The name of the write-in candidate running against the Holocaust denier is incumbent Board Member Colin Mills“

July 11 Lincoln Memorial Public Awareness Event – Orange Ribbon Campaign Kickoff for Equality And Liberty

On July 11, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) members held a public awareness event at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool steps to promote equality and liberty.  This public awareness event was the official launching of our Orange Ribbon campaign for equality and liberty.

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) Orange Ribbon Campaign for Equality And Liberty
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) Orange Ribbon Campaign for Equality And Liberty
Orange Ribbon for Equality And Liberty
Orange Ribbon for Equality And Liberty

We addressed the issues of equality and liberty which are so critical to our human experience, including:

— in America, the urgent need for the support and passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, and inviting the public to our August 26 event at the Freedom Plaza

— the recognition of the global hate crime of misogyny and the need to treat misogynist actions as hate crimes

— the 1 billion that continue to suffer under Communist oppression in Communist China with over 1,000 “forced labor camps” imprisoning 6.8 million, the Communist oppression of people in North Korea including millions starved to death and also put in “forced labor camps”, and continuing Communist oppression of people in Vietnam.  We also promoted the July 19 Million Minutes of Meditation rally for freedom in China and for the Falun Gong to be held on the National Mall

— the continuing Racial Supremacism based out of the same institutionalized hate that denies our universal human rights, with thousands members of over 900 racial supremacist hate groups in America today.  We pointed to our warning about such racial supremacism in April at our last Lincoln Memorial event, and the tragic murder at the Holocaust Memorial Museum since that time by white supremacist Neo-Nazi Von Brunn.  We pointed to those who praised Von Brunn as “an intelligent man” right after the attack, and how hate continues to get a platform in America.   We also invited the public to join our public awareness event challenging racial supremacism on August 28, the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial;  our August 28 public event challenging racial supremacism will be held at the Robert E. Lee Memorial.

— the challenge of religious extremists using “religious arguments” as a disguise for those whose institutionalized hate leads to violence against women, homosexuals, religious minorities around the world on a regular basis – and why such hate against our fellow human beings must never be legitimized or rationalized as anything other than hate.

Responsible for Equality And Liberty continues to offer a solution to such injustice, inequality, and institutionalized hate – and we believe that the answer is LOVE.

We believe that Love Wins and will ultimately prevail over all forms of institutionalized hate and injustice.

We call on our fellow human beings to be Responsible for Equality And Liberty and join our Orange Ribbon campaign to promote public awareness of the urgent need to continue to defend our universal human rights, through our love for our fellow human beings.

Responsible for Equality And Liberty's Jeffrey Imm Promotes Equality And Liberty Through Love as the Answer to Institutionalized Hate
Responsible for Equality And Liberty’s Jeffrey Imm Promotes Equality And Liberty Through Love as the Answer to Institutionalized Hate
Responsible for Equality And Liberty's Jeffrey Imm Addresses the Need for the Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.) at the Lincoln Memorial
Responsible for Equality And Liberty’s Jeffrey Imm Addresses the Need for the Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.) at the Lincoln Memorial
Orange Ribbon for Universal Human Rights - Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
Orange Ribbon for Universal Human Rights – Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)

Mauritania: Half a million African slaves are at the heart of Mauritania’s presidential election

(Mauritania) Half a million African slaves are at the heart of Mauritania’s presidential election
— Daily Telegraph reports: “More than half a million slaves are at the heart of a presidential election battle in the former French colony of Mauritania”
— “A year after she ran away from her master, Barakatu Mint Sayed prays that the election on July 18 will mark the beginning of the end of slavery in Mauritania.”
— “like thousands of other slaves and freed slaves across the Saharan country, her hopes are fixed on an inspirational candidate, a man born to slave parents who has sworn to put an end to the practice of ‘owning’ humans if he is elected president.”
— “That candidate is Messaoud Ould Boulkheir”…. “there are an estimated 600,000 slaves, almost one in five of the country’s 3.2 million people”