— Jordan Times reports: “Twenty-year-old kills sister over ‘immoral behaviour'”
— “A 20-year-old Jordanian stabbed his married sister and smashed her head with a rock after accusing her of ‘immoral behaviour'”
Category: Bin Ladenism
reports and articles on those with extremist views that mirror those of Osama Bin Laden
U.S.: New Policy Permits Asylum for Battered Women
(U.S.) New Policy Permits Asylum for Battered Women
— NYT: “The Obama administration has opened the way for foreign women who are victims of severe domestic beatings and sexual abuse to receive asylum in the United States.”
— “In addition to meeting other strict conditions for asylum, abused women will need to show that they are treated by their abuser as subordinates and little better than property, according to an immigration court filing by the administration, and that domestic abuse is widely tolerated in their country”
— “They must show that they could not find protection from institutions at home or by moving to another place within their own country.”
— “The new policy does not involve women fleeing genital mutilation.”
— “Any applicant for asylum or refugee status in the United States must demonstrate a ‘well-founded fear of persecution’ because of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or ‘membership in a particular social group.’ The extended legal argument has been whether abused women could be part of any social group that would be eligible under those terms. Last year, 22,930 people won asylum in this country fleeing all types of persecution; the number has been decreasing in recent years.”
— See also reports on misogynist violence against women
— See also reports on extremist violence and oppression of women
— See also U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report 2009 and Gender Imbalance in Human Trafficking
Will such a new United States asylum policy help protect women from extremist “honor killings” and other institutionalized violence against women around the world?
In the past month, these are just SOME of the stories of the continued INSTITUTIONALIZED misogyny and violence against women, rationalized by extremists:
Saudi Arabia: Abused woman flees shelter; shelter “accused of helping woman flee”
Saudi Arabia: Brother kills two sisters in Social Affairs shelter over “honor”
Saudi religious police blamed in ‘honour’ killing of sisters
Saudi Arabia: Child Marriage Not Prohibited Under “Sharia Law”
Pakistan: ‘Violence against women on rise as perpetrators go scot-free’
Pakistan: “122 cases of women being burnt were reported in Lahore”
Pakistan high court orders release of “honour killing” convict
Pakistan: “Honour killings in Sindh rise in second quarter: report”
Pakistan’s Lahore: Man kills sister in the name of ‘honour’ — in front of other family members
Pakistan “Honor killings”: Couple, including teenage bride, mother, sister murdered
Pakistan: 16 year old girl sold to 62 year old man
Pakistan: Another “Honor Killing” of Eloped Couple — Barki
Pakistan: extremist mob kidnap, strip, beat on pour acid on Christian women – July 7 report, July 1 report
Syria “amends” “honor killing law” – deciding that two years in jail is sufficient punishment for murdering a woman
Iran: No Matter Who Is President of Iran, They Would Stone Me – by Lila Ghobady
Iran: Concerns Over Detained Iranian Christian Women Amid Political Turmoil – may face execution for religious freedom
Gaza woman journalist: Hamas “police” “accused me of laughing in public” – now gets death threats
Gaza women suffer from die-hard custom of “honor killing”
Jordan: “Spree of honour killings in Jordan”
Jordanian stabs sister in “honor killing” for rumors she was dating a man
Afghanistan: “Honor-Killing” in Afghanistan: Father Kills His Daughter and Her Lover
Bangladesh: extremist fatwa used for public whipping of woman 200 times
Iraq: Iraqi-Swede woman attacked, attempted honor-murder suspected
Maldives: Woman gets 100 lashes in public, house arrest in Sharia punishment – govt says Maldives too “squeamish” for other Sharia penalties
Sudanese women flogged in public by extremists for wearing trousers
UK: Report on Sharia courts state women’s word not sufficient – even in abuse cases
UK: Forced Marriage reports up 16 percent – schools warned to watch out for abusive families
Germany: Turk stabs teen daughter in ‘honour killing’ – because daughter “did not want to follow the Muslim way”
Kyrgyzstan: Child Brides — “in accordance with Muslim Sharia law in a wedding ceremony known as a nikah”
Bahrain Offers Women No Protection from Spousal Rape
Russia: Suspect detained in “honor killing” in Chechnya
Belgium: Brothers arrested in suspected honour killing
Sweden: “Honor Killing” Suspected in Balcony Fall Cases
Pakistan: Jirga orders marrying off three minor girls
(Pakistan) Jirga orders marrying off three minor girls
— “Ghulam Sarwar and his wife Rahila Ghulam, residents of Tehsil Jhat Pat, district Jaffarabad, Balochistan”
— “I have three minor daughters Paras, 4, Sughra, 2, and Rehmat who is just eight months old and I will not marry my daughters to my paternal uncles, said Rahila while bitterly crying”
Sudanese women flogged in public by Extremists for wearing trousers
Sudanese women flogged for wearing trousers
— AP reports: “Sudanese police arrested 13 women in a raid on a cafe and flogged 10 of them in public for wearing trousers in violation of the country’s strict Islamic law, one of those arrested said Monday”
— “The 13 women were at a cafe in the capital, Khartoum, when they were detained Friday by officers from the public order police, which enforces the implementation of Sharia law in public places.”
— “Islamic Sharia law has been strictly implemented in Sudan since the ruling party came to power in a 1989 military coup.”
“Malaysia arrests 9 Christians for trying to convert Muslims”
Japan Today reports: “Malaysia arrests 9 Christians for trying to convert Muslims”
— “Malaysian police have arrested nine Christians accused of trying to convert Muslim university students — a serious crime punishable by prison in this Muslim-majority country, a lawyer said Wednesday.”
— “They claimed they were visiting friends, but a Muslim student apparently filed a police complaint accusing them of trying to convert Muslims, Xavier said.”
Iran: Singer gets five-year jail term by Extermists
Iran singer gets five-year jail term
— “An Iranian singer, Mohsen Namjoo, has been sentenced in absentia to a five-year jail term for ridiculing the Koran holy book in a song, reformist daily Etemad Melli reported on Tuesday.”
— “‘He was sentenced on June 9 to five years in jail for insulting sanctities, ridiculing the Koran and dishonouring the holy book of the Muslims,’ it quoted a Koran expert and plaintiff in the case, Abbas Salimi Namin, as saying.”
— “Fars news agency, quoting an unnamed judge involved in the case, said Namjoo who has moved to Vienna was convicted for ‘his unconventional singing of the Koran,’ in a private recording four years ago.”
— “Namjoo, who fuses traditional Iranian music with pop and jazz, has also sang in solidarity with protesters who took to the streets after the Islamic republic’s disputed June 12 presidential election.”
Pakistan – Islamists Get Minority Rights Leader Jailed
Pakistan – Islamists Get Minority Rights Leader Jailed
— “All three were remanded to two days of police custody under pressure from Islamists who have harassed Francis and the other two men with false accusations, CLAAS lawyers said, and on Sunday a magistrate sent them to the jail to await trial”
— Joseph Francis, “national director of the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS)”
— “along with CLAAS official Ashar Sarfaraz and Sarfaraz’s brother-in-law, Zulfiqar Wilson”
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.)
Statement by Founder, Jeffrey Imm
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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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
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.'”
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.
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.
