Category: Bin Ladenism

reports and articles on those with extremist views that mirror those of Osama Bin Laden

Turkey: Lawyers: Abused Turkish woman in hiding — Nahide Opuz

(Turkey) Lawyers: Abused Turkish woman in hiding — Nahide Opuz
— “In 2002, Nahide Opuz’s ex-husband, Huseyin Opuz, shot and killed her mother in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir. Prior to that, he ran over the two women once with a car, and in a separate assault, stabbed Nahide Opuz seven times with a knife.”
— “Police detained the assailant after both incidents and then released him after fining him. Huseyin Opuz remains free after serving six years for the killing of his mother-in-law.”
— European Court of Human Rights: “A court spokesman said this was the first time the court ruled a government had violated Article 14 of the European Convention of Human Rights,  which prohibits discrimination in connection with a domestic abuse case.”

European court rules against Turkey in domestic violence case
— “In a landmark decision on domestic violence, the European Court of Human Rights has said Turkey failed to protect a woman from being murdered by her son-in-law and ordered Ankara to pay damages”

— April 11: Turkey – Extremists Criticize “Feminist” Reporting on So-Called “Honor Killings”
— March 24: Turkey: Poll – Over a Quarter Support Extremist “Honor Killings”


Sudan: New Links to Hezbollah and Hamas – IRD’s Faith McDonnell

Hezbollah and Hamas: The Sudanese Connection – by Faith McDonnell

— “perpetrating genocide on its own people does not by itself satisfy the ruling National Congress Party in Sudan. Stories have surfaced recently connecting Sudan with Hezbollah and Hamas. They give weight to numerous claims that the radical Islamist regime of Omar el Bashir in Khartoum is involved with terrorists around the world. Sudan’s genocidal humanitarian disasters have long been the focus of the Sudan policy of both the United States government and American activists. Sudan’s active role in global terrorism has not. But both deserve focus because both are methods by which Khartoum hopes to bring about an Arabized Shari’a state, an Islamized Africa, and eventually, a worldwide Islamic Caliphate.”

Iran woman Aida Shirazi forced to live “double life” because of Islamist extremism

(Iran) Tehran student forced to live double life
— “Music student Aida Shirazi is thoroughly Westernised – but in public she must play the part of
an obedient Islamic woman”
— “she knows that if she wears anything too short, or too tight, she will fall foul of the Ershad, the
morality police who have cracked down on un-Islamic conduct since President Ahmadinejad came to power”
— “Ms Shirazi’s personal freedoms have been curtailed in other ways in the past four years”

Egypt: “Family of Abducted Christian Coptic Teenager Assaulted By Muslim Mob”

Egypt: “Family of Abducted Christian Coptic Teenager Assaulted By Muslim Mob”

Egypt – AINA reports:

— “In another incident of abduction and forced Islamization of Coptic minor girls, 16-year old Nermeen Mitry was abducted by a Muslim man to coerce her into converting to Islam. She was successfully recovered on the same day by her family, who did their own investigation and search to locate her.”
— “Nermeen was abducted from El-Mahalla by Muslim Hossam Hamouda in conspiracy with his aunt Leila Attia; she was hidden away by a third person called Nasser Abu Deif from Assuit in Upper Egypt, at the home of one of his female relatives called Rasha Soliman in Zagazig.”
— “The success of recovering the Coptic girl led to anger, revenge and assaults from the disappointed village Muslims against her family. Nearly 150 Muslims, armed with swords and clubs, physically assaulted five family members of the abducted Coptic teenager, as they drove back to their village after being forced into reconciliation with the abductor’s family by State Security, compromising their right to pursue the case any further. ‘With every blow on us, they chanted ‘There is only one Allah’ while the Police stood there watching the assault, until we could take no more and three of us were hospitalized,’ said Nermeen’s uncle Sameh Mitry in an aired interview with Coptic News on 6/7/2009. ‘They dragged us out of the car saying ‘Get out you followers of the Dog’s religion!’ They were consumed with anger ever since we got our girl back.’ “

Saudi “Human Rights Commission” Defends Extremist Oppression of Women

(Saudi Arabia) Saudi “Human Rights Commission (HRC)” criticizes report on women and Hai’a work
— Saudi HRC defends “work of “Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Hai’a)”
— “Zaid Aal Hussein, Deputy Chairman of the HRC, said the report by Yakin Erturk, the Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, following a recent visit to the Kingdom was incorrect in its description of the Hai’a as being a ‘source of fear to women.'”
— referencing report described by Arab News as “US rapporteur sees rights situation improving”

DC Israel Embassy – R.E.A.L. Challenges HAMAS, ANSWER, and MAS

On June 6, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (REAL) held a rally in support of universal human rights and challenging HAMAS, ANSWER, and MAS nearby the Israel embassy in Washington DC.  REAL was holding this rally as a counterprotest to a rally primarily led by ANSWER, which included MAS and other groups, that sought public sympathy for the actions by HAMAS group resulting in bloodshed in Gaza, claiming Israel’s actions were only on “the pretext of combating terrorism.”   Jeffrey Imm led the REAL rally, and Brian Becker led the ANSWER rally.

Access to International Drive and International Place streets (where the embassies are located) was blocked by the police and the U.S. Secret Service, which resulted in all of the protesting groups being located on nearby Van Ness Drive NW.  The rally led by ANSWER and MAS drew 50 to 100 participants, lining Van Ness Drive.  The REAL rally counterprotest addressed these organizations and their ideological support.

With their greater number of attendees, ANSWER members initially tried to bully and intimidate the REAL rally.   REAL supporters were violently attacked, which required the intervention of police for protection. Prior to both rallies beginning, ANSWER members tried to grab REAL’s sign in support of Universal Human Rights and push them off a public street corner; this included an ANSWER leader pushing one of the REAL rally attendees.   After our rally was started, at the request of the U.S. Secret Service, REAL moved about 20 feet away from the ANSWER rally to prevent violent activity by that rally’s attendees.

REAL Challenges HAMAS’ War on Humanity

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (REAL)’s Jeffrey Imm spoke out against the extremist HAMAS terrorist organization as the root source of continuing violence in Gaza.  Imm challenged those who would glorify HAMAS to recognize that HAMAS’ refusal to respect the human rights and dignity of others is a key source of the violence in Gaza today.   Imm pointed to the long history of HAMAS’ suicide bombings, HAMAS’ use of human shields in Gaza, and of HAMAS as a terrorist organization.

R.E.A.L.'s Jeffrey Imm challenges HAMAS' oppression and terrorist activities leading to bloodshed in Gaza
R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm challenges HAMAS’ oppression and terrorist activities leading to bloodshed in Gaza

In addition to HAMAS’ history of oppression of Muslims through its terrorism and its use of human shields, Imm also pointed out HAMAS’ history of denying other Muslims’ human rights, including HAMAS’ efforts to ban public prayer in Gaza, and HAMAS’ history of violence against other Muslims, including HAMAS’ killing of Palestinian Authority police. According to Imm, the ideology of extremism promoted by HAMAS not only endangers non-Muslims,  it also continues to endanger and take the lives of other Muslims.  Imm stated that such a policy of extremism also treats women as second-class human beings, as was seen in the recent killings of Muslim women by extremists in Gaza in what they call “honor killings.”

Imm also spoke out on the irony on this 65th anniversary of D-Day (June 6, 1944), when American troops went to fight Adolf Hitler, that groups should be trying to gain public sympathy for violence that is the result of a HAMAS organization whose charter (Article 32) embraces the same anti-semitic screed “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” that Adolf Hitler promoted, and the same HAMAS organization whose leaders have stated that Holocaust was either “false” or “exaggerated.” Imm stated that as we remember those who fought and died to fight for liberty,  we also must have the courage to defend the liberty and human rights that they fought for – a liberty that would be denied by extremism.


REAL Challenges ANSWER’s Support for Communist Totalitarianism

REAL’s Imm stated that it was also ironic that the ANSWER organization was leading the protest to garner sympathy for the efforts of HAMAS in Gaza, given that ANSWER’s leaders have a history of supporting Communist totalitarianism.  Imm pointed out that ANSWER currently lists the Marxist organization “Party for Socialism and Liberation” as part of its Steering Committee on its home page web site.   Moreover, Imm pointed out that ANSWER leaders have a history of supporting Communist totalitarian China and North Korea.  While ANSWER leaders spoke, Imm pointed out ANSWER leaders’ long history of supporting Communism, Imm offered ANSWER protesters a copy of ANSWER leaders’ writings from the Communist Worker’s World.

R.E.A.L.'s Jeffrey Imm challenges A.N.S.W.E.R. leaders and Steering Committee members support of Communism
R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm challenges A.N.S.W.E.R. leaders and Steering Committee members support of Communism

Given ANSWER’s tolerance of Communist organizations and leaders directing ANSWER, Imm stated that ANSWER really wasn’t against “war.”   Imm pointed out that ANSWER was perfectly willing to ignore the Communist Chinese government’s war on Chinese people with 1,000 concentration camps holding 6.8 million Chinese, and that ANSWER was perfectly willing to ignore the Communist North Korea war on Korean people with an estimated 2-3 million starved to death and many in North Korea’s own concentration camps. Given ANSWER’s acceptance of this Communist war on human rights, Imm challenged ANSWER’s legitimacy as any type of “anti-war” organization.

REAL Challenges MAS’ Worldview Based on the Muslim Brotherhood’s Extremism

REAL’s Imm also discussed the Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation’s letter to the Washington Post stating their “worldview” was based on the views of the Muslim Brotherhood. Imm pointed out that Muslim Brotherhood had an extremist worldview that called for an Islamic caliphate (“Khilafa”) — the same type of repressive caliphate that Barack Obama stated in August 2007 was the goal of America’s enemies.  Imm stated that this goal of the Muslim Brotherhood was embodied in their motto “Jihad is our way.”  Imm stated that the Muslim American Society’s support for such Muslim Brotherhood extremism was against universal human rights.  Imm pointed out that as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once recognized the challenge of “white supremacism,” so today we must recognize the challenge of other rationales of extremism as part of our commitment to universal human rights.

Moreover, Imm stated that while MAS supports extremist Sharia, those of us who support universal human rights support human freedom, equality, and liberty for all human beings.

R.E.A.L. Rally attendees publicize MAS’ documented statements that their worldview is based on the extremist Muslim Brotherhood

REAL Challenges Extremism’s Rejection of Universal Human Rights

Imm stated that the United States was a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and he pointed out how all Americans accept such universal, inalienable human rights for all people as part of our Declaration of Independence – as truths that we hold self-evident.  Imm stated that while most of humanity supported universal human rights, those in support of totalitarianism and supremacism do not.

Imm pointed out how extremist nations have rejected the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, seeking instead to create their own extremist version of “human rights” in accordance with Sharia.

Imm explained how the extremist rejection of such universal human rights has led to oppression and violence, not only in Gaza, but around the world.

Imm stated that extremist Sharia was being used to justify an extremist “war on women” involving degrading punishments, mutilations, treating women as less than human beings, and extremist “honor killings” of women around the world .   Moreover, Imm pointed out the use of extremist violence against Gay human beings as well, with recent and horrific reports of torture, physical mutilation, and murder of gay men in Iraq by extremist gangs.

Imm stated that REAL’s support for universal human rights rejects such extremist atrocities and demands universal human rights for all human beings.  Imm concluded that such universal human rights must include freedom from such extremist killings, mutilation, and oppression.

Imm stated that peace in Gaza and around the world begins with a support for humanity’s universal human rights, which extremists and their supporters consistently reject.