Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) condemns the latest terrorist attacks by the global terrorist organization Boko Haram, which has killed a reported 200 people in northeastern Nigeria state of Borno. This has included terrorist attacks on several Islamic mosques in the Kukawa town with 97 men, women, and children killed, as well as another 48 killed in two towns near the town of Monguno. AFP also reported terrorist attacks killing 50 in the village of Mussa, with the Boko Haram shooting villagers and burning their homes.
The recent attacks on mosques took place during the Islamic holiday of Ramadan, while people were praying. One news source stated “a witness called Kolo said they killed men and young boys in the mosques and then proceeded to burn the corpses they had killed. They then indiscriminately attacked women and children who were at home.”
Nigeria Mosques Attacked by Boko Haram Terrorist Group – Men and Boys Killed and Corpses Burned (Source: Reuters)
World Bulletin reported that the Boko Haram terrorist attacks on mosques during Ramadan “occurred around sunset time as Muslims offered the Maghrib prayer just shortly after opening the day’s Ramadan fast Wednesday night. Abba Kyari, one of the hundreds of locals who fled to Maiduguri, capital city of Borno state, said that the attack took place when Muslims were praying.
‘Very few of us got away with slight injuries as we made away. But we cannot account for our family members now. The mosques are littered with corpses and our houses have been burnt,’ Kyari, who spoke in the local Hausa, said.”
AFP reported that Boko Haram terrorists were “gunning down worshippers at evening Ramadan prayers, shooting women in their homes, and dragging men from their beds in the dead of night.” AFP also reported that a young “female suicide bomber also killed 12 worshippers when she blew herself up in a mosque in Borno.”
The Boko Haram organization has also pledged its allegiance to the ISIS terrorist organization. The global terrorist organization Boko Haram is led by Abubakar Shekau, who was reportedly killed in the past, but apparently the military forces killed a double of him.
Boko Haram Terrorist Abubakar Shekau Leader Pledges Allegiance to ISIS
The latest attacks in Borno are also the area where Boko Haram kidnapped 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in April 2014. As previously reported by R.E.A.L., the terrorist group has a pattern of kidnapping women as slaves, raped, or killed, including selling such women as slave “brides” to terrorists for $10 per human being.
Nigerian Girls Kidnapped and Enslaved by Global Terrorist Organization Boko Haram
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) also released a report in April 2015 detailing patterns of widespread atrocities by Boko Haram global terrorists in northeast Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. The UN reported on “gruesome scenes of mass graves and further evident signs of slaughter by Boko Haram,” as well as Boko Haram murders of women “their so-called ‘wives’ – in fact women and girls held in slavery.”
Nigeria – Kano Mosque attacked by Boko Haram Terrorists in November 2014 – Muslim worshippers gunned down by Boko Haram as they tried to flee
The UN report also stated that “Support was also needed to address the plight of 1.5 million internally displaced persons and 650,000 refugees. The international community should be concerned about the networks that Boko Haram had created with other international armed groups, such as with Al-Shabab and the Islamic State.”
Nigerians Flee Country from Boko Haram Terrorism (Source: UNCHR, Chad Red Cross, H. Abdoulaye)
Additional new reports to BBC from escaped Boko Haram captives have stated that some of the kidnapped girls have been brainwashed to perform fighting, beatings, and killings for the global terrorist group, including flogging young girls unable to recite the Qur’an. Miriam,” a former captive of a Boko Haram, also stated that some of the girls were forced to kill Christian men.
R.E.A.L. has previously reported on other terrorist attacks by Boko Haram in that area.
In January 2015, we reported that 135,000 have fled Nigeria due to terrorist attacks, with 10,000 killed in the past year.
In November 2014, we reported that an estimated 2,500 Christians had been killed with 100,000 Catholics displaced and over 50 churches destroyed.
In October 2014, we reported on 185 Christian churches which had been burned and destroyed after attacks by Boko Haram in Borno and Adamawa states.
In May 2014, we reported that 50 churches and 500 Christians were killed by the Boko Haram group.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) supports the universal human rights of all people around the world, and we defy and oppose the efforts by terrorists and tyrants to seek to refuse such human rights, human dignity, as well as their violent efforts to rape, murder, destroy, and enslave. We call upon the Nigerian government to step up efforts to protect Nigerian people from such Boko Haram terrorism, and we call for the all of the world and governments to condemn the terrorist acts of Boko Haram.
Over the past week, after the Confederate terrorist attack on the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina, a series of predominantly African-American Christian churches have burned down. The volunteer human rights group Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) calls for U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey to immediately form an interstate task-force to investigate these church fires in connection with the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(2)), and to use their authority to arrest the terrorists behind any arson attacks on houses of worship.
While the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) is leading this investigation from a technical perspective (identifying possible fire accelerant), we also need a coordinated, multi-region, federal law enforcement task force with a focus on Civil Rights Act crimes to play a central role in any investigation. While some of these church fires are being blamed on lightning and electrical failures, others are being viewed as deliberate arson. We believe that those familiar with Confederate terrorist tactics would recognize this as the signature of their past terrorist crimes against African-Americans.
Recent church burnings in the United States of America have included:
1. June 22, 2015 – Knoxville, Tennessee – College Hill Seventh-Day Adventist Church burned down – Cause: Arson – bags of dirt and bales of hay were left on fire outside the African-American church’s doors – and the hay was set on fire. The church van was also damaged by the fire. Status: Arson under investigation.
Knoxville, Tennessee – College Hill Seventh-Day Adventist Church Burned Down – Ruled Arson
2. June 23, 2015 – Macon, Georgia – God’s Power Church of Christ burned down – Cause: Arson – the church was gutted by fire and destroyed. Status: Arson under investigation. While the authorities believe it was arson, WMAZ reports that “Macon-Bibb’s fire chief says he still believes that a church fire last week was not a hate crime.”
June 23, 2015 – Macon, Georgia – God’s Power Church of Christ Burned Down
3. June 24, 2015 – Charlotte, North Carolina –Briar Creek Road Baptist Church burned down – Cause: Evidence of Arson damaging a building which housed church classrooms. Status: Arson under investigation. While the authorities believe it was arson, they state there is “no evidence of a hate crime, said Charlotte Fire Department spokeswoman Cynthia Robbins Shah-Khan.”
June 24, 2015 – Charlotte, NC – Church Fired Ruled Arson – Briar Creek Road Baptist Church
4. June 24, 2015 – Memphis, Tennessee – predominantly white American Fruitland Presbyterian Church burned down – Cause: Tennessee local law enforcement and media reporting fire may be due to lighting, with BATF calling it an “isolated incident.”
June 23, 2015 – Memphis, Tennessee – Fruitland Presbyterian Church Burned Down
5. June 26, 2015 – Warrensville, South Carolina – Glover Grove Baptist Church burned down — Cause: Undetermined. WRDW reports that investigators have have “have not been able to determine a cause to that fire, or an exact origin.”
June 26, 2015 – Warrensville, SC – Glover Grove Baptist Church Burned Down
June 27, 2015 – Elyria, Ohio – College Heights Baptist Church Burned Down
8. June 30, 2015 – Greeleyville, South Carolina – Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church burned down – Cause: Investigators believe “lightning strike.” WCIV and WLTX report that investigators state the fire was not caused by arson. The Mount Zion AME Church which was previously burned down by members of the Confederate Ku Klux Klan terrorist group Christopher Cox and Timothy Welch in June 1995, 20 years ago, who doused the church’s pews and pulpit with accelerants before setting the century-old house of worship ablaze.
June 30, 2015 – Greeleyville, South Carolina – Mount Zion AME Church Burned DownKKK Confederate White Supremacists Cox and Welch – who Burned Down Mount Zion AME Church in 1995
The history of white supremacist terrorism against churches and other houses of worship should deeply trouble all Americans and those concerned about such church fires. In any other nation in the world, if their were numerous cases of ARSON against a predominantly minority racial religious group in a week, after a terrorist attack on that house of worship, we would view this as an attack on our universal human rights — especially when a terrorist attacks and murders 9 people in such a house of worship the week before.
But these three recent cases of arson may be only the tip of the iceberg in terms of human rights atrocities by white supremacists and Confederates against American houses of worship. How many malicious and uncontrolled fires are we seeing at American religious institutions? The Washington Post reports statistics from the National Fire Protection Association that, “on average, between 2007 and 2011, roughly 180 intentional “not contained” fires per year — over 3 per week — spread and caused damage,” meaning they were “not contained” fires. These are deliberate acts to DESTROY houses of worship at 180 locations.
To ignore the links of terrorist individuals and groups to the destruction of these houses of worship is to ignore the obvious. Certainly, there are people who destroy houses of worship because they are deranged or for other reasons. But a deliberate attack to destroy a house of worship and terrorize a religious identity group is largely an act of terrorism. This is terrorism, regardless of your race, your religious identity, or your location in any part of the United States, and anywhere in the world. No one has a right to commit terrorism.
R.E.A.L. has previously posted about other attacks on American houses of worship, which we have seen too many times. This included attacks on houses of worship by Stormfront supporters and pro-Confederate terrorists Daniel Cowart and his partner Paul Schlesselman, who shot up the African-American Allen Baptist Church in Brownsville, Tennessee and also targeted an attack on 102 Christians in the Beech Grove Church of Christ in Tennessee; Cowart and Schesselman are currently in prison for their terrorism and terrorist plots. Stormfront members, stating they are part of the Confederate States of America (C.S.A.), defended Cowart and Schlesselman’s terrorism on churches, ending with quotes from the Confederate president Jefferson Davis, defending the cause of white supremacy. (The same Jefferson Davis you see highways named after and statutes defended in Richmond and other parts of the south.)
The pro-Confederate, white supremacist Stormfront organization (whose members havebeenrepeatedlylinkedto terrorism) finds the burning of American churches to be a source of great amusement to them; one Stormfront member mocks the destruction of a church that “Lightning is an “Act of God”, isn’t it?”. This extremist group has members who laugh about the church fires. This includes Stormfront members who mock burning of African-American churches stating that “Obama probably just told them to burn down their own churches so he could funnel them money.” Stormfront members glamorize a box of matches on the racist website, writing “Unless they are used to set White people on fire, then it’s not a hate crime.”
We have reported on the praise by Confederate Stormfront members in the burning of African-American Christian Churches in the United States. Stormfront members finds the burning of American churches to be a source of great amusement to them; one Stormfront member writes “Burn Baby Burn,” regarding such churches while holding a Confederate flag.
Another Stormfront member mocks the destruction of a church (allegedly by lightning) that “Lightning is an ‘Act of God’, isn’t it?’. Other Stormfront members mock the arson and burning of African-American churches stating that “Obama probably just told them to burn down their own churches so he could funnel them money.” Stormfront members glamorize a box of matches on the racist website, writing “Unless they are used to set White people on fire, then it’s not a hate crime.”
Confederate Racist Website Stormfront Posts Image of Matches Regarding African-American Churches being Burned Down – Stating “Unless they are used to set white people on fire, then it’s not a hate crime.”
Why do the Confederate racists mock such African-American church fires? Because they are convinced they can get AWAY with it, right in plain view of the public, and that the federal authorities will fail to act to stop such racist terrorism. They are convinced that the police in the South are more concerned about paint on the statue of Confederate traitors Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee than about protecting churches attended by African-Americans. So the Confederate racists at Stormfront post photos of matches and laugh about African-American churches burning down.
Yet our federal authorities with the resources of our nation cannot find “hate crime” motives in such contempt for African-Americans and churches across this nation. They need to find the aggressive motivation and organization of those who are determined to bring this to an end, and to publicly pursue such terrorists with the same vigor that other terrorists are pursued.
We would, of course, be rightly outraged at such a human rights crisis when it happens in Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, or any nation with minority houses of worship, which are attacked by terrorist individuals and groups. Human rights activists rightly call for that nation’s government to act to stop such human rights atrocities, in defiance of our universal human rights and the ICCPR. These human rights atrocities are not just a crime in those nations, they are also against INTERNATIONAL LAW.
Certainly, this must be the case in the United States of America as well.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) calls for the voices of American human rights activists as well as worldwide human rights activists and the United Nations Human Rights Council for action. Given the continuing human rights violations against African-Americans in the United States of America, the failure of consistent application of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 regarding these violations, and a continuing state of intimidation against African-Americans by extremists, we call upon the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to monitor the human rights conditions in the United States of America — associated with institutional intimidation, oppression, and failure to protect houses of worship from acts of terrorism. We call upon the United Nations to monitor this human rights crisis, just as they would any other human rights crisis anywhere else in the world.
The United States government, and especially the state and local governments protecting Confederate white supremacist symbols, need to understand that, in addition to our law, there is international law and international standards, which we must abide to as global citizens.
The position of Responsible for Equality And Liberty on our shared universal human rights is that these rights must be consistent for all, everywhere, all the time. We urge an end to the hate and violence of the past. We call for patriotic Americans to defy those who seek to promote symbols of white supremacist hatred and slavery to degrade and intimidate others.
We urge the United States of America federal government to truly be aggressive and act to end these acts of racist terrorism against African-Americans and African-American churches. The promoters of white supremacist terrorism should not be able to making mocking threats with impunity. Our federal law enforcement needs to enforce the Civil Rights Act and end such threats against African-Americans and those who have fought for their freedoms.
Especially now, as we come on the eve of America’s independence day, defining values that we continue to seek, we call for American patriots to remember the words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
We need to continue to make the American idea and the words of our national declaration into a reality for all people, and be Responsible for Equality And Liberty.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) supports our shared universal human rights for all people, and we reject and defy the ideology of white supremacy which has been promoted by so many hate groups and terrorists.
On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof committed a terrorist attack against the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, in Charleston, South Carolina, where he murdered 9 African-American men and women during a night time Bible study. R.E.A.L. has learned that terrorist Dylann Roof was inspired and linked to white supremacist, Nazi, and Confederate websites.
Inspired by white supremacist groups, Dylann Roof left a twisted white supremacist manifesto against African-Americans, “Jewish agitation,” and other identity groups, as a “rationale” for his terrorist attack. Terrorist Dylann Roof defended Southern slavery of human beings on Confederate plantations, demeaning African-Americans as “stupid and violent,” calling for violence against African-Americans, and claiming he was taking his “fight” to Charleston in what resulted in his terrorist attack on the Emanuel AME Church, since he stated there was “no real KKK” taking violent action. The terrorist Roof continued his racist attack on Hispanics as “enemies,” and sought to “destroy the Jewish identity.”
The terrorist Dylann Roof stated in his “manifesto” that he was educated to hate African-Americans and other minorities from his contact with the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC aka CCC), which R.E.A.L. has previously reported on. The CofCC’s racist extremist views include the twisted vision that “God is the author of racism. The national CofCC group is based in St.Louis, Missouri, not far from the Ferguson atrocities against African-Americans. (Missouri leaders allied themselves with the Confederate States of America (CSA) on October 31, 1861.) The CofCC group’s founder Gordom Baum died in March 2015. The CofCC group has been led by its president Earl Holt, who provided donations to several conservative political campaigns.
Mr. Holt has declined to address the issue of the CofCC’s influence in inspiring terrorist Dylann Roof other than being “deeply saddened,” and asked a former CofCC director to be the public spokesman on this. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reported that the CofCC president made statements about taking “a large caliber handgun”… to “help mitigate violent black crime at its source…” days before the Dylann Roof terrorist attack. The SPLC states that the CofCC “has denounced Roof’s actions but stands by their statements, maintaining they mean what they say on their website.” The CofCC stated the terrorist “Roof outlines other grievances felt by many whites,” and continued “we utterly condemn Roof’s despicable killings, but they do not detract in the slightest from the legitimacy of some of the positions he has expressed. Ignoring legitimate grievances is dangerous.”
In R.E.A.L.’s activism to defy white supremacist groups, we learned that the CofCC leaders regularly worked together with their racist allies in the Stormfront organization, including CofCC members appearing on the Stormfront radio program to promote white supremacist events and to recruit for new members to the cause of racial and religious hatred. The Stormfront organization has combined the Nazi and Confederate extremists of white supremacy into a singular “supermarket of hate,” as described by CBS News. It’s members have regularly praised and supported other terrorists committing attacks on the United States, as we havedocumented.
Dylann Roof was also linked to the Nazi website, the Daily Stormer. This information has been reported by the SPLC, who identifies Roof as poster “AryanBlood1488.” The SPLC states that: “The Daily Stormer is a neo-Nazi website run by Andrew Anglin that both generates original content and aggregates articles from other white supremacist sites across the Internet. Its comment section is much less moderated than its peer sites and hosts a diverse community of white supremacists from across the extremist spectrum. In his alleged manifesto, Roof writes, ‘I mean that our culture has been adopted by everyone in the world. This makes us feel as though our culture isnt [sic] special or unique.’ In an almost verbatim statement at the Daily Stormer on January 31, 2015, ‘AryanBlood1488’ writes, ‘White culture is World Culture, and by that I don’t mean that our culture is made up of ones from around the world, I mean that our culture has been adopted by everyone in the world. This makes us feel as if it isn’t special, because everyone has adopted it.’ Notably, on another article titled ‘No Longer Posting Council of Conservative Citizens Articles’ published to the Daily Stormer on the same day, ‘AryanBlood1488’ expresses his reverence for the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a white nationalist hate group, for ‘waking him up’ to ‘black on white crime.’ ‘I have serious, great respect for the CofCC because they are the ones who woke me up to black on white crime in the beginning,’ writes ‘AryanBlood1488.’ ‘It was the first site I went to the day that changed my life, the day I decided to type in ‘black on white crime’ into Google.’ ”
Raw Story also reported that “Roof also lived for a time in Lexington, just a few miles away, which is home to onetime Aryan Nation leader and Christian Identity pastor August Kreis – whose activity and influence has waned as a result of severe diabetes and his arrest last year on child sex abuse charges. An analysis of Roof’s writings suggests that he was an active participant in The Daily Stormer white nationalist message board.”
Dylann Roof and Nazi Daily Stormer Website (Source: SPLC)
ISIS terrorists launched a string of terrorist attacks in multiple nations on June 25 and June 26, 2015 to murder Muslims, women, children, elderly, and tourists – in Syria, Kuwait, Tunisia, France, during the Islamic holiday of Ramadan. The vast majority of the 153 murdered in these ISIS terrorist attacks were Muslims. This is also the case in another 50 killed by ISIS ally Al-Shabab today, June 26. Combined, the ISIS terrorist and terrorist ally Al-Shabab attacks killed over 200, targeting mostly Muslims.
In Syria, the ISIS terror group killed at least 145 civilians in an attack on the Syrian town of Kobani and a nearby village on Thursday, June 25. Reuters reported the “attack on the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani and the nearby village of Brakh Bootan marked the biggest single massacre of civilians by Islamic State in Syria since it killed hundreds of members of the Sunni Sheitaat tribe last year.” The gruesome images of Muslim children’s bodies destroyed into pieces and row after row of children’s bodies after the ISIS terror attack in Kobani is heart-rending.
ISIS terror group killed at least 145 civilians in Kobani, Syria, including children, women, elderly
YPG spokesman Rami Abdulrahman told Reuters 46 civilians had been killed. The YPG spokesman said at least 145 had died in the assault launched by a group of Islamic State fighters estimated to number in the dozens. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said an estimated 50,000 people had been displaced within Hasaka city while 10,000 had left northwards toward Amuda town, close to the Turkish border. It warned that up to 200,000 people could eventually flee.
In Kuwait, on June 26, ISIS terrorists bombed the the Shiite mosque of Al-Sadiq on the Muslim day of prayer, in the middle of Ramadan, the holiest month in Islam. The ISIS terror group claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing of the mosque. CCTV camera images showed the ISIS terrorist entering the mosque, during the Friday prayers, then using a cowardly suicide bomb to murder the unsuspecting Muslim worshippers. The gruesome photos of the killings in the mosque included young children who had gone for Ramadan prayers. The terrorist attack on Muslims left at least 8 dead, and many injured. The ISIS terrorist group bragged that it had killed and injured dozens in the attack on the Kuwait mosque. The Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah condemned the “cowardly terrorist act.”
ISIS Cowards Attack Shiite mosque of Al-Sadiq during Muslim Ramadan Prayers
In Tunisia, a reported ISIS terrorist attacked the Hotel Imperial Marhaba in Sousse, opening fire on beachgoers, and killing at least 39 people and injuring at least 39. At least five victims were British, according to the U.K. Foreign Office. An ISIS report stated that one of their terrorist used as a suicide bomb and that two of their terrorist members opened fire with guns on tourists at the beach resort. One of the reported ISIS cowards gunning down people on the beach includes the now dead attacker named as Abu Yahya Al-Qayrawani (from Kairouan/Tunisia), who was shot by police during his rampage against helpless people. One courageous man Matthew Jameswas shot three times as he used his body as a human shield to protect his fiance.
Cowardly ISIS Terrorists Shoot at Beachgoers in Sousse, killing at least 39 people and injuring at least 39.
In France’s Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (Isere region) near Grenoble, a terrorist sought to explode gas cylinders at an American gas products company, Air Products, and beheaded a man. The alleged killer has been arrested and named as Yassine Salhi, 30, with the victim believed to be his employer. The French victim’s (Hervé Cornara) body was mutilated, labeled with Arabic lettering, and staged with two Khilafah shahada Arabic flags next to his body (one black and one white) next to his body, with the victim’s head posted on a fence. FRANCE 24 and the NYT reported that Yassin Salhi was being monitored since 2006 due to his association with “very radical” extremist groups. Police authorities arrested a second individual (Frédéric Jean Salvi), said to be “close” to him and is reportedly a radical cleric sought by Indonesian authorities, and his wife was also questioned, but has since been released. The president of the company targeted in the attack, Air Products, is a Shia Iranian named Seifi Ghasemi. Authorities believe Salhi may have been influenced or connected to ISIS.
Cowardly Terrorist Beheads Unarmed Man in France, Then Praises Khilafah
On Friday June 26, the ISIS ally of Al-Shabab killed 50 in Somalia, in an attack on an African Union base in military base in southern Somalia, with another 20 soldiers and 40 civilians missing and feared kidnapped for Al-Shabab’s slavery. This followed a June 24 attack by Al-Shabab on a UAE diplomatic convoy by a suicide bomber killing six Muslims.
ISIS Ally Al-Shabab in Somalia Kill and Kidnap Unarmed Civilians, Enslave Women
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) extends its prayers and sympathy to all those whose loved ones and lives were tragically impacted by such cowardly terrorist attacks. These attacks demonstrate, once again, that the only real ideology such cowardly terrorists have is a commitment to the destruction of our universal shared human rights of freedom of religion, security, dignity, equality, and liberty.
These cowards who target those in prayer, those on the shore, and those simply going about the daily lives are not the “warriors” that claim to be. They are sick, cowardly thugs who seek to snuff out the lives of children, women, elderly, and those who can’t defend themselves, because this is the only type of “fighting” capable by such cowards. They rationalize their attacks on houses of worship, our children, mothers, and families as promoting an ideology, but the only ideology they have is cowardly hate. We call for all those who glamorize such cowards to see them for who they really are in these attacks, mostly on Muslims, during Ramadan.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty is committed to our shared universal human rights, dignity, security for all people around the world, and in opposition to such criminal gangs who seek to rob us of our shared human rights. We urge all people to defy such enemies of human rights, and to be responsible for equality and liberty.
The Times of Israel reported on an another “Price Tag” terrorist attack on a Christian Church of the Multiplication in the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus fed 5,000, according to Christian beliefs. The Times states a “fire broke out at the Church of the Multiplication at Tabgha, on the Sea of Galilee, early Thursday in what police suspect was an arson attack. Firefighting crews successfully doused the blaze and two people who were in the building suffered minor smoke inhalation. In an entrance corridor of the building, which is believed by Christians to be the site of Jesus’s miracle of multiplying two fish and five loaves to feed 5,000 people, Hebrew graffiti was found, reading, ‘the false gods will be eliminated’ — a quote from the Aleinu prayer.”
The church is run by the Catholic Benedictine Order.
The Times of Israel reports “Right-wing Jewish extremists have in the past carried out numerous arson and graffiti attacks against Christian sites, as as well as against Arab property in the West Bank and Jerusalem under the ‘price tag’ slogan. The term ‘price tag’ is used by Jewish extremists to describe vandalism or attacks typically carried out against non-Jews or their property, ostensibly as retribution for Palestinian attacks or Israeli government actions deemed contrary to settler interests.”
The Times of Israel also reported: “Two weeks earlier, ahead of a visit to the country by Pope Francis, suspected Jewish extremists daubed hate graffiti on Vatican-owned offices in Jerusalem. The Hebrew-language graffiti, reading ‘Death to Arabs and Christians and those who hate Israel,’ was sprayed on the walls of the offices of the Assembly of Bishops at the Notre Dame center, a complex just outside the Old City, the Roman Catholic Church said.”
Dylann Storm Room, identified as the terrorist behind the Charleston terrorist attack, has been apprehended in Shelby, North Carolina, in apparent attempt to flee the state. He was captured while driving a vehicle with a Confederate flag licence plate, praising the “Confederate States of America.” This is another in the instances of racial supremacism that R.E.A.L. has reported.
White Racist Terror Suspect Dylann Roof driving car with Confederate Flag License Plate
This is the second terrorist attack reported by R.E.A.L. with a distinct “Confederate States of America” link; the previous attack was a terrorist attack against the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum by James Von Brunn wearing a Confederate cap, killing Stephen Tyrone Johns.
Reuters reports that the white terrorist suspect of the terrorist attack on the Episcopal AM Church, killing 9 people, has been identified as Dylann Storm Roof. “The FBI identified the shooter as Dylann Roof of Columbia, South Carolina. An uncle of Roof’s said he recognized the man in the surveillance photo as his nephew.” Reuters states that law enforcement agents were present at Roof’s home, Cowles said, adding he believed the shooter’s father had recently bought him a .45-caliber handgun as a birthday present. He is identified as a 21 year old white male, 5′ 9″, 120 pounds, driving a Hyundai GS compact, with license number LGF330.
Dylann Roof has a Facebook account where it shows his home in Columbia, SC, and as a person who went to White Knoll High School. He is photographed wearing a jacket with Apartheid-era South African flag and Rhodesia flag.
Dylann Roof – South Carolina man named as terror suspect (Source: Facebook)Another photo of terrorist suspect
Surprisingly, it shows on Facebook that he had “friends” of different races.
One of Dylann Roof’s friends was part of a Facebook group “rebel americans for the furtherment of our american futures.”
“Need to Identify” Statement from Charleston Police
A terrorist shooter, described by police as a white male, is AT LARGE after a racist terrorist attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, in Charleston, South Carolina. There were 9 killed in the terrorist attack: six females and three males. Eight died at the scene, and the 9th died at the hospital. Once the authorities notify families, they will release the full list of names. The authorities are calling this terrorist attack a “hate crime.” This included the death of the churches’ leader Reverend Clementa Pinckney. A report states that the terrorist told one member of the church meeting “I am going to let you live. I want you to tell them what happened.” A five year old child hid during the terrorist’s shooting rampage, by pretending to be dead, according to reports.
NBC reports that the terrorist sought out the pastor.
Sylvia Johnson, a cousin of church shooting victim Pastor Clementa Pinckney says she spoke with one of the survivors “and she said that he had reloaded five different times… and he just said ‘I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.'”
Earlier, Reverend Pinckey, who is also a South Carolina state senator, backed a bill that called for body cameras for police in response to a killing of Walter Scott by a police officer on April 4, 2015 in North Charleston, South Carolina.
Pastor Reverend Clementa Pinckney of the Episcopal AME Church Killed in Terrorist Attack on June 17 Night (Source: AME Website)
Every Wednesday evening, the church holds a Bible study in its basement. The Emanuel AME church is described as one of the “oldest AME church in the south.” The white terrorist apparently attended the Bible meeting. Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen says the terror suspect attending a meeting and stayed for almost an hour before gunfire erupted.
Reports say the white terrorist shooter is still at large. But they were still describing the terror suspect as a clean-shaven white man, 5′ 9″, in his 20s, with a slender build. He was wearing a grey sweatshirt, blue jeans and Timberland boots. A photo is being circulated of the suspected. The suspect was pictured leaving the scene in a black four door sedan.
The Charleston police state they want people with information to call 843-720-2447.
CCTV Photo of White Terrorist Suspect in Attack on Episcopal AME Church (Source: Charleston Police)
Another photo of terrorist suspect
“Need to Identify” Statement from Charleston Police
The terrorist attack on the Christian church took place at 9 PM on Thursday, June 17, 2015. It has been reported that 9 people were shot, and that there are “multiple fatalities,” in what is clearly a racist terrorist attack, intended to target African-Americans.
Local Pastor Thomas Dixon: “It’s really bad. It’s a very bad scene.” (Source: YouTube)
Local pastor Thomas Dixon told CNN that “It’s really bad. It’s a very bad scene.” “Apparently the person just entered the church and opened fire. That part has not been fully articulated on what happened yet … they are still looking for the suspect.”
The police briefly arrested a white male, David Corrie of Ladson, wearing a backpack as he was coming out of a store, after they heard some popping noises in the area. Corrie had camera and recording equipment.
Pastor Reverend Clementa Pinckney of the Episcopal AME Church Attacked Wednesday Night (Source: AME Website)
Episcopal AME Reverend Clementa Pinckey was reported to be one of the victims of the terrorist attack. Reverence Pinckey. Clementa Pinckney is also a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 45th District since 2000,
Responsible for Equality And Liberty denounces this terrorist attack and calls for our supporters of any faith to pray for the victims and their families of this terrorist attack.
In a display of anti-Islam fever, a group of nearly 200 had a protest in front of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix mosque in Phoenix, Arizona. The group was led by former U.S. Marine soldier Jon Ritzheimer. While the protest did not result in injuries or deaths, the image of numbers of individuals armed with weapons in front of a house of worship is a disgrace to America’s commitment to our Constitutional rights and our Universal Human Rights.
The media debate about the protest largely was centered on Mr. Ritzheimer and his supporter’s views on Islam. But that is not the real issue in this debate. The unanswered question is his view and his supporters’ views on the Constitution of the United States and our shared universal human rights. Our Constitution’s Bill of Rights protects our freedom of religion (under the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment); the same Constitution which Mr. Ritzheimer made a solemn vow to support and defend. America also is committed to freedom of religion under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Article 18, signed by the United States on December 10, 1948, as well as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Part III, Article 18, signed by the United States on October 5, 1977, and ratified on June 8, 1992.
In the United States of America, and in international law, freedom of religion is not simply a “good idea.”
Freedom of religion is THE LAW.
Freedom of speech and protest is also THE LAW.
But freedom of speech and protest, while holding an automatic weapon, is no longer “public protest.” It is nothing less than cowardly, despicable threats, which are a disgrace to all Americans, our Constitution, and our universal human rights.
Phoenix, Arizona Protests in front of Islamic Community Center on May 29, 2015 – with Cowards Holding Automatic Weapons (Source: Twitter)
According to the reports, this protest was the result of a terrorist attack on a Texas school earlier in May, during a “Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest,” designed to insult Muslims. As CNN reported, “The Islamic Community Center of Phoenix is the mosque that Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi attended for a time. They’re the men who drove from Arizona to a Dallas suburb to shoot up a Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest there. Both were killed by police early this month.” But the rest of the story is that Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi shot at a security guard in an attempted terrorist attack there. That is the violence we have seen from other pro-violent jihad extremists. Those criminals paid the price for their criminal violence with their lives. This does not discount that there may be other extremists supporting Simpson and Soofi; there must continue to be a human rights call to challenge extremists, and even terrorists in every area of this nation. Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) reported on and condemned the terrorist acts by Simpson and Soofi in Garland, Texas, and we defended the right to unpopular, contemptible speech by those they attacked. But there is a difference between respecting the freedom of such unpopular speech, and those extremists who take automatic weapons to protest in hate in front of a house of worship.
The idea that over 100 individuals believe that it is acceptable in the United States of America to hold an “armed” protest outside of a house of worship is an insult to the Constitution, and a slur against the laws of this nation and our shared human rights.
If this were any other nation, the images of armed individuals protesting outside of any house of worship would bring the voices of outrage and disgust from human rights activists, the United Nations, and those committed to religious freedom. So it must be, of course, with the United States as well. The number of “armed individuals” appear to be a small minority of the total protesters. Does this matter? If 100 protested outside of a Pakistan Christian church, a European Jewish synagogue, or any other house of worship anywhere in the world, but only a “small minority” of the protesters held machine guns, would this still not be a source for human rights outrage? Of course, it would, and it must, in the United States of America as well.
Furthermore, the vicious language of some of the protesters show their contempt towards the United States’ Constitution and our commitment to universal human rights of freedom of religion. The protest organizer’s call for protesters to bring guns to the event – “[p]eople are also encouraged to utilize there second amendment right at this event” – is an embarrassment to all patriotic Americans who respect our Constitution and our shared freedoms. We were lucky that no one got injured or killed – THIS time. But the failure to be consistent in our support for Constitution and our human rights remains an issue where we must continue to make change.
An Arizona Muslim activist also reported that the Arizona protest supporters included extremists advising participants to bring ammunition “coated in pig blood and fat.” R.E.A.L. has confirmed this with our own investigation as well. This path to hate, depravity, and violence can be reversed. It begins with a consistent support by all Americans for the truths that we hold self-evident, our commitment to our shared human rights, shared human dignity, and in America, our support for the Constitution.
It begins by being Responsible for Equality And Liberty – everywhere, for all of our fellow Americans, and for all of our brothers and sisters in humanity.
In Saudi Arabia, a terrorist bombed the the minority Shia Imam Hussein mosque, the only Shia mosque in the region, resulting in four killed. This terrorist attack comes just a week after another device was detonated by ISIS terrorists in the nearby village of al-Qudeeh, killing 21 mostly Shia Muslims. The ISIS terrorist group since claimed responsibility for the attack on the Facebook page of member stating that a “soldier of the caliphate,” blew himself up among “an evil gathering of those filth in front of one of their shrines in Dammam.”
The four people were killed outside the Shia mosque, by the terrorist, reportedly dressed in a burka, who tried to drive into the mosque and kill worshipers, but was stopped by security. The terrorist detonated the bomb in the car while in the parking area outside of the women’s entrance to the mosque.
Saudi Arabia: ISIS Terrorist Attack on Minority Shia Imam Hussein mosque – Dammam (Source: Reuters)
Terrorist and extremist violence which seeks to deny our universal human rights, our human dignity, and religious freedom has no boundaries. It can strike anywhere against anyone of any faith. Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) urges people of all faiths to stand together united for our shared Universal Human Rights and defy those terrorists of every kind who would deny us the inherent freedom that we share together.
Another attack on a Pakistan Christian school by extremists was reported by Fides and by the Pakistan Christian Post on April 17, 2015. The attack was made by gunmen on the Christian Catholic St. Francis school. This was another in a repeated series of attacks on Christian organizations in Pakistan, and especially around the Lahore area.
Fides reported that the “St Francis High School” is a Catholic high school located in the district of Bahar, in the Anarkali area, near Lahore. According to Fides, a “student and two security guards were injured and were taken to hospital. The reasons of the attack have not yet been established, and investigations are being carried out.” Both the “St. Francis High School”, and the “St Mary High School” were closed.
According to the Pakistan Christian Post, “Unidentified gunmen began firing and as the guards on duty outside the school intercepted, they were caught in the firing and got injured. The students of the school have been directed to leave the school premises. The investigation is underway to find out the main reason of attack. The Churches and Christian institutions already have warned about security threat from hardliners. Behar Colony is the second largest Christian residential area in Lahore and Lahore is the second largest city of Pakistan.”
St. Francis School Attacked by Extremists in Lahore, Pakistan area
Those who believe in our universal human rights and accepts the rule of law for any society, must reject the extremist violence against minority Christians. We must all reject this violence and seek and end to the oppression in Pakistan.
