Nazi War on Disabled. Adolf Hitler’s racial supremacy included the killing of disabled individuals as being inferior to his racial master race. This included the murdering of 5,000 disabled children and also development of a program to murder 70,273 disabled adults. In 1939, Hitler’s Nazi team encouraged parents of children with disabilities to bring the children to specialty pediatric clinics. But what Hitler actually had the Nazi hospitals do was to murder the disabled children through lethal drugs or starvation. When the Nazi child-killing program began, it was initially designed to murder infants, but the Nazis then increased the murder program to kill children up to 17 years of age.
Disabled Child – one of the Victims of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Mass Murder of Disabled
The “T4” program for adults created six installation of gas chambers for disabled adults throughout Germany, killing over 70,000 such disabled adults. The Nazis also murdered disabled patients in hospitals in mass shootings, as well as “gas vans” to murder disabled people in their occupied territories. An Italian study has shown that the Nazis killed up to 300,000 disabled individuals.
Nazi War on Asians and Pakistanis. Adolf Hitler’s Nazis may have had allies in imperial Japan, but it is often forgotten that the Nazi and Axis war on Asians included attacks on Chinese and Philippines, including the torturing and raping of thousands of Philippine women. Adolf Hitler’s white supremacist racist views were that Chinese people were considered as “untermenschen,” or “sub-human.”
The modern European and American Nazi adherents have used their white supremacist ideology to spread hatred against Pakistani and other Asian people, as part of their racist views. In the United Kingdom, this has included regular Nazi attacks on Pakistan immigrants, and crowds of Nazis in the streets of London screaming and taunting Pakistan people.
London – Nazi Hatred Against Pakistanis (Source: Guardian Video Screen Shot)
Greece: “Golden Dawn” Nazi Terrorists Murdered Pakistani Shehzad Luqman
Modern-day Nazi racist white supremacists view Asian and Pakistan people as “untermenschen” even today, and Pakistanis in Europe are regularly targeted for attack by Nazis.
Nazi War on Homosexuals. Adolf Hitler’s Nazis attacked homosexuals, using a special Gestapo branch to order police to develop “pink lists” on homosexuals all over Germany. The Nazis then arrested 100,000 homosexuals for imprisonment, and also sentenced gay men to Nazi concentration camps. The Nazi concentration camps identified prisoners wearing a pink triangular patch (rosa Winkel) on their uniforms. They were beaten, abused, tortured, killed, and their bodies were mutilated, including castration of hundreds.
Nazi Oppression of Homosexuals in Concentration Camps – Wore the Rosa Winkel (Pink Triangle)
At the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, Hitler’s Nazis performed medical experiments on homosexuals’ bodies as part of their monstrous torture on other human beings.
Nazi terrorism against homosexuals did not end with their idol Adolf Hitler.
Nazi War on Muslims. As R.E.A.L. has repeatedly reported, Nazi individuals and groups targeted minority Muslims in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world. As reported recently in Arizona, mosque protesters included Nazis among armed protesters in the crowd.
Nazi Protester Outside Arizona Mosque
In Tennessee, Nazi terrorists who were members of the “Aryan Alliance” firebombed the Islamic Center of Columbia, south of Nashville, after they painted Nazi swastikas on it; Michael Corey Golden got 14 years in prison, and his fellow Nazi terrorists were convicted and imprisoned.
Nazi Arson Attack on Tennessee Mosque – Burning it to the Ground
Anti-Muslim extremists on Stormfront Nazi site regularly use racial supremacist ideology in their basis to call for ethnic cleansing of Muslims. In the United Kingdom, in March 2015, Nazi swastika flags were flown in the British streets of Newcastle as part of extremist anti-Muslim campaigns, and in Newcastle, Nazi swastikas were defacing mosques. In the United Kingdom, Nazi Ian Forman were jailed for 10 years in a twisted plot to blow up mosques across the Merseyside, UK area. Nazi Ian Forman spoke of his admiration of Adolf Hitler; the judge who convicted him stated that his activities “were a continuation of Nazi warfare.”
In Europe, this has included recent Nazi attacks and swastika defacing on Muslim mosques in Dormagen, Germany, in Leipzig, Germany, in Vienna, in Tyrol, Austria, in Stockholm, Sweden, in Provins, France (outside Paris), at a mosque construction site in Meaux, France. We have reported on similar Nazi group activities against mosques in Denmark and throughout Europe.
In Australia, Nazis have attack Muslim mosques in Perth, Australia; Nazi attacks on mosques have included the Nazi terror group C18 that fired gunshots into the dome roof of the Suleymaniye Mosque.
After the attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Muslim leader Asma Hanif stated “Someone who will demonstrate hate like this will do it in any community.” “Whether it was the Holocaust or slavery, the only reason it prevailed is because it was tolerated. We have the right and the authority to end it.”
Nazi War on Christians. Adolf Hitler’s white supremacist Nazis have often attacked Christians.
There were many extremists in Nazi Germany among Christians, including extremist in clergy who were part of the Nazi’s Anti-Semitic campaign. But the history of Nazi oppression of Christians is often forgotten both in history and in current day reality, especially when viewed in the historical light that the Nazi goal was to destroy Christianity. Hitler’s Nazis persecuted Christians who defied them and who stood for Christian values in Germany. Aggressive anti-Church radicals like Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler led a take over of churches in Germany (the Kirchenkampf), forcing them to reject any Christian values that the Nazi party would not accept. This led to struggles among both Protestant and the Roman Catholic Churches which were occupied by the Nazi racial supremacists. Jesuits were attacked and Catholic properties were taken over by the Nazis.
Clergymen were sent to concentration camps, and Nazi Himmler sought to end the “principle of Christian mercy” among the German people, which was part of a long-term goal to end Christianity in Nazi Germany. As part of war criminal trials, the United States Organization of Strategic Services (OSS) developed a document on “The Nazi Master Plan” to destroy Christianity in Germany. As Nazi Baldur von Shirach wrote “the destruction of Christianity was explicitly recognized as a purpose of the National Socialist movement.” Nearly 2000 Polish Christian clergy were sent to the Nazi concentration camps. The Jehovah Witness religious adherents were singled out for oppression and sent to concentration camps. The attack on Christians by the Nazis did not end with Adolf Hitler or WWII.
The continuing Nazi racist ideology remains focused on rejection and terrorism of Christianity around the world. In April 2015, this included a Nazi terrorist bombing at Orthodox parish of Saint Vladimir in Marzahn-Hellensdorf, near Berlin.
In the United States, this has included efforts by Nazi terrorists to attack African-American churches, such as Daniel Cowart’s attack in Tennessee and Dylann Roof’s attack in Charleston, where he murdered 9 African-Americans.
Convicted Terrorist Daniel Cowart with Swastika Tattoo – Attacking Christian Churches (Photo: Inquister)Charleston White Supremacist Terrorist Dylann Roof Believed to be Part of Nazi Web Site – Killer of 9 African-Americans in Church
In April 2014, a Nazi terrorist killed three Christians in Kansas City, who were preparing for a play, including a 14 year old boy, Reat Griffin Underwood (a Boy Scout), his grandfather, and another woman.
Christian and Boy Scout Reat Griffin Underwood Murdered in Nazi Terror Attack in United States in 2014
As R.E.A.L. has investigated in the USA, Nazi terrorists view the end of Christianity to be a priority for the goals. Therefore, Nazi terror attacks on Christian churches fits within their ideology. Stormfront Nazis post that their racial identity is their only religion. Christians have a particular responsibility both as victims and the historical responsibility of those extremists with white supremacists to protest and reject Nazi and Hitler.
Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Racist War on people of African descent and African-Americans. Hitler’s Nazi regime had a war on those African people living in Germany or the nations it occupied with its white supremacist terrorist forces. As the USHMM has reported, Hitler’s Nazis imprisoned, oppressed, and ostracized people of African descent. They lost their jobs, some were sterilized, some were sent to Nazi concentration camps, including African-Americans. At the concentration camps, they were subjected to extreme brutality and medical experimentation; many were worked to death. An African-American U.S. military unit participated in the liberation of one of the Nazi concentration camps. The Nazi war on people of African descent, similar to the Confederate and American slave masters, did not end with the defeat of Adolf Hitler. Nazis in Europe and America continue to target people of African descent for oppression, violence, and murder.
In the United States, this has included Nazi terror attacks on African-American Christian churches, by terrorists such as Daniel Cowart, and more recently in South Carolina by Dylann Roof, a Confederate terrorist who was a participant on a Nazi website. Dylann Roof murdered nine African-American Christians during a prayer meeting.
R.E.A.L. has previously reported that 180 houses of worship are targets of arson in America every year. We have also reported on the killing of Maryland’s Stephen Tyrone Johns, an African-American security guard, by Nazi James Von Brunn who attacked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
On Nazi/Confederate hate sites such as Stormfront, African-Americans are the constant targets of hate and praise and support for terrorist attacks on them.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) has new information on the support of Confederate terrorism by Stormfront members; the Stormfront group was founded by former Confederate Alabama Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Don Black.
Members of the Confederate white supremacist Stormfront group have been praising Confederate terrorist Dylann Roof who murdered 9 people at the Emmanuel AME Church, and they now mock church burnings across the country. Terrorist Dylann Roof has had both support among members of the white supremacist community, as well as defense for his twisted ideology of racial hate among members of pro-Confederate groups such as Stormfront. Dylann Roof was known to be an active poster for the Daily Stormer website, providing streaming radio links to the Confederate white supremacist Stormfront’s radio program.
Former Ku Klux Klan Leader Don Black’s Confederate Stormfront Group Members Praise Terrorism by Confederate Terrorist Dylann Roof – Killing 9 African-Americans
R.E.A.L has reported on the Confederate Stormfront hate group for years, including its members’ ties to terrorism in the United States of America. Many of the Stormfront members have logos with Confederate flag symbols and imagery, with some identifying their locations as within the “Confederate States of America (C.S.A.)”. Terrorists attacking the United States of America have come from within the Confederate Stormfront group, including known active Stormfront members Daniel Cowart, Wade Michael Page, and Richard Poplawski. Stormfront members have also praised a rogue’s list of terrorists attacking America, including white supremacist Paul Schlesselmann, white supremacist James Von Brunn, as well as terrorists Joseph Stack and Joseph Patrick Bedell – both of which attacked U.S. federal government buildings.
Confederate Stormfront Members Support for White Supremacist Terrorists
The increasing support for terrorist figures among members in the Confederate white supremacist group has come within the past five years. We call for the U.S. federal government to treat this growing public support for terrorism with the same attention it would give any other group with members active and promoting terrorist attacks on this nation. While the Stormfront members comments are offensive (we never mention the worst), it is important for Americans to know what values such Confederate white supremacists espouse and why we must reject their symbols of hate and racism.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) has repeatedly reported on the history of the white supremacist, pro-Confederate Stormfront group and its support for terrorist actions against the United States of America. If such volunteer human rights activists can readily obtain such information, we urge those in our federal law enforcement and counterterrorism organizations to make statements on such support for terrorism in our country. We also urge the American and world media to identify such sources of terrorist support, and find impossible to that the world media does not have the resources to investigate and report on this human rights issue.
R.E.A.L. has reported on the history of Stormfront’s support for other terrorist individuals including Stormfront supporter Daniel Cowart, who along with fellow Confederate Paul Schlesselman attacked the Allen Baptist Church in Brownsville, Tennessee and also targeted an attack on 102 Christians in the Beech Grove Church of Christ in Tennessee, as a means of plotting mass-murder terrorism against African-American Christians. They also plotted an assassination plot against Barack Obama. As reported by CBS News, Stormfront forum writer and terrorist Daniel Cowart used the Confederate message board to get advice on guns and weapons.
R.E.A.L. has reported on Stormfront supporter and terrorist Wade Michael Page, who was not only a supporter of Stormfront, but also wore one of Stormfront’s “White Pride World Wide” shirts. Wade Michael Page committed terrorist murder of 6 Sikhs in Wisconsin. Terrorist Wade Michael Page was part of a Confederate musical band, End Apathy, which was promoted on Stormfront with Confederate imagery for performances in Richmond, Virginia and other locations in the South. His terrorist attack was repeatedlypraised by members of the Stormfront forum who applauded his terrorist act stating“finally a man whos got some nerve,” with the Stormfront editor and chief of staff defending the terrorism as “they’re asking for it” and calling for action in the “out and out war of crime being waged against us by the negroes.”
R.E.A.L has also reported on Stormfront supporter and terrorist Richard Poplawski in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who used the Stormfront forum to praise white supremacy and attack racial minorities. On Stormfront, the white supremacist terrorist also bragged and talked about his automatic weapons, which he used in an attack to murder Pittsburgh police.
Stormfront members praised terrorist James Von Brunn who attacked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, while wearing a “Confederate soldier’s long coat cap.” The terrorist James Von Brunn murdered an African-American security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Stephen Tyrone Johns. Stormfront members praised his terrorist attack, stating “if you’re white, act white,” and calling for whites to “hate with violent passion,” and other Stormfront members stating that the “ZOG” media would lie about his terror attack, viewing the white supremacist terrorist as a “martyr.”
Stormfront Members Praised Attack by White Supremacist Terrorist James Von Brunn who Murdered Stephen Tyrone Johns in Attack on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
In addition, Stormfront members praise other terrorists in their attacks on the United States of America, as part of their Confederate hatred against America.
Stormfront Members Praise Terrorist Attack on Austin, Texas IRS Office and Murder of African-American Vernon Hunter (Photo: Jana Birchum, Getty Images)
Confederate Stormfront Members Praised John Patrick Bedell’s Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon ( Photo from Washoe County Jail (AP Photo/Washoe County jail via the Reno Gazette Journal)
Once again, this provides evidence of the open and public support for terrorist attacks by members of the Confederate Stormfront organization and other white supremacist and Confederate groups. Stormfront members have even voiced support for the 9/11 terrorist attacks against America.
The history of Confederate terrorism is not new, but we have seen it continue to grow over the past 10 years, and we believe it is the responsibility of human rights activists, American patriots, United States government leaders and counter-terrorists to challenge and defy such Confederate terrorists.
After the defeat of the pro-slavery Confederate army by American patriots in 1865, the Confederate activists continued their war against American human rights through a combination of terrorist insurgent and propaganda methods. The first of the Confederate terrorists was John Wilkes Booth who assassinated U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 at the Ford Theater. Since then, the United States has continued to face an ongoing terrorist challenge from Confederate terrorists throughout our history.
The First Confederate Terrorist Attack on America: the Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
American patriots have challenged the Confederate terrorist organization of the Ku Klux Klan since 1865, and we continue to do so again. The United States government created the Enforcement Act of 1871 (17 Stat. 13) to address the activities of the Confederate Ku Klux Klan terrorist organization, which has continued to plague this nation. The Confederate Ku Klux Klan terrorist organization has a long history of beatings, murders, lynchings, and bombings, including killing of civil rights leaders (with the cooperation of southern law enforcement), and infamous terrorist attacks on African-American houses of worship.
Confederate Ku Klux Klan Terrorists against African-American Churches and Their Victims – Little Girls
The Stormfront group was created by Confederate Ku Klux Klan leader Don Black as a way to re-package the appearance of such white supremacism, and whose members have been proven to support Confederate terrorism. Stormfront lists and actively promotes such Confederate Ku Klux Klan organizations throughout the United States.
Confederate Ku Klux Klan Leader Don Black Sought to Re-Package KKK Message with “Stormfront” Promoting Confederate Flag and History
In addition, 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.”
The Confederate Stormfront group has been part of “white nationalist” rallies that it has in different parts of the nation, including previously in Washington DC. When Stormfront’s recruitment event for the Washington DC area was protested by the free speech of R.E.A.L. and other human rights groups, the Confederate extremist group threatened R.E.A.L.’s founder and his family. Stormfront posted images with machine guns calling attacks on those who protested the event, and other white supremacists groups threatened R.E.A.L.’s founder stating “I’d be surprised if someone didn’t decide to correct your behavior,” and that “when someone does declares war on us, it’s OK to fight back. With any and all means.”
Confederate Stormfront Group “Machine Gun” Threat at R.E.A.L.’s Free Speech to Protest White Supremacist Recruitment Meetings
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)’s position remains constant and consistent: we support the Universal Human Rights of all people, including all of our fellow Americans. We do not believe a human rights campaign can be limited to any one part of the world, but we believe that our shared universal human rights must be protected for all people around the world, including minorities in the United States of America.
Furthermore, we do not believe that a campaign of merely passively calling for human rights and dignity in the face of human right threats is sufficient. We believe that to be RESPONSIBLE for equality and liberty – we must be active participants in a society which works to ensure such shared human rights, including rejecting and defying the forces of any extremist group which seeks to deny and degrade the human rights of our fellow human beings. Our challenge to Confederates and white supremacy in the United States is no different than our challenge to extremists attacking human rights anywhere in the world.
R.E.A.L. calls for the American people to reject and denounce the ongoing Confederate culture of white supremacy and its history of racism, slavery, and hate. R.E.A.L. calls for the American people to denounce and end the public honoring of any symbols or monuments to a Confederate culture of white supremacy, which has as its basis the rejection of equality, liberty, our shared universal human rights, and the truths that we hold self-evident as a nation, and as a human race. In a phrase, “Take It Down.”
Such determined stance in support of our human rights and dignity, and our rejection of the forces of racial hatred and violence is the obligation of all patriotic Americans.
Our support for our universal human rights is a fundamental basis for global trust, respect, and communications among all people, not only in the United States, but also around the world. We urge our fellow Americans and all those around the world to be Responsible for Equality And Liberty.
Orange Ribbon for Universal Human Rights – Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
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.
In Sheikhupura, Punjab, a mob of violent extremist sought to kill two Pakistan Christian women and her husband on a false charge of blasphemy, before the Pakistan police surrounded the village, protected the Christians, and arrested the cleric leading the lynch mob.
Pakistan Christian Post reports on the torture of two Christian woman in Sheikhupura, Punjab; the woman and her family was dragged out of her home beaten and tortured, over a dispute on a carpet sale. Per the report, a mob of villages made a false charge of blasphemy against the Christian women, then tortured her, shaved her husband’s head, and her sister-in-law painted their faces black, put shoes around their neck, and paraded them on donkeys. The alleged assault took place in Chak 460, a village in Sheikhupura district, some 30 kilometers from Punjab’s provincial capital Lahore.
The Pakistan District Police Officer (DPO) arrived to get the situation under control. In the report, “hundreds of Police men” “reached the village,” and “The police took over the entire village and surrounded the village to control the situation.” The Pakistan Christian woman was taken into protective custody with her family, and moved to an undisclosed location. Reportedly the “police will stay in the village few days for the safety of the other Christians.”
The AFP and Pakistan Today news media also reported that a cleric accused of leading the mob to try kill the Christians on the false charge of blasphemy has been arrested.
The news agencies reported that Sohail Zafar Chattha, the district police chief, stated:”One of the clerics who led the mob demanding the arrest of the couple and their death was at large, he was arrested today (Friday) and we are looking for a barber who ignited the whole issue.” The police officer stated “I told him I would not register a case because no blasphemy has been committed. But I have registered a case against the cleric and 400 others for inciting violence and endangering the lives of the couple.” He stated “the mob meant business. They wanted to kill them right there.”
Responsible for Equality And Liberty applauds the actions of these Pakistan police in protecting the lives of these oppressed Pakistan Christians from this lynch mob, and for the arrest of the extremist cleric behind these attacks. But the police will not always be able, or willing to arrive on time, in every case to protect such religious minority. Pakistan needs to recognize that more fundamental human rights change is necessary for protection of religious minorities and to stop the abusive blasphemy law as a basis for murder and mayhem by extremists.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty supports and defends the universal human rights of all people, and it reminds Pakistan of its obligations and commitment under international law. We challenge the Pakistan blasphemy law as a direct attack on our shared universal human rights.
Pakistan is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) ratified as of June 23, 2010, as well as a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Pakistan Blasphemy Law is in direct contradiction to its international agreement of ICCPR Article 18, which includes “1. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.” The Pakistan Blasphemy law is in direct opposition to these shared universal human rights for the Pakistan people and for all people. Pakistan needs to decide whether or not it is a member of the nations of the world that respects human rights and dignity, or it is a clear and unquestionably self-declared rogue nation which rejects these global standards necessary for a free people.
R.E.A.L. urges the Pakistan government and the Pakistan people to end the oppressive blasphemy law which attacks the rights of Pakistan Christians and other religious minorities, and which is used as a method to harass and intimidate people with a grudge against a Pakistani in any identity group. These attacks on our shared universal human rights have to end. We urge Pakistan to realize the need for change and to truly become responsible for equality and liberty.
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.
