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Saturday, July 21, 2012

[chottala.com] Which Country is this?



Imagine, You live in a Country, your Neighbor is a Buddhist Racist called Ko Ko Gyi: Which Country is this?

Abid Bahar

Which Country is this? If you live in this country through generations and you are a Muslim Rohingya, you might be one of the unlucky persons on earth, because you have your neighbor, a racist named Ko Ko Gyi, who travels to the West but keeps his hoodlums in his neighborhood in Arakan to drive you and your family out of your ancestral home. The hoodlums already destroyed the ancient mosque in your neighborhood built in the 14th century. After living for centuries on this land, they think you are a person who have entered their country illegally. Your neighbor Ko Ko Gyi and his buddy Ko Myo Thein claims they are democrats, but in Ko Ko Gyi's speech he informs his followers: "...it has been a long-standing problem; this isn't a problem that exists only recently. For decades, the illegal immigrants have been flowing into Myanmar, ...the rate these Bengalis give birth, the rate of giving birth is massive and overtime the local Rakhines feel threaten by the sky-rocketed birthrate of these Bengalis. With these birthrates, it's only the Rakhines who feel threaten." Another racist named Aye Chan who became a Japanese citizen came to Arakan to say to his Rakhiine people: "These So-called Rohingyas are illegal people and are influx Viruses" needed to be exterminated. The police, security force, NaSaKa (the border guard) and the military, all are there to help them destroy you, and your family. This is all in the name of you being a "foreigner." So you realized that it is not because you have entered the country illegally, but that these people are Buddhist racists and working on ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya.

More alarming is that lately, you have been observing young people distributing leaflets, and hoodlums gather in street corners with machetes, sticks and with them security forces with revolvers. Among them you also see some monks. Being a Rohingya Muslim you realize that this is a religiously motivated racism.

At night suddenly you hear in your Rohingya neighbor's house the cry of a woman asking for help. Followed by a group of Rakhine young people in short pants setting fire on your Rohingya neighbor's house and next is yours. You have no time to spare, you leave behind your possessions. You took your family in your boat anchored on the river and you found out you are the luckiest ones, you got shelter in the neighboring country. You came to tell people what happened. On your way though you saw many man and women especially children dead, especially a dead child you couldn't forget who couldn't get up from the mud to catch up with her parents, during the stampede, the unfortunate Rohingya will not have her stories told to her future generation. ( Please see the references for details).

This seems like a story of Hitler's Germany in the last century. No, it is in Asia, in a Buddhist country, in the remote corner of Arakan, of Burma.

You are a peace loving Buddhist. You don't approve of this inhumanity especially after you heard Chris Lewa saying:
"Nationality in Burma should not be based on race, but rather on descent and birthplace." You heard Lewa saying: State-sponsored abuse of the Rohingya started on June 25, and she accused the army, thenasaka (border security forces), police officers and riot police of conducting mass arrests of Rohingyas, and raids that involved looting, robbery, rapes, beatings, torture and killings."

You heard Lewa saying: "Hundreds have died, many more have been injured, thousands of properties have been destroyed and an estimated 100,000 people have been displaced.

She adds that "There have been many attempts to block aid from UN agencies and international NGOs, said Lewa, even by Buddhist monks who are playing a leading role in rejecting aid and exhorting their communities not to do business with the Rohingya."

But as a democrat, and a peace-loving Buddhist,you realized, these Rakhine ultra nationalists also have hijacked the peace-loving Burmese people through anti Rohingya hate propaganda. To your utter surprise , Thein Sein, the President of the country who was a former military General declared: "We will take responsibility of our ethnic nationals but it is impossible to accept those Rohingyas who are not our ethnic nationals who had entered the country illegally. The only solution is to hand those illegal Rohingyas to the UNHCR or to send them to any third country that would accept them." You realized the President to be an old military wolf in the civilian sheep's skin. You wonder, whether the President is in his right mind to be a reformer because his statement shows he is an out-ride racist.

You know you are a democrat Bumar, you see the West is watching Thein Sein whether he will really favor the Western business in Burma or else what? In the mean time, you see many human rights groups in the West observing the recent "June 2012 machete massacre of the Rohingyas" now are supporting Rohingya's citizenship and strongly opine, "Enough is enough," " Burma is Rohingya's ancestral home and it is about time that the President and his local provocateurs should be brought to the International Criminal Court in the Hague for justice especially after his open acknowledgement of his direct link in the ethnic cleansing and the crime against humanity.

References:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=144658129003777&set=a.135378839931706.25621.100003787733026&type=1&theater

http://www.rohingyablogger.com/2012/07/rohingya-dictators-and-democracy-in.html

Tell Me What is Rohingya Genocide.

https://danyawadi.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/tell-me-what-is-rohingya-genocide-in-burma-by-abid-bahar-phd/

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=144253442377579&set=a.135378839931706.25621.100003787733026&type=1&theater

http://tv.yahoo.com/photos/myanmar-riots-slideshow/buddhist-man-holds-machete-other-members-community-guard-photo-170141758.html

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=506837352666726&set=a.255960174421113.81353.100000213983716&type=1&theater

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jack-healey/western-burma-in-conflict_b_1676863.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email+Notifications
Del6127781

http://danyawadi.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/%E1%81%83%E1%81%85%E1%81%85%E1%81%8B-burmese-invasion-of-arakan-and-the-rise-of-non-bengali-settlements-in-bangladesh/

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=506837352666726&set=a.255960174421113.81353.100000213983716&type=1&theater

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[chottala.com] Pakistan 72nd in Right to Information (RTI) rating



Pakistan has been ranked 72nd whereas neighbouring India grabbed 3rd position

Sat Jul 21, 2012 2:43 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"urvashi sharma" rtimahilamanchup

http://www.thenews. com.pk/Todays- News-13-16232- Pakistan- stands-pathetica lly-low-on- list-of-info- sharing-states
 

Pakistan stands pathetically low on list of info-sharing states
 
Umar Cheema
Saturday, July 21, 2012
From Print Edition
 
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been ranked 72nd whereas neighbouring India grabbed the 3rd position in the latest Right to Information (RTI) rating conducted in 90 countries about granting access to public record indicting government's denial to the people's right to know.
 
The study jointly carried out by Canada-based Centre for Law and Democracy and Spain-based Access Info Europe has found that other South Asian countries like Bangladesh and Nepal stand far above in RTI rating in comparison to Pakistan that already has earned notoriety through Corruption Index ratings. While Bangladesh has secured 13th position and Nepal stands at 17th position, Pakistan is among the last 20 countries in the Global RTI rating.
 
Tall promises made by the federal government and Punjab government to introduce laws granting liberal access to the citizens and media to public information have turned out to be hollow. The Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting has just woken up and constituted a sub-committee to reconsider ineffective draft bill of former MNA Sherry Rehman and only in the consultation with the Ministry of Information without involving civil society organisations and media.
 
Again, the Parliament that passed the highly controversial amendment in Contempt of Court Law after only 68 minutes debate is unlikely to proceed with same diligence on Freedom of Information Law. Likewise, provincial governments of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) have been sitting on the draft laws since 2010 without making any concrete effort to get it passed from the provincial assemblies. Baluchistan and Sindh framed laws in 2006, a pre-requisite for World Bank loans, but they only copied Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002, again an effective legislation.
 
In the RTI rating, two nascent democracies in the Eastern Europe, Serbia and Slovenia, secured first and second positions respectively in the RTI rating. Mexico that is otherwise considered very hostile to journalists due to drug cartels has been ranked at 7th position in the RTI rating. Ethiopia, another country unsafe for journalists due to non-state actors, has earned 10th position. Even Yemen boasts of having liberal access to information as it has been ranked at 20th position.
 
As far as Pakistan's position is concerned, a recent countrywide survey conducted by a Pakistani NGO, Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI), to study the effectiveness of the laws pertaining to access to information found that out of 54 departments approached, only two departments provided the required information.
 
The other 25 departments also responded positively but only after the applicant had to seek the intervention of the federal or provincial ombudsman. Owing to the ineffectiveness ofthe relevant laws, the CPDI demanded of the federal and provincial governments to repeal the existing information laws and enact new ones with strong and effective implementation mechanisms so that the constitutional right to information of the citizens could be ensured.
 
The CPDI requested the government departments to provide copies of the contracts of the development schemes and projects carried out in financial year 2010-11 along with the details about the utilisation of the development funds. The information requests were submitted to federal, provincial and district government departments in the 1st quarter of 2012 under Article 19-A of the Constitution, Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002 and Section 137 of the Local Government Ordinance 2001.
 
These findings coincide with a recent decision of the Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting to constitute a sub-committee for devising a law but only in consultation with the relevant ministry, a move sparking resentment and reservations about the possible outcome of an exercise finalised through bureaucratic input.
 
The CPDI advocating for RTI has come forward to express its concerns. A press release issued on Friday called for expanding the scope of the sub-committee saying that working with bureaucracy alone at Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is likely to compromise citizens right to information as the bureaucracy is afflicted with the malaise of dilly-dallying whenever information is sought from government departments under the existing information laws.
 
Therefore, Senate Committee on Information and Broadcasting should actively engage journalists and citizens groups in the process of finalising law of right to information, said the press release. This is vitally important as implementation mechanism envisaged in Sherry Rahman private member bill, the one under consideration of the Committee, is equally ineffective as the one envisaged in Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002 which the proposed Sherry Rahman information law seeks to repeal.
 
Realising the fact that ensuring citizens right to information is a specialised job, countries of the region like Bangladesh, Nepal and India have entrusted the task of protecting this right to independent and autonomous information commissions. Contrary to this, both Sherry Rehman's private bill and Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002 entrust this task to Federal Ombudsman, a body specialised in solving maladministration related issues, which has proved to be a toothless appellate body as it sees the right to information from narrow prism of maladministration issue, said the press release.
 
The CPDI urges the Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting to play its role proactively in enacting an effective right to information law which is at par with those enacted in the region through active involvement of journalists and citizens groups working in the area of right to information in the country.




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[chottala.com] Mushroom growth of Indian business houses in Bangladesh



Mushroom growth of Indian business houses in Bangladesh



http://www.banglanews24.com/detailsnews.php?nssl=5f7201a1e1b0cfc973d4d7cabd240734&nttl=21072012127856


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[chottala.com] Re: Goom, Khoon....



US Asst Secretary Robert Blake says RAB involved in disappearance, extrajudicial killings


The United States has said there were credible reports that the Rapid Action Battalion, a paramilitary law enforcement group made up of policemen and army soldiers, is involved with some extrajudicial killings and disappearances.
'Due to "Leahy vetting requirements", we are barred from providing RAB with any form of training other than that related to human rights,' said Robert Blake, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs in his testimony at Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of U.S. Congress in Washington on Thursday.

He said the U.S. Government embedded a retired U.S. marshal within RAB for four months last year to help stand up and operationalise an internal affairs unit that will provide a much-needed mechanism to hold accountable those who commit human rights violations.

In his testimony on human rights situation in Bangladesh, Blake said during secretary Hillary Clinton's Dhaka visit in May she also raised many serious concerns about human rights issues with the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister, as well as with leading members of Bangladeshi civil society and at events with the press and the public at large.

He said the secretary's public and private remarks underscore this administration's consistent policy of raising human rights concerns with the Bangladesh government in order to safeguard Bangladesh's role as a moderate democracy with a vibrant press and dynamic civil society.

Blake said secretary Clinton noted the US concern about the murder of labor rights activist Aminul Islam and the disappearance of opposition leader Ilyas Ali. 'The rights of workers were also front-and-center on the Secretary's visit to Bangladesh,' he said.

On trade union rights, the US state department official said they have urged the Bangladesh government to allow workers to freely form unions, and allow organisations that seek to protect worker's rights to operate freely.

'This is not only an ethical question, but also one that has the potential to have a huge impact on the Bangladeshi economy,' Blake cautioned.

He said American and other foreign buyers are 'increasingly unwilling' to have their valuable brand names associated with abuse of garment workers' rights and it is clearly in Bangladesh's interests to make progress on this issue.

Saying that the civil society has been Bangladesh's calling card for decades, Blake said maintaining the traditional vibrancy of Bangladeshi civil society is a priority for the State Department.

'… We are concerned by reports from some local NGOs that space for civil society is shrinking. Nearly two years after the resignation of Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank has been without a permanent managing director at its helm.'

Blake said while the Grameen Bank has continued its good work, the US has emphasized both to the government and the Grameen Board the importance of finding a qualified replacement for Dr. Yunus who is acceptable to all sides and who can preserve the integrity and effectiveness of the Bank.

About the government decision not to receive the Rohingyas fleeing the recent Myanmar violence, he said, 'We've also been disappointed by Bangladesh's policy of turning away Rohingyas and other individuals fleeing ethnic and sectarian violence in Burma since early June.'

He said: 'This stands in marked contrast to the country's traditional policy of non-refoulement. The U.S. Government has and will continue to raise concern for the well-being of these individuals at the highest levels.'

The US official, however, praised the government as encouraging for passing a comprehensive anti-trafficking-in-persons legislation that, when fully enforced, could make a huge difference in protecting some of the country's most vulnerable citizens.

Blake said while Bangladesh has made progress in protecting women and children victims of trafficking, this law is the first of its kind in Bangladesh that also guards against the exploitation of male laborers.

He described Bangladesh as a successful moderate, tolerant, secular, democratic alternative to violent extremism, and as a model for lifting millions of poverty, providing an important voice for regional stability, contributing more than any other country to UN peacekeeping.

'Bangladesh is of strategic importance to the United States. But it still faces many challenges that the U.S. is working with and encouraging Bangladesh to address,' said the US assistant secretary.
http://www.newagebd.com/detail.php?date=2012-07-21&nid=17879
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:


http://www.amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2012/06/26/151482


On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Germany concerned over HR situation in Bangladesh

Expressing concern over human rights situation in Bangladesh, Germany on Saturday urged all political actors in Bangladesh to work together in order to strengthen democracy, human rights and rule of law in the country."Of course, we discussed about the present human rights situation in Bangladesh. Like all, we are concerned about the recent killing of activist and we expect investigation into the incidents and the perpetuators will be brought to justice," said German Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle.

Addressing a joint press conference after a bilateral meeting with Foreign Minister Dipu Moni at State guesthouse Meghna in the afternoon, he said, "Once again as I said earlier, we all are in the room. Free and fair elections, freedom of expression, free civil society is an essential element of democracy."The German foreign minister arrived in Dhaka on Saturday for a two-day bilateral visit to Bangladesh.

Foreign Minister Dipu Moni received Westerwelle on his arrival at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 12:35pm.During his stay in Bangladesh, Westerwelle will hold talks with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Dipu Moni, Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia and civil society representatives.

He is also expected to address a press conference on the outcome of his visit prior to his departure.Westerwelle arrived here following his visit to India and is expected to leave in the morning of June 24.Westerwelle, a member of the Bundestag (the German Parliament) since 1996, was also deputy chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany for three years.

Though the visit would be brief, foreign ministry officials have attached importance to this as Germany is considered to be one of the most valued development partners of Bangladesh.Last year German President Christian Wulff came to Dhaka on November 28, on a 3-day official visit while Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Dirk Niebel came to Dhaka last June.Likewise, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also visited Berlin in October 2011 while Dipu Moni visited Germany twice in 2011 and 2012.

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=38589
http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=226994&cid=2
http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2012-06-23/news/268121




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Re: FOR MR TURKMAN [chottala.com] The West's Crusade against Muslims



Mr Turkman

I have been surfing the web since 1998. Hardly came across a one-eyed ignorant thinker like you. I am not against you 'the person', but against your thoughts. Please brother try to read books on the subjects you so arrogantly comment about. Please read books from different schools of thoughts, read history books of different writers, and most importantly, please read Holy Qur'an in your language. Truly knowledgeable people are sober, respectful,non-abusive, and displays humility, not arrogance.

Brother if you continue in the way you are now, surely Allah, the Most Powerful, will throw you into the hellfire with all your ignorance. Fee narey jahannama wa khaleedeen.

Brother please don't misread me. I am not your opponent. I am trying to help you.

Regards

Ahsan


--- On Fri, 7/20/12, Debasish Barua <gorba196138@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Debasish Barua <gorba196138@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [chottala.com] The West's Crusade against Muslims
To: "chottala@yahoogroups.com" <chottala@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Friday, July 20, 2012, 9:32 PM

 

OBAMA is the Commandar In Cheif of those Drone attack...well he was elected by over whelming majority of MOSLEM vote in USA...well it is that BLACKMAN do not discriminate issue... in some ways some of the assassinated, were problem in their  own community fueled by Anti American fervor and Jihadist of converting entire world to ISLAM..well I think the dead's are actually CHINESE RUSSIAN GOOGLE/ Yahoo/ Communist backed..ISLAMIC JEW..I think they went to HEVAN..may the PEACE BE BESTOWED ON THEM..

Thks

From: Akmal Mustafa Tipu <tipu_121biz@yahoo.com>
To: Turkman <turkman@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: chottala@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:07 PM
Subject: Fw: [chottala.com] The West's Crusade against Muslims

 
Mr. Turkman,

You are the bloodiest son in the world. You do not see the killings by drone attack in some muslim countries, You do not see the infiltration and invasion by West, you do not see mass killing in the name of security. West is killing innocent civilians, destabilizing political system and discriminating muslim people and depriving them from movement, education, tourism.




--- On Mon, 7/9/12, Turkman <turkman@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: Turkman <turkman@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [chottala.com] The West's Crusade against Muslims
To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, July 9, 2012, 10:53 PM

 
If Europeans had hated Moslims so much or as much as Moslims hate Non Moslims, they would not have freed all the 44 Moslim Nations so, shut up.
Whole world is scared of your JehaaDi Islam, not only the West. Even China has imposed restrictions on her JehaaDi Moslims. China and Russia both promised not to let Taliban take over Afghanistan after USA leaves in 2014 in June Shanghai Meeting.
Even Allah is against you because your Sneak Attack Terrorists are being hunted down all over world.
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--- In chottala@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> *Islamophobia: The West's Crusade against Muslims*
>
> by Kourosh Ziabari
>
> *Despite constituting a significant minority in western countries, Muslims
> around the world are subject to disproportionate, unjustifiable bias. Such
> attitudes distance them from their most fundamental social rights by
> portraying them as extremists and fanatics. The group is represented as
> able to endanger the interests of Europe and America. *
>
> As reported by the German Central Institute Islam Archive, there are 53
> million Muslims living in Europe (excluding Turkey) who represent some 7.2%
> of the continent's population. According to a Pew Research Center 2011
> demographic study, globally Islam has 1.6 billion adherents, making up 23%
> of the world's population.
>
> Muslims coexist with other groups in peace and tranquility. Nobody can
> claim that Muslims have been dangerous or harmful to the security of the
> western countries, because there's no evidence to confirm this claim.
>
> The mass media of European countries regularly and recklessly insult
> Islamic religious symbols, especially the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The most
> prominent example of these insults was the publication of 12 blasphemous
> editorial cartoons by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September,
> 2005 which prompted international anger. Many understood that such actions
> result in continued antagonism and bitterness, serving only to add fuel to
> the fire of anti-Islamic sentiments.
>
> The term Islamophobia, which is described as an irrational fear of Islam
> and Muslims and prejudice against and hatred of them, came into common use
> following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. In
> actuality, the term was spread by the US government which launched two
> military expeditions in the Middle East for the alleged purpose of
> combating what they termed "Islamic fundamentalism" and terrorism.
>
> As a result of media propaganda, Muslims in some countries are demonized
> and ostracized, unable to attend or perform prayers in public, assume
> government positions, pursue their social rights on equal terms with other
> citizens or adhere to their preferred dress codes.
>
> It was recently revealed that the New York City Police Department (NYPD)
> has been engaged in widespread religious and ethnic profiling and the
> monitoring of Muslim communities and houses of worship in New York, New
> Jersey and Connecticut. A coalition of social activists in the US is
> calling on the Senate, the Department of Justice and the US Marshals
> Service to take action in response to the illegal police monitoring of the
> Muslims in greater New York.
>
> The revelations are contained in documents obtained by the Associated Press
> (AP) showing that undercover NYPD officers in a "Demographics Unit"
> targeted the Muslim communities with the assistance of individuals linked
> to the CIA. NYPD officials are denying the Demographics Unit ever existed,
> despite the publication of an NYPD presentation that described the mission
> and makeup of the unit.
>
> Independent sources, including Islamophobia Watch have reported that the
> monitoring of mosques and the daily affairs of Muslims in the United States
> has intensified since the 9/11 attacks; the CIA has been carrying out
> underground intelligence operations to scrutinize the daily life of Muslims
> within the country.
>
> According to Islamophobia Watch, the CIA has dispatched undercover officers
> to public places such as bookstores, shops and cafes to keep an eye on the
> daily affairs of Muslims. It has also used informants known as "mosque
> crawlers" to monitor sermons delivered by Muslim Imams and take action when
> necessary.
>
> While in western detention, Muslims are treated inequitably and unfairly.
> Several reports have been published which detail how Muslim prisoners of
> the United States and Europe have been subject to torture, mistreatment and
> abuse. Babar Ahmad, a citizen of south west London, is one of several
> Muslim detainees who are being held in European and American jails without
> being charged in a court hearing.
>
> Ahmad was arrested on August 5, 2004 on charges of providing materials to a
> website which supports Chechen and Taliban insurgents. Since then, he has
> spent seven years in prison without trial.
>
> Since his detainment, Ahmad has been subjected to torture and humiliation
> by the UK police. Scotland Yard officers have beaten him, stomped on his
> bare feet with boots, sexually abused him, mocked his Islamic faith by
> placing him into a Muslim prayer position and taunting, "Where is your God
> now?!" and applied life-threatening neck holds to him.
>
> Muslims in the West are deterred from wearing clothing expressive of their
> faith, another representation of Islamophobic and xenophobic sentiments. A
> law in Belgium can fine and imprison for up to seven days a woman wearing
> burqa or niqab, a fabric covering for the lower face. In France, since
> April anyone wearing niqab or burqa in public is subject to fines of 150
> euros and "citizenship training." Moreover, an Italian parliamentary
> committee has drafted a law which bans women from wearing items that cover
> their faces in public.
>
> Overall, what is clear is that Muslims in the West are treated as
> second-rate citizens; their social rights and freedom seem to be
> confiscated. Western mainstream media regularly associates terrorism with
> Islam and attributes terrorist activities to Muslims. The European
> governments overtly express their disdain for Islam and the Muslims,
> allowing the enactment of laws which limit and restrain social liberties of
> Muslims.
>
> Islamophobia is a modern crusade against Muslims by societies which boast
> of being liberal and democratic, but in practice are xenophobic and
> intolerant. How can a truer image of Islam and Muslims be demonstrated to
> the West?
>
> http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31821
>





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[chottala.com] The West's Crusade against Muslims

Yes Mr. Mustafa,
I admit my grave Sin that I do not see a few of your JehaaDis being are killed by US Drone Attacks in Pakistan's territory that Pakistan claims not to control, in Yemen and in Somalia every week because I am not a JehaaDi Extremist like you and instead, I see 18,000 JehaaDi Sneak Attacks of you people all around world since 9/11 that kill a lot more than US Drones every week.
Please forgive for my this Sin and don't order my assassination ...!
I don't know, what to do. I am just a stupid person, sir.


--- In chottala@yahoogroups.com, Debasish Barua <gorba196138@...> wrote:
>
> OBAMA is the Commandar In Cheif of those Drone attack...well he was elected by over whelming majority of MOSLEM vote in USA...well it is that BLACKMAN do not discriminate issue... in some ways some of the assassinated, were problem in their own community fueled by Anti American fervor and Jihadist of converting entire world to ISLAM..well I think the dead's are actually CHINESE RUSSIAN GOOGLE/ Yahoo/ Communist backed..ISLAMIC JEW..I think they went to HEVAN..may the PEACE BE BESTOWED ON THEM..
>
> Thks
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Akmal Mustafa Tipu <tipu_121biz@...>
> To: Turkman <turkman@...>
>
>  
> Mr. Turkman,
>
> You are the bloodiest son in the world. You do not see the killings by drone attack in some muslim countries, You do not see the infiltration and invasion by West, you do not see mass killing in the name of security. West is killing innocent civilians, destabilizing political system and discriminating muslim people and depriving them from movement, education, tourism.
>
>
>
>
> --- On Mon, 7/9/12, Turkman <turkman@...> wrote:
>
>
> >From: Turkman <turkman@...>
>
> >If Europeans had hated Moslims so much or as much as Moslims hate Non Moslims, they would not have freed all the 44 Moslim Nations so, shut up.
> >Whole world is scared of your JehaaDi Islam, not only the West. Even China has imposed restrictions on her JehaaDi Moslims. China and Russia both promised not to let Taliban take over Afghanistan after USA leaves in 2014 in June Shanghai Meeting.
> >Even Allah is against you because your Sneak Attack Terrorists are being hunted down all over world.
> >************8
> >
> >--- In chottala@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@> wrote:
> >>
> >> *Islamophobia: The West's Crusade against Muslims*
> >>
> >> by Kourosh Ziabari
> >>
> >> *Despite constituting a significant minority in western countries, Muslims
> >> around the world are subject to disproportionate, unjustifiable bias. Such
> >> attitudes distance them from their most fundamental social rights by
> >> portraying them as extremists and fanatics. The group is represented as
> >> able to endanger the interests of Europe and America. *
> >>
> >> As reported by the German Central Institute Islam Archive, there are 53
> >> million Muslims living in Europe (excluding Turkey) who represent some 7.2%
> >> of the continent's population. According to a Pew Research Center 2011
> >> demographic study, globally Islam has 1.6 billion adherents, making up 23%
> >> of the world's population.
> >>
> >> Muslims coexist with other groups in peace and tranquility. Nobody can
> >> claim that Muslims have been dangerous or harmful to the security of the
> >> western countries, because there's no evidence to confirm this claim.
> >>
> >> The mass media of European countries regularly and recklessly insult
> >> Islamic religious symbols, especially the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The most
> >> prominent example of these insults was the publication of 12 blasphemous
> >> editorial cartoons by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September,
> >> 2005 which prompted international anger. Many understood that such actions
> >> result in continued antagonism and bitterness, serving only to add fuel to
> >> the fire of anti-Islamic sentiments.
> >>
> >> The term Islamophobia, which is described as an irrational fear of Islam
> >> and Muslims and prejudice against and hatred of them, came into common use
> >> following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. In
> >> actuality, the term was spread by the US government which launched two
> >> military expeditions in the Middle East for the alleged purpose of
> >> combating what they termed "Islamic fundamentalism" and terrorism.
> >>
> >> As a result of media propaganda, Muslims in some countries are demonized
> >> and ostracized, unable to attend or perform prayers in public, assume
> >> government positions, pursue their social rights on equal terms with other
> >> citizens or adhere to their preferred dress codes.
> >>
> >> It was recently revealed that the New York City Police Department (NYPD)
> >> has been engaged in widespread religious and ethnic profiling and the
> >> monitoring of Muslim communities and houses of worship in New York, New
> >> Jersey and Connecticut. A coalition of social activists in the US is
> >> calling on the Senate, the Department of Justice and the US Marshals
> >> Service to take action in response to the illegal police monitoring of the
> >> Muslims in greater New York.
> >>
> >> The revelations are contained in documents obtained by the Associated Press
> >> (AP) showing that undercover NYPD officers in a "Demographics Unit"
> >> targeted the Muslim communities with the assistance of individuals linked
> >> to the CIA. NYPD officials are denying the Demographics Unit ever existed,
> >> despite the publication of an NYPD presentation that described the mission
> >> and makeup of the unit.
> >>
> >> Independent sources, including Islamophobia Watch have reported that the
> >> monitoring of mosques and the daily affairs of Muslims in the United States
> >> has intensified since the 9/11 attacks; the CIA has been carrying out
> >> underground intelligence operations to scrutinize the daily life of Muslims
> >> within the country.
> >>
> >> According to Islamophobia Watch, the CIA has dispatched undercover officers
> >> to public places such as bookstores, shops and cafes to keep an eye on the
> >> daily affairs of Muslims. It has also used informants known as "mosque
> >> crawlers" to monitor sermons delivered by Muslim Imams and take action when
> >> necessary.
> >>
> >> While in western detention, Muslims are treated inequitably and unfairly.
> >> Several reports have been published which detail how Muslim prisoners of
> >> the United States and Europe have been subject to torture, mistreatment and
> >> abuse. Babar Ahmad, a citizen of south west London, is one of several
> >> Muslim detainees who are being held in European and American jails without
> >> being charged in a court hearing.
> >>
> >> Ahmad was arrested on August 5, 2004 on charges of providing materials to a
> >> website which supports Chechen and Taliban insurgents. Since then, he has
> >> spent seven years in prison without trial.
> >>
> >> Since his detainment, Ahmad has been subjected to torture and humiliation
> >> by the UK police. Scotland Yard officers have beaten him, stomped on his
> >> bare feet with boots, sexually abused him, mocked his Islamic faith by
> >> placing him into a Muslim prayer position and taunting, "Where is your God
> >> now?!" and applied life-threatening neck holds to him.
> >>
> >> Muslims in the West are deterred from wearing clothing expressive of their
> >> faith, another representation of Islamophobic and xenophobic sentiments. A
> >> law in Belgium can fine and imprison for up to seven days a woman wearing
> >> burqa or niqab, a fabric covering for the lower face. In France, since
> >> April anyone wearing niqab or burqa in public is subject to fines of 150
> >> euros and "citizenship training." Moreover, an Italian parliamentary
> >> committee has drafted a law which bans women from wearing items that cover
> >> their faces in public.
> >>
> >> Overall, what is clear is that Muslims in the West are treated as
> >> second-rate citizens; their social rights and freedom seem to be
> >> confiscated. Western mainstream media regularly associates terrorism with
> >> Islam and attributes terrorist activities to Muslims. The European
> >> governments overtly express their disdain for Islam and the Muslims,
> >> allowing the enactment of laws which limit and restrain social liberties of
> >> Muslims.
> >>
> >> Islamophobia is a modern crusade against Muslims by societies which boast
> >> of being liberal and democratic, but in practice are xenophobic and
> >> intolerant. How can a truer image of Islam and Muslims be demonstrated to
> >> the West?
> >>
> >> http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31821
> >>
> >
> >
>




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[chottala.com] Re: Prospective Haji and Hajian, fundamentalists sympathizers to terrorists, Let us clean our house and ourselves before we aspire for heaven and good governance



Dear Fundamentalists- sympathisers to Terrorists if any, your days are numbered,

Remember out of 19 terrorist hijackers 15 were from Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden was a Saudi national. Modern world wanted and supported 'The Arab Spring/, and got it. Now international Human Rights organizations are pressing all fundamentalist countries in particular and fundamentalists- creators and sympathisers of terrorists in general, to respect in words, principles, and in deeds to abide by " Article 1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of United Nations:    http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/#atop     
In Farsi language there is a saying, its Urdu translation is" Akalmond ki lia Ishara Kafi Hai Magar Ba Akkal ki lia Danda Marna Parta Hai" close English translation is- "an intelligent person understand the hints of when to get  self preparedness for imminent danger quickly but a dumb or unintelligent person needs beating to make him understand and get prepared." 
Now the news and pictures you will see below Reference 4: about Saudi Arabia compelled to join International Olympic team in London this summer with at least two women participants-- is the result of fear of being  beaten by the international community-  to follow and join the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, like other Arab Spring countries.  If our fundamentalists very close and sympathisers with terrorists or Osama bin Laden still do not get it then wait for further 'Danda' or beating to get defeated and straightened up.  Those who are not sympathisers to terrorists should not feel offended by this email at the same time we can not deny that we do not have terrorists among us , example Rezwan Ferdous, 27, a graduate in physics, active member of Worchester Islamic Center, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty, jailed for 17 years, details shown below Reference 1 to 3
Regards.
Yours sincerely,
Golam F. Akhter, Bangladesh-USA Human Rights Coalition Inc.
========== :
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Jamal Hasan <poplu@hotmail.com> wrote: 

"Ferdaus is a Muslim born and raised in Massachusetts to parents of Bangladeshi descent."
 
Reference 1  http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/20/us-usa-security-ferdaus-idUSBRE86J11620120720

Reference 3 Worchester Islamic Center-supported Association of Terrorist organizations: 


 
Rezwan Ferdaus

Rezwan Ferdaus


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Golam Akhter <akhtergolam@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear 6064'ians and dreamers of going to heaven by performing Hajj, neglecting other virtues like truthfulness, justice, and human rights,

International pressure and threat  of "Possible Danda" are changing the stubborn Saudis to change their mind, they are allowing their girls to participate in the Olympic Sports in London this summer soon first time; when our fundamentalist friends in Bangladesh will change and accept 'Human Rights' before international pressure and "Possible Danda" come in real forms? Wake up sleeping and day dreaming friends......
Regards.
Yours sincerely,
Golam F. Akhter, Bangladesh-USA Human Rights Coalition Inc.
==================================================


Less than two weeks before the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, Saudi Arabia announced that it would send two female athletes to London. Human Rights Watch welcomed this decision as an important first step, but one which does not go far enough in addressing the fact that millions of Saudi women and girls are effectively banned from sports in Saudi Arabia—a violation of their rights which reflects a broad and systemic pattern of gender discrimination in the kingdom.

Saudi Arabia: Let Women and Girls Play Sports
 

 

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"Allowing women to compete under the Saudi flag in the London Games will set an important precedent. But without policy changes to allow women and girls to play sports and compete within the kingdom, little can change for millions of women and girls deprived of sporting opportunities."
~ Christoph Wilcke, senior Middle East researcher at Human Rights Watch 

 

For further information:

> Read the report, "Steps of the Devil" 
> Read the Q&A
> Press release 2/25/12
> Press release 5/23/12
> Press release 7/10/12
> Press release 7/12/12

Articles:

> New York Times 2/15/12
> The Telegraph 5/29/12
> AFP 6/26/12 (Tribune.com.pk) 
> Bikaya Masr 7/10/12 
> Washington Post (AP) 7/11/12 
> The National (Abu Dhabi) 7/11/12
> Washingtonpost.com/AP 7/12/12
> Wall Street Journal 7/12/12
> Daily Mail (UK) 7/12/12
> New York Times 7/14/12



Op-eds:

> Nikki Dryden, "Let Saudi women compete in London," Globe and Mail 6/6/12
> Minky Worden, "Saudi Arabia's unacceptable failure to field female athletes for the Olympics," The Guardian 7/10/12
 

Radio:

> CBC Radio (The Current) 6/15/12, "Saudi Women Barred from Olympics"

FACTS

Women's Lives
Saudi Arabia has one of the worst records of respecting and protecting women's rights. Under the government's male guardianship system, women cannot work, study, marry or access health care without the permission of a male guardian – a father, husband, or even a son.

Sports in Saudi Arabia
As documented in Human Rights Watch's report "Steps of the Devil," physical education for girls in state-run schools in Saudi Arabia is not offered, and only men may belong to sports clubs or work with expert trainers. In fact, government restrictions on women essentially bar them from all sports.

The Olympic Charter
But denying women the chance to compete violates the human rights principles of the Olympic Charter, which states: "The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind…"  

"Steps of the Devil"
Saudi Arabia's policy towards women and sport reflects the predominant conservative view that opening sports to women and girls will lead to immorality: "steps of the devil," as one prominent religious scholar put it. Prince Nawaf al-Faisal, the Saudi sports minister and head of the Saudi National Olympic Committee, said on April 4 that, "Female sports activity has not existed [in the kingdom] and there is no move thereto in this regard. At present, we are not embracing any female Saudi participation in the Olympics." On July 12, Saudi Arabia reversed course and announced it would send two female athletes to London—a decision welcomed by Human Rights as an important first step, but one which does go not far enough in ending an effective ban on women and girls practicing sports inside the kingdom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHAT WE WANT

We Want Saudi Arabia to Respect Women's Rights

Saudi Arabia should adopt new policies that will create real, systemic change to benefit all Saudi women and girls, including:

• Establishing a timeline and benchmarks for introducing physical education as a mandatory subject for girls in public and private schools.

• Allowing the creation of women's gyms and sports clubs.

• Creating women's sections in the sports ministry (General Presidency for Youth Welfare) and the National Olympic Committee. 

 

The International Olympic Committee Can and Should Help

We are asking the International Olympic Committee to uphold the values of the Olympic Charter. The IOC should use its leverage with Saudi Arabia and urge the country to take steps to end discrimination against women in sports.

 

 

 



 

 




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