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American Muslim Council calls on Kofi to investigate political repression by US
pak news ^ | 2/2/03

Posted on 02/02/2003 9:39:02 PM PST by knak

WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 30, 2003: (AMC Press Release) In a letter to U.N. Secretary Kofi Annan, AMC Executive Director Eric Erfan Vickers, has called on the U.N. to conduct an inquiry into the “political repression of Muslim and Arab and Asian Americans by the United States government.”

Citing six examples of political repression by the U.S. government, including the new INS policy targeting Muslim countries, Vickers stated, “our hope is that if the U.N. can shine some world light on the “un-American” practices of the U.S. government, then perhaps this country can begin to right itself.”

See attached letter.

January 30,

03

VIA TELEFAX Honorable Kofi Annan Secretary-General United Nations United Nations Headquarters First Avenue at 46th Street New York, New York 10017

Re: Political Repression of Muslims in the United States

Dear Secretary-General Annan:

I am writing to request that the United Nations begin an immediate inquiry into the political repression of Muslim and Arab and Asian Americans by the United States government. We are making this request because all our frequent calls on America’s political leaders to cease the government’s religious and ethnic profiling have fallen on deaf ears. Thus, regrettably, the American citizens victimized by this repression must look to the world outside for relief from these shameful and undemocratic practices by our government.

These wrongful acts by the U.S. government include:

(1) The Justice Department’s new policy of selectively gathering intelligence information on mosques and Muslims without having to establish any criminal connection or basis for this intrusive surveillance;

(2) The targeting of persons from Muslim countries for registration and fingerprinting by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service;

(3) The detention and deportation of Muslim and Arab and Asian immigrants through selective enforcement of immigration laws;

(4) The barring of Muslims from returning to the U. S. after visiting abroad through selective enforcement of immigration laws;

(5) The arbitrary rounding up of over 5,000 citizens who were either Muslims or of Middle Eastern descent without any criminal basis for this collective suspicion and criminal processing;

(6) The arbitrary denial of access to the American legal system through selectively classifying persons as enemy combatants.

We have no illusions about the power of the U.N. to inquire into wrongs by a nation with the stature of the United States. However, our hope is that if the U.N. can shine some world light on these “un-American” practices by the U.S. government, then perhaps this country can begin to right itself.

Your time and consideration are greatly appreciated.

Sincerely yours,

Eric Erfan Vickers Executive Director American Muslim Council 721-R 2nd Street NE, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20002 Tel: 202-543-0075, Fax: 202-543-0095 E-mail: media@amconline.org

The End.


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To: knak
Deport and defenestrate.
41 posted on 02/02/2003 11:18:58 PM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: knak
Is this not the same American "Museum" Council that gave money to Hillary?
42 posted on 02/02/2003 11:24:34 PM PST by denydenydeny
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To: denydenydeny
ROFLMAO. I *KNEW* you were going to say that. I came over here on this thread just to see IF you said it........LOL.
43 posted on 02/02/2003 11:26:42 PM PST by Howlin
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To: denydenydeny
what you mean 'museum'?
44 posted on 02/02/2003 11:43:55 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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To: knak
Eric Erfan Vickers Executive Director American Muslim Council

How does someone named Eric Erfan Vickers become Ex. Dir of the American Muslim Council? Oh well....

I did a Google search on the name and came up with some interesting background info. Though folks might be interested in this from FOX News:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,56543,00.html

Friday, June 28, 2002
By Frank Gaffney, Jr.

The interesting question is not what FBI Director Robert Mueller said when he appeared before the annual convention of the American Muslim Council Friday.

The interesting question is why he appeared at all.

Though an FBI spokesman described the AMC last week as "the most mainstream Muslim group in the country," the bureau's counterintelligence operatives, field agents and other specialists know the real truth about the AMC: namely, that it has long been associated with, endorsed and otherwise supported radicals of various stripes who share a common, usually virulent antipathy towards the United States.

For example, the AMC has a long and consistent history of making common cause with terror groups in the United States. Many of them are far from the "mainstream" of law-abiding American Muslims. Some of them shared the dais with the director over the two-day conference, including several prominent leaders of Islamist organizations who have had their homes and/or businesses raided in the aftermath of Sept. 11 by joint federal-state task forces because they were suspected of funneling money to Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.

Another featured guest speaker is the ambassador from Syria, a country the U.S. government has long designated a state sponsor of terrorism.

The AMC also declares itself to be an "active member" of the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom. A number of those affiliated with this coalition have engaged in terrorist bombings and other acts of terror in this country (e.g., the Puerto Rican FALN and Macheteros, the Black Liberation Movement and Weather Underground) or abroad (e.g., in Jordan, Algeria, Egypt, Pakistan and Sudan).

Click on link above for remainder of article.

45 posted on 02/02/2003 11:44:42 PM PST by hotpotato
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To: knak
OH REEEEEAAAAALY!

How about if Coffee-cup Anon investigates something really interesting and comes up with some answers to these questions:

Why is the religion of peace directly responsible for 28 out of the 30 violent conflicts raging in the world today?

Why is the religion of peace responsible for the vast majority of chattel slavery in the world today?

Why is the religion of peace responsible for nearly every single act of terrorism in the 20th and 21st Centuries?

Why are the practitioners of the religion of peace routinely slaughtering unarmed practitioners of every other religion wherever they can get away with it?

Why does the religion of peace call for the murder of anyone who converts from the religion of peace to another religion?

Why do so many of the believers of the religion of peace look forward to the opportunity to copulate with 77 virgins in heaven if they die while killing innocent women and children of other religions? Is it a god they worship, or just sex? If a god, then shouldn’t heaven have more to do with him than their libidos?

Why do the leaders of the religion of peace routinely issue fatwas (death warrants) for anybody who questions their holy book of peace and their holy prophet of peace?

Why is the religion of peace responsible for the sexual mutilation of millions of little girls and the savage oppression of women?

Why did millions of the practitioners of the religion of peace laugh, cheer and dance in the street because 3,000 innocent men, women and children were murdered by seventeen men who supposedly “hijacked” the religion of peace? And why don’t the real practitioners of the religion of peace condemn the supposed “hijackers” of their religion? Why the deafening silence? Why the smiles? Why the cheers and high fives?

Hmmmm?

And I have an even better question for the primitive, ungrateful, anti-American, seventh-century savages of the religion of peace:

WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO BACK TO YOUR TURD-WORLD ISLAMIC DUMPS AND GET THE HELL OUT OF AMERICA?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
46 posted on 02/02/2003 11:46:07 PM PST by Thorondir
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To: Texas_Jarhead
what you mean 'museum'?

You see, it was all an innocent typographical error.

47 posted on 02/02/2003 11:51:53 PM PST by denydenydeny
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To: denydenydeny
thanks - i figured something along them lines
48 posted on 02/02/2003 11:57:20 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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To: wirestripper
"Throw the bums out! Uppity Arabs and Muslims please go home for the duration!"

Eric Erfan Vickers Executive Director American Muslim Council

I think this guy IS home.

49 posted on 02/03/2003 12:23:35 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez (The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
one of your friends
50 posted on 02/03/2003 12:25:02 AM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: Howlin
The largest number of Muslims in the world are in Indonesia and Asia...Chinese-Americans for lack of a more spscific description.
51 posted on 02/03/2003 12:26:56 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez (The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
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To: TLBSHOW
Stalking me Todd?

Is the dog next door talking to you yet?

Are there voices in your head Todd?

No capitalization, run on sentences, lack of cohesive lines of thought when posting...is it some sort of mental illness Todd?

Coulter should go ahead and save herself some bad moments, and swear out a restraining order on you now...why wait?
52 posted on 02/03/2003 12:30:49 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez (The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
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To: Bogey78O
"How so?"

New York State Supreme Court ruled in 1892 that islam was one of the ideologies that was NOT to be considered to be protected under the First Ammendment of the Constitution, but rather "to be harassed." (Their words)

That ruling has never been vacated or overturned. Interesting, huh?

53 posted on 02/03/2003 2:01:19 AM PST by nightdriver
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To: seamole
"This Eric Erfan Vickers guy should be hired as a White House speechwriter."

The Muslims have already requested a "special" political meidator be appointed by the president so as to expedite social injustice reports to him for immediate action - bypassing channels non-Muslim Americans must otherwise abide by.

They did this right after Bush visited the Islamic mosque in D.C. last fall.

They are fast movers - see my above post re: getting inside the White House.

By going to the U.N., this is exaclty what their goal is - a "special" venue directly to the president that bypasses routine protocol and has automatic "immediate-response" mechanisms built in.

We are in trouble.

54 posted on 02/03/2003 5:21:49 AM PST by Happy2BMe (It's All About You - It's All About Me - It's All About Being Free!)
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To: Thorondir
"How about if Coffee-cup Anon investigates something really interesting and comes up with some answers to these questions:"

Well... simple - he won't!

He is a Muslim - and as we know - they pick the same targets.

55 posted on 02/03/2003 5:23:47 AM PST by Happy2BMe (It's All About You - It's All About Me - It's All About Being Free!)
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To: Cool Guy; knak
Awfully nice of them to include the catchall phrase Asian Americans in their concerns.

THey do know how to play the game, gotta give 'em that.
56 posted on 02/03/2003 9:24:45 AM PST by swarthyguy
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To: knak
You-who Hillary!

You get this year's contribution from the Americam Museum Council yet? </ Sarcasm>

57 posted on 02/03/2003 9:47:30 AM PST by Diana Rose
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To: knak
Deport all AMC members now, if they don't leave the USA voluntarily!
59 posted on 02/03/2003 10:42:39 AM PST by desertcry
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To: desertcry
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60 posted on 02/03/2003 12:33:39 PM PST by Happy2BMe (It's All About You - It's All About Me - It's All About Being Free!)
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