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.
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.
Eric Erfan Vickers Executive Director American Muslim Council
I think this guy IS home.
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?
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.
Well... simple - he won't!
He is a Muslim - and as we know - they pick the same targets.
You get this year's contribution from the Americam Museum Council yet? </ Sarcasm>
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