American Muslim Council calls on Kofi to investigate political repression by US

pak news ^ | 2/2/03

[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.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Grandma - hand me a baseball bat please (sweetie).

How many you want? What type? You want all we girls to bring 'em to you and we'll take care of these bozo's??????

[Publius6961]

American Muslim Council calls on Kofi to investigate political repression by US

What a wonderful idea!

Right after the U.N. issues their report in the investigation of religious and political repression in North Africa, the Middle East and western Asia, the "enlightened" sand-maggot belt.

[swarthyguy]

Libya is on the UN human rights council these days, chairing it, in fact.

[Luis Gonzalez]

I guess your lies and distortions are good for the matinee crowd.

I offer no apologies for Islamic terrorists, but I do expose idiots such as yourself who are willing to paint all Muslims with the broad brush of bigotry and blame the actions of terrorists on all Muslims.

BTW, I was pointing out that millions of Mulsims have features which may consfuse some people into mistaking them for Asians. Try remedial English to see if you can grasp the basic ideas behind adult conversations.

BTW, I've never been to Mexico, but I hear from a bunch of mojados that your mother works there.

[Happy2BMe]

"How many you want? What type? You want all we girls to bring 'em to you and we'll take care of these bozo's??????"

I just brought up my "U.S. G.I. Anti-Jihad Baseball Bat Caluculator" - - got it figured.

One baseball bat per 500 jihad holy warriors. So I only need two for the ten-mile radius I need to take care of.

No sense wasting good baseball bats.

pssssttt... I got a little Mossberg riot shotgun just in case they decide they want a "deluxe" carpet ride to Allah Land. (Not to be confused with La-La Land.)

[Happy2BMe]

"How many you want? What type?"

Gramma - so sorry to be a pain, but can you please change my bat order from two to just one.

Seeing's how the jihad has already been declared on the infidels in the U.S. and all, I've planned ahead a little and have been workin' on muh "swang."

I was going for my old wood "Louisville Sluggah" standby, but for this job I really don't want to waste one of my old sentimental babies for no good reason.

Sweetie - can you bring me just ONE of these handy little beauties . . .

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[Texas_Jarhead]

hey, what is a mojado? thanks in advance.

[Morrigan]

I just finished "American Jihad" by Steve Emerson, and it had all kinds of dirt on the AMC. Why they are still allowed to function is beyond me. How they could ask the UN to investigate the US is even more laughable. I hate to tell them, but dirty looks in their direction does not constitute an injustice.

Personally, I would feel a lot more comfortable if there were no Muslims in the US. But what are you gonna do? Not all of them have committed crimes yet, and some of them are legitimate American citizens. If we can't deport them all, then we have to watch them. Period. If the AMC and their cohorts don't like it, I'd recommend that they relocate. My safety and the safety of others is more important to me than the feelings of Muslims. Sorry.

[Thorondir]

THIS: The largest number of Muslims in the world are in Indonesia and Asia...Chinese-Americans for lack of a more spscific description.

DOES NOT EQUAL THIS: I was pointing out that millions of Mulsims have features which may consfuse some people into mistaking them for Asians.

And then you, YOU OF ALL PEOPLE, have the blind audacity to post this: Try remedial English to see if you can grasp the basic ideas behind adult conversations.

And then top it off with this class act: BTW, I've never been to Mexico, but I hear from a bunch of mojados that your mother works there.

What a gem!

Oh, and BTW: The Bible was written BEFORE Mohammed... about six hundred years before. OK, now you can get back to calling ME an idiot. LOL!

[Thorondir]

It's an ethnic slur against illegal aliens and often used by crass people to hurt all Mexicans. It is the hispanic version of the ni__er word that biggoted creeps apply to blacks. How he comes to throw it at me is a mystery of irrationality I cannot and do not care to fathom.

[David1]

And they are still treated better here than most if not all the countries in the world. I even include the arab/muslim countries.