Category Archives: human rights

Experts Say the WHO’s Response to the Ebola Crisis Has Been a ‘Failure’ | TIME {Profit and Non-profits try to score points from tragedy}

{WHO answers to nations that budget it – Ebola stricken states pressured WHO to not push panic buttons to save their industries – Mistakes by many – not just WHO. Obscene how many institutions trying to profit from tragedy and errors.}

A panel of 19 experts brought together by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) on Sunday condemned the World Health Organization’s (WHO) response to the Ebola crisis, calling it an “egregious failure.”

Source: Experts Say the WHO’s Response to the Ebola Crisis Has Been a ‘Failure’ | TIME

Don’t ignore the saner voices of moderate Muslims – TOI Blogs

TOI last Wednesday reported “the biggest fatwa ever” against ISIS, signed by 1,070 Indian imams and muftis. The fatwa, which condemned ISIS categorically as “inhuman” and “un-lslamic”, has been forwarded by Abdur Rahman Anjaria of the Islamic Defence Cybercell to the UN, several foreign governments and the Prime Minister’s Office. Anjaria says the fatwa is the biggest ever initiative by Indian ulema to reject the dangerous ideology of ISIS, which “has disgraced the name of Allah and the Prophet….It is the duty of every Muslim to join the fight to defeat it.”I think this news should have been on page one in every newspaper. Instead it was hidden in the inside pages of the Times of India. So was another small report on a protest meeting in Delhi by the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, to condemn the strikes in Paris, Turkey and Lebanon in the name of Islam. Without naming Azam Khan, its general secretary, Maulana Madani, said “We completely dismiss the action-reaction theory propounded by some persons.”Prime Minister Modi needs to highlight and cite such moderate views. It’s not enough to say India needs social harmony. It’s also necessary to give kudos to those who promote that moderation.

Source: Don’t ignore the saner voices of moderate Muslims – TOI Blogs

Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Syria hit by airstrikes, organisation says – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

MSF said two people were killed and six injured when the makeshift facility was hit while several wounded were arriving for treatment.An attack was launched on Erbin, one of the besieged zones east of Damascus on Thursday afternoon local time, MSF said, during which two missiles exploded just outside the hospital.It follows a US air strike last month that “mistakenly struck” an MSF hospital in Afghanistan, killing 22 people.”MSF is appalled that again a health structure and staff are targeted after responding to provide life-saving treatment to wounded victims of an indiscriminate bombing campaign,” MSF director of operations Brice de le Vingne said.

Source: Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Syria hit by airstrikes, organisation says – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Trump Incites Supporters To Attack Black Protester | 3CHICSPOLITICO

A KKK Rally minus the white pointed hood with eyes holes.A Trump supporter is heard in the background encouraging violence yelling “beat his ass”. Shouts of white power, could be heard in audience all during speech.At a Birmingham, Alabama, rally for Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday, a black protester was roughed up.The GOP frontrunner reiterated his call for the surveillance of “certain mosques” then spoke of the Syrian refugees who are fleeing from violence at the hands of ISIL.“I want surveillance. I will absolutely take (a) database on the people coming in from Syria,” Trump said, according to CNN. “If we can’t stop it — but we are going to if I win — they’re going back.”Then a fight broke out, because of course.Trump said, “Get him the hell out of here,” and the crowd took action.

Source: Trump Incites Supporters To Attack Black Protester | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Murder, Incorporated: Guns and the Growing Culture of Violence in the US, by Henry A. Giroux « Algérie Résistance

The widespread availability of guns is the reason for the shooting and killing of children and adults in Chicago, Boston, Ferguson, New York City and in other major cities. The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence reports that « in 2010, guns took the lives of 31,076 Americans in homicides, suicides and unintentional shootings. This is the equivalent of more than 85 deaths each day and more than three deaths each hour. [In addition], 73,505 Americans were treated in hospital emergency departments for non-fatal gunshot wounds in 2010. » (7) And the toll of gun violence on young people is truly heartbreaking with almost 30,000 young people killed in a 10-year period, which amounts « to nearly 3,000 kids shot to death in a typical year. »(8) According to a Carnegie-Knight News21 program investigation,For every US soldier killed in Afghanistan during 11 years of war, at least 13 children were shot and killed in the United States. More than 450 kids didn’t make it to kindergarten. Another 2,700 or more were killed by a firearm before they could sit behind the wheel of a car. Every day, on average, seven children were shot dead. A News21 investigation of child and youth deaths in the United States between 2002 and 2012 found that at least 28,000 children and teens 19-years-old and younger were killed with guns. Teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19 made up over two-thirds of all youth gun deaths in the United States. (9)

Source: Murder, Incorporated: Guns and the Growing Culture of Violence in the US, by Henry A. Giroux « Algérie Résistance

Shabbat morning in Hebron | “And you shall teach this to your children”

The soldiers are bad here, but the settlers are worse. There is a Jewish woman who is notorious for trying to run over internationals and Palestinians with her car and a Jewish man who pretends to be a paramedic. He drives an ambulance but has no medical training or skills and arrives at scenes of injury to Palestinians for the purpose of impeding real medical assistance and causing further harm.While here, I have come to associate tzizit, kippah, and the star of David as synonymous with rifles, machine guns; harassment and/or impending injury. I have somewhat adjusted to this association, but this Shabbat morning it is more difficult. I find a part of myself wanting to forget that the soldiers and Jewish settlers call me a whore and traitor. I find myself wanting to follow the tallit wearing youth down the hill, wanting to hear the morning prayers. Quietly, under my breath I say the Sh’ma and feel tears well up in my eyes. I wonder what has become, and what will become, of Judaism?

Source: Shabbat morning in Hebron | “And you shall teach this to your children”

My humanity is not yours to control: My thoughts on #ShiningALight | First you Survive/ Then you Thrive

I watched most of the white participants offer qualified apologies, requests for patience and demand sympathy and support for their position.I saw many Black participants discuss the matter from a colonized mind that could not demand for itself what it would offer others.The white participants took the forgiveness and anguish of the Black Participants for granted. And requested more of the same without offering anything in return. Let’s assume for the sake of argument that relations between peoples mirror those between individuals.As an individual, when wronged, mistreated, disrespected, marginalized, maimed, murdered… etc., I am looking for a full acknowledgement of what was done to me and an unqualified apology. If there is an explanation of why I was you victim, great. But no excuses.And then I fully expect the wrong doer to make amends. To evidence his emotional state of being sorry.Anything less than that is useless.And then the wrongdoer is to commit to and actually never commit the harm to me again.Whites in America are very comfortable with the notion that black people have to earn full humanity and citizenship. And upon the completion of the Herculean effort, by Black people, white people will pronounce us human and citizens.If you don’t already see my full humanity and acknowledge my full citizenship that we don’t even need to talk.  There is nothing I can do to change your mind.  My humanity is not yours to give. It never has been.White people as the keepers of power have the ability to end racism today.

Source: My humanity is not yours to control: My thoughts on #ShiningALight | First you Survive/ Then you Thrive

Brussels′ Great Mosque and ties with Salafism | News | “Saudi Funded”

The Great Mosque of Brussels is financed by the Muslim World League, which receives most of its money from the Saudi Arabian government. The story of the mosque began in 1967, when Belgium’s state coffers were empty and the nation was looking for access to cheap oil.

Source: Brussels′ Great Mosque and ties with Salafism | News | DW.COM | 21.11.2015