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The Free Kareem! site has up an October 2006 message from imprisoned blogger Kareem Amer to Al-Azhar: “Your Blessings, O Azhar!”
Shouldn't candidates for President be asked to demand the freeing of Kareem Amer, as well as an end to the jizya to the "Palestinians" and others?
I hereby declare that I do not acknowledge the legitimacy of my summons to investigate a matter like this, which is within the realm of my freedom to express my opinions. This freedom was stipulated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which Egypt has supposedly signed. Moreover, setting this declaration aside, and even if it did not exist, and even if Egypt did not sign it, human rights are very self-evident matters that do not require legislations or laws to regulate them or to define their essence.To every gloating and spiteful person among those who envision that the likes of these primitive measures might change my positions, affect me, or force me to stray from walking in the path that I have set for myself, I say: Die in your rage and hide in your burrows. I shall not recant, not even by an inch, from any word I have written. These restrictions will not preclude my dream of obtaining my freedom, for that has been my wish ever since I was a child, and it will continue to run in my imagination in endlessness.
And to Al-Azhar University, its professors, and its Islamic scholars, who stood and are still standing against anyone who thinks in a free manner, far away from their metaphysical aspects and superstitions, I say: You will end up in the junkyard of history, and when that time comes, you will not find anyone to cry over you. Rest assured that your grasp will disappear as has happened with others like you. Happy is he who took advice from others!
Read it all.
Posted by Robert at March 8, 2007 2:15 PM
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Tancredo, Giuliani, McCain, Romney, Gingrich, or for that matter Obama, Gore, Edwards, even Clinton (Lady MacBeth), should be making speeches right now about Kareem Amer and also about "ending the Jizyah."
The first political figure in America who utters the phrase "End the Jizyah" or "Stop the Jizyah" will not only have performed a great public service, by introducing the word, and thus the concept, into public consciousness, and forcing a discussion of the dhimmi condition, as well as the servile attitude of Western donors and the attitude of whiny entitlement exhibited by the Muslim recipients, that are the essential psychological elements of the dhimmi condition inflicted upon non-Muslims in lands where Muslims rule.
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at March 8, 2007 3:24 PM
And guess who refused to sign or acknowledge the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
.........all Soviet Bloc states, South Africa and Saudi Arabia.........(this was in 1948)....
...yessir good old Saudia Arabia....They were against human rights in 1948 and they remain against human rights today.....and no one cared...
Posted by: exsgtbrown at March 8, 2007 4:19 PM
A Letter to the Editor which ran last November.
A Third-Rate United Nations
A United Nations ran by Third World people will produce Third World results. When tyrannies run U.N. human rights committees, they will put human rights standards of tyrannies in place. It is not surprising - it is simply another proof that voting and representation alone don't make something we in the free world would recognize as 'good' or 'just'.
The U.N. Security Council was a good idea until it became compromised by regimes not fully keeping with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In fact, all member countries not objectively meeting a standard of that document should have their membership revoked.
Talking about bad behavior without any follow-up or negative consequences doesn't work with children nor does it work with tyrannies and dictators – and it won’t work against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Do we really stand by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or not? This is not an abstraction, an intellectual exercise - or a goal to strive for in the distant future. Our future is found in the daily habits and actions of the present. We need to have an accounting of all the members of the U.N. to reconcile who is meeting the standards and who is not. Why should party crashers be allowed to stay?
Electing and promoting inept, Third World people to positions of world authority harms the world. It may help First World people convince themselves of their own tolerance and open-mindedness and would allow these people to wear the deeds on their shirtsleeve like some Politically Correct Badge of Honor, but putting people like Kofi Annan into power positions dilutes the strength and claim to legitimacy for the whole of the U.N. Third World leaders create a Third World U.N. Look at the condition of the nations they come from. Why would we expect anything better when they lead the United Nations?
at March 8, 2007 4:20 PM
Wow! I will have all three of my teenagers, all fifteen of my American Literature students and all five of my current Latin students reading this. This is one of the most inspirational and meaningful contemporary documents I've read in quite some time. God Bless America!
Posted by: teachingmyown at March 8, 2007 6:27 PM
Stirring courage in the face of real dread.
Posted by: KAOSKTRL at March 8, 2007 6:37 PM
Kareem is the Egyptian Thomas Paine, about the highest complement I can give him. Everything he's written, translated into English so I can read it, reminds me of the great Enlightenment philosophers. I'm not sure how he arrived where he did within his family, consisting of four head-bobbing Qur'an-reciting siblings, and his horrible father, but we're luck he did.
Posted by: Beagle at March 8, 2007 7:27 PM
If various nobel prizes were not the perverted versions which they are--given to the inferior likes of yasser arafat, jimmy carter, shirin ebadi..., one of these prizes would have been deserved by Kareem Amer.
at March 8, 2007 8:09 PM
"the Universal Declaration of Human Rights..."
-- mentioned in the article and in a posting above
No Muslim state that I know of, save for Iran under the Shah, ever signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There is a phony "Islamic version" called the "Cairo Declaratoin of Human Rights" that guts the Universal Declaration of all of its significance.
Assignment for all American 6th graders, and 8th graders, and 10th graders, and 12th graders (yes, repeat this assignment every two years, in every single Social Studies, Civics, and American History Class):
1. Google the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
2. Google the "Cairo Declaration of Human Rights."
3. Compare.
4. Contrast.
Please double-space your papers, and be sure to spell-check them prior to printing them.
at March 8, 2007 8:18 PM
Where's Amnesty International?
Posted by: Celsius at March 9, 2007 7:46 AM
"Assignment for all American 6th graders, and 8th graders, and 10th graders, and 12th graders (yes, repeat this assignment every two years, in every single Social Studies, Civics, and American History Class):"
...same assignment for US Senators, Congressmen, and THe President elect....
at March 9, 2007 8:51 AM
That letter is both awe-inspiring and heart-breaking. I pray that when he's released he can get out of Egypt before it's too late. And hopefully take refuge in America.
Posted by: kelisw at March 9, 2007 1:18 PM
"The first political figure in America who utters the phrase "End the Jizyah" or "Stop the Jizyah" will not only have performed a great public service, by introducing the word, and thus the concept, into public consciousness, and forcing a discussion of the dhimmi condition, as well as the servile attitude of Western donors and the attitude of whiny entitlement exhibited by the Muslim recipients, that are the essential psychological elements of the dhimmi condition inflicted upon non-Muslims in lands where Muslims rule. "
....THe first one who actually does it will terrify the Islamic slavemasters....
Posted by: exsgtbrown at March 9, 2007 3:13 PM
...the treatment of Kareem Amer clearly shows Muslims hate the truth...especially if it is the truth....kangaroo courts in Egypt, no doubt....
Posted by: exsgtbrown at March 9, 2007 3:27 PM
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