. . . . . . . . . . الاتحاد العالمى للاقليات من اجل السلام: غفلة وتغافل البريطانيين سيجعلهم أقلية في بلادهم

Monday, September 14, 2009

غفلة وتغافل البريطانيين سيجعلهم أقلية في بلادهم

بقلم: اقلاديوس ابراهيم – لندن

بعد مرور أقل من اسبوع على أحداث العنف التي اندلعت خلال عطلة نهاية الاسبوع الماضي في مدينة برمنجهام وسط انجلترا احتجاجاً على التطرف والارهاب الاسلامي ومحاولات تطبيق الشريعة الاسلامية في بعض المدن والمناطق البريطانية التي تقطنها غالبية اسلامية، تجمع عدد من تحالف "رابطة الدفاع البريطانية" مع جماعة "اقفوا اسلمة اوروبا" للتظاهر مرة اخرى يوم أمس الجمعة خارج المسجد المركزي بمنطقة هارو شمال غرب العاصمة البريطانية لندن. وبالرغم من محاولات المسؤولين عن المسجد الغاء التظاهرة بالاتصال بالشرطة، ومجلس بلدية حي هارو، ومطالبتهما بالاتصال بوزارة الداخلية البريطانية لالغاء التظاهرة، إلا أن رئيس المجلس البلدي لم يستجب لتلك المحاولات لعدم وجود أسباب قانونية تمنع التظاهرة، موضحاً أن الشرطة وحدها هي التي تقرر ما اذا كانت التظاهرة قانونية أم لا. ومن جانبها أقرت الشرطة قانونية التظاهر. وقام تحالف عناصر من "رابطة الدفاع البريطانية" مع جماعة "اوقفوا اسلمة اوروبا" بالمظاهرة في موعدها المحدد.وعلى الجانب الآخر تجمع تحالف آخر مضاد من الشباب المسلمون الغاضبون مع اعضاء من "الاتحاد البريطاني المناهض للفاشية" الذي يرأسه عمدة لندن السابق كين ليفنجستون المعروف بتعاطفه مع المسلمين وبصداقته الحميمة مع الشيخ يوسف القرضاوي. وقامت اعداد كبيرة تتراوح ما بين 1000 الى 2000 جاءت من أماكن متفرقة في لندن وضواحيها، بعضهم ملثمون، بمحاولة اختراق صفوف شرطة مكافحة الشغب ورشقهم بالحجارة والزجاجات، للوصول الى مجموعة صغيرة من المتظاهرين المناهضين للمسلمين، غير ان الشرطة استطاعت صدهم وحماية المتظاهرين، واعتقال 10 اشخاص، تم التحفظ على تسعة منهم لخرقهم قواعد التظاهر وحملهم زجاجات ومطارق وعصي. وقال أحد منظمي التظاهرة من المناهضين للمسلمين بانهم "ليسوا عنصريين، ولكنهم متخوفون من انتشار الارهاب الاسلامي، وانهم يعارضون بناء مساجد جديدة حتى تسوى كل مظاهر الكراهية والتطرف.. وانهم جاءوا الى هنا للتظاهر بشكل سلمي". وقال آخر "نحن في بريطانيا، ولنا الحق في التظاهر.. ونحن لسنا عنصريين فلدي ابنان يقاتلان مع الجيش البريطاني في افغانستان لحماية المسلمين من طغيان الطالبان".وعبر شخص آخر عن قلقه نحو تزايد اعداد المسلمين في بلاده فقال "بدأنا نصبح اقلية في بلادنا"We've become a minority in our own country." أما إمام مسجد هارو اجمال مسرور، فأضحك مستمعيه حسبما نشرت صحيفة "الاندبندانت" عندما طلب من تابعيه تجاهل المتظاهرين مسترشداً بما كان والده يقوله له دائماً "اذا عض كلب قدمك، فهل تسدير لتعض الكلب؟". ويقول أحد شباب المسلمين "نحن لا نرغب في البدء بالعنف، لكن حضرنا للدفاع عن اخوتنا واننا نستطيع احضار 10 اشخاص مقابل كل متظاهر يحضرونه هم".وأدان عمدة لندن السابق كين ليفنجستون رئيس جماعة "الاتحاد ضد الفاشية" المتظاهرين وانتقدهم بشدة، معتبراً انهم بمناهضتهم للمسلمين يعيدون للاذهان ما حدث ضد اليهود ومعابدهم في العام 1930. يذكر ان أكبر الجاليات المسلمة التي تعيش في بريطانيا تنحدر من جنوب آسيا، بالاضافة الى أن هناك أيضا جاليات عربية وأفريقية، ومسلمين من جنوب شرق آسيا والبلقان وتركيا. والمسلمون هم أكبر أقلية دينية تعيش في بريطانيا. فحسب تعداد السكان لعام 2001 بلغ تعدادهم حوالى 1.6 مليون مسلم، وصلت اعدادهم حاليا الى أكثر من مليونين. ويتركز معظمهم في المدن البريطانية مثل برادفورد ولندن وبرمنجهام وليستر واولدهام.وبالرغم من ان الحكومة البريطانية تلتزم بتشجيع التفاهم بين الجاليات، وضمان توفير الفرص المتساوية لجميع المواطنين بغض النظر عن لون البشرة أو الأصل العرقي أو الديانة أو الجنس، غير أنها يجب ان تستيقظ قبل فوات الأوان لؤاد تنامي التطرف الاسلامي والقضاء عليه قبل ان يتقلص عدد البريطانيون امام خصوبة المسلمين ويصبح البريطانيون اقلية في بلادهم.

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The Cultural Genocide of Egypt's Christian Copts By Mary Abdelmassih

The Egyptian Government, In a new step in long-term and premeditated process of obliterating Coptic identity and history, has decided to change the name of the Coptic village of Deir Abu Hennis, in the Upper Egyptian province of Mallawi, Minya. The village was founded in the 4th century AD on the grounds of the Monastery of St. Hennis the Short, a much revered Coptic Saint. The new name chosen by the Government is "Valley of Peppermint."
More than four thousand Coptic villagers demonstrated on Thursday June, 11 against this forced change, vowing to fight to the end to keep the name of their village. They carried banners with slogans such as 'Let us all die and May Abu Hennis live for ever' and "We, the inhabitants of the village refuse the change in the name of our village and we want it to remain as it is. It is our right and our demand"
The inhabitants of the village, who are 100% Copts, are not only angry because the Minister of Justice,issued an order to change the name of their village into "Valley of Peppermint," but because this decision was made on 4/12/2009, but they were informed on 6/9/2009.
Upon hearing of the news, the Copts in Deir Abu Hennis village sent on 6/9/2009 a plea to all concerned authorities and Coptic NGOs, expressing their anger at this decision. They made a petition which was signed by 35,000 village inhabitants.
They believe that this change in the names of Coptic villages is premeditated and did not come as a result of a whim on the part of the local council, otherwise why does the Minister of Justice get involved, even though this does not gall under his jurisdiction.
In an effort to pacify the villagers, the Governor of Minya immediately contacted the director of Mallawi City Council and sent him to the village to try and calm the angry crowd, and promised to reverse decision of the Minister of Justice to change the name of the village. However, he told them that this will require some time and promised to try to have this done by next Thursday.
Attorney Dr. Naguib Gibraeel, President of the 'Egyptian Union' Organiztion for Human Rights filed a petition against the Minister of Justice, the Governor of Minya, the Minister of Culture and the Prime Minister in his capacity as head of ministers and governors, to stop the change in the name of the village of Deir Abu Hennis. His plea was founded on grounds that this decision is an obliteration of the Egyptian identity and the Coptic history as an integral part of the history and civilization of Egypt.
Numerous Egyptian satellite channels including OTV, owned by Coptic tycoon Saweiress, filmed the demonstration and interviewed the demonstrators. According to Free Copts reporters, State Security tried to prevent the media and attempted to confiscate the video tapes, but were prevented fom doing so by the villagers.
The government tried previously in 1964 to change the name of the same village, also to "Valley of Peppermint", but faced with the villager's opposition, it reversed its decision and the order was cancelled through a Presidential decree issued in 1979.
Dr. Gibraeel has been protesting for several years against the changing of Coptic names, whether of streets, squares or areas and substituting them with Islamic names, which has been going on for some time, and spreads all over Egypt from Aswan to Alexandria. To raise awareness of this on-going phenomenon, he previously filed petitions against the Governor of Cairo for substituting Coptic names of places of interest with Muslim ones around Cairo.
Coptic Bishop Thomas of El-Qussia Diocese, Upper Egypt, gave a lecture last July at the Hudson Institute entitled "The Experience of the Middle East's largest Christian community during a time of rising Islamization." He talked about the dilemma of the Copts who kept their Christianity, and identity as Egyptians who have their own culture, in the face of their fellow citizens who have adopted an Arab culture and identity. "Now when you look at a Copt, you don't see only a Christian, you see an Egyptian who is trying to keep his identity versus another imported identity that is working on him," he said.
As a reaction to this lecture more than 200 articles appeared in the Egyptian Media attacking Bishop Thomas, asserting the Arab and Islamic identity of Egypt, others called for putting him on trial charged with 'treason', while one Imam called for his death.
Dr. Gibraeel also appealed today to the Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, responsible for safeguarding the cultural heritage of Egypt, asking for his intervention. A meeting is scheduled between them on Thursday, 6/18/2009.
The village of Abu Hennis is placed on Egypt's tourist map, and tourists come from all over the world to visit it as part of the history and culture of the Copts of Egypt going back to the 4th century AD. "It represents an assault on the country's national wealth, and gives rise to sectarian tensions, as the name of Deir (Monastery) of St. Hennis the Short, is a source of religious pride to the Copts, and part of the history of the martyrs of the Coptic Orthodox Church," he said.
As a warning, Dr. Gibraeel vowed that if this matter of Deir Abu Hennis village is not resolved, he would bring the matter to UNESCO, being the responsible authority for safeguarding cultures and civilizations. This would be a source of great embarrassment to Egypt and its Minister of Culture who is presently one of the contenders for the President of UNESCO, while in his own country 600 years of Coptic history and culture is being obliterated.

The Plight of the Afghan Woman

The vast majority of Afghanistan's population professes to be followers of Islam. Over 1400 years ago, Islam demanded that men and women be equal before God, and gave them various rights such the right to inheritance, the right to vote, the right to work, and even choose their own partners in marriage. For centuries now in Afghanistan, women have been denied these rights either by official government decree or by their own husbands, fathers, and brothers. During the rule of the Taliban (1996 - 2001), women were treated worse than in any other time or by any other society. They were forbidden to work, leave the house without a male escort, not allowed to seek medical help from a male doctor, and forced to cover themselves from head to toe, even covering their eyes. Women who were doctors and teachers before, suddenly were forced to be beggars and even prostitutes in order to feed their families.
Since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001, many would agree that the political and cultural position of Afghan women has improved substantially. The recently adopted Afghan constitution states that "the citizens of Afghanistan - whether man or woman- have equal rights and duties before the law". So far, women have been allowed to return back to work, the government no longer forces them to wear the all covering burqa, and they even have been appointed to prominent positions in the government. Despite all these changes many challenges still remain. The repression of women is still prevalent in rural areas where many families still restrict their own mothers, daughters, wives and sisters from participation in public life. They are still forced into marriages and denied a basic education. Numerous school for girls have been burned down and little girls have even been poisoned to death for daring to go to school.

Who are we

The World Minorities United for Peace is a non-profit organization established June 5th, 2009. Our motto is a verse from the bible: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” Our goal is to establish peace for all the minorities in the Middle East and around the world as well. We believe that peace in Israel, which is a minority in the Islamic Middle East, will cause peace in the whole area. That’s why we believe that minorities in the Middle East and in Israel should unite together for peace.
We believe that peace for the minorities in the Islamic countries should be an international goal for the whole world. Peace is meaningless if countries keep signing treaties for human rights and religious freedom while Islamic countries do not enforce the implementation of such treaties.
The Minorities include:
- The Copts and the Baha’is in Egypt.
- Christians in Iraq
- The Maroonites in Lebabon
- Christians of Darfur in Sudan
- Christians in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran.
- Bosnia
- Returning the region of Crete to Greece.
- The disarming of all fanatic Islamic groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and others. We believe that those who are not working for peace are working against it. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

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