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• Target: President Medvedev
• Sponsored by: THE INSTITUTE on Religion and Public Policy

We, the undersigned, write to communicate our concerns regarding the escalating threats to religious freedom in Russia. We are writing to respectfully request that you both address these urgent issues and immediately begin to establish policies that uphold the Russian Constitution and international commitments.

Article 29 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation guarantees freedom of religion, including the right to profess either alone or in community with others any religion or to profess no religion at all, to freely choose, have and share religious and other beliefs and manifest them in practice.  Article 30 provides that everyone shall have the right to freedom of association.

Further, Russia has signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and has signed and ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the European Convention on Human Rights.
Yet the use of the 2002 Extremism Law to combat "religious extremism" and, coming against an established pattern of local government obstruction of non-Russian Orthodox religious communities, this has led to a crackdown on religions that has been termed by Forum 18 News Service as the new "Inquisition."

Religionsfreiheit und Christenverfolgung

Religionsfreiheit und Christenverfolgung

Interview mit Daniel Gerber vom Hilfswerk "Open Doors"

http://www.politik.ch/religionsfreiheit-und-christenverfolgung.html

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Christen sind weltweit die am meisten verfolgte Religionsgruppe. Daniel Gerber vom christlichen Hilfswerk "Open Doors" gibt in einem Interview mit politik.ch Auskunft über den neuen Christenverfolgungs-Index. 

Herr Gerber, Open Doors widmet sich immer wieder dem Problem der Christenverfolgung. Sie erstellen einen viel beachteten Index darüber. In welchen Staaten finden die schlimmsten Verfolgungen statt? Welches sind Ihre Quellen? 

Unverändert hart ist die Unterdrückung in den letzten Jahren in Nordkorea geblieben, im Iran, Irak, Saudi-Arabien, Ägypten und Somalia, sowie in – wenn man von schlimmer Verfolgung spricht – etwa einem Dutzend weiterer Länder. Deutlich gestiegen ist der Druck in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten gerade auch in Pakistan, mitunter durch das oft missbrauchte Blasphemiegesetz und zahlreichen Morden durch den fanatischen Mob.

Im laufenden Jahr sind die Repressionen namentlich in Algerien und Marokko gestiegen. Nach einer Entspannung in Algerien verschärft sich die Lage derzeit wieder, so stehen etwa nächste Woche zwei Christen vor Gericht, weil sie während des Ramadans tagsüber gegessen haben, zudem fordert eine Provinzregierung die Schliessung einer Kirche. Aus Marokko wurden heuer rund 130 ausländische Christen ausgewiesen. Generell ist zu sagen, dass wo Christen verfolgt werden, auch andere religiöse Minderheiten leiden und es um die Menschenrechte nicht besonders gut steht. Von Zeit zu Zeit gibt es glücklicherweise auch gute Nachrichten, so hat sich die Lage in China leicht gebessert, auch wenn noch lange nicht alles zum Besten steht.

Unsere Informationen beziehen wir durch ein dichtes Netz an Fachleuten die in den Ländern leben, Anwälte, kirchliche Leiter und eigenen Mitarbeitern welche mit den Betroffenen reden aber auch mit den Behörden, Richtern und Funktionären. Daneben führen wir eigene Recherchegespräche, im Fall von Marokko zum Beispiel mit Ausgewiesenen, da auch Schweizer betroffen waren auch mit der Schweizer Botschaft und weiteren Involvierten.

The Terry Jones saga shows the strength of anti-Americanism

Sunday Telegraph

The Terry Jones saga shows the strength of anti-Americanism

The 'pastor' who threatened to burn the Koran shows how eager Europe is to believe the worst of America, argues Janet Daley.

 Anti-Americanism has a new pin-up. “Pastor” Terry Jones, whose congregation may number as many as 50 on a good week, is holding the world in thrall with his on-again, off-again Koran-burning stunt. In spite of his idiotic proposal having been condemned by everyone in US public life, including the President, Sarah Palin, the secretaries of state and defence, the Pentagon, and the spokesmen of every respectable religious group, this wacko fantasist would have been capable (we were told) of destroying any prospect of peace between the West and the Islamic world. 

 

Mercifully, after what may have been a persuasive visit from a gaggle of FBI men, the “pastor” decided to cancel his grotesque commemoration of September 11. But presumably if his face-saving story of receiving an assurance that the Ground Zero mosque was to be moved is definitively trounced, he could choose once again to push us to the brink of global Armageddon.

Hello? Has anyone noticed how utterly ridiculous this is? One publicity-crazed loony threatens to commit an irresponsibly offensive act, to the virtually universal disgust of his own countrymen and the populations of America’s allies, and that’s it: the annihilation of any chance of bridge-building or conciliation between Muslim countries and the Western nations.

That this absurdity became the immediately accepted received wisdom suggests that the world (and not just the Muslim parts of it) must be very eager indeed to find a plausible excuse for casting America as a cartoon country whose heartland is dominated by bigoted know-nothings. Never mind that this is the same America which, only two years ago, was being hailed by ecstatic European liberals for having elected a black president, whose father and stepfather had been Muslims. I remember saying at the time that the victory of Barack Obama would provide only the most fleeting respite from the dominant anti-American mythology which is so essential to European self-regard.

Thousands Rally Against Park51 Mosque on 9/11 Anniversary

Thousands Rally Against Park51 Mosque on 9/11 Anniversary
www.christianpost.com 

As many as 40,000 people gathered near New York City’s Ground Zero Saturday on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to protest the planned Islamic center and mosque two blocks away.

But according to Agence France-Presse and other mainstream media outlets, only about 2,000 people participated in the rally. The exceptionally large difference in figures is intentional, claimed organizers of the anti-Park51 demonstration.

“Crickets are chirping in taqiyya (Arabic word for concealing, guarding) media newsroom nationwide (although they were all there),” complained Pamela Geller, who organized the rally. “There has been no coverage.”

“We organized a rally of remembrance that dwarfed the opposition. If the America haters had 4,000, we had ten times more,” she wrote on her blog, Atlas Shrugs, disputing reports claiming that the dueling protests over the mosque were evenly matched. “The media is playing the dueling rallies; it was no such thing.”

At the rally against the mosque, international figures were featured, including controversial Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders.

Fla. Preacher: Quran Burning Plan 'Back to Square One'

 Fla. Preacher: Quran Burning Plan 'Back to Square One'

 www.christianpost.com

Just hours after canceling “International Burn A Quran Day,” the Florida church behind the controversial event said Thursday it could move forward with its original plan if the deal it thought it struck turns out to be non-existent.

(Photo: AP Photo / Phil Sandlin)
Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center speaks to the media as Imam Muhammad Musri of the Islamic Society of Central Florida looks on at left, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010, in Gainesville, Fla.…

"We have not canceled the burning on Saturday,” said Wayne Sapp, associate pastor of Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla. “We have suspended it until we get confirmation on the info we were given today.”

Earlier in the day, the church’s head pastor, Terry Jones, told members of the press that he and his church would consider it “a sign from God” to cancel the burning if the group behind the proposed Islamic center and mosque near the World Trade Center site were to cancel or move its facility to another location.

“The American people do not want the mosque there. And of course Moslems do not want us to burn the Quran,” Jones explained Thursday, tying together the two controversial plans.

That said, the non-denominational preacher reported that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the Park51 project, "has agreed to move the mosque.”

In response, Jones said he and members of his church agreed to cancel Saturday’s burning.

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