Author: Narain Kataria
Publication:
Date: May 16, 2009
The Human Rights Coalition Against Radical
Islam organized an impressive rally on May 3, 2009 at Times Square right in
the heart of New York City in which approximately 500 people participated.
The rally was held on behalf of many victims of Islam and in defense of human
rights and freedom. The purpose was to express an outrage at the rising tide
of Radical Islam all over the globe and to educate and awaken the Americans
at gross root level regarding the threat of Radical Islam posed to America
and other countries of the free world.
Addressing the outdoor rally of enthusiastic
activists in the pouring rain, Dr. Tawfik Hameed, a former member of Jemaah
Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian Islamic terror group responsible for 2002 Bali
bombings, called for the defeat of Radical Islam. He urged the audience to
heighten their awareness of danger from Islamic supremacism to the human rights
all across the globe.
Pastor Gerald Bell, a black minister from
Boston , pointing to the site of 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, said that
"we, the people of all races and many cultures and countries" must
band together to resist the world's newest barbarism, the Radical Political
Islam.
In the recent past, America strengthened the
forces of freedom when it defeated the fascism and communism. But today, it
is the Political Islam that is surging all around the globe. Propelled by
the twin engines of terror and deception, Political Islam enslaves and slaughters
blacks in Africa; assaults Christian communities in Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan;
oppresses the Bahais, Sikhs and Hindus on Indian subcontinent; subjugates
and beats women in Islamic communities; murders gays; demonizes and kills
Jews; subjugates and hunts moderate Muslims.
Arish Sahani, a human rights activist from
the Indian community and the Vice President of Indian American Intellectuals
Forum recounted history of the last 1400 years in that connection. In that
period, the radical Islam has caused the murder of 270 million human beings:
among them 120 million Africans, 60 million Christians, 80 million Hindus
and Sikhs and 10 million Buddhists. Tracing India 's history, Mr. Sahani recalled
that in the year 1399, Turkish invader Sultan Taimur (Tamerlane) massacred
100,000 Hindus in India in a single day.
Mr. Sahani pointedly asked the audience the
following questions:
1. Do you want to live under the radical Islam?
2. Do you know what radical Islam really is?
3. Do you know what happens when the radical
Islam takes over your area?
4. Do you know that under the radical Islam
no other religion is allowed to exist?
"We must stand up to the evil that radical
Islam represents," declared Mohamed Yahya, a human rights leader who
had earlier traveled to Sudan to rescue African slaves from their Arab (Muslim)
captors. "The barbarism that I personally witnessed there was simply
indescribable. I tell you that amongst radical Islamists nobody is safe. Their
agenda is to enslave, rape, kidnap and murder the Christians, Jews, Hindus,
Sikhs, and anyone who does not subscribe to their baneful credo."
Mr. Yahya proclaimed loudly that Radical Islam
openly threatens to conquer the West. Confused, befuddled, imbecilic Western
leaders pretend as if the danger is not there; they wish away the nightmare.
But we, who have faced so many Islamist atrocities, know better and cannot
close our eyes to that horrific reality.
Mr. Bhupinder Singh Bhurji, Chairman and CEO
of Namdhari Sikh Foundation said, "I am an American Sikh. Originally
I am from India . Our religion is the youngest one in the world. We are the
followers of Guru Nanak ji, a great philosopher, poet and saint. We Sikhs
believe in the dignity of human life. We believe in peace, harmony and brotherhood
between all beings.
He continued, "We Sikhs have suffered
the most at the hands of Radical Islam in the last 400 years of Islamic rule.
I would like to narrate only a few instances of Islamic barbarity and savagery.
"In Sixteen Century India was attacked
by Islamic invaders from Afghanistan. Our spiritual master Guru Nanak Dev
ji was put in jail by Moslem King and persecuted. Subsequently, thousands
of Sikhs were chased and killed. Our fifth Guru Arjun Dev ji was forced to
sit on a hot plate with the blazing fire underneath. Hot sand was poured over
his body and he achieved martyrdom. Our ninth Guru Teg Bahadur Saheb was also
brutalized inhumanely and achieved martyrdom for the sake of faith and humanity.
Our tenth Guru Govind Singhji's two young sons were bricked alive by Islamists
by not agreeing to accept Islam.
"In the end, we said enough is enough
and drove out the invaders from our region. Historically, we Sikhs are reputed
to be brave people and fearless fighters. That's why we were the mainstay
of the colonial British army then and the army of the free India now. The
world can learn from Sikhs how to handle the Islamist barbarism."
"In the world with Radical Islam, our
freedom of expression is in danger. The future of our children is in danger.
On behalf of my organization, I offer my full support to the Human Rights
Coalition against the Radical Islam." He ended his speech by shouting
"God Bless America ."
Beth Gilinsky of the Jewish Action Alliance
summarized it by saying, "Radical Islam, Islamic Supremacy, Sharia Law,
Jihadism - call it what you will - but we know that it is all about the killing
of 'infidels' and 'apostates.' The main agenda of Radical Islam is the slaughter
of innocent people because of their faith, their political beliefs and convictions,
or just because of who they are."
Other speakers in the gathering were Michael
W. Cutler of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington-based think
tank and Shlomi Azulay, an Israeli survivor of a Hamas suicide bombing attack
in downtown Jerusalem in 2002.
The following organizations, diverse in composition
but united in the purpose, enthusiastically participated in the Rally:
911 Families for a Secure America, ACT for
America, Long Island and Manhattan, AIR - Alliance for Interfaith Resistance,
Aish Center, American Coptic Union, Americans for a Safe Israel, Alliance
of Iranian Women, AMCHA-Coalition for Jewish Concerns, American Center for
Democracy, Americans for Peace & Tolerance, Arabs for Israel Artists4Israel,
Atlas Shrugs, Center for Security Policy, Chinese Community Relations Council,
Coalition for Israel, Damanga (Darfur Muslim organization), The David Project,
Fordham University School of Law's National Security and Law Society, Foundation
of Nepalese Americans, Gathering of Eagles-NY, Global Movement Against Radical
Islam, Hasbara Fellowships, Hindu Human Rights Watch, Indian American Intellectuals
Forum, International Foundation of Bangladeshi Hindus, Iraq the Model, Israpundit,
Jewish Action Alliance, Jihad Watch, Mothers Against Terrorism, Muslims Against
Sharia, Namdhari Sikh Foundation, R.E.A.L. - Responsible for Equality and
Liberty, Sikh Recognition Trust, Snapped Shot, StandWithUS, Sudan Freedom
Walk, Women United: Code Red, The World Committee for the Land of Israel,
Zionist Organization of America.
