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Re: Bulletin of Christian Persecution March 1-April 8, 2012
good luck with your religious war
On Apr 8, 3:45 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *Bulletin of Christian Persecution *
>
> *March 1, 2012 - April 8, 2012*
>
> *March 1, 2012*
> Iraq<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to Doug)
> Jeremish Small, of Cosmopolis, Washington, was shot to death Thursday at
> the Classical School of the Medes, a private Christian academy in the
> Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah, in Iraq's most peaceful region. The [Muslim]
> gunman, an 18-year-old, then shot himself in the head as other students
> scattered from the room.
>
> Libya<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(Video
> via
> MEMRI<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> Armed Libyans Desecrate Christian and Jewish Graves in War Cemetery in
> Benghazi. More HERE<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> .
>
> *March 2, 2012*
> Pakistan<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> A Christian woman was brutally tortured and paraded in the streets of a
> village in Pakistan's Punjab province by a mob for her alleged "anti-Islam
> views", local residents and police officials said today.
>
> *March 4, 2012*
> Nigeria<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to
> thereligionofpeace<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> A Nigerian spokesman for the Islamic militant group Boko Haram told
> Bikyamasr.com on Sunday that they are planning a "war" on Christians in the
> next few weeks.
>
> *March 6, 2012*
> Egypt<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to
> JihadWatch<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> A court in Edfu has sentenced Reverend Makarios Bolous, pastor of St.
> George's Church in the village of Elmarinab, Edfu, in the Aswan province,
> to six months prison and a fine of 300 pounds for violations in the height
> of the church building. The court also ordered the removal of the excess
> height.
>
> *March 8, 2012*
> Nigeria<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> A Nigeria spokesman for the Islamist militant group Boko Haram told
> Bikyamasr.com on Tuesday afternoon that the group has plans to begin
> kidnapping Christian women in a push to "liquidate" the religious group
> from the country. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the spokesman said
> that "we are going to put into action new efforts to strike fear into the
> Christians of the power of Islam by kidnapping their women."
>
> Pakistan<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to
> JihadWatch<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> The National Commission for Justice and Peace of the Catholic Church
> releases a report on the tragic conditions faced by minority women. One
> factor in discrimination is forced conversion. One non-Muslim woman in two
> experiences pressures to convert to Islam, which often come with violence
> and coercion. Looming in the background is the blasphemy law, seen by many
> as the most serious obstacle to social and cultural equality. More
> HERE<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> .
>
> *March 11, 2012*
> Nigeria<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to
> JihadWatch<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Catholic church in the Nigerian
> city of Jos on Sunday, killing at least three people attending mass, the
> emergency services said. The man drove his car towards St Finbar's Catholic
> church in the city before setting off a large explosion, killing himself
> and at least three churchgoers. Update
> HERE<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> .
>
> *March 12, 2012*
> Iran<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to
> thereligionofpeace<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> The Armenian Evangelical Church in Tehran has been ordered to cease its
> Persian Language Service on Fridays. The church is one of the few
> established churches in Iran which was still allowed to have Persian
> Language services for Persian speaking Christians.
>
> Serving the notice, officers of the Islamic Court informed the Church
> officials that they are being ordered to cease Persian language services,
> and threatened that if this order is ignored and they continue to have
> Christian services on Fridays which is a sacred day for Muslims, church
> building will be bombed "as happens in Iraq every day".
>
> Iran<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to
> JihadWatch<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> Vice president of Tehran's city hall announced, "There are some freemasonry
> and Christian symbols installed on personal buildings around the city. We
> should control these symbols and ban their display."
>
> Pakistan<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> A young mother has been falsely accused of "blaspheming" Muhammad, the
> prophet of Islam, because she rebuffed attempts by relatives who had
> converted to Islam to force her to renounce her Christian faith, family
> members said.
>
> *March 13, 2012
> *Iran<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to
> thereligionofpeace<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> For the first time since his arrest in 2009, Iran has admitted publicly
> that Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has been convicted of religious
> crimes. During a United Nation Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva on
> Monday, Iran said Nadarkhani, who has been sentenced to death, was found
> guilty of three charges: building a church in his home without government
> permission, preaching to minors without parental consent and offending
> Islam, according to a meeting transcript.
>
> *March 14, 2012*
> Saudi Arabia<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to
> MiddleEastForum<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>)
> According to several Arabic news sources, last Monday, Sheikh Abdul Aziz
> bin Abdullah, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, declared that it is
> "necessary to destroy all the churches of the region." The Grand Mufti made
> his assertion in response to a question posed by a delegation from Kuwait:
> a Kuwaiti parliament member recently called for the "removal" of churches
> (he later "clarified" by saying he merely meant that no churches should be
> built in Kuwait), and the delegation wanted to confirm Sharia's position on
> churches.
>
> Bethlem<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(Palestinian
> Authority) (h/t to
> thereligionofpeace<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> The Palestinian Authority declared a Baptist Church in Bethlehem to be
> unlawful and said that it will no longer receive rights as a religious
> institution. This decision comes a week after Prime Minister Salam Fayyad
> told an audience of Evangelical Protestants that his government respected
> the rights of its Christian minorities.
>
> "They said that our legitimacy as a church from a governmental point of
> view is not approved," said an assistant pastor at the First Baptist
> Church. "They said they will not recognize any legal paper work from our
> church. That includes birth certificates, wedding certificates and death
> certificates.
>
> *March 16, 2012*
> Egypt<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to
> thereligionofpeace<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> More than 300 Muslim lawyers inside and outside a courthouse in the
> southern Egyptian province of Assuit today prevented defense lawyer Ahmad
> Sayed Gabali, who is representing the Christian Makarem Diab, from going
> into court. Mr. Diab was found guilty of 'Insulting the Muslim Prophet' and
> was scheduled today a hearing on his appeal.
>
> Egypt<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> Two nuns in Upper Egypt faced "unimaginable fear" - with one later
> hospitalized over the emotional trauma - when 1,500 Muslim villagers
> brandishing swords and knives trapped them inside a guesthouse last week
> and threatened to burn them out.
>
> Iran<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> In a rare crackdown on a concentrated area, Iranian authorities have
> arrested Christians living in the country's third largest city in what is
> seen as a tactic to discourage Muslims and converts to Christianity from
> attending official churches. Since last month officials have arrested about
> 12 Christian converts in Isfahan
>
> *March 17, 2012*
> Egypt<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led
> Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing
> tensions with Muslims, died Saturday. He was 88. His death comes as the
> country's estimated 10 million Christians are feeling more vulnerable than
> ever amid the rise of Islamic movements to political power after the
> toppling a year ago of President Hosni Mubarak. The months since have seen
> a string of attacks on the community, heightened anti-Christian rhetoric by
> ultraconservatives known as Salafis and fears that coming goverments will
> try to impose strict versions of Islamic law. More
> HERE<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> .
>
> Indonesia<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to
> GatesofVienna<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> The two alleged perpetrators of the attack on a Protestant church in
> Indramayu were arrested within a few hours of the attack in Bandung. So far
> the police have not released the identities of two men known only by their
> initials who are in their 30s.
>
> *March 18, 2012*
> Yemen<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to
> therligionofpeace<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> Gunmen linked to al Qaeda shot dead an American teacher in Yemen on Sunday,
> accusing him of Christian "proselytizing", and officials said government
> forces had killed a dozen militants in clashes and attacks on their
> strongholds.
>
> *March 20, 2012*
> India<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> A young woman was thrown out of her home this month for daring to give
> thanks for healing in Christ's name in a predominantly Muslim village in
> India's West Bengal state, and then her parents helped Islamic extremists
> to beat her nearly unconscious.
>
> Sudan<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> The "ethnic cleansing" that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has
> undertaken against black Africans in the Nuba Mountains is also aimed at
> ridding the area of Christianity, according to humanitarian workers.
>
> By targeting Christians among people who are also adherents of Islam and
> other faiths in the Nuba Mountains, military force helps the regime in
> Khartoum to portray the violence as "jihad" to Muslims abroad and thus
> raise support from Islamic nations, said one humanitarian worker on
> condition of anonymity.
>
> *March 21, 2012*
> Pakistan<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> Nearly 62 per cent of Hindu and Christian women fear that a majority of
> Muslims would not come to their aid if they were being discriminated
> against. This was one of the findings of the study "Life on the Margins,"
> which was released by the National Commission for Justice and Peace at the
> Pakistan Medical Association House.
>
> *March 22, 2012*
> Kurdistan<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> Although economic situation in Kurdistan is better than in Iraq, Christians
> and other religious minorities have found that the Muslim majority is not
> that tolerant of them and will use oppression against them.
>
> *March 30, 2012*
> Sudan<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> After Khartoum denied that it had bombed civilians earlier this month,
> Sudanese aerial strikes last week were aimed at church buildings and
> schools in Kauda, South Kordofan state, a humanitarian aid worker said.
> Antonov airplanes dropped bombs on Thursday and Friday (March 22 and 23),
> destroying some houses and cattle near the church buildings and schools but
> causing no casualties, he said.
>
> *March 31, 2012*
> Kenya<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> Islamic radicals bombed an open-air worship service and killed two
> Christians and wounded more than 30 in the town of Mtwapa.
>
> *April 1, 2012*
> Turkey<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to
> JihadWatch<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> Turkey's Greek Orthodox citizens living on the island of Gökçeada (Imbros)
> in the north Aegean cannot buy property on the island, the Taraf daily
> claimed on Sunday. The issue emerged when lawyer Erhan Gökçe complained in
> court about officials who put up difficulties before non-Muslims on the
> island who want to obtain property.
>
> *April 2, 2012*
> Egypt<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to
> Jihadwatch<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church has announced it is withdrawing from talks
> on a new constitution, saying Islamist domination of the drafting body has
> made its participation "pointless," Egypt's state news agency said.
>
> *April 4, 2012*
> Egypt<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced a 17-year-old Christian boy to
> three years in jail for publishing cartoons on his Facebook page that
> mocked Islam and the Prophet Mohammad, actions that sparked sectarian
> violence.
>
> *April 5, 2012*
> Tunsia<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to Raymond Ibrahim, translator)
> The Christian Orthodox Church in Tunis, one of very few churches in the
> country of Tunisia, is being "abused" and receiving "threatening messages"
> from "Salafis." Church members are described as "living in a state of
> terror," so much so that the Russian ambassador in Tunis specifically
> requested the nation's Ministry of Interior to "protect the church."
>
> The abuse has gotten to the point where "Salafis covered the cross of the
> church with garbage bags, telling the church members that they do not wish
> to see the vision of the Cross anywhere in the Islamic state of Tunisia."
>
> *April 6, 2012*
> Iran<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> Twelve Christians are to stand trial in Iran on Easter Sunday on charges
> including "crimes against the order", an activist assisting them with
> advocacy told BosNewsLife.
>
> Sudan<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> Christians from South Sudan who have until Easter Sunday (April 8) to try
> to become citizens of Sudan or be deported fear authorities will use the
> occasion to rid the country of Christianity, church leaders said.
>
> Christian leaders expressed concern that local media such as the daily Al
> Intibaha newspaper have been stoking hatred against predominantly Christian
> southern Sudanese, describing them as "cancer cells in the body of Sudan,
> the land of the Arab and Islam," and calling on the government to deport
> them.
>
> *April 7, 2012*
> Iran<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to
> thereligionofpeace<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> According to Iranian Christian news agency, Mohabat News, a two hundred
> year old historical graveyard in the Ghal'e-dokhtar area in Kerman province
> "has completely demolished".
>
> Tunisia<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to
> JihadWatch<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> Non-Muslim places of worship are being targeted by still-unidentified
> individuals. After the attacks perpetrated against the Orthodox church on
> Avenue Mohamed V, the Russian school located behind the church as well as
> the Christian cemetery of Montplasir in Tunis have been vandalized.
>
> The walls of the school were smeared with fecal matter, as also a fresco of
> Saint Siberian [sic] located in the back courtyard of the Orthodox church,
> while the cemetery's crosses were destroyed.
>
> *April 8, 2012*
> Nigeria<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>(h/t
> to
> thereligionofpeace<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=8149463&msgid=879186&act=6V...>
> )
> At least 50 people were killed when explosives concealed in two cars went
> off near a church during Easter Sunday services in the northern Nigerian
> city of Kaduna, eye-witnesses said. Shehu Sani, the President of Civil
> Rights Congress based in Kaduna, said two explosions took place at the
> Assemblies of God's Church near the centre of the city with a large
> Christian population and known as a major cultural and economic centre in
> Nigeria's north.
>
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Re: NY Catholic Joseph Amodeo Quits Board Over Cardinal Dolan’s Anti-Gay Stance
the religious abhor homosexuality because they're taught to
On Apr 9, 9:36 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> NY Catholic Quits Board Over Cardinal Dolan's Anti-Gay Stance
>
> NEW YORK (AP) - A day before Easter, the head of New York's Roman
> Catholic archdiocese faced a challenge to his stance on gay rights:
> the resignation of a church charity board member who says he's "had
> enough" of the cardinal's attitude.
>
> Joseph Amodeo told The Associated Press on Saturday that he quit the
> junior board of the city's Catholic Charities after Cardinal Timothy
> Dolan failed to respond to a "call for help" for homeless youths who
> are not heterosexual.
>
> "As someone who believes in the message of love enshrined in the
> teachings of Christ, I find it disheartening that a man of God would
> refuse to extend a pastoral arm" to such youths, Amodeo said in his
> letter to the charitable organization last Tuesday.
>
> Phone and email requests from the AP for comment from the archdiocese
> were not immediately answered on Saturday.
>
> The conflict started with a letter to Dolan from Carl Siciliano,
> founder of the nonprofit Ali Forney Center that offers emergency
> services to homeless gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender young
> people. He said the cardinal's "loud and strident voice against the
> acceptance of LGBT people" creates "a climate where parents turn on
> their own children."
>
> "As youths find the courage and integrity to be honest about who they
> are at younger ages, hundreds of thousands are being turned out of
> their homes and forced to survive alone on the streets by parents who
> cannot accept having a gay child," Siciliano wrote in his letter, sent
> last week.
>
> Siciliano, who is Catholic, said parents who are strongly religious
> are much more likely to reject children who are lesbian, gay, bisexual
> and transgender. Of the nation's homeless youths, as many as 40
> percent are LGBT, studies show.
>
> More:http://www.edgeboston.com/news/religion/news/131775/ny_catholic_quits...
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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Re: Two White Men Arrested For Randomly Shooting Five Black Folks While Walking, Three Dead in Tulsa
Yes, Tommytomtom reports no Black on Black or Black on Hispanic or
Black on Oriental or or or Black on anything/anyone crime.... Just
race baits with Anyone/anything on/against Black crime.
Black on Oriental or or or Black on anything/anyone crime.... Just
race baits with Anyone/anything on/against Black crime.
Tommytomtom you are a race baiter and hypocrite
On Apr 9, 8:19 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually I think zimmerman was his step dad and he is all hispanic
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, April 9, 2012, plainolamerican wrote:
> > hell ... you can even be half-hispanic
>
> > this was a revenge killing
>
> > On Apr 9, 8:57 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> > > So if you are Hispanic you can shoot black people, but if you are white
> > you
> > > cannot.
>
> > > Clearly our country is far from racial equality.
>
> > > Is that your message today Tammy?
>
> > > On Monday, April 9, 2012, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Two White Men Arrested For Randomly Shooting Five Black Folks While
> > > > Walking, Three Dead
>
> > > > Two arrested in north Tulsa shootings that claimed three lives
>
> > > > The shootings were a day after 2-year anniversary of slaying of
> > > > suspect's fatherBy ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writer
> > > > Published: 4/8/2012 4:37 AM
> > > > Last Modified: 4/8/2012 8:14 PM
>
> > > > Tulsa police have arrested two white men who are accused of killing
> > > > three black residents and injuring two others in a shooting spree that
> > > > authorities deemed "unprecedented."
>
> > > > Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, were arrested at 1:47 a.m.
> > > > Sunday, about 48 hours after police began discovering gunshot victims
> > > > in a three-mile area of north Tulsa.
>
> > > > The pair were found together in a neighborhood near where the
> > > > shootings occurred after police received several anonymous tips that
> > > > England was the shooter, according to arrest reports.
>
> > > > "It is way too early to call this a hate crime," Federal Bureau of
> > > > Investigation agent James Finch said at a Sunday afternoon news
> > > > conference. "We have yet to analyze all the information to understand
> > > > the motivations in this case.
>
> > > > "This is where the really tough work starts in the investigation. This
> > > > is where we can't afford to make mistakes," he said.
>
> > > > The FBI was called to assist with the case.
>
> > > > Finch asked that people keep in mind the victims. "No family should be
> > > > subjected to this," he said.
>
> > > > "Hopefully … this (arrests) adds some degree of closure for the
> > families.
>
> > > > Dannaer Fields, 49, Bobby Clark, 54 and William Allen, 31, were
> > > > identified as those who died after three separate shootings Friday.
>
> > > > Two other men were wounded in a fourth shooting but were expected to
> > > > survive. They have not been identified.
>
> > > > The arrests came less than 12 hours after authorities formed a task
> > > > force called Operation Random Shooter, which consisted of 30
> > > > investigators from the Tulsa Police Department, the Tulsa County
> > > > Sheriff's Office, the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI.
>
> > > > At a press conference Saturday, Tulsa police Chief Chuck Jordan called
> > > > the attacks vicious and cowardly and said his agency was going to do
> > > > whatever it takes to apprehend anyone involved.
>
> > > > "Our sympathy goes out to the families of the victims and we hope that
> > > > our efforts can bring some resolution and closure to these heinous
> > > > acts," police said in a news release Sunday.
>
> > > > Community leaders in north Tulsa and a representative of the National
> > > > Association for the Advancement of Colored People said Friday that it
> > > > seemed as though the shootings were racially-motivated.
>
> > > > Jordan said Saturday that there was no evidence for that, but that it
> > > > was a logical explanation. Police did not address the motivation for
> > > > the shootings early Sunday.
>
> > > > A man who is identified on Jake England's Facebook page as his father,
> > > > Carl England, was fatally shot April 5, 2010, at Comanche Park
> > > > Apartments, 3608 N. Quaker Ave. Carl England's death was about a
> > > > quarter-mile east of where Allen's body was found early Friday,
> > > > according to the Tulsa World archives.
>
> > > > The man arrested in Carl England's death, Pernell Demond Jefferson,
> > > > was charged with pointing a firearm and is serving a prison sentence
> > > > through October 2014, according to Department of Corrections records.
>
> > > > Jefferson is black.
>
> > > > Jake England makes several references to the two-year anniversary of
> > > > his father's death on his Facebook page, including a post 3:04 p.m.
> > > > Thursday that says, "Today is two years that my dad has been gone shot
> > > > by a f------ n----- it's hard not to go off between that and sheran
> > > > I'm gone in the head."
>
> > > > England's Facebook page indicates that his girlfriend, Sheran Hart
> > > > Wilde, recently died. Her death notice was published Jan. 12 in the
> > > > Tulsa World.
>
> > >http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20...
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AIDS Activists Step Up Call for Hershey Boycott
AIDS Activists Step Up Call for Hershey Boycott
by Peter Jackson
Associated Press
Monday Apr 9, 2012
by Peter Jackson
Associated Press
Monday Apr 9, 2012
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Amid the Easter weekend surge in candy sales,
AIDS activists Friday stepped up their calls for a boycott of Hershey
candy to protest the refusal of a boarding school with ties to the
company to admit a teenager because he is HIV-positive.
Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation staged protests in San
Francisco, New York City and Hershey, where company headquarters and
the school are based.
"We are asking the public to send a clear message to Hershey that
there are 'No Kisses for Hershey' as Hershey continues its path of
discrimination and ignorance," Michael Weinstein, the foundation
president, said in a news release.
The company did not immediately return a call for comment. But Milton
Hershey School defended its decision, saying it was difficult but
appropriate under the circumstances.
"We hope that fair-minded people also understand that we did not make
this decision in ignorance, but that we looked at all the complicated
issues surrounding our unique environment and made the decision we
thought was best for our students," Connie McNamara, the school's vice
president for communications, said in an email Friday.
The AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania sued the school in U.S. District
Court in Philadelphia last year, contending that the school violated
the Americans with Disabilities Act in denying admission to the boy,
whose name has not been made public.
More:
http://www.edgeboston.com/news/aids/news//131771/aids_activists_step_up_call_for_hershey_boycott_
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Fox News Hires Supporter of Jeremiah Wright and Derrick Bell
Fox News Hires Supporter of Jeremiah Wright and Derrick Bell
Posted By Cliff Kincaid On April 6, 2012 @ 6:39 pm In AIM Column | 1 Comment
Fox News is once again moving to the left, hoping to avoid left-wing attacks on its news operations and commentators. But the move risks alienating conservative viewers. The current controversy involves new Fox News contributor Santita Jackson, who lists the notorious Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., as being among her personal "activities and interests" on her Facebook page [1].
Wright, who was Obama's pastor for 20 years and baptized Obama's children, became a major controversial figure during the 2008 presidential campaign when it became known that he blamed the 9/11 terrorist attacks on American foreign policy and claimed the U.S. manufactured the AIDS virus to kill black people.
The link [2] on the Santita Jackson page, which promotes matters of personal interest to Ms. Jackson and other things she likes to do, directs people to Wright's official home page.
But her taste for racial and divisive politics has taken on added significance in view of a blog post [3] from 2010, in which Jackson praised New York University law professor Derrick Bell, who has recently become known as "Obama's Beloved Law Professor" at Breitbart.com because of videos [4] showing the President embracing him. J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department lawyer, wrote [5], "Both Obama and Bell demanded that Harvard hire professors on the basis of race. Obama and other students rallied to Bell's side after Bell quit teaching in an attempt to force Harvard to implement race-based hiring policies."
He added, "The Obama-Bell connection is the latest in a pattern of Barack Obama's associations with individuals who promoted a racially divisive America."
Santita Jackson praised [3] Bell's decision to leave Harvard in the context of criticizing Obama's decision to appoint white feminist Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court. Kagan's hires "while serving as law dean at the Harvard Law School have served to give me pause," she said, noting the reported failure to hire one single African-American, Latino or Native American. "NYU Law Professor Derrick Bell left the Harvard Law school in 1992 over this very issue," Jackson noted.
Equally significant, Jackson's bio [6] describes her as a founding contributor to The Grio, a website dedicated to black news and opinion owned by MSNBC and which is produced in cooperation with [7] NBC News. She lists The Grio as being among her other activities and links to a description of the site.
Hence, Fox News is sharing personnel with a rival network, another indication of the channel's move to the left.
It is apparent that the left-wing attacks on Fox News, many of them directed through the Soros-funded Media Matters group, have taken their toll.
Conservative reactions to the Fox News hiring of Jackson have been blistering. At The Blaze, a website published by Glenn Beck, who was fired from the channel after representatives of George Soros objected to his scrutiny of the billionaire, one person commented [8], "Seriously Fox what are you thinking? You are going to push away the base of viewers that have kept you at number 1…Why mess with something that was working? Good luck though to jj daughter. I am not attacking her I am attacking the leadership at Fox for alienating the viewership over and over again with their PC garbage…"
"JJ" is a reference to her father Jesse Jackson, who has run for the Democratic Party presidential nomination and is a prominent supporter of President Obama. On the rival MSNBC network, Jackson recently suggested that criticism of Obama's performance in office has been racist. Obama is "under some venomous attack," he said [9]. "I mean, the captain of the ship is an African-American who has taken us out of an economic crisis on an upward swing, but there are those who are willing to sink the ship just to destroy the captain."
Another reader comment on The Blaze said of the Fox News decision to hire Jackson's daughter: "Ever since the News Corps scandal, Fox has begun a rapid slide to the left. They are BECOMING the corrupt lame-stream-media they used to rail against!"
It is not known if Fox News understood that Santita Jackson, in addition to being the daughter of left-wing activist and Democratic Party politician Jesse Jackson, has been promoting Jeremiah Wright or Derrick Bell. Fox News host Sean Hannity frequently talks about how he used his program during the 2008 campaign to expose Wright and his influence over Obama.
It was later revealed that Wright, at a September 17, 2009, anniversary celebration of Monthly Review, a Marxist publication, had praised [10] Marxism and discussed his ties to communists in El Salvador and Nicaragua and the Libyan government. He called America "land of the greed and home of the slave."
Santita Jackson's "interest" in Wright, a form of expressing support for the controversial minister, can only add to concerns that Fox News is moving to the left so fast it is not checking out its left-wing contributors. Her praise for Bell is equally dismaying.
More than two years ago, Fox News hired—and then fired—Marc Lamont Hill as a paid commentator, after AIM revealed [11] that he had an easily documentable record in support of cop-killers.
Santita Jackson comes from Chicago, which is Obama's home base, and hosted a radio show on Chicago's WVON, which just happens to carry a show by the notorious Al Sharpton. Next to Sharpton, who hosts a TV program on MSNBC, her father may be the most vocal race baiter and agitator in the nation. Sharpton promoted the Tawana Brawley hoax, in which a black woman falsely claimed being raped by white men.
Sharpton and Jackson have both been quick to jump on the Trayvon Martin shooting, in order to promote the idea that America is a racist nation in which blacks are profiled, shot and killed for no reason. However, facts emerging in this controversial case demonstrate that the shooter, George Zimmerman, a Hispanic, may have shot and killed Martin in self-defense, after a violent confrontation, and that Martin, a black teenager, had been in trouble at his school and suspended. Investigations into the case continue, although the use of lethal force in self-defense is permitted under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law.
Although she is going to work for Fox News Channel as a paid contributor, Santita Jackson has never said anything on the public record that is complimentary to the cable channel. Hence, the hiring looks like a sop to the critics of the cable channel.
Even more embarrassing for Fox News, her Facebook page identifies liberals Anderson Cooper and Roland Martin of CNN as being her favorite media personalities. She and Martin are long-time friends.
One other reader comment at The Blaze was that if Fox News keeps moving left, it will start resembling CNN.
In an AIM blog post, "Fox Veers Left, Hires Jesse Jackson's Daughter [12]," Don Irvine noted that "Jackson will join a growing legion of left-wingers at Fox that includes Jehmu Greene and Sally Kohn. Greene is the former president of the Women's Media Center, which was founded by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem, and Kohn is a former senior strategist for the Soros-funded Center for Community Change."
Irvine added, "Fox's moves to beef up its liberal lineup continue to confound conservatives who see no need for the top-rated cable news network to give liberals even more of a voice than they currently have. They already have MSNBC and CNN, along with the rest of the mainstream media. If this hiring trend continues, Fox runs the risk of alienating its conservative audience to the point that they will look elsewhere for their news, and eventually end Fox's long run as the top cable news network."
Although her left-wing political views are nothing new, and only add to what Greene and Kohn already provide on various Fox News programs, there is no doubt that Santita Jackson has a fascinating personal story. She lost more than 200 pounds after gastric bypass weight-loss surgery. She is also said to be a dynamic singer. She sang at President Clinton's second presidential inauguration and attended Obama's inauguration.
But her political views, of course, are what are getting attention since her hiring by Fox News.
In addition to being a fan of the anti-American Rev. Wright, her Facebook page lists the radical demagogic Catholic Priest Father Michael Pfleger as one of her favorite interests. Pfleger, who has known Barack Obama since his days as a community organizer in Chicago, called on Christian churches on March 25 to put a hoodie on their altar as "a sign of solidarity" with Trayvon Martin, the black teenager who wore a sweatshirt with a hood before his confrontation with Zimmerman.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Pfleger was hailed as "a friend" of Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ and declared [13] in remarks from the pulpit that Hillary Clinton thought she was "entitled" to the Democratic presidential nomination because she was white.
Interestingly, Santita Jackson lists the law firm of Tamara N. Holder as being among other "activities and interests" on her Facebook page [1]. Holder, who is also a paid Fox News contributor, says in her biography [14] that she "works closely with Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. in crafting and executing public policy initiatives, together with programs to increase opportunities for minorities and the economically disadvantaged."
"Tamara single-handedly founded a pro bono legal clinic at Rev. Jesse L. Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition," one of her other websites declares [15]. A criminal attorney in Chicago, her law firm "has successfully defended the most serious of felony cases, from murder to possession of drugs and guns."
Tamara Holder identifies herself on her Twitter page [16] as a lobbyist and "government consultant" but does not disclose who she is lobbying or consulting for.
Not surprisingly, one article [17] discloses that she has been a frequent guest on the radio, including on such programs as "The Al Sharpton Show" and "The Santita Jackson Show."
The Santita Jackson show has now moved from radio to TV, courtesy of the Fox News Channel. Is her father next in line for a show on the "conservative" channel?
Article printed from Accuracy In Media: http://www.aim.org
URL to article: http://www.aim.org/aim-column/fox-news-hires-supporter-of-jeremiah-wright-and-derrick-bell/
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[1] Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/people/Santita-Jackson/1098566226
[2] link: http://www.facebook.com/RevJeremiahWright
[3] blog post: http://santitajackson.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/elena-kagan-is-this-the-best-they-could-do/
[4] videos: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/07/buzzefeed-selectively-edits-obama-tape
[5] wrote: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/08/obamas-beloved-law-professor-derrick-bell
[6] bio: http://santitajackson.wordpress.com/about/
[7] in cooperation with: http://www.thegrio.com/about/
[8] commented: http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2012/04/05/jesse-jacksons-daughter-starts-new-gig-at-fox/
[9] he said: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/jansing-and-co/46927525#46927525
[10] praised: http://www.aim.org../aim-column/controversial-new-video-of-obamas-pastor/
[11] revealed: http://www.aim.org../press-release/aims-kincaid-applauds-fox-news-channels-firing-of-marc-lamont-hill/
[12] Fox Veers Left, Hires Jesse Jackson's Daughter: http://www.aim.org../don-irvine-blog/fox-veers-left-hires-jesse-jacksons-daughter/
[13] declared: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWigzBClEk8
[14] biography: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tamara-n-holder
[15] declares: http://www.theholderposition.com/about/
[16] her Twitter page: http://twitter.com/#%21/tamaraholder
[17] article: http://askville.amazon.com/Tamara-Holder/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=56883173
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