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human rights watch on uzbekistan
se7en
04/18/01 at 14:05:59
as salaamu alaykum wa rahmatAllahi wa barakatuh,

A local msa recently received a packet from [url=http://hrw.org/]Human Rights Watch[/url] on discriminatory expulsions of Muslim students in Uzbekistan, for wearing hijab and/or practicing Islam.  It's an excellent packet.  You can read up some about the situation in Uzbekistan [url=http://www.hrw.org/wr2k1/europe/uzbekistan.html]here[/url].

It's crazy though that non-Muslims are the ones working for the rights of these Muslim students, that are demanding justice for them when they are being discriminated against for practicing Islam.

Has anyone else received this packet?  What have you done with it?  Any suggestions?

Take a look at the HRW front page, it's amazing how much these people are doing for Muslims.  Not out of a love for Islam, but just out of decency, out of consideration for the abuses human beings are faced with on the planet.

And when we, as Muslims, receive a packet from these people that includes all the information necessary to do something...no one's interested.

[sigh]... we need to step up and do what we can fisabilillah..
Re: human rights watch on uzbekistan
eleanor
04/18/01 at 14:22:48
slm
I remember a couple of years ago all you heard was "the women of Kabul". About how they *had* to wear hijab and were *so* downtrodden.
it's the same situation. These people were fighting for the *rights* of these women. That they could send their daughters to school. That they had the freedom to *choose* if they wanted to wear hijab or not, that they could work if they wanted to.
It wasn't against Islam, it was for human rights..but all it did was drive home the message of "poor downtrodden oppressed muslim woman"

wasalaam
eleanor
Re: human rights watch on uzbekistan
Saleema
04/19/01 at 16:35:21
Assalam ualykum,

Irony is Uzbek's president's first name is Islaam and he's behind all of this mess.

wassalam
Re: human rights watch on uzbekistan
jehad
04/24/01 at 13:15:46
the presedent of uzbeckistan is a jew.
many kaffar in muslim countries have islamic sounding names, just the same as many muslims in the west have european sounding names.
islam karimov is a jew and his mother is a jew, there is no record of who his father is.
he bosted of his jewish religion and jewish ancestry on a visit to isreal.
Re: human rights watch on uzbekistan
Saleema
04/25/01 at 12:03:06
[slm]

the irony gets bigger!

[wlm]
Re: human rights watch on uzbekistan
BroHanif
04/30/01 at 06:40:26
I think there are few Islamic Human Rights group in the UK.

But anyway I'm interested in what the community of Madians can do together.

I'm ready for a change anyone else. ?

I'm sure there are, so lets mobilise and do a bit more.

By you posting the article sis se7en its a start.

I await for sugesstions and ideas.

Salaam

Allah Knows best
Re: human rights watch on uzbekistan
se7en
05/22/01 at 00:09:18

as salaamu alaykum,

from the packet... (sorry it took me so long to type it up!)

what you and your organization can do

1.  write letters to the government of uzbekistan protesting the expulsion of independent Muslim students and all forms of religious discrimination by citing the international standards mentioned above.  Emphasize your fellow students' rights to manifest their religious belief through their attire or appearance.

Abdulaziz Komilov
Foreign Minister
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ul. Uzbekistanskya 9
Tashkent 700029
UZBEKISTAN

Abdusamad Polvanzade
Justice Minister
Ministry of Justice
Ul. Sailgokh 32
Tashkent 700047
UZBEKISTAN

S. S. Guliamov
Minister
Ministry of Specialized and Higher Education
Ploshchad Mustakilik 5
Tashkent 700078
UZBEKISTAN


2.  Get contact information to write your own senators and representatives at [url]www.congress.org[/url] or write to the following legislators, whom we have identified as particularly concerned with this matter, requesting that they raise the issue with the government of Uzbekistan and inform the state deparment of their concern.

Congressman Christopher Smith
Co-Chair CSC
House Committee of International Affairs
2401A Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

Senator Gordon Smith
404 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

U.S. Rep. Elton Gallegly
Chair, House of International Relations Committee
2427 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515


3.  Raise the issue directly with the state department.  Write to Mr. Thomas Farr in the office of the Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom, calling on that office to recommend Uzbekistan as a Country of Particular Concern for religious freedom under the International Freedom or Religious Act.  You can also write Mr. Elliot Abrams, Chair of the U.S. Commission of International Religious Freedom, and encourage him to promote the issue in teh commission's reports to the president, the secretary of state, and congress.

Mr. Thomas Farr
Department of State
2201 C. Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20520

Mr. Elliot Abrams
800 North Capitol Street, Suite 790
Washington, DC 20002


4. Most importantly, [i]act locally[/i] by organizing discussions about expulsion of students in Uzbekistan.  Call attention around your university to the denial of Uzbek students' rights to religious freedom.  Write an article for your university paper or a letter to it or you community newspaper's editorial page.  Raise awareness around your campus and in your community by informing others about the perilous state of religious freedom and the denial of the right to education in Uzbekistan.

By informing your community and calling for action on the part of the US government you can work towards regaining student freedoms that are currently being denied in Uzbekistan.  On behalf of these students, we thank you for your time and effort.

If you would like more information about Human Rights Watch, please see our website, [url]www.hrw.org[/url]

Please send questions to eagene@hrw.org
Re: human rights watch on uzbekistan
chachi
05/23/01 at 20:15:04

jehad yes i've heard he's jewish like the deneme (doenme)

 se7en agree with you on act locally
 spare the paper and send the letters to the papers rather than
 the senators also read your local newspaper  see if
 you like the middle east columist then whenever
 anything happens in the mid-east see if he's still writing
 for the paper and buy it

 the papers soon catch on..when they notice who causes their circulation to jump...lol..why do you think Fisk hasn't baen sacked yet?


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