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News & Views On International Human Rights Day: By Maryam Namazie and Keyvan Javid The world today has reach unprecedented barbarity. From Rwanda to Kosovo to Bosnia, millions have been killed and mutilated. In the United States, political prisoners, such as Mumia Abu Jamal, are on death row, and one in four child sleeps hungry. Close to the twenty- first century, in a period of unparalleled technological and scientific gains, millions face misery and poverty and are beaten and killed even for what they wear and who they love. One of the most dangerous criminals in this era is Islamic and Islamist governments and groups which commit genocide and untold crimes against humanity in Iran, Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan Islam, though reactionary as all other religions, has now dangerously become the mass murderer of countless human beings. In Islamist societies, women and men are stoned to death for love, women are denied access to male physicians, gender-apartheid rules, strikes are considered haram (religiously prohibited), and girls of nine are legally raped. Though professing universal human rights, Western governments have effectively maintained and aided such brutality. They have used cultural relativism to promote the fascism of this era - racism based on culture and religion rather than biology and race. Using this theory, Western governments and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have forcibly returned asylum seekers to awaiting holocausts, just as Jews were forcibly returned to Nazi Germany. Meanwhile, representatives of these governments, like the Islamic Republic of Iran, walk the halls of the United Nations and open embassies and Islamic centers outside Iran, while smirking at their victims and at all humanity. On International Human Rights Day, the Committee for Humanitarian Assistance to Iranian Refugees (CHAIR) and the International Federation of Iranian Refugees (IFIR) declare that: * the Islamic Republic of Iran and other Islamist reactionary groups and governments have no right to be present in any international forum, or have embassies or centers in any country, * that everyone fleeing that Islamic regime of Iran and other Islamist societies and groups must be granted asylum, and that, * human rights, including the right to asylum, are fundamental and universal. We call on everyone who believes in humanity to condemn and struggle against such reaction until the regimes and Islamic movement of this era's holocausts are relegated to where they belong - out of people's lives and the twenty-first century. For more information, contact For more information, contact CHAIR/IFIR at GPO, PO Box 7051, New York, NY 10116. Tel: 212-747-1046. Fax: 212-425-7240. E-mail: chairngo@aol.com. * Iran News
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