Homa Arjomand Award for Secular Advocacy
February 17,2010
Open letter to the
Secretary-General of the United
Nations, BAN KI-MOON,
The United Nations High Commissioner of Human
Rights,
Its senior management group
And
The 47 nation members of the UN Human Rights
Council!
Dear Sirs/Madams
The
International Campaign to close down Iranian
Embassies would like to emphasize that the violation of human
rights in Iran predates the election last June of Ahmadinejad. The
report presented by the Britain, France, and the United States on
February 15, 2010 is misleading by stressing the abuses only
occurred after the election. Right from the beginning of this
regime, people in Iran have experienced various abuses and their
rights have been violated as the government set out to establish
Sharia Law as the laws of the state. These laws and regulations are
the most anti-human, anti-women and anti-modernist. Such barbaric
laws truly belong to the era of 1400 years ago. All concerned
citizens globally must wonder whether we are talking about Iran as a
state in 21st century.
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Visual Report of
Protest against presence of representative of Iranian Embassy
Hamid
Mohammadi at Islamic Society of York Region Sunday February 14,2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWK4I2lSezQ
Response of
Prime Minister/Premier ministre
From: "Prime Minister/Premier ministre"
To: "Homa Arjomand"
Cc: "Lawrence Cannon, P.C., M.P."
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 11:44 AM
Subject: Office of the Prime Minister / Cabinet du Premier ministre
Dear H. Arjomand:
On behalf of the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, I would like to
acknowledge receipt of your correspondence regarding the situation
in Iran.
Please be assured that your comments have been carefully reviewed. I
have taken the liberty of forwarding your message to the Honourable
Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs. I am certain that the
Minister will appreciate being made aware of your concerns and will
wish to give them every consideration.
Thank you for writing to the Prime Minister.
M. Bredeson
Executive Correspondence Officer
for the Prime Minister's Office
Agent de correspondance
de la haute direction pour le Cabinet du Premier ministre
February 7, 2010
An Open letter to
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the
members of the Canadian Parliament!
The international mood has turned against the
Islamic Republic of Iran. Now it is time for Prime
Minister Stephen Harper and all members of the Canadian parliament
do the same and support the people of Iran instead of the Iranian
government. Recent reports being circulated in Iran indicate that
the Iranian people are preparing a display of strength on February
11, which is 31st anniversary of the Iranian revolution.
Desperate people, despite the regime’s constant threats,
recent mass arrests, torture, rape and executions, are organizing to
purge themselves of the entire regime of Iran.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is comparable
with the apartheid regime of South Africa. As the regime in South
Africa was then, the entire system of Islamic Republic of Iran
remains one of the most inhuman and unjust regimes in 21 centuries.
The law of Sharia ruthlessly enforces the comprehensive policy of
gender apartheid and a misogynist state. There has not been a day
without violations against a number of protesting groups such as
teachers, workers, students, writers, journalists and bloggers. The
number of people being executed and tortured in prisons increases
day by day.
People of Iran have been standing firm against
the entire regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran be it so called
reformist or hard liner. They are suffocating and want to end the
state of these serial killers. The people of Iran and all globally
concerned citizens want to put these murderers and all those who
have helped this regime on trial in an international court.
The International Campaign to Closedown
Iranian Embassies
expects the Prime Minister, and the
members of Parliament
to side with
the people of Iran and make its voice heard against this regime in
all international forums and furthermore, to break all its
diplomatic relations with the Iranian Regime.
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Protest against allowing representatives of
the Iranian Embassy
to attend any public gathering!
Feb 14,2010
Request for a meeting from the Ambassador of
the of Switzerland
From: Homa Arjomand
Coordinator, “The International
Campaign to Closedown Iranian
Embassies”
Re:
To freeze all bank accounts of the leaders of the Islamic Republic
of Iran
Dear Mr. Werner Baumann:
Cable News Network (CNN)
recently published a brief report on the bank
accounts held by the heads of the Islamic Republic of Iran in
foreign countries, (see the enclosed report from CNN.) Leaders,
officials and functionaries of the Islamic Republic of Iran have
been involved in fraud and money laundering for the past 30 years.
The published CNN lists are only the small fraction of what the
leaders of Islamic regime are doing with public money. Since the
recent uprising in Iran, there has been significant evidence that
the leaders of Islamic Republic of Iran are engaged in a massive
transfer of public money to their private accounts in Switzerland
and other European banks.
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Saturday December 12,2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Attention: Assignment Editor, City Editor, News Editor, World News
Editor, Governments/Political Affairs Editor.
Iranian activists demand the arrest of Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad,
the official head of state terrorism for its heinous state
crimes in Iran, when Ahmadinejad visits
Copenhagen
Homa
Arjomand calls Press Conference at the
Royal Danish Consulate General, # 2 Bloor Street
West,Toronto,
on Wednesday December 16, 2009 at 11:30AM
Homa
Arjomand, Coordinator of the
International Campaign Against
Sharia Court in Canada, is calling a
press conference where she and other activists will demand the
arrest of Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad in Denmark –
Copenhagen for crimes against humanity.
“We declare that Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad is the head of state
terrorism and controls the state terrorism machinery in Iran. He is
responsible for summary trials, Islamic retribution, execution and
torture”. “We further declare that Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad is principal sponsor of the
Political Islamic movement not only in the region but also globally.
He has no scruples about
committing mass destruction. In fact his involvement in Uranium
enrichment and his thirst to gain more access to nuclear weapons
should be every global citizen’s concern.” said,
Homa Arjomand
The protestors claim Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad is responsible for
terrorizing people globally and sustaining terrorism in everyway he
and his government can.
"It is a disgrace to the Danish government and the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to consider
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
with his record on human rights, the privilege to speak at the
Climate conference, especially after the recent uprising in Iran and
when the people demanded to overthrow the entire regime on 7th
December 2009,” added Homa
Arjomand.
Human Rights Activists will gather in front of the Royal Danish
Consulate General at #2 Bloor Street West to demand that Danish
government to arrest Ahmadinejad and to
have him stand trial in Denmark for the crimes he has committed
against people in Iran.
Location: #2 Bloor Street West, Toronto
Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 11:30 pm
An open microphone will also be available for other concerned
individuals attending the protest. They will be able to expose the
crimes and human rights abuses of this Iranian regime and the
leading terrorist – President Ahmadinejad.
About the Campaign
Homa
Arjomand is the Coordinator of the
International Campaign Against
Sharia Court in Canada. She started her
campaign in Toronto in October 2003 with a handful of supporters,
and today it has grown to a coalition of 87 organizations from 14
countries with over a thousand activists. In February 2006, the
Ontario Government passed legislation which ended the use of
religious laws for family arbitration. Since then, the Campaign has
focused its efforts on stopping political Islam globally.
Homa is now Coordinator of a campaign
called “Close Down Iranian Embassies” and spokesperson of “Wanted
by People”.
Media Contact: Ms. Homa
Arjomand 416-737-9500.
Email:
homawpi@nosharia.com or
homawpi@closedowniranianembassies.com
Web site:
www.nosharia.com
www.closedowniranianembassies.com
www.wantedbypeople.com
The International Campaign to close down Iranian Embassies
Calls for
Public Meeting
The “International Campaign to close down Iranian Embassies” is
determined to close down the Iranian Embassy in Canada. This
campaign demands
that all bank accounts of the leaders of the Islamic
Republic of Iran be frozen; that the Islamic Republic of Iran be
expelled from all International Agencies; that
all leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran be tried in an
international court for their crimes against humanity.
We are calling on all individuals and organizations to attend this
public meeting.
Agenda:
To discuss Campaign’s platform and strategize
When:
Wednesday Aug 12,09
Where:
North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yong street
Time:
6:00-9:00 PM
For more information please contact
Homa Arjomand
homawpi@nosharia.com
www.closedowniranianembassies.com
Tell:
416-737-9500
Public Announcement !
The International Campaign to close down Iranian
Embassies
The world must know that the only way out of political Islam and
its global aggression is to support the movement of people of Iran
to overthrow the Islamic Republic
and defend “freedom, equality, prosperity”, for the people of Iran.
The People in Iran have spoken. They are demonstrating in the
streets, and universities. People in Iran want to overthrow the
entire Islamic Republic of Iran, for its terror, imprisonment,
gender discriminations,
denial
of all social and personal freedom and mass execution. They want to
get rid of this cruel government for imposing the most inhuman,
brutal, misogynist and backward roles on people. Iranian people want
universal human and civil rights to become the benchmark.
Never has it been so urgent to stand firm by the people of Iran and
proclaim that:
the Islamic Republic of Iran is directly responsible
for terrorizing people globally with its daily crimes against
humanity from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan to Algeria and
Palestine, even in the heart of Europe and the North America; from
imposing reactionary and anti-human Islamic laws on people, from
beheading and mutilations, to planting bombs and mass murder in
buses, café and discotheques;
the Islamic Republic of Iran is directly responsible
for sustaining terrorism as a main tool in further deepening the
national, ethnic and religious splits in the Middle East and keeping
alive this conflict as political capital and source for its power;
that every one of the leaders of Islamic Republic of
Iran, be it so-called reformists such Khatami, Rafsanjani, and
Mosavi or hard liners such as Ahmadinezhad, Khamenei are directly
responsible for assassinations and executions of over hundred
thousand of Iranian activists both in Iran and abroad;
that defeating the Islamic Republic in Iran is a
prerequisite for demolishing political Islam as a movement, aspiring
political power in the Middle East. Without the Islamic Republic of
Iran, political Islam will become a trivial and insignificant
opposition in the Middle East;
that President Ahmadinejad along with other leaders of
Islamic Regime of Iran has violated Articles 9, 10, 11 and 19 of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
and therefore demand:
To close down all Iranian embassies
To freeze all bank accounts of the leaders
of Islamic Republic of Iran
To expel the Islamic Republic from all the
International Agencies
To trial all the
leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran in an
international
court
for their crimes against humanity, in particular in
Iran
Homa Arjomand
The coordinator of The
International Campaign to close down Iranian Embassies
www.nosharia.com
homawpi@nosharia.com
416-737-9500
Where is the Iranian uprising headed, and what can
we do to help it along?
Terry Glavin: Rethinking Iran
National Post Canada
We demand the
Canadian Government to break all its diplomatic relations with the
Iranian regime for its heinous state crime!
An Iranian-Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi was brutally murdered.
Petition
Press Release 1
Iranian activists demand the arrest of President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the violation of human
rights in Iran
High lights of a triumph!
A letter to activist fighting against sharia Court and all Faith
based Arbitration in England!
It
has not been long since the victory against Sharia court in Ontario.
It was the force of secularism that pushed back
the Ministry of the Attorney General Michael Bryant to put an
end to Sharia Court and all faith based arbitration in Ontario on
“Feb 15, 2006”. But once this attempt of Islamists was defeated in
Canada, They concentrated elsewhere and made their effort in
England. Only a progressive political campaign can defeat this
Islamic attempt which has so many implications and so many supports
within state and parliament of England and political parties and in
broad, including the support of many states such as regime of Iran,
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and others
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Speech
delivered at panel discussion entitled: “Islam is incompatible with
Western Liberalism”
Hosted by Oxford Union, England, Feb 5th,
09.
I will start with practical aspect of Islam to prove Islam is
incompatible with the norm and values of the liberal democracy
and leave out the theory part. Since there are countless scholars
sitting on benches of universities, in on-going meetings, and
conferences globally working on that part. For this purpose I will
focus on reactionary rules of Islam on individuals, in particular
children and women .I will then discuss the limitation and restrains
that this religion put on freethinkers and seekers of freedom of
expression to prove that liberation or moderation in Islam is
nothing but a utopia.
MORE
Inaction on Kazemi poses journalistic
threat - CEP
For immediate
release
April 5, 2005
Canadian journalists working abroad are being left
open to harassment and physical danger by the federal government's
refusal to take strong action against Iran over the murder of
photojournalist Zahara Kazemi, says Canada's largest media union.
Peter Murdoch, Media Vice President of the 160,000
member Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, called
the Canadian government's inaction " a direct threat to journalists and
journalistic freedom."
"The latest revelations about the treatment of Ms.
Kazemi are enough, in our view, for the Canadian government to recall
our ambassador from Iran, to expel the Iranian ambassador to Canada and
to pursue criminal charges at the International Court of Justice," Mr.
Murdoch said.
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Interview regarding Struggle of women in Iran
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International
Declaration,Islamic schools should be banned,
Children have no religion
Petition
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Sign the Petition
Article#1
To: all individuals and progressive organizations
International Declaration
Islamic schools should be banned
Children have no religion
Whereas
political Islam, as a reactionary, anti-human, and, specifically,
anti-children-and- women movement has emerged, not only in the Middle
East and northern Africa, but also in Europe and North America, laying
claim to political power as well as a field of action to play an
effective role in the socio-cultural life of these societies;
this movement has started its campaigns by attacking all progressive
and modern values not only in the Middle East and northern Africa but
also in the heart of Europe and North America;
the leaders of this movement have invested considerable amount of
money and personnel to expand Islamic schools globally in order to be
able to play an effective role in social, political and cultural arena
for further marginalization of so called Islamic communities;
these Islamic schools have become a main source to impose religion
and backward traditions on children under the age of 16, and have
forcefully given them religious identity and have encouraged
discrimination, inequality, revulsion, segregation and Isolation right
from childhood;
Islamic schools provide a perfect breeding ground for the growth of
Islamism, uphold Islamic ghettos, empower the Sheykhs, parasitical
elders and Imams to openly attack and limit women and children’s
rights;
Islamic schools provide a perfect basis to recruit youth for the Islamic
movement’s terrorist forces, decrees (Fatwas) against opponents of
Islam, honour killings and brain washing the children;
One of the very basic principles of Islamic schools is the segregation
of girls and boys at a very young age; imposing Hijab on young girls,
teaching young boys cruelty towards women and brutality towards girls;
Children have no religion, and, therefore, putting them in the care of
Islamic schools means legitimizing the imposition of religion on them on
a social level, and this, in turn, signifies an openly refusal on the
part of the state to defend the rights of children to safety, happiness,
and welfare;
Be it therefore resolved that
- in order to guarantee that the rights of children take precedence over
any national, racial, political, ideological, and religious
considerations or interests, the state should call for the total
separation of religion from education, and adopt a secular educational
system for all children;
- all Islamic schools should be prohibited;
- any kind of financial, material or moral support by the state or state
institutions to religion and religious activities should be prohibited;
- teaching any religious subjects, dogmas, doctrines, etc should be
prohibited in all of the schools;
- all educational establishments must be co-educational;
- alluring young people under 16 to religious sects, religious
ceremonies and locations should be prohibited;
- any religious laws and regulations that influence children’s
creativity and their inalienable right to a happy life, and prevent
their participation in social and leisure activities, should be revoked;
- wearing or carrying all religious symbols, such as Islamic hijab, in
schools should be prohibited.
Press Conference-One Secular
School System for All
July 30th2007
Speeches
Homa Arjomand
Dr.Kevin Salanha
Jan Johnstone
Alka Ruth
Enola
Justin Trottier
Press Release to demand one secular public school
system
Tuesday, July, 24th, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Attention: Assignment Editor, City Editor, News Editor, World News
Editor, Government/Political Affairs Editor
The coordinator of International Campaign against Sharia Court in Canada
opposes religious schools being incorporated into the public system.
"We declare that the rights of the child should take
precedence over any national, racial, economic, political, ideological,
and religious consideration or interest; Complete separation of religion
from education; the State is obliged to ensure a uniform school system
for all children under the age 18; No one has the right to prevent the
child from all norms and standards and it is the duty of the State to
protect the universal rights of the children; no one has a right to
segregate children and place them under religious dogmas, traditions and
habits; no one has a right to prevent the child from participating in
social and leisure activities and prohibiting them from participating in
dancing, singing, playing an instrument." We therefore call on the
Ontario Provincial Government not to violate the rights of the child.
The time has never been more right than today as we call for one secular
school system
for all children and no funding for any faith-based schools.
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Apology
over the caricatures of Mohammad will persuade Islamic movement towards
their agenda.
The
root of today’s new row of outcry over the caricatures of Mohammad must
be sought in Yesterday’s coquet of the western leaders to Islamists
movement.
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Visual
Report
Speech of Homa Arjomand on International Women’s
Day “Never Forget Hatun!
Campaign against Honour Kinning” March 8th
2006
A
political campaign is needed to end honor killing
Happy International Women’s Day, The International
Campaign against Sharia Court in Canada in conjunction
with the Committee against Stoning and Women’s
Liberation are hosting this conference in order to announce
a political campaign entitled “Never Forget
Hatun!”.
Never Forget Hatun!
Campaign against Honour
killing
Flyer
Conference
Report on
Globalization of Political Islam; Women’s Rights
In commemoration of Fadime Shahindal, victim of honour killings
Visual
Report
Media coverage on the
Tour of
The Globalization of Political Islam
Marseille Actualite October, 28,2005
French flyer
Societe, Communautarisme October 28, 2005
Leprogres, October 27, 2005
Lyon's paper October,
2005
Leprogres, Lyon, October 26, 2005
Metro,
Homa in Lyon, October 25, 2005
La-Croix.com Paris October 25, 2005
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=218768
DeTelegraaf,
Amsterdam, October 24, 2005
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