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If we join all of our small voices together, they will become one world voice - loud enough to be heard and listened to.
Each voice DOES matter, in its words, but in its silence as well; many times silent voices are louder then the speaking ones.

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This petition is open to everyone from every country.

Together, we can ensure that our laws will remain free and equal for everyone!

Remember

As we celebrate this Christmas, please remember our young men and women who are in harm's way and so far from their families.

Dear Soldiers,

Please know you are not forgotten, and that you are loved.
Thank you for what you do for each one of us, you are special!
We look forward to the day that you return home,
and pray for your safety each and every day.

Peace to you and yours

Silence Is Acceptance

Woman Gang Raped in SF Because of Being Gay

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Full News Story - 2:39am

SAN FRANCISCO – A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, repeatedly raped and left naked outside an abandoned apartment building, authorities said Monday.

Detectives say the 28-year-old victim was attacked Dec. 13 after she got out of her car, which bore a rainbow gay pride sticker. The men, who ranged from their late teens to their 30s, made comments indicating they knew her sexual orientation, said Richmond police Lt. Mark Gagan.

"It just pushes it beyond fathomable," he said. "The level of trauma — physical and emotional — this victim has suffered is extreme."

Authorities are characterizing the attack as a hate crime but declined to reveal why they think the woman was singled out because of her sexual orientation. Gagan would say only that the victim lived openly with a female partner and had a rainbow flag sticker on her car.

The 45-minute attack began when one of the men approached the woman as she crossed the street, struck her with a blunt object, ordered her to disrobe and sexually assaulted her with the help of the other men.

When the group saw another person approaching, they forced the victim back into her car and took her to a burned-out apartment building, where she was raped again inside and outside the vehicle. The assailants took her wallet and drove off in her car. Officers found the car abandoned two days later.

The woman sought help from a nearby resident, and she was examined at a hospital. Although the victim said she did not know her attackers, detectives hope someone in the community knows them. One of the men went by the nickname "Blue" and another was called "Pato," according to authorities.

Richmond police are offering a $10,000 award for information leading to the arrest of the attackers.

Gay rights advocates note that hate crimes based on sexual orientation have increased nationwide as of late. There were 1,415 such crimes in 2006 and 1,460 in 2007, both times making up about 16 percent of the total, according to the FBI.

Avy Skolnik, a coordinator with the New York-based National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, noted that gay, lesbian and transgender crime victims may be more reluctant than heterosexual victims to contact police.

"Assailants target LGBT people of all gender identities with sexual assault," he said. "Such targeting is one of the most cruel, dehumanizing and violent forms of hate violence that our communities experience."

Skolnik said the group plans to analyze hate crime data to see whether fluctuations may be related to the gay marriage bans that appeared on ballots this year in California, Arizona and Florida.

"Anytime there is an anti-LGBT initiative, we tend to see spikes both in the numbers and the severity of attacks," he said. "People feel this extra entitlement to act out their prejudice."

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Associated Press writer Haven Daley in Richmond contributed to this report.

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When will we, as a people, STOP hating?
When will we teach our children better than this?

When hatred and violence are so prevalent in the world, how dare we allow this hatred to fester in our own country ....

Silence Is Acceptance ~ Stop The Hate

Saudi Judge OKs Marriage of Girl, 8 9:43am

Sharia In Action ~

Does ANYONE in Europe or the US want THIS happening in their country?

Please sign the petition at shariapetition.com
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(Saudi Arabia) Last Saturday, a Saudi judge reviewed a case filed by the mother of an eight-year-old girl seeking to annul the girl's arranged marriage to a 47-year-old man.

[T]he judge, Sheikh Habib Abdallah al-Habib, dismissed a petition brought by the girl's mother because she "is not the legal guardian of the girl," the woman's lawyer Abdullah al-Jutaili said.

"Therefore, she cannot represent her daughter in these proceedings," al-Jutaili said.

Her parents are separated, he said.

According to the lawyer, the girl's father arranged the marriage in order to settle his debts with the man, who is "a close friend" of his.

The judge did ask for a pledge from the husband, who was in court, not to consummate the marriage until the girl reaches puberty, according to al-Jutaili.

The judge ruled that when the girl reaches puberty, she will have the right to request a divorce by filing a petition with the court, the lawyer said.

Therefore, it appears that the case was dismissed because the girl's mother doesn't have standing. Apparently, since the eight-year-old is now married, the mother no longer has a right to intervene in her life.

Hey, but there's nothing to worry about since the 47-year-old pledged to hold off on sex with the girl until she reaches puberty. It seems that pledges by middle-aged child molesters are relied upon in Saudi Arabia. Of course, since the girl was traded for the payment of debts, the issue of treating a person as chattel was apparently ignored by the court.

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Moderate Muslims failing to combat extremism, says Islamic Foundation

Very interesting article -

Original article can be seen at :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3683481/Moderate-Muslims-failing-to-combat-extremism-says-Islamic-Foundation.html

Moderate Muslims have failed to do enough to combat the rise of extremism, a leading Islamic commentator has said.

Last Updated: 2:53PM GMT 08 Dec 2008

Dilwar Hussain, head of the policy research centre at the Islamic Foundation, said Muslims did not challenge sufficiently strongly so-called "preachers of hate".

"Much could be said about Britain's foreign policy mistakes in stoking injustice, leading to anger and frustration," he said in a report published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)

"But to blame only such foreign affairs for terrorism is not nearly enough.

"Muslims did not challenge strongly enough the preachers of hate and the peddlers of simplistic, yet nihilistic, solutions that were able to tap into that anger and frustration.

"Nor did they create adequate religious institutions or leadership that could connect with young people and educate them in an idiom they would understand, something that could have protected them when challenged by extremists' discourse."

In his essay, Mr Hussain argued for the development of a liberal brand of Islam tailored to British conditions.

His remarks were made in the report Faith in the Nation, a collection of essays by leading figures from the five largest faith communities about areas such as British identity and faith.

The report, with a foreword by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, includes essays by the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster.

Co-editors Zaki Cooper and Guy Lodge, said: "Faith-based activities, that are consistent with the core principles of British democracy, can make an important contribution to the life and cohesion of communities and provide vital sources of civic mobilisation and social campaigning."

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Jewish convert to Islam Joseph Cohen -
aka, Youssef al-Khattab - RevolutionMuslimCom (YouTube)
protesting at Columbia U.

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