FW: Taleban


Subject: FW: Taleban
From: Bookem (bookem@totalise.co.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 14:11:04 MDT


Dear Friends,

Please take a few minutes to read and act on this email.

On May 23rd 2001 the Taleban authorities in Afghanistan

confirmed that all Hindus will be required to wear a strip of yellow

cloth sewn onto a shirt pocket in order to identify themselves.

They claim that the measure is for their "protection". The world

has faced this before, in 1939 the world was required, at great cost,

to rid itself of Hitler's tyranny, it is not hard to spot

his child.

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to

relive it. The Taleban's record on respecting other religions gives

great cause for concern that their ultimate aim, upon which they

are intent, is "religious cleansing". They have already

demonstrated their distain and intolerance for other

religions and traditions by the desecration and destruction of the

ancient Buddhist statues, our collective heritage, within the
Afghanistan.

Whatever your religion, or even if you have none, we hope

that you will agree that this is fundamentally wrong. Remember,

"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do

nothing". Please do not do nothing, add your voice.

DIRECTIONS:

PLEASE COPY this email on to a new message,

add your name and those of your household who wish to

participate to the bottom and forward it to everyone on

your distribution list. If you receive this petition and you

find that you will be the 251st name on it, please e-mail a copy of it

to: alastair@om-int.com. It will then be forwarded to the UN.

Even if you decide not to sign, please be considerate and

do not kill the petition as you will be denying your friends, and

theirs, their legitimate voice. Instead return it to

alastair@om-int.com

To The Secretary General, Security

Council and General Assembly of the United Nations.

We the undersigned are appalled by the decision of the

Taleban government of Afghanistan to require all Hindus to wear a

piece of yellow cloth sewn onto a shirt pocket in order to

identify themselves. An individual's communion with God, however

they find him, is a matter of personal conscience and must

not be the subject of intimidation or persecution. The right of

everyone to worship as they wish is fundamental and

inalienable. The United Nations was founded in order to defeat Hitler
and

his henchmen who required the same from another religion with

all it's horrific consequences. It is completely unacceptable

that nearly 60 years later history is repeating itself. We ask

the following:

1. That the Taleban government is made aware in the

strongest possible terms that the world will not countenance this

perversion of human rights.

2. That prior to the United Nations and/or it's constituent

members granting recognition of the Taleban government this

obscene policy is reversed.

3. That the United Nations widen the terms of the trade

sanctions currently in force.

1. Alastair Mitton - London UK

2. Robert Mitton - London UK

3. Paulette Budd - London UK

4. Andrew Peake - London UK

5. Pippa Howell - London UK

6. Cecile Kusters - Arnhem, the Netherlands

7. Sarah Malpas - London UK

8. Susan Donnelly - Newcastle UK

9. Paul Donnelly - London UK

10. Pauline Bartholomew - London UK

11. Is0bel McMillan London UK

12. Fiona Adamson

13. Minka Emina Kulenovic La Jolla, US

14. Cath Dolan, London, England

15. Liz Murphy, Murcia, Spain

16. William M. Rueter, Wisconsin, US

17. Jaclyn A. Knapper, Tennessee, US

18. Louise Morris, Tennessee, US

19. Joe Stoud, Matsuyama, Japan

20. Keiko Stroud, Matsuyama, Japan

21.Larry Asher, Nepal

22. Phyl Asher, Nepal

23. Reiny de Wit, Nepal

24. Helen Johnston, Nepal

25. Isaac Thompson, Northern Ireland

26. Anne Thompson, Northern Ireland

27. Paul Carter, Vancouver, Canada

28. Lois Carter, Vancouver, Canada

29. Bronwyn Short, Vancouver, Canada

30. David Short, Vancouver, Canada

31. Mark Calder, Sydney, Australia

32. Graham Wintle, Surbiton, UK

33. Geoff Chivers, Surbiton, UK

34. Derek Nathan New Malden UK

35. Mary Nathan New Malden UK

36 Rosalind Preston, London UK

37 Marlena Schmool, UK

38 Ephraim Borowski, Glasgow, UK

39. Ruth Warrens, London, UK

40. Anthony Warrens, London, UK

41. Ian Goodman, London, UK

42. Liz Lightstone, London, UK

43 Elizabeth Simpson, London UK

44. Dimitris Kioussis

45. John_Griffin

46. Hermann Bujard, Heidelberg, Germany

47. Regine Bujard, Heidelberg, Germany

48. Konrad Beyreuther, Heidelberg, Germany

49. Ursula Beyreuther, Heidelberg, Germany

50. Horst Simon, Heidelberg, Germany

51. Michael Brand, Dresden

52. Dorothea Brand, Dresden

53. Christoph Lorra, Dresden

54. Martin Stocker, London, UK

55. Walter St=FChmer, G=F6ttingen, Germany

56. Michael Hans, Bonn, Germany

57. Wolfgang Mueller, Berlin, Germany

58. Claude Wasterlain, Los Angeles, USA

59. Jerome Engel, Jr., Los Angeles, USA

60. Gyorgy Buzsaki, Millburn, NJ, USA

61. James M. Tepper, Boonton NJ USA

62. Harvey H. Feder, New York, NY USA

63. Steven J. Diner, New York, NY, USA

64. Michael Goodich, Haifa, IS

65. Frederic Goodich, Los Angles, CA

66. Richard Milton, Pacific Palisades, CA

67. Carol Milton, Pacific Palisades, CA

68. Bob Baxter, Pasadena, CA

69. Vince Hemingson, Vancouver, Canada

70. Nicholas Racz, Vancouver, Canada

71. Michele Matthews, Vancouver, Canada

72. Marshall Marinker, London, UK

73. John Gilbert, London, UK

74. Renata Langford, London, UK

75. Antonia Owen, London, UK

76. Julia Bell, London, UK

77. Nick Mickshik, London, UK

78. Julian Sims, London UK

79. Alvaro Homar, London UK

80. Jane Lamacraft, London UK

81. Katya Brightwell, London UK

82. Lee Freeman, London UK

83. Charlotte Chahrvin, London UK

84. Catherine Mackenzie, London UK

85. Markus Nisch, Berlin, Germany

86. Paul van Dyk, Berlin, Germany

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