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Petition gegen Kennzeichnungspflicht für Hindus
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> 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 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. Please > then delete all the names, add your own as the 1st and pass it on. > > 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