Open Letter to Madame Mayor of London, Ontario, Canada
Engineer Meer Sahib
----- Original Message -----
From: Peace and Justice Activist
To: adecicco@london.
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:24 AM
Subject: AN OPEN LETTER TO MADAME MAYOR OF LONDON
Madame Anne Marie DeCicco-Best
Mayor of London
Dear Madame Mayor:
I never mentioned it to you nor took credit for it,
but during your last elections, I campaigned for you
vigorously in my community, even though during the
previous Federal Elections, I was a strong supporter
of your opponent, Mr. Joe Fontana, and had walked with
him knocking doors canvassing for him. I never
mentioned this to you, because, it was simply my civic
duty to see the better candidate get elected.
I can not forget what you did right after 911. We, the
members of the Muslim Community, were bracing for
violent reactions against us, from fringe elements.
You showed great leadership, by arranging for a
multi-faith prayer meeting at the Victoria park. I
worked on your team and we had a very successful
event. After that, our Christian friends came and
surrounded the mosque, forming a human chain,
symbolically saying ' We will protect our fellow
Muslim Londoners'. We can never forget such a
wonderful sentiment shown by our fellow Londoners and
the Mayor.
I must say we are disappointed this time, by your
voting for the ribbons. Don't mistake - We ARE for our
troops, but the message of the ribbon is deceptive and
misleading. Had it said "We support our troops -so we
want them home", or " We support our Troops, but not
the War" or some other similar message, we would have
whole-heartedly supported the ribbons.
Madame Mayor, all wars are evil, even though the
war-mongers would justify them giving various
pretexts, and demonize the victims beyond recognition.
Deceptions and lies are the first tools of war.
You, as a woman, and hopefully a future mother, ought
to oppose war, because the first victims of war are
women. And the worst victims of war are also the
women.
They are the ones who get raped and then murdered. We
saw that in its ugliest form in Bosnia, when the Serb
marauders raped women and tore up their bellies. Even
our Gen. McKenzie is accused of war crimes against
women. "In December- same year - the chief Bosnian
military prosecutor in Sarajevo, Mustafa Bisic,
formally charged Gen. Lewis MacKenzie with sexual
misconduct against civilians while on duty in Bosnia,
and requested that the UN revoke his diplomatic
immunity. MacKenzie was accused of raping several
Bosnian women being held captive in a Serbian prison
camp, as a "gift" from Serbian officials. The victims
were later executed by Serbian soldiers, allegedly to
'erase evidence'."-
http://srebrenica-
In Somalia, our forces raped women and committed human
rights violations and unimaginable, racially motivated
atrocities. In one case, they roasted a Somali over a
pit of fire and took trophy photographs. All these
details are in the archives of our government's
Somalia War crime Investigations.
In Palestine, most victims are women. Many pregnant
women and their new born babies die at Israeli check
points.
Israeli interrogators not only rape Palestinian women
detainees, but also take videotapes of the rapings to
blackmail the victims.
(http://www.turks.
Because our media hides these horrors, we rarely hear
about them.
Over a million children have died in Iraq alone as a
result of using nuclear tipped weapons in the US
bombings. A large number of children are burnt alive
by chemical weapons. Mangled and deformed children are
being born, and will continue to be born for many
generations to come, as Iraq has been turned into a
radioactive wasteland. The victims are, again women -
the mothers, who will weep and agonize, when they are
delivered with such badly deformed babies, until the
babies die excruciating deaths. This will go on for
many generations, as the half-life of depleted Uranium
lasts BILLIONS of years.
Now the same horror is faced by the women of
Afghanistan. The US administration and their misguided
feminist groups justified attacking Afghanistan, using
maltreatment of women as the pretext. But the end
result is that the very women they were supposed to
'save' from the Taliban are blown up into pieces, and
others turned into widows, and their lovely children
made into a pulp.
Now, after US blasted Afghanistan with radio-active
weapons, the new born babies and their mothers are
paying a terrible price. Their photographs are not
shown by our media, claiming 'they are too graphic',
but the real reason is they want to hide these horrors
from us, so the warlords could go on with their crimes
unobstructed.
These photos are heart-wrenching, but we must see what
is being done in our name and decide if we want any
part of it. I must however warn you the pictures are
very disturbing :
http://www.thewe.
In closing, I have just one request to make of you and
your council members. Please click on the link below
and watch the documentary "Breaking Silence" by Mr.
John Pilger, a well respected, independent journalist,
known for impeccable integrity.This documentary will
provide you facts that our media has hidden from the
public, and the real reason why the US attacked
Afghanistan. Then, please decide if our young men and
women should die there and kill innocent Afghans. And
also remember that while the Afghans harboured no
enmity towards Canada, whenever our soldiers kill an
innocent person, the loved ones are forced to take
revenge. So, for every Afghan our soldiers kill, a
hundred enemies rise up against Canada.
http://video.
In Peace,
(Eng.) Meer Sahib.
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