Prof Nina Fogel, Emerita, Technion Solicits SPME Member Support

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Dear Sirs (Madames),

Your activity is very praiseworthy, and it is directed to making our world better. I appreciate it very much.

I’d like to believe that you can easily join another decent action directed to the same goal. I mean the petition to Brussels Major Freddy Thielemans, who has banned a demonstration with a minute of silence to commemorate the victims of 9/11 on the 11th September in Brussels. I am afraid that his position signifies the beginning of prohibition in Europe of one of the fundamental freedoms–freedom of speech.

Address of petition where one has possibility to put his/her signature is

The petition itself:

To: Brussels Major

The Brussels mayor, the Socialist Freddy Thielemans, has, on 9th of August 2007 sent out a press release in which he has banned a demonstration with a minute of silence to commemorate the victims of 9/11 on the 11th sept in Brussels. The reason for the prohibition is that he says he cannot guarantee public safety and that he won’t disturb the Islamic section of the population in Brussels. By invoking the lack of public safety, he is precisely highlighting SIOE’s demonstration title:

Stop the Islamisation of Europe.

SIOE’s message through the 4 slogans is exactly to warn against conditions such as these, where people no longer can use their freedom of expression and feel secure, but the shocking facts are that these conditions already reign at the heart of the EU. SIOE’s demonstration will of course happen, as a peaceful utterance of opinion, an utterance of opinion for which Moslems have countless times received permission to demonstrate in Brussels.

Therefore it is, of course, completely absurd to ban a peaceful demonstration because they are afraid of violent muslim counter-demonstrators!

We kindly ask the major of Brussels to alter his decision and let the free people of Europe demonstrate for their civil rights. We want our right to have a minute of silence to commemorate the victims of 9/11 !

Sincerely, The Undersigned

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?ulfkotte >

There is below the practically same text in Russian:

Совершенно возмутительное событие. Мэр Брюсселя, социалист Фредди
Тилеманс, запретил мирную демонстрацию против исламизации Европы,
которая планировалась на 11 сентября сего года. Намечалась, пожалуй,
первая крупная акция европейского протеста. Люди собирались съехаться
со всей Европы. Это могло бы быть нечто значительное – историческое
начало европейского отпора исламской экспансии. А теперь непонятно
что будет. Может быть несколько энтузиастов всё равно приедет
нелегально митинговать. Может быть будут стычки с полицией. Но
большой акции уже не будет. Вот так просто забрали у народа основное
право свободы свова. Оруелл предсказал будущее.

Пожалуйста, подпишите петицию. Это неважно, что вы из Израиля. Её
подписали люди и из США, и из других неевропейских стран. Хотелось бы
просто показать много протестующих голосов. Хотелось, чтоб там было
миллион подписей. Пожалуйста, распространите на других
форумах. Это очень серьёзный поворот событий. Петиция тут:
(Translation of Tamar Lesser)
http://www.petitiononline.com/ulfkotte/petition.html
I propose you to distribute this petition using your large
list of people, who signed SPME appeal.

Sincerely yours,

Nina Fogel, Professor Emeritus, Technion

Prof Nina Fogel, Emerita, Technion Solicits SPME Member Support

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