Free World Forever: Please Help Save Salah - Congressional Resolution on Behalf of Salah Choudhury

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Please Help Save Salah - Congressional Resolution on Behalf of Salah Choudhury

Please help save Mr. Choudhury:

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
Advisory Board Member, R&B Islam-Israel Fellowship;
Journalist, Columnist, Author & Peace Activist;
PEN U.S.A. F.T.W. Award 2005;
A.J.C. Moral Courage Award 2006;
Editor & Publisher, Weekly Blitz
www.weeklyblitz.net
Chief Editor, Weekly Jamjamat
www.interfaithstrength.com

Mr. Salah is on trial for his life in Bangladesh. His crime - writing articles favorable toward Christians and Jews.

On November 14, 2006, Representatives Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Nita Lowey (D-NY) introduced a Congressional Resolution (House Resolution 1080) urging the Bangladesh government to drop all charges against Muslim journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury and cease all other forms of harassment against him.

House Resolution 1080 will be voted on before Congress adjourns at the end of this year (before the holidays).

Please contact your Congressional Representatives and urge them to support House Resolution 1080. Please encourage everyone you know to do the same. This is an issue that both Democrats and Republicans are supporting, and we must get it passed by a huge margin.

This is our chance and the Congress's chance to make a strong statement for justice and against radicalism, and help save the life of this very brave man.

Please act now and get everyone you know to act.

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Click for House Resolution 1080 and all information about Mr. Choudhury and what we can do.

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1 Comments:

At 3:06 PM, John Maszka said...: This is why it is so important to exercise our freedom of speech; to make our preferences known.

Constructive Sovereignty is an emerging theory intended to address globalization's increasing onslaught against state sovereignty. The theory maintains that states are not the primary actors, their constituents are. Therefore, their preferences are not fixed. Since states merely represent the preferences of their constituents, they will only adhere to and ultimately embed those international norms that their respective constituencies will accept. Rather than push for larger and more powerful international organizations that will impose global norms from the outside in, the theory of Constructive Sovereignty posits that ultimately change must come from the inside out. That is to say, from each state's own constituency. As each state's constituents become more and more international, they will become more receptive to international norms and they will voice their acceptance of these norms both politically and (especially) as consumers.

It is therefore a central pillar of the theory that privatization is not only the driving force behind globalization, but also that private enterprise possesses the incentive to implement those international norms reflected in the preferences of consumers (profit). Private enterprise is also the primary consumer of proprietary data used to measure the preferences of consumers, and as such remains the most up-to-date source of changing consumer preferences. As private enterprise meets the increasingly international demands of consumers, it will itself become more international in scope. The cycle is self-perpetuating. In this way international norms are embedded and viewed with legitimacy by each state's constituency, while state sovereignty is maintained and respected.