5th Annual Reflections on Holocaust and Genocides in Dallas

The 5th Annual reflection on Holocaust and Genocides was held on Sunday, January 22, 2012 at Unity Church of Dallas in Texas.

Education was the purpose; we have to learn, acknowledge and reflect upon the terrible things we have inflicted upon each other, and we have to understand that our safety and security hinges on the safety of all others around us.

There is a shameless cruelty in us, either we shy away or refuse to acknowledge the sufferings of others, worrying that it will devalue our own or somehow it amounts to infidelity to our own cause. Shame on us that we justifying massacres by believing and propagating that the victims deserved it or asked for it.

We sincerely the following understanding continues to develop in our hearts;

Other people's suffering is as legitimate as mine; It is easy to see ourselves as Victims, but we must also see the perpetrator in us; when we strip the politics out of a conflict, we see hope; We can value others suffering without lessening our own; the overriding desire to highlight our own blinds us from other's suffering. A sense of responsibility for creating a better world is awakened ultimately co-existence and every one's safety and peace should be the driving thought.

To all those, who have endured holocaust, genocides, massacres, bombs, annihilation, land mines, hunger, rape, torture, occupation and inhuman brutality, we say you are not alone. The least we can do in the process of healing is to acknowledge every one's pain in one voice. We have begun the process of coming together as one people, to stand with you, we are indeed one world and a single humanity, and caring for each other brings safety and peace to all of us. I cannot be safe if the people around me are not, and I will not have peace if people around me don't. It is in my interest to seek a peaceful world for one and all.

We are working on initiating a course on tolerance education, so one day; we all can learn to have a heart that opens to the pain of every human, yes, we can do that.

Mike Ghouse is the founder of this event and is committed to building a cohesive America, where no Americans has to live in apprehension or fear of the other. He is a speaker, thinker and a writer and offers pluralistic solutions on current issues. His work is listed at www.MikeGhouse.net   

You are invited

7 Minutes, 7 Topics and 7 Reflections

When: Sunday, January 24th at 5:00 PM
Where: Center for Spiritual Living,
Address: 4801 Spring Valley Road, Dallas, TX 75244
Website - http://www.holocaustandgenocides.com/
Email – HolocuastandGenocides@gmail.com
(214) 325-1916

This is an educational program, where 7 speakers will reflect on 7 topics for 7 minutes each along with contributing a few simple things that you and I can do to prevent such tragedies. The topics range from the Holocaust to Genocides, massacres and tragedies. It is a purposeful event to learn, acknowledge and reflect upon the terrible things that we humans have inflicted upon each other.

The Holocaust was a major human tragedy and a failure of humanity. Among Genocides, Massacres and other tragedies we will reflect upon the Indigenous American people, the Mayans, the Toltecs, Darfur, Polpot, Congo, Armenia, Rwanda, Falun Dafa, Burma, Tibet, Bosnia, India, Gaza and the transatlantic slave trade. Through these representative events, our goal is to reflect upon every human tragedy. We plan to have a full day conference to remember every tragedy and we hope you will attend the full day next year.

Sponsored by the Center for Spiritual living and organized by the Foundation for Pluralism, where co-existence is our value. An initiative of American Muslims; striving to contribute towards building civil societies.

Holocaust and Genocides Event

INVITATION

You are invited to the III Annual Reflections on Holocaust and Genocides, a purposeful event to create awareness of the inhumanity in us, and discover solutions for peaceful co-existence.

Individuals and leaders from different faiths, races, ethnicities and backgrounds will gather to express their commitment to co-existence and well being of every human being. It is a tribute to those who stood up, spoke up and risked their lives to save the life of others.

Please join us with your friends from work, place of worship, social networks and ask them to confirm at: i.will.attend.holocaust.event@gmail.com

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WHEN :: 5:00 PM, Sunday, January 24, 2010
WHERE :: Center for Spiritual Living, 4801 Spring Valley, Dallas Texas 75244
COST :: The event is free

PDF POSTER: http://www.foundationforpluralism.com/Images_HolocaustDay/Holocaust-and-Genocides-Poster_122809-.pdf

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We are looking for volunteers and sponsors.

• Pictures from I Annual event: http://picasaweb.google.com/FoundationforPluralism/HolocaustCommemorationByMuslims#5278725720284191074
• Pictures from II Annual event: http://picasaweb.google.com/HolocaustandGenocides/IIAnnualReflectionOnHolocaustAndGenocides#5300647098115563810
• Report from the first Event: http://www.foundationforpluralism.com/Images_HolocaustDay/HMD2006_ProgramReport.asp
• Public Comments: http://www.foundationforpluralism.com/Holocaustday_Comments.asp
• Media coverage: http://www.foundationforpluralism.com/Holocaustday_Media.asp

Thank you.

Mike Ghouse
(214) 325-1916
http://www.holocaustandgenocides.com/
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Genocides

List of Mass Murderers
Mike Ghouse

These men were solely responsible for the genocides associated with their names. It was their decision that led to Holocaust, Genocides and Massacres.

It takes one to start or to stop these attrocities, had the people surrounding these men stopped them, the world would have been different.

Indeed, we the good people are responsible for these crimes. Some times a simple word "NO" would stop one from doing bad things, perhaps you may have stopped doing a bad thing because someone had said NO. How many times have you walked away doing nothing when some one was mugged, raped, beaten up or abused? Should others do the same to you if you were in that situation?

It was not their religion that caused them to do these evil things, religion is created to wean people away from doing evil things, and we need to hold our eagerness to blame the religion. Religion is not the culprit, it is the messed up individual.

The least you can do is speak up, write up or discourage one from saying ill things about others. If you are a Palestinian, stop some one from denigrating Jews, and if you are a Jew, don't enjoy some one bashing a Palestinian, stop them. Are we honest enough?

We have to become the mitigaters of conflicts and nurturers of goodwill.

Mike Ghouse
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SUBJECT TO VERIFFICATION
I would welcome any verification on this,

I would like to add all the verifiable mass killings (between 1900-2010), I know there are several major items missing here, when you send the info or when I get the time, I will update it. For example off the bat; The Jalianwala Massacre in 1919, the Sikh Massacre in Delhi, the Gujarnt Massacre in 2002, Sabra and Shatila, Congo....

1. Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) 49-78,000,000
2. Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) 23,000,000 (the purges plus Ukraine's famine)
3. Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) 12,000,000 (concentration camps and civilians WWII)
4. Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44) 5,000,000 (civilians in WWII)
5. Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-20) 1,200,000 Armenians (1915) + 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks (1916-22) + 500,000 Assyrians (1915-20)
6. Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) 1,700,000
7. Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) 1.6 million (purges and concentration camps)
8. Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78) 1,500,000
9. Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970) 1,000,000
10. Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982) 900,000
11. Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994) 800,000
12. Suharto (East Timor, West Papua, Communists, 1966-98) 800,000
13. Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88) 600,000
14. Tito (Yugoslavia, 1945-1987) 570,000
15. Fumimaro Konoe (Japan, 1937-39) 500,000? (Chinese civilians)
16. Jonas Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002) 400,000
17. Mullah Omar - Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001) 400,000
18. Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979) 300,000
19. Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1970-71) 300,000 (Bangladesh)
20. Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Libya, 1934-45; Yugoslavia, WWII) 300,000
21. Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire, 1965-97) ?
22. Indian Mobs with Govt. complicity - Sikh Massacre November 1984 (2,135)
23. Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996) 220,000
24. Foday Sankoh (Sierra Leone, 1991-2000) 200,000
25. Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 1992-96) 180,000
26. Michel Micombero (Burundi, 1972) 150,000
27. Hassan Turabi (Sudan, 1989-1999) 100,000
28. Jean-Bedel Bokassa (Centrafrica, 1966-79) ?
29. Richard Nixon (Vietnam, 1969-1974) 70,000 (vietnamese civilians)
30. Efrain Rios Montt (Guatemala, 1982-83) 70,000
31. Papa Doc Duvalier (Haiti, 1957-71) 60,000
32. Hissene Habre (Chad, 1982-1990) 40,000
33. Chiang Kai-shek (Taiwan, 1947) 30,000 (popular uprising)
34. Vladimir Ilich Lenin (USSR, 1917-20) 30,000 (dissidents executed)
35. Francisco Franco (Spain) 30,000 (dissidents executed after the civil war)
36. Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959-1999) 30,000
37. Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam, 1963-1968) 30,000
38. Hafez Al-Assad (Syria, 1980-2000) 25,000
39. Khomeini (Iran, 1979-89) 20,000
40. Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe, 1982-87, Ndebele minority) 20,000
41. Rafael Videla (Argentina, 1976-83) 13,000
42. Guy Mollet (France, 1956-1957) 10,000 (war in Algeria)
43. Paul Koroma (Sierra Leone, 1997) 6,000
44. Osama Bin Laden (worldwide, 1993-2001) 3,500
45. Augusto Pinochet (Chile, 1973) 3,000
46. Al Zarqawi (Iraq, 2004-06) 2,000
47. Osama Bin Laden,Twin Towers - 3000 - September 11,2001
48. George Bush, Iraq
49. George Bush, Afghanistan

(Note: the crimes committed by right-wing dictators have always been easier to track down than the crimes against humanity committed by communist leaders, so the figures for communist leaders like Stalin and Mao increase almost yearly as new secret documents become available. To this day, the Chinese government has not yet disclosed how many people were executed by Mao's red guards during the Cultural Revolution and how many people were killed in Tibet during the Chinese invasion of 1950. We also don't know how many dissidents have been killed by order of Kim Il Sung in North Korea, although presumably many thousands). Main sources:

* Charny (1988) Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review
* Stephane Courtois: Black Book on Communism (1995)
* Matthews: Guiness Book of Records (2000)
* Clodfelter: Warfare and Armed Conflicts (1992)
* Elliot: Twentieth Century Book of the Dead (1972)
* Bouthoul : A List of the 366 Major Armed Conflicts of the period 1740-1974, Peace Research (1978)
* R.J. Rummel: Death by Government - Genocide and Mass Murder (1994)
* Matt White's website
* Several general textbooks of 20th century history
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