Participating Organizations

If you wish to list your organization as a participating organization in the event, please share the name of your organization and the web address by sending an email to ( no verbals or text messages please)  HolocaustandGenocides@gmail.com

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PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS:

Please mail your information with the name and web address to HolocaustandGenocides@gmail.com

1. Gurdwara Akaljot Sahib
2. Gurdwara Sikh Temple of North Texas
3. Gurdwara Singh Sabha of North Texas
4. DFW SIKHS, serving inter-religious engagement
5. Gurdwara Sikh Sangat
6. UNITED SIKHS 
7. Academy of Guru Granth Studies
8. MCC for Human services
9. Dallas Peace Center
10. Universal Peace Federation of Dallas
11. Gurudwara Sahib of Houston
12. World Muslim Congress
13. Fun Asia
14. Unity of Arlington
15.  http://voicesforfreedom.org/
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17.  
18.  
 

We request you to consider donating $50, $100, $250, $500, $1000 to defray the costs of the event simply click link and do the needful - http://americatogetherfoundation.com/donate/.

Please feel free to call  Mike Ghouse at  (214) 325-1916

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ORGANIZATIONS PREVIOUSLY PARTICIPATED

1. Academy of Guru Granth Studies -  
2. Adat Chaverim Synagogue - http://www.adatchaverim.org/
3. Adat Chaverim Synagogue -  www.adatchaverim.org 
4. Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam -  www.alislam.org  
5. American Clergy leadership conference 
6. American Family Coalition
7. American Federation of Muslims from India
8. American Hindu Association - http://www.americanhindu.net
9. American Muslim Forum -  www.AmericanMuslimforum.org 
10. American Muslim Task Force 
11. Art of Living Foundation - www.artoflivingdfw.org
12. Art Spirit - Center for Spirituality - www.artspiritdallas.org 
13. Bahai Faith http://www.bahaisofdallas.org
14. BAPS Swami Narayan Temple of Dallas
15. Bohra Muslim Community http://www.malumat.org
16. Brahma Kumaris of Dallas - www.bkdallas.org   
17. Buddhist Community of Dallas
18. CAIR - Council on American Islamic Relations - http://www.cairdfw.org
19. Center for Global Diplomacy 
20. Center for Spiritual Living - http://www.csldallas.org 
21. Chinmaya Mission DFW - www.chinmayasaaket.org
22. Congregation Beth Torah - http://www.congregationbethtorah.org/
23. D/FW Hindu Temple Society - http://www.dfwhindutemple.org
24. Dallas Concilio - www.DallasConcilio.com 
25. Dallas County Republican Party
26. Dallas Masjid Al-Islam
27. Department of Justice, Community Relations - http://www.usdoj.gov/crs 
28. DFW Hindu Temple Society of North Texas - www.Dfwhindutemple.org 
29. Family federation for world peace 
30. Federal Bureau of Investigations -www.dallasfbi.gov
31. Federation of Jain Centers of North America - www.jaina.org. 
32. Foundation for Pluralism - www.Foundationforpluralism.com 
33. Free Muslim Coalition - http://www.freemuslims.org
34. Freedom and Justice (F&J) Foundations -www.FreeandJust.org
35. Hare Krishna Temple of DFW - http://www.radhakalachandji.com
36. Hazara  American Welfare Association, Inc. 
37. IANT - Free Medical Clinic
38. ILE Olokun Sanya Awopeju of Texas - http://www.ileolokun.org
39. India Association of North Texas - www.iant.org
40. Indian Cultural Heritage Foundation -  www.ichf-us.org 
41. Indian Muslim Council - http://www.imc-usa.org
42. Institute of Medieval and Post Medieval Studies
43. Interfaith center - Dallas, Texas
44. Interfaith Council of Thanksgiving Square
45. International Shinto Foundation- http://shinto.org 
46. Islamic Association of Carrollton - http://www.carrolltonmasjid.org
47. Islamic Association of collin county http://www.planomasjid.org 
48. Islamic Association of North Texas http://iant.com 
49. Islamic Association of tarrant County
50. Ismaili Muslim Community of North Texas
51. Jain Society of North Texas- http://www.dfwjains.org
52. Kurdish Human Rights Watch - www.khrw.org  
53. Lewisville Masjid- http://www.lewisvillemasjid.org
54. Madinah Masjid of Carrollton - http://www.madinahmasjid.com 
55. Masjid Warith Deen Mohammed 
56. Memnosyne Foundation – 
57. Muslim Alliance Southwest
58. Muslim Community Center 
59. Muslim Community Center for Human Services www.mcc-hs.org 
60. National American Muslim Association - www.namaw.com
61. National Muslim Events Calendar - www.muslim-calendar.com
62. North Texas Hindu Mandir - www.northtexashindumandir.org
63. North Texas Islamic Council 
64. Orbits of Influence - www.orbitsofinfluence.com
65. Orthodox Christian Church - www.stsavaplano.com 
66. Pakistan American Congress
67. Pakistan Community Service - www.pakservices.org 
68. Peace Makers of Dallas 
69. Plano Indian Lions Club
70. Sanctuary for Life - http://www.sanctuaryforlife.org
71. Shia Muslim Community ,Momin Center, Irving - http://www.momin.org
72. Sikh Study Circle DFW - http://www.Sikhstudy.com
73. Sikh Temple of North Texas - http://www.sikhtempledallas.org 
74. Somanatha Kshetram of North America (SKNA) - WWW.SRISM.ORG/
75. Southern Methodist University - SMA
76. Sri Shridi Sai Baba Temple of Plano - http://www.Shirdisaidallas.org
77. Texas Muslim Womens foundation - http://www.tmwf.org 
78. The Church of Living God, Oak Cliff
79. The Freedom and Justice foundation - www.freeandjust.org
80. The National Association Of  Muslim American Women
81. The Reformed Church of Plano
82. Towheed Foundation - http://www.towheed.org
83. Tunisian community Center - Mabrouk Badouga
84. United Nations Association - Dallas Chapter www.dallas-una.org
85. Unity Church of Arlington
86. Unity Church of Sachse - www.unityofsachse.org 
87. Unity walk - Washington DC - www.911unitywalk.org
88. UTD Students Government Association
89. West Plano Presbyterian Church- http://www.westplanopresbyterian.org
90. World Muslim Congress - www.WorldMuslimCongress.com 
91. Zoroastrian Association of North Texas - http://www.zant.org  

6th Annual Holocaust and Genocides, Sikh Genocide 1984

PRESS RELEASE
  January 16, 2013

VI Annual Reflections on Holocaust and Genocides
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Sunday, January 27, 2013
Unity Church of Dallas, 6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230
Rsvp to: ConfirmAttendance@gmail.com
www.HolocaustandGenocides.com
 

THE SIKH GENOCIDE OF 1984

Humanity must continuously acknowledge, remember, and reflect upon the inhuman atrocities misguided powers inflicted upon powerless. A stand for justice, education and understanding is badly needed. We hope each one of us would walk out with a commitment to work towards all humanity as one family where each one stands for the rights of others to make the world a safe home for all and a better place for everyone to live. Indeed, safety of each one of us hinges on the safety of others around us.

Every year we have reflected on our failings, massacres, Genocides and Holocaust, this year, we will focus on the Sikh Genocide of 1984, a Sikh speaker will deliver the key note address on the topic.  Mr. Hasan Mahmud will share about the Bangladesh Genocide of 1971, Dr. Petra Weldes will talk about the effects of Stereotyping on the societies, and Kelly Obazee will reflect on current massacres around the world.  Mike Ghouse will speak about the need to take stand against oppression of others, and Holocaust continues to be our anchor event.

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

To paraphrase Sir Edmund Burke, “evil continues to flourish not necessarily because of evil men, but more so because good men do nothing about it.”

The human atrocities are pent up frustrations and unresolved issues that reach a boiling point and explode into massacres and genocides.   As civilized societies, we need to bring a closure to the issues through forgiveness, apology and restoration of justice.

To all those, who have endured holocaust, genocides, massacres, annihilation, land mines, hunger, rape, torture, occupation and inhuman brutality, we say, we are with you, and you are not alone. The least we can do in the process of healing is to acknowledge every one's pain.  

The sixth annual event is an initiative of the Foundation for Pluralism, Sikh Gurdwaras of North Texas, America Together Foundation, and the World Muslim congress. 

CONTACT:

Dr. Harbans Lal, Event Chair (817) 446-8757- email: japji@tx.rr.com

Mike Ghouse, President  (214) 325-1916 - email: SpeakerMikeGhouse@gmail.com

 

America together foundation
2665 Villa Creek Dr, Suite 206
Dallas, TX 75234

ACTION ITEMS:

1.    RSVP to - confirmattedance@gmail.com or call either of the phone

2.    You can list your organization as a supporting organization, please send an email to HolocaustandGenocides@gmail.com with name and web address.

3.    Invite your friends.

4.  Donate - http://americatogetherfoundation.com/donate/

Reflections on Holocaust and Genocides - 6th year

PRESS RELEASE

December 21, 2012

VI Annual Reflections on Holocaust and Genocides
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Sunday, January 27, 2013
Unity Church of Dallas, 6525 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230
Rsvp to: ConfirmAttendance@gmail.com 
www.HolocaustandGenocides.com
 

ANNUAL ANCHOR EVENT: Holocaust
HIGHLIGHTED: Sikh Genocide

Every year we have reflected on different aspects of Genocides and Holocaust, this year, we will highlight the Sikh Massacre of 1984 and address Rape, Stereotyping, Human Rights, Oppression, Bangladesh Mass Rapes and the idea of standing up for others. All Grim subjects, but we have to face them, at least once a year. It keeps our humanity intact. Holocaust continues to the be anchor event.

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, or simply turn the face.

To paraphrase Sir Edmund Burke, “evil continues to flourish not necessarily because of evil men, but more so because good men do nothing about it.”

The Massacres we witness against a group of people, are pent up frustrations and unresolved issues that reaching a boiling point and hurt everyone involved.  As civilized societies, we need to bring a closure to the issues, which happen through forgiveness, apology and restoration of justice.

Education is the purpose; we have to learn, acknowledge and reflect upon the terrible things that we humans have inflicted upon each other, and to we have to understand that our safety hinges on the safety of all others around us. It is a comprehensive event where all human failings, massacres, genocides and Holocaust will be addressed in one fashion or the other.

We invite sponsors, facilitators, speakers, writers from individuals and organizations to make this happen. It is an initiative of American Muslims striving to build responsible civic societies, where justice and co-existence are our values.

We sincerely hope the attendees will walk out with the following understanding:

·        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.

Every organization that is willing to subscribe to the idea of co-existence is invited to participate, sponsor, and volunteer.

We invite you to submit a 250 word essay on the issue that agonizes you; please offer your solutions with co-existence in mind in another 100 words. Selection will be based on the comprehensiveness of the thought.

Please send an email to: HolocaustandGenocides@gmail.com

Dr. Harbans Lal, Event Chair (817) 446-8757

email: japji@tx.rr.com

Mike Ghouse,  President (214) 325-1916 -
email: SpeakerMikeGhouse@gmail.com

America Together Foundation
Foundation for Pluralism

2665 Villa Creek Dr, Suite 206
Dallas, TX 75234

Rally against Shia Genocide in Pakistan

This should be classified as Massacre, rather than Genocide. Each life is precious, but each collective punishment is different. 

Mike Ghouse

The Universal Muslim Association of America encourages all momineen to participate in this important rally to protest the killing of innocent momineen in Pakistan. Buses from across the country are being organized. UMAA has sponsored a bus to leave from the Idara-e-Jaferia in Maryland. Please contactSoulsMarch@gmail.com for information about transportation from you area. 

Hitler's annihilation of the Romanis (the Gypsies of Europe)

URL - http://holocaustandgenocides.blogspot.com/2012/12/hitlers-annihilation-of-romanis-gypsies.html

Holocaust and Genocides continue to haunt us. Are humans really capable of doing this? It saddens me every other day when I think about the Holocaust. On our part, the Muslims in Dallas have commemorated and continue to commemorate the Holocaust of Jews every year, and then we included the Gays and the Gypsies, each year, as we learn, and have someone to articulate, we have added Genocides of Native Americans, African Americans and the Genocides around the world. And now, we will add the annihilation of Romanis.

The least you can do is pause and think about it. We said never again after the holocaust, but genocides have continued non-stop, and we are currently witnessing the annihilation of the Palestinians people by the Israelis. We are (Americans) manipulated into hating the Palestinian, and that is stripping us from our own humanity of being just to them and justifying bombing them as revenge. Obama is damned wrong on it, so are the others. How can you support annihilation of a people? We have indeed condemned the shelling of rockets and harassing the Israeli population, both are wrong, but we cannot justify either, if we do, we need to ponder about our own humanity.
In this piece by Dilip Simeon adds the India connection with Hitler.

We have known about Subhash Chandra Bose meeting with Hitler, I will say the most unpopular thing to say, Subhash Chandra Bose is regarded with reverence by good percentage of Indian Population, including me once. His anti-British stance should not have caused him to befriend Hitler. The other admirers of Hitler are: Golwalker, Modi and a host of them, now Dilip adds Iqbal, Mashriki and Inayathulla Khan and I am asking him the sources for such information. If it is true, I will withdraw my admiration for the later three with an article, not the popular thing to do, but we must do.

Mike Ghouse

Hitler's annihilation of the Romanis (the Gypsies of Europe)

NB:  I placed these comments on a Facebook site called Lets Speak India, where a photo of Subhas Chandra Bose shaking hands with Adolf Hitler has been shared over 1500 times, and 'liked' over 580 times. Many comments are full of admiration for Hitler. One person is moved to say this is a picture of the 'Tiger' meeting the 'Lion'. I had provided the link, but find that its been deleted. 


For many of our youth, the deaths of millions in wars and genocide are a mere throw of the dice. The disdain for history and the mania for glory are bad enough, but the normalisation of mass killing is the most disturbing. I've discussed this in my article A Hard Rain Falling and Armies of the Pure: The Question of Indian Fascism  (click the titles for the links)

Find below material related to the Nazi's genocide of the Romani (aka Gypsies) who were of Indian origin, and whose fate is seldom talked about. They remain the prime targets of racial hatred in Europe today.  The many Indian admirers of Hitler could spare a thought for these people, who were slaughtered with the same merciless barbarity as were Europes' Jews.

They could also reflect on Golwalkar's (the successor to RSS founder, Hegdewar) views on Nazism: "To keep up the purity of the race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the semitic races - the Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here...a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by" (We, or Our Nationhood Defined, 1938).

Incidentally, Allama Iqbal and Inayatullah Khan al-Mashriqi were also fervent admirers f Hitler..

The Gypsies of Europe (also known as Romanis, of Indian origin) were registered, sterilized, ghettoized, and then deported to concentration and death camps by the Nazis. 


Approximately 250,000 to 500,000 Gypsies were murdered during the Holocaust - an event they call the Porajmos (the "Devouring"). Together with Jews, the Romanis were the only ethnic/racial population selected for total annihilation according to the genocidal policy of the Final Solution - ttp://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/gypsies.htm


On July 14th, 1933 Hitler’s cabinet passed the law against “lives not deserving of life” called The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring.” It ordered sterilization for “Gypsies and most of the Germans of black color”. It also affected Jews, the disabled, and others seen as “asocial” (i.e. social misfits). The Law for Revocation of German Citizenship was implemented against Romanies unable to show proof of German birth, as well as against the “Eastern Jews,” who constituted nearly 20% of all Jews in Germany in 1933. In the week of September 18th-25th, the Reichsminister for the Interior called for the arrest of Romanies, under the terms of the “Law Against Habitual Criminals.” Many were sent to concentration camps and made to undertake penal labor. From January 1934 onwards, Romanies were being selected for transfer to camps for processing, which included sterilization by injection or castration. Over the next three years, such centers were established at Dachau, Dieselstrasse, Sachsenhausen, Marzahn and Vennhausen..

The Romani people in Europe are today the most vilified and discriminated against of all ethnic or national populations, and the most victimized by racist violence and discriminatory governmental policies. “One exhibit [at the Holocaust Museum at Buchenwald] quotes SS chief Heinrich Himmler on December 8th, 1938, as calling for the ‘final solution of the Gypsy question,’ and cites his order of December 16th, 1942, to have all Gypsies remaining in Europe deported to Auschwitz.”

At the beginning of 1940, the first mass genocidal action of the Holocaust took place when 250 Romani children from Czechoslovakia were murdered during tests with the new Zyklon-B gas in the camp at Buchenwald..On December 16th, 1942, Himmler issued the order to have all Romanies remaining in Germany deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau for extermination, and so the end began for the second “major group which National Socialists proposed to exterminate in its entirety: the Gypsies” .. The final number of the dead Sinti and Roma may never be determined. We do not know how many were brought into the concentration camps; not every camp produced statistical material. Sinti and Roma often. . . do not appear in the statistics. Also, as the Auschwitz Memorial Book points out, Romanies were murdered unrecorded, sometimes by the hundreds, outside the camps, in the most numbers in the eastern territories, for which only scant records exist. As research continues, the figures rise higher. In order to estimate the percentage of total losses, we would have to know, in addition to the number of dead, the number of Romanies throughout Europe before 1933, and this we will never be able to determine accurately, although both Colliers Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia Americana list the pre-war European Romani population as 700,000...

That there are Indians who are hailing the mass murderer of Romanis is indeed ironic.. Read more:  THE ROOTS OF ANTIGYPSYISM: TO THE HOLOCAUST AND AFTER
http://www.radoc.net/radoc.php?doc=art_b_history_rootsofprejudice&lang=en&articles=true

Also see: Hitler's Assault on the Golden Rule : by Claudia Koontz 

And: Gypsies' fate haunts Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favourite film-maker

As she approaches her 100th birthday this week (2002) Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favourite film-maker, remains the pariah of the German cinema. Her first new movie for almost 50 years has been coolly received, and she faces renewed accusations that she failed to prevent more than 100 Gypsies being sent to die in concentration camps. Riefenstahl, whose centenary is on Thursday, faces a legal challenge by Gypsies who claim she has lied for decades by insisting that the Gypsy extras she used in her rustic melodrama, Tiefland (Lowlands), all survived the Holocaust. The production was filmed during the Second World War when she was director of Nazi propaganda films

Source: http://dilipsimeon.blogspot.in/2012/07/hitlers-annihilation-of-romanis-gypsies.html 

Sikh Massacre Observance, Euless Gurdwara

DRAFT

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Sikh Genocide Observance
Gurdwara Sikh Sangat
1400 W Euless Blvd, Euless, TX 76040

12:00 -1:30 PM
URL http://holocaustandgenocides.blogspot.com/2012/11/sikh-massacre-observance-euless-gurdwara.html

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"The first response from those who support killing of other people is usually, "they asked for it", "we are fine now and there is no need to mess it up with these programs" and a few more extreme thoughts. These  ideas are born out of their inability to deal with the situation and find solutions. Nothing was really fine, if it was, this would not have happened. The idea of this and other programs is to understand the issue, beware and remove the cancerous cell that is destroying the fabric of the society.  No one needs to be blamed, but together, we need to remove the root cause. All of us deserve Mukti, an ironic element that one will not have, if the other does not. 

Education is the purpose; we have to learn, acknowledge and reflect upon the terrible things we (humans) have inflicted upon each other, and we have to understand that our safety hinges on the safety of all others around us. In a given society there is a spiritual balance that allows each one to pursue his or her own happiness, when some one affects that balance, it hurts us all. There is a perpetrator in us that silently endorses the crimes by not speaking up and ultimately suffers from within, the law of karma is operative within every soul. No one goes scot free." Mike Ghouse, Chair, Annual Holocaust and Genocides event, Dallas. 

Click pictures for larger version - more pics at the link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeghouse/sets/72157631922541157/show/

A seven minutes video clip about the Sikh Massacre
http://www.sikhgenocide.org/nov1984.htm

Dr. Pritpal Singh opens the event

Speakers include: Dr. _____, Mike Ghouse, Dr. Todd Collier, Saji, Richardson Police Officer, Cynthia from DOJ, Sulaiman Hemani and Dr. Pritpal Singh.

Plaques for the guest speakers

Ardas (concluding communion prayers)

Langar - Vegetarian Lunch served, a Sikh tradition around the world.

A few pictures

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeghouse/sets/72157631922541157/show/

More pictures will be added.

The Sikh community was honored at the 8th Annual Unity Day USA event, n September 11, 2012 - Pictures from the event are as follows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeghouse/sets/72157631762797919/show/

The  Sikh community reaffirmed the right values when tragedy befell on their community in the Wisconsin shooting. Indeed, their response to the Wisconsin Gurudwara massacre was exemplary and reflects the teachings of the Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism and every one of the spiritual masters from Zarathustra, Confucius, Moses, Krishna, Mahavira, Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Baha'u'llah, and other great spiritual masters. Your leadership in building a cohesive America is greatly appreciated by all.

We have a special program on Sunday, January 27 to reflect on the Sikh Massacre

http://HolocaustandGenocides.blogspot.com

Speaker's notes below