Homa Arjomand
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The International Campaign against Sharia Court
in Canada expects the Canadian Government to break
all its diplomatic relation with the Iranian Regime
for its heinous state crime!
An Iranian-Canadian
journalist Zahra Kazemi was brutally murdered. Her
“crime” was preparing a report of the political
prisoners’ families who were protesting outside of a
prison in Tehran. According to Dr. Azam, who was
present at the emergency hospital, Zahra Kazemi was
savagely beaten, had bruises all over her body, had
her fingernails pulled out, fingers broken, was
raped and her skull was fractured. She was deeply
unconscious.
The slaying of Zahra
Kazemi was not the first murderous crime committed
by the regime of Iran and will not be the last. Ten
of my own close associates who were all women’s
activists were slain by the police and judicial
systems of the Islamic regime in Iran. I have
directly experienced living under the rule of a
regime of religious terror. It is precisely out of
this experience, as well as my first hand knowledge
of the move of political Islam and the capacity of
its leaders for anti-human acts, that I have,
alongside thousands of other Canadians, began a
relentless, extensive campaign against Islamic
tribunals in Canada, which are in the process of
being established in the province of Ontario.
Various Islamist currents utilizing the provincial
arbitration Act of 1991 are involved in promoting
this cause.
A regime founded on the
principles of terror, imprisonment, torture,
execution, and stoning, a regime with a judicial
system resting upon unjust religious laws, gender
discriminations and denial of all social and
personal freedoms, a regime whose judicial
authorities are themselves torturers and murderous;
such a regime can deliver nothing but travesties of
justice through its so-called courts of law.
Expecting justice to be served by the organs of such
a regime is nothing but a grand illusion.
In view of the above, the
international Campaign against Sharia Court in
Canada demands:
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The legitimacy of the court in the Islamic
Republic of Iran to be completely and publicly
rejected by the Canadian Government. This is a
minimum standard that any government, as well as
any political organization, is expected to
observe in adopting a principled approach
towards this crime.
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An international tribunal to be set up to
consider this case. It must have the necessary
authority to summon all and every official and
agent of the Islamic Republic of Iran directly
or indirectly involved in this crime.
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The Canadian Government to break all its
diplomatic relations with the Iranian regime.
The above demands are basic demands of the oppressed
Iranian people along with millions of civilized
people across the world. If the Canadian Government
is genuinely resolved in its demand for the
criminals involved in the murder of Zahra Kazemi to
be punished and the justice served, it can adopt and
support only such a stand. It represents the lowest
of this case. Unfortunately, this has not been the
attitude of the Canadian Government so far.
Homa Arjomand
Coordinator of the
International Campaign
against Shar’a Court
in Canada
April 01, 2005