From: AHEPA
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 12:42 AM
Subject: AHEPA Requests Entertainer Lopez to Cancel Performance in Occupied Cyprus
Dear Brothers, Daughters, Sons, Maids and Friends of AHEPA
For Immediate Release
Monday, July 05, 2010
Contact: AHEPA Headquarters
Phone: (202) 232-6300
Email: press@ahepa.orgNews Release
AHEPA Requests Entertainer Lopez to Cancel Performance in Occupied Cyprus
WASHINGTON – AHEPA Supreme President Nicholas A. Karacostas sent a letter to Entertainer Jennifer Lopez requesting that she cancel her performance this month in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus. The performance is planned to occur in Kyrenia at the Cratos Hotel & Casino where she also plans to celebrate her birthday. The hotel will open its doors on the 36th “Black Anniversary” of Turkey’s illegal invasion and subsequent occupation of the Republic of Cyprus.
A copy of The Weekly Standard article “Bare Ruined Choirs: Turkey’s war on the cultural heritage of Cyprus” by Katherine Eastland and a reference to the U.S. Helsinki Commission’s 2009 briefing “Cyprus’ Religious Cultural Heritage in Peril” and the Law Library of Congress’s report on the destruction of cultural property in Cyprus and violations of international law by Turkey were included with the letter to Ms. Lopez.
Please join with AHEPA Supreme President Karacostas and add your voice to the call requesting Ms. Lopez to cancel her visit to occupied northern Cyprus. Sign AHEPA’s online petition: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/jlocyprus.
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Radical Islam “Threatens Macedonia”
The Skopje branch of the Islamic Religious Community, IVZ, in Macedonia has warned that radical Islamist groups following Wahhabi teachings are trying to take control of the central mosques in Skopje.
Skopje Mufti Ibrahim Shabani, who is the head of the IVZ branch in the capital, made the remarks after a fist fight broke out on Friday in one of the main Skopje mosques when the dismissed leadership of the Isa-Bey mosque refused to let in the newly appointed imam from IVZ to lead the prayer.
“This was a coup prepared by radicals who operate in Skopje,” Shabani said. “This criminal Wahhabi gang is known for its radical practices and misuse of Muslim believers.”
Dragan,
I am not part of the Jihad Watch website; I’m merely a longtime supporter.
Jihad Watch offers a message form for anyone to use to send them a message: http://www.jihadwatch.org/formmail/contact.php.
I’ll do what I can to spread the word.
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