------------------------------ *ACLU: No 'Jesus Memorial' for Katrina Victims*
Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006 5:14 p.m. EDT *The American Civil Liberties Union is objecting to plans for a hurricane memorial* in St. Bernard Parish *that will feature a cross bearing a likeness of the face of Jesus*. In a letter to the parish, Louisiana ACLU Executive Director Joe Cook said *the plan violates the constitutional standards of church-state separation*because *the memorial would be located on a public waterway.* Cook asked the parish to erect a religiously neutral symbol. But Parish President Henry "Junior" Rodriguez said he sees nothing improper about the memorial, which will be mounted near the shoreline of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet at Shell Beach. *The cross* and accompanying monument listing the names of the 129 parish residents who died in Hurricane Katrina will be put on private land and are being financed with donations, Rodriguez said. The Parish Council voted several months ago to erect a monument, but at the time did not offer specific plans. The parish recently *announced plans to dedicate the memorial on Aug. 29*, the one-year anniversary of hurricane. *The stainless steel cross will be 13 feet tall and seven feet wide and will be lighted.* Rodriguez and others like the idea of *putting the monument along the banks of the MRGO*, because *that waterway, dug by the federal government* as a shipping shortcut in the 1960s, is widely blamed for much of the deadly flooding that accompanied Hurricane Katrina. Over the years erosion has widened the outlet, so the bank on which the cross will be erected is on privately owned land, Rodriguez said. The ACLU believes a storm memorial is appropriate, but the parish's plan is "still all very questionable," Cook said. *"I think there is official government involvement with the endorsement and advancement of this clearly religious symbol,"* Cook said. (c) 2006 Associated Press. http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/8/8/171637.shtml?s=ic ------------------------------ 103 __._ --- Brief CV of Jusfiq Hadjar Jusfiq Hadjar, a christian, 66 years old, is an Indonesian living in the Netherlands. He currently lives together out of wed-lock with Marlene Van Doorn - a documentalist in African Studies Center (ASC) library - in Leiden. Jusfiq Hadjar has, thus far, succesfully deceived many NGOs into believing that he is a human rights activistist. One of the NGOs that has been trapped in his lies is a Muslim human rights group, the Movement against Racism and for Friendship among Peoples. Jusfiq Hadjar is very active in his campaigns against Islam and Muslims on the Internet, especially in several Indonesian mailing lists. He will spread massive amounts of offensive, slanderous, lying statements against Islam and Muslims day in and day out and at the same time claiming that he is a Muslim. Undoubtedly, Jusfiq Hadjar is one of those people who still thinks that adhering to a daily routine of cursing and swearing on the Internet would help to make him look intelligent and preserve his sanity. It shoots no wonder then if you find mosts of his writings on the Internet are just about cursing and swearing at Muslims and licking the ass of his christian friends. Jusfiq Hadjar has joined several mailing lists in order to spread his severe hatred against Islam and Muslim on the Internet: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/islamkristen/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apakabar/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/minangnet/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/istiqlal/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/partai-keadilan/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ijtihad/<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/partai-keadilan/> Marlene Van Doorn is very supportive of his life partner's evil activities on the Internet, and gives her financial support by providing him with meals, accomodation and Internet connection. He is also allegedly financed by Leiden church. He has no children. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
