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“And I had foreign officials saying, "Why do you Americans care so much about religious freedom?" They'd never run into this with any other governments.”
–John Hanford, former Ambassador-at-Large at the State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom
Chalk that up to the Pilgrims, or perhaps James Madison. After all, he established religion as the first freedom in the Bill of Rights. Since then, religious liberty has been an American institution. But it wasn't until 1998 that Congress commanded the US to promote religious freedom around the globe. And, in a world where religious intolerance and abuse is on the rise, the secular-minded State Department is conflicted over this mission of freeing the faithful and punishing the persecutors. Often, the promotion of religious freedom is sacrificed on the altar of strategic and economic worship.
Segment 1: Ray Suarez and Tom Farr discuss the whys, hows and trade-offs in promoting international religious freedom. Listen to this segment.
Guests: Tom Farr, Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs and former Director of the State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom and Saba Moritz, a Baha'i from Iran.
Listen to Ray's full interview with Tom Farr.
Segment 2: Sean Carberry travels to Pakistan, where violence against minority faiths is on the rise, to measure the gap between the laws and the practice of religious liberty. Listen to this segment.
Guests include Asma Jahangir, Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan; Jerry Firestein, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Pakistan; Shireen Mazari, Spokesperson for the Movement for Justice political party; and Mohammed Ibrahim, Senator from the Northwest Frontier Province.
Segment 3: Ray Suarez explores how officials in the US Office of International Religious Freedom sought to further religious liberty in Vietnam. Listen to this segment.
Guests include Robert Seiple, former Ambassador-at-Large at the State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom; John Hanford, Sieple’s successor at the Office of International Religious Freedom; and William Inboden, former Special Advisor in the Office of International Religious Freedom.
Segment 4: Matt Ozug travels to Vietnam, to look at what US diplomatic pressure has yielded for that nation’s faithful. Listen to this segment.
Guests include Rev. Nghia Trung Tran, General Secretary of the Vietnamese Presbyterian Church; Nguyen Van Kien, Vietnam-USA Society; Michael Michalak, US Ambassador to Vietnam; Quang Nguyen, Mennonite Pastor; Le Quoc Quan, Human Rights Attorney; and Father Peter Nguyen, Catholic priest.
Segment 5: Ray Suarez examines the efforts of lobbying groups to win the ear of a US government balancing the promotion of religious freedom in China with a host of other interests, from trade and finance to security. Listen to this segment.
Guests include Anne Yang, Volunteer for Falun Dafa Practitioners Association; Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA); Ping Yu, Falun Gong Practitioner; Tom Farr, Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs; Scott Flipse, Director of East Asia Policy and Programs at the US Commission on International Religious Freedom; and Dennis Wilder, former Senior Director for East Asian Affairs at the National Security Council.
*Correction: The date of the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue was misstated in this segment. It took place in July, not August 2009.
The First Freedom / Executive Producer: Aaron Lobel / AAM Producers: Monica Bushman, Sean Carberry, Matt Ozug, Monica Villavicencio and Chris Williams / Interns: Natalie Friedman, Alex Taylor and Jake Yarmus / Photo Credit: Matt Ozug
Music heard on this broadcast:
“Vindaloo” by Four Piece Suit
“Rhytm (Arabi)”
“Magic Lantern” by Pham Duc Thanh
“Heer” by Junoon
“Missionary Man” by Eurythmics
“Islamabad Calling” by Carlos Peron
“The Whale Song” by Modest Mouse
“Day Dream” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
“In Christ There is No East or West” by John Fahey
"Desert Capriccio" by Tan Dun & Yo-Yo Ma
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Tension between Faith and Finance in Capital Hill
As we heard of this hour the promotion of international religious freedom is a foreign policy priority that can clash with other interest whether is trade, finance, or security nowhere is this tension more pronounce than in the case of China; while the foreign policy establishment struggle to strike the right balance in dealing with China. There’s no shortage of lobby groups in Washington, pushing the government to take a tougher line on China’s treatment of religious groups from house church Christians, Uyghur Muslims to Tibetan Buddhists, and followers of Falun Gong.
This past July thousands of Falun Gong practitioners descended on the national mall in Washington to rally for their cause.
“This is the letter sign by 61 Congressmen to President Obama urging him to pay more attention to the persecution still ongoing after one decade in Chine.” Anne Yang is the volunteer for the Falun Dafa Practitioners association.
Followers like Anne describe Falun Gong as a spiritual movement that combined the element of Daoism, Buddhism, meditation, and traditional Chinese exercises call Qi Gong. Chinese government called as an evil cult, they view the group’s ability to attract large numbers of believers as a threat to national security. Chinese authority bans the group 10 years ago and began a brutal crackdown on practitioners.
“And also I have here a resolution introduced by Ros-Lehtinen, the ranking member of foreign affair committee in the house together with several others of Congressmen.” Anne Yang
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen introduced house resolution 605 in June, the resolution calls for an immediate end to the campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners although the bill has more than 60
co-sponsors is currently stall in the house of foreign affair committee.
The practice of Falun Gong is unfamiliar to most Americans and some of their claims about the treatment of practitioners in China have been disputed, as a result the Falun Gong lobby hasn’t found the level of sympathy house church Christians or Tibetan Buddhists have in the US.
Even so Falun Gong practitioners have managed to win the ears of some in the Congress. Representative Dana Rohrabaher “Our principle were that God has given rights to every human beings and that we are in the side of everyone especially the Falun Gong and other who are being imprisoned and being repressed in China that we are on your side, have courage, the American people are with you, our hearts are with you, our basic institution were found on basic principle who are with you.”
The crackdown on the Falun Gong has been especially severe because the faith is expressly outlaw in China but is by no means the only group facing religious persecution in the country, Tibetan Buddhists, Catholic Protestants, Uyghur Muslims, all suffer repression to variant degrees, most religious groups though have lobby in US to advocate on their behalf. Their hope is that by leaning on State department and Congress, the American government will speak up.
Congressman Frank Wolf has been a long time advocate for human rights and religious freedom in particularly in China, “Word zones are very important and when follow with action very very important and so I think Chinese descents tell me that when people advocate for them, their lives actually get better, so it goes to being release to all the within, they began to get the meals that they didn’t get, they began to get health care that they didn’t get, so yeah I think the more you advocate, pushes it makes a big difference.
Ping Yu, Falun Gong practitioner whose mother is in prison in China holds out hope that American advocacy will make a difference for her. “China really cares all the America sacrament especially for human rights part and I know one case a girl who collecting 20 Senators signatures and her mother gotten release after 3 weeks, so this is kind of last hope, last for us.”
But Tom Farr who serves for years as director for the State department office on international religious freedom says that while they were does yield result; religious lobby can only do so much. “For example when Uyghur Muslims are throwing to jail or abused or Tibetan Buddhists are tortured which these kind of thing happen unfortunately fairly routinely in China, then groups will gear in action and send letters to State Department and call their member of Congress sometime these things work and the individual is sprung from jail the problem is a reactive approach and is like try to empty the ocean one eyedropper at a time. It is a victory when it happens but doesn’t address the structure of oppression and persecution.”
Making even more difficult to get to those structure issues is the fact that religious freedom and human right more broadly is just one of the many items on the agenda. When the two countries meet, the strategic economic dialogue that took place in DC in July was two days of meeting between high level of Chinese and American officials. The meeting covers 80 topics climate change, counter terrorism, and the global economic recovery and his opening remark President Obama touches religious belief as well “Just as we respect China’s ancient remarkable culture, its remarkable achievement. We also strongly believe religion and culture of all people must be respected and protected, that all people should be free to speak their minds and that indeed ethnic religious minority in China as surely as it includes minority within the US.”
But Uyghur, as human right advocates had hope president or Secretary of State would have taken a tougher line, on the first day of the talk, they staged a protest outside the White House, “We really hope that the US government could help that doesn’t have to be much, just say something, you know their words count for something put aside economy, put aside everything else money, greed, whatever and help innocent people.” Still at the end of two days, both sides agree to meet to discuss human rights issues before the end of year.
“It’s counter productive to have separate bilateral human rights discussion with China, and then have economic discussion, then security discussion because China will understand that what we really want is more trade, more cooperation on nuclear issue, all those things are important but we don’t want to see these spiral of human rights from our other interest.” Scott Flipse, the director of East Asia policy program at US commission at the international religious freedom “We are trying to push US government to do to intervene these things so that China gets the message that human rights is not just soothing that we kind of interested in but is important to all the other interest that we have the China. These are many important issues that the American president and American administration must engage the Chinese on.”
Denis Wilder was the national Security Council senior director for East Asia affair during the second term of Bush Administration, “ And therefore there’s always going to be the balance that has to be struck between pressing Chinese on freedom issue and having a healthy engagement with Chinese on these other issues.” The way to struck the right balance he said is to put the conversation in term of China’s own interest “One of the way is to not look religion as something that is dangerous to the communist party, but try to talk to them about the health that it brings us to society, people of faith are good citizens and that if you allow people of faith to practice their faith in China, you will have a much more stable situation then if you confront faith.” And with officially atheist communist government in China, this means slow progress at best and while that might be all the US government can do under the circumstances that’s not enough to satisfy those suffering religious persecution in China and the lobbyists championing their cause in Washington.”
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Yes, it is true, it actually happened: the Red Chinese flag flew by the White House. In the struggle between freedom and tyranny, would a foreign power ever have dared or been allowed to stage a flag-raising ceremony by the White House in Washington, DC on official land? On September 20, 2009, this changed forever as the Communist Chinese flag was raised on the Elipse, across from the White House by the Chinese ambassador in a Chinese-language-only ceremony destined for broadcast on Chinese government television. This is the legacy of President Obama's policies, and we can only imagine how previous presidents would have dismissed such a request.
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Communist dictatorship by appropriating the visuals of the very symbols of freedom in Washington DC would have been unthinkable under previous presidents; nor would such nations imagined they could get away with such a propaganda coup. Yet, regardless of framing the celebration as an act of friendship with the United States, the question is raised if China would reciprocate with a US flag raising in Tiananmen Square?
We wish to express our friendship with the people and culture of China, and we are in support of full freedom for everyone in China.
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This website is devoted to telling the true story of the noble and courageous resistance of Falun Gong practitioners in China to one of the most violent and ruthless persecutions in human history. Since July of 1999, Falun Gong practitioners have been subjected to arbitrary arrest, physical torture, and psychological/spiritual torture in the form of brainwashing. They have been fired from their jobs, expelled from schools, and sent to forced labor camps without trial, simply for not bowing to the decree of a communist dictator to renounce their guiding principles, Zhen-Shan-Ren (Truth-Compassion-Forbearance.)
Thousands are known to have died in the persecution, and in March of 2006, information surfaced and was later verified by independent investigators in Canada that perhaps thousands more missing Falun Gong practititoners were slaughtered so that their organs could be harvested and sold for huge profits to the transplant industry. These atrocities are still occurring as we speak.
Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, is an ancient form of qigong, the practice of refining the body and mind through slow-moving exercises and meditation. Although deeply rooted in Chinese culture, it was first introduced to the public in 1992 by its founder and teacher, Mr. Li Hongzhi. Falun Dafa quickly grew to become the most popular form of qigong ever in Chinese history, and is now practiced in over 60 countries worldwide by people from all walks of life. One major reason for its popularity is that Falun Dafa distinguishes itself from other qigong practices by emphasizing not only physical improvement, but also the elevation of character through living one's daily life according to the principles of Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance.
All of the songs, photos, and other materials on this site can be downloaded free of charge. We encourage you to copy them for non-commercial use, and give them to your friends and relatives, because the more people that learn the truth, the sooner this dark chapter in China’s history will come to an end.
My daughter Sara and I have benefited greatly from practicing Falun Gong over the years, and this website represents our attempt to give back, as best we can, a small portion of what has been freely given to us. On the one hand, our songs expose the wickedness and cruelty of the CCP, while on the other, they describe the peaceful resistance of the practitioners, and their dedication to their principles through long years of persecution.
Please note: all of the opinions expressed on this website, either in the songs or the accompanying text, are strictly our own, and do not represent the official position of Falun Gong on any issue.
Sincerely,
Randall Effner and Sara Effner
Dear Customers,
Please help us stop South Korea deporting Falun Gong refugees to China by signing the petition. http://globalrescue.net/en/ We are asking South Korean President not to deport Falun Gong refugees to China, but to find an appropriate way, within the South Korean legal system and the international conventions on torture and refugees ratified by South Korea, to permit them to remain in South Korea.
On July 1st and 28th, 2009, respectively, three Falun Gong practitioners have been repatriated to China by the South Korean government. We are deeply shocked and saddened by the act of the South Korean government that allowed it to happen. As we have talked to you last month in DC, the Chinese government has extended the persecution of Falun Gong to other countries often through the economical influence. The South Korea incident is just the tip of the iceberg. Other deporting cases have happened before in other
countries such as Russia, Thailand and Cambodian, etc.. Below are a
few reports on the past cases.
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-3-31/53585.html
http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/8-2-12/65857.html
http://www.faluninfo.net/article/81/
The South Korean government joined the UN Convention related to the Status of Refugees (1951) and the Protocol related to the Status of Refugees (1967); it also joined the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which was recognized by the Korean Parliament and implemented from February 8, 1995. On the 1st paragraph in Article 3 of the UN Convention against Torture, it clearly states: “No State Party shall expel, return or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture.” The Korean constitution says that the Minister of Justice can give an applicant humanitarian status, after they are refused refugee status, if there's a risk of persecution in their home country.
Currently there are 33 Falun Gong refugees at risk of deportation to China by South Korean Government. We are asking you to sign petition to help those practitioners to remain in South Korea. Falun Gong practitioners in China face the most brutally persecution in the world today and those who were deported face immediate persecution.
Please see link below for recent report on this matter http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/20142/
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/19156/
Falun Gong practitioners meditate in Seoul, South Korea. (Jarrod Hall)
The Korean Falun Dafa Association condemns the Korean Ministry of Justice‘s compliance with the Chinese regime in deporting a Falun Gong practitioner to China. (The Epoch Times)
Thank you for listening to 90.1 FM from 7pm to 9pm CDT on July 18th, 2009 through this radio show (www.thesecrettruth.com) we hope more people will learn about the brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China and will help support the end of the persecution. Past radio show is available through podcast please visit http://www.thesecrettruth.com/mainpage.htm
Special thanks to host George Butler and Charlotte Littlefield Brown for inviting us to speak on their radio show please visit their website for more info.
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Thank you for your blessing our Washington DC trip was very smooth. Your love and support have made Veggie Heaven a shining star. We have received support from Texas from Congressman Smith, Congress Doggett and Congressman McCaul. We are grateful that they all co-sponsored the H.R605.
We attended the rally on Capital Hill with more than 1000 Falun Gong practitioners, nine US congressmen, and representatives from more than 10 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to call for the end of persecution. Sheila Jackson Lee, Congresswoman from Texas, stated that she does not want to see practitioners jailed and tortured; she does not want children to have to know about violence; she does not want the world to think that people cannot have peaceful beliefs. Therefore, she was happy that every year elected representatives show their support, and more and more people are quitting the Communist Party. Sheila Jackson Lee is happy that more and more CCP members long for peace and freedom and are trying to stop the persecution. For more info on DC rally please visit http://veggieheavenaustin.com/DCRally.aspx
We have met with assistants of four Texas congressmen to ask them to co-sponsor the H.R. 605. This resolution is very important, not only will it calls for an immeditate end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China, this will also calls upon People's Republic of China to end all harassment and intimidation within the borders of U.S of Falun Gong practitioners.
As many of you may remembered, Veggie Heaven was vandalized May of last year. We were supporting a Quit CCP movement (Chinese Communist Party), a global network that encourages Chinese to withdraw from CCP. The movement celebrated a milestone of 35 million withdrawals on May of last year. We have hang the banner outside the restaurant which state “Reading Nine Commentaries and quitting communist party will bring a new era of China” in Chinese. That banner was cut and damaged. The Nine commentaries on the Communist Party http://veggieheavenaustin.com/NineCommentaries.aspx is the most detailed account of the CCP's rule in China ever published. It describes — in sometimes shocking detail — how the CCP has used violence, murder, deception, and misplaced nationalism to control the hearts and minds of the Chinese people.
Also two newspaper stands for Epoch Time that we placed near UT area were stole around that time. Epoch Times is an independent voice which provide uncensored coverage of events in China. Our restaurant was vandalized, our glass door was shattered in a early morning. We suspected that the Chinese consulate was behind all this simply because we are Falun Gong practitioners and also we are supporters of Quit CCP movement. As Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Congresswoman from Florida has noted in DC rally 2009 that the persecution has been extended to America. She urges the American government to deport those who have been involved in perpetrating the persecution in this country.
For more info on H.R.605 please visit http://veggieheavenaustin.com/HR605.aspx
Congressman Lamar Smith has co-sponsored the H.R 605. We appreciated the time to talk his legislative director Gerardo Interiano about the persecution of Falun Gong in China and how it has affected Veggie Heaven. We appreciate all the work that Congressman Smith has done for our district. We also would like to thank Congrerssman Smith personally for supporting the 107th Congress Bill HR 188 which express the sense of Congress that the Government of the People's Republic of China should cease its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Not only his support of this HR 605 has brought us one step closer to end this brutal persecution in China but also brought hopes to millions of people in China who are affected by this persecution. We look forward for his support in the future.
Congressman Doggett has co-sponsored the H.R 605. We appreciated the time to talk his assistant Emily Seen about the persecution of Falun Gong in China and how it has affected Veggie Heaven. We appreciated all his work. His support of H.R 605 will bring us one step closer to end this brutal persecution in China.We look forward for his support in the future.
Congressman McCaul has co-sponsor the H.R 605. We appreciated the time to talk to Melissa Haydel of Congressman McCaul about the persecution of Falun Gong in China and how it has affected Veggie Heaven. We are really happy that we have met Congressman McCaul in person and talked to him about H.R 605. We appreciated all his work. His support of H.R 605 will bring us one step closer to end this brutal persecution in China. It is a great honor to have met him and talked to him. We look forward for his support in the future. He informed us that he will co-sponsor the H.R 605. We appreciate Congressman McCaul's support.
Photo with Congressman McCaul
Congressman Culberson has co-sponsor the H.R 605. His support will speak out on behalf of those who are enduring unimaginable atrocities and who themselves cannot be heard. Not only his action will forever be remembered in the history but also will make the world a peaceful place.
Congressman Sheila Jackson-Lee has co-sponsor the H.R 605. Her support will speak out on behalf of those who are enduring unimaginable atrocities and who themselves cannot be heard. Not only her action will forever be remembered in the history but also will make the world a peaceful place.
Sheila Jackson Lee, Congresswoman from Texas, expressed her respect for Falun Gong for all they have done in DC rally 2009. She said that the message she hoped to pass on today is that she and her colleagues stand here together with justice, no matter which party they belong to.
The congresswoman stated that she does not want to see practitioners jailed and tortured; she does not want children to have to know about violence; she does not want the world to think that people cannot have peaceful beliefs. Therefore, she was happy that every year elected representatives show their support, and more and more people are quitting the Communist Party. Sheila Jackson Lee is happy that more and more CCP members long for peace and freedom and are trying to stop the persecution.
Congressman Ted Poe has co-sponsor the H.R 605. Congressman Ted Poe: I once again call out to the Chinese government to stop its religious persecution Congressman Ted Poe of Texas provided a statement expressing his continuing commitment to call for justice for persecuted Falun Gong practitioners.
"It's been ten years since the Chinese government banned the practice of Falun-Gong and began its severe and brutal crackdown towards those who practice its principles of truthfulness, benevolence, and forbearance.
"The practitioners of this ancient practice have been beaten, tortured, and illegally imprisoned for simply seeking to peacefully carryout their commitment to their religion. Hundreds of stories from victims of persecution have flowed out of China and poured into the ears of sympathizers from all over the world.
"Americans are privileged to live in this great nation where democracy is the rule of law. Unfortunately, not everyone is as blessed. As such, I feel a certain responsibility to speak out for those whose freedom has been cut short and whose voice has been silenced by an oppressive regime.
"Last year, I had the opportunity to cosponsor a resolution that called upon China to end the human right abuses of its citizens. Seeing as little has changed, I once again call out to the Chinese government to stop its religious persecution and allow its' citizens to freely practice their spiritual beliefs. Too many innocent men and women have died, and although their deaths have not been in vain, it's time for change and that time is now."
We also attended the Candle Light Vigil with more than 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners sat in meditation in front of the Capitol with lit candles held in hand. The event was also to honor those who have lost their lives to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) brutal campaign of torture and imprisonment also to display a show of solidarity against the persecution of their beliefs in China, which will reach the 10-year mark on July 20. http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/19722/
Thousands gather to commemorate ten years since the beginning of the persecution of Falun Gong in China.
(Ji Yuan/The Epoch Times)
We hope that you will light a candle in your heart and pray that this brutal persecution in China will end soon.
We also joined our fellow Falun Gong practitioners (over 3000) from more than 20 countries and marched down Pennsylvania Avenue on Friday July 17. July 20, 2009 will mark the 10th year of the persecution of Falun Gong in China. http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/19821/
Falun Gong practitioners in white mourned the deaths of more than 3000 practitioners in China, holding their photos encased in funeral wreaths
For more DC photos http://veggieheavenaustin.com/DCtripPhotos.aspx
This year will be the tenth year of the Persecution of Falun Gong in China, we are asking your help in stopping the persecution and the severe human rights abuses against FalunGong practitioners in China. The extreme persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China is well documented it is certain inconceivable to us why any government would certainly systemically brutalize, torture, and murder its own citizens for exercising their most basic right to believe and practice their faith. Please get involved by visiting www.fofg.org
Please help us support the H.Res.605 by writing to your
congressman/congresswoman and ask him/her to co-sponsor this H.Res 605.
For more info on H.R.605 please visit http://veggieheavenaustin.com/HR605.aspx
http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HE_605.html
H. Res. 605 would recognize the continued persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China on the 10th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party campaign to suppress the Falun Gong spiritual movement and calling for an immediate end to the campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners.
http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HE_605.html
http://capwiz.com/politicsol/home/
Thank you for your support !!!