{"id":19724,"date":"2017-04-28T19:22:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T19:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=19724"},"modified":"2017-04-28T19:22:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T19:22:57","slug":"california-democrats-make-armenian-genocide-remembrance-day-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=19724","title":{"rendered":"California Democrats Make Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day Disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAIR-sponsored \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Muslim Day at the Capitol\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d takes its place.<\/p>\n

Monday April 24 was Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day and in Los Angeles thousands marched in the street outside the Turkish consulate<\/a>. Up in Sacramento, ruling Democrats ignored the Armenians and instead held \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Muslim Day at the Capitol,\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.<\/p>\n

\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Trump reignites \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056d\u009cspirit of justice\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7 for Muslim Day at Capitol,\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d<\/a> headlined the news article in the Sacramento Bee<\/em>, whose April 24 edition included not a word about the Armenians\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7 day. As CAIR\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s Yannina Casillas explained, \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093The election of Trump and the campaign in general kind of reignited a spirit of justice within the community that was very much dormant.\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0 A lot of people are really interested in getting more involved.\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d<\/p>\n

CAIR supports several bills now pending in the state legislature, including Senate Bill 54, which bars state or local law enforcement from using their resources to help federal immigration enforcement. The measure would \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies, including school police and security departments, from using resources to investigate, interrogate, detain, detect, or arrest persons for immigration enforcement purposes.\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d The bill also requires public schools, libraries, health facilities and courthouses to adopt similar policies.<\/p>\n

CAIR is also the co-sponsor of Senate Bill 31<\/a>, which \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093would prohibit a state or local agency or a public employee acting under color of law from providing or disclosing to the federal government personal information regarding a person\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s religious beliefs, practices, or affiliation, as specified, when the information is sought for compiling a database of individuals based on religious belief practice or affiliation, national origin, or ethnicity for law enforcement or immigration purposes.\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d<\/p>\n

A press conference highlighted those measures and Assembly Bill 158<\/a>, which requires law enforcement agencies to indicate whether an incident was \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093bias related,\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d supposedly an aide to more accurate reporting of \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093hate crimes.\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d As Yannina Casillas explained in the April 24 CAIR press release<\/a>, \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Our nation needs us to build a better, bolder future. We have our work cut out for us, but we are ready to act against fear. This is the time to roll up our sleeves and be courageous.\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d<\/p>\n

California governor Jerry Brown, who has been pardoning criminal deportees, issued no official statement on the April 24 \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Muslim Day\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d event.\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0 Neither did state Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a favorite of CAIR and a supporter of sanctuary policies.<\/p>\n

Government disrespect for Armenians is highly unusual in a state that is home to the largest Armenian community outside of the Armenian nation. More than 200,000 people of Armenian descent live in Los Angeles County alone and Armenians thrive in Fresno, home of the late novelist and playwright William Saroyan.<\/p>\n

George Deukmejian served as California\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s attorney general from 1979 to 1983 and as governor from 1983 to 1991. Deukmejian\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s parents came to the United States in the early 1900s to escape the Armenian genocide, which claimed the life of his aunt. Many Californians have similar stories.<\/p>\n

When you\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7re Armenian, history is a loaded subject,\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d wrote Liz Ohanesian in the April 24 LA Weekly<\/em><\/a>, \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Ours is one that was almost erased.\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d As she wrote, \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093we commemorate the Armenian Genocide, in which 1.5 million ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were killed by their own government. Those who survived spread out across the globe,\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d including her own grandparents. Books on the genocide were \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093so brutally violent, so filled with hate, that I couldn\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7t forget them,\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d and \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093eerily similar\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d to her family\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s ordeals.<\/p>\n

For Armenians, Ohanesian wrote, \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093a group of people conspired to try and ensure that people like you don’t exist. Despite that, you are here.\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d The survivors and their offspring have been \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093tasked with keeping the Armenian story from ending.\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0 As the day of remembrance approached, nothing like that appeared in the Sacramento Bee<\/em> and the Armenians got no help at all from the government of their state.<\/p>\n

Muslims represent a religion, Islam, not a race, nationality or ethnic group. Even so, the \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Muslim Day\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d event brought no objection from militant advocates of church-state separation such as the ACLU. A \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Baptist Day at the Capitol,\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d sponsored by the Southern Baptist Convention, would doubtless provoke a lawsuit accompanied by demonstrations.<\/p>\n

California\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s government, meanwhile, has never celebrated an official \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Armenian Day at the Capitol.\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d State Democrats are now willing to disrespect the Armenians while showing special favors to Muslims, the very religious group that attempted to exterminate the Armenians and is now the world\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s leading persecutor of Christians and other religious groups. That is about as bad as it gets but in the Golden State things can always get worse.<\/p>\n

A current candidate for Lieutenant Governor is Dr. Asif Mahmood, a \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093proud Muslim,\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d who proclaims, \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093I\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7ll be a triple threat to Donald Trump<\/a>. I\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7m running for office to fight against him, and to fight for our families.\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d<\/p>\n

California\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s Lieutenant Governor performs ceremonial duties but when the need arises he becomes \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093acting governor.\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d<\/p>\n

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CAIR-sponsored \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Muslim Day at the Capitol\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d takes its place. Monday April 24 was Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day and in Los Angeles thousands marched in the street outside the Turkish consulate. Up in Sacramento, ruling Democrats […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}