NOVANEWS
October 21, 2010
by Gordon Duff
by Gordon Duff
VETERANS TODAY HAS BEEN REQUESTED TO PUBLISH THE FOLLOWING DECLARATION:
Dear Gordon Duff, I would be most grateful if you would be so kind as to publicize the following Declaration and urge readers to endorse it.
Those who wish to endorse it, send their names, titles/occupation and city of residence to me, at eliasdav@t-online.de.
With my kindest regards and wishes for your work.
Elias Davidsson, Bonn, Germany
DECLARATION ON MUSLIMS AND 9/11
A. On the basis of the study “No evidence that Muslims hijacked planes on 9/11″ by Elias Davidsson (2008), that we have carefully examined, and other similar studies, we undersigned are now convinced that the U.S. authorities did not prove [beyond reasonable doubt*] their account on the mass murder of September 11, 2001, in particular their claim that Muslims/Arabs committed this crime.
B. The presumption of innocence, as a civilised principle, is enshrined in Article 11 (1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, according to which, every person “charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law (…)” While the presumption of innocence was particularly drafted to protect the rights of persons already charged of a penal offence, it evidently applies to persons who have not even been formally accused of any offence.
C. On the basis of the above findings, we consider the publication and dissemination of the allegation that Muslim/Arabs committed the mass murder of 9/11, as a grievous and unconscionable form of character assassination. Such an allegation violates the principle of the presumption of innocence. It also violates Articles 1, 3, 5 and 8 of the Declaration of Principles on the Conduct of Journalists of the International Federation of Journalists, the Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Statement of Principles of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), and Resolution 1003 on the ethics of journalism, adopted by the Council of Europe in 1993.
D. We, therefore, call upon journalists to refrain henceforth from attributing, either directly or indirectly, the commission of the mass murder of 9/11 to Muslims or Arabs or to any Muslim or Islamic organisation; to publicise the unreported fact that the U.S. authorities did not produce any evidence of Muslim/Arab participation in the actual mass murder of 9/11; and to publish an apology to the families of those maligned, without foundation, for the mass murder of 9/11.
(*) The requisite standard of proof in US criminal cases
First Signatories;
Dr. Kevin Barrett, Arabic-Islamic Studies; author, radio host. USA. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Barrett
Hartmut Barth-Engelbart, Author, Musician, Cabarttist, Gruendau/Hanau, Germany
Dr. med. Eric Beeth, Brussels, Belgium
James R. Carr, Professor, Geological Sciences and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada U.S.A.
John B. Cobb, Jr. Prof. Emeritus, Claremont School of Theology. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Cobb
Bernd Juergen Dröge, Psychological Counselor, Muenster, Germany
Prof. James Fetzer, USA. (See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Fetzer)
Anneliese Fikentscher, Arbeiterfotografie, Köln, Germany, www.arbeiterfotografie.com
Dr. Freddy Gardiol, Honorary Professor (ret.), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. Founder and former Director of the Laboratory of Electromagnetism and Acoustics at EPFL. Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Reinhard Gebhart, Author, Germany
Dr. David L Griscom, Research Physicist (ret.), Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. USA
Jean-Luc Guilmot, Bio-Engineer, MBA, Belgium. Editor of http://vigli.org
Dr. Niels Harrit, Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark
Klaus Hartmann, Chairman, German Federation of Freethinkers, Germany
Sander Hicks, media activist, community organizer and journalist, USA, http://www.sanderhicks.com/
Folker Hoffmann, Borås, Sweden, http://principiis-obsta.blogspot.com/
Carol Holland, NY 911 Truth Activist
Ingar Holst, Department of Semantics, The Ahlefeldt-Holst Center, USA
Prof. Steven Jones, American physicist. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Jones
Claudia Karas, Palästina-Forum Nahost, Frankfurt, Germany
Yakup Kilic, Musician, Berlin, Germany
Hans-Peter Koehn, Social Manager, Germany
Dr. Pétur Knútsson (ret.), University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Anthony Lawson, international prize-winning commercials director, cameraman, film and video editor, Thailand
Gérard Lazare, Vidéaste indépendant, Viry-Chatillon, France
Prof. Dr. David MacGregor, Canada (See also: http://publish.uwo.ca/~mcgregor/publications.html)
Dr. Graeme MacQueen, (ret.), McMaster University, Canada
Vincent Moreau, Video editor, France
Rowland Morgan, co-author of “9/11 Revealed” (London & NY, 2005), author of “Flight 93 Revealed” (London & NY, 2006), and of VOICES (internet publication 2009), Great-Britain
Andreas Neumann, Arbeiterfotografie, Köln Germany
Klaus von Raussendorff, Author, Germany
Vincent Robeyns, enseignant et militant pour la vérité, Liège, Belgique
Dr. Erik A. Röyrvik, Research Fellow, Norway
Kevin Ryan, former Site Manager for Underwriters Laboratories, USA
Dr. med. Pascal Sacré, Bruxelles, Belgique
Dr. Peter Dale Scott, Professor Emeritus of English, University of California, Berkeley, http://www.peterdalescott.net
John Spritzler, Sc.D., author of The People as Enemy: The Leaders’ Hidden Agenda in World War II, co-editor of www.NewDemocracyWorld.org, and author or co-author of numerous articles about HIV infection in medical journals, USA
Thomas Immanuel Steinberg, Steinberg Research, Hamburg, Germany, www.SteinbergRecherche.com
Catherine Thirion, Ingénieure, militante pour la vérité, Pessac, France
Willi Uebelherr, IT engineer, Halle, Germany
Rémi Vandangeon, St. Baudel, France
Alfred Vestring, Former Ambassador, Bonn, Germany
Dr. med. Jens Wagner, member of the Association of Physicians Against Nuclear Arms, Stade, Germany
Gerhard Wisnewski, Journalist, Author, Munich, Germany. See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Wisnewski (in German)Wojna, Musician, Die Bandbreite, Germany
Sami Yildirim, physicist, Germany
Barrie Zwicker, Media critic and author, Canada