Muslim Group says No to Freddie Mercury Party

Azan Khalid of Zanzibar's Association for Islamic Mobilization and Propagation said anything linking Mercury with Zanzibar's Muslim population would be offensive. "That's why he was branded a Queen."

What a total and complete tool. I am willing to bet that Freddie was the best thing that over came out of Zanzibar.

He said that a waterfront restaurant's plans for a September 2 party honoring Mercury's birthday would be stopped.

Mercury restaurant, which was named for the singer, will go ahead with the party, manager Simai Mohammed said.

Mercury, who acknowledged being gay, was born in Zanzibar when the country was still a British protectorate. He was educated in India and moved with his family to Britain in 1964, after a bloody revolution that drove out many immigrants of Indian or Arab descent.

"Our main idea is to promote tourism and Freddie Mercury was from Zanzibar. It's part of our history," Mohammed said. "We are all Muslims and it's not our intention to offend any religion."

Why are they always trying to ruin someone's fun? I bet if it was a deatch to Israel, they'd want to be on the VIP list.

Zanzibar's government sent a letter asking state-owned media not to report on Mercury's birthday because of the tension between the religious group and the restaurant. The group's aim is for Zanzibar to be ruled based on the Muslim holy book, the Koran. Last year, the group broke up a gay man's birthday party in Zanzibar's Pemba island.

-From cnn.com-

Rocky Anderson Taken to Task by E.D. Hill

The mayor of Salt Lake City attended an anti-war (that's liberal code for anti-Bush) rally today while the president was in town to speak at an American Legion convention.

From Foxnews.com:

We interviewed the mayor and he expressed his view that due to the importance of the Iraq war he felt it was his duty to protest the president and his policies. That's fine. He's entitled to his view. But then he decided to go off-topic and claimed the president favored torture. I asked him to give even one example. He could not and instead started shifting the topic and talking around it. I asked him for one example again. He then talked about how FOX News lies and went into what sounded like fairly predictable talking points.

This must be on some DNC talking point memo somewhere, because I hear it time and time again and not once have any of these dolts backed up the claim.

During the protest rally the Mayor gave a speech, here's a link to it. It read like a hundred other speeches written before the 2004 elections, it's recycled Just a few items in his speech that I wanted to comment on.

Why invade and occupy Iraq? Vice President Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice represented to us, without qualification, that there were strong ties between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda.

Link to al Qaeda? Bah. It's pretty obvious the relations was very thin if not non existent. But there are many other reason to remove a murderous dictator from power. This Rocky fellas sure has a one track mind, as with most of the anti-war (Bush) crowd. Oh, I can't wait until her starts talking about WMDs and the famous Dick Cheney and Saddam hand shaking photo.

In September, 2002, President Bush made the incredible claim that You can't distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam.


You nitcompoop, He wreferringing to the atrocities committed between the two. The both do the same things, not that they are one in the same. Here's a snippet from the Q&A session:

Q: Mr. President, do you believe that Saddam Hussein is a bigger threat to the United States than al Qaeda?

PRESIDENT BUSH: That's a -- that is an interesting question. I'm trying to think of something humorous to say. (Laughter.) But I can't when I think about al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. They're both risks, they're both dangerous. The difference, of course, is that al Qaeda likes to hijack governments. Saddam Hussein is a dictator of a government. Al Qaeda hides, Saddam doesn't, but the danger is, is that they work in concert. The danger is, is that al Qaeda becomes an extension of Saddam's madness and his hatred and his capacity to extend weapons of mass destruction around the world.

Both of them need to be dealt with. The war on terror, you can't distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror. And so it's a comparison that is -- I can't make because I can't distinguish between the two, because they're both equally as bad, and equally as evil, and equally as destructive.

Here's a link to the White House's web site with the complete Q&A session.

Rocky, you need to fire your speech writer and fact checker. I have a feeling it's you. It's easy to stand up there and give a speech full of falstatementsnts and outright lies, because most of the people in the crowd feel the same way you do and would be willing to cheat and lie to get their views heard. Onward to the rest of the speech.

Even last week, when I met with Thomas Bock, National Commander of the American Legion, I asked him why we are engaged in the war in Iraq. He said, Why, of course, because of the 9/11 attacks on our country. I asked, What did Iraq have to do with those attacks? He looked puzzled, then said, Well, the connection between al Qaeda and Iraq.

I sent an email to Mr. Thomas questioning the truth behind this statement. From what I hear, Mr. Thomas is an honest and truthful man and I expect he will answer honestly. I'll keep you posted.

Besides the fictions of Saddam Hussein somehow being linked to the 9/11 attacks and his supposed connection with al Qaeda, what was the principal justification for forgoing additional weapons inspections, failing to work with our allies toward a solution, refraining from seeking additional resolutions from the United Nations, and hurrying to war a so-called“pre-emptive war– in which we would attack and occupy a Muslim nation that posed no security risk to the United States, and cause the deaths of many thousands of innocent men, women, and children – and the deaths and lifetime injuries to many thousands of our own servicemen and service women?

Rocky, Saddam was a risk. Not only to us, but to our allies. You worry about the deaths of "many thousands of innocent men, women and children" but fail to understand that Saddam was killing this people, tortured and tourtured them day in and day out. How many thousands has he killed all these year that he has been in power and how many would he have killed before his reign of terror ended? You claim that we fail to work with our allies, but you are willing to turn your back on them when a threat shows itself to be a danger to them. What "allies" are you talking about? France, Russia or any of the other countries that opposed our actions in Iraq. What about the allies that supported our actions?

1. United States - 100,000 troops
   
2. United Kingdom - 5,000 troops
   
3. Italy - 1,000-5,000 troops
   
4. Republic of Korea - 2,30Australia
5. Austrailia - 100-999 troops
   
6. Poland - 900 troops
   
7. Romania - 865 troops
   
8. Georgia - 300 troops
   
9. Denmark - 515 troops
   
10. El Salvador - 380 troops
    
11. Azerbaijan - 150 troops
    
12. Mongolia - 131 troops
    
13. Albania - 150 non-combat troops
    
14. Latvia - 136 troops
    
15. Lithuania - 50 troops
    
16. Czech Republic - 96 police trainers
    
17. Slovakia - 104-man engineering unit
    
18. Armenia - 46 soldiers
    
19. Bosnia and Herzegovina - 36 man force to destroy explosives and clear mines
    
20. Estonia - 35 infantry troops
    
21. Macedonia - 33 special forces soldiers
    
22. Kazakhstan - 29 military engineers
    
23. Moldova - 12 de-mining specialists and medics

That looks like a list of allies to me.

Rocky bring up the WMDs. Yay, this is my favorite part.

The principal claim was that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction biological and chemical weapons and was seeking to build up a nuclear weapons capability. As we now know, there was nothing no evidence whatsoever to support those claims.

You're right, he probably didn't have stock piles of WMDs to the extent that was originally thought. But are you that narrow minded to believe that this was the only reason that would have been worthy to removed this brutal dictator from power?

The truth has been established. Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks on the United States. There is no evidence of any operational ties between Iraq and al Qaeda. And there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

What a tragedy, leading to greater tragedy. We are fed lie after lie, our media reinforces those lies, and we are a nation led to a tragic, illegal, unprovoked
war.

The tragedy here is that you and your ilk believe these were the only reason used to justify the Iraq war. Do you know how many U.N. Resolutions Saddam broke before he was taken from power? I bet you don't even have a clue. I'll help you out here, 16. In your book, how many did he have to break before he should have been removed from power?

Consider the irony regarding the claims that Saddam had chemical weapons and, because of that, we needed to rush to war in Iraq. When Saddam Hussein was using chemical weapons first against Iranians, then against his own people, the Kurds our country provided him with biological and chemical agents and equipment to make the weapons.

Using your logic, since we gave him these weapon many years ago we should just stand by and let him gas the hell out of his neighbors? No one took him to task back then, but G.W. Bush wasn't in office back then either was he.

Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush refused even to support economic sanctions against Hussein for his use of weapons of mass destruction. What did our nation do in response to Hussein's use of chemical weapons, killing tens of thousand of people, when he actually had them? We befriended, coddled, and rewarded him with government-guaranteed loans totaling $5 billion since 1983, freeing up currency for Hussein to modernize his military assets.

It's all them damn Repuyou'rens fault. Rocky, you'r showing your true colors here. What do you have about Clinton pussy-footing around the subject after the The first Gulf War? I would assume nothing, since you didn't say anything about him in your speech.

:::EDIT:::
Some great pictures from the rally over at Desultory Thoughts.

LOL - "The Holy Bucket Brigades"

Great work Tyler.

Imagine this

Most of your family is dead, the house you were taking refuge in is destroyed. You have nothing, except for the clothes on your back and even those are dirty from being buried under the rubble of a collapsed building. What do you do?

Run down to the nearest Kinkos and have a giant sized, professionally photoshopped picture of your deceased loved one created, printed and smartly framed so you can have a shiny new propaganda tool against the Zionist Jews.

I was browsing through Getty images of the funeral of the Qana victims the other day, and I noticed the strange looking photoshoped "posters" of the victims. Some with the people photoshoped over palm trees and beach scenes, some with erie purple smoke around them. Some of them even had captions, I would assume they were the victim's name or some sort of prayer. Why would they go through all of this trouble? Could they have been created and provided by Hezbollah as a propaganda tool? My guess is yes. Here are some of the images I found. I'm not paying Getty $120 each for these, especially since I think passing these off as "news" photos is a bit dishonest. Most of these photos were taken by a photographer named Scott Peterson (I'm glad that's not my name) on August 18th. Why did it take 18 days to have a funeral? It's not easy setting up such a large production?

Here I go again

No it's not some bad White Snake song (actually it is). It's what Senator Kerry is up to, again. It seems the Senator is claiming in an email he is sending out to 100,000 Democratic donors today, GOP Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, "used the power of his state office to try to intimidate Ohioans and suppress the Democratic vote." And he goes on to say Blackwell "used his office to abuse our democracy and threaten basic voting rights."

Geeze, when is he going to shut the hell up?

"People will say anything for money," Blackwell campaign spokesman Carlo LoParo said. "Fortunately, the historical record contradicts Senator Kerry."

-from CNN.com-

No word about Mohammed Al-Asadi since April

It seems the trial and punishment of Mohammed Al-Asadi is on hold. He still sits in a Yemen jail on bogus trumped up charges. His own paper (the Yemen Observer), which is no illegal in print copy hasn't said anything since back in April.

He's an interview with him from back in Feb of 2006 with Rod Norland of Newsweek:

NEWSWEEK: Is this your first time in jail?
Mohammed al-Asadi: It's the first time ever I've been a prisoner, or even in front of a judge.

How are the accommodations?
I'm in a temporary prison, awaiting a hearing, so it's not so bad. It's a basement, and we have to buy everything we need, even bottled water. There are 15 of us sharing one big room and one toilet, but the others aren't common criminals. A couple are journalists, because it's the prison of the prosecutor for press and publications.

You mean to say the government has a prosecutor dedicated to the press, and that prosecutor has a dedicated jail?
That is one of the characteristics of the Yemeni government, putting journalists in jail to stop us from telling the truth to the public.

This is a different sort of case though. Tell us how it came about?
When we ran our article on the Danish cartoons, it was all about how the Prophet should be honored, with quotations from famous people about what an important figure he was, and a news story on Yemeni protests. We reprinted the cartoons but blacked them out. Unfortunately by an innocent mistake in the production process, a thumbnail of the cartoons appeared on the front page—only 1.5cm [0.6 of an inch] by 2cm [0.8 of an inch], you could hardly read it. But then the owner of a local news paper approached the Yemen Observer owners to blackmail us—or they would raise a stink. We refused, and they collected signatures on a petition that they presented to the prosecutor. Theirs is a newspaper that lives by blackmail, everybody knows that. But the government responded by revoking our license to publish and putting me in jail.

So your own colleagues instigated your arrest? Isn't that a sad commentary on the press in Yemen?
Yes it is, but this isn't a legitimate newspaper. It's an instrument of blackmail, any journalist in Yemen would tell you that. They're not even members of the journalists' guild.

Nonetheless, you're now being prosecuted for an offense with a possible life sentence. And some religious leaders, including some who are even members of the Yemeni Parliament, have called for your execution. And the government says they're keeping you in prison in the meantime for your own protection?

I don't believe that for a moment. Even if you were a Danish person you could walk the streets of Yemen safely, and I could too. But people in the street are wiser than the government.

Your newspaper has been closely identified with the government, so is this the result of some sort of factional dispute within it?
The Yemen Observer has an independent line, and while it's true that our owner is close to the government, when he hired me he granted me complete editorial independence. He had no say over what I published.

-more of the interview here-

Mohammed_Al-Asadi at Wikipedia


Yemen maintains an embassy in the United States. Please contact them about this terrible situation.

Embassy of the Republic of Yemen
2319 Wyoming Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20008
Telephone: (202) 965-4760
Fax: (202) 337-2017

Free atlast!

Kidnapped Fox journalists released
Fox reporter Steve Centanni and photographer Olaf Wiig were released shortly after noon Sunday and dropped off at the Beach Hotel in Gaza City, where they were greeted by a swarm of people offering hugs. The hotel is a popular place for journalists.

The two men later crossed into Israel and left for Jerusalem. The Palestinian government had condemned the kidnapping and the men's families pleaded publicly for their release.


Today is a good day.

Nagin kicks em' while they're down

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin may have been re-elected in New Orleans, but he might have a hard time winning any popularity contests in New York City.

During a tour of New Orleans with CBS News, a reporter pointed out there were still many flood-damaged homes and cars throughout the city. Nagin responded by saying: "That's alright. You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed and it's five years later."

He's such a creep. Why would anyone vote this guy back into office? I guess the folks that want NO to be a chocolate city like Nagin.

Hacked off by blind bias - By Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill is disgusted with her fellow journalists’ ‘self-loathing’ attitudes to Israel

I once remarked, just after 9/11, that many British hacks, both in TV and print, are so self-loathing and Arab-loving that if they were to witness the sight of their own dear mother being roasted by Saddam Hussein at one end and Osama bin Laden at the other, they would promptly point the finger of blame at poor old mum and squeal: “The Whore of Babylon tempted the noble soldier of Allah!”

A grotesque example of this almost brainwashed level of bias can be seen on the official BBC Religions website, where that “peace be upon him” eyewash is going on like crazy while other religions are coolly commented on in a strictly “objective” way.

The conflict has sent this tendency into overdrive, with not just the usual Masochist Hacks For Mohammed such as Robert Fisk (beaten up by Islamists, says they were right to do it) and Yvonne Ridley (kidnapped by Islamists, then became one) getting their chadors in a twist about big swarthy men treating the West mean and keeping it - in their case at least - keen.

Even the women’s magazines have got in on the act, with lots of first-person eye-witness accounts of British citizens fleeing the Jewish jackboot. (My favourite was in First magazine: “Beirut’s Hopes of Becoming a Top Tourist Destination Lie in Ruins” And you lot thought you’d had it tough! What next? “Lebanon’s Eurovision Song Contest Dream Shattered”?) Then turn the page and you’ll often find a shocked article about honour-killing or forced marriage.

-more-

Terrorist's nom de plume

In an article in Time magazine about the kidnapping of Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig (both Fox News employees) they claim that the group the "Holy Jihad Brigades was created for the sole purpose of carrying out this kidnapping."

The Palestinian security sources told TIME that Holy Jihad Brigades is made up of gunmen who belonged to one of the many armed groups that splintered apart from the late Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. Arafat's weak and distracted successor, Mahmoud Abbas, has failed to rein them in, and they now operate inside the West Bank territories and Gaza as lawless vigilantes. Some are still on the payroll of Gaza's Preventive Security Police, a fiefdom of the Fatah's bosses. Suspicion has fallen on three groups in particular — Al Nasser Salaheddin, Abu Reesh Brigade, Abu Rees Brigade, and a spin-off of al Qasa Brigades based in the Gaza town of Khan Younis, near where the TV crew was captured at gunpoint. These security sources say that most likely, the Holy Jihad Brigades was created for the sole purpose of carrying out this kidnapping.

The true motivation behind the kidnapping, say these security sources, was to discredit both Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority — who rashly told U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that he could free the pair of journalists swiftly — and Ismael Haniyeh, the Palestinian prime minister, whose Hamas-led government has tried to crack down on Fatah splinter groups' roaming death squads and extortion rackets in Gaza.

In addition, the Holy Jihad Brigades is hoping that by staging a high-publicity kidnapping of foreigners, they may attract the largess of the Lebanese militia group, Hizballah. In recent months, say Israeli intelligence officials, Hizballah has started to bankroll a wide array of Palestinian groups in Gaza and the West Bank in their battle against Israeli forces, and the Brigades may be hoping to join this lucrative club.

Holy Jihad Brigades?

Well there's finally a video out and it looks as if Steve Centanni and Olf Wiig are okay. I have to admit, I was a bit worried about this one since most of the abductions in this area end within a few hours and these two guys have been held for 9 days now.

A unknown (until now) group called the Jihad Brigades is claiming responsibility for this one.

In a written statement accompanying the video, the group demands the release of Arab prisoners from U.S.-run jails, citing the military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

According to CNN, in the video Centanni speaks first, saying:

We have been taken captive in Gaza and are being held prisoner here," he says, sitting cross-legged next to Wiig.

"We're in fairly good condition, we're alive and well and in fairly good health. We get lots of clean water, food every day, access to the bathroom, shower, clean clothes and our captors are treating us well.

"Just want to let you know I'm here and alive and give my love to my family and friends and ask you to do anything you can to try to help us get out of here."

Wiig then speaks: "If you could apply any political pressure on the local government here in Gaza and the West Bank that would be much appreciated by Steve and myself...

"To my family: I love you all. Please don't worry, I'll do all the worrying for us."

One of Dearborn's own, speaks out against Dearborn's Muslim community

Part #1 of 2



Pat #2 of 2

Hezbollah in Dearborn Michigan

Some of these chants are sickening. I think they're saying liar, liar, F the Jews??

August 22nd

We're half way through the day and so far so good. I'm not pacing about hand wringing worring about our future or anything. But I have been keeping an eye on the MSM web sites. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, here's a few snippets to get you up-to-date:



BY BERNARD LEWIS
Tuesday, August 8, 2006

In Islam, as in Judaism and Christianity, there are certain beliefs concerning the cosmic struggle at the end of time--Gog and Magog, anti-Christ, Armageddon, and for Shiite Muslims, the long awaited return of the Hidden Imam, ending in the final victory of the forces of good over evil, however these may be defined. Mr. Ahmadinejad and his followers clearly believe that this time is now, and that the terminal struggle has already begun and is indeed well advanced. It may even have a date, indicated by several references by the Iranian president to giving his final answer to the U.S. about nuclear development by Aug. 22. This was at first reported as "by the end of August," but Mr. Ahmadinejad's statement was more precise.

What is the significance of Aug. 22? This year, Aug. 22 corresponds, in the Islamic calendar, to the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427. This, by tradition, is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the winged horse Buraq, first to "the farthest mosque," usually identified with Jerusalem, and then to heaven and back (cf Koran XVII.1). This might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and if necessary of the world. It is far from certain that Mr. Ahmadinejad plans any such cataclysmic events precisely for Aug. 22. But it would be wise to bear the possibility in mind.

A passage from the Ayatollah Khomeini, quoted in an 11th-grade Iranian schoolbook, is revealing. "I am decisively announcing to the whole world that if the world-devourers [i.e., the infidel powers] wish to stand against our religion, we will stand against their whole world and will not cease until the annihilation of all them. Either we all become free, or we will go to the greater freedom which is martyrdom. Either we shake one another's hands in joy at the victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are ours."

By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com July 27, 2006

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has frustrated Western officials by refusing to reply to their offer of various incentives in exchange for Iran’s discarding its nuclear program until August 22. The Western governments had asked Ahmadinejad to reply by June 29; why would Tehran need two extra months?

Farid Ghadry, the president of the Reform Party of Syria, has offered a provocative explanation for this delay. He asserts that the Supreme National Security Council of Iran chose the August 22 date “for a very precise reason.
August 21, 2006 (Rajab 27, 1427) is known in the Islamic calendar as the Night of the Sira’a and Miira’aj, the night Prophet Mohammed (saas) ascended to heaven from the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on a Bourak (Half animal, half man), while a great light lit-up the night sky, and visited Heaven and Hell also Beit al-Saada and Beit al-Shaqaa (House of Happiness and House of Misery) and then descended back to Mecca.…”

The Night Journey, or Miraj, is central to Islam’s claim to Jerusalem as an Islamic holy city. According to Islamic tradition, Muhammad was carried on a Buraq, a miraculous horse with a human head, from Mecca to Jerusalem, where he ascended into heaven and met the other prophets. The only thing the Qur’an has to say about it is this: “Glory to (Allah) Who did take His servant for a Journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did bless, in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who heareth and seeth (all things)” (17:1). There is no identification of the “farthest Mosque” with any mosque in Jerusalem in this, but the Hadith is very clear on the identification of its location with Jerusalem.

The traditions say that Muhammad and the Buraq, along with the angel Gabriel, went to the Temple Mount, and from there to heaven itself, where Muhammad encountered various prophets. In the sixth heaven was Moses, occasioning a dig at the Jews. “When I left him,” Muhammad says, “he wept. Someone asked him, ‘What makes you weep?’ Moses said, ‘I weep because after me there has been sent (Muhammad as a Prophet) a young man, whose followers will enter Paradise in greater numbers than my followers.’”

By Larry Edelson
8/17/2006

In the Islamic calendar, August 22, 2006 equates to the anniversary of a sacred event: The 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427. This is the day when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the legendary winged horse Buraq, first to "the farthest mosque," (Jerusalem) and then to heaven and back.

August 22 roughly coincides with another event exactly 240 years earlier — the conquest of Jerusalem by the Muslim warrior Saladin, the arch-enemy of the crusaders.

And perhaps most important, August 22 marks the approximate date that the 12th Imam in Islam, or Mahdi, is expected to return to the World. Shiites believe Mahdi will bring with him a new period of Islamic justice.

Linus van Pelt
October 27, 1966


Every year, Linus sits in a pumpkin patch on Halloween night waiting for the Great Pumpkin to appear. According to Linus, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch he finds to be most "sincere". ("Look around you! Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see!") The Great Pumpkin then flies through the air to deliver toys to all the good little children in the world. In one strip, Linus claims that the Great Pumpkin has in fact been seen by people other than himself in pumpkin patches across the country, if not the world, indicating that if the Great Pumpkin is indeed imaginary, his existence is at least believed in by people other than (and even more suggestible than) Linus. The fact that Linus is, aside from his pumpkin faith, one of the most sober-minded characters in the strip seems to be a point in his favor.

Invariably, the Great Pumpkin fails to appear, and a humiliated but undefeated Linus vows to wait for him again the following Halloween.

Fordson High School

Thanks to Debbie Schlussel for getting me interested in Fordson High School in Dearborn Michigan. I find it surprising that it's national news when a a girl chooses to mentioned God in her graduation speech, but you hear nothing when another school allows an Football team to say Islamic prayers before each game? See below:

She knew her speech as valedictorian of Foothill High School would be cut short, but Brittany McComb was determined to tell her fellow graduates what was on her mind and in her heart.

But before she could get to the word in her speech that meant the most to her -- Christ -- her microphone went dead.

The decision to cut short McComb's commencement speech Thursday at The Orleans drew jeers from the nearly 400 graduates and their families that went on
for several minutes.

However, Clark County School District officials and an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union said Friday that cutting McComb's mic was the right call. Graduation ceremonies are school-sponsored events, a stance supported by federal court rulings, and as such may include religious references but not proselytizing, they said.

They said McComb's speech amounted to proselytizing and that her commentary could have been perceived as school-sponsored.

Why isn't it news when Fordson High football team says Islamic prayers before football games? Where is the ACLU on this? I wonder if they would have pulled the plug on Brittany is she would have been Muslim?

Here are a few items of a double standard when it comes to Fordson High School:

Fordson High School - Library Media Center - Links to the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World an not other religion specific items.

From NPAA -

Fordson High School s football team made it as far as the regional playoffs, observing Ramadan during November. During their last game Musa Odeh leads the team in a Muslim prayer. Dearborn, Michigan, celebrated its 75th anniversary recently and during the year 2003 the wide diversity of people in the community and its neighboring city of Dearborn Heights welcomed the differences and history that 80 ethnic heritages and 40 languages bring.

It seems the academics at Fordson are a bit less than stellar.

http://dearbornschools.org/departments/assessment/media/HS%20RESULTS%2003-05.pdf

Something weird. There are three highschools in Dearborn, Dearborn High, Edsel Ford High and Fordson.

Dearborn High's site is here

Edsel Ford High's is here

Fordson High's is here

They all have the most recent annual report available online except..You guessed it, Fordson High. What do they have to hide? See below:




















Imad, you have some splainin' to do.


If you have some time, read the other two high school's reports look at their scores and then look at the district average. Some unknown is bringing both Dearborn High and Edsel Ford's average down. Could it be the missing scores from Fordson?

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his own words

Following are excerpts from a speech delivered by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which aired on Iranian News Channel (IRINN) on August 15, 2006:

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: When they talk about a "New Middle East," they mean a Middle East that is held captive by America, England, and the Zionist regime. When they talk about a "New Middle East," they do not mean progress, development, independence, or freedom for the countries [of the region]. They oppose independence, freedom, and progress. Look at Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, and other places. I say to them: The peoples of the region have awakened. It so happens that our peoples are also calling for a New Middle East. The Middle East that our peoples want is a free Middle East, which is not under the control of America and England.

[...]

Those who were involved in planning this barbaric attack, those who supported this barbaric attack, and those who prevented the cease-fire are accomplices in the crimes of the Zionist regime, and must be placed on trial. To be more specific, America and England purport to support human rights, freedom, and democracy. When a cat's leg is run over by a municipal vehicle in some city, they hold a mourning ceremony. But they had the audacity to postpone the cease-fire for at least three weeks. They explicitly declared that the Zionist regime should be allowed to crush the resistance, and to occupy the land, and that [only] then would there be a cease-fire. I want to declare loud and clear, so that the whole world will hear: These two countries are not worthy of being members of the Security Council.

[...]

If you want to have good relations with the Iranian people in the future, you should acknowledge the right and the might of the Iranian people, and you should bow and surrender to the might of the Iranian people. If you do not accept this, the Iranian people will force you to bow and surrender.

A Marjeyoun tea party

CNN is reporting that a video has surfaced that shows Lebanese soldiers offering cups of tea to Israeli soldiers?

In the video, two Israeli tanks roll up to the gate of the Marjeyoun garrison, where a white surrender flag flutters outside the barracks.

Inside, Lebanese soldiers hold trays with glasses of tea, which they offer to the Israelis. The encounter appears merely social.

What's the problem? I didn't think Israel was at war with Lebanon. In fact I distinctly remember hearing the Lebanese President say that they we not at war with Israel. Or where they? Maybe this is another case of playing the victim and then when the cameras are off and no one is looking attacking along side the Hezbollah fighters.

But wait, I found in an interview with President Lahoud at CTV.ca:

Frayer: Will the army fight alongside Hezbollah if need be. Will the army fight Israel?

Lahoud: Of course. If the army is being attacked, if the land of Lebanon is being occupied, it is the duty of the Lebanese army to fight Israel. This is a National Lebanese Army that will fight for its land. And Hezbollah is a national resistance that is complementary to that army.

Well there you have it. In my eyes, Lebanon is Hezbollah and Hezbollah is Lebanon. All of these psudo-countries in the Middle East are cowards, they play the victim, but behind closed doors they are plotting and planning to destroy Israel. I believe it is the only thing that will stop the aggression against Israel, total destruction. And we can never let that happen.

Another quote for the CNN story:

After the video aired, the Lebanese interior ministry ordered the arrest of the base Commander, Gen. Adnan Daoud, according to The Associated press. Lebanon does not recognize Israel and forbids its citizens any contact with Israelis.

They don't recognize Israel? Why does it seem they only recognize or obey the U.N. when it is something they agree with?

Crazy Lady from Pakistan

From Fox News:

Affadavit: Woman Who Caused Plane Diversion Urinated on Floor, Passed Notes to Crew

BOSTON — A woman on a trans-Atlantic flight diverted to Boston for security concerns passed several notes to crew members, urinated on the cabin floor and made comments the crew believed were references to Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 attacks, according to an affidavit filed Thursday.

Catherine C. Mayo, 59, of Braintree, Vt., appeared in federal court Thursday on a charge of interfering with a flight crew on United 923 as it flew from London to Washington, D.C., Wednesday.

After doing some research I found this photo. Could this be the same Catherine Mayo?







It seems she was doing a bit of writing for the Daily Times (a new voice for a new Pakistan)

Another snippet from Fox News:

Mayo's son, Josh, 31, described his mother as a peace activist and said she had been in Pakistan since March. She traveled there often since making a pen pal prior to Sept. 11, 2001, he said.

So it seems she has ties to Pakistan. What are the odds? I don't think the name Catherine Mayo is that common of a name and the lady that wrote for the Daily Times looks like she is in her 50's to me. Plus there's one last clue in the Fox News story:

Mayo's son, Josh, 31, described his mother as a peace activist....

Most of the writings in the Daily Times that I have read seem to be anti-war and anti-Bush. You can read more below.

AN AMERICAN IN PAKISTAN: The blue planet - Tuesday, March 04, 2003

AN AMERICAN IN PAKISTAN: In Pindi on March 1 - Tuesday, March 11, 2003

AN AMERICAN IN PAKISTAN: Value of dissent - Tuesday, March 18, 2003

AN AMERICAN IN PAKISTAN: Psychiatry and 9/11 - Tuesday, May 13, 2003

AN AMERICAN IN PAKISTAN: Dear Senator Byrd - Tuesday, May 27, 2003

An American in Pakistan: A New Kind of Arrogance - Tuesday, June 10, 2003

AN AMERICAN IN PAKISTAN: To the Guantanamo Bay inmates - Tuesday, July 15, 2003

AN AMERICAN IN PAKISTAN: Freedom after 9/11 - Tuesday, July 22, 2003

Here's more from The Herald of Randolph VT:

Love & Culture In Pakistan - December 26, 2002

The author, Cathy Mayo, lives in the Battles Schoolhouse out on Battles Brook Road. A writer and photographer, she is 55 years old, graduated with a BS in forestry, and has three children and three grandchildren. She has lived in Vermont most of her life.

I am now 100% convinced this is the crazy lady that caused a plane to be diverted to Boston yesterday.

A Letter From Sergeant Timothy Boggs to the NY Times

Mr. Keller,

What ceases to amaze me about your paper is the lengths you are willing to go to make headlines and sell papers. Who cares if those headlines help the enemies of America, you guys are making money and that is what it is all about in the end right?

Your recent decision to publish information about a classified program intended to track the banking transactions of possible terrorists is not only detrimental to America but also to its fighting men and women overseas. I know because I am a sergeant in the army on my second tour to Iraq. As I am sure you don’t know because you aren’t in Iraq, and I am sure never will be, terrorism happens here everyday because there are rich men out there willing to support the everyday terrorist who plants bombs and shoots soldiers just to make a living. Without money terrorism in Iraq would die because there would no longer be supplies for IEDs, no mortars or RPGs, and no motivation for people to abandon regular work in hopes of striking it rich after killing a soldier.

Throughout your article you mention that, "the banking program is a closely held secret," but the cat is out of the bag now isn’t it. Terrorists the world over can now change their practices because of your article. For some reason I think that last sentence will bring you guys pleasure. You have done something great in your own eyes-you think you have hurt the current administration while at the same time encouraging "freedom fighters" resisting the imperialism of the United States. However, I foresee a backlash coming your way. I wish I had a subscription to your paper so I could cancel it as soon as possible. But alas, that would prove a little tough right now since I am in Iraq dealing with terrorists financed by the very men you are helping.

Thank you for continually contributing to the deaths of my fellow soldiers. You guys definitely provide a valuable service with your paper. Why without you how would terrorists stay one step ahead of us? I would love to hear a response as to why you deemed revealing this program a necessity, but that will probably come as soon as the government decides to finally put you guys behind bars where you belong.

-from-

The Children of Islamofascism

Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

-Golda Meir

Day after day, I witness such atrocities committed by Militant Islamic fascists throughout the world and none assault my senses as much as seeing the children, the indoctrinated children of Radical Islam. How can a parent, a parent that loves teach such cruelty, such nonsense to an innocent child.

Opressed or Opressors?

Palestinian gunmen, who identified themselves as members of the Islamic Jihad group, shoot a man in a public square in the West Bank town of Jenin Sunday Aug. 13, 2006. The man, who was executed in front of hundreds of people, was accused by the gunmen of giving information to Israeli authorities, helping them to kill two militants last week in a targeted attack, said witnesses and Islamic Jihad members. The victim was identified as Bassem Malah, 22, who worked in the Israeli Arab town of Umm al Fahm. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)



As others take pictures with their mobile phones, a man kicks the lifeless body of an alleged 'collaborator' after he was shot and killed by Palestinian gunmen, who identified themselves as members of the Islamic Jihad group, in a public square in the West Bank town of Jenin Sunday Aug. 13, 2006. The man, who was executed in front of hundreds of people, was accused by the gunmen of giving information to Israeli authorities, helping them to kill two militants last week in a targeted attack, said witnesses and Islamic Jihad members. The victim was identified as Bassem Malah, 22, who worked in the Israeli Arab town of Umm al Fahm. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)


Palestinians, some taking pictures with their mobile phones, gather around the body of an alleged 'collaborator' after gunmen, who identified themselves as members of the Islamic Jihad group, shot him and killed him in a public square in the West Bank town of Jenin Sunday Aug. 13, 2006. The man, who was executed in front of hundreds of people, was accused by the gunmen of giving information to Israeli authorities, helping them to kill two militants last week in a targeted attack, said witnesses and Islamic Jihad members. The victim was identified as Bassem Malah, 22, who worked in the Israeli Arab town of Umm al Fahm. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

A woman, mother of a militant killed by the Israeli army in 2002, steps on the body of an alleged 'collaborator' after Palestinian gunmen, who identified themselves as members of the Islamic Jihad group, shot him and killed him in a public square in the West Bank town of Jenin Sunday Aug. 13, 2006. The man, who was executed in front of hundreds of people, was accused by the gunmen of giving information to Israeli authorities, helping them to kill two militants last week in a targeted attack, said witnesses and Islamic Jihad members. The victim was identified as Bassem Malah, 22, who worked in the Israeli Arab town of Umm al Fahm. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

These are not acts of the down trodden. These are acts committed to a group of people with a penchant for cruelty, violence and anti-Semitism.

It's disgusting; some will say that we need to understand what made these people this way. “We need to accept our role in the creation of terrorist.” I say the only thing we need to know is how to eradicate them and all of their Islamofascist cohorts.

2 Fox News Journalists Kidnapped in Gaza

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip

Palestinian gunmen ambushed a car carrying a Fox News crew in Gaza City on Monday and kidnapped two of the journalists inside, according to witnesses and Fox. "We can confirm that two of our people were taken against their will in Gaza," Fox News said in a statement.

A Fox employee in Gaza, who declined to give his name because he was not authorized to release information about the incident, said the two kidnapped people were reporter Steve Centanni, a U.S. citizen, and a cameraman from New Zealand.

The men, along with a bodyguard, were parked near the headquarters of the Palestinian security services when two trucks filled with gunmen pulled up and boxed them in, according to the employee. The gunmen took the two out of their sports utility vehicle, which was marked "TV," and drove away, he said.

Major militant groups in Gaza denied having any connection to the abduction, and there was no immediate word of any demands made.

Security officials put police across Gaza on alert to find the gunmen and free the journalists, said Interior Ministry spokesman Khaled Abu Hilal.

"This is not acceptable at all," he said.

Several foreigners have been kidnapped in Gaza in recent months with their abductors demanding jobs from the Palestinian Authority or the release of people being held in Palestinian jails. All those kidnapped have been released within hours without harm.


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-----EDIT 4:29pm EST-----

Reuters has the story now

They name his cameraman as Olaf Wiig from NZ.

A Fox spokeswoman in New York named the two journalists as correspondent Steve Centanni, an American, and cameraman Olaf Wiig, from New Zealand.

WHEN will the Muslims of Britain stand up to be counted?

When will they declare, loud and clear, with no qualifications or quibbles about Britain's foreign policy, that Islamic terrorism is WRONG?

Most of all, when will the Muslim community in this country accept an absolute, undeniable, total truth: that Islamic terrorism is THEIR problem? THEY own it. And it is THEIR duty to face it and eradicate it.

To stop the denial, endless fudging and constant wailing that somehow it is everyone else's problem and, if Islamic terrorism exists at all, they are somehow the main victims. Because until that happens the problem will never be resolved. And there will be more 7/7s and, sometime in the future, another airplane plot will succeed with horrific loss of innocent life.

Equally important, those British politicians who have seemed obsessed with pandering to, and even encouraging, this state of denial, must throw off their
politically-correct blinkers and recognise the same truth—that Muslim terrorism
in Britain is the direct responsibility of British Muslims.

-more from Lord Stevens here-

Katrina Victims Blamed for Houston Crime

HOUSTON

A letter to inmate No. 1352951 and a cell phone bill for $76.63, both found in a soggy New Orleans duplex ruined by Hurricane Katrina, led Louisiana bounty hunter James Martin to Texas.

Again.

It marked the seventh time since Katrina that Martin, whose pursuit of bail jumpers often begins with clues salvaged from abandoned New Orleans homes, has followed a trail to Texas.

"I don't think Texas really knows what they got," Martin said.

Katrina sent a lot of bad guys to Texas, as Houston is finding out.

Houston took in 150,000 evacuees the most of any U.S. city after Katrina struck on Aug. 29. Houston police believe the evacuees are partly responsible for a nearly 17.5 percent increase in homicides so far this year over the same period in 2005.

-more-

Anti-American Sentiments Unwelcome In Oklahoma City

Even before September 11, 2001, Oklahoma City residents knew the horror of terrorism. Nearly everyone remembers April 19, 1995, when exposives brought the Alfred P. Murrah building down. Since then, Oklahoma City residents have become a profoundly patriotic community. That's why when Kenneth Cofer claimed America got what it deserved from the Oklahoma City bombing and 9/11 attacks, Vietnam veteran Larry Buchanan defended his country and beliefs. Cops say this was just the beginning in a series of confrontations that would eventually end in murder.

The Next Night, The Next Confrontation

The day after Cofer and Buchanan's initial confrontation, the two found themselves face-to-face once again. This time, it was at the Country Palace Bar, Buchanan's favorite local hangout. He was a regular there and all the locals knew him as "Buffalo."

When Cofer entered the bar, a fight was in the making -- Buffalo didn't want Cofer there, and the bartender obliged by tossing him out. When Buchanan left the bar minutes later, he found himself in a staredown with Cofer.

Six inches shorter and hobbled by recent surgery, Buchanan was outmanned, but still stood up to Cofer. But cops say Cofer knocked Buchanan to the ground a few times before driving off.

The Final Showdown

On September 13, 2002, Cofer and Buchanan ran into one another for the third and final time.

Cofer was hanging out with a group of men at a rural property outside Oklahoma City when Larry Buchanan showed up. As had happened the previous two days, cops say the two would square off. But this time, instead of fighting it out with fists, cops say Cofer pulled out a handgun and shot Larry Buchanan in the head.

Witnesses say Cofer walked over to his truck, stated, "I guess I have ruined my life," climbed in and drove away. Buchanan died at the scene.

Months later, cops found Cofer's truck in a ditch near the murder scene. It had been spray-painted black and had receipts inside suggesting Cofer had traveled to Arkansas and back. Cofer hasn't been seen since the day of the murder.


From America's Most Wanted, last night August 13th, 2006

This guy looks like Duce Bigalo Male Gigalo to me.

Setting the stage

1) Man arrives with suitcase full of American toys and dismantles doll in pink dress. (AP)