I rest my case.

Regards,
Peter H.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/03/cair_throws_out.html

At today’s CAIR press conference announcing the lawsuit against US Airway ( my favorite terror free airline) CAIR threw out the Christian broadcasting network and a reporter from the Washington Times, reported John Gibson on The Big Story (FOX)

Emes. Define tolerance for me again. Oh yeah, and the press conference was about religious intolerance.

REMEMBER FOLKS, WHEN YOU FLY, FLY US AIRWAYS, America’s Terror Free airline!

STRANGERS ON MY FLIGHT

UPDATE: CAIR does not speak for all American Muslims. Here’s AIFD Press release;

NOT ALL MUSLIMS SUPPORT CAIR PLAN TO SUE

US

AIRWAYS on BEHALF of SIX IMAMS

Muslim organization believes that lawsuit filed by CAIR on behalf of local

Phoenix

imams is wrong for American Muslims and wrong for
America

.

NOT ALL MUSLIMS SUPPORT CAIR PLAN TO SUE

US

AIRWAYS on BEHALF of SIX IMAMS

[PHOENIX, AZ: March 13, 2007]: Wide media attention is being given today to the lawsuit filed by CAIR on behalf of six imams against U.S. Airways for their claims of discrimination against race and religion. Most of the imams are from local mosques here in

Phoenix

and were removed from a U.S. Airways flight on November 21, 2006 en route to
Phoenix

from
Minneapolis

.

AIFD would like the American public to be aware of our following positions representing an alternative voice from the American Muslim community.

We will not accept the victimization agenda of organizations like CAIR. Lawsuits like the one announced today exploit the climate of political correctness and at the end of the day are harmful to the Muslim minority in
America

.
Make no mistake, this type of agenda and policy direction of organizations like CAIR only represents its own membership and its own donors. A relatively small percentage of the 5-6 million American Muslims are enrolled as members of CAIR. Recent considerable donations to CAIR upwards of a combined $100 million from foreign nations like
Dubai

and Saudi Arabia make these types of costly, distractive actions against domestic airlines such as US Airways very concerning in its manifestation of foreign interference.

One of the frontlines in the war on terror is at the airports and at the gates. While the imams were clearly removed for their behavior after entering the plane, it should be made clear that many less rigid but equally pious Muslims believe (including 3 out of 6 of the imams for that matter) that the prayer they performed could have been performed upon landing in Phoenix due to travel dispensations in Islam or privately on time while seated on the flight. Muslims believe that God is forgiving and does not expect religion to be “too difficult”.
While the six imams’ handlers, CAIR, and their lawyers may have some kind of obscure basis for their lawsuit, it is our belief that the fallout and publicity from such litigation is wrong for American Muslims, wrong for American security, and wrong for American freedoms. The greatest guarantor of our rights as American Muslims is the tenor of our relationship with the greater majority of American society. This type of litigiousness is divisive and achieves nothing but resentment and actually causes far more harm than good to the overall image of the Muslim community in the eyes of non-Muslim
America

.
It is our hope as Americans and as Muslims that U.S. Airways stand firm in its defense of its actions to have the gentleman removed for concerns regarding their behavior after entering the plane. This is not about race or religion. It is about the privilege to fly securely.
The constant exploitation of
America

’s culture of political correctness especially in this setting of what is the most dangerous environment of air travel is out of touch with
America

’s priorities. Such misguided priorities by Muslim activist organizations like CAIR will make the legitimate defense of our civil rights far more difficult when more serious complaints of racism and discrimination are involved.
America

is quickly becoming numb to their constant refrains and the polls demonstrate the profound ineffectiveness of their tiring campaigns.
The organized Muslim community should instead be working on developing a strategic plan to counter militant Islamism within the Muslim community. That would do a lot more to change public opinion than suing the airlines who are trying to keep Americans who travel safe.

I estimate that you posted over well over thirty times on this specific post.

Thirty Times!!!

Get a Grip

According to the Sunday Telegraph the EU alone sent £59.5 million to the Hamas-led (if that is the right expression) Palestinian government in aid, despite the fact that Hamas has not fulfilled any of the conditions, supposedly imposed on it by the international authority.

On top of that, an unknown and “a far greater sum directly to hospitals, power generation projects and to families in need”. No proper auditing or accounting of these sums have been done but then there is nothing new in that. There has never been any proper auditing or accounting of moneys given to the Palestinian Authority or the Palestinians in general.

An estimated £362.5 million has flowed into Palestinian government coffers from abroad since the election that brought Hamas to power and ushered in a period of internal conflict that came close to all-out civil war.
That, of course, excludes the amounts going through NGOs to “hospitals, power generation projects, families in need” and whatever else Jimmy Carter may have thought of as a suitable recipient of funds.

Where is all this money? Alas, as before, there is no accounting for it.

Salam Fayyad, a former World Bank Official, former IMF representative in the Palestine and former Finance Minister under the late unlamented Chairman Yasser Arafat, says that nobody knows what happened to the money.

Mr Fayyad, a member of the Legislative Council, from the Third Way Party (they have two members, the other one being Hanan Ashrawi) is about to become the Finance Minister again. He had been touted as a possible Prime Minister but one of his conditions for accepting the post was that Hamas should recognize Israel’s right to exist. Unlike the international community, he seems to have kept his word and not accepted the job without his main condition being fulfilled.

According to the Telegraph

Now, Palestinian Authority spending is out of control, salaries are being paid to workers who never turn up, and nobody can track where the money is going, according to Mr Fayyad.

There was no way to be certain that aid was being used as intended, he admitted. “Please write this: no one can give donors that assurance. Why? Because the system is in a state of total disrepair.”
What the Telegraph journalist does not ask is why precisely Mr Fayyad should be so surprised. He was, after all, Finance Minister five years ago, when the situation was not much better. Millions of pounds, dollars and euros that had been sent in aid to the Palestinian Authority disappeared, some to surface as payment to such delightful organizations as the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade and to families of unsuccessful suicide/homicide bombers, some not to surface at all.

Mr Fayyad, having apparently set up some sort of a budgeting system five years ago, having seen it disintegrate and having realized the magnitude of the problem now has various plans:

He said his first objective would be to make the finance ministry the sole conduit for incoming aid, and to reinstate proper audits. That meant no more financial back channels or border smuggling, he said. “It’s not my intention to manage the Palestinian budget system through the brown bag.” The Palestinian Authority’s unchecked proliferation of government jobs – growing by 11 per cent a year – is another threat to its existence, the World Bank said. Mr Fayyad acknowledged that the problem of thousands of absentee employees was “serious”, but said it would take up to five years to bring wages into line with income.
Some of us might point out that unbridled aid is not “income”. Would this experienced financial manager be able to come up with a budget that was slightly different? After all, we have our own budget (several of them) already and one sees no reason why there should be a Palestinian one as well that dissipates our tax money.

http://www.brusselsjournal.com

Today they quoted an article from the WSJ

Islamosocialism
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Tue, 2007-03-13 21:42
A quote from Bret Stephens in The Wall Street Journal, 13 March 2007

For Muslim voters in Europe, the attractions of the Socialists are several. Socialists have traditionally taken a more accommodating approach to immigrants and asylum-seekers than their conservative rivals. They have championed the welfare state and the benefits it offers poor newcomers. They have promoted a multiculturalist ethos, which in practice has meant respecting Muslim traditions even when they conflict with Western values. In foreign policy, Socialists have often been anti-American and, by extension, hostile to Israel. That hostility has only increased as Muslim candidates have joined the Socialists’ electoral slates and as the Muslim vote has become ever more crucial to the Socialists’ electoral margin.

More mysterious, however, at least as a matter of ideology, has been the dalliance of the progressive left with the (Islamic) political right. Self-styled progressives, after all, have spent the past four decades championing the very freedoms that Islam most opposes: sexual and reproductive freedoms, gay rights, freedom from religion, pornography and various forms of artistic transgression, pacifism and so on. For those who hold this form of politics dear, any long-term alliance with Islamic politics ultimately becomes an ideological, if not a political, suicide pact. One cannot, after all, champion the cause of universal liberation in alliance with a movement that at its core stands for submission.

This is not, of course, the first time such a thing has happened in the history of the progressive movement, or in European history. On the contrary, it is the recurring theme. In the early 20th century, the apostles of Fabianism – George Bernard Shaw among them – looked to the Soviet Union for inspiration; in the 1960s the model was Mao; in the late 1970s, the great French philosopher Michel Foucault went to Iran to write a paean to Khomeini’s revolution. In nearly every case, the progressives were, by later admission, deceived, but not before they had performed their service as “useful idiots” to a totalitarian cause.

But the stakes today are different. At question for Europeans is not the prevailing view of a distant country. The question is the shaping of their own. Europe’s liberal democrats were able, sometimes with outside help, to preserve their values in the face of an outside threat. Whether they can resist the temptations of Islamosocialism remains to be seen.

Flipping out over a Muslim cashier having to call someone else to handle a pork product looks too much to me like the militant abortionists who want every pharmacist to hand every ten-year-old who asks for it the Plan B pill. They should be able to refuse on religious grounds; so should the cashier.

It seems like that, but what is really going on in is intimidation and arrogance. The goal is eventually have the host country adopt the norms of Sharia.. This is done incrementally.. So what we’re seeing starting to bubble is the very begiinings of it.

Giving Muslim an accodomadtion is not “tolerance” it’s aquiance.. and with each concession , their agitiatin gets worse.. they demand even more, they respect you even less.

Please don’t believe me… reserch this.. you’ll see it’s a classic pattern that happens everywhere that they go.

WTF? puff piece? who exactly was being puffed up in that piece? And my point is that it DOES happen. That was my only point, and it is corroborated by a major paper.

“The WaPo and its willing allies in the DNC were trying to stir it up and trying anything short of regional/class warfare to make it stick.”

WTF? Go on random off-topic rants much? You asked when a pharmacist has refused to serve a customer based on religious beliefs, and I provided an article that stated that it happens regularly. This has nothing to do with class warfare, the DNC, or even WaPo…either pharmacists were refusing to serve people based on religious beliefs, or they weren’t. That’s all.

Do you not believe the article? What does it matter if the article was written 2 years ago? Are the article’s assertions less true with time?

Your completely illogical and irrelevant reponse is odd though… do you feel victimized? angry? self-righteous?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=1391310

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=111071

Are those articles suspect too? It must be a big conspiracy between the DNC, NBC, ABC and the WaPo… obviously that’s what’s going on here.

You’ve just proven MY point – read my comment again. The WaPo and its willing allies in the DNC were trying to stir it up and trying anything short of regional/class warfare to make it stick.

Try again.

Regards,
Peter H.

“but when has a pharmacist ever been put in that position?”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5490-2005Mar27.html

WTF?

Dude, the left’s goal is not cooersive collectivism. That’s a communist/socialist goal, and it isn’t being persued by the democrats, that’s for sure. Even something like HillaryCare offered a clear alternative for people who didn’t want to buy in…noone is cooerced into anything…even if we have our way.

There are very few elected communists/socialists in the democratic party…. it’s just not a mainstream position, among the left in the US.

When I read that, I instantly thought of a codgery old man (like at the end of a Scooby doo episode) cursing those darn leftists for things they have nothing to do with, but that the old man can’t let go of.

Then there’s this load of crap:
“The footage shows how two Muslim chaplains practice the Islamically sanctioned deception techniques of taqiyya and kitman on the audience”

No, the footage doesn’t show that at all. The footage shows a nutjob being rude and confrontative to some Muslim chaplains, then labelling their actions incorreclty on screen. If you think that video makes the Muslims look bad (instead of the guy making the video), you are seriously messed up. His misdirected anger is palpable, and it should really embarassing for the right to have such an asshat on their side…but alas, the screeching, shrill little green freaks do nothing but raise sound and fury at the outrage (THE OUTRAGE!) of Islam. This video makes Michael Moore look like a serious documentarian.

No matter what that video says, that was not taqiyya and kitman. You must not really know what taqiyya and kitman are….

They never denied their faith. They never were under threat of persecution.

Both Target and the cashier are at fault here. Target should have expressly told all applicants that they will be asked to scan items which may offend them. And the applicants themselves should have volunteered whether or not such a task would offend them.

I mean please – how many Baptists run a liquor store? (That is not a joke, BTW.) And how many counties in north Texas are still dry 100 years after the temperance movement?

Like I said earlier, call this the Religion of Perpetual Indignation.

Regards,
Peter H.

You know, I think we should draw a bit of a line here.

Flipping out over a Muslim cashier having to call someone else to handle a pork product looks too much to me like the militant abortionists who want every pharmacist to hand every ten-year-old who asks for it the Plan B pill. They should be able to refuse on religious grounds; so should the cashier.

But when it comes to threats of physical harm, that dog don’t hunt.

Otherwise, that bumper sticker might become a self-fulfilling prophecy for those jihadists who are going to try and become martyrs.

I’m hungry. BLT, anyone?

Regards,
Peter H.

And for those of you libtrolls out there who think that al-Qaeda or jihad won’t come to us here in America, THINK AGAIN.

I don’t want to hear whining about “hate speech” or blaming the driver for the bumper sticker. There is a First Amendment, or so these liberals tell us. But I guess they apply it selectively.

Just to be sure, I’m keeping my .45 locked and loaded. Right next to the jar of pork rinds in case someone thinks they’re going straight to al-Yanna and the 40 virgins.

As Dixie Carter said in “Designing Women” one episode: “You may think you’ll get me, but by God one of us will be walking away with a limp.”

Regards,
Peter H.

Two US based Islamic websites have called on Muslims to kill the driver of a Georgia registered vehicle displaying an offensive bumper sticker.

http://the-gathering-storm.blogspot.com/2007/03/storm-track-intimidation-thuggery-jihad.html

Rusty Shackleford at The Jawa Report writes that since the Gwinnett County (Georgia) authorities don’t seem to be taking this seriously, it might be a good idea to get the word out. Maybe we’ll all (readers and bloggers) get the ball moving and get an investigation moving. The following is a repost of what was received by email from The Jawa Report:

Two U.S. based Islamic websties have called on Muslims to kill the driver of a Georgia registered vehicle displaying an offensive bumper sticker. On February 28 the “Black Lion” blog, a website run by two American Muslims who support violent jihad, posted the license plate number of a Gwinnett County, Georgia motorist displaying a bumper sticker which read, “Kill em all, let Allah sort em out.” A thinly veiled threat encouraging Muslims to find the driver and kill him was also posted.

Another Muslim offended, another death threat issued.

When the posts were reported to the Gwinnett County Chief of Police’s office, the keystone cops were right on the case. The person who took her call responded with “What do you want me to do about it?”

For starters, how about finding the person targeted for death and letting them know that their life may be in danger?!?! Then, how about contacting the FBI, just down the road in Atlanta, so they can open an investigation!?!?

In the meantime, “The Black Lion” blog removed the death threat from their website.

However, another U.S. based militant Islamist website picked up the post and republished it. In a post celebrating the shooting down of an American helicopter in Iraq, a “Join the Caravan” author identified as “Mujahida3001″ republishes the earlier threat made by “The Black Lion”.

Here’s the post.

Another blogger who gets few hits per day has e-mailed me and told me of a truck he saw with a decal on it saying “Kill em all, let Allah sort em out.” He was kind enough to give me the license tag number, too. Georgia tag [tag number is shown in actual post] Gwinnett County

Just thought I’d share that with you.

This is baraa [enmity]. If he wants to repeat the quote of one of the crusader generals during the first crusades in Jerusalem, then no, I do not care about his safety. I care about his lack of it. He shouldn’t feel any security at all.

So, Muslims, do whatever you can get away with.

Take care and keep it militant.

Oh, and the website the “Black Lion” blog is hosted by, you guessed it, that lovely pro-democracy, fair and balanced company Goggle noted for its pro-Islamist support and anti-jihadist censorship.

In the past, Google’s blogspot division has refused to take down websites encouraging the killing of Americans, the murder of civilians, and violent jihad on the grounds
of “free speech”.

Unless you post to Google’s you tube, then and slurs about Muslims, Jihadists or Islam are promptly deleted.

http://www.buzz.mn/?q=node/898

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJweJ02Ar0c

Footage of a Muslim proselytization event at a public library. The footage shows how two Muslim chaplains practice the Islamically sanctioned deception techniques of taqiyya and kitman on the audience

It’s absolutely chilling the way these Muslims think they can take over one of our public libraries with thier oppressive tactics.