Sacrificed Survivors

While it easy to lament the fact that the "day that will live in infamy" at Pearl Harbor is being forgotten as new generations of Americans are born and educated (in government schools). However, the Japanese who attacked Pearl Harbor are a very different Japanese than those who make our automobiles and who are significant trading partners.

9/11 is a very different thing. Even though 9/11 was almost 10 years ago, 2001, the left leaning media are working hard, overtime even, to make us forget it. I cannot, and we as a country should not. They are still trying to kill us.

The same mass murderers who planned the 9/11 attack are still out there plotting against us and trying (and succeeding) to subvert some American youth to their cause.

The Cordoba Mosque which is actually on a ground zero site (one of the aircraft engines dropped on the building), appears to be a celebration of the Islamic victory that Islamaists celebrated after the 9/11 attacks. Imam Rauf, former head of the committee promoting the Mosque warned in a televised interview that if America deterred the Muslims from this victory mosque (victory is my word, not his), Americans would not be safe anywhere in the world. That, my friends, is a threat we cannot bow to.

I urge everyone to see Sacrificed Survivors, the documentary about people who lost their lives on 9/11 and the insult of this victory mosque. Because of freedom of religion, we know the government cannot stop the mosque from being built, but the there are other lawful ways to stop it. If the promoter Muslims were really civic minded, they would understand the insult and understand the tension they are creating, and would stop. By continuing to promote the mosque (current being operating in violation of building codes), the message they are sending is one of defiance to public sensibility and one of celebration of a triumph of Islam over America.

Watch the film. Go to a showing. Buy the video.

And remember 9/11.

Ibrahim Hooper, What a Jerk

Ibrahim Hooper is a real bozo. He proves it here. I agree with exactly one statement he made that is absolutely correct. He says that NPR is a editorially left wing. So, why is it being partly funded by the federal government?

Another Question for Horowitz

This is another questioner from the Horowitz speech at UCSD, but funnier. Listen, if you can get past the hideous valley-girl accent of the questioner.



Unfortunately for the questioner, even if the question were good, he manner of speaking detracts tremendously. If the lefties think Sarah Palin's accent makes her sound like a hick, this student's accent makes her sound like an air-head.

Like But, the, like, question wasn't, like, all that good, like, either. Likey-like.

Moron of the Day: Michael Bloomberg

He has many times been a finalist for his foolish and illegal anti-gun activities, but New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg finally wins the award for his speculation on the New York car bomber last weekend: "If I had to guess -- 25 cents -- this would be exactly that, somebody ... home-grown, maybe a mentally deranged person or somebody with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill or something."

Bloomberg is thinking tea partier, no doubt. Their rallies have been so violent!

Instead, the "suspect" was Pakistan-born, naturalized American citizen, a follower of the Religion of Peace.

What? A Muslim? Really? Who saw that coming?

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2010/05/03/cbs-features-ny-mayor-bloomberg-speculating-bomber-was-mad-about-obamac#ixzz0my4olk8cto Katie Couric:

The Muslim Cabbie Who Saved Chrismas

By Mahmoud El-Yousseph
17 January, 2010

There aren’t too many people who don’t remember Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, also known as “The Grinch.” It was a 2000 American film starring Jim Carey based on the 1957 book of the same name by Dr. Seuss. For four weeks it sat as the #1 film in the U.S., eventually earning $260 million at the US box office and breaking the 2007 Guinness World Record for Highest-Grossing Christmas Movie.

At the same time, I bet there are very few American who’ve heard the story of the Muslim cabbie who saved Christmas. It is another heartwarming but true Christmas story that took place last year on Christmas eve that is worthy of being made into a film for its profound effect. This was a story about honesty, integrity, ethics, and human decency, yet those who heard about, knew very little about the honest cabbie or where he came from.

It began with an Italian traveler, Felicia Lettieri, a 72 year old grandmother along with 6 members of her family who took two cabs from midtown Manhatten on Christmas eve. Mrs. Letterie left her purse and a hand bag in one of the cabs. Inside her bag was over $21,000 of the group’s traveling money, expensive jewelry, and some of group’s passports.
After realizing she had lost this great fortune, she went to the police who told her “not to get her hopes up.” Her family echoed these sentiments, telling her that “this is New York. Forget about it. You have lost everything.”

Not so quick! The cab driver was a medical student from Queens, N.Y. who took a job few days a week driving a taxi after his hours were cut back at his former job. When he found the purse, he looked for contact information. Seeing the rolls of euros, nevertheless he never bothered even counting the money. He finally found the address and then asked a friend of his with a car to drive him 60 miles one way to Patchogue. When he got there, no one was home. He left his cell phone number with a note “Mrs. Letterie, don’t worry about your money, it is safe.”

After he left home to Queens, his phone rang, and it was Mrs. Lettieri, he then drove back again another 60 miles and returned all the lost items, refused to accept the reward offered him and returned back home, having driven a total of 240 miles, all for this one woman he did not know.

When asked by a reporter if he was tempted to keep the cash, he answered, “I am needy, but not greedy.” adding that when he was five, his mother told him, “be honest, work hard, you will raise your status.”

This man is precisely the type of person you want as your physician. He clearly is a man of enormous ethics and high moral principles. He has given us all a gift by his actions and integrity
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Mrs. Lettierei’s sister, Francesca, 79, said, the honest cabbie had saved her family’s Christmas vacation. adding, “we really love what he did.”

Oh yes, I all most forgot to mention, the cabbie is Mohammad “Mukul” Asaduzzaman, 28 years old and a native of Bangladesh. Many newspapers that published this story omitted his first name for some odd reason with the exception of AP wire service. Other daily papers ignored other ‘bothersome’ facts, such as his country of origin and that he was a Muslim, thereby denying American Muslims like me a moment of pride.

No one can forget the panic and hysteria created in America and all over the world as a result of the failed Christmas bombing aboard flight 253. In contrast, the message of this Muslim medical student story is very clear–namely that these are the kind of stories we need to hear more! Real people, honest, hard working, not politicians and religious fanatics as representative of American Muslims
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Mahmoud El-Yousseph
Retired USAF Veteran
elyousseph6@yahoo.com

Hypocrisy Illustrated

Mr. Obama Continues to Fuel Birth Controversy

I am definitely not a birther. However, the birth controversy will never die until a copy of Obama's original birth record is produced. The Hawaii officials say that they have an original birth record, but state law prohibits them from releasing a copy for privacy reasons presumably without Mr. Obama's consent. Some contend that Mr. Obama won't consent because the birthers won't be satisfied anyway. They will come up with forgery theories or some such.

I suspect there is a different reasons.

I suspect the birth record states the baby Obama's religion is Muslim. If so, that would result in additional controversy.

Now, I do not believe Mr. Obama is a Muslim. He attended the United Church of Christ for 20 years. I don't contend he is a Christian, either, from what I know of that church's beliefs, but he might be. In any event, no matter what his birth certificate might say, he is not a Muslim, culturally or by faith.

Protests Over Lack of Publicity of Horrible Crime

Mahmoud El-Yousseph, a local Muslim activist, with whom I am on friendly terms but with whom I frequently disagree, has contacted me about the case of Marwa El-Sherbini who was the victim of a despicable murder that actually occurred inside a courtroom in Dresden, Germany.according to the UK Guardian:

Unemployed Alex W. from Perm in Russia was found guilty last November of insulting and abusing Sherbini, screaming "terrorist" and "Islamist whore" at her, during the Dresden park encounter. He was fined ¤780 but had appealed the verdict, which is why he and Sherbini appeared face to face in court again.

During her testimony in court, "Alex W." (who is oddly not identified in the article with his actual last name) strode across the courtroom and stabbed her 18 times. Her three-year-old son was present in the courtroom as was her husband. Apparently her husband was shot trying to save her when the court security officer mistook him for another attacker. There seems no question that Alex W. was motivated by anti-Muslim animus. The guy deserves the death penalty if they even have that penalty in Germany (which I doubt).

Mahmoud complains about the lack of international publicity over this horrific case. Of course, there are "street protests" (riots?) in Egypt, because the case is not getting enough international publicity. (They seem to have an awful lot of street protests over there. Maybe because they don't have American Idol to watch at night.) There was no rioting in Egypt or anywhere else when the persecution of Coptic Christians routinely get little international publicity either. See here and here.

To me the only reason that new media would want to give this horrible case more publicity is (1) the incredibly bad security in the German court that allowed it to happen; (2) the pubic interest in the awful and tragic circumstances and the true rarity of violence against Muslims for their religion, as opposed to the far more common violence in the other direction. Dog bites man is not news, man bites dog is news. (No., I am not calling this poor victim and her husband dogs. "Man bites dog" is a commonly states, time-honored test of newsworthiness.)

So why the street protests? Isn't Germany going to the prosecute the guy? Of course it is. It seems to me that the street protests are a supremacy thing.

Update:There is an interesting series of articles on the moderately left-wing Harry's Place about differences in reporting of Muslim terrorists versus non-Muslim terrorists.

Homegrown Jihad

There are over 30 Muslim encampments in the United States that engage in terrorist training and other criminal activities (drug trafficking, welfare fraud, harboring fugitives from justice). A new documentary investigates and explores the facts.

CAIR Busted

CAIR busted for selling jihadist and materials insulting to Christians.



What is heartening are the interviews with the ordinary Muslims who don't seem to understand the background of CAIR it leaders, and when explained would reject it. The two gentlemen in the beginning of the piece have their hearts in the right place, but CAIR is trying to lead them astray.

Obama Birth Certificate

I do not for a minute believe that Barack Obama was born outside Hawaii. Although the issue seems to rise to the same absurdity level as Trutherism (9/11 conspiracy), I see no reason that the Hawaiian officials do not release a copy of the original birth record and put an end to the speculation.

Personally, I suspect that the original record states a religion, specifically: Muslim. So what? I understand that information would be missed during the campaign, but it would make no difference now. The guy got elected.

Mr. Obama is probably very sympathetic to Muslims given his background, but his religion is not Muslim.. He spend 20 years in the Trinity United Methodist Church. While one may argue whether that church is truly theologically Christian, it is certainly not Muslim.

So show the original record already. Demonstrate conclusively that Mr. Obama meets the constitutional birth qualification. The country has to move on to more pressing issues.

Mahmoud. el-Yousseph Recognizes America as Muslim-Friendly

Mahmoud el-Yousseph, who has been criticized as a Hezbollah apologist, sent me a letter published in the Marion Star. I would provide a link, but the Marion Star (Marion, Ohio) foolishly inhibits links, so I cannot. However, here are excerpts:

Believe or not, America is more Muslim-friendly since 9/11, and more so than the rest of the western world. In case you have any doubt, please read the three items that were reported this year:

June 2, 2007 AP wire service story about Bilan Nur, a 22 year-old Somali woman from Phoenix, Arizona: She worked for several years for Alamo Rent-A-Car. The company fired her for refusing the take off her hijab (headscarf). Nur registered a complaint at the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The EEOC sued the company. A federal jury said the company must pay her $288,000 for firing her for wearing the hijab. ... Yes, Justice is blind in America!

July 20, 2007: According to the Chicago Tribune, two Muslim women from the Cincinnati area were able to get their driver's license photographs wearing the hijab free of charge. This took place after clerks at separate bureau offices wrongly demanded that the women remove the scarves for the photo. Tom Hunter, spokesman for the Department of Public Transportation sent a message to 216 state registrar's offices informing staff that wearing the hijab while taking a photograph is allowed and legally exempt under Ohio law. Mr. Hunter stressed in his message that asking a Muslim woman to remove her hijab is like asking a non Muslim woman to remove her shirt. That is a man of honor and integrity!

Muslims were very proud and will never forget Sept.1, 2001, when the U.S. Postal Service expanded its Holiday Celebrations Series with a new stamp highlighting the Muslim holiday of Eid. The postage stamp was to honor and commemorate two important Islamic celebrations: Eid ul-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. ...

For many years, the White House, U.S. State Department, the Pentagon, all branches of U.S. military and St. James Episcopal Church of Columbus, Ohio, host such an [Iftar, closing meal of Ramadan] event. They meet Muslims and get to know who they are, which helps break the stereotypes that Muslims face every day. To Muslims, that means recognition and respect.

America does not need to spend millions of dollars on public relations campaigns at Al-Jazeera and other satellite networks in the Middle East to promote a positive image. The aforementioned acts of respect and goodwill gestures I mentioned will win the hearts and minds of Muslims here and abroad. Thank you, America, for making this my best Eid ever!

Mahmoud, could tell CAIR about this? It would not make CAIR happy to know that America is already more Muslim-friendly that the rest of the Western world. And it certainly differs from CAIR's protrayal of America.

Hate Crimes in the U.S.

Number of hate crime victims from the FBI official statistics by bias motivation for 2006:

Anti-black: 3332
Anti-white: 1054
Anti-Jewish: 1144
Anti-Islamic: 208
Anti-Hispanic: 819

A True Story

Read the incredibly moving story of an ex-Muslim here.

I was particularly struck by the following:

Q.5: 51
O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as awliya’ (friends, protectors, helpers, etc.), they are but awliya’ to one another…

I also found the above statement false. The evidence is in the Bosnia and Kosovo crisis; where Christian countries, waged war against another Christian country, to liberate Muslims. Many Jewish doctors volunteered to help the Kosovar refugees, despite the fact that during the WWII, the same Albanian Muslims took sides with Hitler and helped him in his holocaust against the Jews.

It became obvious to me that Muslims are accepted by all the people of the world yet our prophet wants us to hate them, to disassociate ourselves from them, to force them into our way of life or kill them, subdue them and make them pay Jizya. How silly! How pathetic! How inhumane! No wonder there is so much inexplicable hate of the West and of the Jews among Muslims. It was Muhammad who inseminated the hate and the distrust of the non-believers among his followers. How can Muslims integrate with other nations while holding these hateful messages of the Quran as the words of God?

There are many Muslims who immigrate to non-Muslim countries and are received with open arms. Many of them get into politics and become part of the ruling elite. We suffer no discrimination in the non-Islamic countries.

It is so true, contrary to the lies of CAIR, that Muslims, as people, are accepted in America by ordinary Americans. There is no widespread campaign of discrimination against people simply for being Muslims.

If there is any separateness experienced, Muslims in America have only their own radicals to blame.

And it is true for anyone: If you expect to be discriminated against, your attitude will probably cause fulfillment of your expectation.

Religion of ... Death Threats

News from Australia's AAP:

NSW Christian Democratic Party leader Reverend Fred Nile says he has received death threats over his call for a moratorium on Islamic immigration to Australia.

Why take political action when you can make death threats?

Update: Northwest Airlines Unsafe Capitulation

A commenter politely pointed out the following from the Seattle Times, and I have taken a couple of days to further reflect on the situation:

Northwest originally said the pilgrims arrived only 20 minutes before the flight was scheduled to depart, which is outside airline and international rules regarding overseas flights. The pilgrims held a news conference Tuesday in Dearborn where they refuted the airline's claim, saying they had arrived at least 90 minutes before departure — well within the regulations.

The original report was that Northwest airlines said that the Muslims had failed to check-in within 20 minutes of departure, a violation of the rules adopted in response to terrorism. Clearly we have an apples and oranges situation.

The Muslims claim that they arrived somewhere (At the gate? At the terminal?) 90 minutes before departure. Apples. That is not the same thing as saying that they checked in 90 minutes before departure. Oranges. Why didn't they check in?

If they made a mistake in failing to check in, why didn't they just say we made a mistake, please help us? No, instead they held a news conference claiming discrimination against Muslims, because they had "arrived" 90 minutes before departure.

Is this taqqya by half-truth? It is certainly not a "refutation."

With the Northwest Airlines capitulation, I'm certain that no further details will be forthcoming. Northwest blames, "a series of mistakes involving a German travel agency, the baggage handlers for the previous chartered flight from Saudi Arabia and misleading information on a printed ticket that the passengers had received." So who made mistakes? What were the mistakes?

Perhaps the Muslims were totally blameless. But if they were not checked in 20 minutes before departure, the Northwest gate agents were blameless as well.

Without more details, flying Northwest Airlines continues to make me uncomfortable, and I will avoid it.

Criticizing Islam

Diana West in the Washington Times lauds those who, in 2006, stood up to criticize Islam.

Personally I will not criticize Islam in today's entry. There is no need. The group behavior of Muslims in the name of Islam provides all the commentary necessary, for just a few examples:

• Cartoon riots;
• The murder of a Catholic nun in response to teh Pope's historical comments on the speread of Islam;
• The reaction to Abdul Rahman converting to Christianity;
• The 6 lying, flying imams (asking for seat extenders and not using them, not sitting in assigned seats, loudly praising Osama bin Laden);
• Over 7000 terror attacks in the name of Islam since 9/11/2001. (For lists by year, Religion of Peace.)
  
• And so many more in 2006 and before.

Actions speak louder than words.