It turns out that Jessica Cutler's book The Washingtonienne, is going to hit the shelves tomorrow. Her editor offered me a free copy but I passed. Even I have some standards.

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The other day at Jawapalooza in D.C. this chick comes over to the table and starts talking to us.

After a few minutes she asks what we're doing there and so I say, "I'm deep throat." For some odd reason she found the Watergate reference offensive. I don't get it.

Deep Throat revealed:

A former FBI official claims he was “Deep Throat,” the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon’s Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, his family said Tuesday.

W. Mark Felt, 91, was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s. His identity was revealed Tuesday by Vanity Fair magazine, and family members said they believe his account is true.

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Ace and Karol will be interviewing Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs today at 4PM Eastern on Hoist the Black Flag Radio. As you know, Charles Johnson originally got me blogging way back when. Listen to it here. The show will be replayed all day long if you miss it. Just tell the boss you're listening to Pacifica radio or something. more...

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Hold on. Just give me a second to breathe. In through the nose, out through the mouth. I need to sit down. This has to be some kind of sick joke.

Dave.....Chappelle.....Is....A.....Muslim?

Chappelle struggling to make his faith, comedy work. Comedian trying to reconcile Muslim beliefs with irreverent show.

Something is not right in this story.

Aha! It is all making sense now. Check out this part of the story:

He was having problems throughout the writing," Farley added. "It dealt with some very difficult sexual and political and racial material ... He himself has sort of changed inside as he has become a practicing Muslim and so with all those issues and the fact that he wants to make sure the show projects him and his comedy in the right light."

So, add to my list of grievences against Islam the demise of the Dave Chappelle show.

Does the Religion of Peace have to destroy everything that I love!!!

Hat tip Bill Dauterieve.

Question to readers: If Chappelle returns to the show as a practicing Muslim, what sort of comedy bits would he run?

The Jawa Report presents: The top ten skits from the new, improved, and now Halal Dave Chappelle Show.

10) Tyrone Biggums (aka, crackhead) "I need crack so I can get stoned....to death!"

9) Samuel L. Jackson: "SAMUEL L. JACKSON BEER WILL GET A NIGGA DRUNK, FAST! (SO DON'T DRINK IT BECAUSE THEN THE JEWS CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOU AND KEEP YOU IN THE GHETTO)!"

Slow motion distorts reality skit:
Non-slow motion cam: Dave walks into bar. Sees friends across floor. Waves. Walks over. Sits down.

Slow motion reality distorting cam: Dave walks into bar. Sees friends across floor. Waves. Walks over. Blows self and bar up.

7) Negrodomus: "I see the great judgement. First, we will hunt down the Jews and kill them. Then, and only then, will the Hidden Prophet reveal the location of the Chronic fields of Paradise."

6) Dave getting picked for jury duty:
Lawyer: "Is Michael Jackson guilty?"
Dave: "Yes. He's a Jehovah's Witness."
Lawyers: "How about OJ Simpson?"
Dave: "That adultress bitch was just being punished under sharia...."
Lawyer: "Kobe Bryant?"
Dave: "A nigga can have more than one wife..."
Lawyer: "Abu Musab al Zarqawi?"
Dave: "Hell no!"

5) With Wayne Brady:
WB: "Let's kill us some motha-f**kin queers."
Dave: "Ok."

4) President Muslim Bush: "He tried to kill my father, man. I don't play that shit."
Muslim Vice President: "Say word he tried to kill your father, son."
President Muslim Bush: "THAT NIGGA ASS JEW TRIED TO KILL MY FATHA!"

3) Reporter: "Allah?"
Lil John: "YES!"
Reporter: "Jews?"
Lil John: "WHAT?"
Reporter: "Jews?"
Lil John: "WHAT?"
Reporter: "J-O-O-S?"
Lil John: "Hell no"

2) Prince: "Do you and your fellas want to play me and the Revolution in a game of basketball?"
Charlie Murphy (narrating): "I'm tellin y'all, those guys could ball."
Prince: "That's game, bitches."
Charlie Murhphy (narrating): "Afterwards, he served us pancakes."
Prince: "American ignorance and prejudice is forcing young Muslims to become radicalized and join terrorist organizations."

1) "Hey, you virgin bitches come over here and get temporarily married to Charlie Murphy. I'm Ayatollah Khomeini, bitch!"

*Linked to Joyner's daily linkfest since no one else besides Tim and me seems to think this post is as brilliant as I know it is.

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1 I see you have taken the news very hard... quite the detailed report, though. To be fair, many American stars continued doing what they were famous for after converting to Islam... take Muhammad Ali as an example. Then again, there probably isn't anything "offensive" to Islam in beating the snot out of Christians, so he really didn't push the limit. Oh well, that argument is stillborn.... bitch?

Posted by: Wine-aholic at May 31, 2005 01:40 PM (Wsn+K)

2 I take it personally. VERY PERSONALLY!!!!!!!

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at May 31, 2005 01:55 PM (JQjhA)

3 Seriously, I can think of no greater horror inflicted by Islam than that of killing comedy. THIS SHALL NOT STAND!

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at May 31, 2005 02:05 PM (JQjhA)

4 Do you figure he beats women and advocates stoning for adultery? I mean, Muslim values are pretty much universal, right? It's ok to generalize because it's mostly true, right?

Posted by: Venom at May 31, 2005 02:14 PM (dbxVM)

5 I just don't get the African American Muslim thing, when it was Arabs who bought and sold them, and Islam in its text that considers them less than human...

Posted by: -keith in mtn. view at May 31, 2005 02:26 PM (hgd/M)

6 Actually, those are pretty funny skits Rusty wrote up lol...

Posted by: Venom at May 31, 2005 02:30 PM (dbxVM)

7 Wait a second...... Did I just get a compliment?

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at May 31, 2005 02:56 PM (JQjhA)

8 I call 'em like I see 'em, bitch!

Posted by: Venom at May 31, 2005 03:50 PM (dbxVM)

9 Two unrelated things: (1) Didn't Wacko Jacko claim to convert to Islam sometime last year in yet another pathetic attempt to draw publicity? (2) Not only did Muslims formerly enslave blacks, they still do so with great enthusiasm in Sudan. Of course, it's black Muslims enslaving non-Muslim blacks, so it's okay, as long as no white people are involved, so it's not newsworthy or anything.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at May 31, 2005 05:35 PM (0yYS2)

10 I first read about this a couple of days ago.....I cant freakin believe it!!! The first time he screams "Death to America",I will surely end it all! M.W.

Posted by: MIGHTY WHITEY at May 31, 2005 05:53 PM (cfMGT)

11 i guess this means that comedy is a sin to Allah???...no wonder why you never really see any Muslims with a sense of humor

Posted by: THANOS35 at May 31, 2005 08:56 PM (b7uP2)

12 Nothing screams funny like converting to Islam. At least I have two good seasons of the show on DVD. Funny post.

Posted by: Buckley F. Williams at May 31, 2005 10:36 PM (O2fD/)

13 You guys are fucking morons. Islam didn't ruin anything. You guys are ignorant backwoods assholes. Dave Chappelle is the greatest working comedian in the world, and will continue to be just that. If only you assholes actually took the time to read things, instead of just spouting your racist bullshit, things would be different. Did you shitheads even read the TIME article? He said he had been Muslim for a while but did not want the material of the show to be associated with his religion, because he feels his religion is a beautiful thing. rusty shackleford comments and idiotic sketch ideas are insulting to every intelligent, fair-minded American. Blow it out your asses you conservative right-wing bitches.

Posted by: ChappelleFan87 at June 02, 2005 03:57 AM (BZCLX)

14 Chapellefan's po'd that you left out Ashy Larry. Obviously you just don't get the man and his genius.

Posted by: tee bee at June 02, 2005 03:38 PM (q1JHF)

15 ChappelleFan87 seems to have found the true key to happiness. What serenity!!!

Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at June 03, 2005 08:04 PM (btDjS)

16 So what Chappelle is Muslim? Why do right-wingers have to almost always summarize a person's existence by their religion? What biz is it of yours, anyway? Your really beef is with Islam and a religion that happens to be other than yours. I assure you, you don't have to worry about Islam. If the Islamic religion is as false and trecherous as you say, then it will one day fall by its own weight and rot from its own lies, without any help from people like you. Yet it is the fastest growing religion despite being discredited daily by pundits. Ever heard the showbiz saying 'any publicity is good publicity.' Instead of judging religions by their follower's, why don't you all start looking at every faith with less emotion and instead with the benefit of intellect. You'd sleep better, I'd wager, after you do this with an open-mind; examining all religions (not just the one your were born into) and then pick and espouse one with the promise to yourself not to attack the others. Then many people (like me) wouldn't fire up their o'l rhetoric meter as soon as you open up your mouths or post anything.

Posted by: Mark at June 04, 2005 09:14 PM (bGdfi)

17 I think it's great that you continue to affirm all the negative stereotypes about conservatives/right-wingers in general by resorting to ignorant prejudice to explain when someone is or does something different. Oh no Islam! Oh no Gay marriage! Insert random racist bullshit to remind you of your WASP superiority! And resorting to anti-Jewish jokes to characterize what a muslim comedien may be like is classic brilliance. really. and as for trying to shift the focus of slavery from what your ancestors died in droves to keep (the civil war, in case you had a convenient case of amnesia), sorry, we still remember. it's funny how 300+ years of slavery plus another 150 and counting more years of discrimination and bigotry can leave a mark so profound on a people.

Posted by: chapp101 at June 04, 2005 11:27 PM (6krEN)

18 wow, you guys are afraid of Islam taking away your fun. you just wanna sit on your fat asses and get entertained. if chappelle wants to better himself as a person then so be it, good for him. maybe you yourself can get up and do something other than bitching about losing your precious show... on the internet... where no one really gives a damn about you :-).

Posted by: g404 at June 06, 2005 01:37 AM (GB/l8)

19 LoL, so umm....as a muslim just curious to see if this show is cancelled or not..HMMM? Anyways, if David Chappelle chooses to cancel his show because of his beliefs, that's his life. And if he chooses to Practice Islam, AND air the show...it's his life. Any Muslim Brothers upset over this topic, i advise to worry about your own religion and how well you are practicing. And any Non-Muslims....Don't hate ALL muslims unless you really get to know everyone of them. Including myself

Posted by: Mohamed at June 06, 2005 06:33 PM (bJnIs)

20 asalamulaikum.. this is a muslim brother, and i would just like to say to those racists against islam to...... ..................... ............................. STFU!!! u guys hate islam even more now cuz u find out dave chappelle is muslim.? why dont u guys just read about islam and maybe ull know.for all i know islam is the RIght religion for sure. and dave chappelle has been muslim for a LonG time. My sisters TEacher in a private school claims that she has known dave chappelle in her COllege.. and says that He is the one that has told her about islam and now she is a converted muslim teaching young muslim girls in a private school.. also my my friends sisters Friend has seen dave chappelle in a Masjid (mask) Aka house of Allah The one and only god..At california.. pretty cool. and im sure islam will be top religion in this World in about 10 years! Im Sure of it. and especially when daves a muslim people will actually try to read and learn about islam of why dave is a muslim.. and maybe they will convert to islam too!. Salam

Posted by: masoud at June 07, 2005 04:26 PM (mZKiV)

21 funny how those against islam...have pretty much shut up..

Posted by: Nomi at June 07, 2005 05:42 PM (NP6xF)

22 for all you ingorant morons out there...who think islam means "racism against blacks"....here's a little advice: dont mix culture with religion...if some arab countries enslave blacks or watever...that is actually against islam if the blacks are muslim...in islam...there is no race...everyone is EQUAL...as a matter of fact...the first person to call anybody to prayer in the religion of islam...was a black guy named bilal (a good friend and follower of the prophet muhammad P.B.U.H.) peace outz

Posted by: nunyabizniz at June 08, 2005 02:48 AM (w0GU5)

23 props to all u muslims holding it down and lettin everyone know the truth. i was surprised to hear about chappelle being muslim but god willing he can still do his thing, i'm proud ofour religion and before anyone judge it any more i suggest they read upon it, and i dont recomennd watching the news about muslims, b/c CNN is bullshit. salem

Posted by: wafaa at June 15, 2005 10:25 PM (M7kiy)

24 honestly, thank god for your intelligent posts at the bottom. the kind of shit that people were posting above was ridiuclous. "Do you figure he beats women and advocates stoning for adultery? I mean, Muslim values are pretty much universal, right? It's ok to generalize because it's mostly true, right?" Those are NOT Muslim values you prick. and "..no wonder why you never really see any Muslims with a sense of humor".. Very funny.. Play again you pompous ass, and stop trying to be humourous, cuz you're failing miserable. You want comedy, try sarcasism on for size. and lastly, Muslims DID enslave blacks, that much is true, but their slaves were not and are not in the traditional sense of slavery that is understood in America. Their slaves were taken as prisoners of war in the past. I don't know about the Sudan situation right now, but the slaves Muslims possessed in the past were more like workers, and treated less like dirt than how those damn Southern bastards treated them.

Posted by: marz at June 26, 2005 08:51 PM (qa0OS)

25 yo go David Chappele. I'm Rick james bitch. and Muslims if you can just take all that energy for standing up for yourselves out into the real world we'd be much better off today. Don't waste your time on these shit fuckers.

Posted by: yo yo at June 27, 2005 10:37 AM (1lOj6)

26 so many small minded freaks, stop watching tv and FOX news start reading a book or get a degree or do something productive with your lives. how can islam ruin a great comedian? in my opinion it might even make him better. over a billion muslims in the world around you, yet ignorance about islam still exsists?? people u have to move out of hick town fast!!!!!!

Posted by: Zach at July 05, 2005 08:53 PM (oaLCE)

27 YYEEEHHH!!! GO ON CHAPPELLE BE A MUSLIM MAY ALLAH GRANT U WIV A GOOD DEED.. MANSHAALLAH!!! ROCK ON DAVE...... KEEP YA HEAD UP.... THAS WUS SUP!!! HOLLA

Posted by: MUSLIMACTIVIST at July 07, 2005 05:17 PM (ywZa8)

28 hi!!! aussie!!! btw dave lives lik 20-40 minutes away from mah house koool!!

Posted by: HOE-DOWN at July 07, 2005 05:26 PM (ywZa8)

29 PREACH MUSLIM PREACH

Posted by: LADY_HAMMER at July 07, 2005 05:27 PM (mPtKY)

30 IF ONLY ONE COULD SEE THIS TYPE OF INTERACTION IN THE STREETS!!! Personally, I feel this is a much bigger issue than Islam...you simply have to dismiss the ignorance of those individuals who started this raid. But their stupidity (literally) has generated POSITIVE discussions; something that is lacking these days. The DISAPPOINTMENT is that you no longer see or have a positive icon in black culture who's not afraid to challenge the subtle racism and RACIAL DISPARITY in today's society (i.e. all ghettos, prisons, even lower tier schools are dominated by blacks/hispanics; and congress, private schools, elite universities, businesses, ALL dominated by whites [as a % of their race for those of you wanting to play the "greater-numbers" game]). AND CHAPPELLE WAS WILLING TO MAKE IT PUBLIC while reaching a large audience, but reminded us that we all - blacks, whites, hispanics, asians, indians, etc. - could be cool b/c we all like to do the same thing...smoke (j/k), and we all have strengths and weaknesses as a race. I'm definitely proud of Chappelle, and hopefully it's just time for him to move on to BIGGER AND BETTER things like the movie he has coming out (which I have to go see). But he was definitely an Islamic icon in the black community to stir up discussion AND ACTION, which is needed. I'm not a Muslim, but I would think it's important to not simply Praise Islamic ideals, but help bring about these positive characteristics of Islam in those who need it MOST (i.e. the young ignorant boys who started this)...Two great men Malcom X and M.L. King tried to do that...GO READ THEIR AUTOBIOGRAPHY, and take action!!! Be easy... P.S. E-mail me if you're going to be in the Raliegh-Durham area of NC this fall, and try to make a change...starting at the universities

Posted by: DJ at July 08, 2005 10:53 AM (1EsI8)

31 all these people against ISLAM shut the fuck up if you want to no wats good for you. you damn racists dont fuckin think that a damn Muslim cant be funny. people say im funny as hell and im memorizing the Quran and if you dumasses dont know what that is ill tell you. its our Holy Book.you guys dont know what the hell youre talkin about dont follow the shit other people say, theyre stupid bitches.who gives a damn if Dave Chapelle is muslim.all you pepole who are with me please EMAIL ME and you non-muslim bet non-racist people thank you please let us lead our life and leave us alone to our religion jackass islam haters

Posted by: Razaan at July 11, 2005 12:16 AM (guZU2)

32 GO DAVE CHAPELLE YOU ROCK. AND ALSO ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE WITH ISLAM TELL ME AND OTHERS ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL AGAINST MUSLIM-HATERS. AND YOU ISLAM-HATERS DONT MESS WITH US BECAUSE ALLAH IS WITH US AND HE WILL PUNISH YOU IN THE HEREAFTER, BELIEVE ME AND WE MUSLIMS WILL BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE AFTERLIFE PLEASE HEED MY WARNING KAAFIRS

Posted by: razaan at July 11, 2005 12:24 AM (guZU2)

33 You people in the Fold of Islam please also emaill your comments to me at hafizwannabe786@yahoo.com

Posted by: razaan at July 11, 2005 12:29 AM (guZU2)

34 first off, i think it is sooo sad to actually see that n e one would agree with rusty...he's obviously a bigotted racist...keith in mtn. view ....what do u know about Islamic text? Islam doesn't advocate buying and selling slaves...ur totally messed...have u even read the Quran? i've read front to back, and I know for a fact it teaches equality amongst all races...what other religion can u go to their holy place and see absolutely every race worshipping together? huh? just cuz a culture/country allows it...doesn't mean islam teaches it...get ur facts straight...and stop spreading lies...As for u Venom, u are so ignorant... do u base all of your jokes off sterotypes? racist fool! i'm sorry domestic abuse is everywhere (which doesn't make it right of course)...and in islamic teachings it says ..."the best of you are those who treat your wive kindly"...i've never seen n e thing more racist in my life being applauded in this day and age....u r all sick close minded hicks...and the majority of muslims don't hate america...i love america, i love muslims, and i love dave chappelle and i applaud them all....but it's a shame in the land of the free to know that pple like rusty and venom and mountain freak keith are soo stupid when they have the knowledge available around them to know better...

Posted by: clear up misconception at July 16, 2005 01:45 PM (d9ZK4)

35 Never met a right winger who I ever liked. I know how to take care of their stupidity, send them to Iraq. Lets see how much they will support war after that. One more thing bitches, Chappelle is a married man and a father, he has obligations both to them and his faith. Its takes a big man to walk away from $50 million contracts. Best of luck to Dave in his quest to become a better Muslim.

Posted by: Smoke at July 21, 2005 01:53 PM (058D5)

36 Now don't tell me it's all right wingers who are racist. I'm conservative (not necessarily republican) and it doesn't make me racist, and I'm not racist to begin with. That applies to most conservatives that I know. If you view conservatives as some dirty, scruffy looking guy who sits on his porch drinking a six pack every night while he polishes his shot gun, you've got the wrong picture. If you are so for equality, why not find out what being conservative is about, and quit using stereotypes about us.

Posted by: tsfnugefan at July 25, 2005 05:48 AM (Fg77k)

37 Ofcource not all right wingers are racist, its just that all racists are right wingers. That being said, I aint crazy about lefties either, but I'll take them anyday over assholes who make up BS about wmds and the like, not to mention demonizing a man and his faith just because you cant have your little comedy show. Fuck you and your trailer park conservatism. Bitches.

Posted by: Smoke at July 25, 2005 05:37 PM (AntXI)

38 Saying that all racists happen to be right wingers is bullshit. It's like saying that all terrorists are Islam. There is nothing wrong with being Islam, Christian, Jewish, or any other religion that is out there. Or even not having a religion. It's all a matter of personal faith and opinion. I say good for Chapelle for being religious, and I don't demonize him or anybody else for their religion.

Posted by: tsfnugefan at July 26, 2005 09:06 PM (Fg77k)

39 So tsfnugeman, I take it you are against the content of this website which broadly smears people ? "I cant have my Chappelle show cause Dave's a Muslim." Fuck that. Conservative my ass.

Posted by: Smoke at July 27, 2005 05:02 PM (VnjLR)

40 All I was saying was that not all conservatives are racist, and not all racists are conservatives. I'm not against any site, including this one. Free speech is a right that can't be taken away. I posted my opinion on it, as did everyone else.

Posted by: tsfnugefan at August 02, 2005 12:45 AM (Fg77k)

41 Please stop hatin Dave 4 his faith and give the guy a break let him sort things out himself, i think if he was reading this hed be thinking why is everyone concerned about his faith, more concern should be on if he comes back or not dont u think, if he converted 2 judaism there wouldnt be a comotion ether .

Posted by: Dngoz at August 03, 2005 10:12 AM (DIR0t)

42 cool discussion. just wanted to inform the nonmuslim here that the Qur'an actually is a book that highly advocates the freeing of slaves. God commands us many times to free slaves for it is one of the greatest things one can do. the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and his companions would buy slaves from other ppl and free them (whether they were muslim or not). about chapelle, me as a Muslim see it as a great thing that he has found peace in Islam and I wish him luck for his quest to improve himself. Whoever doesn't agree just think about what walking away from $50 million dollars and fame means. his whole extended family was pressuring him, wanting this house and those cars, and he left that pressure and walked away from $50 MILLION. how many of us Muslims today would do that. That is how strong the message of Islam is. it preaches letting go of earthly things and doing good deeds for the hereafter. and also about the fact that he left comedy...it isn't cuz comedy is a sin under islam (as some1 commented), it's actually that the comedy he's doing is a sin. i mean he curses all the time, something islam preaches not to do. he makes skits where he drinks or does drugs, or is with a woman whose tit pops out of here blouse. that stuff woud be something not compatible with islam. just wanted to give in my two cents. peace

Posted by: sherif at August 03, 2005 05:36 PM (oCHVA)

43 I don't hate Chapelle for being Muslim, that was my whole point. It takes a very big man to do what he did, and I wish him best of luck.

Posted by: tsfnugefan at August 03, 2005 06:31 PM (Fg77k)

44 slmz to all ma muslim brovas..hello to all the non-muslims...jst like to say dat islam is a religion of peace...all u islam haters plz take some time and look into this beautiful religion...read books on islam by ligit scholars...talk to muslims about it..because that is the only way u will really know about islam...not the news..media and people against islam... thats all from me... peace... salmz...to ma muslim brovaz... bye to the non-mulims... all keep safe...

Posted by: Zainu at August 04, 2005 07:16 PM (poA5v)

45 Hey Dr Rusty Shackleford... another Muslim here to reply to-- for lack of a more suitable word-- your crap. Seriously man... I wonder if you were so shallow as to think that Chappelle has made no commentary whatsoever concerning Islam in all the shows and standup he's ALREADY released and performed. For example, in his "Killing 'em softly..." he cracks a joke about a Chinese guy pretending to be Arab so that Muslims will be blamed for yet another plane hijacking. And that's only one example... Another thing... The brilliance behind Chappelle's comedy has nothing to do with his sexual jokes or foul language (which is the only thing you picked up on in your lame and misguided attempt at making Chappelle-an jokes)-- it has everything to do with his subtle communication of his strong political and racial views. To top it all off, your "jokes" are pretty much a repeat of stereotypes concerning Muslims. There's nothing original to them, nor anything funny about them. They are serious attacks against Muslims that would hold up as "hate speech" in any civilized court. You need to learn about what Islam really is before you try to speak of it and its followers. And you need to learn from Chappelle-- be he Muslim or not... Chappelle ATTACKS existing stereotypes in an extremely original, and brilliantly hilarious manner. Unfortunately, your top ten is nothing but a failure. Do you even watch Chappelle? Even if you do, do you understand the words that are comin' outta his mouth?

Posted by: contemplate_homiez at August 04, 2005 09:02 PM (Z10w7)

46 reading the top comments made me so mad, but after seeing some other brothers teach them a lesson made it all the more easier...all you racist bastards can rot in hell....Chapelle is the man and Islam cant change that

Posted by: Knicksattack at August 05, 2005 10:08 PM (AUp9c)

47 hey whats up every1..jus droppin by 2 say dun h8 chapelle for being a muslim..he never directly linked his being muslim 2 leaving the shown evn if it is bcuz of this its his life... n all the ignorant ppl dun h8 muslims..cuz u prolli know nothin bout them.. all u knoe is what u hear on the news..which isnt a reliable source on muslims...tc evry1.. salam

Posted by: reyrey at August 08, 2005 06:23 PM (ayHh+)

48 Thank God I read more of the comments that followed the first ones, for I started to feel this website is sponsored by the KKK. Speaking of the KKK, they persecuted blacks and Jews based on religion (which of course was a false belief that the bible mentions Jews and blacks as inferior creatures), so would it be valid for me, as a Muslim, to point at Christians and say "Jew/black haters?" Also, Hitler and his army that burned the Jews during the Holocaust were all Christian. Does this allow me to say that Christians are Jew-haters? So before pointing the finger at Muslims and calling us all "bin ladens," maybe you should get to know Muslims a little better. Stop watching TV and meet one in real life.

Posted by: Nidalio at August 18, 2005 08:06 PM (B3fuw)

49 hey everyone..i happend to find this site by accident..n im very disappointed..i have to ask what do youll have agaisnt Islam? i was delighted to hear that dave chapelle has converted to Islam..thats because I myself am a Muslim..but what gets me irritated is that theres so many bad rumors spreadin around the whole world about Islam..if a person is ignorant and doesnt actully kno much about Islam then he/she shouldnt be commenting on Islam. Mostly what people hear about Islam is from the news..which usually is all bullshit..if u actually try just once to research on Islam, youll be amazed..i hope someday u guys will understand..but if not then shut ur mouth up n stop bad mouthing Islam..

Posted by: uzma at August 26, 2005 09:09 PM (/qK+f)

50 HAHA - I have never read so many ignorant comments in one place until now...The person who said he doesn't get African-Americans converting to Islam because Arabs enslaved them? Wow, America really doesn't offer history lessons to its citizens. The European and the crackers (White people of the U.S.) enslaved Africans and brought them over for economic purposes - Islam abolished slavery... That Dave Chapelle is turning toward religion is a positive thing. Maybe not for mofo's who worship false democracy and money, but for those who believe will see any type of a step toward God a positive one... Hint: books. Read people read. Turn off CNN, it's just propaganda:O

Posted by: MINA at August 29, 2005 12:08 AM (gNYFL)

51 WOO HOO DAVE CHAPELLE IS A BROTHER NOW MAYBE ME AND HIM CAN GO OUT FOR COFFEE ONE DAY

Posted by: John John black at August 29, 2005 12:16 AM (gNYFL)

52 I think its wonderful that this kind of interaction is occuring. And for all you Muslims who respond to negative comments(ChappelleFan87) in the same manner, you are no better than the ones making them. How can we as humans possibly learn from one another if we are always attacking each other. As for Dave, may ALLAH(SWT) bless him and keep him on the right path. May ALLAH(SWT) have mercy on all our souls. Amen. SALAM

Posted by: Ishwaq at September 03, 2005 10:55 PM (PjjX8)

53 lil jons the shit. chappeles amazing and i think its nice that some american celebrities are converting to islam, for it cleans the tarnish that the media has planted, off islams name. Props to all u muslims standin up for islam, and all u haters need to go screw urselvs

Posted by: pro at September 07, 2005 06:26 PM (7mgpY)

54 LEt's not forget. Islam was the first relegion who did not discriminate against blacks or any Slaves. HAZRAT BILAL was one of the prominent and first converts to iSLAM, and guess what, He was a black slave at the time, who after converting to ISLAM was seen and given the same SOCIAL status as an Arab or any other MUSLIMS. So far all you MUSLIMS haters. LEARN and then TALK!. What muslims did in So many hundered years (STOP DISCRIMINATION OF BLACKS), American has not yet done!

Posted by: FAITH at September 08, 2005 12:25 AM (orZiY)

55 LEt's not forget. Islam was the first relegion who did not discriminate against blacks or any Slaves. HAZRAT BILAL was one of the prominent and first converts to iSLAM, and guess what, He was a black slave at the time, who after converting to ISLAM was seen and given the same SOCIAL status as an Arab or any other MUSLIMS. So far all you MUSLIMS haters. LEARN and then TALK!. What muslims did in So many hundered years (STOP DISCRIMINATION OF BLACKS), American has not yet done!

Posted by: FAITH at September 08, 2005 12:26 AM (orZiY)

56 Chappelle's show even cracked a joke about how blacks convert to islam in the law and order sketch where the CEO gets brutally punished...when being sentenced as a black man would, the jury says "and don't worry, you will have plenty of time in jail to convert to Islam"

Posted by: WTF at September 08, 2005 07:12 PM (k2L7M)

57 Wow. Lots of muslims here.. Thank god im not the only one listening to discrimination by these other guys. I for one am muslim and just hearing that Dave converted is not a problem. Subhanallah he converted to Islam and you guys who aint muslim shouldn't talk back against us or say discriminative things about us. He canceled his show for a good reason and it was because his show had some racial problems with Islam. So think twice before you put up dumbass posts about Dave and him being muslim. Salaam.

Posted by: Omario at September 10, 2005 08:41 PM (I68jX)

58 Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah.....hey...where'd Crusty and the rest of his posse go? The Muslims show up and they bounce??? Take advantage, ask questions, attain knowledge. Insha'Allah we'll try to answer to the best of our abilities. Peace.

Posted by: muhajjabah at September 11, 2005 10:44 AM (+O2/6)

59 Spoken from the mouth of Dave Chappelle himself in his interview with Time Magazine: "I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is a beautiful religion if you learn it the right way. It's a lifelong effort. Your religion is your standard. Coming here I don't have the distractions of fame. It quiets the ego down. I'm interested in the kind of person I've got to become. I want to be well rounded and the industry is a place of extremes. I want to be well balanced. I've got to check my intentions, man." Remember Allah and His rasul (sawaws) and you will be remembered when you need it the most. Chappelle rules comedy...besides, Eddie Murphy's brother works with him on the show, can't get better than that.

Posted by: Sufi at September 13, 2005 03:33 AM (SPapJ)

60 DAVE CHAPELLE THE COMEDIAN AND RENEGADE. Wow a bunch racist, sterotipcal blunt comments passed off as a satirical comedy by a group of anti islamic, jew hating, christain exploting and also american exploting people. The haters on top comments only matter to the cowards who consume it and post it at their white supremecy and religous fundamentalist websites. As an american I am disgusted by the comments on top. Dave Chappelle is a renegade and the people who bash him for establing faith can't stand the fact that they are not going to have their comedy spoon fed to them anymore. Well at least you cult fundamental conforming cowards still have fox news and I doubt that your precoius bias news will be taken away from you. Not to say that I am also a liberal douche. Dave believes in what he feels he should believe in, whether its something like islam or even if he believes in getting high. Not conforming to the likes of what the corporations tell him or what the arrogant public expects of him makes him a couragous indiviual, and thats just something a few of you will never understand.

Posted by: siva at September 14, 2005 01:04 AM (sH79i)

61 Man I haven't been back to this post in a long time. So many batshit crazy leftards fell out of the woodwork it's impossible to spank them all, so I will just say to all the islamotards and moonbat liberal traitors; take notice, your days are numbered. Soon, many of you will be found hanging from bridges and balconies, because We, the People, are sick and tired of your shit. War is coming, and you will all suffer horribly, so leave, get out, go to your precious dictators that you love so much. We're coming for you. Soon.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 14, 2005 10:51 PM (0yYS2)

62 Quick muslims and liberals run for the hills, this guy is pissed off and wants to wage war on all of you. LOL!!!!

Posted by: LARRY at September 15, 2005 03:40 AM (eBSb6)

63 QUICK!! muslims and liberals run to the hills. This guy is really pissed off and he wants to wage war on all of you. LOL!!!!!!

Posted by: LARRY at September 15, 2005 03:42 AM (eBSb6)

64 why are all you people wasting your time with these suck heads. Yes its obvious the person and the commenters on the very top are sterotyping middle easterns, but these guys aren't even fucking worth arguing over because their racist and sterotype comments are so extremely bias that it would make any american citizen sick to their stomach. So who cares what they say, because us americans who have common sense know its just a bunch of bull shit.

Posted by: ted at September 15, 2005 03:57 AM (eBSb6)

65 yeah dude these extremely negative people on top are really just so fucking close minded indivuals. I guess their approach is if you see an arab or a jew or just someone who doesnt fit their racist beliefs should be killed. AND the comments by that one dude implosbus fucking maxiums whatever the fuck his name is so god damn funny. Thats a good laugh! Now thats what you call a fucking warmonger LOL!!! am i right or am i right.

Posted by: HappinessInSlavery at September 15, 2005 04:10 AM (eBSb6)

66 yo what it iz its dat nigga mighty foget doz niggaz dat think dey hard talkin all dat trash bout muslims nigga dave i'm a black muslim too shoo so iz mohamed ali and malcom x and tupacs grandpa and lil nefe and freeway and mos def my nig so 4 get doz hatin a$$ niggaz blodd shoo yaw ni99az get poped blood inglewood blood family chyea

Posted by: islamic nigga at September 18, 2005 12:26 AM (l7Fyi)

67 Hey right wing bitches and improbulus_maximus bring it on. I would love to kick the living shit out of you and all your white trash followers that sleep with their sisters and mothers. You are a disgrace to America and everyone in it. You white trash basterds should be ashamed of your selves. Give me you names and lets meet at some park or something and lets see who the really men are. Stop hinding behind you website. BITCHES!!!

Posted by: Kill All Right wing bitches at September 19, 2005 07:24 PM (fOm+r)

68 "Kill All Right wing bitches" you are no better than the people at the top. Being tolerant doesn't mean beind understanding of one group, and then stereotyping another group becuase they are poorly represented. They don't represent conservatives or the right-wing. I can understand why you are mad at them (as I am too), but don't patronize one group and hate another. Treat everyone with equality.

Posted by: tsfnugefan at September 20, 2005 09:19 PM (Fg77k)

69 salam all, its funny how all the negative ppl in the beginning of this onversation have walked away. it is the unity of islam that keeps it together as well as protects it. Alhamdulillah it wonderfull to see all my brother and sisters unite and Inshallah we will continue to do so.

Posted by: Roman at October 01, 2005 06:21 PM (9V+gv)

70 BICTH. what do yall haters got to say now. huh. why do yall hate on islam so much. If u hate us just because we took yalls prechous show why don't yall get of your lazy asses and try to thgink of something funny rather then just getting mad and doin nothin. u think we don't got a sense of humor. we got so many funny people man I just say something and every body cracks up. Holla

Posted by: Ali at October 01, 2005 09:06 PM (QAhq0)

71 BICTH. what do yall haters got to say now. huh. why do yall hate on islam so much. If u hate us just because we took yalls precious show why don't yall get of your lazy asses and try to think of something funny rather then just getting mad and doin nothin. u think we don't got a sense of humor. we got so many funny people man I just say something and every body cracks up. Holla

Posted by: Ali at October 01, 2005 09:07 PM (QAhq0)

72 "Improbulus Maximus" Hang from bridges? You mean like those american soilders were hanged in Fallujah?

Posted by: voice of the common man at October 03, 2005 07:52 AM (LWWnd)

73 One of the first Muslims was black, his name was Bilal (peace be upon him). Furthermore he was freed from slavery by a Muslim convert, from ignorant pagans such as yourselves. You people should start living your own lives rather then passing judgement on others for living theirs. "To us our deeds, to you yours, peace be upon you, we do not seek the ignorant." (Quran)

Posted by: Ayat at October 15, 2005 12:22 AM (jZNX9)

74 What improblus maximus said. yes there will be a war and guess what. your going to lose when that one day comes. and I swear to god you will suffer the pain of the burning fire. When that war comes, you will see what will happen. And you will regret what you said.

Posted by: Omario at October 15, 2005 01:15 PM (d1JcD)

75 This is for the ignorant people out there whose minds are so bleak and primitive.....Islam is the truth!!! more than money, more than status, more than the bias media portraying it to be, believe or not, we will all die one day and find out what the real is!!!!! So before anybody says anything about islam, learn about it first, then you might realize why a man left a 50 million dollar contract to be righteous.

Posted by: the realist at October 28, 2005 11:59 PM (ETLNw)

76 wow... um..I haven't read all the comments.. but I just wanted to say that I'm a CONVERT TO ISLAM. And I happen to be a WHITE American. And I love my Afro-American bro Dave Chapelle, he's a great, nice, wonderfully funny, super talented guy. So he's decided to be a practising Muslim? so freakin what. I'm really happy for him, but people shouldn't hate him or dislike him just because his faith is different than theres.. Islam is the fastest growing religion, like it or not, get used to it.

Posted by: Riss at October 29, 2005 09:27 PM (thajO)

77 all u haters go suck ur mothers especially u venom . islam unlike christianity didnt slave people and buy and sell them to eachother.back from 1500 years , arabs , africans , whoever was MUSLIM , were eating , praying ,marrying and fighting together in the name of islam . so before u make bullcrap up , get ur fact right . IM MUSLIM BITCH ?

Posted by: MUSLIM POWER at November 05, 2005 10:16 PM (5rSRf)

78 No one religion stands for slavery, MUSLIM POWER. And even if a group of a certain religion DOES practice slavery, they do not represent the religion itself.

Posted by: tsfnugefan at November 08, 2005 04:25 PM (Fg77k)

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Pop quiz, cowboy. A Sunni terrorist blows up a Shia mosque. How do you respond? Burn down the nearest Kentucky Fried Chicken! Duh.

Come on, that was easy. Because nothing says let's protest terrorism better than destroying the Colonel's secret recipe which makes you crave some original recipe fortnightly.....

The Australian:

Six employees of a KFC restaurant were killed yesterday after the building was torched by a mob angry over a deadly suicide attack at a Shi'ite mosque in Karachi.

Four of the victims at the restaurant were burned to death, while the two others froze after taking refuge in a refrigeration unit.

The restaurant was targeted after three militants, a policeman and a worshipper were killed in a shootout and a suicide bombing during evening prayers at the Madinat-ul-Ilm mosque in Gulshan, a busy neighbourhood in Pakistan's violence-prone largest city.

Hat tip: Bill Dauterieve, Shamalama, and Tim at Opinion Bug who have more.

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More and more I begin to think that the very fabric of the Universe is held together by a perverse sense of humor. Here I am constantly going out of my way to mock all that Muslims deem holy, make the most offensive and broad sweeping categorizations, and intentionally say things that would make even Salmon Rushdie blush, and besides the occasional death threat I get no response.

In contrast Jane Novak of Armies of Liberation never makes such broad and inflammatory statements about Islam, goes out of her way not to offend, and refrains from Koran in toilet type humor gets called by the Yemen Times a "docile pupil of a monkey monk.”

There is no justice in the universe!

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Wishing our Imperial Troops all the best on this Memorial Day! This one's on me....... more...

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Our Romanian affairs reporter, Adi, informs us that former hostage in Iraq and American citizen, Mohammed Monaf, has been indicted in Romania for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to abduct three Romanian journalists in Iraq. The three Romanian victims were Marie Jeanne Ion, Sorin Dumitru Miscoci, and Edward Ovidiu Ohanesian.

The Jawa Report, with the help of Romanian reader Adi, has been reporting from the beginning that speculation abounded that Muhammed Monaf was involved in the kidnapping.

As we reported here on March 31st:

It seems that one of the hostages, Marie-Jeanne Ion, is the daughter of an important PSD member (the former government party). Thus, releasing her may be a top priority for the government. It also may explain why she was targetted.

What really seems to be raising suspicions, though, is that the entire expedition to Iraq was arranged by and planned by Omar Hayssam, who is described as a wealthy Arab immigrant to Romania. Hayssam is also being investigated for unrelated criminal activities. Hayssam is also business partners with Ion's father.

It was Hayssam that sent American Muhammed Monaf to accompany the journalists to Iraq. Mr. Hayssam also received the only known phone call demanding ransom and is said to be going to Iraq to act as an intermediary to obtain the hostages release.

Adi e-mailed me about this several days ago. I postponed doing a post on this until it hit the MSM in the US. As of today, this is getting little to no US press coverage. Why is that? An American citizen is taken hostage in Iraq, released, and then is found to have been part of the plot to take journalists hostage? Outrageous!!

Swiss Info:

Romania on Friday charged the translator for three Romanian journalists who were held in Iraq for 55 days, and an Arab businessman, of orchestrating the kidnapping.

Prosecutors said the reporters' guide, Mohamad Munaf, who was seized with the journalists on March 28, and Romanian-Syrian businessman Omar Hayssam were charged with "initiating, funding and coordinating the March 28 kidnapping."

The general prosecutor's office said the kidnapping was part of an elaborate plot aimed at turning Hayssam into a hero in Romania in the hope that it would help him escape potential punishment for previous charges of organized crime and economic-financial wrongdoings.

"The abduction and threats by the Iraq group were aimed at triggering a strong psychological impact on the (Romanian) population, to depict Hayssam as a liberator of the journalists," it said in a statement.

"Warrant arrests for 30 days were issued," it said.

Prima TV reporter Marie Jeanne Ion, 32, cameraman Sorin Miscoci, 30, and reporter for Romania Libera daily Ovidiu Ohanesian, 37 were kidnapped along with Munaf while on a short trip to Baghdad. They were shown in tapes aired by Al Jazeera.

The three returned home on Monday but Munaf remained in Iraq under U.S. custody for investigations. The U.S. embassy in Bucharest said he had information indicating "an imminent threat" to the coalition forces in Iraq....

Hayssam, who lives in Romania, had told local media immediately after the kidnapping that he received a telephone call from the insurgents asking for $4 million in exchange for their freedom.

Authorities, suspecting foul play, immediately arrested Hayssam for questioning.

Romanian prosecutors said nine people captured in Baghdad in April in connection with the case, supplied the information leading to the charges brought against the two Arab businessmen.

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UPDATE 6/09: Clementina Cantoni has been freed!!! Click here for 6/09 update announcing the CARE International aid worker's release.

Clementina Cantoni was abducted from her car in Kabul on May 16th. The 32 year old Cantoni works for CARE International, the same organization that executed hostage Margaret Hassan worked for. Unlike Hassan, though, Cantoni was working in a country who's occupation and invasion was approved by the UN. So much for the international cooperation theory of terrorism......

Photo right: A still image from the Clementina Cantoni hostage video.

On the streets of Kabul today, hundreds of Afghan women took to the streets to protest Cantoni's plight. CARE International has helped countless women receive food aid in that nation's capital.

Canoe:

A video of a kidnapped Italian aid worker was broadcast yesterday on Afghan television, showing her wrapped in a brown blanket and flanked by two men aiming rifles at her head -- a tactic reminiscent of Iraqi abductions....

In the video, Clementina Cantoni, 32, a CARE International worker, responded to prompts from a man not shown on the video, identifying herself and naming her father, mother and an uncle.

The tape, broadcast by independent Tolo TV, then zoomed in on her face. She had a blue scarf on her head, spoke quietly and looked nervous.

It was not clear when the recording was made. But near the end, the man speaking off-camera asked Cantoni the date.

"Today is May 28, Sunday," she said. The date referred to Saturday and the discrepancy was not explained.

Cantoni was abducted May 16, dragged from a car by four armed men on the way to her Kabul home. She has been in Afghanistan since 2002 and was working on a project to help Afghan widows and their families.

Italy's foreign ministry confirmed the woman on the video was Cantoni.

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Got a link to a Religion of Peace inspired story? Just send it my way or leave a trackback.

Right: Those 'moderate' Shias misunderstanding their own religion once again by preparing an adultress to be stoned to death by first burying her. More on Iran at this Front Page article. (Hat tip: Ron)

Religion of 'beheadings are not Islamic' watch: Baptist minister beheaded in 'moderate' Muslim country. (Hat tip: Robert Spencer)

Zarqawi, like Elvis, is everywhere. Zaraqi hiding out in village north of Baghdad? No, Zarqawi still alive and in Iran. Knock on wood. (Hat tip: Andrew Cochran)

Tiny minority of extremists riot against cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys.

Hot infidels get 20 years for Mary-J smuggling while terrorist masterminds get 3 for murdering hundreds in this 'Moderate' Islamic state.

Troops deployed to protect Christians from misunderstanderers of the Religion of Peace.

That's 'Lebanese' election, not lesbian...

Sunnis decide to kill Zarqawi minions. Zarqawi is doomed, DOOMED, DOOMED!

Two 'Mennonites' indicted in al Qaeda conspiracy. (Hat tip: Robert Spencer)

The Bush Doctrine explained to Leftists.

Bride gang-raped in retaliation for her brother's infidelity. Do you think this hapened in Texas? (hat tip: Capitalist Infidel)

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UPDATE: Keep those pics coming!! I will not stop until we get a collective fatwa issued against us.

Ok, so my original post and new website didn't get me a fatwa, any death threats, a riot, or even a single major diplomatic incident. *sigh* At least it generated a lot of other bloggers to post their own pictures of Quran desecration! That's gotta count for something, baby!!

Keep those photos coming. If the entire blogosphere pooling its resources can't start an international incident, what can?

Below are several great images. Click on each one to take you to the blogger's original post.

Here is the image that started it all.....

Here is our first video entry from Dan Riehl!! Click image below for video.

Here's a new one I got on 6/09

This one was so inspiring that I almost gave it its own post. I call it "Damn if feels good to be an infidel!"

Can it get any more blasphemous? You bet it can. more...

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I humbly salute all the brave men and women who have served and are currently serving in our armed forces. No amount of thanks can be enough for the sacrifices you have made to keep us free.

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1 Thank you, US armed forces. Without you there would be nothing interresting in the news. You bring strong feelings, both positive and negative, to people around the world, and that's a good thing in these boring, safe parts of the world most white people live in.

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at May 30, 2005 06:06 AM (cWMi4)

2 Answering on behalf of those of us who have worked and sacrificed to keep you safe and bored, and from being overrun by the savage hordes, you're welcome.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at May 30, 2005 06:24 AM (0yYS2)

3 Finn You just like "causin a commotion" dont ya

Posted by: sparky at May 30, 2005 09:31 AM (F1nba)

4 Well, I live in Finland, so only possible threat would be a US invasion, since Russians should have learned their lesson and I think the only reason terrorists would like to attack in Finland is a Bush-visit. So my boredom and safety will continue despite your armys existence, but I would like to thank for the havoc giving topics to all kinds of interresting news stories and blog articles. Speaking of blog articles, is it true what YBP wrote a while ago, that the cat hunting legalisation in Wisconsin didn't happen?

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at May 30, 2005 09:35 AM (lGolT)

5 Yes I do, sparky. =)

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at May 30, 2005 09:36 AM (lGolT)

6 Was it you or the Russians that had those triangular planes? Those were funny. They had some sort of stealth skills, right?

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at May 30, 2005 09:57 AM (lGolT)

7 Finn Whats with the Cat fetish or is it pussies

Posted by: sparky at May 30, 2005 10:07 AM (F1nba)

8 Editorial: Memorial Day http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5427823.html “In exchange for our uniformed young people's willingness to offer the gift of their lives, civilian Americans owe them something important: It is our duty to ensure that they never are called to make that sacrifice unless it is truly necessary for the security of the country. In the case of Iraq, the American public has failed them; we did not prevent the Bush administration from spending their blood in an unnecessary war based on contrived concerns about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. President Bush and those around him lied, and the rest of us let them.”

Posted by: greg at May 30, 2005 11:27 AM (/+dAV)

9 Pussy hunting =)

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at May 30, 2005 11:48 AM (lGolT)

10 http://www.npr.org/news/specials/response/investigation/011213.binladen.tape.html Who is this Muhammad Atta they say was in charge of the WTC-attackteam?

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at May 30, 2005 12:01 PM (lGolT)

11 In the "Watch the video -- scenes re-ordered", time 2:30 to 3:00

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at May 30, 2005 12:04 PM (lGolT)

12 Oh, and did one of gregs comments just mystically disappear?

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at May 30, 2005 12:06 PM (lGolT)

13 Oooops, it was on another thread.

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at May 30, 2005 12:07 PM (lGolT)

14 Oh yeah sparky=Oyster ?

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at May 30, 2005 01:07 PM (lGolT)

15 Finn No Sparky is Sparky:0) Although I think Oyster and I think along the same lines. BTW thanks to Oyster coming to my rescue last week on the post about the media reporting the desecrating of the Kuran. I was on Holiday and didnt have a chance to reply many thanks.. Sparky

Posted by: sparky at May 30, 2005 04:46 PM (F1nba)

16 Finn I dont have the brains to be two people online im still a virgin with the computer: I am scottish and i think oyster may be American. I think you better lay off the firewater young man

Posted by: sparky at May 30, 2005 05:04 PM (F1nba)

17 Aye aye, cap'n.

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at May 31, 2005 02:58 AM (cWMi4)

18 From:James& Elizabeth. Refugee Camp,Yamussoukro, Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire. Email:jamesguei@walla.com Dear Respectful One, Permit me to inform you our desire of going into business relationship with you. I know you might be surprised on recieving this mail from us due to we have not met before. By brief introduction , I am James and Elizabeth my younger sister. We are native of bouake district in republic of Cote d'Ivoire. We are the children of late Chief and Mrs. Kevin Guei, who was assasinated by the rebels in our home town during the recent political crises of 19th sept. 2003. Untill the death of our parents, they were very wealthy Cocoa/cafe farmers & exporter based in abidjan the capital city of coted'ivoire. Before their death in a private specialist hospital, my father called me on his bed side and secretly confided to me the sum of US$12.5 million dollars which he deposited in one of the banks in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire for onwardly transfer abroad for investment on his proposed cocoa processing company through an assistance of a foreign partner. My father also told me his intension to invest part of the money in collaboration with oil companies in countries like Libya, America or Europe, but unfortunately he died the way he did without accomplishing his objective as a result of the rebels attack. Having know that he will not survive from the injuries he sustained as a result of the wounds and pains inflinched on him by the rebels, then advised me to quickly and hurriedly go into his personal underground safe in our family villa and take the documents covering the deposit in the bank and look for a true and trustworthy foreigner assist us as partner to front to the bank as our late parents partner abroad for immediate transfer of the money for investment in any lucrative business of our chioce for our future welfare. Upon the instruction and advice by my father before he finally died, I therefore request your assistance to help us for onward transfer of the money to your country for investment partnership with you in any lucrative business in your country. We have agreed to give you 20% of the total sum immediately the transfer is made, while 2.5% also will be set aside to cover all the expenses you might incure on the process. Upon your acceptance to our proposal, kindly get back to me through the above email address so that we can discuss further process on the ways to achieve this golden success together. Note, we are still in the refugee camp Yamussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire, We need your urgent attention to this mail because we want to leave here for a better future with you abroad, as the rebels had killed our parent and also have taken over my home town as their operational territory, we look forward to you to help us with most urgency and honesty. Expecting your reply soon. Best Regard and God Bless you. James & sister PLEASE reply us at Email:jamesguei@walla.com

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In a recent column on the CEOs who have been "missing in action," Tom Friedman certainly points to one dimension of of our national risk assessment that could, all by itself, render us as helpless as an upwronged turtle. But although our CEOs are failing in their leadership roles the problems are, unfortunately, far deeper. There is, for instance, a significant minority of Americans who believe that its their mission to convince the rest of us that we really don't face a problem at all. The take of people like James Fallows, and Andrew Bacevich is that we're vastly over-mobilized in the current war. Indeed, their argument is that we're not actually at war at all, and the sooner we come to that realization the better. It's certainly true that, as Friedman observes, our CEOs aren't acting as though we're at war. But from the perspective of Fallows and Bacevich such leaders are the repository of realism and good common sense, because we aren't. Far from seeing this as our last real chance to exit a highway headed to catastrophe, by taking up the challenge of helping install greater degrees of freedom in the "repressive neighborhood" that's the nursery for terrorist cults, they're convinced that we aren't sufficiently nice to those tyrannical regimes. We should respect the oppressed by respecting their oppressors. In other words they respect the sovereignty of a nation even if it systematically tramples the sovereignty of every individual within its impious borders. People have accused George Bush of being naively Wilsonian, but he at least hasn't bought the notion that living under tyranny is a matter of national "self-determination." Would we use that principle to support a regime that decided to nuke itself, just to drag the rest of us along? Fallows and Bacevich hold that there's no problem as long as the curtains on those internal national dramas stay drawn. Is that so! more...

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The al Qaeda linked Army of Ansar al-Sunnah website has announced the death of Japanese hostage Akihiko Saito. The group claimed in their earlier website to have attacked his convoy on May 9th killing all civilians except Saito [earlier post here along with pics and screenshot of now defunct website]. They also had previously claimed that Saito was injured. The video may be download here. Graphic images below.

Today's announcement was also accompanied by a nearly four minute propaganda video. Unlike other Ansar al-Sunnah propaganda videos in the past, this one did not show Saito being killed. Rather, it shows a number of photographs and documents taken from Saito when he was captured, and then cuts to graphic images of an already dead victim.

According to the SITE institute:

The group claimed that Mr. Saito fired at its members with his automatic weapon, so “the Brother had no choice but to shoot him with multiple bullets.” According to the message, Mr. Saito was not immediately killed. As American forces surrounded the area, the group claimed they were forced to retreat. Upon their return to the area, the message said, they had found that Mr. Saito had died of his wounds.

Ansar al-Sunnah had previously released video of that ambush which can be found here. The fact that several weeks passed between Saito's death and the release of this video today may indicate that the group is under heavy pressure from US forces. The group is also linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who is rumored to be dead.

Thanks to Chad Evans of In the Bullpen for alerting me. He has more commentary here. Digger also has images here.

Vlad has mirrored the Ansar al-Sunnah website here since the terrorists make it a habit of using short-lived free webhosting services.

James Joyner has the MSM reaction and blogger round up.

Screenshots and graphic images below. WARNING: THESE IMAGES ARE GRAPHIC AND SHOW THE TRUE FACE OF THE TERRORIST ENEMIES WE FIGHT. more...

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(Las Vegas, Nevada) The infamous Hollywood Madam, Heidi Fleiss, who was put out of business and prosecuted in California, now has plans of opening a brothel in Nevada where prostitution is legal.

From KLAS-TV.com:

She has a long way to go before her brothel becomes a reality. Fleiss has spent months looking at other bordellos and properties in Nevada, from Reno to Pahrump and in between. Because of her criminal record, she will need to latch on with an existing licensee for a period. She's talked to several but hasn't reached a deal.

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In order to stand out from other brothels, and from the all-but-legal hooker rackets in Las Vegas, Fleiss has a grand design in mind -- a replica of the White House. She'll even call it the White House, but isn't trying to make a political statement, just a marketing one.

"It will work. They have the Eiffel Tower there, the Pyramids. So it's time for the White House. You build the White House and it will work. You want something the way it should be. Natural, beautiful, and that's what it is. It's just sex."

Five grand for a fresh face! I'm going to guess that customers will be wanting more than face for that amount. Nonetheless, she claims to have backers prepared to invest millions in her White House.

Companion post at Interested-Participant.

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1 Yeah, modeling a brothel after the White House is such an original idea. I guess she never saw the whitehouse .com website before she had this grand "new" idea.

Posted by: Drew at May 28, 2005 11:38 AM (zEdFo)

2 WOuld this be a good time for a "If you build it, he will come" joke?

Posted by: ccwbass at May 28, 2005 12:10 PM (6gRId)

3 It would make for an interesting "menu." A friend of mine...yeah thats it.....visited one of these brothels called "Mables." They actually hand you a menu and the one I found.........er........he found interesting was something called "Midnight snack." I.........er........he still doesn't know what it is.

Posted by: Capitalist Infidel at May 28, 2005 12:12 PM (xkIHW)

4 Well you know what they say, "You can't keep a good woman down", but in this case I think it would be "You can't keep a good woman up".

Posted by: Butch at May 31, 2005 03:45 PM (Gqhi9)

5 Heidi, can I work for you???????? When do you think you will be opening a business in Las Vegas? I live here. Ginnie

Posted by: Ginnie at June 08, 2005 07:59 PM (sOC76)

6 If she did the prostitution business so well, why did she get convicted of pandering?? I think her 15 minutes of fame is over and she is trying to stretch it out to 20 minutes. There is no way any county in NV. would ever license her, she is a convicted felon. Brothels have survived in NV. because they are low key and discreet. They won't change the laws for her, it's time she get over herself~ Besides, I have been to her little shop of sex, and know people who work for her. She is a drug addict, and her LSoS is a disaster. Heidi, get off the drugs, get a REAL JOB, and stay in LA. where you belong!

Posted by: Alicia at June 15, 2005 06:35 AM (YCk9L)

7 What next Heidi? The Pentagon?

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According to the AP, another group of veterans has managed to become offended. This time over the unveiling of a statue. It seems that in Ft. Edward, NY, a statue of Maj. Robert Rogers is being unveiled this Memorial Day weekend. For those of you not "in the know", Maj. Rogers wrote a field manual that became the basis for modern Army Ranger fighting tactics. So why would this statue offend anyone? Well, it's not the statue so much as the timing.

But some veterans believe unveiling the monument on Memorial Day is insensitive because Rogers was loyal to England during the Revolutionary War.

"I think it's a travesty that we would think about honoring a person, especially someone who fought against us, on that day," said Bob Bearor, who served in the Army's 101st Airborne Division in the 1960s. "It's a sacred day. ... Let's honor our dead who died for our country."

OK, being a vet myself, I'm as sensitive to veterans' causes as anyone. But come on, let's get real here. No one is trying to offend anyone by unveiling this statue on Memorial Day. The thought process is easy to see. Maj. Rogers was a military man, and Memorial Day is the day to honor the military. If you're getting offended because of this, you're looking too hard for something to offend you. Seriously. Lighten up a bit.

With the number of stories like this appearing, I really have to wonder if media editors don't send their reporters out looking for them.

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I saw a link to this long essay by Orson Scott Card--quite possibly one of the best anti-idiotarian Mormon sci-fi authors out there--at Way Off Bass a while back. Since then it's shown up all over the place and I finally broke down and read it. Why didn't I just listen to Cam when he first posted it? It's a great tying-it-all-together piece, and probably one you're going to e-mail to your family and friends.

Since Rusty's back from DC I will be blogging less here in Jawatown, but I will be showing up over at Patterico's Pontifications in the coming week or two while he studies for some kind of big test. I'll still pop up here now and then throughout the summer. I'm just like some sort of blog hobo, wandering around and posting on other people's blogs. Anyway, thanks for reading, commenting, and linking and I'll talk at you again real soon.

--See Dubya

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Larry Johnson has a new post up that puts a lash or two across the back of John Bolton. The value of Larry's contribution is that he knows some of the principles who Bolton is supposed to have retaliated against for their intelligence assessments. There's no substitute for being close to the action. But there are two things, besides the reasoning of Larry's co-blogger, Andrew Cochran that prevent me from being excessively concerned about the "chilling" of the intelligence community's professional objectivity. Or, to be more precise, I'm probably concerned about a different aspect of the problem. Those things are: more...

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UPDATE 5/27: This deserves some cowbell, with apologies to Ace....

Via LGF this from Hammorabi blogging from Iraq:

The Jordanian thug Fadhel Nazal Al-Khalayla (Zarqawi) 38 years has died.

He received treatment from Arab doctors who were not very experts and lacking intensive care equipments which he needed for his puncture in the right lung. His wounds infection gets resistance to the antibiotics. He had what is called septicemia which is according to doctors an infection of the blood resulted from infected wound. Zarqawi's systems started to fail including his kidney and liver.

He died and now in the hands of the Keepers of the Hell in its worst level.

And now a Saudi publication publishes this (hat tip: Gateway Pundit):

The family of injured Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - al-Qaeda's pointman in Iraq - is already preparing his obituary, the Saudi daily al-Watan said on Friday, quoting sources close to the family. Al-Zarqawi's close relatives, all of whom live in the Jordanian city of Zarqa, are reported to be in state of high tension over the conflicting reports circulating over his state of health, and are only waiting for officials to confirm his death before releasing the death notice.Jordanian security forces have surrounded the Ramzi quarter of Zarqa where al-Zarqawi's family lives, al-Watan said. Relatives have confirmed that al-Zarqawi's wife and four children fled to Iraq in secret six months ago.

Forbes:

Al-Qaeda in Iraq said its leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the country's most wanted man, was 'in good health', in a statement posted Friday on the Internet whose authenticity could not be confirmed.

'Our leader is in good health. He is directing the jihadist operations and has been following the details right up to the time that this statement was drafted,' the statement said.

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Well, that would be the headline if there was justice in this world. Unfortunately, there isn't. Friend of The Jawa Report Clinton W. Taylor has this article in The American Spectator:

On May 17, the Right Honorable George Galloway, MP, gave a blustery and animated performance in front of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Pundits conceded he ran rhetorical circles around the plodding, staid Senators who couldn't quite catch him out on his relationship to the Oil-for-Food Scandal. But the Senate tortoises may yet have the last laugh. Mr. Galloway seems to have told a big, fat whopper under oath, and a tech-savvy blogger has dug up some proof.

During the hearing (which, though not released by the Senate, has been transcribed here), Senator Norm Coleman pressed Mr. Galloway about his links to Saddam crony, Oil-for-Food beneficiary, and super-rich businessman Fawaz Zureikat, who was a major donor to Mr. Galloway's Mariam Appeal charity. Did Galloway know Zureikat was trading oil for Saddam? Mr. Galloway responded that:

Not only did I know that, but I told everyone about it. I emblazoned it in our literature, on our Web site, precisely so that people like you could not later credibly question my bona fides in that regard. So I did better than that. I never asked him if he was trading in oil. I knew he was a big trader with Iraq, and I told everybody about it.

On his website? Well, the Mariam Appeal site (www.Mariamappeal.com) is long gone, the domain name snapped up by Internet squatters, so we'll just have to take Mr. Galloway's word for it, right?

Not quite. There's this nifty thing called the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (here), which takes "snapshots" of websites over time. It works a little like Google's vast searchable cache, sending out an automated "webcrawler" that remembers the HTML code of the sites it encounters. Brand-new blogger George Gooding at Seixon.com used it to find the snapshots of the old Mariam Appeal site and verify whether Zureikat's identity was, in fact, emblazoned thereon. [READ THE REST]

As for George Gooding, he's keeping on top of this. Check his site for updates.

Both Gooding and Taylor make an excellent point: that Galloway was lying. But let me point out the obvious problem in the logic which many of their readers may conclude from their posts--which seems to be the same logic the rest of the right is using in impeaching the character of Galloway and his ilk who benefited from the Hussein regime's kickbacks. If I follow the Right's logic, it goes something like this:

1) Saddam Hussein used lucrative oil contracts to transfer money to various Western officials and UN bureaucrats.
2) The intent of the Baathist dictator's regime was to influence these Western politicians and UN bureaucrats.
3) These Western politicians used their influence to oppose the UN sanctions on Iraq and the later US led war because of these kickbacks.

The problem with this logic is that it attributes the causal factors all wrong. That is, the normal right-wing theory seems to be that Western politicians, such as Galloway, supported ending the UN sanctions because of the kickbacks. It is the standard if you want to know why something happens then follow the money explanation of politics.

While such a hypothesis may sometimes be true, it cannot always be true, otherwise it leaves the realm of theory and becomes a non-falsifiable truism.

Look, people like George Galloway don't need their votes bought by the likes of Saddam Hussein. If you think he supported Husseing because of the money you just don't get it. With or without Hussein's money he would have opposed the UN sanctions and the later US led invasion. It's not the money, it's the ideology.

The ideology of the left divides the world into two groups: the powerful and the weak. It is the forgotten legacy of Marx that he rejected notions of good and evil in favor of a morality of power.

The left is unable to make any other moral distinction. Therefore Iraq is good because it is weak and the US/UK are bad because they are strong. Further, any position taken by any powerful country is seen as bad when such position pits weak countries against the strong.

The left around the world hates America because of her strength. America is bad, mmmmkay, because it is strong.

It is the same reason Galloway and his ilk support the Palestinians over Israel, Hugo Chavez over the democratic opposition, and lavish Fidel Castro with loving adoration.

Castro, Chavez, and Saddam Hussein don't need to buy Galloway's support. Galloway and the rest of the left have already pledged it.

The UN oil-for-food scandal does not represent graft with the intention of buying Western influence. The UN oil-for-food scandal represents money given as a reward to the already faithful.

Support did not follow the money. The money was a reward for support.

In our rush to judgement let us not forget that while blood is thicker than money, to the true ideologue, hate for America is thicker than anything else.

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