I'll be in Chicago next Wed - Sat on business, if any one wants to hang out. Please e-mail me directly at contact information above.

I'll be kind of busy until I get back. From today til Saturday I have to put the finishing touches on a presentation. Then Easter. Then I have family in town til I leave. So, I'll be pretty much swamped until then.

Reminder: I'll be in London in mid-May if there are any Brits who want to hang out then.

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(McMinnville, Tennessee) In February, Pamela Rogers (Turner) was released on probation from jail after serving nine months of an eight-year sentence for a conviction of sex with a 13-year-old student. Yesterday, Pamela Rogers (pic) was arrested for violating the terms of her probation.

From WBIR.com:

Authorities say Pamela Rogers Turner may have committed as many as seven violations of terms of her probation. She had served six months in jail and was released February 26th. But terms of her conviction included an eight-year sentence and the prosecutor says his office might ask that Turner be sent to prison for the balance of it.

Terms include registering as a sex offender, performing community service, having no contact with the boy's family and not using the Internet.

from Interested-Participant.

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I've just been absolutely enthralled by Mike Totten's travelogue describing his journey to Kurdistan through Turkey. Today's post is the best one:

The whole thing was just weird. I donÂ’t quite know how to convey how surreal it is to leave a country that maybe, just maybe, might join the European Union and enter a country that is a poster-child for wrenching war-torn catastrophe and have everything around me dramatically improve all at once. But that's how it goes these days when you cross into Iraq from Turkey. Even though Sean had never been there before, he, like me, breathed a sigh of relief at our arrival in a tranquil place at peace with itself.

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Tiger used the "S" Word
No, not that one, though golfing phenom Tiger Woods has managed to get some ripe language on the air following wayward shots, this time Tiger offended through insensitivity.

Tiger called himself a "spaz" for his poor putting at the Masters Tournament. Damon Rose of the BBC (via the Drudge Report) discusses Tiger's offense against the sensibilities of sensitive people who are constantly offended.

Tiger has made his bed, and now must lie in it, but what can we do, as sensitive, thoughtful people, to be sure that we don't offend other sensitive, thoughtful people, even inadvertently?

Well for a start, I've prepared a guide explaining why some words are inherently offensive: more...

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Via CNN pdf document. Download Adobe Acrobat reader here.

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After seeing this photo while reading Michelle MalkinÂ’s blog the other day I just could not help but giggle a bit today when I read this.

Clarification: Right now, unlawful entry is a civil violation -- technically not a crime; a majority of House Republicans wanted to elevate the violation to a misdemeanor; but Democrats proposed making it a felony -- to undermine the entire bill by making it appear too harsh, according its sponsor, Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.).

(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) issued a joint statement on Tuesday making it clear that it was Democrats who insisted on making unlawful presence in the United States a felony rather than a misdemeanor.

"In December, the House of Representatives passed a strong border security bill aimed at securing our borders and preventing illegal immigration," the statement said.

"However, on December 16, 2005, there were 191 House Democrats who voted to oppose House Republican efforts to reduce the crime of unlawful presence in the United States from a felony to a misdemeanor. Instead, they voted to make felons out of all of those who remain in our country illegally. (Some conservative Republicans also favored making unlawful presence a felony.)

"While we are disappointed with the House Democrat's lack of compassion and the continued efforts by Senator Reid to block action on immigration legislation so that Congress can proceed to conference, it remains our intent to produce a strong border security bill that will not make unlawful presence in the United States a felony."

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As always, Cagey Mind has been following it closely. It looks like the defense strategy is to make the camp which Hamid Hayat attended in Pakistan look like a Boy Scout jamboree. It's possible that the camp wasn't a 'terror training' ground, but it certainly was a place to indoctrinate people in the ways of radical Islam.

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What an incredible smell Confederate Yankee has discovered.

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Just an update on my wine. I reckon since April 15th is this week and the due date on the wine is the 16th itÂ’s fun to note that this wine is tax free. Buy your groceries in KY and no sales tax either. ThatÂ’s sticking it to the man! Never mind itÂ’s probably cheaper to pick up a bottle of ripple at the liquor store. Here in the first pic you see how the wine looked about 10 days ago. See the line itÂ’s clearing up. more...

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Aaron is the victim of online terrorism...again. He's been put on a hit list at jihadi websites because of his over-the-top mocking of Mohammed. I'm soo jealous. Here's a screenshot of his website now. Good luck in getting it back up. Thanks to The National Institute of Truth for the tip.

Update: Egyptian Sandmonkey has a translation of the original message left by the infamous al3isnet crew the other day.

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Nathan Goulding of National Review Online had already called out Hardball's David Shuster for some quite blatant lies and distortions; and then George at Seixon used these same overt lies to discredit a fawning DailyKos entry about Shuster. George also notes that he has registered to comment at DailyKos; he might want to see how the Kossacks deal with infidels first.

Among other fabrications, Shuster concocted a "quote" from Libby saying that a "key judgement" of the NIE (meaning all were agreed) was that Saddam was "vigorously trying to procure uranium". MSNBC put it onscreen as a super - see the Seixon link for a screen capture. more...

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The wife of American hostage Jeffrey Ake has spoken out for the first time since her husband was taken hostage in Iraq a year ago today. Jeffrey Ake is one of two Americans still being held hostage in Iraq. Dean Sadek, also held hostage, was kidnapped in November 2004.

We applaud Liliana Ake for breaking her silence. It is difficult to go against the advice of the U.S. State Department and private 'experts' working for insurance companies who have little knowledge about how the hostage situation in Iraq is different than in other areas of the world.

Many of Jeffrey Ake's friends and family have dropped comments or e-mails to me thanking The Jawa Report for keeping Jeffrey's memory alive. Now that Liliana has given us the green light, let us never let a day pass without mentioning Jeffrey Ake publicly.

As former hostage Terry Anderson once said, "The tragic thing is that the torment is as much from the outside by countries and people indifferent to their fate as on the inside by their captors."

We demand the immediate and unconditional release of Jeffrey Ake and Dean Sadek. No politcal cause can ever justify the taking of civilians hostage. It is a form of barbarity with no excuse.

We can only hope that the media, Muslims, and Leftist organizations will begin to pay attention to the plight of hostages who may not be one of their political allies.

For more, visit the Jeffrey Ake hostage archive here. Visit our extensive hostage archives here. And please, keep Jeff and his family in your prayers.

CNN which also features video: more...

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An Egyptian group calling itself the "al-JamaÂ’ah Consultative Council" has sent an e-mail hit list to people deemed 'apostates' yesterday. The group warned that those people on the list who had left the faith would have three days (as of yesterday) to repent or they would be killed. The group also warned that the wives and children of the Muslim apostates were being followed & would be killed.

Under Islamic Law, the maximum penalty for apostasy is death.

The list includes prominent Muslims living in the West who have spoken out against violent Islamic extremism and intolerance, some still living in Muslim countries, as well as Coptic Christians who have advocated equal treatment in Egypt.

According to Copts-United (hat tip: Clarity and Resolve) the group issued the following threat if the 'apostates' did not publicly repent:

we will follow them everywhere they go and at anytime; and they can never be far from the swords of truth, and they are closer to us that our shoelaces.

They are monitored day and night. We are fully aware of their hiding places, their houses, their childrenÂ’s schools, and the times when their wives are alone at home.

We gave our rules to the soldiers of God to execute the rule of God so that their blood can become close to God [to kill them] and burn their houses.

And we thank God that many of those infidels and atheists do not exist in the land of Islam, so that they do not defile the Islamic land with their rotten blood. They are in the land of infidelity, the land of idols, pagans, and Cross worshippers: in America, Canada, Switzerland, and Italy.

If they existed on a spot in the Islamic land, let us wash the places of their slaughter and beheading seven times to purify the Islamic land of the impurity of their blood. And let us captivate their women and enslave their children loot them. Let us apply the Islamic rule to them; and whoever kills one of them, will get his loot.

The list includes:

Wafa Sultan -- American Muslim psychologist who has spoken out against jihad, the silence of mainstream Muslims over terrorism, and the treatment of women in Islam. Sultan lives in the Los Angeles area.

Ahmad Subhi Mansur (Mansour)--a liberal Egyptian theologian condemned as an 'apostate' because he accepts only the Quran as authentic and rejects the sunnas. Mansur argues in his book "The Punishment of Apostasy" (out of print) that religious liberty is fundamental to Islam. Mansur's wife and children are also specifically threatened. Mansur live in the Virginia.

Adly Abadir -- Egyptian born Christian Coptic priest, exiled from Egypt and now living in Switzerland. Abadir is an outspoken advocate against the subjegation of Christians in Egypt and has testified before the U.S. Congress on the plight of Coptic minorities living under the thumb of Muslims.

Jamal Al-Banna-- moderate Egyptian theologian & brother of the founder of the Muslim Bortherhood who publicly disputes traditional Islamic teachings about the treatment of women & jihad, but like most Muslims justifies aggressiona against Jews. Al-Banna is probably under condemnation for his firm stance against dhimmitude and for freedom of religion and for his creation of the "Committee for the Defense of Victims of Terror-Fatwas"

Majdi Khalil-- American Muslim who has spoken out against terrorism and those that justify it in the Islamic world.

Hasan Ahmad Umar-- former President of the Egyptian Court of Appeals.

Muhammad ShaÂ’lan--- possibly the same Dr. Muhammed Sha'lan who is a professor of psychology at the oldest and most prestigious Islamic universty in the world, al Azhar.

Father Zakarias Butros-- Coptic priest living in Holland who runs a website devoted to standing up for Christians in Egypt, against attrocities committed by Muslims against Christians, and which invites Muslims to engage in dialogue.

SaÂ’d Al-Din Ibrahim-- liberal Egyptian human rights activist , board member of the Ibn Khaldun Center, and Professor of Sociology at the American University in Cairo. Ibrahim is a leading human rights activists who was arrested by the Egyptian government in 2000 to the applause of Islamists around the world. He is accused by Islamists of being a 'Zionist'.

Salah Muhsin--Egyptian who has spoken out against the Muslim Brotherhood.

Dr. Shakir Al-Nabulsi -- a Jordanian born liberal Muslim, chairman of the American Academic Association in Jordan, and co-signer of an anti-Islamist petition to the U.N calling for an end to the preaching of violence against apostates. Nabulsi now lives in Denver.

Al-Afif al-Akhdar--72 year old Tunisian born French secular Muslim. The Tunisian Islamic movement Al-Nahdha, issued a death fatwa against the him for his book "The Unknown in the Prophet's Life". In addition to exposing the hypocrisy of Muslims on terrorism, Akhdar has also been at the forefront of exposing the political motivations behind Muslim regimes using the Danish Mohammed cartoons to drum up anti-Western sentiment. More on Akhdar here.

Unknown targets-- if you know who these individuals are, please warn them that they may be the target of Muslim extremists!

America -- Nidal NaÂ’isah, Fatin Nur

Canada-- Uthman Muhammad Ali & his family.

Holland-- Nahid Mitwali

Italy--Khalid Hilal

Jordan--Umar Abu Rassa, Ramadan Abd AlRahman Ali

Syria--Samir Hasan Ibrahim

Egypt--Abd al Fattah Asakir, Muhammad Shibl, Muhammad Said al Mushtahari, Abd al-Latif SaÂ’id, Ayman Muhammad Abd Al Rahman, Walid Muhammad Abd al-Rahman, Taha Hilal, Isam Nafi, Ahmad ShaÂ’ban, Amru Ismail, Abd-Al-Karim Sulayman

If you know any of the above individuals, they should be immediately warned. We hope that law enforcement officials are already aware of the danger posed to these people and pray for their safety.

UPDATE: Patrick from Clarity and Resolve in an e-mail points me to this story. Apparently, the threat was e-mailed directly to those who have been targetted, so I was wrong when I earlier stated that the threat had been posted on the internet.

Asharq Alawsat:

Dr. Wafa Sultan, who lives in California , pointed out that the source of the latest threat differed from the dozens she had previously received because it was made by a group and not an individual. She expressed fear for her life as the message included personal information about the recipients, as well as the names of some of their spouses and children. Sultan vowed to inform the U.S authorities of the email and seek their protection.

For his part, Dr, Shakir Nabulsi, a resident of Denver, Colorado, said he was not afraid of the threat as he had received several others before and refused to be frightened by terrorists.

Refusing to bow to the demands of terrorists, Dr. Ahmad Subhi Mansour, who lives I Virginia, said he would take the threat seriously and indicated the message was probably originated in Egypt .

The Islamic thinker Jamal al Banna, brother of the Hssan al Banna, the founder of the Muslim Bortherhood, denied any knowledge of the organization calling itself “Supporters of God’s Messenger”, which included his name in a list of 31 supporters. He described its threat as “nonsense” and said the authors were “Satan’s soldiers”.

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1 : beheading seven times

that seems a trifle enthusiastic...

Posted by: jonathan riley at April 11, 2006 07:19 PM (jADvF)

2 Such a peaceful religion. I wish peace upon them all; the perfect peace of the grave.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at April 11, 2006 07:27 PM (0yYS2)

3 Crazy ass Islam. What a load of religious crap! I really hate this false religion. I really do!

Posted by: Leatherneck at April 11, 2006 07:28 PM (D2g/j)

4 "America -- Nidal NaÂ’isah, Fatin Nur" Fatin Nur... Baha'u'llah's family name was al-Nuri, "of the Light" Fatin Nur MAY (possibly) be a Baha'i, but there was official notification Monday that the Baha'is of Egypt had been 'granted' freedom of religion, freedom to worship as they choose! So I wouldn't be surprised if there were an official 'freedom to worship' smile pasted over this murderous reality underneath!

Posted by: Karridine at April 11, 2006 07:53 PM (PjKwr)

5 Yeah, and you thought the little goth kids who sacrificed the neighbor's cat so that Satan would make them cool at school were freaks...

Posted by: w3 at April 11, 2006 08:02 PM (DRifx)

6 Islam IS a religion of peace and we will kill anyone of you who deny that fundamental truth!

Posted by: abu abibi at April 11, 2006 08:04 PM (wg7K+)

7 @ jonathan riley If they existed on a spot in the Islamic land, let us wash the places of their slaughter and beheading seven times to purify the Islamic land of the impurity of their blood ******************************************* that is wash the place where they are beheaded 7 times the proscribed number of times a devout Muslim must wash if they touch a dog, for a pig it's only one time.

Posted by: Dan Kauffman at April 11, 2006 08:09 PM (hxRR8)

8 Khalid Hilal could be two people that I know of. One is the interior minister for Oman who developed their voting process. The other is a professor in Montreal who has developed, among other things, a way to adapt advertising to reach potential customers in Morocco.

Posted by: Don Meaker at April 11, 2006 08:35 PM (hZT0l)

9 Karradine, Good point. The name sounded Bahai, but I didn't know about the freedom of religion thing.

Posted by: Rusty at April 11, 2006 08:36 PM (JQjhA)

10 I think it's time to put a wanted dead or alive (preferrably dead) poster on the "al-JamaÂ’ah Consultative Council"and their wives and children immediately. Not as a joke. Let them feel a little fear also.

Posted by: ebbe at April 11, 2006 09:27 PM (AEZv0)

11 We should turn the tables on them. MEMRI airs the Friday sermons of many radical imams. They should be duly noted and assassinated. Every time one of their leaders calls for the assassination of apostates and infidels, we should assassinate him first. We should be infiltrating their mosques, recording their henchmen....illegally, if we have to. We certainly cannot seem to count on law enforcement. See europe and weep at the pussification of the police. We should hit them hard, in the mosques, in the prisons, everywhere they are. This is, after all, a war of atrition. We must think creatively, counterintuitively. Damn the presses, damn public opinion...what would Pershing do? Let this be our motto for the war we find ourselves in: "What Would General Pershing Do?" Sell those bracelets and get the conversation flowing...and then the blood.

Posted by: Jauhara al Kafirah at April 11, 2006 09:37 PM (isvZ/)

12 Hmm they left out my main gal Irshad Manji, She will be sad that she didnt make the cut. Guess she needs to speak louder.

Posted by: Ronin at April 11, 2006 09:52 PM (vHMRE)

13 The post immediately above said for me exactly what I thought of saying when I read the above article. Islam is shit.

Posted by: K T at April 11, 2006 09:57 PM (uIvOn)

14 Sorry, I mean the post by Jauhara.

Posted by: K T at April 11, 2006 09:59 PM (a6M9b)

15 Oh, come on! In the 20th century U.S. civil rights activists experienced similar threats from the Ku Klux Klan. They were protected by non-racist whites who opposed the racists vigorously in print and otherwise, sometimes even by serving as human shields to those who were threatened. Surely similar impulses, initiative, and courage exists today in the Muslim World. Right?

Posted by: Solomon2 at April 11, 2006 10:17 PM (NmTp3)

16 I'll believe that when I hear of Muslims attempting to protect non-Muslims from the attempted attacks of other Muslims.

Posted by: K T at April 11, 2006 11:33 PM (Pl2Ih)

17 unbelievable..

Posted by: dave at April 11, 2006 11:33 PM (ZQW4k)

18 mr kauffman,

thanks for that..err, i think!

anyway, while all this holy lopping off of heads as prescribed in texts thousands of years old is going on, many of the rest of us are steadily walking away from the stone age rather than walking toward it.

Posted by: jonathan riley at April 12, 2006 01:02 AM (WoorE)

19 Oddly enough, I don't think that a lot of these people qualify for the charge of apostasy as I understand it. At least one wasn't Muslim to begin with, and the rest are merely heretics.

Posted by: Vol Abroad at April 12, 2006 01:33 AM (xUoeg)

20 I wish westerners would begin to unite against these savages! Divided we fall, there are a multitude of individual rational voices but not one unshakeable organised voice that wont cowtow to western PC cretins or the threats and posturing of the muslim savages. I look forward to the day when the west finally kicks these backward terrorists into shap and stands firm.

Posted by: Just another voice at April 12, 2006 03:43 AM (9L+3V)

21 Dr. Wafa Sultan is a national treasure. We can't lose her to these thugs.

Posted by: Oyster at April 12, 2006 04:01 AM (YudAC)

22 The only answer is to start slaughtering them wherever we find them.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at April 12, 2006 05:39 AM (0yYS2)

23 @jonathon riley You are welcome it just touched on something I wrote about during the Piglet controversy at the time I wondered why a devout Muslim was complaining about pig figures and there was a total silence about dog figures, It just showed how bogus the complaints were. Dogs being 7 times more unclean than pigs but as PC as some British Politicians might be NO WAY was there going to be any appeasement on Man's Best Friend quite a few Brits idolise their pets. ;-) The best way to re-introduce that thread is to give the Cox and Forkrum URL that was kind enough to link to me, ;-) Perils Before Swine and my 15 minute of fame UDPATE -- Oct. 5: Committees of Correspondence says it may be worse for .Lassie

Posted by: Dan Kauffman at April 12, 2006 06:42 AM (AoL8x)

24 Nice comment Abu. Way to show your true RoP colors champ. It just goes to show while you and your co-followers will continue to remain at the bottom of the human food chain.

Posted by: Kyle at April 12, 2006 08:47 AM (JiJgi)

25 Kyle, I would like to think Abu's comment is a joke. If it isn't then he is the joke..

Posted by: Don at April 12, 2006 09:13 AM (cpZ7+)

26 Fuck Muhammed and Fuck Allah. These cockroaches will be buried. Any idea how I can get on the list

Posted by: Andrew at April 12, 2006 09:28 AM (DwHGO)

27 ItÂ’s time to issue a reverse-fatwa. HereÂ’s how it would work. Anyone who issues a fatwa mandating the killing of an American or guest in America (i.e. a contract in Mafia terminology) is automatically marked as an appropriate target for assignation. Letters of Marque should be automatically issued for the death of the fatwa-issuing person. By this automatic process every fatwa will be a death warrant for the issuing cleric.

Posted by: Jason Pappas at April 12, 2006 09:30 AM (0GdHJ)

28 Jesus is the only one that can help these deluded people. God created every human being. I don't believe any Muslim can be trusted on any level and our government should stop helping them.

Posted by: Dave Stone at April 12, 2006 10:41 AM (1L04C)

29 : thousands of years

hundreds

Posted by: jonathan riley at April 12, 2006 12:35 PM (jADvF)

30 Don, I hope it is too, good point. Abu, I apologize if I have misunderstood your statement. Could you clarify your position? I hope, like Don does, that it is a joke. If so, good one, it just sounds like much of the rhetoric coming from that region of the world.

Posted by: Kyle at April 12, 2006 02:07 PM (7AHZs)

31 These days it seems many people on both sides of the ongoing conflict really want a full-blown war, even considering the risk of nuclear weapons being used. Throughout the nuclear age this is the first time a nuclear war is being wished for by a significant number of people. The Islamic world would be totally annihilated, is this really what we want to achieve?

Posted by: Wonder at April 12, 2006 03:53 PM (ARNVd)

32 What, there were no apostates in Australia? I would have to agree with all above who said that there should be a reverse fatwa on those who have issued these death threats. These people are lunatics and they are definitely agents of Satan, not of God. If any of you are at all familiar with the Scriptures you will see that God does not call for the blood of any person, especially not since the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. When we interpret some of the things in the ancient texts that seem to be bloodthirsty we need to apply those things in light of the society of the time. Our problem happens to be that we do not have enough faith in God to pray that there will be an end to the violence. In the meantime all of the people who have been threatened need to be protected, especially Wafah Sultan (Sp mistake sorry). It is time to round up the militant Muslims and ship them out of our countries. They belong in a country where their backward thinking will be appreciated. A pox on all of them.

Posted by: OzMaggie at April 12, 2006 04:15 PM (nnWqv)

33 USE PIGS NO NUCLERE DAS THE SAME EFFET

Posted by: Ion picasso at April 12, 2006 04:31 PM (Ryhya)

34 Where's Ali Sina? Guess they knew they can never get him not knowing his real name, location etc. Long live the religion of peace

Posted by: infidHell at April 12, 2006 10:31 PM (pltah)

35 To Andrew who is dying to get on the hit list but has no clue how to. Here's my suggestion Go stand in front of a mosque on a friday afternoon and shout abscenities against the one and only Allah. Don't forget to leave your name. PS : Do this when the scums are all inside the mosque praying. Otherwise you will get one way ticket to 'Hell' immediately without getting onto the list in the first place.

Posted by: infidHell at April 12, 2006 10:37 PM (pltah)

36 "Islam is a pissfool religion" President G.W.Bush

Posted by: Peter at April 13, 2006 12:26 AM (FK5qI)

37 Leatherneck, Improbulous, Abu Abibi, whoever... Many of the people on that list are Muslims themselves. So, does anyone care about the actual people on that list, or do you just want to equate the killers with their victims?

Posted by: andrew r at April 13, 2006 01:49 AM (JyedY)

38 Jason has a good idea here: ItÂ’s time to issue a reverse-fatwa. HereÂ’s how it would work. Anyone who issues a fatwa mandating the killing of an American or guest in America (i.e. a contract in Mafia terminology) is automatically marked as an appropriate target for assignation. Letters of Marque should be automatically issued for the death of the fatwa-issuing person. By this automatic process every fatwa will be a death warrant for the issuing cleric.

Posted by: Always On Watch at April 13, 2006 06:23 AM (Ffvoi)

39 Hitler had the right idea, but the wrong People. This is a despicable religion that needs to be wiped out in a final solution.

Posted by: Slice at April 13, 2006 06:59 AM (ZSDaZ)

40 From Islam IS a religion of peace and we will kill anyone of you who deny that fundamental truth! Posted by: abu abibi at April 11, 2006 08:04 PM @Stupid abu ABIBI Islam is the Devils Religion and you are one of his Demons the Name of the devil is ALLAH , because you argue like a cold blooded murder. There will be a peace after the Problem of Islam had been solved by the free west. We have enough of your 14XX years of bloody behavior and murder. THE END FOR ISLAM, IS COMING SOON CA = Crusader America

Posted by: CA at April 13, 2006 08:26 AM (mfjNk)

41 You know, a while ago I just watched this video on the MEMRI website about an Arab lady who protested openly against various sexist practices in Islam and even pedophilism. "God will decide if I go to Hell," she said. What the poster Solomon2 said somewhere above may be right after all -- there are examples of courage and initiaive in the Muslim world. What makes me so sad and afraid after watching this video is how it reminds me that many of those Muslims -- such as that brave lady -- are after all good human beings just like the rest of us. Honestly, I admire her but also fear for her life (given the kind of shit you find in Islam). And if a war really broke out between Islam and the rest of the world, does that mean those good people would have to be the casualties of war, too? I can hardly bear to think of it. Why did such a thing as Islam EVER come into existence?? It's a sorry world we live in...

Posted by: K T at April 13, 2006 09:14 AM (dK5Q2)

42 The bible prophecied about Ishmael (father of the Arab people) and his descendents "your hand will be against every man and every man's hand will be against you" (constant fighting and bloodshed). The bible also prophecied about Ishmael "you will inherit the fat places of the earth" (oil).

Posted by: Ribi Menahim Rahman bin Rahman at April 13, 2006 09:33 AM (wZLWV)

43 And why would a merciful and compassionate God ever want to divide His children into different groups and make them claw away at each other's throats?? And for that matter, why would a merciful and compassionate God ever want to create things like tsunamis and cancer?? If there's a God, it's plain that He has done a very poor job.

Posted by: K T at April 13, 2006 09:46 AM (a6M9b)

44 Islam would be a reasonable religion, were it not for the fact that it lacks one small thing. There are four magic words missing from the Koran: THOU SHALT NOT KILL!

Posted by: Baba Danny at April 13, 2006 01:14 PM (GiV59)

45 We turned our backs on G-d first. Now we pay. andrew r, I wrote Islam is a load of religious crap. I still believe that. I did not write kill all muslims. However, a great many mood god worshippers will have to die before they get the hint that they finally pissed off the wrong nation. Oh well.

Posted by: Leatherneck at April 13, 2006 04:56 PM (D2g/j)

46 The problem of extreme Islam is a problem of Mafia style criminality which in both cases makes leaving the criminal organization dangerous. The logical step is to make both death threats and sharia human rights abuse extra-national crimes against humanity requiring extraorinary rendition even within so-called Islamic states and the re-mandating of the said states governments and mineral resources in reparation to victims of Islamic amputation and gender apartied.Any resistance by the native sex abuser population must be met by ethnic cleansing and replacement by aryan men and women to dilute the dysgenic disaster that the Islamic experiment has become.In reality the West knows that such a policy,though overdue against this monsterous creed would result in terrible Western casualties, so we,the Quantum Avengers have developed pre-crime technology to allow justice to be achieved without any fear of IslamoMafia retribution.If western governments are still too cowardly we will soon have the resources to carry out this policy ourselves-however I think we can use the threat of withdrawal of our technology as a stick to force both Western and Middle Eastern governments to do the right thing.

Posted by: The Quantum Avengers at April 13, 2006 10:07 PM (g+cJq)

47 Could ISLAM be the ANTICHRIST, [part of the SATANIC TRINITY] that the Bible prophesied would come to the world in THE LAST DAYS?

Posted by: Barry Banfield at April 14, 2006 10:50 AM (5QLS7)

48 http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/images/jesus-with-rifle.jpg Now we gonna fight back CA

Posted by: CA at April 14, 2006 10:59 AM (Sd4mU)

49 Islam is a peaceful religion. Once you submit to their rule that is. Until they decide you are a heretic. Ask the Balkan peoples how they feel about Islamic rule (The Turks) So let me see if I get this straight: The The Crusades, which offends Muslims, took place after Islam had advanced militarily steadily into Christian lands for 400 years...and for another 400 AFTER they ended So it all comes down to this: They are really sore losers

Posted by: GW Crawford at April 14, 2006 04:02 PM (Jfign)

50 The best way to destroy Islam is to provoke all the muslim women. The whole world knows that women are treated as animals in Islam. Once the muslim women start revolting the religion will crumble. Women like the Bahraini, Wafa Sultan etc. let the ball roll.

Posted by: infidHell at April 14, 2006 09:15 PM (pltah)

51 Naw! Muslim women enjoy too much churning out little tit sucking suicide bombers!

Posted by: Last word Larry at April 18, 2006 11:50 AM (FCC6c)

52 Islam is a peaceful religion. Christianity is a peaceful religion. Yeah, yeah yeah... Religion seems to be the problem. Belief in supernatural solutions to man-made problems is a formula for disaster, and look around - here it comes... Only a new secular rational intelligent viewpoint can help us now, discarding our little religious prejudices that serve only to divide us, and divinity that serves only to inspire us to kill each other. But with the preponderance of narrow minded ignorance in the world, I seriously don't think we have a chance...

Posted by: Jimbo at April 20, 2006 12:44 PM (lsfgB)

53 Thank you! http://wjiyyinq.com/qdsw/ykcq.html | http://dkkddceq.com/xcey/lxka.html

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Sources tell me that I'll be on the radio in a few minutes to challenge Debbie Schlussel. While I cannot reveal to you my sources, they seem pretty reliable. You can listen to Hoist the Black Flag here.

In case I'm incoherent, my main point is not that Jill Carroll was a saint or that she wasn't against the war, but only that she was a victim. Hostages are the victim and terrorists are the bad guys. In the middle of a crime, one does not attack the victim, you go after the criminal. That's all.

UPDATE: So, during the break, Schlussel says she doesn't want to talk with me and that had she known I was going to confront her that she wouldn't have agreed to the interview. She also had the audacity to call me a "nut". Me. The nut. Right Debbie, right. I'm a "nut" for saying it's not good manners to attack a woman who is being held hostage. You, on the other hand, are the voice of reason.

I won't be on. The offer was retracted after Schlussel threw a fit. I'm not blaming Ace or Goldstein. They were just trying to be good hosts and have some class since Debbie Schlussel was the original guest & I was kind of an afterthought.

Another update: I'm not even sure Ace knew I was calling in, but Jeff thought it would be good radio.

I'm the 'nut':

Oh, ye of little faith and reading comprehension skills. I never mentioned the video, only these facts, which remain the same. http:/(no link whoring for you! -Vinnie) Jill Carroll's an extremist. And you apparently have a problem with premature articulation. Next time, read first. You got something wrong, though. More than thirty seconds in a room with you, and I think I'd have to kill you. Debbie Schlussel

Don’t expect “journalist” Jillie to “investigate” that one. But hey, she says her Islamic terrorist captors treated her “very well,” and she talked about the nice shower and bathroom they gave her.

Since things were so great in captivity, maybe she should have remained at Terrorist Day Spa. And maybe they should change the name from “Stockholm Syndrome” to “Baghdad Syndrome.”

Another update: Ace has a post about it here. Like I said before, I don't blame Ace. Okay, I do blame Ace. But not for dropping my call. For dropping a Patrick Swayze reference into an e-mail conversation we just had. Now that, my friend, is out of bounds. No need to bring Patrick Swayze into the conversation.

The real problem we (and there are a lot people in that we) have with Schlussel is that when some of us pointed out that we disagreed with her, she responded by leaving some pretty inflammatory comments on our blogs. Then, after some of us called her on it, she played the part of victim.

See how that works, you leave nasty comments on our blogs, and then we we say nasty things back and you claim to be the victim.

And it's not just a few people. This has happened over and over again with Debbie who has either left nasty comments or written fairly nasty e-mails.

Now, she claims that she was really trying to point out that the Left supported Jill Carroll because she was one of them--a form of hypocrisy. Fair enough, and true enough, but in the process she also claimed Jill Carroll wasn't faking it when her terrorist captors forces her to say the most vile things about America. That, I think, is just stupid and, to be fair to Debbie, something I might have said at one time--and in fact, have said. But since I've actually been in contact with the families of hostages, since it's become somewhat of my cause, I've decided that such criticisms are usually out of bounds.

Again, my problem was in Debbie's reading of Jill Carroll's motivations, not in pointing out the dispicable way in which the Left often vocally supports the release of Leftist hostages but are silent when the hostage has no connection to the anti-war movement. But that's just the point: we should be against hostage taking because it is a barbaric practice, not be vocal only when it suits our political agenda.

Seriously, and I do mean to brag a bit, if you want to know anything about hostages in Iraq, this is the place and I am the go-to guy in the blogosphere. Check out our hostage archives for some evidence.

So, it's not that I disagree with Schlussel--I think you'll find I linked to her several times in the past, all positive--it's just that I (shall I say we?) don't like Schlussel.

Thanks again to Ace for offering to have me on the show next week. I dunno, though. I'm just not sure that Schlussel and myself have a real bone to pick and the only reason this has escalated the way it has is because some people are rather thin-skinnied, an attribute not well suited to the blogosphere.

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1 Ok now which one is the Dr.

Posted by: Howie at April 11, 2006 02:26 PM (D3+20)

2 oiho?

Posted by: Howie at April 11, 2006 02:26 PM (D3+20)

3 All I got was a, "We'll get to you in a minute Rusty" during the commercial break. The bastages.

Posted by: Howie at April 11, 2006 02:43 PM (D3+20)

4 Well the big chicken legged chicken beotch. I have to register to call her chickenshit. Never!

Posted by: Howie at April 11, 2006 02:46 PM (D3+20)

5 Rusty, you are in good company. Debbie has threatened to call the FBI on me, she threatened Misha with a lawsuit and just out and out insulted my husband, John Donovan. You are absolutely right about being kind to a victim - I was disappointed in Jeff and Ace - they both seemed to be saying that everything Debbie writes is okay with them.

Posted by: Beth Donovan at April 11, 2006 04:31 PM (9FPYz)

6 In this battle, you are on the side of the angels. She's someone who believes that death is all too good for someone who criticizes Israel in any way. You are, I believe, a very very strong supporter of Israel who just thinks that no one taken by terrorists should be judged worthy of death, or unworthy of rescue, or unworthy, at the least, of our sympathy, and our restraint from mockery. Incidentally, a recent column of hers has a howler of an error--she says that JFK voted against the Civil Rights Act...uh...no way.

Posted by: jd at April 11, 2006 05:26 PM (aqTJB)

7 Now she's gone toooooooooo far.

Posted by: Jane at April 11, 2006 05:31 PM (y6n8O)

8 jd, jfk was dead when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, so obviously he couldn't vote for or against it.

Posted by: jesusland joe at April 11, 2006 07:06 PM (rUyw4)

9 I can't imagine why you wouldn't like someone as charming as Death Threat Debbie. What's not to like? By the way, is "Schlussel" german for "Cupid Stunt?"

Posted by: w3 at April 11, 2006 08:09 PM (DRifx)

10 schullesel is German for ass hole, Well maybe not but close enough..

Posted by: Lc NeilV at April 11, 2006 08:26 PM (v5cxG)

11 Schlussel is a whack-job. I have a hilarious ranting e-mail string from her from a couple months back when I embarrassed her on her blog. Anyone interested, shoot me an e-mail and I'll forward it.

Posted by: big picture guy at April 11, 2006 08:42 PM (OIqYV)

12 Is there anybody Schlussel doesn't hate, or want to sue?

Posted by: Oyster at April 12, 2006 04:08 AM (YudAC)

13 Schlüssel is German for "key." Unfortunately, while I'm rarely at a loss for snarky remarkies, I can't think of anything clever to say about keys.

Posted by: Xrlq at April 12, 2006 07:48 AM (WBDk4)

14 I believe that was my point, Jesus land joe. Although, there were civil rights acts in 1957 and 1960. JFK voted for both. What she may be thinking of is that in 57 JFK was part of a key group of liberal and moderate northerners who voted with the South on the jury trial amendment to the 57 CRA. To many liberals, that defanged the act, since at the time, no southern jury would convict a white man, regardless of the evidence, of a crime against black voting rights or civil rights. But JFK ultimately voted for the 57 CRA, so she's still dead wrong. I'm sure she will correct the error soon....

Posted by: jd at April 12, 2006 08:43 AM (aqTJB)

15 Actually, arschloch is German for asshole. And see this.

Posted by: rightwingprof at April 12, 2006 10:08 AM (hj1Wx)

16 Damn, Oyster. You took the words right out of my mouth.

Posted by: Don Miguel at April 12, 2006 06:15 PM (UAn5X)

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Al Manor is designated by the U.S. Treasury Department as a terrorist organization. Why then does Google News use al Manor as a "news" source? If al Qaeda had a "news" arm, would Google News carry that as well? And by promoting al Manor on their website, isn't Google in violation of federal law?

As Daveed Gartenstein-Ross says over at the Counterterrorism blog:

Reasonable minds can differ about the relative merits of MichelleMalkin.com, Little Green Footballs and Democratic Underground for inclusion in Google News [and I would add, The Jawa Report]. But the inclusion of al-Manar -- itself a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity, and known for its unrelenting support of terror against Americans and Israelis -- is simply indefensible.

Update: In a roundabout way (via Blogfather Charles, and Blogsister Michelle) I find this excellent post at Atlas Shrugs discussing the ins and outs of it.

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Please bomb me.

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Totten's second post about his trip through Turkey to Kurdistan is up. This one features a floating castle. I kid you not.

Question: How long would it take Chuck Norris and the Delta Force to take said floating fortress?

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Bill sends along his new flag for Amerexanada and a new National Anthem too.

Wild Bill : It looks like our government is not going to do anything about illegal aliens, so we should start calling North America what it really is, Amerexanada (or like some like to call it Mexamericanada). Here is my idea for our new flag.

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While tooling around on the internet I ran across this post at The Anchoress. I upset several people with this post a while back. When confronted on the comments I challenged Muslims to take care of the “radicals”. I got some good responses but I also got the standard “it’s happening” slogan. Remember that one website that was used to herald the 9/11 attacks and warn us of our impending subjugation. I think we have to change Islam by our pressure but too often Muslims either ignore the problem or attribute it to radicals. They are in denial that their own house is dirty and needs a good cleaning! Muslims have the power to change Islam from the inside so when we find reformers I feel we should give them all the support we can. The Anchoress, Captain’s Quarters and Jihad Watch are all involved in this ongoing conversation so join them.

The Anchoress : Instapundit linked to Clifford May asking, Where are the Moderate Muslims. Well, I’ve been lucky enough to be able to correspond with a “reformist” Muslim named Ali, who is very careful with his words - which is wise, in my opinion - but also very eager to dialogue. Bear in mind that there is a distinction, naturally, between a “moderate” and a “reformist.”
This will be a long post, but if weÂ’re really interested in dialoguing instead of demagoguing, I hope some will plow through it.

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Has the leader of al Qaeda's branch in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, been fired by Ayman al-Zawahiri? Very interesting, indeed. Not nearly as interesting, though, as it would be to hear that he's dead.

I heard about this while I was gone, but had not time to blog it. From the Globabl Terrorism Analysis desk of the Jamestown Foundation:

Media reports during the past week have announced that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi—al-Qaeda's chief in Iraq—has been "replaced" or "demoted" from the leadership of Iraq's Sunni resistance coalition (Daily Star, April 3; al-Bawaba, April 2). The stories have said that al-Zarqawi was removed as "the result of several mistakes he made," including for taking "the liberty of speaking in the name of the Iraqi people" and for "targeting the Islamic states neighboring Iraq, particularly Jordan" [1]. On April 2, Jordan-based Sunni cleric Sheikh Hudayf Azzam—the son of the famous cleric, mujahideen leader, and Osama bin Laden-mentor Abdullah Azzam—told the journal al-Bawaba that "al-Zarqawi bowed to the orders two weeks ago [March 15-18] and was replaced by Iraqi national Abdullah bin Rashed al-Baghdadi." Azzam said that al-Zarqawi's "role has been limited to military action," but stressed that al-Zarqawi approved the change in his status and "has returned to where he should be as a man who came to champion the Iraqi cause" (al-Bawaba, April 2; al-Arabiyah, April 2)....

This week's reports that al-Zarqawi has been "demoted" likewise squares perfectly with the intimations al-Zawahiri sent him that there may be debilitating "sensitivities" over a non-Iraqi's leadership of the Iraqi resistance. Without even a whimper, al-Zarqawi allowed himself to be publicly rebuked—"he made many political mistakes"—moved to a lesser post, and was chastised for "speaking in the name of the Iraqi resistance and people." The manner in which al-Zarqawi's change in status was handled left the clear impression—as al-Zawahiri said would be desirable—that the resistance movement is an Iraqi insurgency, headed by Iraqis, and conducted in Iraqi interests. Foreign mujahideen are welcomed to support the Iraqi insurgents, but al-Zarqawi, by "bowing" to Iraqi wishes, publicly proved that they are playing a subordinate role....

While it is too soon to know how al-Zarqawi's new status "as a soldier of the resistance" will impact the Iraq insurgency, a strong argument can be made that Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri have reached out and persuaded al-Zarqawi to change his behavior in a way that will benefit al-Qaeda (al-Quds al-Arabi, April 4). Historically, al-Qaeda has been welcomed in Islamic insurgencies around the world precisely because it wanted to contribute force multipliers—military cadre, media and financial expertise, materiel, logistics assistance—and did not try to supplant local leadership. Based on the foregoing, al-Zarqawi now seems ready to play this traditional al-Qaeda role, which is likely to bring greater unity to Iraq's Sunni resistance. The foregoing also ought to give pause to those Western analysts who have concluded that bin laden and al-Qaeda are largely yesterday's news, an isolated, cowering organization unable to influence—let alone direct—the affairs of the many fronts of the worldwide anti-U.S. Islamic insurgency.

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