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BORO born and bred Rasub Afzal’s passion is promoting understanding between Teessiders and his fellow Muslims.So the taxi driver was shocked to be caught up in a furious religious row - over paper napkins printed with a brewery’s name.

They were on the tables at a Middlesbrough mosque lunch for local Muslims who are strictly forbidden to drink alcohol. One guest was so offended by the Flying Firkin name, he started a stand-up row. Now 41-year-old Rasub who tried to calm the row says it has made him fear for the future of good community relations.

“What hope have we over really important things when there is such anger at something like this,” he said.

The storm brewed at a no-alcohol lunch in Middlesbrough’s Waterloo Road Mosque. Dozens of Muslims were there to hear a speech on unity by the Bradford-based Commissioner for Pakistan.

Suddenly one guest from Stockton became infuriated at the sight of the name on the napkins and began to criticise organisers.

Rasub, who was on his table, said: “He made a remark about the napkins and I tried to calm the situation by saying, ‘it’s not such a big issue’.

“I apologised even though he was rude and abusive to me. I even poured him a glass of orange.

“But I was quite intimidated by his attitude, in fact I thought he might hit me. He said it was against Islam because the napkins had the name of a drinks company.

“I was appalled at this man’s behaviour. A lot of people came up to me afterwards and said it was totally unacceptable.”

Rasub, a 41-year-old dad of three who lives in Longlands, prays three times a day at the town’s Central Mosque in Southfield Road.

“I was born at the Carter Bequest and my children are at school and university here,” he said. “I am a British Muslim and involved in local community relations, if I can help someone I will.”

Recently Rasub has talked about human rights to government ministers and met with local judge Peter Fox.

He said: “Lots of drunks get into my taxi and I don’t turn them away. If they are young girls who have (…)

But that seems to be the overriding meme within the Obamista culture—information control. Thought control. Why, just last week, I was watching a YouTube video of one of Obama’s lame attempts to explain his “clinging to religion and guns” faux pas. I read some of the comments under the video, and was thoroughly disgusted by the perfect unanimity displayed by the fawning, drooling boobs who were making the comments. So I thought I’d spice things up in the comments section by informing them that they were behaving like morons. But lo and behold, the comments were being moderated. Ergo the unanimity.

Information control. Thought control. The Obama freaks enforced it with Stalin-esque rigidity in the comments to the YouTube video. And that’s what the nutroots on Daily Kos and the Huffington Post wanted to enforce during last night’s Democratic debate. They wanted to prevent Stephanopoulos from asking Obama probing questions about the Wright/bitterness/Ayers situations.

It’s kind of scary, really. The Obamista approach to information control is eerily echoed in the words of a certain earlier politician…

Read it all…The Only Legitimate Result Now For The November Election Is A Win By Obama

Rand Abdel-Qader confided to her closest friend Zeinab that she fell in love the moment she saw the young soldier at the charity for displaced families, and she dreamed of a future with him. On March 16 - two months after Rand last saw Paul - her father Abdel-Qader Ali heard from a friend that his daughter had been seen speaking to the soldier at the charity project. Recalling Rand’s murder, her weeping mother Leila Hussein said: “I screamed and called out for her two brothers so they could get their father away. But when he told them the reason, instead of saving her they helped him end her life.”

Abdel-Qader Ali stood on the girl’s throat until she suffocated and then stabbed her, all the time shouting that his honour was being cleansed. He was arrested and released within two hours. Sergeant Ali Jabbar of Basra police said: “The father has very good contacts in the Basra government.” Because her family considered her impure, Rand was given only a simple burial. Her uncles spat in her grave to show their disgust. Two weeks later her mother demanded a divorce from Ali, and she now campaigns against honour killings.(emphasis mine)
continue reading…How the hell do you get through to these savages

A reader (thank you) turned me on to this clip hosted over at Michelle Malkin. In 1976 I was a useless hippie, roaming the country. Not political, I paid little heed to the destruction my generation was inflicting. I was too busy “finding myself” . Gag me.

I certainly wish that men like Rick Monday had prevailed in the following decades. Instead, the leftest vermin invading this baseball field seems to have had the most impact. Shame on them, shame on me.

Over 40,000 baseball fans saw Monday risk his career by grabbing what could easily have been a fireball to rescue the American flag from a couple of asshats, and suddenly it recalled the real patriotism and passion for America that had been missing in 1976. At first in isolated pockets but soon sweeping around the stands like The Wave would later do, Americans stood up and sang “God Bless America” — not prompted by the stadium organist but fueled by love of country.

For my money, it’s the single best moment in sports. God bless Rick Monday, and God bless America.

The Obama File

A privileged African-American, who has not shared the black American experience…
By birth, blood and training, a Muslim, who has been a member of a Black-African church for 20 years…
A socialist whose politics are rooted in Marx and whose methods were developed by Alinsky…
A master at shaping his own mythology and completely unqualified to be Commander in Chief…

There is quite a bit to know about Obama and The Obama File does a damn fine job organizing it for your research pleasure. Well, actually reading about this fool amounts to pure torture, but, at least it’s orderly torture.

Click the image to get there.

People talk about how brave Wright is for speaking his mind, it doesn’t take bravery to parrot the standard line, Kevin and Cobie were the bravest two people on that sidewalk this morning for sticking to what they believe in the face of the biases of the spittle-slinging mad dogs who just applauded on cue to the weakly hidden racist remarks of an opportunist who found a way to bamboozle his flock.Continue reading…Jeremiah Wright at the National Press Club

H/T:LGF

Opinion piece by Dr. Daniel Shayesteh

(Ed:all emphasis mine)

In my trips to various countries, I was shocked to see how Islam has been growing in many non-Islamic countries despite its intolerance towards democracy.

Why is this?

Why are mosques, Islamic schools and colleges springing up in every corner of non-Islamic countries to indoctrinate thousands of young people, when it is illegal for non-Muslims to practice or spread their religions and beliefs in Islamic countries? What is allowing Muslim leaders to teach Qur’an’s hate and killing verses in the mosques in non-Islamic countries? Why would Muslim leaders even dare ask for the establishment of their Islamic judiciary systems in non-Islamic democratic countries (i.e. Australia , Canada Germany, Great Britain and Sweden ) despite Islam’s opposition to democracy and egalitarian values? Why do Muslim leaders in the West have freedom to speak against democracy, the social fabric of western societies? What has brought the West to this shocking stage when it is producing its own Muslim terrorists, who carry out their terror operations in the West (their own countries) and abroad in Pakistan , Afghanistan , Kenya , Tanzania , Saudi Arabia , Iraq , Israel , Morocco and Russia ?

Why are some leftist groups and individuals standing alongside radical Islamic leaders in order to fight democratic values in the West? Why are many western leaders, politicians, media and various groups silent towards the threat of Islam against their societies? What is keeping these people quiet in such a significant time when a religious group challenges not just their democratic values but additionally forces them to surrender to their bondage? Why are free people prepared to surrender to those who would place them in bondage?

[…]

…Are we aware that the Qur’an teaches Muslims to stand against democracy? The Qur’an says, “It is not for a believer, man and woman, to have any choice in their affairs, when Allah and his apostle (Muhammad) have decreed a matter… (Q.3:85)[4]. If Muslims have such instructions from the Qur’an, how do you think it possible for them to act against this? Can a branch cut its own root?

Muslim leaders and the Qur’an will not compromise with the West, but they are delighted if the West chooses to compromise with Islam. The West says, “All cultures and religions are good”, and therefore there is no need for the best, and thereby for integration. This obviously opens and has opened the door for those groups who want to assert their authority and drive others out from their territory (read Q.4:89; 33:27). As a result of this, many Muslim leaders in the West have avoided integration and demanded segregated schools and self-governing ghettos ruled by Shari’a.

[…]

What has caused the West to allow tolerance for such violence and hatred which undermine the freedom of the majority? Why has the West forgotten its heroes who laid down their lives for freedom decades and centuries ago? What has caused the West to betray its heroes? Why is Islam, which is under obligation to gain power over other nations, evidently more acceptable in the West than any other religious group?

The so-called moderate Muslim leaders in England have proposed for the British Government to accept that the only solution to combat the threat of terrorism in Great Britain is the “Shari’a”. I was shocked at the extent to which Muslim leaders practice manipulation in the West. They are even more destructive than the terrorists by trying to legitimize the “Shari’a” for the Islamization of the West. In Islam, this manner is called Taqiyya, one of the most efficient forms of deception used in Islamic evangelism and jihad, which works to destroy the life values of non-Muslims.

These Muslim leaders are using Britain as a means to an end. How is it possible to get rid of terrorism through “Shari’a”? Is “Shari’a” a real solution to terrorism, or is it the real gate-way to terrorism?

continue reading…Islamization of the West - including New Zealand

…from the archives of the Club of Rome:“It would seem that men and women need a common motivation, namely a common adversary, to organize and act together in the vacuum such as motivation seemed to have ceased to exist or have yet to be found. The need for enemies seems to be acommon historical factor…Bring the divided nation together to face an outside enemy, either a real one or else one INVENTED for the purpose…Democracy will be made to seem responsible for the lagging economy, the scarcity and uncertainties. The very concept of democracy could then be brought into question and allow for the seizure of power by extremists of one brand or the other…

In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. The real enemy [of the elites and their minions] then is humanity itself.”

- “The First Global Revolution” (1991) published by the Club of Rome. Members of the Club of Rome include: Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Bill Gates, George Soros and author of the Kyoto Protocols Maurice Strong. (Source)

I wonder how long we will reap the poisoned harvest from Al Gore’s farcical global warming hysteria. Pretentious, self-aggrandizing green weenies prance about celebrating “Earth Day”, allaying their guilt, salving their continuously suppurating psychic wounds, meanwhile, the collateral damage from their war on capitalism takes it’s toll on all of those “little folks” that they purport to care so much about.

Oh well, if they continue ripening the potential for famine and food riots, they’ll be able to hold another one of their ever popular We-Are-the-World star studded concerts, record a new album of harmonized platitudes and all will be well.

Oh, I forgot to acknowledge Earth week, so here is my greeting to all the Green folks out there …

Concern is mounting because the new generation of biodegradable plastics ends up on landfill sites, where they degrade without oxygen, releasing methane, a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. This week the US national oceanic and atmospheric administration reported a sharp increase in global methane emissions last year.

“It is just not possible to capture all the methane from landfill sites,” said Michael Warhurt, resources campaigner at Friends of the Earth. “A significant percentage leaks to the atmosphere.”

[…]

…this from Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters:

As the international disaster of ethanol begins taking its toll on the planet — and, maybe more important, as press outlet after press outlet finally begins recognizing it — will media remember that Vice President Al Gore cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate requiring this oxygenate be added to gasoline?

After all, regardless of recent reports blaming ethanol for world hunger problems, rising food costs, and increased greenhouse gases, it seems highly unlikely green media will want to tie any of these problems to Nobel Laureate Gore.

From American Thinker

Are you tired yet of NBC’s extension of “Earth Day” into “Earth Week”? Washington Examiner columnist Timothy Carney exposes the very convenient truth behind parent company General Electric’s environmentalist cheerleading:

NBC Universal is owned by General Electric, which plays a regular role in this column because of how aggressively the company has hitched its profits to its lobbying successes. GE spends more than any other corporation in America on lobbying the federal government — more than $20 million annually over the past three years — and Green Week and Earth Week probably should be disclosed as lobbying efforts.

In many of GE’s businesses, the profit model appears to be: (1) invest in something for which there isn’t much demand; (2) then lobby to mandate or subsidize it …

GE’s coal gasification, solar power generation, electric cars and biodiesel businesses are the same: Consumers and investors acting with their own money would not patronize these technologies, but Congress, acting with your money, will. GE’s $20 million annual lobbying budget sees to it.

GE has also launched a venture dealing in “greenhouse gas credits,” which are literally worthless until Congress starts limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Throw in the expensive but unattractive light bulbs they’ve convinced Congress to mandate, and the pattern is clear.

Gore’s Favorite Net Strikes Again

ESCAPE FROM A BROOKLYN MOSQUE

By

Bos Smith

Bos Smith in front of Masjid At-Taqwa

Don’t snap a photo of the Masjid At-Taqwa in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn unless you want to be hauled away by a group of angry Muslims in Islamic attire to the basement of the facility where a group of twenty “security guards” in karate suits will interrogate you.

This might sound preposterous.

But it happened on Saturday, April 24, at 3:00 in the afternoon.

Ali Kareem, the head of security for Siraj Wahaj’s mosque, conducted the grilling. A small, muscular man with a wispy black beard that has been dyed red with henna, Kareem demanded to know the reason why a trio of kafirs had dared to photograph the building on a public street without securing his permission.

He further insisted on securing our identities and obtaining our motives for such a violation of Islamic space.

Being surrounded by a group of militant guards in a mosque basement from which there is no means of escape is not a comforting place to be for a Wall Street financier.

We tried to explain that we found the neighborhood with its halal meat vendors and food stores; Islamic dress shops, featuring the latest styles in burqas and hijabs; Muslim souvenir outlets, replete with bumper stickers stating “Don’t Be Caught Dead Without Islam”; and Middle Eastern restaurants offering a variety of goat dishes to be rather quaint and interesting.

This explanation was not sufficient.

Kareem was impatient and did not want a detailed explanation of the reason for our excursion (simple sight-seeing) or a graphic account of the sights we had seen and photographed.

“I ask the questions here,” he said, “and you provide the answers.”

Realizing that we were in a bit of a pickle, my companion explained that we were interested in various religions and knew Siraj Wahaj, the imam of the mosque, was a prominent Muslim figure whom we would like to interview for a news outlet.

This didn’t work too well since we could not produce a business card from a wacko blog, let alone credentials from a national publication.

At last, we blurted out that we were admirers of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings Be Upon Him) and wanted to obtain information about conversion. We were even knowledgeable enough to blurt out “Salaam” and “Allahu akbar.”

The last utterance seemed to be the “Open Sesame” that got us out of the basement and back to Bedford Street, where we managed to take a picture of the mosque before hailing a cab and making a getaway.

The experience was disconcerting. Surely, anyone who takes a picture of St. Patrick’s Cathedral or the Riverside Church is not hauled off to a basement for questioning by a threatening figure in a karate uniform and a band of Ninjas.

What is taking place within Masjid At-Taqwa?

And what about Siraj Wahaj, the celebrated imam of this mosque who claims to be a moderate?

Continue Reading »

I’m just playing around with this new blog toy, or whatever it is. When I was a limo driver, every time the car was empty, it was just me, the road, the purr of a fine engine, and good tunes. Give me that and I am a happy camper.

You’ll forgive the presence of Moby. It is sad that tunes so great for cruising comes from a mind in need of a serious bruising (sorry), but hell, I figure it would piss the tawdry little anarchist off that a conservative, red state, American exceptionalist appropriates his music for her own purposes.
I might try to incorporate this feature permanantly if I can figure out how to shrink it to fit the sidebar without screwing up the script, or whatever it is….

Update: Yup, well, I changed the width without destroying anything vital, so now “Road Tunes” will be available in the sidebar for your listening pleasure at all times.

This what I want to hear after wading through the swill issued from Obama’s mouth, after pondering John McCain’s yellow spined antics, after listening to socialism sold as the “American Way”, after enduring yet another platitude launched at me from that freaking TV screen about making a difference (how about the difference a bullet would make?), or change ( I refer to the same bullet), this is the kind of rant you want to hear.

I have been somewhat successful in blocking John McCain out of my mind. The only way that I have been able to imagine voting for him, is not to imagine him at all. And of course, the more I discovered about the horror that is Barack Obama, the more I could justify voting for McCain.

But the negatives just keep on coming;  his dances with Soros, his  questionable staff, his spineless politically correct pandering, his empty rhetoric on illegals. That is quite a bit of material to suppress, to ignore, to pretend isn’t there.

But McCain’s latest drama queen histrionics over the North Carolina’s GOP’s refusal to pander to his megalomaniacal posturing is about the tipping point. How can one reasonably expect McCain to work with actual conservatives when it is obvious that he holds them in no higher regard than does Obama. It seems clear that the North Carolinians are exactly the stripe of conservative whom McCain has every intention of marginalizing, now and later.

The deal breaker to me, however, is the sovereignty of this country. And John McCain doesn’t even have it on his dance card.

And now, he is no longer on mine.

In his March 26 speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council**, McCain never mentioned the need to preserve American sovereignty. He could have reassured conservatives by stating his forthright opposition to Senate ratification of the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty, which provides for international control over billions of dollars worth of oil, gas and minerals and undermines American claims to North Pole riches. But he chose not to.

[…]

Noting that McCain committed himself to adoption of a new U.N.-sponsored global warming treaty, which would be even more comprehensive and tougher than the Kyoto Protocol, Limbaugh said that, “The theme here is that there’s nothing special about America, and that we’re not going to be able to do anything without involving other nations and making them like us and showing them that we intend them no harm and that we want to be good stewards of the planet just as they want to be good stewards.”

The latter was a reference to McCain declaring that, “We need to be good stewards of our planet and join with other nations to help preserve our common home. The risks of global warming have no borders.” McCain sounded like another Democrat - Al Gore.

But despite his preference for what appears to be some kind of New World Order, McCain’s prior endorsement of a new Muslim state in Europe by the name of Kosovo could undermine all of his best-laid plans. Recognition of Kosovo could lead to war with Russia and more terrorist problems for Israel.

[…]

Does McCain’s vision look like an emerging world government? It is certainly a variation of “global governance,” which is the proposal that former Clinton State Department official Strobe Talbott makes in his book, The Great Experiment. Talbott calls McCain a “pragmatist” in foreign affairs, just like Obama and Hillary, and says that he expects his liberal Brookings Institution to have influence over a McCain presidency.

[…]

McCain seemed blind not only to the issues that conservatives regard as critical in an election year, but he went out of his way to reach out to liberals and Democrats. The only part of the speech they probably didn’t like was on Iraq.

[…]

The tragedy of this approach is that it comes from a man who served his country in uniform and risked his life on behalf of the U.S. McCain would have been a natural choice to lead a campaign for restoration of American sovereignty in foreign affairs. He could have been “The American President Americans have been waiting for.”

For reasons that remain largely a mystery, he has chosen to take the U.S. down the road of “global governance,” in which the U.N. and other international agencies, institutions and alliances determine our fate as a nation. It is the same road the Democrats are on. It is a tragedy for our country.

continue reading…McCain’s Incoherent New World Order

Kamouflage Katy

Taken yesterday in the ravine….

I do believe that the Republicans, partly because it isn’t yet necessary and partly because Hill is doing the job for them, are sitting on info they have about Obama for use in the election should he become the nominee. It’s kinda late so will just direct you to this article on Bill Ayers, who Obama tries to sweep under the rug as a ‘Professor of English’.
Here is a quote, don’t read it if you suffer from high blood pressure without taking your meds first.

As I have shown elsewhere in City Journal, Ayers’s politics have hardly changed since his Weatherman days. He still boasts about working full-time to bring down American capitalism and imperialism. This time, however, he does it from his tenured perch as Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Instead of planting bombs in public buildings, Ayers now works to indoctrinate America’s future teachers in the revolutionary cause, urging them to pass on the lessons to their public school students.

Indeed, the education department at the University of Illinois is a hotbed for the radical education professoriate. As Ayers puts it in one of his course descriptions, prospective K–12 teachers need to “be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and . . . be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, a teacher teaching for social justice and liberation.” Ayers’s texts on the imperative of social-justice teaching are among the most popular works in the syllabi of the nation’s ed schools and teacher-training institutes. One of Ayers’s major themes is that the American public school system is nothing but a reflection of capitalist hegemony. Thus, the mission of all progressive teachers is to take back the classrooms and turn them into laboratories of revolutionary change.

Unfortunately, neither Obama nor his critics in the media seem to have a clue about Ayers’s current work and his widespread influence in the education schools. In his last debate with Hillary Clinton, Obama referred to Ayers as a “professor of English,” an error that the media then repeated. Would that Ayers were just another radical English professor. In that case, his poisonous anti-American teaching would be limited to a few hundred college students in the liberal arts. But through his indoctrination of future K–12 teachers, Ayers has been able to influence what happens in hundreds, perhaps thousands, of classrooms.

Ayers’s influence on what is taught in the nation’s public schools is likely to grow in the future. Last month, he was elected vice president for curriculum of the 25,000-member American Educational Research Association (AERA), the nation’s largest organization of education-school professors and researchers. Ayers won the election handily, and there is no doubt that his fellow education professors knew whom they were voting for. In the short biographical statement distributed to prospective voters beforehand, Ayers listed among his scholarly books Fugitive Days, an unapologetic memoir about his ten years in the Weather Underground. The book includes dramatic accounts of how he bombed the Pentagon and other public buildings.

The more you learn about Obama, the more disgusting he and his fellow parasites become.

H/T American Thinker.

Lots more on Ayers at Powerline.