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The front page of all Belgian newspapers today had the pictures of two little girls. “Murdered” the captions said. Nathalie Mahy (10) and Stacy Lemmens (7) disappeared on 9 June. Their bodies were discovered yesterday. Exactly ten years ago, before Stacy and Nathalie were born, the Belgian papers also brought pictures of murdered girls. Their names were Melissa Russo (8) and Julie Lejeune (8), victims of the notorious pedophile Marc Dutroux. Stacy and Nathalie were abducted in Liège, the largest city of Wallonia, the Socialist-dominated French-speaking part of Belgium. Melissa and Julie were from the same city, often referred to...

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved today a resolution authorizing an agreement between the county and the Multicultural Institute, which will now operate the county's Day Worker Program. The San Mateo County Human Services Agency noted in a report that members of the Redwood City community have voice concern about day workers congregating to seek employment. To mitigate those concerns, the county, in contract with El Concilio, launched a pilot day worker program in the North Fair Oaks unincorporated area of Redwood City, according to the report. Now, as a result of today's unanimous vote, the Multicultural...

A German brothel seeking to drum up business during the World Cup has been forced to remove the national flags of Saudi Arabia and Iran from an array of flags on its facade after threats from Muslims saying it was insulting their faith.

'Ex-gay' group booted from conference School counselors objected to materials at exhibit Posted: April 4, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com A group that believes people with same-sex attractions can abandon homosexuality was evicted from the Virginia Schools Counselors Association annual convention. PFOX, Parents and Friends of Ex-gays and Gays, said school counselors at the event in Richmond, Va., last week objected to some of its materials and insisted the group leave. Blogger Warren Throckmorton said PFOX was registered officially as an exhibitor at the conference, held at the Holiday Inn Select Thursday and Friday. But the counselors association's current president,...

Rebel flag shakes up assembly By ANNIE NELSON of the Tribune’s staff Published Friday, February 3, 2006 Two Hickman High School students disrupted a multicultural assembly yesterday in the school’s auditorium by unfurling a Confederate flag from the balcony. Ryan Lanman, 17, who is white, and a friend enacted their plan while another student was singing "The Yellow Rose of Texas" to commemorate the Spanish-American War and honor Texas. After the disruption, the students involved were told to leave, and the assembly continued, Principal Mike Jeffers said, adding that he couldn’t talk about whether the students would be disciplined. Lanman,...

“One day, years from now, as archaeologists sift through the ruins of an ancient civilization for clues to its downfall, they'll marvel at how easy it all was. You don't need to fly jets into skyscrapers and kill thousands of people. As a matter of fact, that's a bad strategy, because even the wimpiest state will feel obliged to respond. But if you frame the issue in terms of multicultural ‘sensitivity,’ the wimp state will bend over backward to give you everything you want -- including, eventually, the keys to those skyscrapers.” -Mark Steyn This past week demonstrates why I...

Iranian leader hopes for Sharon's death Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted on Thursday as saying he was hoping for the death of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "Hopefully, the news that the criminal of Sabra and Shatila has joined his ancestors is final," the semi-official students' news agency ISNA quoted him as telling a group of Shi'ite Muslim clerics in Iran's holy city Qom. (Reuters

For daring to create a new dance company in uncertain economic times, and for creative daring as choreographers and performers, we give the nod to Uri Sands and Toni Pierce-Sands.

On Thursday night, Oct. 27, two teenagers, Ziad Benna (17) and Banou Traoré (15), fled into an electrical power substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. They were hiding from police who had entered the suburb to investigate a robbery. Why the boys fled and climbed over the three-meter fence of the power station is unclear. The result, however, was something every moderately intelligent schoolboy could have foreseen: they got electrocuted. When the fire brigade arrived to retrieve their bodies, something happened that every moderately intelligent French politician could have foreseen. Neighborhood gangs attacked the firemen and police officers and...

Ever have your credit card denied? A check bounce? A computer tell you your credit is no good? Ever find a lot of charges on your card or phone charges on your bill you don't recognize? I have, and I'll bet you have, too. Twice I've been separated from my billfold, along with every card, my driver's license, even my Social Security card, everything that can identify me – except my face and my white buck shoes – and it's a terrible sinking feeling. Remember the Bob Dole commercial in which the elderly lady behind the cash register is demanding...

UK majority back multiculturalism Many believe multiculturalism improves UK society The majority of British people think multiculturalism makes the country a better place, a BBC poll suggests. But 32% think it "threatens the British way of life" and 54% think "parts of the country don't feel like Britain any more because of immigration". The Mori poll for the BBC also suggests the 7 July bomb attacks have not led to an upsurge in racial intolerance. The survey questioned 1,004 people in the UK. A booster survey of 204 British Muslims was conducted for comparison. The overwhelming majority of Muslims -...

Multicultural Britain is not working, says Tory chief By George Jones, Political Editor (Filed: 03/08/2005) Muslims must start integrating into mainstream British society, says David Davis, the shadow home secretary and front-runner to take over the Conservative leadership. Writing in The Daily Telegraph today, Mr Davis signalled a significant shift away from the policy of multi-culturalism, which allows people of different faiths and cultures to settle without expecting them to integrate. David Davis: ‘Muslims in turn have obligations not simply to condemn terror, but to confront it’ "Often, the authorities have seemed more concerned with encouraging distinctive identities rather than...

D.C. Watson: WWE’s Hassan character too accurately portrayed to succeed It appears to be a done deal. Mark Copani, who, for World Wrestling Entertainment plays the disgruntled Arab-American wrestler Muhammad Hassan, has tentatively been released by the WWE, and will be reporting to Ohio Valley Wrestling for “repackaging.” So, let’s see if we have this straight. A wrestling character, “Muhammad Hassan”, a Muslim character judging by the name, who during interviews, insults the United States, while also spending time interrupting interviews being conducted with other wrestlers, demanding the “special time that he deserves”, relying on his manager’s constant interference to...

"Moderate Friends of Terror" Conducting Sacramento Police Training SessionsJuly 11, 2005 - Sacramento, CA - PipeLineNews - According to their newsletter, the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR] is providing multicultural training material and instruction services for the Sacramento - and other area - Police Departments. "The Sacramento Valley office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SV) recently conducted diversity training for 46 graduates at the Sacramento Police Training Academy. The CAIR-SV representative offered a presentation designed to make the graduates aware of issues that they might face when dealing with the diverse Muslim community in Sacramento. "From speaking...

Writer Richard Rodriguez, invited to speak at the California State University East Bay commencement in Hayward on Saturday, has decided to withdraw from the program after some graduating students threatened to boycott the event. Rodriguez, author of the acclaimed memoir "Hunger of Memory," drew criticism from some students for his views against bilingual education and affirmative action...

A University student has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education claiming that a University Office of Multicultural Academic Support policy that reserves early registration into several math and English classes for minority students is an unfair, "racist practice." University senior Melissa Hanks filed a complaint Friday with the DOE's Office for Civil Rights, saying she hopes the department will investigate the classes and that the complaint will prompt University administrators to abolish the enrollment restrictions. "I want to see these classes gone," Hanks said. "I want to see no enrollment based on race." The OMAS administers seven...

This is a true story about America, about how the magnificent Judeo-Christian culture of my youth – which represented the hope of liberty for the world's oppressed – was so easily turned into mush in my lifetime. Let me begin with a brief story about my father. When he was only three years old, my dad was sentenced to death. That's right. The Turkish government was engaged in a deliberate campaign to force him, his mother and infant sister, along with hundreds of thousands of other Armenians, into the Syrian desert where they would die of starvation, disease, or worse...

I am asking for non-Ivory tower feedback and ideas. I am wrestling with college committee work and the revamping of our liberal arts requirements. I feel I am battling a PC tsunami. So I thought I'd ask for some real-world feedback. (Our opinions in the ivory tower can be a bit near-sighted.) Those of you who are recent graduates, or employers of graduates, let me know if any requirements for multi-cultural or interdisciplinary courses have made you (or your employees) better individuals. What is multi-cultural? (How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? This is a great...

Muticultural Madness - How Western Civilization Has Been Turned Upside down in One Generation "We've been planning this for a long time, and it's a real treat," said WND Editor and founder Joseph Farah. "In this wonderful issue, multiculturalism is sliced, diced and roasted up as shish kabob and served up to our readers as a delicious journalistic feast. It's not only a stunning expose of multiculturalism and political correctness, but also a memorable celebration and affirmation of all that is truly American." "MULTICULTURAL MADNESS" documents how multiculturalism, which started on college campuses during the "cultural revolution" of the '60s,...

We are into the silly season now, with the liberals out spreading winter holiday cheer to all and insuring that no one uses the word “Christmas” except behind closed doors in the privacy of their own homes. Lest anyone think that the liberals and radical leftists are going quietly, just look at their actions after having suffered one of the worst election defeats in modern history. They are all over the networks lecturing us on tolerance, open-mindedness and multiculturalism while doing everything in their power to denigrate the historical and religious traditions of the majority. The liberals believe that their...