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Growing up with a father who is an irritable traveler notoriously obsessed with avoiding traffic, I developed a habit of always preparing myself for the worst whenever embarking on a journey. ~snip~ Despite all of the problems faced by the current incarnation of the Republican Party, America is still a right of center nation, which explains Obama's need to abandon many of his liberal positions. Although it's something I would rather not find out, what this means is that Obama's ability to govern as a liberal if elected president would largely be a function of how well conservatives can mobilize...

Can we ignore Sen. Obama's silence about Muammar Kaddafi? We know that Louis Farrakhan has said positive things about Barack Obama. And he's not the only one. This is the same Louis Farrakhan who has travelled to Libya to meet with and say positive things about Kaddafi, who has long-standing ties to terrorism. And that's not all. The former pastor at Obama's church, Jeremiah Wright, has not only said positive things about Farrakhan. In the 1980s, he went on a trip with Farrakhan to ... you guessed it, Libya, to meet with Kaddafi. With all of Obama's ties to Kaddafi...

AMSTERDAM, 21/02/08 - Fortis Bank will no longer give children a piggy-bank if they open an account. The company apparently is afraid of offending Muslims. Fortis clients that open a EuroKids account for their children are given a present of a piggy-bank called Knorbert. But the bank is stopping this because "Knorbert does not meet the requirements that the multicultural society imposes on us," yesterday's De Telegraaf quoted a spokesman as saying. Pigs are considered unclean animals by Jews and Muslims. An Internet campaign in which Knorbert played a leading role has also been halted by Fortis. According to a...

A story based on the Three Little Pigs has been turned down from a government agency's annual awards because the subject matter could offend Muslims. The digital book, re-telling the classic fairy tale, was rejected by judges who warned that "the use of pigs raises cultural issues". Becta, the government's educational technology agency, is a leading partner in the annual schools award. The judges also attacked Three Little Cowboy Builders for offending builders. The book's creative director, Anne Curtis, said that the idea that including pigs in a story could be interpreted as racism was "like a slap in the...

IN retrospect, it was not a good idea to have left his pistol at home. Called to the scene of a traffic accident in the Paris suburbs last Sunday, Jean-François Illy, a regional police chief, came face to face with a mob of immigrant youths armed with baseball bats, iron bars and shotguns. What happened next has sickened the nation. As Illy tried to reassure the gang that there would be an investigation into the deaths of two teenagers whose motorbike had just collided with a police car, he heard a voice shouting: “Somebody must pay for this. Some pigs...

The Humane Society of the U.S. has, for years, been trying to frighten people away from consuming meat, milk and eggs -- but its recent testimony before a congressional committee reached a new low when the HSUS president, Wayne Pacelle, made the unsupported claim that pigs could be harboring the infamous and deadly British ‘mad cow” disease. Swine veterinarians quickly pointed out that “mad cow,” or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, has never occurred naturally in swine. At the height of the British “mad cow” epidemic, both swine and cattle were exposed to the tissues from thousands of infected cattle and the...

One Woman's Pets Is One Community's Eyesore (CBS) Lake Forest, Ill. -- Hundreds of Lake Forest residents signed petitions to get rid of them, but three gigantic potbelly pigs get to stay in their home, at least for now.CBS 2’s North Suburban Bureau Chief Katie McCall reports on the battle over the hogs’ home. It’s a fairy tale ending for three, not so little pigs. A Lake County judge says Estelle Gonzales Walgreen’s beloved potbellied pets can stay in their Lake Forest backyard. She’s been fighting with her neighbor about the pigs since last April when she moved in. And...

BEIJING: President Hu Jintao of China on Wednesday urged farms to improve food safety and develop the organic sector, a day after the U.S. food safety authorities said that thousands of hogs had eaten salvaged pet food from China that had contained the industrial chemical melamine. Smithfield Foods, the biggest U.S. hog producer, said Wednesday it was unlikely that it had fed contaminated feed to its hogs but that it was checking all of its feed suppliers. Urine from hogs in California, North Carolina and South Carolina tested positive for melamine, a chemical contained in rice-protein concentrate imported from China,...

Malaysia's melting pot on the boil http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IC24Ae01.html By Baradan Kuppusamy KUALA LUMPUR - Asian melting pot Malaysia is gearing up to celebrate 50 years of independence from British rule, [1] but the racially diverse country still boils from the colonial power's ethnic-based divide-and-rule legacy. there is a growing clash between resurgent Islam led by Malays and the secular constitution favored by the minority ethnic Chinese and Indians. "The situation is worrisome," Abdullah told Malaysians during a televised address last December, appealing for racial understanding, tolerance and national unity. Foreign visitors who view on the surface a seeming peaceful and stable...

ON February 18, the Chinese world will usher in the new year of an animal, but its identity will be suppressed. A billion people will view China's - and the world's - most-watched annual television show, the Chinese New Year's Eve variety spectacular, but the viewers will be no wiser as to which animal is involved. The Chinese Government has decreed that the Year of the Pig will be celebrated with the least possible offence to the country's 21 million Muslims, for whom the porker is a dirty, offensive animal whose flesh must not be eaten. So this year, China...

LEWISTON - No federal charges will be lodged against the city man who rolled a pig's head into a local mosque last year. "We're not going forward with our prosecution," Assistant U.S. Attorney General Halsey Frank said Friday. Brent Matthews, 33, said the frozen head slipped from his hands one night last summer and rolled through the open door of the Lisbon Street storefront that serves as a mosque for members of the Somali community. He was later arrested and charged with the misdemeanor of defacement and desecration of a place of worship. The Maine Attorney General's Office was successful...

Pigs Get the Ax SHANGHAI -- Next month, China will ring in the Year of the Pig. Nestlé SA planned to celebrate with TV ads featuring a smiling cartoon pig. "Happy new pig year," the ads said. This week, China Central Television, the national state-run TV network, banned Nestlé's ad -- and all images and spoken references to the animal in commercials, including those tied to the Lunar New Year, China's biggest holiday. China's postal service has launched 'Year of Piglet' stamps The intent: to avoid offending Muslims, who consider pigs unclean. "China is a multiethnic country," the network's ad...

A leading mosque in London is selling DVDs that proclaim the coming mass extermination of Jews around the world on a "day of judgment." It also attacks Christian groups and the United Nations. The London Central Mosque, also known as Regent's Park Mosque, is "the spiritual focal point for Muslims" throughout Great Britain, the European Jewish Press reported. It is also home to the Islamic Cultural Center, which educates Muslim children. The report said that a British television station will air on Monday a documentary on Muslim extremism in Britain, and will report the selling of the DVD. The DVDs...

Since it now seems very imminent, I decided that it was an appropriate time to start this up. Links to information and pictures (if we get them) can be posted here.

KATY, TEXAS — While Kamel Fotouh makes plans to build a mosque on 11 acres of pasture here, neighbor Craig A. Baker is making plans of his own — plans to hold pig races. Baker figures he'll need a tent, souvenirs and a track for the pigs to race on, all in full view of the Muslims next door, for whom pigs are forbidden as food. As a bonus, Baker will host the competition on Friday — a Muslim holy day.

The southbound truck route on the Golden State (5) Freeway was reopened after frozen pig carcasses were spilled across lanes Monday night. A big rig collided with a box truck in the truck route from the southbound Golden State (5) Freeway just north of the Foothill (210) Freeway Monday night, scattering frozen pigs over 80 feet of the freeway, authorities said. The collision, in which one truck clipped another, occurred at 7:36 p.m., said California Highway Patrol Officer David Porter. The collision was at the end of the truck route, and Caltrans brought in a dump truck and loader to...

BosNewsLifeMalaysia Muslims Besiege Catholic Church Amid Baptism Row Malaysia Muslims Besiege Catholic Church Amid Baptism Row Thursday, 09 November 2006 KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (BosNewsLife)-- Tensions remain high in a Malaysian town outside the capital Kuala Lumpur after up to 1,000 Muslim protestors besieged a Catholic Church following mobile phone text messages claiming that Malay Muslims would be baptized there.

A website designer was convicted yesterday of stirring up racial hatred during a protest by Muslims over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. Mizanur Rahman, of Palmers Green, North London, carried placards that called for non-Muslims to be “annihilated” and “beheaded” as he addressed more than 300 protesters outside the Danish Embassy in London on February 3. Rahman, 23, who wore white robes and a cap throughout the five-day trial, claimed that he had got “carried away” in front of the crowd and said he was a “nobody” whose words no one would take seriously, the Old Bailey was told. The...

A British Muslim who called for the murder of coalition troops in Afghanistan during a demonstration against the Danish cartoons has been convicted of inciting racial hatred. Mizanur Rahman, a website designer, was among 300 people who protested in London against the decision of several European newspapers to publish offensive cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. An Old Bailey jury today found him guilty of stirring up race hate but was unable to reach a verdict on a second charge of incitement to murder. Rahman, 23, who denied both charges, was remanded in custody while the prosecution decide whether there will...

If the Democrats think the Islamic Jihadists will respect them more than President Bush then read this! This is an article everyone needs to read. If you think that because you refuse to be politically incorrect and see these inhuman animals for what they are that they will somehow respect you enough not to do to you what they did to these young girls, then think again! It will get worse. Beheaded girls were Ramadan ?trophies? THREE Christian high school girls were beheaded as a Ramadan ?trophy? by Indonesian militants who conceived the idea after a visit to Philippines jihadists,...

Three convicted of boy's race-hate murder By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent Last Updated: 4:54pm GMT 08/11/2006 MP's quest to bring killers to justice Three members of a violent Asian gang have been jailed for life after being found guilty today of the racist abduction and murder of a 15-year-old schoolboy. Kriss Donald: wrong place at the wrong time Kriss Donald died because of the colour of his skin, and because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The teenager, described by his family and friends as a loving and gentle boy, was playing truant from school when...

Three men have been found guilty of kidnapping, stabbing and burning alive a teenage boy in a racially motivated attack. Kriss Donald's scarred and partially-clothed body was found on the Clyde Walkway in the east end of Glasgow, near Celtic FC's training ground, on March 16, 2004. Imran Shahid, 29, his brother Zeeshan Shahid, 28, and Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq, 27, were found guilty by a court in Edinburgh. As the verdict was delivered, Kriss's mother Angela shouted: "You bastards!" All three had denied the racially aggravated murder of the Glasgow schoolboy on March 15, 2004. They abducted Kriss and forced...

Source: http://truehardfacts.blogspot.com _________ Monday, October 23, 2006 Muslim "Youth": Just before having the feast-meal at the end of Ramadan, why don't we halt "infidels" a pregnant woman on the escalator of the subway? Muslim "Youth": Just before having the feast-meal at the end of Ramadan, why don't we halt the "infidels" including pregnant woman on the escalator of the subway?Oct, 23, 2006 Noon time Two French Jews are using the escalator of the Metro in Marseille, three Arab Muslim youth all ready to join the meal at the end of their "holy" Ramadan.But hey, they are not yet ready, they...

The Savoy hotel, Waterloo station, the Heathrow Express and a Tube train under the Thames were on a hitlist of targets drawn up by a British al-Qaeda terrorist, a court was told yesterday.Dhiren Barot will be sentenced today after he admitted planning “back-to-back” attacks on London, which he predicted would have created “a black day for the enemies of Islam”. His two-day hearing, the most significant terrorist case since 9/11, can be reported after The Times and the BBC succeeded at the Court of Appeal in having reporting restrictions lifted. In detailed documents prepared for the approval of al-Qaeda’s leadership,...

To millions of Americans, he's the face of evil; the only man convicted for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. For five years, we've seen a still picture of Zacarias Moussaoui, but WNBC.com's Jonathan Dienst has obtained the only known video of the man found to be responsible for the thousands of deaths. The video was shot as Moussaoui was being transferred to Supermax, a maximum-security prison in Colorado, where he will serve out his sentence of six life terms without the chance of parole. He was combative in the tape, calling out "allah akbar," which translates to "God is great."...

A MUSLIM woman was prevented from getting on a bus in Greater Manchester because she would not remove her veil. The 22-year-old Manchester University student from Oldham says other passengers laughed when the driver refused to let her on because he could not check her identity with her bus pass. Now the driver's bosses at First Manchester are to meet with their trade association, the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT), to seek advice on how to deal with the problem if other passengers with photo passes refuse to lift their veils. Advertisement your story continues below They say they have...

There is something deeply disturbing about this case. Rape is always something vile, violent and unconscionable. That it should happen in a gang of up to 14 members, when its youngest victim was 16, is bad enough. That the rapists are unrepentant, and with one Muslim "spokesman" now saying that the leaders of the gang should be "honoured and respected", makes the case more sickening still. Last December, riots took place on Cronulla Beach between white gangs and Lebanese Muslim gangs. Mark Steyn commented that one fault of the riots lay in young Muslims' refusal to integrate. We quoted from...

In a sermon during Ramadan Sheikh Taj Aldin al-Hilali, Australia's most prominent Muslim cleric, said that women invite rape by not covering themselves head to toe: "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside ... and the cats come to eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat's?" "The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred" … Australia's Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward said al-Hilali's comments encouraged rape and that Muslims should force him to quit. If The...

Australia's Muslims fear backlash By Nick Bryant BBC News, Sydney Sheikh Hilali's remarks come at a sensitive time in race relations A few weeks ago, I happened to interview Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilali outside the Lakemba Mosque in Sydney where he delivered his controversial sermon. A softly-spoken man, who clearly commands both enormous respect and affection within his community, the Egyptian-born cleric discussed the government's recent proposals for an Australian citizenship test - an examination which many Muslim immigrants believe is targeted at them. His English is poor, and it was difficult at times to make out precisely what he...

THE nation's most senior Muslim cleric has blamed immodestly dressed women who don't wear Islamic headdress for being preyed on by men and likened them to abandoned "meat" that attracts voracious animals. In a Ramadan sermon that has outraged Muslim women leaders, Sydney-based Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali also alluded to the infamous Sydney gang rapes, suggesting the attackers were not entirely to blame.

Schoolboy Kriss Donald was still alive when he was on fire, a court has heard. Forensic scientist Ruth Ramage, 43, said he may have tried to extinguish the flames by rolling in mud on the Clyde walkway in Glasgow. The 15-year-old's body was found by the walkway, near London Road on 16 March 2004, a day after he disappeared. At the High Court in Edinburgh Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq, 27, Zeeshan Shahid, 28, and his brother Imran Shahid 29, deny racially aggravated murder.

VANDALS splashed blood on a wall and left a pig's head at a mosque under construction in the eastern French city of Belfort, a security official said today. France has Europe's largest Muslim community, numbering about five million, and mosques are occasionally vandalised. Today marks the festival of Eid al-Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk. Eric Krust, deputy chief of public security in the Territoire de Belfort department said the pig's head was left on a windowsill along with splashes of blood on an area five metres long and 2.5...

A year after the Paris riots violence and despair remain endemic in the rundown suburbsFLAMES lick around a burning car on a tiny telephone screen. Omar, 17, a veteran of France’s suburban riots, replayed the sequence with pride. “It was great. We did lots of them and then we went out and torched more the next day.” Omar, whose parents immigrated from Mali, was savouring memories of the revolt that erupted 12 months ago from his home, the Chêne Pointu estate in Clichy-sous-Bois, in the eastern outskirts of Paris. “We’re ready for it again. In fact it hasn’t stopped,” he...

The original link is from religion of peace website. It is in Dutch but apparently it says that Moroccan youth started cheering wildly during the movie "World Trade Center" when the planes hit the towers. They were throwing popcorn at the screen. Several patrons left in disgust and security was called to oust the youth.

19 million Muslims for jihad...and that's just in Indonesia By Michelle Malkin   ·   October 15, 2006 10:00 PM First, read the latest headline: One in 10 Indonesia Muslims back violent jihad: poll The details: Around one in 10 Indonesian Muslims support jihad and justify bomb attacks on Indonesia's tourist island of Bali as defending the faith, a survey released on Sunday showed. Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country, with 220 million people, 85 percent of whom follow Islam, giving the Asian archipelago the largest Muslim population of any nation in the world. "Jihad that has been understood partially...

Around one in 10 Indonesian Muslims support jihad and justify bomb attacks on Indonesia's tourist island of Bali as defending the faith, a survey released on Sunday showed. Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country, with 220 million people, 85 percent of whom follow Islam, giving the Asian archipelago the largest Muslim population of any nation in the world.

Muslim cabbies refusing the blind and drinkers MUSLIM taxi drivers are refusing to carry blind passengers with their guide dogs or anyone carrying alcohol. (snip) And there have been several complaints that drivers refuse to allow passengers to carry sealed bottles of alcohol. (snip) One Muslim driver, Imran, said yesterday the guide dog issue was difficult for him. "I don't refuse to take people, but it's hard for me because my religion tells me I should not go near dogs," he said. Drivers who refused to carry blind people with their dogs attended remedial classes at Guide Dogs Victoria, Mr...

With a hat-tip to reader Peter C, a truly horrific sign of the times comes from Lyon in the south of France, where a schoolgirl was stoned by Muslim students on Wednesday (October 4), for not following Ramadan. France-Echos reports on the incident, which is described in today's edition of Le Progres a paper serving the Lyon, Villeurbanne and Caluire-et-Cuire region. This is a translation of the France-Echos report: A schoolgirl was stoned on Wednesday in playground For non-observance of Ramadan According to information given by Michèle Vianès, from the Regards de Femmes organization: The information that I gave Thursday...

MURDERED schoolboy Kriss Donald pleaded: "I'm only 15. What did I do?" as he was beaten up and dragged into the back of a car by his abductors, a court heard yesterday. The witness, Zahid Mohammed, 22, was originally accused of taking part in the murder. He pleaded guilty at the High Court in Glasgow in November 2004 to assault to injury on Kriss and attempting to pervert the course of justice. He was given a five-year jail term and was released on licence on Wednesday after applying for parole... Imran Shahid, Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq, 27, and Zeeshan Shahid, 29,...

NEW WEBSITE INCITES ELECTRONIC JIHAD Internet Jihad Update from Global Terrorism Analysis: The latest criticism of Islam being a violent religion, which was sparked by incendiary comments made by Pope Benedict XVI, has caused internet jihadis to launch a new website called Electronic Jihad, located at http://www.al-jinan.org. The purpose of the website is to help organize an electronic jihad against websites that insult Islam and Islamic sacred figures. The site has been well publicized on more established jihadi websites. Jihadi forums are posting quotes from the Quran in order to encourage and convince jihadis and regular Muslims of their duty...

The trial of three men accused of the racially-motivated abduction and murder of a Glasgow schoolboy has begun. Mohammed Mushtaq, 27, and Zeeshan Shahid, 29, have pleaded not guilty. Imran Shahid, 29, also pleaded not guilty and lodged a special defence of incrimination, blaming others for the murder of 15-year-old Kriss Donald. All three are accused of abducting and murdering Kriss in March 2004 by striking him with knives or similar instruments, then setting him on fire. Six men and nine women have been sworn in as jurors. The jury was shown pictures of a scarred and partly-clothed body. The...

Suicide bombers follow Quran, concludes Pentagon briefing Tasked with pinpointing motivation, analysts find terrorists 'rational actors' following 'holy book' Posted: September 27, 2006 © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com With suicide bombings spreading from Iraq to Afghanistan, the Pentagon has tasked intelligence analysts to pinpoint what's driving Muslim after Muslim to do the unthinkable. Their preliminary finding is politically explosive: it's their "holy book" the Quran after all, according to intelligence briefings obtained by WND. In public, the U.S. government has made an effort to avoid linking the terrorist threat to Islam and the Quran while dismissing suicide terrorists as crazed heretics who...

Suspect: I prefer drink to Koran (Filed: 26/09/2006) A suspected terrorist accused of plotting a bomb attack claimed he was more interested in girls and drinking than Islamic extremism. Anthony Garcia, 24, admitted he bought 1,300lb (600kg) of ammonium nitrate fertiliser, which could have been used to make a huge explosive device, on the orders of his friend Omar Khyam, 24, the alleged leader of the plot. But, he told the Old Bailey, he thought it was to be shipped to Pakistan. Garcia denied he was a devout Muslim and told the court he had wanted to become a model...

To counter any suggestion that Islam is a violent religion, Muslims attacked churches in the West Bank, Gaza and Basra this week. In Somalia a religious leader named Abubukar Hassan Malin echoed a British religious leader named Anjem Choudary who seemed to be in agreement with a religious leader from India called Syed Ahmed Bukhari that Pope Benedict XVI had to be forced to apologize. Forced? Bukhari left it open how, but Choudary felt that subjecting the Pontiff to "capital punishment" may be persuasive, while Malin was inclined to think that the situation called for hunting down the Holy Father...

A YOUNG Pakistani woman has been kidnapped, raped and beaten by a gang of high-caste villagers because her uncle eloped with one of their relatives. She was chosen for punishment because she had recently gained a degree and was the pride of her low-caste family.Ghazala Shaheen, 24, and her mother Mumtaz were abducted last month by men dressed in police uniforms from their home near Multan in southern Punjab. Her shocking ordeal mirrors that of Mukhtaran Mai, 29, who became a symbol in the campaign for women’s rights in Pakistan after she was gang-raped because her 12-year-old brother had been...

A notorious Muslim extremist told a demonstration in London yesterday that the Pope should face execution. Anjem Choudary said those who insulted Islam would be "subject to capital punishment". His remarks came during a protest outside Westminster Cathedral on a day that worldwide anger among Muslim hardliners towards Pope Benedict XVI appeared to deepen. The pontiff yesterday apologised for causing offence during a lecture last week. Quoting a medieval emperor, his words were taken to mean that he called the prophet Mohammed "evil and inhuman". He insisted he was "deeply sorry" but his humbling words did not go far enough...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Sep 15, 2006 (AP)— Pakistan's parliament unanimously condemned Pope Benedict XVI on Friday for making what it called "derogatory" comments about Islam and demanded he apologize. The Vatican has said Pope Benedict did not mean to offend Muslims with remarks he made in Germany this week about Muhammad and holy war. In a speech, Benedict quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor as saying, "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."

This is a standard reply to trolls on Free Republic: You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in the Army, I'll bet you couldn't pour p!ss out of a boot with instructions printed on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a trial lawyer than be seen with you. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You...

Is (Pennsylvania) Governor Rendell Secretly Planning A Vice Presidential Run?

PHOENIX -- Charles Barkley insists he's serious about running for governor of Alabama, but he's got to move back there first. "I can't run until 2014," he said. "I have to live there for seven years, so I'm looking for a house there as we speak." And he said he is an independent, not a Democrat as previously reported. "The Republicans are full of it," Barkley said. "The Democrats are a little less full of it." Asked if he had ever been in the governor's office in Montgomery, Barkley said no. "They don't let many black people in the governor's...