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Abdul Rahman has departed Afghanistan, where Islamo-klansmen by the thousands are ready to behead him. Mohammed commanded, after all, to strike the neck of the non-believer.

No one’s saying where he went. One thing for sure: It’s not Mecca. Or Tehran. Or Islamabad. Or Djakarta. Or Khartoum. Or, sadly, Baghdad.

A question to ask: How would Rahman be accepted in the heavily Islamic neighborhoods of Detroit?

So, let CAIR explain to us how Islam is a religion of peace if it wants to kill all the Christians. Here’s the lead paragraph now appearing on its Web site:

On Saturday, March 25, CAIR Government Affairs Director Corey Saylor and Department of Justice Community Relations Service Northwest Region Director Rosa Melendez presented a workshop, titled “Challenging Hate and Stereotypes in a Time of Crisis,” at the University of Idaho. Saylor discussed rising levels of Islamophobia, basic Muslim beliefs and advocacy strategies for promoting mutual understanding.

There’s a certain Son of God who said we shouldn’t make a big deal about the mote in one guy’s eye until we take care of the plank in our own. Islam needs to take care of the plank of “every- other- religion- ophobia” and its own stereotyping and hatred of all things not Islamic, then maybe we’ll think they’ve got something believable to say.

By the way, the slogan at the top of the CAIR Web site is, “In the name of God, most gracious, most merciful.” Where is the grace towards Rahman? Where is the mercy? Suggestion: Leave Mohammed; follow Jesus.

Update: Rahman’s in Italy. Michelle Malkin reports several more Christians have been arrested in Afghanistan.

Tags: Rahman, Abdul Rahman, Afghanistan, Convert, Christian, Islam, CAIR

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Global warming’s on a PR roll … Science, Nature, Time all predicting we’ll be overheated and under water before you can even sing the first few bars of Greenhouse Gas Blues.

If you didn’t know better, you might just believe those predictions of massive sea level rises in breathtakingly short periods of time might and buy property a mile or two inland. In its continuing commitment to public service, C-SM gives you some sound real estate investment advice, courtesy of World Climate Report, which sees the whole thing as lobbying:

As such, it is mostly recycled and repackaged information that the head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Donald Kennedy, can take down from New York Avenue in DC to Capitol Hill, to scare politicians into doing what it wants, which is an immediate cap on U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide.

Never mind that even a 25% reduction will have an undetectable effect on the rate of global temperature rise in the foreseeable future, and that it will cost a lot.

Blame the overblown latest round of old news repackaged as new on a little CO2 lie. Crank up the CO2 in your greenhouse gas equation, and you get some quotable, if unbelievable results. One of the main CO2-blowers in this weeks round of “news” is J.T. Overpeck:

So, Overpeck et al.’s justification doesn’t really cut it. But it does produce a dramatic result, tripling the concentration of atmospheric CO2 concentration by 2100 and a quadrupling (!) it by 2130. With current trends, that would happen in year 2269. By then, energy-production technology probably will probably have turned over two or three times and this will never have become an issue.

Really, what all of this hub-bub boils down to is regurgitating old news with a becoming-all-to-familiar new twist—things are always going to be much worse than we ever imagined—a mathematical impossibility, by the way. But, who cares if it gets the policy that AAAS wants? That’s what New York Avenue lobbyists are for—to get politicians to do what they and their supporters desire.

False assumptions and overblown math all in the name of science … well, in the name of more bucks for sale.

hat-tip: Greenie-Watch
Tags: Global warming, Sea level, CO2, Science, Nature, Time, Overpeck

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El Mandril (The Baboon), El Cucuy (The Boogeyman), a Latino version of Howard Stern and El Piolin (Tweety Bird) — these were the maestros behind Saturday’s big March of the Illegals in LA.

The four are rival DJ on Spanish-language stations in a market where the Spanish-language stations are the biggest. Their round-the-clock exhortations are credited with a turnout that left no one more surprised than the rally organizers, who expected about 40,000 demonstrators.

The LATimes reports that a labor union — Local 1877 of the Service Employees Union — got the ball rolling for the DJs to promote the march. Illegals may not pay taxes, but they sure pay union dues.

Eddie “El Piolin” Sotelo told the LAT he rallied the DJs after union leaders told him the effect of proposed legislation. I wonder if he really has a clue — he certainly didn’t get a fair description of the law from the union reps.

Sotelo came into the US illegally, but is now has legal status.

Also smack dab in the middle with the Catholic church, with the initial organization meetings taking place at Our Lady Queen of Angels. Illegals keep the pews full.

The LAT report is compelling reading, revealing the high level of organization and the decidedly Socialistic and revolutionary take of many of the organizers. Do read it.

Tags: Illegals, Demonstrations, Los Angeles, Immigrants

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Yes, the 500,000 illegals marching in LA were pretty much a peaceful bunch. But what of their leadership? Can we count on them to keep things calm as the immigration debate moves forward?

Let’s refresh our memories on what has been said by Latino leadership, just in case anyone makes the big mistake and actually starts listening to them.

Then Assembly Speaker (California State Legislature) Antonio Villaraigosa, now Mayor of LA: “It’s not enough to elect Latino leadership. If they’re supporting legislation that denies the undocumented driver’s license, they don’t belong in office, friends.”

Art Torres, California Democratic Party chairman, at the Latino Summit Response to Prop 187 at U.C. Riverside (Jan. 14, 1995): “Power is not given to you, you have to take it! People say to me when I was on the Senate floor, when I was in the Senate, why do you fight so hard for affirmative action programs. And I tell my white colleagues: because you’re gonna need them. Remember, 187 is the last gasp of white America.”

Fabian Nunez, California assemblyman, at the Latino Summit Response to Prop 187 at U.C. Riverside (Jan. 14, 1995): “Each of you, get ten people to go with us on that march in Washington, D.C., and I guarantee you just as we mobilized 150,000 to the streets of Los Angeles on October 16, we will mobilize 1 million people and bring Washington to a standstill, and those rednecks that are out there making decisions for the betterment of their communities will think twice before they push forward anti- immigrant legislation against our community.”

hat-tip Jim

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So, we’re supposed to leave Iraq because some Iraqi government officials close to that punk renegade Moqtada al Sadr are lying about the incident and calling for our withdrawal? To listen to some on the left, it’s a good idea. (here, here)

Of course, rational minds know there’s tons of evidence that the Iraqi/US attack on a building in a Sadr compound was legit and the reports are false. I like this one in particular, from Omar at Iraq the Model:

“However, the best evidence that proves that members of Mehdi army were inside the building came from a prominent Sdarist parliamentarian and spokesman of the Sdar trend; Baha’ al-Aaraji told al-Hurra this evening that ‘worshippers from inside the besieged husseiniya talked to us in person on the phone and asked for help…’. So I wonder why would ‘innocent ordinary worshippers’ have the personal phone numbers of parliament members and Sadr office officials?”

Why is it such a surprise to the Left that bad guys like Sadr mix religion and war, religious buildings and war buildings? I think they’re stuck in a Groundhog Day loop, only their day is Sept. 10, 2001.

hat-tip the real ugly american, memeorandum
Tags: Iraq, Sadr

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With Andrew Card’s resignation as presidential chief of staff and the announcement that long-time Bush cohort Joshua Bolten will step in, it’s fun to contrast the response from the right and left.

Power Line:

Yawn
Andrew Card resigned this morning as President Bush’s Chief of Staff. It’s inherently a thankless position; when is the last time a Chief of Staff was popular among a party’s activists? The Chief of Staff often gets blamed when things go poorly, but, conversely, rarely receives credit when things go well. I doubt that the change will make any difference, except maybe cosmetically, but it may satisfy some of those who have been demanding “change” in the administration.

FireDogLake:

The President has tapped Joshua Bolten to be the new Chief of Staff …. (Bolten has worked with Bush since his time in Texas — nothing like looking to your circle of cronies first for someone. Wouldn’t want anyone who would irritate the President with pesky truthiness or anything…) …

Wonder what Turdblossom thinks about being passed over by a budget wonk? Although realistically, it’s easier to be a nasty political operative in the shadows than in the bright glare of the sunshine, isn’t it? …

Nice send-off for Andy, all you missed was the “don’t let the door hit you on the ass” snark.

As usual, cool analysis from the right and emotional, paranoid garbage from the left.

By the way, I think this is the full count of Bill Clinton’s Chiefs of Staff: John Podesta, Erskine Bowles, Leon Panetta and Thomas McLarty. Andy Card served in the position since day one and Joshua Bolten will probably serve out the term. So there.

hat-tip: memeorandum
Tags: Bolten, Joshua Bolten, Card, Chif of Staff, Bush, Power Line, Firedoglake

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In Africa and Central Asia, two very different men have gone missing.

One has killed tens or hundreds of thousands and sunk his country into a long, devastating war. Lawrence Taylor, the Idi Amin of Liberia, escaped from his villa in Nigeria, presumably to return home to foment more death and destruction in the name of his ego.

The response was muted and diplomatic. UN, the United States and many more nations expressed concern because Taylor was neither in his swank villa or at the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, the two preferred places for him. (See BBC’s report)

The other man, Abdul Rahman, was released from a high security prison in Afghanistan, picked up by his family, and gone.

The response was decidedly not diplomatic in his home country:

“Abdul Rahman must be killed. Islam demands it,” said senior Cleric Faiez Mohammed, from the nearby northern city of Kunduz. “The Christian foreigners occupying Afghanistan are attacking our religion.” (AP)

And Reuters: “If the government doesn’t kill him, people in all provinces will demonstrate,” said one young man, Mujibur Rahman. “All Muslims will be anti-government.”

Another Kabul resident, Abdul Samad, said an example should have been made.

“People will follow this guy, seeking asylum and getting money from the West. We asked the government to execute this man at a public stadium as a lesson to others,” he said.

So the man who taught his followers to hack off the hands and feet of opponents so that he might assume power is gone, and met with calls that he be sent to trial.

And the man who followed the teachings of a savior who washed the feet of others so that they might assume eternity is gone, and met with calls that he be killed in the street.

In a world gone crazy, Islam has gone craziest.

Tags: Taylor, Rahman, Liberia, Afghanistan, Religious freedom

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The Dems made it clear in the Senate today: 500,000 illegals in the street equals legality for them. You’d think illegals could vote or something.

And of course, there were enough election-timid GOP senators to make the majority needed to pass a watered down immigration bill out of committee. Lindsey Graham, Sam Brownback and Mike DeWine fled the Republican conviction that we are a nation of laws to the perceived electoral haven of “we are a nation of laws until a big crowd turns out.”

I’m actually for some watering-down of the Kyl bill — just not what the Senate did.

Compliance will more likely be achieved by pressure, not fiat. Gradually turning up the screws, making it harder and harder to live in America as an illegal will result in enough “voluntary deportation” to solve the problem.

The Dem’s bill does the opposite. It makes it easier to be illegal in America, and as such is a huge step backwards, just as the House bill is too large a step forwards. Could we perhaps have some reason in Conference Committee? Sanctions on employers, limits/bans on benefits, huge increases in border enforcement, immediate deportation of criminal illegals, and (dream on, Laer) ending the provision that children born in America of illegal parents become legal. As long as that law stays in effect, there’ll be a huge motivation to be illegal, and big, family-splitting problems will be an inherent part of enforcing our immigration laws.

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They’re loading my plane … light blogging as travel allows.

Got to say that rudeness prevails at airports. A guy just stepped over a lady’s suitcase that had tipped over in his path, without an offer of help. I just wanted to slap his wrist!

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The LATimes is singing the ACLU’s tune today, giving big play to a tired, old, retreaded story about FBI investigation of domestic anti-war and environmental groups.

Here’s the ACLU line:

“Any definition of terrorism that would include someone throwing a bottle or rock through a window during an antiwar demonstration is dangerously overbroad,” ACLU staff attorney Ben Wizner said. “The FBI will have its hands full pursuing antiwar groups instead of truly dangerous organizations.”

Interesting. Just a month ago the FBI brought charges against a bunch of bottle-throwers: Earth Liberation Front radicals who had burned down a ski lodge under construction in Vail. Is that overbroad, Wizner?

During the Vietnam war, my second cousin was killed when some bottle-throwers got carried away and blew up his lab at the University of Wisconsin. Is that overbroad, Wizner?

It is well documented that anti-WTO demonstrators move from state to state and country to country in well-organized, violent protests. Because they cross state lines, if you are going to pursue them, you need the FBI.

By giving this story so much play, the LATimes seems to be saying they don’t need to be prosecuted. The 60s live on at One Times Square.

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