LTG: Archive November 2009

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November 2009

Health bills fail to block illegals from coverage [11/30/09]
The Obama bunch care nothing about what the American people want. They have lied and lied again about illegal aliens receiving taxpayer-funded healthcare. They are determined to pay off hispanic supporters, even though they weren't critical in Obie's election.

Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants could receive health care coverage from their employers under the bills winding their way through Congress, despite President Obama's explicit pledge that illegal immigrants would not benefit.
The House bill mandates, and the Senate bill strongly encourages, businesses to extend health care coverage to all employees. But the bills do not have exemptions to screen out illegal immigrants, who usually obtain jobs by using false identities and are indistinguishable from legal workers.
A rough estimate by the Center for Immigration Studies suggests that the practical effect of the mandates would be that about 1 million illegal immigrants could obtain health insurance coverage through their employers.

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61 Percent of 'Republicans' Say GOP Not Paying Enough Attention to Illegal Immigration, Poll Finds [11/30/09]
The 40 percent of Americans who characterize themselves as conservatives are apparently not happy with the focus of the Republican Party.
With record unemployment, limiting immigration would be a winning issue, but the Rs must still think they can attract a substantial number of hispanics. Dream on.

Sixty-one (61) percent of Americans who areÊmembers of the Republican Party orÊself-identified Independents who lean towards the GOP, think the party and Republican members of Congress donÕt put enough emphasis on the issue of illegal immigration, according to a new Washington Post poll. Ê
Of those surveyed, another 29 percent think the issue gets the right amount of focus, while only 1 percent think the issue gets too much attention. That means that -- taken together -- 90 percent of Republicans andÊIndependents think immigration should continue to be a defining issue for the party and for America. Ê
Virtually the same number (60 percent saying Ôtoo littleÓ and 28 percent saying Òright amountÓ) of Republicans see the party as paying too little attention to federal spending and to jobs and the economy (60 percent saying Òtoo littleÓ; 36 percent saying Òright amount.Ó)

For more details about the survey, see A party both united and divided. The graphic below came from a page of graphics referring to the polling info.

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'Honor killings' in USA raise concerns [11/30/09]
Along with felafel and enchiladas, immigration diversity brings death. As hinted by this story, most non-western cultures are deeply misogynist and the women of those societies have no value or freedom. USA Today has noticed that female bodies are starting to accumulate.

Muslim immigrant men have been accused of six "honor killings" in the United States in the past two years, prompting concerns that the Muslim community and police need to do more to stop such crimes.
"There is broad support and acceptance of this idea in Islam, and we're going to see it more and more in the United States," says Robert Spencer, who has trained FBI and military authorities on Islam and founded Jihad Watch, which monitors radical Islam.
Honor killings are generally defined as murders of women by relatives who claim the victim brought shame to the family. Thousands of such killings have occurred in Muslim countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan and Palestinian territories, according to the World Health Organization. [...]
In the USA, police allege the latest "honor killing" was that of Noor Almaleki, 20, who died Nov. 2 after she and her boyfriend's mother were run over in a Peoria, Ariz., parking lot. Prosecutors charged Almaleki's father, Faleh Almaleki, with murder, saying the Iraqi immigrant was upset that his daughter rejected a husband she married in Iraq and moved in with an American.

Sadly, this article mentioned only one of the six honor killing victims, Noor Almaleki. The omitted others probably included teen-aged sisters Amina and Sarah Said (pictured above) killed by their father for having American boyfriends; Sandeela Kanwal who was murdered by her father for wanting out of an arranged marriage; and Aasiya Hassan who was beheaded in Buffalo by her husband for wanting a divorce. (I've covered all these cases individually on the VDARE.com blog.)
Hmm, that's five, so I am missing one. Perhaps, Fauzia Mohammed is number six according to USA Today's list. She was a "bad Muslim girl" in the opinion of her executioner-brother.

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Europe unites to deplore Swiss ban on minarets [11/30/09]
No good deed goes unpunished! Particularly when the action is standing up for western values against Islamic immigration-as-invasion.
Predictably, the suits of Europe are falling over themselves to apologize about the vote of Swiss citizens to ban further construction of minarets. Expressions of patriotism can be irritating to elites whose intellectual loyality is to globalism and diversity.

The Swiss and European establishment united today in deploring yesterday's decision by Swiss voters to outlaw the construction of minarets but conservative leaders warned that the referendum showed genuine fear over Islam on the continent.
Swiss officials, media and business leaders voiced shame over a vote that they say will stigmatise the country's 400,000 Muslims and stain Switzerland's name in the Muslim world. In contrast, hard right leaders in France, Austria, Italy and the Netherlands hailed what they depicted as a triumph for the people against the elite.
Le Temps, Geneva's establishment newspaper, said: "The vote was inspired by fear, fantasies and ignorance." Damage to the country's international standing would be spectacular, it said. "Vengeance, boycotts, retaliation ... this clash with Islam could cost dearly."
Tagesanzeiger, the Zurich daily, said that the vote, staged on the initiative of the nationalist Swiss People's Party (SVP), showed the country's deep division between outward-looking modernisers and a traditionalist backlash. The 57 per cent approval of the minaret ban would "strengthen the international isolation of Switzerland even among western nations," it said.
The Swiss Government, which opposed the vote, reassured members of the faith that "this is not a rejection of the Muslim community, religion or culture." The Conference of Swiss Bishops also criticised the result, saying that it "heightens the problems of cohabitation between religions and cultures."

The Wall Street Journal pointed out the possible business ramifications: Swiss Ban Minarets in Controversial Vote.

The Swiss government feared a yes vote would spark a backlash, and Swiss diplomats have quietly been reassuring leaders in Muslim countries that the government opposed the referendum. About 7%, or 14.5 billion Swiss francs ($14.4 billion), of Swiss exports go to Muslim countries. The famously touchy Muslim street will probably erupt in violence on Friday (if they can wait that long), after the weekly session of anti-western propaganda is preached at mosques around the world.
To be kind, European political leaders may well fear outbreaks of violence like those that accompanied the Danish publication of cartoons of Mohammed, which caused the deaths of more than one hundred in rioting around the world. Miffed Muslims may consider concocting some explosions, although they would be smarter to move to Sweden or the UK, where spines are still at the noodle stage and welfare benefits are generous. In addition, the Swiss are well known gun owners, which may dissipate Islamic fantasies of violence.
Anyway, vague danger is no excuse to go cower in a corner when your civilization is being threatened with religious fascism at the hands of hostile invaders.

Below, sensitive Muslims are shocked and angry that people don't like them, for some odd reason (could it be the daily jihad body count?): Muslim anger over Switzerland's vote to outlaw new mosque minarets.

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Twenty-three donated bison roaming in Mexico's northern Chihuahua state [11/30/09]
Is there any nation on earth that is more devoid of social graces than Mexico?
The United States generously gave the Mexes a herd of bison to repopulate a former range in northern Mexico. But instead of the normal civilized response of thanks for the kindness, a Mex official used the occasion to complain about the border, using the excuse of animal migration. Stay classy, Mexes.

Twenty-three donated bison were released in Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua as part of an effort to have at least 100 of the animals roaming the country within three years, officials said Friday.Ê
Large herds of bison once existed in parts of northern Mexico and their return could help regenerate natural grassland in the Rancho El Uno nature reserve, said Environment Secretary Juan Elvira Quesada, according to news reports.
Quesada called on the U.S. to stop building border fences that can disrupt the natural migration routes of animals, the Associated Press reported.

My prediction: in two years all the bison transplanted to Mexico will be eaten and sold.

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BBC to review 'too white' Radio 4 [11/29/09]
Nobody is nagging China to dismantle its Chinese culture, but in the caucasian homeland, diversity is Job #1.

BBC Radio 4 is reviewing its programming in an attempt to increase its appeal to ethnic minorities following criticism that it is 'too white'.
Managers at the station are preparing to introduce a range of measures to address the lack of black and Asian listeners.
These include commissioning more material with a distinctly ethnic angle, such as a documentary on patois that will be broadcast next month.
The review, disclosed by BBC sources, has prompted fears that the station could axe some of its long-running shows as it chases a new audience.

Didn't immigrants know they were moving to a majority white country? Why must the English rearrange their culture to accommodate newbies?

You can't make this stuff up.

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Switzerland appears to have backed minaret ban [11/29/09]
Sweet. Polling for months has shown this initiative being defeated, but things look different to citizens from the privacy of the voting booth. Exit surveys from respected pollsters show passage of the controversial minaret ban.

For the Swiss constitution to be changed, the majority of the electorate and a majority of the cantons are required to vote ÔyesÕ.
A survey two weeks ago showed 53 per cent said they would reject it. Both the government and parliament had rejected the initiative.
Commentators had said the country risked international pariah status and a backlash across the Muslim world if a ÕyesÕ vote was achieved.
If the exit polls prove correct it will be a huge shock and Switzerland risks international pariah status and a backlash across the Muslim world.
Sunday's vote was forced by members of the far-right Swiss People's party (SVP) which has provoked a national debate over immigration with powerful billboard images.
The stark "stop" posters depicting a Muslim woman in a burka against the backdrop of a Swiss flag studded with missile shaped black minarets have been banned in many towns.
Hanspeter Rentsch, an executive director at the watch company Swatch, has warned that the referendum, and the poster propaganda, could damage Switzerland in the eyes of the world.
"The 'Swiss' brand must continue to represent values such as openness, pluralism and freedom of religion. Under no circumstances must it be connected with hatred, animosity towards foreigners and narrow-mindedness," he said.

Typical that the internationally minded businessman is worried about the Swiss "brand" being hurt in the Muslim world -- he only cares about selling his product, not the preservation of Swiss society, and Western civilization by extension.
On the contrary to the politically correct assertions of the suits, the vote will boost the estimation of the Swiss in the eyes of freedom-lving people everywhere.
Furthermore, using the burqa image in combination with the minarets was brilliant; connecting the construction of mosques with the oppression of women captured the big picture of cultural threat.

The London Times noted the concern of women voters about burqaization: Women lead Swiss in vote to ban minarets

So true. The people -- and particularly women -- understand what is at stake.
Hopefully this vote will encourage other rejections of Islamic values and immigration throughout Europe.

See also the Minaret Attack game that allows the player to zap annoying minarets and adhans (the loud public prayer to Allah).

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Hidden threat from al-Qaeda sleeper cells [11/28/09]
Wow, I would have thought that Britain already has plenty of resident hostiles, like the Islam4UK bunch that demands sharia law in the country. Plus a poll taken in 2006 found that 40 percent of Muslims living in the UK want sharia to replace British law. And several "home-grown" terrorists who were born in the UK blew up themselves and hundreds of others in London on July 7, 2005, killing 56.
Yet the big cheese terrorists apparently think that Britain needs still more imported killer Islamics. Who knew?
Seriously, the presence of gazillions more questionable Muslims makes the job of national security that much harder for police.

Counter-terrorism police and Whitehall officials believe dozens of extremists could have arrived here by posing as students or legitimate visitors.
They are concerned both by the relatively lax checks that are made on the visitors before they arrive and by the ease with which they can outstay their visas without anyone noticing.
As many as 13,000 visa applicants may have entered the country from Pakistan in a seven month period since October last year without any checks on their supporting documentation.
The security services fear that because most do not mix with home grown terrorists, they are able to operate under the intelligence radar, acting as sleeper cells until ready to launch attacks in Britain.
Every year around 100,000 visitors arrive in Britain from Pakistan alone, which has been described by the Prime Minister as being part of a "crucible of terror" along with Afghanistan.
They are supposed to be checked by Home Office visa staff working in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
But according to an official watchdog, the Independent Monitor for Entry Clearance, many visa officers do not have "enough time to go through applications carefully".
The security services are also worried about arrivals from Somalia, Yemen and North Africa.

Too much diversity for police to track? Sounds like it.

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"Today's Show with Steve Emerson" [11/28/09]
"Today's show" refers to C-SPAN's morning political talk show, Washington Journal, that airs in the middle of the night on the west coast, so it's nice to see this item posted for viewing.
Emerson, the head of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, discussed the threat of "home-grown terrorism." It's an interesting discussion, but the "I" word is notably missing from Emerson's vocabulary. Islamic terrorism can only become "homegrown" when hostile alien ideologies are allowed to carve out their separate communities on our soil, thanks to Washington and assorted do-gooders who are happy to be generous with the taxpayer's money.

Kitman TV is the go-to place for informational documentaries about the threat of Islam.

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Vietnam's diaspora urged to return home [11/27/09]
"Blood is thicker than water" as they say, and another example is the return of former refugees is this welcome from communist Vietnam for the people they chased out to come home; all is forgiven.

With red flags and loud revolutionary music, the gathering inside the massive National Conference Hall in Hanoi's outskirts resembles a regular meeting of Vietnamese political cadres, only with better-cut suits and more fluent English.
This is the first meeting of Vietnam's diaspora to be held inside the country, attracting nearly 1,000 Vietnamese living overseas for a three-day conference.

The term "diaspora" implies "Once a Vietnamese (or whatever), always a Vietnamese (or whatever)."

Certainly some diasporans genuinely believe that a less repressive regime is in the offing. However, the experience of Red China shows that the tyrannical state structure remains in place. Anyway, it's all about the money.

For the Chinese version of tribe uber alles, see Temps Decamp to Glorious PRC Homeland.

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

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Congressional candidate Lieutenant Colonel Allen West [11/26/09]
This guy rocks.

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Will the Swiss vote for a ban on minarets? [11/26/09]
This election bears watching. Will the Swiss take advantage of a unique opportunity to express condemnation of Islamic immigration? We shall see.

Minarets could be banned this weekend as Swiss voters go to the polls for a controversial referendum.
The Right-wing Swiss People's Party argues that the distinctive mosque features are a symbol of Islamic intolerance.
The party has led an emotive campaign to outlaw them. Posters depicting a woman in a burkha in front of minarets shaped like missiles, against the background of a Swiss flag, have been put up around the country.
Ulrich SchŸler, an SVP parliamentarian and leading member of the anti-minaret movement, says the towers are political rather than religious.
'They are symbols of a desire for power, of an Islam which wants to establish a legal and social order fundamentally contrary to the liberties guaranteed in our constitution,' he said.

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Terrorism probe casts scrutiny on Minneapolis' Somali immigrant enclave [11/25/09]
In recent days, several Somalis in Minnesota have been indicted on charges of promoting terrorism for allegedly recruiting young men for jihad in the homeland. This follows reports of a couple dozen USA-residing Somalis fighting for Allah in their home country. One, Shirwa Ahmed, blew up himself and 30 others in Mogadishu.

Reporting from Minneapolis - Barely a block from the Mississippi River sits a neighborhood Mark Twain could not have imagined.
Men with henna-streaked beards and women in full-body hijabs streamed Tuesday past the Maashaa Allah Restaurant, the Alle Aamin Coffee Shop, the Kaah Express Money Wiring stall, the storefront Al-Qaaniteen Mosque and other similar structures.
"When I came here as a refugee in 1995, there were just a few hundred Somalis, and we were very alone," said Adar Kahin, 48, who was a famous singer back home and now volunteers at a local community center.
"Now everyone is here," she said cheerfully. "It's like being back in Mogadishu. That's what we call it, Little Mogadishu."
This corner of Minneapolis -- the de facto capital of the Somali diaspora in America -- presents many faces: hope and renewal, despair and fear.

"Diaspora" is a trendy term for an immigrant community that tries to keep separate from the mainstream society. It also implies a lack of choice, that immigrants were forced to come to America, which of course they weren't.
And when did anyone ask Americans whether they wanted a "Little Mogadishu" inserted into their midst? Citizens certainly would have rejected a nest of terrorists based on an alien ideology of a historic enemy. Even without the Islamist jihad aspect, Somalis are a primitive tribal people who need instruction about the use of lightswitches and how to boil water the modern way with a stove. Other cultural norms include polygamy, wife beating and FGM -- actions which are illegal in this country. (See Cliff Notes Assimilation for Somalis.)

Perhaps the clan-obsessed Somali culture -- with all its other cultural behaviors that are criminal -- is not a good fit in American society... just a thought.

Even the MSM has noticed the gang carnage among Somali immigrants, for example CBS in this July article: Rise of Somali Gangs Plagues Minneapolis. The piece noted that 400-500 Somali males residing in the city were involved in gang activity according to a 2007 report.
A large cohort of young Somali gangsters who are alienated from American society would be good pickings for Islamic recruiters promising everything they feel is missing from their lives in America.

"Some of them felt America is the land of the devil,"

Why does Washington continue to welcome future enemies? It is criminally naive to do so. FDR didn't allow Nazi immigration in WWII, and today's government should end Muslim immigration for the duration.

Below, Somali males imbibe beverages in a Little Mogadishu (aka Minneapolis) coffee shop.

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Saudi Arabia: Obama's grandmother in Mecca for 'Hajj' ceremony [11/25/09]
Sarah Hussein Obama, the President's father's mother, is making the pilgrimage required of all Muslims. During the Presidential campaign, the press hinted that Granny Obama was a Christian, but now the President does not try to hide his Muslim affinity at all (even taking the oath of office as "Barack Hussein Obama" after the use of the full name was condemned as a conservative plot).

Mecca, 25 Nov. (AKI) - The grandmother of US president Barack Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the 'Hajj' or Islamic pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, a Saudi daily said on Wednesday. Sarah Obama, 87, is being accompanied by a nephew and Obama's cousin, Omran.
On Wednesday Sarah Obama was in the valley of Mina with an African delegation, according to the Saudi daily Okaz.
Obama, the mother of the American president's father, lives in a village in Kenya and is one of the many guests of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud.
About two million Muslims converge on Mecca each year for the Hajj pilgrimage but Saudi officials were expecting fewer pilgrims this year due to the threat of the H1N1 virus known as swine flu.

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63% Say Political Correctness Kept Military From Preventing Ford Hood Massacre [11/24/09]
As usual, the American people are way ahead of the cowering suits. Even ultra-lib NPR reported that Dr. Hasan's superior warned the Army in 2007 that the guy was incompetent and reckless, yet was allowed to continue as a military psychiatrist. Even in the armed forces, Muslims are protected by a coccoon of PC.
From the Rasmussen pollsters...

Sixty-three percent (63%) of U.S. voters say political correctness prevented the military from responding to warning signs from Major Nidal Malik Hasan that could have prevented the Fort Hood shootings from taking place.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 16% disagree and do not believe political correctness kept military authorities from possibly stopping the killing of 13 people and the wounding of many others in the November 5 incident. Twenty-one percent (21%) are not sure.
Voters also have very mixed feelings about how President Obama and the Army responded to the Fort Hood incident.
Older Americans are more suspicious of political correctness than voters under 40. Whites were more likely than African-Americans to think political correctness kept the military from responding to warning signs from Hasan.
Republicans and voters not affiliated with either major political party overwhelmingly believe political correctness held the military back. That view is shared by 49% of Democrats while 23% of those in the presidentÕs party disagree.
Seventy-five percent (75%) of Mainstream Americans think political correctness prevented the military from responding before the attacks took place, but a plurality (49%) of the Political Class disagrees.
New reports say authorities were aware of suspicious behavior and comments by Hasan, a devout Muslim, but no action was taken against him, in part because of concern that there might be an appearance of anti-Islamic bias. Both President Obama and the Army chief of staff urged Americans not to jump to conclusions about the cause of the shootings just after they took place.
But in a Rasmussen Reports survey less than a week after the shootings, 60% of Americans said the massacre at the Texas army base should be investigated by military authorities as a terrorist act.

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Death cap mushrooms claim Lodi woman [11/24/09]
It happens every fall and winter in northern California. The seasonal rains begin and wild mushrooms, including poisonous varieties, start popping up in woodland areas. Newbie immigrants eat them and get very sick, with death being the result at times. The amanita phalloides (aka death cap) is one of the most lethal mushrooms.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported a recent case...

A woman who ate death cap mushrooms died in a San Francisco hospital over the weekend, nearly two weeks after she picked the mushrooms in a Lodi city park and included them as an ingredient in dinner, officials said Monday.
The woman's husband, who also ate the mushrooms, was released from California Pacific Medical Center on Monday. A cousin who ate the mushrooms is responding well after receiving an emergency liver transplant, a hospital spokesman said. [...]
The mushrooms take foothold beneath California live oaks and arrive after the season's first rains, then thrive as the temperature cools. Those poisoned by the mushrooms often are immigrants who mistake the death caps for harmless varieties that grow in their native lands, but mushroom experts also have been fooled by the fungus.

That's it, basically, with no names and few specifics given. Oh, and somebody got an immediate liver transplant, with no long wait. Paid by the taxpayers? No mention. A liver transplant costs around half a million dollars.
The Stockton Record was more forthcoming with details: Woman dies after eating mushroom.

"They (the mushrooms) looked the same as the ones from Mexico,"

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Program to help truckers attracts drug smugglers [11/23/09]
NAFTA and similar trade programs that loosen sovereignty have been a great boon to smugglers of all sorts.

A U.S. program that offers trusted trucking companies speedy passage across American borders has begun attracting just the sort of customers who place a premium on avoiding inspections: Mexican drug smugglers.
Most trucks enrolled in the program pause at the border for just 20 seconds before entering the United States. And nine out of 10 of them do so without anyone looking at their cargo.
But among the small fraction of trucks that are inspected, authorities have found multiple loads of contraband, including nearly 13 tons of marijuana seized in a three-week period last spring.
Some experts now question whether the program makes sense in an environment where drug traffickers are willing to do almost anything to smuggle their shipments into the U.S.

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Parents of Liberian Rape Victim Arrested for Child Abuse [11/23/09]
The Liberian refugees who reportedly punished and disowned their eight-year-old daughter for being gang-raped by a bunch of Liberian boys were arrested the other day for abuse. The crime occurred last July, and this seems a slow response for child abuse, where the authorities generally act swiftly. Political correctness is probably to blame, with the local Muslim mouthpieces making unfounded accusations of "backlash" to chill law enforcement.

PHOENIX - The parents of the 8-year-old Liberian girl who was allegedly gang-raped at her apartment complex earlier this year, have now been arrested for child abuse.
Arrest warrants were issued for 59-year-old Hemis Dio and his wife, 47-year-old Wedeh Dio. Each of them are facing child abuse charges related to an investigation conducted by police and the Maricopa County Attorney's Office over the past several months.
During the investigation, detectives learned that Phoenix Police, Glendale Police and Child Protective Services had been called to the victim's home on numerous occasions dating back to 2005.
On two separate occasions, police say child neglect reports were filed against Dio and his wife. The Dios each face eight counts for a series of abuse and neglect incidents dating back to 2005. Not only do they face years in prison -- they could be deported back to Liberia.
An immigration case is immediately opened when a refugee gets arrested.
Four boys, ages 10 to 14, are accused of raping the 8-year-old girl back in July, after luring her to a vacant storage shed near her parent's apartment. All four suspects were arrested and charged in the attack.

In the video with the above report, the local Liberian mouthpiece said the case was the result of a "cultural misunderstanding." That's putting it mildly.

Below, CNN's report:

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Hate Crimes Up in 2008, FBI Says; Slight Rise Seen in Bias-Motivated Attacks, Report Finds [11/23/09]
According to merchandisers of hate like the SPLC, America is exploding with violence against the diverse. Actually not so much, considering population growth and the economic downturn.

Hate crimes rose slightly in 2008, with bias-motivated attacks based on race, religion and sexual orientation all increasing, according to new data released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Overall, there were 7,783 criminal incidents reported last year. Those incidents involved 9,168 offenses. In 2007, there were 7,624 criminal incidents involving 9,006 offenses reported.
Of the criminal incidents, all but three were motivated by a single bias - 51.3 percent by race; 19.5 percent by religion, 16.7 by sexual orientation; 11.5 percent by ethnicity or national origin; 1 percent by disability.
Within the racial bias incidents, 72.6 percent were against blacks; 17.3 against whites.
Gay men were the victims in most of the sexual orientation-bias attacks - 58.6 percent.
Anti-Jewish bias accounted for 65.7 percent of the religious bias attacks; 7.7 percent of the attacks were against Muslims.

Hmm, the Islamo-complainers will have to spin up a storm about that last bit since they are always squawking about non-existent backlash against Muslims.
Another news article noted the overall number of hate crimes was up 2 percent over the previous year.
In addition, the people who are most attacked because of their identity are obviously women, so the whole "hate crime" statistics dog and pony shop is a big pile of BS, IMHO.

Read the FBI report: Hate Crime Statistics, 2008

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Illegal immigrant flees before arrest [11/22/09]
When Janielle Hail (shown) was killed by a drunk-driving illegal alien, somehow the killer escaped to his home country of Colombia before the police could grab him. Since then, he has been living openly, acting like a cool dude on Facebook, apparently unafraid of arrest and extradition.

Six years ago, Janelle Hail's life came to an end. Her mother remembers the knock at the door.Ê
"I'll never forget the feeling. It felt like someone blew a cannon right through my stomach," remembered Jacki Joseph, Janelle's mother.
Troopers say Roman Saldarriaga, an illegal immigrant, killed Hail while driving drunk, and took off before they could arrest him.
Saldarriaga is one of America's most wanted, yet we found him smiling on Facebook.
"He's just so flagrantly out there," said Joseph.
NBC2 took his Facebook page to Florida Highway Patrol -Êand we learned for the first time the agency knows where Roman Saldarriaga is.
"We've got a very good general area of where he's living," Lt. Chris Miller told us. "We know who he's associated with. We've got lots of information on him."
Lt. Miller told us Saldarriaga is in his home country of Colombia, and even though they want to arrest him, they can't.
"The problem we've got is Colombia will not extradite on this particular case. If it was drug related, we wouldn't have any issues getting him back to this country," said Lt. Miller.

If that last item about extradition is true, then it is ridiculous, since the United States has given Colombia a ton of money in recent years: Former Colombian president blasts U.S. anti-drug strategy (CNN, 10/14/09).

Colombia remains the principal source of cocaine for the world, despite $6 billion in U.S. aid for anti-drug campaigns over the past decade. Plus Colombia received $541 million in foreign aid from the US in 2008, so the Colombians could be a little more helpful in bringing a killer to justice.

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Sneaking In Amnesty [11/21/09]
The Obama cadre is doing a gradual countdown to amnesty, with familiar steps. Napolitano declared the border is more secure now, and some high-profile workplace raids have taken place. We are supposed to believe the enforcement side is handled so it's time for a massive amnesty to pay off Obama's Hispanic supporters.

For illegal immigrants, the good times are back. Workplace raids have been halved, and easily fudged paperwork audits are up. Make no mistake, this is a politically driven precursor to amnesty.
How times change. In 2007, an outraged public made itself heard to politicians by saying "enough" to policies that produced 12 million illegals in the U.S.
It sank the bipartisan 2007 immigration bill, dismissing it as "amnesty," and demanded enforcement of the law.
The result rocked the country. Arrests picked up, and President Bush took on the politically tough task of telling immigrants that reform was off the table until Americans were convinced that immigration laws meant something.
That resolve has crumbled since the 2008 election. Justice Department data show criminal arrests of illegals down 60% in fiscal 2009 to a mere 443 from 1,103 a year ago. Administrative arrests have fallen 68% - to 1,644 from 5,184 - while indictments are down 58% and convictions 63%.

Some bright people think the yammering about "reform" (amnesty) is Kabuki, that voting for amnesty in this jobs depression is something Democrats won't do with the 2010 elections getting ever closer.
However, Democrat-controlled Washington has been run by the Chicago playbook -- pay off the cronies and lie about how they are screwing everyone else, and hope they can make it through with lies and the help of the corrupt liberal media. The Obamacare legislation is unpopular according to polls, but the Dems are pushing hard to spend money we don't have on legislation the people don't want. Why should they behave differently regarding immigration?

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Sears Tower bomb plot leader Narseal Batiste jailed [11/20/09]
I try to keep track of the various terror trials that get local news coverage but little attention nationally. In September, the Christian Science Monitor counted up 21 terror plots uncovered in the U.S. since 9/11. Usually the dinosaur media doesn't want to worry the pubic with such disquieting facts -- that attempted terrorism goes on rather frequently and all around the country.
Also, the word "plot" implies collusion with others, so single Islamic killers are not counted, e.g. Naveed Haq who murdered Pam Waechter and shot five other women in the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. He phoned his mother after the shooting from jail and told her she should be proud that he was a martyr and would be going to heaven. Also, my blog post about the probable Islo-murderer Suleiman Talovic in Salt Lake listed other jihad criminals who apparently acted alone, Refugee Rampage in Salt Lake. Not all Islam-inspired attacks are "plots" -- some are merely the result of reading the incendiary parts of the Koran and
Anyway, the Sears Tower plotters were Haitians and the leader got a very lightweight sentence considering.

The leader of a group which plotted to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago has been sentenced to 13.5 years in prison.
Narseal Batiste, 35, also planned to bomb FBI offices, along with four other men who have already been given prison sentences.
Prosecutors said the men conspired to provide material support to al-Qaeda but defence lawyers said the plot was never serious.
Prosecutors in Miami had sought the maximum 70-year sentence for Batiste.

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Hasan Wrote of Joining Imam in "Afterlife" [11/20/09]
Another day with more evidence that Dr. Hasan is a card-carrying jihadi -- literally -- as indicated on his business card that identified him as a "Soldier of Allah."

Maj. Nadil Malik Hasan reportedly told a radical Imam suspected of ties to al Qaeda, "I can't wait to join you" in the afterlife in a series of e-mail messages over the last year.
An American official with access to the top secret e-mails told ABC News that Hasan also asked Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born cleric who has encouraged violence against U.S. soldiers through his Web site, when it's appropriate to conduct jihad and whether killing innocent people was permissible.
Hasan is suspected in the Fort Hood shooting rampage that killed 13 people and left 29 more wounded. He's been charged in a military court with 13 counts of murder and faces the death penalty if convicted.
Hasan also boasted that, "my strength is in my financial capabilities" in one of the messages. According to the report, investigators have found Hasan donated between $20,000 and $30,000 a year to Islamic charities that were potential covers for terrorist groups.

Hasan's Army pay was $92K, and he had a downscale lifestyle so had a lot of excess cash to donate to worldwide Islamic jihad.

Defense Secretary Gates has instructed the military to investigate the Fort Hood killings "to prevent similar tragedies from occurring in the future." [Gates: We must identify potential military threats]
However, at least one observer believes the choice of personnel indicates a lack of seriousness: Politically correct officials put in charge of official Fort Hood investigation.

The investigation is to be led by two retired senior officials, both Bill Clinton appointees, who made pushing Òaffirmative actionÓ and special status for minority groups in the US military a central part of their careers.ÊWith former Army Secretary Togo West and former Navy Chief of Operations Admiral Vernon Clark at the helm of this investigation, no one should expect any critical comment about the policies that allowed the career of an extremist Muslim to flourish in the US military.

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Somali Pirates attacking people in Saint Paul, Minnesota [11/19/09]
When young Somali immigrants aren't pursuing jihad in the dear homeland, some of the tribe think it's a big yuck to assault people and put it on YouTube. The self-appointed "stars" mug it up with their real names, then knock down old people and children -- the Somali Tubers were too cowardly to pick victims strong enough to fight back.

Even the immo-philic Star Tribune reported the story: Police on the trail of attackers shown in YouTube video.

A YouTube video of eight young men terrorizing bicyclists and pedestrians -- including children and older people -- in what appear to be Minneapolis and St. Paul has triggered an investigation by police in both cities.
Edited and set to music, the video shows the group of what appear to be teenagers or young men taking turns saying, "Watch this," before knocking down victims and running away, laughing.

Somebody has put up the original Tube (HERE) that was pulled, plus some little commentary tacked on; there's no reason to think it won't be pulled too. But it is available for viewing now.

The good news is that the stupidity of the criminals made finding them easy for law enforcement: Police arrest 4 in videotaped assaults posted on YouTube.

Just think, we would have missed this life-enhancing diversity without multicultural immigration.

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Tinley Park woman charged with hate crime for tugging on woman's head scarf [11/19/09]
Hostile Muslims certainly take the cake as the most revered victim class in the liberal pantheon, as shown by this ridiculous "hate crime" accusation which can bring hard time in the slammer.

A suburban Chicago woman has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly yanking the head scarf of a Muslim woman in Tinley Park two days after the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas.
Valerie Kenney, 54, a bank teller from Tinley Park, appeared at the Bridgeview Courthouse on Wednesday and was released on $5,000 bail. If convicted of the felony, Kenney faces up to 3 years in prison and a $25,000 fine. She is due back in court Dec. 3.
"I think (a charge of hate crime) sends the appropriate message that these kinds of race-based lash-outs are unacceptable," said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "Every time something like (the Fort Hood shootings) happens, the Muslim community prepares for a backlash."
Amal Abusumayah, 28, told police she was shopping at a Tinley Park grocery store Nov. 7 when a middle-age woman passed her in the aisle and made a loud reference to the killings at Fort Hood.

It's no surprise that the terrorist fifth column at CAIR has its grubby fingers all over this. Naturally the Muslim spokeshole is worried about "backlash" (pretty mild in this case) when 13 Americans were murdered by one of their religious tribe -- the incident is certainly not "race-based" as Ahmed stated.
Furthermore, the visible oppression of women by Islam as signified by the burqa and other veiling is repulsive to freedom-loving Americans. When I see a veiled slave of Allah, I normally avert my eyes out of disgust. Maybe I could be jailed for hate crimes.
And the "backlash" thing is hugely overblown. CAIR encourages its members to report even small incidents of "anti-Muslim hate." "Backlash" includes behavior like stares -- which is hardly surprising when Muslims advertise their otherness with great enthusiasm. Yet Muslims actually receive a low number of so-called hate crimes: In 2006, 66% of religiously motivated attacks were against Jews, while just 11% targeted Muslims. The "backlash" complaint is designed to shut down any criticism of diverse immigration before it gets started.

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Hasan's Supervisor Warned Army In 2007 [11/18/09]
Political correctness kills.
Now we are learning that Dr. Hasan, the murderer of Fort Hood, was cut enormously more slack than any non-Muslim would have received. He retained his position only because of his minority status. One of his superiors was brave enough to write an honest evaluation, but nothing was done to get rid of a bad doctor who could do terrible damage to a soldier who needed top-notch help. (You can read the memo from the superior officer.)

Two years ago, a top psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center was so concerned about what he saw as Nidal Hasan's incompetence and reckless behavior that he put those concerns in writing. NPR has obtained a copy of the memo, the first evaluation that has surfaced from Hasan's file.
Officials at Walter Reed sent that memo to Fort Hood this year when Hasan was transferred there.
Nevertheless, commanders still assigned Hasan Ñ accused of killing 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood on Nov. 5 Ñ to work with some of the Army's most troubled and vulnerable soldiers.

The Damning Memo
On May 17, 2007, Hasan's supervisor at Walter Reed sent the memo to the Walter Reed credentials committee. It reads, "Memorandum for: Credentials Committee. Subject: CPT Nidal Hasan." More than a page long, the document warns that: "The Faculty has serious concerns about CPT Hasan's professionalism and work ethic. ... He demonstrates a pattern of poor judgment and a lack of professionalism." It is signed by the chief of psychiatric residents at Walter Reed, Maj. Scott Moran.
When shown the memo, two leading psychiatrists said it was so damning, it might have sunk Hasan's career if he had applied for a job outside the Army. [...]
According to the memo, Hasan hardly did any work: He saw only 30 patients in 38 weeks. Sources at Walter Reed say most psychiatrists see at least 10 times that many patients. When Hasan was supposed to be on call for emergencies, he didn't even answer the phone.

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51% Oppose Decision To Try Terrorists in New York City [11/17/09]
From the Rasmussen pollsters: Obama's decision to bestow American civil rights on the worst terrorists in court is not appreciated by a majority of citizens.
Furthermore, the imperiousness of this administration to jam through its extreme agenda despite the danger to the public is becoming very concerning. Surely al Qaeda will be inspired to mount an even more destructive attack on New York City during the trial.

Fifty-one percent (51%) of U.S. voters oppose the Obama administrationÕs decision to try the confessed chief planner of the 9/11 attacks and other suspected terrorists in a civilian court in New York City.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 29% of voters favor the presidentÕs decision not to try the suspects by military tribunal at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba where they are now imprisoned. Nineteen percent (19%) are not sure whether it was the right decision or not.
Only 30% of Americans said suspected terrorists should have access to U.S. courts, while 54% favored military tribunals in July 2008, as the first such tribunal got under way at Guantanamo.
Still, 58% of voters now are at least somewhat confident that New York City will be safe and secure while the trials are going on. Yet only 20% are very confident of that fact. Thirty-eight percent (38%) are not very or not at all confident that New York will be safe during this period.

A CNN poll has a similar result: CNN Poll: Americans want KSM tried in military court.

Two-thirds of Americans disagree with the Obama administration's decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a civilian court rather than a military court

Thomas Sowell nails the stunning arrogance: Obama's Bow to "World Opinion"

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Family Guy Palestinian alarm clock [11/17/09]
Some quickie fun.

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The KSM Trial Will Be an Intelligence Bonanza for al Qaeda [11/16/09]
Professor John Yoo of UC Berkeley explains the idiocy of the decision of the Obama administration to try 9/11 terrorists in US civilian court.

Trying KSM in civilian court will be an intelligence bonanza for al Qaeda and the hostile nations that will view the U.S. intelligence methods and sources that such a trial will reveal. The proceedings will tie up judges for years on issues best left to the president and Congress.
Whether a jury ultimately convicts KSM and his fellows, or sentences them to death, is beside the point. The treatment of the 9/11 attacks as a criminal matter rather than as an act of war will cripple American efforts to fight terrorism. It is in effect a declaration that this nation is no longer at war.
KSM is the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the PentagonÑand a "terrorist entrepreneur," according to the 9/11 Commission report. He was the brains behind a succession of operations against the U.S., including the 1996 "Bojinka plot" to crash jetliners into American cities. Together with Osama bin Laden, he selected the 9/11 terrorists, arranged their financing and training, and ran the whole operation from abroad.

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Water bond offers nearly $2 billion in 'pork' [11/16/09]
California's water system definitely needs work, in particular the dangerously weak levees that keep Sacramento from flooding New Orleans-style during heavy rain, but the legislature is incapable of producing a clean bill.

The $11 billion water bond that California voters will be asked to approve next year contains nearly $2 billion in earmarks that lawmakers candidly acknowledge were included in the proposal to win the votes that were needed to pass the plan out of the Legislature.
Hundreds of millions of dollars of those earmarks - which some lawmakers are calling wasteful pork - would go to projects that would do little, if anything, to increase the state's supply of clean and reliable water.
They include $100 million for Lake Tahoe, which has perhaps the highest-quality water in the state, and $40 million for projects in Los Angeles and Orange counties to educate the public about California's water.
Backers of the bond say they hope that the earmarked projects will compel voters from those parts of the state that would benefit from them to support the ballot proposition next November. [...]
Some of the earmarks include:
-- $100 million for the Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Program for watershed restoration, bike trails and public access and recreation projects.
-- $75 million for the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, for public access, education and interpretive projects, physical projects and "improving community sustainability."
-- $250 million for dam removal on the Klamath River, a project to help restore salmon runs; and another $20 million for Siskiyou County to soften the impact on the economy from the loss of dams.
-- $20 million for the Baldwin Hills Conservancy to be used to buy land to expand the small conservancy in the Los Angeles hills, which is near the home of Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Baldwin Vista.
-- $20 million for the Bolsa Chica Wetlands in Huntington Beach (Orange County) for interpretive projects for visitors.

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More U.S. job hunters look for work in other countries [11/16/09]
How bad is the American economy? Bad enough to make citizens look abroad for jobs. The numbers are still small, but it could signify the beginning of a trend.

Here's one way to deal with the brutal U.S. job market: Leave the country.
With the nation's unemployment rate at a 26-year-high of 10.2%, more Americans are hunting for, and landing, work overseas, according to staffing companies and executive search firms.
Jeff Joerres, CEO of Manpower, the No. 1 U.S. staffing company, says about 500 clients are seeking jobs abroad, up from a few dozen six months ago.
"It suddenly looks like there may be better opportunities outside the U.S.," Joerres says. "It is a phenomenon we haven't had before."
While the number of globe-trotting job candidates is still relatively small, the trend reverses a longtime pattern of far more foreign workers seeking jobs in the U.S., Joerres says.
Fifty-four percent of executives said they'd be likely or highly likely to accept a foreign post, according to a survey of 114 executives Friday by talent management company Korn/Ferry. Just 37% of those surveyed in 2005 said they'd go abroad.
The hottest international job markets include India, China, Brazil, Dubai and Singapore, recruiters say. International companies are largely seeking candidates in engineering, computer technology, manufacturing, investment banking and consulting.

Meanwhile on the home front, Bernanke lays out gloomy economic assessment.

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Violence in Marseille over Algeria, Egypt soccer [11/15/09]
Islam meets soccer... what could possibly go wrong?
European soccer fans can get rowdy even under normal circumstances, but throw Islam plus immigrant nationalism into the mix and the situation becomes still more incendiary as shown in a recent dust-up. France's port city of Marseille had an outbreak of rioting when local Algerians became miffed at their team's poor showing in a World Cup qualifier match... that took place in Cairo.

MARSEILLE, France, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Rioters smashed shop windows, hurled stones at police and set fire to several boats moored in the southern French port of Marseille after Egypt beat Algeria in a soccer World Cup qualifying match on Saturday.
A police spokesman said more than 500 officers were deployed in the centre of Marseille, an often volatile city with a large North African immigrant population and football supporters who are considered among the most passionate in France.
Egypt won the match, which was played in Cairo, 2-0.
Police said they had made eight arrests, mostly for throwing objects, while one man was arrested for setting fire to a rubbish bin.
At least six boats were damaged and two were sunk when a fire was sparked by a smoke bomb of the kind seen frequently in French football stadiums.
Police said the trouble began after youths of Algerian origin reacted in frustration when Egypt scored towards the end of the first half of match, in which the two teams were vying to qualify for next year's World Cup.

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New citizenship guide says no to 'barbaric' practices [11/15/09]
Congrats to Canada for making clear to diverse immigrants that certain barbaric customs will not be permitted.

Canada's revamped citizenship guide warns newcomers that "barbaric cultural practices" such as honour killings will not be tolerated, marking a stronger tone against importing beliefs that clash with Canadian values.
"In Canada, men and women are equal under the law," the document says. "Canada's openness and generosity do not extend to barbaric cultural practices that tolerate spousal abuse, Ôhonour killings,' female genital mutilation or other gender-based violence. Those guilty of these crimes are severely punished under Canada's criminal laws."
The guide, released on Thursday and called Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Canadian Citizenship, (read the full guide) is the first of its kind to explicitly denounce violence in the name of family honour -- a crime in the headlines just this week after an Ottawa man was sentenced to a year in jail for threatening violence against his daughter.
While honour killings remain relatively rare in Canada, several high-profile cases have drawn attention to the issue. Even the use of the term "honour killings" has stirred debate, as critics of the wording say it implies the practice is accepted by certain religions when, in fact, it is not.
"The government had long been cautious about offending people," said Amin Muhammad, a psychiatry professor at Memorial University and author of a recent paper on the subject, which was submitted to the federal Department of Justice. "But now, the government is bravely -- but politely -- warning that this is something that is not to be tolerated."
The inclusion of honour killings and spousal abuse in the guide reminded some onlookers of the tension over reasonable accommodation, a concept that came to a boiling point in HŽrouxville, Que., in 2007 when the town council passed a motion governing the behaviour of immigrants, including provisions against stoning women and genital mutilation. [...]
Phyllis Chesler, an American feminist author who will soon publish a study of 230 honour killings across five continents, said honour killings are most often committed by Muslims, but added that Canada and the United States have also seen many cases involving Sikhs and Hindus. "The punishment is for becoming western after having moved to the west," Ms. Chesler said. "Wanting to leave a husband, going to college - these sorts of things that we take for granted - are seen as capital crimes among those who practice honour killings."
Ms. Chesler said honour killings are culturally acceptable in some parts of the world, adding that the killers are often glorified and the victim's family is usually complicit. "These people are coming from countries where these behaviours are never punished," she said. "There are people who bring this mindset when they come to the west."

This policy statement is a step forward after an embarassing flirtation regarding sharia courts several years ago.

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Obama urges Congress to put off Fort Hood probe [11/14/09]
The President who thinks we shoulnd't jump to conclusions about Dr. Hasan's Jihad doesn't want an investigation to clarify the facts either. What possible good could come from covering up this attack? Does he think Americans will forget about the first terrorism on our soil since 9/11?

President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.
On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to "resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater." He said those who died on the nation's largest Army post deserve justice, not political stagecraft.
"The stakes are far too high," Obama said in a video and Internet address released by the White House while the president he was flying from Tokyo to Singapore, where Pacific Rim countries were meeting.
Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, was charged on Thursday with the shooting spree at Fort Hood last week. Army investigators have said Hasan is the only suspect and could face additional charges.

Meanwhile, several soldiers' funerals are scheduled for Saturday. Sgt. Amy Krueger's casket was on view in her high school in Kiel, Wisconsin, shown below.

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Asian caste discrimination rife in UK, says report [11/13/09]
Welcome to another Diversity Moment. Just because Indians (dot, not feather) reside in the west, it doesn't mean they have put aside their obnoxious caste beliefs. (Of course, when Indians immigrate, they want all the equality they can get when poking around for employment.)

Caste discrimination is rife in the UK, with more than half of those from traditionally lower-status Asian backgrounds finding themselves victims of prejudice and abuse, according to a report published today.
The study, co-ordinated by the Anti Caste Discrimination Alliance (Acda), suggests that the caste system is still widespread and affects tens of thousands of people in the workplace, the classroom and even the doctor's surgery.
Fifty-eight percent of the 300 people surveyed said they had been discriminated against because of their caste, while 79% said they did not think the police would understand if they tried to report a caste-related "hate crime".
Almost half of the respondents (45%) said they had either been treated negatively by co-workers or had comments made about their caste. Nine per cent felt they had been passed over for promotion, and 10% said they had been paid less because of their caste. A further 5% said they had experienced threatening behaviour because of their caste.

It's the same deal in America, where the immigrants bring their crappy cultural baggage with little condemnation from the majority society, because the mainstream citizenry is now supposed to embrace multiculturalism uncritically.

Family Ties and the Entanglements of Caste

For more about Indian diversity, see my 2007 article, Dogs, Frogs and Dalits: The Indian Model Minority Has A Dark Side

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"Houston sheriffs round up thousands of illegals" [11/12/09]
Does anything make more sense than investigating the backgrounds of incarcerated criminals for everything law enforcement can find? Catching bad guys already in custody is beyond a no-brainer. Yet the Raza types scream up a storm whenever police examine their captive audience.
The poster boy for this issue should be the late (executed) Angel Maturino Resendez aka the railroad killer, who was believed to have murdered 15 Americans. He was able to persist as a serial killer by being a serial illegal alien with an assortent of fake identities. Law enforcement in Resendez' heyday was even sloppier than now about checking out illegal aliens, and the railway killer was in the hands of US authorities an estimated 25 times.

Working two per shift, the deputies refer roughly 1,000 suspected illegal immigrants to federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities every month, helping to make the Southern District of Texas by far the busiest in the nation for illegal-immigration prosecutions.
Since joining a federal program in August 2008 that trains local law authorities to enforce immigration law, the sheriff's office has turned up high-level gang members, a suspect wanted for murder in Mexico, and illegal immigrants from countries around the world, Lt. Michael Lindsay said.
Harris County frequently refers more cases in a given month than any other local police agency in the program, he said.
But what makes the Harris County program stand apart is a routine that insulates it from the accusations of profiling that have drawn prominent criticism to programs like that run by Sheriff Arpaio in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Unlike in Maricopa County, Harris County authorities do not run street sweeps in search of illegal immigrants. But they do question everybody booked into the jail about their immigration status.
"We ask everybody, right off the bat, 'Are you legally in the country?'" said Lt. Lindsay, who oversees the team that conducts the questioning. "It doesn't matter what country you're from. It doesn't matter your religion. It doesn't matter the color of your skin. We make everybody go through it."

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Fort Hood Victim Tells CNN: Hasan Yelled "Allahu Akbar" [11/12/09]
Some of the apologists for Dr. Hasan's Jihad discount the descripion that the shooter yelled "Allahu Ackbar" prior to firing, but this witness and victim has no doubt it occurred. Army Specialist Logan Burnette talked with CNN medical reporter Sanjay Gupta.

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Spreading Islam In Britain [11/12/09]
The talking heads on CNN are hopelessly PC, but the network does occasionally broadcast decent segments, such as the following piece about the noisy Muslims in the UK, which also connects the dots about how jihadists in Britain see their strategy as exportable to the United States.
Don't the miss the Son of Allah at the beginning declare, "Inshallah one day 10 Downing Street and the White House, Allahu Ackbar" -- thereby underlining the one-world-under-Islam ideology. A few seconds later another fellow says the queen will have to become a Muslim or leave the country.

A 2006 poll in the UK found that 40 percent of Muslims residing there want sharia law in that country. Pollsters in this country have been less inquisitive toward the Muslims in our midst.

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On Veterans' Day... [11/11/09]
On patriotic holidays, I reflect on the military of now and in generations past. The photo below of Ike with the 101st Airborne prior to D-Day is a favorite.

Surely today's military folks on the ground stand up in comparison to any generation, even the "greatest" as the WWII people are called. But you cannot say the same thing about today's leaders. General Eisenhower supported and inspired his troops. But the current top brass are politically correct creatures, like Army Chief of Staff, George Casey, who remarked Sunday on Meet the Press, "Our diversity not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength.Ê And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse."
Thirteen Americans are needlessly murdered and the general is concerned that "diversity" will suffer. This is how low we have sunk. Try to imagine Ike saying that anything was more important than not wasting the lives over his men, particularly for the latest style in ideology. Ike didn't worry about the sensitive feelings of troops with German or Italian ancestry, or think those emotions were the most important thing
In fact, Ike's message to the troops might be thought insulting by Muslims because of the word "crusade." [Listen!]

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!

You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely.
But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!
I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!
Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

Wouldn't you like to hear a call to arms like that from today's generals? Not a chance; the current bunch thinks their job is to defend diversity.

For some great photos of Veterans' Day, see Urban Infidel's pix of the parade in New York City.

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60% Want Fort Hood Shooting Investigated as Terrorist Act [11/11/09]
Rasmussen has surveyed the public about the recent johadist attack in Fort Hood.

Sixty percent (60%) of likely voters nationwide say last week's shootings at Fort Hood should be investigated by military authorities as a terrorist act. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 27% want the incident investigated by civilian authorities as a criminal act. Another 13% are not sure.
Those following the story Very Closely are even more likely to want the shooting investigated as an act of terrorism.
Sixty-five percent (65%) of all voters say Major Nidal Malik Hasan should receive the death penalty if convicted. Nineteen percent (19%) disagree, and 16% aren't sure.
Seventy-six percent (76%) believe the army should remove from duty all officers like Hasan who attempt to contact radical terrorist organizations such as al Qaeda. Only seven percent (7%) disagree. This general view was articulated by Senator Joseph Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat who said, "If Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an Islamist extremist, the U.S. Army has to have a zero tolerance."
"There were definitely clear indications that Hasan's loyalties were not with America," Lt. Col. Val Finnell, a classmate of Hasan's for two years at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., said in news reports. [...]
As on many issues, there is a wide gap between the Political Class and Mainstream Americans. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Mainstream Americans want the shooting investigated as a terrorist act while 51% of the Political Class want civilian authorities to handle it as a criminal investigation.

Also from Rasmussen: 81% View U.S. Military Favorably This Veteran's Day. This compares with 15 percent of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings.

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Victims of the Nov. 5 mass shootings at Fort Hood [11/10/09]
As usual in high-profile crimes, there has been too little attention paid to the individuals killed in Dr. Hasan's jihad. The Dallas Morning News carried photos of 11 of the 13 dead plus brief bios for all.
Interestingly, one of the initial reports was how the shooter appeared to pick out people he knew as targets, but that has fallen by the wayside. I counted four people who were medical professionals among the dead (all the older men basically), which seems curious. There's no way to know the ratio of medical folks to soldiers given the situation of a pre-deployment processing center, nor how many medical people were wounded. But it does bear watching.
As an example, here's the bio of the oldest victim, the bearded white-haired man in the photo below.

Michael Grant Cahill, a 62-year-old physician assistant, suffered a heart attack two weeks ago and returned to work at the base as a civilian employee after taking just one week off for recovery, said his daughter Keely Vanacker. "He survived that. He was getting back on track, and he gets killed by a gunman," Vanacker said, her words bare with shock and disbelief.
Cahill, of Cameron, Texas, helped treat soldiers returning from tours of duty or preparing for deployment. Often, Vanacker said, Cahill would walk young soldiers where they needed to go, just to make sure they got the right treatment.
"He loved his patients, and his patients loved him," said Vanacker, 33, the oldest of Cahill's three adult children. "He just felt his job was important."
Cahill, who was born in Spokane, Wash., had worked as a civilian contractor at Fort Hood for about four years, after jobs in rural health clinics and at Veterans Affairs hospitals. He and his wife, Joleen, had been married 37 years.
Vanacker described her father as a gregarious man and a voracious reader who could talk for hours about any subject. The family's typical Thanksgiving dinners ended with board games and long conversations over the table, said Vanacker, whose voice often cracked with emotion as she remembered her father. "Now, who I am going to talk to?"

Below, left to right top row: Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, Sgt. Amy Krueger, Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, Michael Grant Cahill, Pfc. Kham Xiong, Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow;
lower row: Pfc. Michael Pearson, Capt. Russell Seager, Francheska Velez, Capt. John Gaffaney, Maj. Libardo Eduardo Caraveo.

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Neil Cavuto: Is Ft. Hood Shooter Suspect Major Nadal Hasan Connected to Al-Queda? [11/09/09]
Col Ralph Peters has been correctly furious about the military's addiction to political correctness in the Fort Hood case and not discharging Hasan after many signs that he was unsuitable and dangerous.

"If this nut case has been a white supremecist, he would have been gone long ago as he should have been, but because he was a protected species, a sort of one-off Muslim psychiatrist officer, he got a pass again and again, proselitizes returning vets -- welcome home, guys and gals -- argues with his peers about the injustice about our wars abroad, gives a lecture on the duty of Muslimsto kill to behead infidels; he runs around in his Islamist playsuit in central Texas. [...]
We are really sick with political correctness."

(Peters begins at 2 minutes in.)

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Uninsured Illegal Immigrant Drivers [11/09/09]
I've written a lot about drunk driving illegal aliens who kill, but sometimes the innocent victims just lose a pile of money when their car gets trashed. (HInt: always get insurance that covers you for uninsured motorists.)

Illegal immigrants are driving without insurance, and it could cost you thousands of dollars.Ê A Sapulpa mother was driving two children in the backseat, when another car slammed into her car, totalling her car.Ê The other driver was an illegal immigrant.Ê He didn't have insurance, he was drunk, and he had done this before.ÊÊ Ê
Paige Harp had her car for only three weeks before the accident.Ê She had already started planning the new life she have with the ability to apply for jobs and drive to work.ÊÊ ÊÊ
Harp said, "I was so excited the first week I had my car.Ê I probably filled out 20 applications to different places.Ê I got a call right after the wreck for my first job interview."
Paige is stuck with a bill for more than $1,500 that she doesn't have.Ê She had insurance, but her insurance did not cover the uninsured motorists. Ê
The man who hit her was an illegal immigrant, driving drunk without insurance.

Ê The bad guy wouldn't have been nailed for a felony repeat offense except that an observant police officer recognized that he had arrested the drunk alien before, only with a slightly altered name.

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Officials: U.S. Aware of Hasan Efforts to Contact al Qaeda [11/09/09]
The Fort Hood shooter was not as assimilated to American values as the protectors of diversity would have you believe.

U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.
It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials said.
Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said that he requested the CIA and other intelligence agencies brief the committee on what was known, if anything, about Hasan by the U.S. intelligence community, only to be refused.
In response, Hoekstra issued a document preservation request to four intelligence agencies. The letter, dated November 7th, was sent to directors Dennis Blair (DNI), Robert Mueller (FBI), Lt. Gen Keith Alexander (NSA) and Leon Panetta (CIA).
Hoekstra said he is "absolutely furious" that the house intel committee has been refused an intelligence briefing by the DNI or CIA on Hasan's attempt to reach out to al Qaeda, as first reported by ABC News.
"This is a law enforcement investigation, in which other agenciesnot the CIAhave the lead," CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said in a response to ABC News. " Any suggestion that the CIA refused to brief Congress is incorrect."

How curious that information about Hasan's fondness for terrorism is being squelched.

Another item of jihadist evidence is the card which Hasan handed out along with Korans (reported by Atlas): It reads SoA under his name, meaning "Soldier of Allah."

Furthermore, the feigned shock of the Army that Muslims in the American military would go jihad is belied by the list from WND noting "At least a dozen other Muslim soldiers have been convicted of terrorism or espionage since 9/11." If the military doesn't think there is a Muslim terrorist problem in its ranks, then it is not paying attention or is in serious denial.

NAVY SIGNALMAN HASSAN ABUJIHAAD last year was convicted of tipping off al-Qaida to battlegroup movements in the Persian Gulf, including disclosing classified documents detailing the group's vulnerability to terror attack

ARMY RESERVIST JEFFREY LEON BATTLE in 2003 pleaded guilty to conspiring to wage war against the U.S., confessing he enlisted "to receive military training to use against America"

ARMY RESERVIST SEMI OSMAN in 2002 was arrested for providing material support to al-Qaida and pleaded guilty to weapons charges after agreeing to testify against other terror suspects

MARINE ABDUL RAHEEM AL-ARSHAD ALI trained at a suspected al-Qaida camp and was charged with selling a semiautomatic handgun to Osman

ARMY SGT. ALI "THE AMERICAN" MOHAMED trained Green Berets at the elite Swick warfare school at Fort Bragg before stealing classified military secrets for al-Qaida and helping plan the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa

ARMY SGT. HAMMAD ABDUR-RAHEEM in 2004 was convicted of terror-related charges

ARMY SPC. RYAN G. ANDERSON in 2004 was convicted of leaking military intelligence to al-Qaida terrorists, including sensitive information about the vulnerabilities of armored Humvees

ARMY SNIPER JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD was sentenced to death after fatally shooting 10 in the nation's capital a year after the 9/11 attacks

FORMER ARMY LINGUIST AHMED FATHY MEHALBA in 2005 was convicted of stealing secret documents listing, among other things, the names of al-Qaida detainees from Gitmo

SENIOR AIRMAN AHMAD AL-HALABI in 2004 was convicted of mishandling classified documents as an Arabic linguist at Gitmo

ARMY CAPT. JAMES "YOUSEF" YEE in 2003 was formally charged with mishandling classified information – including maps of a new Gitmo facility – as a Muslim chaplain at Gitmo.

Furthermore, TheReligionOfPeace.com (known for keeping count of deaths at the hands of jihadist Muslims) notes that the Sons of Allah are winning in terms of killing infidels. Only one death can be chalked up to "backlash" and that was immediately after 9/11.

People killed by radical Muslims on 9/11:	2,996
Muslim-Americans killed "in revenge":	1

Army Didn't Want To Appear Too "Anti-Muslim", Hasan Had Links To Hijackers.

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32% See World As Community of Similar Nations [11/09/09]
So how's that one-world kumbaya thing working out for Americans? According to the Rasmussen pollsters, not so well. The idea of universal peace and love sounds warm and wonderful, but history and human nature paint a less upbeat picture. Americans are realistic enough to understand that point.

As part of his effort to improve AmericaÕs international standing, President Obama has spoken of the world as a community of nations with more in common than divides us.
But just 32% of U.S. voters agree with the idea that the world is a community of nations, more alike than different in outlook and interest. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 44% disagree and 24% are not sure.
A solid plurality of Democrats (47%) share ObamaÕs global perspective, but 60% of Republicans and 49% of voters of voters not affiliated with either party donÕt think the presidentÕs right.
Fifty-five percent (55%) of liberals agree with Obama that the world is a community of nations with more in common than not. Fifty-nine percent (59%) of conservatives reject that world view.

In addition, the President's apparent preference for European-style socialism is not shared by Americans.

most U.S. voters (55%) believe that it would be better for the world if Europe became more like the United States

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Lieberman: Congress will investigate Hasan motives [11/08/09]
Senator Joe Lieberman is pretty level headed about Islamic terror in the United States and beyond (e.g. Somalia). He is concerned that "warning signs were missed" about Dr. Hasan.

Meanwhile, the Army Chief of Staff warns against "backlash": Lieberman Suggests Army Shooter Was 'Home-Grown Terrorist'.

Gen. Casey said the Army was conducting an investigation to try to determine the motivation behind the shootings. "We in the Army will take a very hard look at ourselves and ask ourselves some very hard questions," he said.
He expressed concern that speculation about the shooting could result in a "backlash" against Muslim soldiers. "What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even-greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here," he said. "We have a very diverse army. We have a very diverse society. And that gives us all strength."

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Fort Hood shooting: Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists [11/07/09]
This news is an interesting element to the building mass of evidence that the Fort Hood shooter was a classic jihadi.

Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother's funeral was held there in May that year.
The preacher at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni scholar who was banned from addressing a meeting in London by video link in August because he is accused of supporting attacks on British troops and backing terrorist organisations.
Hasan's eyes "lit up" when he mentioned his deep respect for al-Awlaki's teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort Hood base in Texas, the scene of Thursday's horrific shooting spree.
As investigators look at Hasan's motives and mindset, his attendance at the mosque could be an important piece of the jigsaw. Al-Awlaki moved to Dar al-Hijrah as imam in January, 2001, from the west coast, and three months later the September 11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hamzi and Hani Hanjour began attending his services. A third hijacker attended his services in California.
Hasan was praying at Dar al-Hijrah at about the same time, and the FBI will now want to investigate whether he met the two terrorists.
Charles Allen, a former under-secretary for intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security, has described al-Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen, as an "al-Qaeda supporter, and former spiritual leader to three of the September 11 hijackers... who targets US Muslims with radical online lectures encouraging terrorist attacks from his new home in Yemen".

Meanwhile, the liberal press is in an absolute tizzy to blame Americans for the Fort Hood shooting and avoid the obvious jihad motivation. The preferred narrative goes like this: The sensitive Muslim psychiatrist was driven to kill by racist Americans who are suspicious of Islam for some crazy reason (maybe the daily murders of infidels around the world?). Certainly the Obama Presidency was supposed to signal a change in Muslim attitudes, as imagined by the press, but kumbaya has not yet broken out. The whole Obama strategy of embracing enemies is being revealed from Tehran to Fort Hood to be a dangerous fantasy.
Another piece of the liberal explanation is how the overwhelming stress of dealing with combat-wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital drove poor Dr. Hasan over the edge. Of course there is no other case of a shrink being driven to mass murder from the difficulties of his job.
The accumulation of facts indicates a planned terrorist act by a devout Muslim who tried to convert soldiers to his faith and used his position to peddle Islam, something that even NPR noted:

Hasan behaved unprofessionally, got a poor performance evaluation and was potentially dangerous, but the Army was too PC to can him. See also Some saw trouble ahead for Fort Hood suspect.

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Somalia cheap mobile calls help youngsters elope [11/07/09]
Technology is taking all the romance out of marriage in Somalia, where traditionalists miss the good old days when camels were exchanged for a bride. But now, the mobile phone has made "marriage" and divorce easy to manage. The quickie marriages are more like a meet-up for sex, but Islam insists that certain formalities be observed.

Somali courtship was different in Hassan Aden's day. When he was a teenager, you gave the girl's parents 11 camels and an AK-47 assault rifle as bride price and then waited respectfully.
Now, the 55-year-old said, a mobile phone service that seems to be the only thing working in the failed Horn of Africa state is helping drive a rise in elopements, pregnancies out of marriage and a steady erosion of Somalia's conservative values. [...]
The cheap calls and extended mobile network in the Horn of Africa nation make it easier for Somalis to get in touch with willing partners and arrange quick assignations.
Traditional Somali marriages used to be long-planned, intricately arranged affairs normally determined by clan and sub-clan elders. But some now prefer a less formal kind of marriage, which is essentially elopement, because they do not have the economic means to face a prospective father-in-law. [...]
"I don't think I'd be sane if it were not for the 'Qudbasiro', free-of-charge secret marriages," the unemployed secondary school graduate told Reuters, sitting cross-legged on a ragged mattress and sending a text message with his phone.
"I've divorced nine women already. Voluntary brides and cheap phone services, it is the only life we have."

In other news from sharia-run Somalia, an adulterer was stoned to death but the local Islamists have spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth.

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CBN on Ft hood [11/06/09]
After a day of the worst, most vile politically correct reporting about the Fort Hood terrorist shooting, it was a nice respite to see the CBN segment.

Also worth your attention is the segment of Ralph Peters on the O'Reilly show, where he defined the shooting as "...the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11. It was committed by a Muslim fanatic who shouted 'Allah is great' and gunned down 44 unarmed innocent solders and civilians. And our President tells us not to rush to judgement, to wait until all the facts are in. What facts are we waiting for? This was an Islamist terrorist act."

Update: See Ralph Peters' opinion piece in the New York Post, Fort Hood's 9/11

Robert Spencer appeared on the Savage Nation and agreed that the shooting was a jihad attack, plus he adds his knowledge of the Koran and Islam. One point is how the Koran guarantees paradise to any Muslim who kills infidels. Spencer thinks more attacks of this nature may be forthcoming. Very informative.

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Jobless rate tops 10 pct. for first time since '83 [11/06/09]
More bad news for American workers. Not unexpected, but still ugly.

The unemployment rate has hit double digits for the first time since 1983 Ñ and is likely to go higher.
The 10.2 percent jobless rate for October shows how weak the economy remains even though it is growing. Rising unemployment also could threaten the recovery if it saps consumers' confidence and makes them more cautious about spending as the holiday season approaches.
Nearly 16 million people can't find jobs even though the worst recession since the Great Depression has apparently ended.

Despite this crushing trend, legal immigration continues to bubble along, importing 1.5 million additional workers annually. Why? Is there no OFF switch in Washington?

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Dad Of Soldier: Ft. Hook Shooter Exclaimed "Allah Akbar" As He Opened Fire [11/06/09]
The Fort Hood massacre looks entirely like another terrorist attack based on Islam, aka Jihad. The shooter wasn't in contact with Osama bin Laden that we know, but according to news reports, he believed that Sons of Allah should rise up against infidels when they invade Muslim lands, which is a major jihadist talking point.
The Washington Post reported that Hasan was "very devout" and he "attended prayers at least once a day, seven days a week." Plus he yelled the common pre-attack "God is great" shreik.

Robert Spencer reports: Fort Hood jihad shooter handed out Korans the morning of his attack

He handed out Korans? But didn't what he read in the Book of Peace make him think that he shouldn't go through with the massacre?
Or maybe he read that Paradise was guaranteed to those who "kill and are killed" for Allah (9:111), and took that seriously.

Meanwhile, the usual suspects are claiming victimhood, designed to intimidate Americans from understanding the cause of the murders: Muslim groups fear backlash

Nidal Malik Hasan is a perfect example of how diverse immigration, particularly of Muslims, is a stunningly misguided ideology. Islam has been the historic enemy of the West and is culturally incompatible. The best you can say about Muslim immigrant is they come for the money, because they dislike American values of freedom and equality.
Hasan was born in Virginia and attended American schools, but when this country's foreign policy came into conflict with his Islamic beliefs, Islam won. Many lives were lost as a result.
The United States is far beyond full environmentally speaking. Why not end all immigration? That would be fair, and no ethnic interest groups could squawk "racist."

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Colleague Terry Lee on Fort Hood Shooter Malik Nadal Hasan -- He Wanted Muslims to "Stand Up" [11/05/09]
This report about the accused dead shooter at Fort Hood suggests that in a choice between Islam and his duty as a soldier, his Muslim identity won out.

The shooter was American born and was raised as a Muslim, according to this item: Sources Identify Major as Gunman in Deadly Shooting Rampage at Fort Hood.

The shooter's cousin, Nader Hasan, told Fox News that their family is in shock.
"We are trying to make sense of all this," Nader Hasan said. "He wasn't even someone who enjoyed going to the firing range."
He said his cousin, who was born and raised in Virginia and graduated from Virginia Tech University, became against the wars after hearing the stories of those who came back from Afghanistan and Iraq.
Nader Hasan said his cousin, who was raised a Mulsim, wanted to go into the military against his parent's wishes and was taunted by others after the terror attacks of Sept. 11.

The doc was not happy about his upcoming deployment: Gunman ÔMortifiedÕ About Deployment to War.

WASHINGTON - Born and raised in Virginia, the son of immigrant parents from a small town near Jerusalem, he joined the Army right out of high school, against his parentsÕ wishes. The Army, in turn, put him through college and then medical school, where he trained to be a psychiatrist. Update: Whoa, the press conference says the shooter is ALIVE. Too bad.

Plus, he is a very active Muslim, according to the Washington Post.

"very devout,"

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Trick-or-treaters mistaken for gang bangers [11/05/09]
It's bad enough that diverse gangsters are very violent, but many of them are quite stupid (one example: Edwin Ramos, the illegal alien MS-13 member who murdered the three members of the Bologna family in San Francisco who thought the Bolognas looked like members if an enemy gang).
Now the victims are kids trick-or-treating.

SAN JOSE -- Four young men were charged with attempted murder today in the Halloween shooting and stabbing of two trick-or-treaters in San Jose whom they mistook for rival gang members, authorities said.
Eduardo Cristobal, 18, of Milpitas was arrested Wednesday in connection with the attack, one day after Diego Gutierrez and Erik Diaz, both 16, and 15-year-old Hugo Torres were arrested.
The juveniles, who all live in San Jose, are being arraigned as adults this afternoon on two counts each of attempted murder, said Santa Clara County District Attorney Dolores Carr. Cristobal is being arraigned on the same charges.
The victims, boys ages 12 and 13, were attacked while trick-or-treating on the 2000 block of Story Road at 10 p.m., police said. The younger boy was shot in the head and remains in critical condition. The older boy was stabbed several times but has been released from a hospital.

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'You should be proud,' Haq told mother after shootings [11/05/09]
On July 28, 2006, Naveed Haq entered the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and shot several women, killing one, Pamela Waechter (shown), and leaving another, Layla Bush, unable to walk.
The first trial became deadlocked, and the second trial has been going on for a couple weeks, where the accused has claimed the insanity defense. He had earlier claimed to be engaging in jihad.

In the days after he killed one woman and wounded five others at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Naveed Haq telephoned his mother from jail and proclaimed, "You should be proud of me. I'm a martyr now. I'm going to go to heaven," according to a recording played Wednesday during his trial.
The audio recording of Haq's jailhouse call was among 10 played Wednesday by King County prosecutors who are trying to convince jurors that Haq was fully aware of his actions when he forced his way into the federation's Belltown office on July 28, 2006, and indiscriminately began firing at employees. Pamela Waechter, the federation's 58-year-old campaign director, was killed.
"I'm proud of what I did," Haq said to his sobbing mother in one call placed from the King County Jail to his parent's home in the Tri-Cities. "I'm a soldier. I'm a soldier of Islam."

Haq may very well have been stressed out by life, but if so he acted out in a very predictable jihadist pattern. Unfortunately, he subscribes to a religion that urges the killing of infidels, and says that doing so gets the murderer into heaven. Scholar Daniel Pipes calls the rapid regression of Muslim immigrants to their old time religion "sudden jihad syndrome."
See my earlier blog about this crime, Failed Ideology Behind Another American Death

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Custom Eye Chart Maker [11/05/09]
Click the link above to reach a fun online gizmo to create your own attitudinal eye chart.

Here's mine...

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Immigration teams arrest more criminal offenders [11/04/09]
This is an interesting statistic if accurate (as opposed to a cooked-up press release). The simple explanation is that it may indicate that there are simply more criminals due to porous borders.

Immigration agents assigned to track down people who have ignored deportation orders have increasingly arrested immigrants with criminal records during the past year, new data show.
Data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement show a shift from the prior three years, when more than 70 percent of immigrants arrested by fugitive operations teams had no criminal histories.
About 45 percent of the 35,000 immigrants arrested by the teams during the 2009 fiscal year had criminal convictions. The figure is up from 23 percent during the prior year.
ICE has long claimed it focused on arresting immigrants with criminal convictions who ignored orders from immigration judges to leave the country.

Last March, the New York Times noted the increased assault of Mexican organized crime: Mexican Drug Cartel Violence Spills Over, Alarming U.S..

The figure rose from 100 cities reported three years earlier

This information appears to correlate reasonably with today's AP story above. There are more Mexican criminals in the country; that's what is going on.

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Water plan has local goodies [11/04/09]
As an illustration of how politicians refuse to deal with reality, there's this. California is $7 billion in the hole this year, and possibly $20 billion next year, yet the president of the state Senate Darrell Steinberg added $10 million for a diversity pork project to important water legislation.
Yep, the plan was to build a deluxe California Unity Center in Sacramento where diverse people could join hands in advanced kumbaya.

A nonprofit tolerance center in midtown Sacramento, championed by state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, could get a vital economic boost from an unlikely source: a mammoth $10 billion water bond proposal.
Nestled among the provisions of a measure approved on a 29-5 vote by the Senate late Monday is language that would earmark "not less than $10 million" for the California Unity Center.
The center, which is proposed for construction on the site of the old Sacramento City Unified School District headquarters at 16th and N streets, is envisioned as a "statewide hub" to teach tolerance to students and encourage "collaborative problem-solving," according to its Web site.
Language in the bond bill stipulates only that the $10 million "shall be available for capital improvements to nonprofit facilities that provide watershed, environmental justice and urban greening education programs to students in the Sacramento City Unified School District and the surrounding area."
But Steinberg acknowledged Tuesday that the provision was included to benefit the unity center, for which he has been raising money over the past several years, from business interests that range from an Indian casino tribe to The Sacramento Bee.
Steinberg, who has been the driving force behind the Legislature's efforts to revamp the state's creaking water system, defended inclusion in the bond bill of a project seemingly unrelated to the state's water problems.
"Frankly, if I have the opportunity to use the power I have to further civil rights and to further California history in any way, I'm going to do that," he said. "I will always do what I can to try to bring resources to my district, and especially for a project that I think is so essential to young people in our community and throughout the state."

Oh wait, there is good news: Lawmakers pass water package after removing Sacramento project

Lawmakers approved a momentous overhaul of California's ailing water system early this morning, but approval came only after Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg agreed to strip a $10 million earmark for a Sacramento project he personally has championed.

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Bizarre case of abduction comes to end [11/03/09]
I wrote about this case of crime diversity in May: Diversity Is Strength! It's Also... African "Refugee" Kidnappers In Virginia. The trial is finished and the sentences are in -- 5 1/2 years for the Africans and 4 1/2 years for the American accomplice.
Theoretically, the wanna-be kidnappers could have gotten life in prison, but that wasn't going to happen, given they were all young and had no priors. Five years in prison would be considered a tough sentence in some quarters, and it's likely the strong victim statement was important in putting these dangerous characters in the slammer at all.
As I've noted previously, war-traumatized children may grow into troubled, often violently criminal adults. The Refugee Industrial Complex has no business dumping these human time bombs into American communities without proper oversight at the least.
One vital statistic: An estimated 80 to 90 percent of Lost Boys suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, which can lead to substance abuse, depression and domestic violence. The thousands of Lost Boys, who were orphaned by war in Sudan, have been beloved among the do-gooder community for their uplifting tale of success against long odds. However, the failures that arrive years later don't get the upbeat headlines. Nobody wants to hear the downside of cultural diversity, which is the real story.

The plot was bizarre, carefully planned and amateurishly executed: To make money in America, three young men from refugee families set out to find a wealthy woman, abduct her from her home and hold her for ransom.
It all unraveled as soon as Audrey Levicki answered the door to her Southwest Roanoke County home.
Suspicious that the two men were not the Red Cross volunteers they claimed to be, Levicki braced the door with her foot and then slammed it shut on the arm of the one who tried to reach inside.
The two men ran off, despite months of planning and a getaway car waiting at the end of the driveway with rope, handcuffs and other tools of a kidnapping. The duo was quickly arrested along with two accomplices, setting in motion a series of unintended consequences that culminated Monday at a sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Roanoke.
Levicki, whose intended fate was to be held in a rundown camper until her captors could collect up to $1 million from her corporate executive husband, said that she is now a prisoner in her own home.
"My life went to hell on April 6," Levicki said in a statement to Judge James Turk, recounting how the incident led to fearful days, sleepless nights and a loss of security so profound that she no longer ventures outside to feed the dog unless armed with a baseball bat.
For the three African natives who tried to kidnap Levicki -- Luke Musa Elbino, 20; Mohammed Hussein Guhad, 20; and Joshua Kasongo, 19 -- the consequences went beyond the five-and-a-half-year prison terms they received at the end of a daylong hearing.
Once they are released from prison, the three face almost certain deportation back to Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda -- countries their families fled when they were boys to escape civil war and genocide.

And how diverse was the sentencing hearing? Very.

See also the remarks on this case in Refugee Resettlement Watch.

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Woman hit with car by Iraqi father in Ariz. dies [11/03/09]
It's infuriating to see another honor killing in America. Noor Almaleki (pictured) died after being run down by her father and spending nearly two weeks unconscious in a hospital.

A young Iraqi woman whose father allegedly hit her with his car because she had become too Westernized died from her injuries Monday after laying in a coma for nearly two weeks.
Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20, underwent spinal surgery and had been in a hospital since Oct. 20, when police say her father ran down her and her boyfriend's mother with his Jeep as the women were walking across a parking lot in the west Phoenix suburb of Peoria.
The other woman, Amal Khalaf, is expected to survive.
Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, fled after the attack but was arrested Thursday when he arrived at Atlanta's airport, where he was sent from the United Kingdom after authorities denied him entrance.
Peoria police interviewed him and brought him back to Arizona over the weekend, but have declined to release what Almaleki said to them.
At a court hearing over the weekend in Phoenix, county prosecutor Stephanie Low told a judge that Almaleki admitted to committing the crime.
"By his own admission, this was an intentional act and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family," Low said. "This was an attempt at an honor killing."

Say, how about mandatory capital punishment for anyone convicted of honor killing in America? That would send a nice message about assimilation to western values.

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Crisis has not halted migration hope of poor: Gallup [11/02/09]
Here are some nasty numbers for perusal and consideration.

ATHENS (Reuters) - The global economic recession has not curbed the desire of the world's poor to seek a better future by migrating, Gallup Inc. said on Monday after carrying out a worldwide poll.
Around 700 million adults, some 16 percent of the world's adult population, would move permanently to another country if they had the opportunity, Gallup said in a survey of 135 countries issued at a migration conference in Athens.
"In most countries, people's desire to relocate did not decrease meaningfully after the global economic crisis hit in 2008," said Neli Esipova, the polling agency's director of research for global migration.
Almost eight of ten respondents who said they would like to emigrate were in a developing country, the poll showed. The vast majority of the latter said they would like to live in a developed country.
The United States is migrants' top destination, with 165 million people expressing the desire to move there, Esipova said.

Interestingly, 165 million was the total population of the United States in 1955.
If open-borders socialists got their way, a huge redistribution of world population would occur. Poor countries would empty out, and nations seen as offering paychecks and welfare benefits would fill up.

For more details and maps, see the Gallup page: 700 Million Worldwide Desire to Migrate Permanently

One curiosity: at least a million humans claim a desire to immigrate to slumhole Mexico. It's a reminder that half the population is below average, unlike Lake Woebegon.

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Immigrant tensions remain five years after Van Gogh killing [11/02/09]
Today is the fifth anniversary of the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh by hostile Muslim Mohammed Bouyeri because he perceived the artist's message was anti-Islam. What fueled the killer's fury was how the film Submission showed Islam's inherent brutality toward women. (Watch Part 1 of Submission on YouTube.)

The anniversary of the attack prompted foreign journalists to check on the multicultural tensions and Muslim radicalisation in the Dutch capital. The Netherlands' immigration issues have remained high on the agenda, fuelled by populist politician Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV). But no attacks, home grown or from outside, have taken place since November 2, 2004.
That was the morning Mohammed B. followed Theo van Gogh on his bicycle before he shot him eight times with a handgun. The 47-year-old filmmaker fell to the ground, where his assassin slit his throat and pinned a note to his body with a knife. The note was a death threat to Ayaan Hirsi Ali with whom Van Gogh had made the short film Submission, about the abuse of women under Islam, and called for jihad.
B., son of Moroccan immigrants, was born and raised in Amsterdam. "The turnaround in his behaviour happened in this building", Achmed Marcouch told reporters on a tour of the Amsterdam immigrant neighbourhood Slotervaart last week. Marcouch has been Slotervaart's borough chairman since 2006 and the building he showed the journalists was the community centre Eigenwijks, where B. was a volunteer. He is now serving a life sentence for the murder.

(It's kind of bizarre that this Dutch news site [NRC Handelsblad] doesn't use the killer's name, since he is in the slammer and is not entitled to any deference.)
At a time when Lou Dobbs reports a shot fired at his home, the physical security of people who insist that immigration be legal remains concerning.

The Dutch Defence League put up this video remembering Van Gogh a couple days ago.

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Muslim unrest hits US homes [11/02/09]
So much diversity, so little time -- it's hard to keep up with all of America's cultural enrichment.

In what may be the first recorded instance of a Muslim wife attempting to murder her husband for not being pious enough, a Staten Island woman was charged this week with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. Rabia Sarwar, a 37-year-old Muslim, said she did it because her husband, a 41-year-old Pakistani native, enjoyed booze and pork and wanted her to dress in revealing clothes. (She held fabric over her face and threw a shawl over her head before leaving court on Thursday.)
While the Sarwar case is sensational by dint of the role-reversal and the method of attempted murder (throat-slitting), itÕs also pedestrian: Over the past two years, there have been about a dozen attempted or successful honor killings committed in the US. [...]
Barring terror attacks, independent Muslim expression of anti-Western sentiment seems to be more virulent in Europe. There was the 2004 daylight assassination of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by the same Muslim extremist who also targeted his collaborator Hirsi Ali; the riots and death threats issued after the publication of a cartoon that was critical of Islam in a Danish newspaper in 2005.
Some believe that the sheer vastness of the US has kept such incidents largely off the radar. "We've not been seeing it yet because our country's so big," says Amil Imani, who was born in Iran but raised in the US, and is the founder of Former Muslims United.
He points to the recent killing of a radical imam in Michigan, who hoped to carve out a separate Islamist state in the Midwest, as evidence that America has more to worry about than it may be aware. "Look at what is going on in England, which is almost identical to our culture," he says. "Stealth jihad is happening in America before our eyes."

There are increasing numbers of Muslims residing in America and they aren't assimlating; that's why honor killings are on the uptick.
If Muslim immigration is allowed to continue -- despite the terrible economy, threats to national security and the cultural unsuitability -- then America will have additional honor killings and other Islamic dysfunctions, e.g. polygamy, FGM and jihad.
Speaking of honor killing, the infamous Buffalo wife-beheader Muzzamil Hassan is busy working on his court case: More time to build psychiatric defense. She wanted a divorce, and Islam doesn't like women acting independent.

See also this clip from the doc The Third Jihad about honor killings and women's rights.

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Partying with the dead heads [11/01/09]
One way that diversity is expanding ever further into American culture is by the increasing inclusion of foreign holidays into the mainstream. To celebrate diversity, which we are all supposed to do these days.
Today's holiday from the multiculti buffet is Mexico's Day of the Dead. In San Francisco, the cultural elite are apparently on board to mount a lavish affair which includes the Symphony.

Davies Symphony Hall is inviting you and yours (lucky!) to come celebrate with their 2nd annual Dia de los Muertos family matinee concert and cultural festivities. Drink chocolate, eat pan de muerto treats, learn about the art of making sugar skulls, flounce around with traditional dance troupes and then sit yourself down for some music. [...]
The mole on the enchilada, 'Like Water For Chocolate' author Laura Esquivel, will round out the program with her original calaveras, to be doled out dexterously in between musical acts.

I guess if you don't know what calaveras are, then you are not diverse enough.
Seriously, it breaks my heart to see the San Francisco Symphony playing Mexican-themed music to do the diversity "reach out" to various tribes in the city. Plus the video below shows Aztec dancers performing in Davies Hall: how diverse.
The Symphony boosters must be concerned that audiences are increasingly white people who are getting older on average. Friends of the Symphony would do better to promote music appreciation in the schools rather than hope Mexicans would support classical European music. That will never happen to any meaningful degree (despite a rare outpost of opera in Tijuana).
The Tube below is from last year's event.

Further south in Salinas, local Mexicans have a procession planned: Groups bring life to Dia de los Muertos.

"Helping people who are not of Latino heritage to better understand Latino culture is a big deal. People not understanding a different culture, that's what leads to discrimination and prejudice."

Obviously Mr. Sullivan is not familiar with the old American saying, "Familiarity breeds contempt."

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Globalization Boosts Europe's Gangsters [11/01/09]
Naturally, diminished national sovereignty has its down side -- big opportunities for organized crime.

As borders come down within and beyond Europe, it is not only legitimate businesses that are benefiting, but also those that produce illegal drugs, traffic in humans, manufacture fake luxury goods, and counterfeit euros - businesses better known as organised crime - are profiting too, according to a new report from the EU's criminal intelligence agency.
Liberalisation, low-cost airlines, and China's low-wage economy are all helping Europe's gangsters to thrive while the rest of the economy remains in crisis, says Europol's 2009 organised crime threat assessment.
Foremost amongst the agency's predictions based on current data is the emerging threat from west African groups, which Europol singled out in the report as one of the main new developments. [...]
Italian organised crime groups, the core of the 'southern hub' focus on cocaine and cannabis trafficking, along with irregular immigration, counterfeiting euros and fake goods produced in China.

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