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		<title>Video: Obama Shamefully Panders To Muslims For Ramadan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator>
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After refusing to make much of our National Day of Prayer as most president’s have done, Obama instead chose to make a special video recognizing the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. In addition, Obama sought to assure the Muslim world that we are still committed to forging a new relationship after that mean old Bushie.
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<p>After refusing to make much of our National Day of Prayer as most president’s have done, Obama instead chose to make a special video recognizing the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. In addition, Obama sought to assure the Muslim world that we are still committed to forging a new relationship after that mean old Bushie.</p>
<p>President Obama also promised that America wants to build a more peaceful world. Don’t tell the president, but I’m pretty sure we’ve always tried to do that. It’s not America that’s causing problems in the world it’s the crazy Muslims. They’re the ones committing mass murder all over the world in the name of their religion.</p>
<p>Why don’t we ever get YouTube clips from Saudi Imams telling us the Muslim world is committed to peace? How about the King of Saudi Arabia sending us a message recognizing the importance of Christianity and Jesus Christ. How about that for a change?</p>
<p>Obama’s constant pandering to Muslims is pathetic and embarrassing. I don’t give a damn about Ramadan or Islam. I’m tired of hearing about how much we allegedly have in common with the Muslim world &#8212; it’s total nonsense.</p>
<p>We don’t have anything even remotely in common with the Muslim world. We don’t kill people we disagree with, we don’t treat our women like property, we don’t blow ourselves up to get to “paradise,” and we don’t give money to charities that fund suicide bombings in Israel.</p>
<p>The Muslim world should be sending America YouTube clips on a weekly basis apologizing for exporting mass murder and misery around the world. They should apologize for treating a mass murdering terrorist like a rock star when he returned home to Libya after his disgraceful release by Scotland.</p>
<p>Unlike the president, I don’t send my best wishes to the Muslim world for Ramadan. Instead, I send my best wishes to our brave military that’s fighting to bring freedom to a bunch of ungrateful Muslims.</p>
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		<title>Obama Plays Up His Newly Discovered Muslim Roots</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator>
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Remember back when mentioning Obama and Muslim in the same sentence was considered a hate crime and a smear? Well, that was then &#8212; this is now.
President Obama is now feeling so damn invincible that he’s throwing caution to the wind and letting it be known that he has Muslim roots and he’s damn [...]]]></description>
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<p>Remember back when mentioning Obama and Muslim in the same sentence was considered a hate crime and a smear? Well, that was then &#8212; <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/abc-news-jake-tapper-and-sunlen-miller-report-the-other-day-we-heard-a-comment-from-a-white-house-aide-that-neverwould-have.html" target="_blank">this is now</a>.</p>
<p>President Obama is now feeling so damn invincible that he’s throwing caution to the wind and letting it be known that he has Muslim roots and he’s damn proud of it.</p>
<p>The president is getting in touch with his Muslim side as he prepares to kick off the Middle Eastern leg of his overseas apology tour.</p>
<p>The official name for this tour (according to me) is “The Obama Apology Tour: They Call Me Hussein” and will feature significant ass kissing and multiple apologies in Islamic police states like Egypt and Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>The president has been making the media rounds overseas and made it clear what kinds of messages he intends to send to our enemies.</p>
<p>In an interview with the French press, <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/06/03/barack_hussein_obama_us_one_of_the_largest_muslim_countries_in_the_world" target="_blank">the president said</a>, “if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” Ha! If that doesn’t get the bastards to stop trying to kill us nothing will.</p>
<p>In preparation for this apology tour, Obama’s deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/02/now-it-can-be-told-obama-has-muslim-roots/" target="_blank">made clear</a> that, “the President himself experienced Islam on three continents before he was able to — or before he’s been able to visit, really, the heart of the Islamic world — you know, growing up in Indonesia, having a Muslim father — obviously Muslim Americans (are) a key part of Illinois and Chicago.</p>
<p>Really? Huh, I don’t remember hearing much about those important Muslim Americans in Illinois and Chicago during the campaign &#8212; I must have just missed it.</p>
<p>Like his radical leftist allies, the president believes <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-zogby/high-expectations-for-oba_b_209353.html" target="_blank">it’s America</a> that must change its policy towards the Arab world. It’s America that must shape-up if we expect to live in this crazy world.</p>
<p>The reality is that America doesn’t need to do a damn thing. We are not the ones who need to change policies. Radical Muslims need to stop trying murder Americans in the name of their religion.</p>
<p>It’s the Muslim world that needs to stop stoning women and hanging gays. It’s the Muslim world that needs to change its policy of committing cold-blooded murder when people draw cartoons they don’t like or say things they don’t agree with.</p>
<p>The Muslim world doesn’t like us, because they’re crazy and Bush didn’t take any shit from them.</p>
<p>It was the Muslim world that chose to pick a fight with us. We were minding our own business on 9/11 when 3,000 of our people were killed for no reason.</p>
<p>Arab leaders should be touring America apologizing for their crazy people and asking for our forgiveness &#8212; not the other way around.</p>
<p><em>-Chris Jones</em></p>
<p><em>(image via <a href="http://www.brokencountry.com/" target="_blank">BrokenCountry.com</a>)</em></p>
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		<title>Video: Saudi Judge Says Husbands Can Slap Wives For Spending Too Much Money</title>
		<link>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2009/05/11/video-saudi-judge-says-husbands-can-slap-wives-for-spending-too-much-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 01:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator>
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I know, you’re shocked.
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<p>I know, you’re shocked.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Newest Project: Get More Muslims In Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This from the Denver Post:
In a bid to get more Muslim Americans working in the Obama administration, a book with resumes of 45 of the nation&#8217;s most qualified — Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 executives and public servants, all carefully vetted — has been submitted to the White House.

That’s really what we need to worry [...]]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>In a bid to get more Muslim Americans working in the Obama administration, a book with resumes of 45 of the nation&#8217;s most qualified — Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 executives and public servants, all carefully vetted — has been submitted to the White House.</p>
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<p>That’s really what we need to worry about right now, putting more Muslims in government. Yeah, that sounds like a great idea. What could go wrong? </p>
<p><em>(hat tip </em><a href="http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/03/30/secret-list-of-muslims-compiled-for-obama-administration-jobs/" target="_blank"><em>Red State</em></a><em>)</em></p>
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		<title>Sony Recalls Video Game After Single Complaint From Muslim</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator>
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Sony&#8217;s newest big budget video game called LittleBigPlanet was recalled after receiving a complaint from a Muslim on the Playstation forums.
The complaint cited a single musical track in which two Islamic phrases from the Qur&#8217;an are used in the game.
Here&#8217;s what alleged Muslim &#8220;Solid_08&#8243; wrote:
We Muslims consider the mixing of music and words from our [...]]]></description>
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<p>Sony&#8217;s newest big budget video game called LittleBigPlanet was recalled after receiving a complaint from a Muslim on the Playstation forums.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/42381/LittleBigPlanet-Global-Recall-Detailed" target="_blank">complaint</a> cited a single musical track in which two Islamic phrases from the Qur&#8217;an are used in the game.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what alleged Muslim &#8220;Solid_08&#8243; wrote:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>We Muslims consider the mixing of music and words from our Holy Qur&#8217;an deeply offending. We hope you would remove that track from the game immediately via an online patch, and make sure that all future shipments of the game disk do not contain it. </em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>We would also like to mention that this isn&#8217;t the first time something like this happened in videogames. Nintendo&#8217;s 1998 hit &#8220;Zelda: Ocarina of Time&#8221; contained a musical track with islamic phrases, but it was removed in later shipments of the game after Nintendo was contacted by Muslim organizations. Last year, Capcom&#8217;s &#8220;Zack &amp; Wiki&#8221; and Activision&#8217;s &#8220;Call of Duty 4&#8243; also contained objectionable material offensive to Muslims that was spotted before the release of the final games, and both companies thankfully removed the content.</em></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what the Islamofascist found so offensive:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>1) In the 18th second: &#8220;كل نفس ذائقة الموت&#8221; (&#8221;kollo nafsin tha&#8217;iqatol mawt&#8221;, literally: &#8216;Every soul shall have the taste of death&#8217;). </em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>2) Almost immediately after, in the 27th second: &#8220;كل من عليها فان&#8221; (&#8221;kollo man alaiha fan&#8221;, literally: &#8216;All that is on earth will perish&#8217;).</em></p>
<p>Immediately, Sony executives together with the game&#8217;s developers conceited like cowards and issued the following <a href="http://www.mediamolecule.com/2008/10/17/and-in-other-news/" target="_blank">statement</a>:</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>As some of you may have noticed, LBP has been slightly delayed in some territories. At MM we were as shocked and dismayed by this as anyone &#8211; shellshocked and gutted. We can’t wait for you all to get playing and creating!</em></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>We learnt yesterday that there is a lyric in one of the licensed tracks which some people may find offensive, and which slipped through the usual screening processes. Obviously MM and Sony together took this very seriously. LBP should be enjoyable by all. So within 12 hours of hearing about this issue involving a lyric (in Somalian, I believe!), Media Molecule had prepared an automatic day 0 patch and had a new disk image ready; however a decision was made within Sony that the right thing to do for quality and support of people with no on-line was to replace existing disks. They assure us that they are doing everything in their power to get things straightened out as fast as possible, and will announce dates soon.</em></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Just in case any Muslim feathers were still ruffled by the incident, Sony made an <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/10/17/littlebigplanet-release-update/" target="_blank">extra apology</a> on the U.S. Playstation Blog:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>During the review process prior to the release of <a href="http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/Games/LittleBigPlanet">LittleBigPlanet</a>, it has been brought to our attention that one of the background music tracks licensed from a record label for use in the game contains two expressions that can be found in the Qur’an. We have taken immediate action to rectify this and we sincerely apologize for any offense that this may have caused. </em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>We will begin shipping LittleBigPlanet to retail in North America the week of October 27th. Sorry for the delay, and rest assured, we are doing everything we can to get LittleBigPlanet to you as soon as possible.</em></p>
<p>The idea that the world must walk on egg shells for fear of offending the delicate sensibilities of Muslims is really pathetic. A single complaint caused the release of a multi-million dollar video game to be halted and in many instances recalled over two phrases in a single track.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m willing to bet if Sony had received a complaint from a Christian about something &#8216;offensive&#8217; in the game, it would have simply been ignored. It would have been ignored because Christians don&#8217;t go ape shit and start murdering people and burning cars in the street when they&#8217;re offended.</p>
<p>Remember back to the <a href="http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/03/19/bin-laden-threatens-europe-over-danish-cartoons/" target="_blank">Danish cartoon</a> incident or when the Pope said something Muslims found offensive, there was literally blood in the streets.</p>
<p>For companies or individuals <a href="http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/08/10/publisher-pulls-novel-with-islamic-theme-for-fear-of-violent-backlash/" target="_blank">to cave</a> to that kind of pressure gives the impression to Islamofascists that using terror and intimidation is an appropriate response to being slighted (real or imagined).</p>
<p>You expect the gutless Europeans to give in out of fear of offending the Muslim hoards, but not in America. We have something called freedom of speech in this country and if Muslims find that offensive they should move to an Islamic country.</p>
<p><em>-Chris Jones</em></p>
<p><em>(hat tip <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31623_Sony_Welcomes_Their_New_Overlords#rss" target="_blank">LGF</a>)</em></p>
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		<title>The &#8220;Flying Imams&#8221; Want What???</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator>
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If you thought you&#8217;d heard the last of the notorious &#8220;Flying Imams&#8221; you were just plain wrong. It seems there trial is now in the discovery phase and what the Imams are asking for might make your heart skip a beat.
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<p>If you thought you&#8217;d heard the last of the notorious &#8220;Flying Imams&#8221; you were just plain wrong. It seems there trial is now in the discovery phase and what the Imams are asking for might make your heart skip a beat.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t have the strength to rehash the &#8220;Flying Imams&#8221; case point by point so you&#8217;ll just have to <a href="http://www.thehotjoints.com/2007/11/21/flying-imams-lawsuit-upheld-against-us-airways/" target="_blank">read about it</a>. Suffice it to say that a group of disgruntled Imams represented by the New York Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is trouble with a capital T. As <a href="http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/02/20/dont-forget-that-cair-is-a-terrorist-organization/" target="_blank">we&#8217;ve reported</a> numerous times, the Justice Department has said repeatedly that CAIR is affiliated with Hamas.</p>
<p>So imagine the shock when attorney and CAIR President asked the court <a href="http://www.crosswordbebop.com/?p=1539" target="_blank">for this</a>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Omar Mohammedi, attorney for the imams, and President of the Board of Directors for the New York Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, went first. <strong>His motion was for the judge, Arthur Boylan, to compel US Airways to divulge its training manuals, and information on its security procedures</strong>, so that they could show that the security procedures were not followed down to the last jot and tittle when the imams were removed from US Airways Flight 300 on November 20, 2006.</em></p>
<p>That ladies and gentlemen is chutzpah in its purest form. Only in America could a group of Imams led by a Hamas linked organization demand the security and training manuals for a U.S. airline and do so with a straight face.</p>
<p><em>-Chris Jones</em></p>
<p><em>(<span style="font-size: xx-small;">hat tip to <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30653_Flying_Imams_Want_US_Airways_Security_Information#rss" target="_blank">LGF</a>)</span></em></p>
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		<title>Islamic Capitulation In Britain: Police Dogs To Wear Booties In Muslim Homes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess getting the green light on Sharia law in the U.K. last week just wasn&#8217;t quite enough for Britain&#8217;s Muslim community. Now the Police are considering new guidelines that would require police dogs to wear &#8220;booties&#8221; when entering a Mosque or Muslim home.
Originally the guidelines were designed for mosques but are being expanded to [...]]]></description>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Originally the guidelines were designed for mosques but are being expanded to include other buildings, such a Muslim homes.</p>
<p>In those guidelines, if Muslims object to the use of the sniffer dogs, then they will only be used in &#8220;exceptional&#8221; cases and when they are used they will have to wear little booties with rubber soles.</em></p>
<p>What if you object to being killed in a terrorist attack? Any new guidelines for that?</p>
<p>Of course if any Muslims object to my objecting to being killed in a terrorist attack, then by all means let me die.</p>
<p><em>-Chris Jones</em></p>
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		<title>Muslims Told To Move Out Of Camera View At Obama Rally</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a good one. Two Muslim women at an Obama rally in Detroit were told they could not sit behind the podium. The Obama campaign volunteers were seeking to prevent the women who were wearing Muslim head scarves from appearing in the camera frame.
The campaign has since apologized to the women who say they [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehotjoints.com%2F2008%2F06%2F18%2Fmuslims-told-to-move-out-of-camera-view-at-obama-rally%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehotjoints.com%2F2008%2F06%2F18%2Fmuslims-told-to-move-out-of-camera-view-at-obama-rally%2F" height="61" width="51" title="Muslims Told To Move Out Of Camera View At Obama Rally" alt=" Muslims Told To Move Out Of Camera View At Obama Rally" /></a></div><p>This is a good one. Two Muslim women at an Obama rally in Detroit were told they could not sit behind the podium. The Obama campaign volunteers were seeking to prevent the women who were wearing <a href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=9C35D9AD-3048-5C12-001E5E2F7EAC1D85" target="_blank">Muslim head scarves</a> from appearing in the camera frame.</p>
<p>The campaign has since apologized to the women who say they feel &#8220;discriminated against.&#8221;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>&#8220;I was coming to support him, and I felt like I was discriminated against by the very person who was supposed to be bringing this change, who I could really relate to,&#8221; said Hebba Aref, a 25-year-old lawyer who lives in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills. &#8220;The message that I thought was delivered to us was that they do not want him associated with Muslims or Muslim supporters.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what one of the women were told:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>That incident began when the volunteer asked Aref&#8217;s friend Ali Koussan and two other friends, Aref&#8217;s brother Sharif and another young lawyer, Brandon Edward Miller, whether they would like to sit behind the stage. The three young men said they would, but mentioned they were with friends.</p>
<p>The men said the volunteer, a twenty-something African-American woman in a green shirt, asked if their friends looked and were dressed like the young men, who were all light-skinned and wearing suits. Miller said yes, but mentioned that one of their friends was wearing a headscarf with her suit.</p>
<p>The volunteer <strong>&#8220;explained to me that because of the political climate and what&#8217;s going on in the world and what&#8217;s going on with Muslim Americans, it&#8217;s not good for [Aref] to be seen on TV or associated with Obama,&#8221; </strong>said Koussan, who is a law student at Wayne State University.</em></p>
<p>I find this funny because of all the rhetoric from Obama about &#8220;bringing people together.&#8221; Having said that, I think the volunteers did the right thing. Like it or not Muslims are radioactive in this country and for good reason. The majority of Americans distrust Muslims and have good reason to. Anyone who thinks politicians are gonna start courting the Muslim vote are living in a fantasy world.</p>
<p>Until American Muslims begin speaking out against the the thugs and killers who&#8217;ve hijacked their religion, the rest of America will remain skeptical about where their true allegiances lie.</p>
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		<title>Canadian Law: Telling The Truth About Muslims is Hate Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator>
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Take a look at this excellent column by Kathy Shaidle over at Pajamas Media. She offers some excellent analysis of the outrageous prosecution of Mark Steyn for &#8220;hate speech&#8221; in Canada.
Columnist and author Mark Steyn was charged with &#8220;hate speech&#8221; by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal for what it called &#8220;flagrant Islamaphobia&#8221; after excerpts [...]]]></description>
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<p>Take a look at <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-kafkaesque-show-trial-of-mark-steyn/" target="_blank">this excellent column</a> by Kathy Shaidle over at Pajamas Media. She offers some excellent analysis of the outrageous prosecution of Mark Steyn for &#8220;hate speech&#8221; in Canada.</p>
<p>Columnist and author Mark Steyn was charged with &#8220;hate speech&#8221; by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal for what it called &#8220;flagrant Islamaphobia&#8221; after excerpts of his best selling book on radical Islam were featured in a popular Canadian news magazine.</p>
<p>The Canadian government can stop anyone from publishing something it deems &#8220;likely&#8221; to expose Muslims to &#8220;hatred&#8221; or &#8220;contempt.&#8221; Which means that being critical of Muslims in Canada is against the law. Steyn doesn&#8217;t face jail time for his &#8220;hate crime&#8221; but if found guilty he&#8217;ll face hefty fines and likely be banned from publishing in Canada ever again.</p>
<p>This so-called &#8220;<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Muslim</span> Human Rights Tribunal&#8221; has a 100% conviction rate, so it&#8217;s highly unlikely that Steyn will be found innocent. Oddly enough, the far-left here in America has been silent about this Stalinist assault on free speech in Canada, but I guess that&#8217;s because they too are terrorist sympathizers just like the Canadian government.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m willing to bet if Mark Steyn had written a book that said Jesus was an as*shole, and Christians are dangerous, there would be no trial.</p>
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		<title>Dunkin Donuts Pulls Ad Featuring Rachel Ray Wearing Muslim Scarf</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator>
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After pressure from conservative bloggers like Michelle Malkin, Dunkin Donuts pulled its most recent television ad. The ad featured popular TV cooking star Rachel Ray wearing a traditional Arab scarf around her neck.
The scarf known as a &#8220;Keffiyeh&#8221; is the traditional head dress of Arab men. It can be worn around the neck or head. [...]]]></description>
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<p>After pressure from conservative bloggers like <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/" target="_blank">Michelle Malkin</a>, Dunkin Donuts pulled its most recent television ad. The ad featured popular TV cooking star Rachel Ray wearing a traditional Arab scarf around her neck.</p>
<p>The scarf known as a &#8220;Keffiyeh&#8221; is the traditional head dress of Arab men. It can be worn around the neck or head. The images most associated with the Keffiyeh are of terrorists using them to cover their face.</p>
<p>You often see liberal Hollywood elites wearing them around their neck to show &#8220;solidarity&#8221; with the plight of the Palestinians or as another way to protest the war.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thehotjoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/1akeff.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3655" title="1akeff" src="http://www.thehotjoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/1akeff.jpg" alt="1akeff Dunkin Donuts Pulls Ad Featuring Rachel Ray Wearing Muslim Scarf" width="318" height="304" /></a><br clear="left" /></p>
<p>Michelle makes a good point <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/28/the-keffiyeh-kerfuffle/" target="_blank">on this issue</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Anti-American fashion designers abroad and at home have <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/fashion/shows/11KAFFIYEH.html?_r=2&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;ref=fashion&amp;adxnnlx=1171317137-N/owhoOB+E1erZLViiwAKQ&amp;oref=slogin">mainstreamed </a>and adapted the scarves as generic pro-Palestinian jihad or anti-war statements. Yet many folks out there remain completely oblivious to the apparel’s violent symbolism and anti-Israel overtones&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>While some may find this whole issue trivial, but it&#8217;s symptomatic of a certain trend to try and mainstream radical ideologies. Like when people where t-shirts with Che Guevara pictured on the front, or carry a <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2007/06/25/pictures-worth-a-thousand-words-harry-reid-and-cameron-diaz/" target="_blank">Chairman Mao bag</a> like Cameron Diaz.</p>
<p><em>Photos courtesy of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/28/dunkin-donuts-pulls-ad-fe_n_103859.html" target="_blank">The Huffington Post</a> &amp; <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/" target="_blank">Michelle Malkin</a></em></p>
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