A sad day

Also one that I feel/hope will prove to be a gigantic mistake for Al Qaeda.

They’ve just created a huge martyr against their cause.

Bhutto Assassination Sparks Riots

Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has been shot dead at an election rally - sparking riots across the country. The gunman then detonated a bomb, killing at least 15 of her supporters in Rawalpindi. Many more were injured in the suicide blast. At least four people have been shot dead in rioting as fears grow the nuclear-armed country will be plunged into civil war.

Bhutto…minutes before her death

In Karachi, capital of Ms Bhutto’s native Sindh province, thousands took to the streets, torching dozens of vehicles and buildings.

“There is trouble almost everywhere,” a senior police official said.

The killing came less than two weeks before elections many expected would return Ms Bhutto to power and restore democracy.

Nawaz Sharif, the leader of a rival opposition party, vowed revenge and said his party would boycott the January 8 poll.

He told crowds: “Benazir Bhutto was also my sister, and I will be with you to take the revenge for her death. Don’t feel alone. I am with you. We will take the revenge on the rulers.”

Roundup at HotAir.

Have a rage boy Christmas

From the always funny guys at The Nose On Your Face.

Dude, where’s my fatwa?

Not content just to blow up innocent people all over the world on a daily basis — now they want your blogs.

From a guy called “Radical Muslim”. Ya think?

Fatwaworthy in the Bloggersphere

Possible fatwaworthy sites in the Bloggersphere are many due to the array of sites that contain writings that slander Islam, therefore when I come accross particularly Islamophobic sites I bookmark them under ‘Fatwaworthy?’ Some will be well written while others will be an illogical mess, however, the common denominator between them is that they exist in part or full to spread Islamophobic opinions. Brothers and Sisters, please fell free to suggest additions to the list.

Some may ask ‘What is a Fatwa?’, while others may wonder what had made them worthy as with those deviants whom have recently linked to me in this respect. A fatwa is an Islamic religious ruling, a scholarly opinion on a matter of Islamic law. Therefore, when the Shari’ah again rules the world (inshAllah) the importance may be placed on a fatwa requiring acceptance that Islamophobic sites be peacefully shut down and no longer be permitted to exist. Untill this occurs it may be considered our duty to list such sites and even write/contact websites, media outlets and relevant officials in order to campaign for such sites be closed.

We must stop these sites that contain writings that slander Islam, to detail and criticise national and global conflict, poverty, injustice, oppression, the Far Right and the BNP, Zionism, the War on Terror, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the illegal occupation and oppression of Palestine, the slaughter in Sudan and the persecution of Muslims and the current war on Islam.

Therefore I call on all transgressors to stop publishing anti-Islamic pictures, articles and blasphemous publications against Allah (SWT) and His prophet, Muhammad (SAW).

He then goes on to list all of the sites that he feels deserve fatwas, it’s a long list:

Some of the worst perpetrators so far that I have called on to stop publishing anti-Islamic pictures, articles and blasphemous publications against Allah (SWT) and His prophet, Muhammad (SAW), and warned of their crime are as follows. DO NOT read these sites as their writings are obscene and defamatory:

* Ali Jihadi
* American Jihad
* Anti Cair
* Anti Dhimmi
* Atlas Shrugs
* Barnsley Nationalists
* Basharee Murtadd
* Battle for Britain
* BNP Aberdeen
* BNP and Me
* British National Party
* C.U.N.T
* Cox and Forkum
* Daniel Pipes
* Debbie Schlussel
* Dhimmitude News Network
* Eloivsdiablo
* English Rose
* English Rose
* Faith Freedom
* Foehammer’s Anvil
* Fulham Reactionary
* Gates of Vienna
* Gonzo’s Bar
* Hard to Swallow
* Home of the Green Arrow
* Hot Air
* I did it for the lulz
* Illustrated Pig
* Infidel Bloggers Aliance
* Infidels are Cool
* Ironic Surrealism
* Islamanazi
* Jawa Report
* Jihad Monitor
* Jihad Watch
* Jihai Du Jour
* Jon Quixote
* Justify This
* Klein Verzet
* Lassoo of Truth
* Lionheart
* Little Bulldogs
* Little Green Footballs
* Live from Infidelphia
* Marked Manner
* Maverick News Network
* Melenie Phillips
* Michelle Malkin
* Militant Islam Monitor
* Mosquewatch
* Mrs Smith’s Refusal
* Nick Racist
* No Dhimmitude
* No Dick’s Place
* NoiseyRoom
* NorthWestNationalists
* Not Ready for my Burqua
* Oh Canada
* On the Wing
* Patriot Alliance Downunder
* Plains Feeder
* Plancks Constant
* SIAD
* Stormfront
* The American Israeli Patriot
* The Anti Jihad Crusader
* The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
* The Brussels Journal
* The Flanstein
* The Freedom Fighter’s Journal
* The Hill Chronicles
* The Religion of Peace
* The Ultimate Insult
* Urban Infidel
* Vigilant Freedom
* Vince Aut Morire
* Western Resistance
* Winds of Jihad

Now, that’s what I call a great list! Some of my favorite blogs are on that list. I’ll make sure to check out the blogs I’m not familiar with, as should you. Well, except for Stormfront, they are a bunch of neo-nazi, white supremacist Ron Paul supporters.

The comment section on his post is a hoot. Over a hundred comments with most expressing disappointment about being left off the list, myself included. I linked the bacon wrapped steak in the post below as proof of my evilness.

This comment from Radical Muslim (Jamal) pretty much sums things up:

And as soon as you realise Muslims are in every walk of mainstream life, and Islam is not your enemy but already part of your past, present and future, the better for you.

Comment by Jamal

It’s the caliphate, bitches!

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Women’s rights sharia style

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week

During the week of October 22-26, 2007, the nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever – Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses.

The purpose of this protest is as simple as it is crucial: to confront the two Big Lies of the political left: that George Bush created the war on terror and that Global Warming is a greater danger to Americans than the terrorist threat. Nothing could be more politically incorrect than to point this out. But nothing could be more important for American students to hear. In the face of the greatest danger Americans have ever confronted, the academic left has mobilized to create sympathy for the enemy and to fight anyone who rallies Americans to defend themselves. According to the academic left, anyone who links Islamic radicalism to the war on terror is an “Islamophobe.” According to the academic left, the Islamo-fascists hate us not because we are tolerant and free, but because we are “oppressors.”

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is a national effort to oppose these lies and to rally American students to defend their country.

h/t JunkYardBlog

Oh England, we hardly knew ye

An interesting look at the losing battle over the soul of The Empire.

Cal Thomas at Real Clear Politics

England is Vanishing

BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND — Perhaps there will not always be an England. An exodus unprecedented in modern times, coupled with a record influx of foreigners, is threatening to erode the character of the land of William Shakespeare and overpowering monarchs, a land that served as the cradle for much of American thought, law and culture.

The figures, making headlines in London newspapers, tell only part of the story. Between June 2005 and June 2006 nearly 200,000 British citizens chose to leave the country for a new life elsewhere. During the same period, at least 574,000 immigrants came to Britain. This number does not include the people who broke the law to get there, or the thousands unknown to the government. Britain’s Office of National Statistics reports that middle-class Britons are beginning to move out of towns in southern England that have become home to large numbers of immigrants, thereby altering the character of neighborhoods that have remained unchanged for generations.

Britons give many reasons for leaving, but their stories share one commonality: life in Britain has become unbearable for them. They fear lawlessness and the threat of more terrorism from a growing Muslim population and the loss of a sense of Britishness, exacerbated by the growing refusal of public schools to teach the history and culture of the nation to the next generation. What it means to be British has been watered down in a plague of political correctness that has swept the country faster than hoof-and-mouth disease. Officials say they do not wish to “offend” others.

Go read the rest.

The last line of the article is scary:

The greater tragedy is that the people of Britain have little say in any of this, so they are taking the road of last resort. They are leaving.

Caliphate — google it!

I Love This Woman!

Allah has a link to an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

FRIGGEN AWESOME! 

I especially like the part where the interviewer treats her like some quaint little creature who just crawled out of a propoganda school to spout cliche’s, only to be on the recieving end of this quote.

““You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don’t know what it is not to have freedom.”

Which is friggen AWESOME!

And she’s . . . I wouldn’t say hot, but definately there is something VERY adorable about her.

Shahada is a very beautiful thing

Since they just killed off ‘Mickey Mouse’. Why not just have nine year olds discuss the killing of Jews?

More Palestinian children discussing how beautiful it would be to die while killing Jews.

They grow blow up so fast.

Sorry, couldn’t resist stealing that line from Hot Air commenter and blogger in his own right mind, Bad Candy/Sinistar/doubleplusundead.

I consider this child abuse. It’s disgusting.

You won’t see this kind of thing reported in most mainstream media outlets because it goes against the basic beliefs of the modern moonbat. Cognitive dissonance and all that.

It’s real and it won’t go away until we address the source of the problem — the extremists who brainwash their children into believing that hate and suicide bombings are not only acceptable, but the way to salvation.

Ask Fatah how they feel about Hamas right now.

More than 100 dead

The article paints a very negative picture, and it is pretty damn sad, but I can’t help this question about Iraq and other havens for insane lunatic’s willing to slaughter civilians, children, mothers and non-participatory fathers.  Is the problem in Iraq brought about by the US “invasion,” which is really a code word for “evil conquest by an alien western culture,” or is it that the previous regime, and the support from Iran and Syria has no problem putting HUGE amounts of modern explosives into the hands of lunatics?

I’m pro-second amendment, but I think it’s a fair bet that a truck’s worth of explosives would raise some eyebrows and deserves a little investigation and research.

The only occupation an unemployed undocummented iranian, syrian, saudi, pick your random islamic nation can fill is that of murderous animal.  Lets hope they engage in immigration reform, as well as enact a pogram.

Sorry, you gotta kill the loyalists, even we did it.

WTF!!!!

According to newsbusters the UN Sec Gen says that Darfur is because of FLOGGING GLOBAL FLOGGING WARMING?

I remember the Ethiopian famine, when I was a kid, I also remember the sudanese refugee problem brought about by a famine in Sudan, I also remember other famines, and other droughts, and other famines, but the thing that was most common?

A nation of mongrels unwilling to care for their people their food base, and their industrial base.

Global FRIGGEN WARMING?!?!?!?

so let me get this straight, global warming is responsible that there is a ruling population of arab muslims in sudan who think that black muslims are an interferrence, AFTER they have already chased the african christians into a defensive posture with the EVER SO VIGILANT! UN military protecting the christians, but now the arab muslims are killing black muslims, but not black christians is because of Global FLOGGING WARMING?!?!?!?

Listen, there MIGHT be something (not likely) to this whole global warming thing, there MIGHT be something (not likely)to this whole poverty thing, there MIGHT be something to this (not likely) whole western intervention thing, but you know what I don’t believe?

That Africa at .6 degree’s in the last hundred years is why lowlife scumbags are eager to slaughter an entire RACIAL portion of their population.  Global Effing Warming, JESUS FRIGGEN CHRIST!!!

Eff the dead people

Hamas stole the completely undeserved, and overly hyped, and irrationaly awarded acclimation that was Arafats Peace Prize!!

Now it’s news, is it a civil war yet? Is it a society of mongrels yet? Is it a cult of death yet?

I submit that we need a commission to look into WHY Arafats Nobel Peace Prize was taken and despoiled, then in 80 years when there is no more western concept of free enterprise or action we might have an answer.  My bet is it will become an icon of the greatness of allah to prove the global caliphate as supreme, but I might be cynical.

Islam and the traitors, I mean press.

Link requires registration, worth the 20 or 30 seconds, for you retards, take the 2 minutes to hunt and peck in your adobe hut, without electric lighting, it’s worth it.

“It is not entirely obvious to me that Buruma has read very much by Ramadan, nor that Stéphanie Giry has read more than a single book, though she has met the man. As for Garton Ash, he confesses in his New York Review essay that he bases his judgment on having heard Ramadan speak, which may suggest that he has read nothing by Ramadan at all. But no matter: a conventional wisdom has plainly convened.”

That’s just a small small small portion of it.  It’s 10 pages, but next time you have enough time to dedicate to learning about the hypocrisy, idiocy and gullability of academia and the press when it comes to people who are fundamentaly our enemies, and how they treat those who WANT to be our allies, well, just make the effort and read it.

 I’m absolutely rapt, and I’m only 5 pages in.

Via insty

Update:  I don’t know if my initial conclusions are accurate, there is a lot of baiting and switching, which is pissing me off, but I guess, that it closes out as I expect.

Update:  I started with the first article, and then I followed the other links at Insty, and this one at Tim Blair’s place. . . . . ASTOUNDING! the hypocricy.  Just click then read, and keep clicking and reading, STUNNING!  The left has NO SHAME!

More wife beating advice

From our extremist Muslim friends.

Just in case there was any confusion from the last time.

Video at MEMRI TV.

“If blood or pus comes from your husbands nose and you lick it up, you still will not have observed all of his rights.”

Lovely.

When will the supporters of women’s rights on the left stand up in outrage against this barbaric behavior?

Not until it furthers their political agenda, which means — never.

At Hot Air.

Iranian cool

Not so hot, but definately awesome girl on girl action.

Found it at publius’s place.

Free the film

Free the film that PBS won’t let you see

NEW YORK — Where on Earth are the moderate Muslims? Thanks to PBS, they’re not on public television.

PBS has blocked “Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center.” This new documentary funded with a $675,000 Corporation for Public Broadcasting grant contrasts the ubiquitous bearded, burqa-covered Muslim radicals with others seldom seen: men and women who wear Western attire, shave daily, show their female faces and prosper without slaughtering “infidels.”

While moderate Muslims may appear elsewhere on PBS, Uncle Sam’s TV channel declines to air this compelling, evenhanded and surprisingly tame film that explores the struggle between modern Muslims and their backward brethren. Produced by Canadian filmmaker Martyn Burke and the Center for Security Policy’s Alex Alexiev and Frank Gaffney, “Islam vs. Islamists” is no fire-breathing, Islamophobic screed. While it sympathizes with mellow Muslims targeted by their hotheaded co-religionists, it simply lets individual Muslims speak for themselves, with limited commentary none of it inflammatory.

Capital HQ a New York-based public-affairs organization quickly arranged a sold-out screening of “Islam” Tuesday night. Even after benches and folding chairs were dragged in from the Union Square 14-plex’s lobby, guests still clogged the aisles.

The film showcases brave, moderate Muslims like Naser Khader, a Syrian-born Danish legislator who preaches the separation of mosque and state. The mere fact that he votes in Copenhagen’s parliament enrages Muslim zealots.

“To make laws only a god does that. And there is only one god in Islam, and that is Allah,” says Slimane Abderrahmane, an Algerian-Danish alumnus of al Qaeda’s terror camps and, later, Guantanamo. “So you’re saying, ‘I’m just like Allah.’ And you can’t do that.”

Rather than submit to such Muslim crackpots, Khader fled Copenhagen for a small Danish town. He also requires 24-hour police protection. This is hardly paranoid. During the deadly Muslim overreaction to those newspaper images of Mohammed in Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten, Danish Muslim fanatic Ahmed Akkari said, “If Khader becomes minister of integration, shouldn’t someone dispatch two guys to blow up him and his ministry?”

The man who videotaped Akkari’s words also is in “Islam.”

Mohamed Sifaoui, a peaceful Algerian-French journalist, infiltrated a Parisian band of Muslim extremists. Some appeared via hidden camera. Others hammed it up, thinking Sifaoui was shooting an Islamist propaganda movie.

Since French TV showed his film, bodyguards have surrounded Sifaoui.

It is newsworthy that moderates such as Khader and Sifaoui need security agents to shield them from Allah’s potentially homicidal followers.

Nonetheless, PBS has nixed this film.

Go sign the petition:

FREE THE FILM PETITION

To Pat Harrison, President of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Members of the United States Congress:

We are among the taxpayers whose money has been used to make “Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center” – a documentary that was supposed to be aired on the Public Broadcasting Service as part of its “America at a Crossroads” series.

Yet, we are unable to see this film, despite the fact that the information it relays about what is happening to moderate Muslims at the hands of the Islamists is, arguably, as important as any issue addressed by the documentaries that were broadcast in that series.

While PBS justifies its suppression of “Islam vs. Islamists” on the grounds that the film is “unfair” and not up to the network’s “standards” we believe that, as its underwriters and the public who own our country’s public airwaves, we have a right to judge for ourselves. Please do whatever is necessary to make this documentary available to us and all other Americans at the earliest possible time.

This is an extremely important piece of work that all of us need to see. We’ve been crying out for the Muslim middle in our society to stand up against Islamic extremism. It looks like some of them are — this movie could go a long way to persuade non Muslims away from the idea that everything Muslim is bad. Yet, PBS is choosing to quash it for the exact opposite reason. Someone doesn’t want you to see this film — no real suprise who it is.

Michelle Malkin has much more.

The religion of peace atrocities

If you are still one of the uninformed sheeple who feel that muslim extremists pose no threat to the world — read the articles that I link here. If you are not compeletely disgusted and horrified, I suggest that you make a trip to the Middle East to commune with your buddies. Make sure you wear the bacon scented tuxedo to ingratiate yourself — until they cut off your head with a rusty knife while video taping it for their pals.

The Christian victims of Iraq

Holy Week is a time when Christians think of the crucifixion of Jesus. This year, they should also be meditating on another crucifixion: that of a 14-year-old boy, nailed to a cross by Islamists in Iraq.

This diabolical crime was part of a campaign by jihadists to extinguish one of the most ancient Christian Churches in the world, that of the Assyrians.

I don’t know if the Christian teenager who was crucified in Basra last October knew Jesus’s language, but by the time the Islamists had finished with him he certainly knew a great deal about his suffering.

From The Catholic Herald:

“When they cook a dish in the Middle East, it is traditional to put the meat on top of the rice when they serve it. They kidnapped a woman’s baby in Baghdad, a toddler, and because the mother was unable to pay the ransom, they returned her child – beheaded, roasted and served on a mound of rice.” The infant’s crime was to be an Assyrian, but this story, reported by the Barnabus Fund, went unnoticed in the West, like so many other horrific accounts of Christian persecution in Iraq.

Since the invasion of Iraq, Muslim militants have bombed 28 churches and murdered hundreds of Christians. Last October, Islamists beheaded a priest in Mosul in revenge for the Pope’s remarks about Islam at Regensburg. But never let it be said that jihadis do not have a sense of ironic humour: that same month they crucified a 14-year-old Christian boy in Basra.

Barbaric. Disgusting. Evil.

The articles I link are very interesting, but try to blame the West for indifference to the suffering of Iraqi Christians as cause for the incidents. Never mind that we have over a hundred thousand young men and women on the ground working to quash these lowest of human scum.

I blame the animals that perpetrated the acts.

There is a large Assyrian Catholic and Chaldean community here in the Detroit area. Their plight over the centuries is well known to many here. The media, with their nano-second long term memory, like to blame us for anything bad that happens in Iraq, saying that toppling Saddam created a power vacuum that is responsible for the hideous events described above. Saddam was the reason hundreds of thousand of Iraqi Christians fled their country. Many returned after his toppling, some finding the situation too volatile and leaving once again.

Assyrian and Chaldean Christians were being persecuted long before the US invaded Iraq. The only difference now is that the bad actors are not following the orders of Saddam and his henchmen. Saddam was able to reign in some of the extremists in the past, but only because he pacified them with fear and the occasional mass slaughter.

Extremists with the support of Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia are behind most of the the problems we are seeing today. Any religion that fosters and tolerates this special kind of evil needs to be questioned. Moderate muslims say that these acts are not representative of most muslims.

So, while these primitive animals continue to wage terror on their own citizens, all in the name of Islam — we wait for the voice of moderate Islam to stand up and condemn their savage brethren.

So far, the silence has been deafening.

h/t The articles above were first brought to my attention by Bratty Brother at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

Moosetracked at the Bullwinkle Blog

Ah, Spain….

This is awesome.

Victim wears Mohammad bomb cartoon to Madrid trial

MADRID (Reuters) - A woman who lost her husband in the 2004 Madrid train bombings displayed an infamous cartoon mocking the Prophet Mohammad on her T-shirt in front of 29, mostly Muslim, suspects on trial for the attacks on Monday.

The woman’s white T-shirt showed Mohammad wearing a bomb as a turban — one of a series published by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten which unleashed violent protests by some Muslims last year.

Ten bombs ripped through four commuter trains on March 11, 2004, killing 191 people — attacks which public prosecutors blame on a group of Islamist militants inspired by al-Qaeda.

The woman sat in the front row of the court wearing the T-shirt for around half-an-hour before getting up, walking up to the glass cage containing the defendants and finally walking out of the court, judicial sources said.

Good for her.

Of course, this would never be allowed in a courtroom here in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

We get Code Pinko’s and Impeach Bush transvestites.

And, lest anyone get their panties in a bunch, this is a terror trial in which 29 terrorists are on trial for using Islam as an excuse to slaughter innocent civilians whom they considered infidels, to make a political point. When the cartoons were first published, no on really cared — it was an exercise in irony. Then, a couple of imams created their own versions of the cartoons, added them to the rest and then went on a little terrorist/riot incitement trip in which dozens of people were killed including a Catholic priest and a nun — tens of thousands rioted. It later turned out that the imams had taken an image from a French hog calling festival with a man calling a hog with a pig nose on his face and passed it off as one of the original cartoons — which it was clearly not.

Religion of peace, indeed. It’s long past time for moderate Muslims to stand up and separate themselves from the “small amount” of their society that deals in terror and murder.

Muslims have carried out over 7835 terror attacks worldwide SINCE 9/11. (see my sidebar)

One woman in Spain has more courage than all of the governments in the world.

From Hot Air

Also Moosetracked at that thief’s blog.

Death to America!

Found at Hot Air

Keith Ellison proves that he’s an idiot

So,

You’re a first term congressman who attracted not a little controversey for hanging out with terrorist supporters and as the first muslim elected to congress. You cause a small fuss for wanting to be sworn in with a Koran.

How do you reach out to your new colleagues and neighbors?

You call the cops on them.

From The Hill:

Rep. Ellison calls the cops to snuff Tancredo’s cigar
By Betsy Rothstein

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) believes it is his right as a Muslim to be sworn into Congress with the Quran. But apparently, the freshman lawmaker doesn’t believe it’s Rep. Tom Tancredo’s (R-Colo.) right to smoke a cigar in his congressional office.

Ellison’s office called the Capitol Hill Police on Tancredo last Wednesday night as Tancredo was in his office smoking a cigar. The lawmakers have neighboring offices on the first floor of the Longworth House Office Building.

Tancredo was still stunned a day later. “It’s very bizarre,” said Tancredo, who has never met Ellison. “Seemed to me not a good way to say hello.”

And let’s face it. Calling the cops on a colleague takes the cake for the nerviest behavior so far among members of this year’s freshman class of Congress.

This is how it all went down. On Wednesday evening, around 6 p.m., Tancredo was preparing for his trip to Mississippi. And as he so often does, he was unwinding with a cigar.

Soon enough, however, a police officer walked in to check on the smoke. The officer told Tancredo that the officer came because he was required to do so and not because the officer wanted to. The officer had already told Ellison that Tancredo was permitted to smoke in his office. The visit was more a formality.

Tancredo said he would not stop smoking in his office. “Heck, no!” he said. “If he [Ellison] would have [had] the courtesy to say something I’m sure I would have been more accommodating to his wishes.”

Enjoy your two years in congress Mr. Ellison. That’s all you are going to get. Even the lefties in Minnesota can see when they’ve been duped and elected a moron.

Great start to what will be a very unremarkable stint.

Via Michelle Malkin & Hot Air

Moosetracked

Beirut is burning….again

Hezbollah is rioting in Beirut. Over the last several weeks, Hezbollah had been camped out on the city center hoping to disrupt and take over the democratically elected government. Not content with the damage they caused to Lebanon when they attacked Israel and started a war, they have now thrown the country into near civil war.

Michael Totten just returned from Lebanon and has coverage.

Hezbollah Riots in Lebanon (Continuously Updated)

While I was in Lebanon gathering the material I’ve been publishing, Hezbollah kept threatening to strangle the country by seizing major roads, including the one that leads to the airport. I was worried I might get stuck there, but I didn’t. Today, though, they finally make good on their threat. Palestinian guerillas are reportedly helping.

Future TV and LBC say there are clashes between rioters and commuters. Cars, as well as tires, are burning.

Violence is spreading. Three people have been shot. Sunni and Shia Muslims fought each other with sticks, rocks, and automatic weapons in Southern Beirut. Violent clashes, often involving gunfire, are erupting elsewhere in the country as well.

Notice, also, that the violent clashes in the streets are mostly between Sunnis and Shia, not between Christians and Shia. This is, and was, entirely predictable. Those who think Hezbollah is a popular movement with the support of Lebanon’s Muslims as a whole should think again.

Take a close look at the methods of extremist Islam.

Will the world finally stand up and condemn Hezbollah as the terrorist organization that it is? I doubt it.

These are the same animals that blew up the US Marine barracks. Yet today, the MSM and lefties continously sugarcoat and spin the stories coming out of Lebanon. Reuters was caught sending photoshopped and staged pictures out to the major news outlets of the world.

Enough already.

All quiet on the Western-Baghdad front

In the post Welcome to Baghdad West, I posted an article from the Detroit News that covered sectarian violence in Detroit between Sunni and Shia muslims.

I also mentioned that I would try to get to the area and take some pictures.

Vandals hit Shi’a stores

DETROIT — Muslim leaders say a spate of vandalism over the weekend involving stores owned by local Iraqis could stem from brewing sectarian Islamic tension over the execution of Saddam Hussein.

While Shi’a and Sunni Muslims are fighting in Iraq, the two groups generally get along in Metro Detroit and the United States. But Muslim and Arab leaders say the hanging of Saddam, and especially the timing of the execution, spurred hard feelings.

They say the vandalized property was owned or operated by people of Iraqi descent who are Shi’a.

“People are scared to come here. It’s very dangerous, this place,” said Inaam Alkhafaji, referring to her Detroit business, Dana Media, whose windows were broken.

“It’s a war with the Iraqi people. Maybe next time they kill us.”

I first went to the Seven Mile and Woodward area to try to find some of the vandalism described in the article since it is not too far from my house. This area is on the far North side of Detroit, quite a way from Dearborn. As I drove down Seven Mile I realised that finding a particular store or building with a broken or boarded up window in Detroit is kind of like trying to find a particular grain of sand on a beach. One third of all houses and buildings in Detroit are either abandoned or falling down. This part of Seven Mile is in a very sketchy neighborhood, but during the daytime it’s pretty safe, so I walked around and took a few pictures.

No obvious signs of damage in the first few pictures:

But, the rest of the neighborhood looked like this:

So, things didn’t look too out of order along the Iraqi stretch of Seven Mile.

To give you an idea of what a bizarre city Detroit is, on the way to my next stop I took a picture of a typical house in the Palmer Woods neighborhood. This house is only half a mile from the house pictured above.

You can pick this house up for a song, but the property taxes in Detroit are among the highest in the nation — not worth it. You’ll pay more in taxes than for your mortgage.

Ok, so on to the West side. Warren Ave. cuts through the Northern edge of Dearborn before continuing on to the Western border of Detroit. The stores and restaurant mentioned in the article are here:

Not much to see other than the one door still boarded up, the restaurant’s windows had been smashed and were already repaired.

On we go, I figured I’d take a few more pictures to give everyone a feel for the area. Pictures really can’t do justice to how arabic this area really is, almost every store’s sign is in arabic lettering and several have no english at all. I couldn’t tell what a few of them were.

I took a few more that didn’t turn out, I really wanted to show the picture of the halal pizza place. I just thought it was funny.

One thing that I’ve always thought a bit weird is the prevalence of strip clubs and liquor stores in Dearborn. One is right next door to LaShish, a very popular restaurant.

Gigi’s strip club (oops, gay bar), with badly placed light pole:

So, all in all, there was not much to see. Especially by Detroit standards, this was much ado about not much. The Sunni and Shia could declare war on each other and it might take a few days for Detroit to notice.

It’s much more exciting when the arab groups take to the streets to demonstrate, downright chilling. They turn out by the thousand on just a moments notice. I’ll make sure to get pictures of that in the future.

Oh, and if you read this post Dean Esmay, bite me — you couldn’t be more full of shit about what goes on here on the arab “street”. Going to lunch on Michigan Ave. once a year does not make you an expert on all things middle eastern in Detroit.

Linked at Stop the ACLU.

Update:Debbie Schlussel has an interesting post about the FBI’s Michigan Special Agent in Charge and his strange ways — Aleikum Salaam, Abu Roberts: Hoffa-Digging, Islamo-Pandering FBI Honcho Leaves Town; Dreams of Terror Suspect’s Return

Regular readers of this site know that I’ve tracked the doings of Dr. Smith (of “Lost in Space”) look-alike, Michigan FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel Roberts, for some time.

His four biggest achievements are: 1) Wasting millions of dollars in a two-week dig for the body of Jimmy Hoffa at a Michigan farm (we had a daily count, “American Farm Held Hostage”); 2) Pandering ad absurdum to Islamofascists, terrorism supporters, and even a “former” Islamic terrorist; 3) allowing America’s largest Hezbollah financier to flee the country; and 4) working bankers hours for taxpayers, while spending the rest “chasing” terrorists on the treadmill at a local gym.