About that flier on your car window

*
We have all found them on the windows of our cars. You know those fliers. Some were 8x10s. Some were no bigger than index cards. Some were professionally printed on bright colored papers. Some were Xeroxed or were even mimeographed on cheap white papers. They all had something important to say, mostly about a big sale or the salvation of your soul.

Most likely none that you found on your car window were like the ones found by a few people shopping at a Sterling Heights area Kroger's.

~~~

Sterling Heights police Detective Sgt. Paul Jesperson said three separate complaints were filed by residents Tuesday who found the fliers on their windshields.

He said the flier said: "Kill Jews and Christians if they don't believe in Allah and Mohammad."

It further advises people to "Fight those who do not believe."
http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/092807/loc_fliers001.shtml

Not all cultures are equal.

*
Some are downright barbarous.

Take for instance the cultural practice of female genital mutilation, specifically the type where the female's clitoris is removed to promote chastity.

This is a barbaric practice. Those cultures that promote it or even just permit it are bottom dweller cultures, scum cultures, that treat woman as chattel deserving of no erotic pleasures whatsoever.

Justice would require that those males who support this practice be likewise deprived of the corresponding nerve cluster. (Preferable with shards of broken glass.) It would shorten their enthusiasm for this barbarity pretty quickly.

At least in Egypt, there is some debate taking place on the subject, and some effort is being made to put an end to this barbaric practice.

~~~

September 20, 2007
In Egypt, a Rising Push Against Genital Cutting
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN

KAFR AL MANSHI ABOU HAMAR, Egypt — The men in this poor farming community were seething. A 13-year-old girl was brought to a doctor’s office to have her clitoris removed, a surgery considered necessary here to preserve chastity and honor.

The girl died, but that was not the source of the outrage. After her death, the government shut down the clinic, and that got everyone stirred up.

“They will not stop us,” shouted Saad Yehia, a tea shop owner along the main street. “We support circumcision!” he shouted over and over.

“Even if the state doesn’t like it, we will circumcise the girls,” shouted Fahmy Ezzeddin Shaweesh, an elder in the village.

Circumcision, as supporters call it, or female genital mutilation, as opponents refer to it, was suddenly a ferocious focus of debate in Egypt this summer. A nationwide campaign to stop the practice has become one of the most powerful social movements in Egypt in decades, uniting an unlikely alliance of government forces, official religious leaders and street-level activists.

Though Egypt’s Health Ministry ordered an end to the practice in 1996, it allowed exceptions in cases of emergency, a loophole critics describe as so wide that it effectively rendered the ban meaningless. But now the government is trying to force a comprehensive ban.
Click on the link to read the whole article http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/20/world/africa/20girls.html?ei=5088&en=05c58b205d6592fc&ex=1347940800&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1190267800-RYHfeKEnUnouo8QdA8Epzg

Letting psychos teach our children.

*
The schools are no longer institutions of education, they have become institutions of indoctrination. The teacher in this article should be fired and blackballed from the US education system.

He won't be fired.

He won't even be disciplined.

Hell, some off the parents even signed this letter.


~~~

Teacher says inflammatory letter was part of lesson plan
By GREG WELTER - Staff Writer
Article Launched: 09/13/2007 12:10:51 AM PDT

Bidwell Junior High School administrators said a letter sent home with students in an eighth-grade class Tuesday was a good idea for a history lesson, with bad execution.

The letter, which appeared to ask parents to renounce their U.S. citizenship, prompted phone calls to the school from several irate recipients.

Principal Joanne Parsley said teacher Mike Brooks never intended to have parents sign the letters, or forward them on to President Bush, to whom they are addressed.

"It was a well-intended lesson that didn't shake out too well," she said, adding that Brooks would not be subject to disciplinary action.

Reached at home, the teacher said his U.S. History class is studying the Declaration of Independence, and he decided to write a letter putting the document into modern language. His intention, he said, was to send it home for parents to review, and possibly discuss with their children.

He concluded the letter with "After careful consideration of the facts of our current situation, I have decided to announce to everyone that I am no longer a citizen of the United States, but a free and independent member of the global community."
http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_6879480

What of Egypt after Mubarak?

*
Rumors about Mubarak's ill health are running rampant in Egypt. The Egyptian government is taking steps to dispel these rumors by having prosecutors formally question the editor of an opposition newspaper, publish photos of Mubarak and even publishing an interview with Mubarak.

They have not broadcast any live images of Mubarak, which pretty much suggest that he is in poor health.

Mubarak is 79 years old. That is an age at which people often find themselves in poor and ailing health. It is even an age at which people often just wake up dead some morning. Heart attacks, strokes and simple falls are frequent causes of death in the elderly, and Mubarak easily qualifies as elderly.

So we have reason to be concerned about his health, and the state of Egypt if he were to suddenly kick the bucket.

He has no political heir, and Egypt is not a very stable country.

Egypt is a nation with some very scary political undercurrents and forces.

It is the home of the Muslim Brotherhood.

When Mubarak passes from the scene, Egypt will erupt into chaos, with the possibility of Islamic radicals like the Muslim Brotherhood gaining power over Egypt.

That would be very bad.

It also may be very likely.

~~~

Mubarak has no designated successor, but his son Gamal's swift rise through the ruling party has fed speculation that the way is being paved for a hereditary succession, something that worries Egyptians.

To quell the health rumors, Mubarak himself, in an interview published Friday in the pro-government Al-Ahram newspaper, accused "illegitimate movements" of being behind the rumors - a reference to Egypt's most powerful opposition group, the banned Muslim Brotherhood.

Brotherhood leader Mohammed Mahdi Akef denied the allegation.

On Monday, the government-controlled Press Supreme Council, which issues licenses to newspapers, also said it had formed two commissions of media experts and legal consultants to evaluate press coverage of Mubarak's health and decide what legal measures should be taken.

That announcement, along with Mubarak's comments and the accusations against Essa, have led to concerns that the government might take steps to curtail the press here, which has enjoyed relatively more freedom in recent years.

Essa said he fears he will be thrown in jail and his newspaper shut down. Al Dustour previously was closed seven years by the government, beginning in the late 1990s, after it published a statement by an Islamist group that threatened Coptic Christian businessmen in Egypt.

"When a political regime reaches its end, it turns into a monster," Essa told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1188392540711&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Blond Jihadis

*
We knew that at some point in this thirteen hundred year old war with Islam that the Islamist would more aggressively recruit and use westerners on the front lines. Richard Reeves and John Walker Lindh were not unique. They were only among the first. There will be many more like them.

In Germany, we have two more.

~~~

GERMAN authorities have arrested three suspected Islamic terrorists on suspicion of plotting massive bomb attacks targeting Americans in Germany.

German federal prosecutor Monika Harms said the three, two of whom were German converts to Islam, had trained at camps in Pakistan and obtained around 700 kilos of hydrogen peroxide for making explosives.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007410385,00.html

Palestinians, Israelis and the misconceptions of the peacemakers.

*
Peace with Islam is impossible. Peace with Palestinians is possible. Any attempt to make peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians that does not start from that understanding is doomed to fail.

The West must begin to shed its misconceptions about what the conflict is about.

~~~

After a few years of benign neglect, Israel is back on the itineraries of well-meaning foreign emissaries. Former British prime minister Tony Blair visited the country in July in his new role as special envoy of the Quartet of Middle East peacemakers. Earlier this month, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived.

Each visit was concluded with a news conference at which promises of progress were made. But before any lasting on-the-ground movement toward peace can be achieved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, foreign emissaries, as well as some Israelis, will have to shake off some long-disproved tenets of the conventional wisdom about the dispute.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1188392497908&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull