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Eleanor's New Blogging Spot

A new blog for Eleanor, "Eleanor Duckwall's Spotlight." No, this blogger is not parting ways with George Mason and Cubed, merely blogging on a Sixth-Column Ancillary, Eleanor Duckwall's Spotlight found at http://sixthcolumn.typepad.com/duckwalls/, and I will be returning to write at this site, and, I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't find me posting at other sites.

Saudis Know How to Read Election Returns

Why is King Abdullah Saying No to Dinner?

Bush's Royal Trouble at the Washington Post.

Banning Legos to Create 'Social Justice Learning'

This writer has often across the term 'social justice' in politics and in rsearch on Islam which claims to promote 'social justice' almost as part of the Five [Official] Pillars which "provide a framework for the Muslim way of life." But I never would have connected Legos, the children's building toy, with 'social justice.' In this case, the Left is experimenting with young minds to create 'more just children.'

Here's Jonathan Miller at National Review:

A Defeat for CAIR in the House of Representatives

Of course I didn't hear about this in the news because it's being completely ignored by mainstream media. The House voted yesterday to protect ordinary citizens against harassement lawsuits - and get this, this motiong "is specifically aimed at the CAIR and their lawsuit/legal jihad on behalf of the six non-flying imams."

House votes to protect 'John Does' on flights.

Combating CAIR and the Imams: Malkin- The John Doe Manifesto

The level of concerned of thinking people was raised when earlier this month, "six publicity-seeking imams filed a federal lawsuit against US Airways and the Metropolitan Airports Commission in Minneapolis/St. Paul." Remember that the Muslim clerics were removed from their flight last November and questioned for several hours after their suspicious behavior alarmed both passengers and crew members.

Recently, CAIR, the Council of American Islamic Relations, filed a lawsuit on behalf of the imams and all others who "travel-as-Muslim," in order to secure "their civil rights" and prevent "racial and religious profiling."

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Here a forthright manifesto to counter these folks with a video here.

This Is Progress?

A letter published in the Miami Herald from two South Florida Muslims who claim that women have always had rights under Islam and had them even before Mohammed had his revelations from Allah. Reform must come from those "who have demonstrated love for their faith and who are symbiotically connected to their communities."

CAIR Must Be Fought: "Fight Fire With Fire"

Mark Holzer makes the call to arms. I agree; anyone who plays the system to quash the Constitutional rights of Americans in favor of an ideology must be stopped.

From: CAIR Must Be Fought, Pt. I:

It’s obvious that CAIR, with its national headquarters in Washington, 32 offices nationwide and in Canada, national conferences, professional publicists, slick annual reports, and a formidable litigation operation, is receiving substantial financial support from sources that share its agenda of intimidating Americans’ exercise of speech critical of Islam, weakening our homeland defense, and infiltrating our culture.

The Imam Scam continues

by Marc Sheppard at the American Thinker

CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) was handed a victory of sorts on C-SPAN's Washington Journal call-in show this morning. The subject was the "civil rights" lawsuit CAIR attorneys have filed on behalf of the flying imams, whose highly suspicious actions last November led to their ejection from a US Airways plane prior to takeoff.

Open for discussion was this morning's USA Today opinion piece which bared the "chilling effects" of CAIR's effort to obtain the names of passengers who reported the imams' threatening behavior. These on-the-ball citizens, along with many airline employees, have actually been named as "John Doe" defendants in CAIR's bogus suit.

Misogyny in the name of diversity

One would think that by now, feminism would have stamped out misogyny. Violence in all its forms, and ill treatment continues unabated even in Western "bastions of liberty" where equality between the sexes and, ahem, among genders is grandiously touted. All that trumpet blowing in the name of equality is only hot air: discrimination of gays and others living an alternative lifestyle continues ... and so does misogyny, or "hatred of women."

What else could you call it when promulgated laws require that women be treated as second-class citizens? A case in point occurred recently in Germany where a Western judged refused to grant a Muslim woman a divorce; instead he deferred to Muslim family law that allowed husbands to mistreat their wives. Luckily for the woman, public outrage required the recusal of this judge, and her case will heard again.

Hamas leader: "Islam will enter every house and will spread over the entire world"

From: Atlas Shrugs via JihadWatch; translation from PMW:

While the Hamas goal of destroying Israel is well known, its aspiration for Islamic subjugation of the entire world is just as basic to Hamas dogma. Both aims appear in the Hamas Charter as God's irrepressible will, and both aims were reiterated this week by senior Hamas leader and former PA Foreign Minister Mahmoud Al-Zahar.

At a mass rally in memory of Hamas founder Ahmad Yassin, Al-Zahar said that the Quran promises the "liberation of all of Palestine," meaning the destruction of Israel. He went so far as to challenge the Islamic faith of those who deny this goal: "No one can deny it. One who denies it must check his faith and his Islam.”

Regarding the Hamas religious goal of Islamic world domination, he said: “Islam will enter every house and will spread over the entire world.”