Archive for March, 2011
The Georgia mosque controversy
No...this picture wasn't taken in Kabul....it was taken in Lilburn, Georgia
Lilburn, Georgia is a quiet little suburb of about 11,000 residents that sits just 17 miles east of Atlanta. It is also home to a growing Muslim population and they want to expand. The land that they want to use is owned by the mayor of Lilburn and this new mosque will be a replica of a shrine to a Muslim holy warrior in Iraq (where more than 4,00 US soldiers have been killed). Originally, the Lilburn city council shot down the proposal, siting numerous zoning restrictions. After this zoning meeting, residents of Lilburn who have been protesting the mosque required around the clock police protection due to death threats and harassment from the Muslim community.
But now….Islams beloved knight in shining armour, Eric Holder, is stepping in to save the day.
(Creeping Sharia) LILBURN, GA — Hope has been restored to the members of a Lilburn mosque that wants to expand.
The U.S. Department of Justice has decided to investigate the City of Lilburn’s decision not to grant permission for rezoning to the Dar-e Abbas Shia Islamic Center. The rezoning is necessary for expansion.
And hope to restore the peaceful neighborhood seems all but eliminated now that terror-friendly Eric Holder’s DOJ is using taxpayer funds to ensure this mosque can expand against the wishes of residents and local law.
“There is no good reason for the City Council’s non-approval vote. No public service is being served by not allowing the mosque to expand,” said Doug Dillard, an Atlanta attorney representing the mosque. “What is to be gained by the City Council by ruling against a group that has been in the community for the past 12 years?”
Early reports stated that the mosque wanted to build a gymnasium and other additions.
Dillard denies this. “The mosque is looking to expand and needs a larger parking lot and main building,” he told 11Alive News.
The Department of Justice declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation.
The Department of Justice has four options, according to Dillard.
“One — DOJ could do nothing. Two — DOJ could intervene as a party in a current lawsuit. Three — DOJ could file a friend-of-the-court brief, or four — DOJ could file its own lawsuit,” he said.
A ruling from the Department of Justice is expected soon.
Just peachy. Once again the feds are taking over.
You get three guesses as to what the outcome of this fight will be.
The first 2 don’t count.
Wednesday Open Thread: March 16th, 2011
What’s on your minds this Wednesday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
We need a leader…NOW
I’m cruising along right now at 35,000 feet somewhere over New York and I’m looking out the airplane window at the beautiful blue sky and bright sunshine…very peaceful. Then it hit me… that while all is calm way up here in the big blue sky… it’s all chaos and turmoil down below and we don’t have a leader strong enough to see us through these scary times. What’s happened over the last several months (probably more like years) is biblical. End-time tsunami, several catastrophic earthquakes, possible nuclear disaster, major unrest in the Middle East, world financial crisis…and I’m sure I’m missing a few other events but you get the big picture. It’s scary. It’s scary as hell and what does our brilliant leader talk about on Saturday’s radio address?
(FoxNews)Amid chaos around the world and on Capitol Hill, Obama’s Saturday radio address was devoted to Women’s History Month and a call to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, a proposal meant to address the income gap between men and women. Then, the president went golfing at Andrews Air Force Base.
What is he thinking? Is he burying his head in the sand hoping that it will all just go away?
This world needs a real leader.
NOW.
Tuesday Open Thread: March 15th, 2011
What’s on your minds this Tuesday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
Liberals speaking the truth?
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All I can say about the above Youtube video is WOW.
No wonder PJ Crowly “stepped” down. Liberals speaking the truth?
Amazing.
Jihad Cosmo?
Al-Qaeda has launched a new magazine that is being called the Cosmo for the female jihadist. On it’s glossy pages are pictures of the latest in suicide belts as well as skin care secrets.
(UK DAILY MAIL –(H/T Maria) Dubbed ‘Jihad Cosmo’, the glossy magazine’s front cover features the barrel of a sub-machine gun next to a picture a woman in a veil. There are exclusive interviews with martyrs’ wives, who praise their husbands’ decisions to die in suicide attacks.
The slick, 31-page Al-Shamikha magazine – meaning The Majestic Woman – has advice for singletons on ‘marrying a mujahideen’. Readers are told it is their duty to raise children to be mujahideen ready for jihad.
And the ‘beauty column’ instructs women to stay indoors with their faces covered to keep a ‘clear complexion’. They should ‘not go out except when necessary’ and wear a niqab for ‘rewards by complying with the command of Allah Almighty’.
A woman called Umm Muhanad hails her husband for his bravery after his suicide bombing in Afghanistan. And another article urges readers to give their lives for the Islamist cause. It advises: ‘From martyrdom, the believer will gain security, safety and happiness.’ More traditional content for a women’s magazine includes features on the merits of honey facemasks, etiquette, first aid and why readers should avoid ‘towelling too forcibly’.
A trailer for the next issue promises tips on skin care – and how to wage electronic jihad. The first issue’s editorial explains that the magazine’s goal is to educate women and involve them in the war against the enemies of Islam.
Wow…I don’t know whether to laugh or be horrified.
Monday Open Thread: March 14th, 2011
What’s on your minds this Monday?
The Japanese people are still fighting for their survival. I am amazed at their strength and courage.
What are people talking about in your part of the country.
Israel moving forward with West Bank settlement after the murder of an Israeli family.
Israeli troops on patrol in the West Bank
An Israeli family was brutally stabbed to death by militant Palestinians late Friday in the West Bank settlement of Itamar. This certainly didn’t help the ongoing peace negotiations between the Israeli’s and the Palestinians. In response, the Israeli government lifted the restrictions on the construction of new homes in the area….making the Palestinians furious, of course.
(from FoxNews)
JERUSALEM – Israel said Sunday it has approved hundreds of settler homes after five members of an Israeli family — including three children — were knifed to death as they slept in a West Bank settlement over the weekend.
The attack and the government’s response threatened to drive Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking even further out of reach. Israel, which blames the attack on Palestinian militants, is liable to set aside an emerging peace initiative it had planned to propose, while the planned construction of new settler homes only deepened Palestinian mistrust of Israel.
The settlement construction, approved Saturday night by the Cabinet’s ministerial team on settlements, would take place in major West Bank settlement blocs that Israel expects to hold on to in any final peace deal, the prime minister’s office said in a text message to reporters. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under domestic pressure to respond harshly to the killings, is a member of that team.
A government official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to release this information to the media, said between 300 and 500 apartments and homes were approved for construction.
Palestinian opposition to settlement construction on lands they want for a future state has brought negotiations to a virtual standstill over the past two years, with Palestinians refusing to negotiate directly with Israel as long as it persists.
“We condemn this act of accelerated settlement construction,” senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said. “We urge the international community to intervene and implement the two-state solution. This is the only way out of this vicious circle of violence and counter-violence.”
Settler leader Dani Dayan called the government’s move “a very small step in the right direction.”
Although ground has been broken on as many as 500 apartments and homes since an Israeli moratorium on new West Bank settlement construction expired in late September, the government is holding up approvals on hundreds of other homes, to the settlers’ chagrin.
The attack Friday night in Itamar, home to some of Israel’s most radical settlers, was the deadliest against Israelis in years, and security forces were on alert Sunday for possible settler retaliation against Palestinians. The general security level around the country was raised, with an emphasis on the West Bank and Jerusalem, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
The military said suspects had been taken into custody in connection with the killings but would give no details. Troops were searching the area around the settlement looking for the assailants and were beefed up in the area near the Jerusalem cemetery where the victims were to be buried later Sunday, the military said.
And do you know what the Palestinian residents of Gaza did after hearing of the murder of the Israeli family?
(Ynet) — Gaza residents from the southern city of Rafah hit the streets Saturday to celebrate the terror attack in the West Bank settlement of Itamar where five family members were murdered in their sleep, including three children.
Palestinians celebrate the murder of an Israeli family
Residents handed out candy and sweets, one resident saying the joy “is a natural response to the harm settlers inflict on the Palestinian residents in the West Bank.”
Murder is a natural response?
These people are monsters.
Sunday Open Thread: March 13th, 2011
Have you seen this video of the police dragging union thugs out of the capitol in Madison? I bet that was a smelly job. Gross.
What’s on your minds this Sunday?
It seems like this world has gone crazy, doesn’t it?
What is going to happen next?
All eyes on Japan
It’s Saturday…most people here in the US are busy with their weekend plans. NCAA basketball conference championships are going at a fever pitch. Spring is in the air and flowers are starting to bloom (well…here in Dixie they are). Let’s all take time this weekend to pray for the people of Japan. An earthquake…then tsunami…and now a potential nuclear meltdown will test the strength of this great nation. They will need a lot of support but they are incredibly strong people and I’m certain they will get through this. They will show the world how to handle a disaster.
God bless Japan.
