FrontPage magazine.com :: Imams Gone Wild by Paul Sperry

'Here's what happened: On Oct. 23, 2003, Sheikh Ahmed Hamman Mahmoud Hamman claimed he needed assistance as he boarded Delta Flight 1586. Banducci, who was flight coordinator that day, escorted the Egyptian imam, dressed in a flowing robe, to his seat. As she helped him get seated, Hamman remarked in heavily accented English how good she smelled and asked her name.
'As she began to recoil from the bearded man's passes, he suddenly grabbed her face with one hand and wouldn't let go. Banducci told him he was hurting her and asked for help from passengers in the immediate area. She was able to pull away, but then His Most Holiness grabbed both her breasts and again would not release his grip. Banducci yelled at him to let go, but he refused, squeezing even harder. Only after she screamed for help and two air marshals broke cover did the man back down.
'As authorities questioned him, Hamman acted like he couldn't speak any English. The Miami-Dade Police Department took him into custody where he was booked the next day for felony battery, the police report says. Delta did not press charges, however, and kept the incident from the press.'

The Devil's Excrement: One Last Picture of Anti-Chavez Rally in Venezuela

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Telegraph | News | Sharia law is spreading as authority wanes

'Islamic sharia law is gaining an increasing foothold in parts of Britain, a report claims.
Sharia, derived from several sources including the Koran, is applied to varying degrees in predominantly Muslim countries but it has no binding status in Britain.
However, the BBC Radio 4 programme Law in Action produced evidence yesterday that it was being used by some Muslims as an alternative to English criminal law. Aydarus Yusuf, 29, a youth worker from Somalia, recalled a stabbing case that was decided by an unofficial Somali "court" sitting in Woolwich, south-east London.
Mr Yusuf said a group of Somali youths were arrested on suspicion of stabbing another Somali teenager. The victim's family told the police it would be settled out of court and the suspects were released on bail.'
A hearing was convened and elders ordered the assailants to compensate their victim. "All their uncles and their fathers were there," said Mr Yusuf. "So they all put something towards that and apologised for the wrongdoing."

The 751 No-Go Zones of France [Weblog] - Daniel Pipes

'They go by the euphemistic term Zones Urbaines Sensibles, or Sensitive Urban Zones, with the even more antiseptic acronym ZUS, and there are 751 of them as of last count. They are convienently listed on one long webpage, complete with street demarcations and map delineations.
What are they? Those places in France that the French state does not control. They range from two zones in the medieval town of Carcassone to twelve in the heavily Muslim town of Marseilles, with hardly a town in France lacking in its ZUS. The ZUS came into existence in late 1996 and according to a 2004 estimate, nearly 5 million people live in them.
A more precise name for these zones would be Dar al-Islam, the place where Muslims rule.'

Hundreds of Thousands March Against Hugo Chavez in Venezuela

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French police the target in urban guerrilla war - Yahoo! News

PARIS (Reuters) - 'Stoned, beaten and insulted, their vehicles torched by crowds of hostile youths, French police say they face an urban guerrilla war when they enter the run-down neighborhoods that ring the major cities.
"Our role is to guarantee the safety of people and property but the great difficulty today is that police are having problems ensuring their own safety," said Jerome Hanarte of the Alliance-Police Nationale union.
Bedside television interviews with officers hospitalized after beatings in "les banlieues," or suburbs, support statistics showing a 6.7 percent jump in violent crime in the 12 months to August.
Fourteen officers are hurt every day in the line of duty, unions estimate, and law and order is sure to feature prominently in next year's presidential election.'

adn.com | warming : Arctic resists warming

'. . . researchers also found new patterns of cooling ocean currents and prevailing winds that suggested the Arctic, long considered a bellwether of global warming, may be reverting in some ways to more normal conditions not seen since the 1970s.'

Expatica: German Court: Sept. 11th Conspirator Let Off too Lightly

Karlsruhe, Germany (dpa) - 'Germany's High Court scolded judges Thursday for letting off Mounir al-Motassadeq too lightly for conspiring in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
Appeal judges ordered a limited new trial, where the evidence from the previous trial will stand and only the penalty must be decided.
Last year the Moroccan student was sent to jail for seven years for being a member of the Hamburg terrorist cell led by Mohammed Atta and two other suicide pilots. But he was acquitted at trial of being an accessory to 3,000 murders of plane and building occupants.'

Today's Good News

BREITBART.COM - House Democrats Name Hoyer to No. 2 Post
'House Democrats on Thursday chose Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer to be House majority leader over Rep. John Murtha, the choice of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, in line to become speaker.
Hoyer was elected on a vote of 149-86.'

2 local imams arrested in alleged visa scheme - The Boston Globe

'Federal immigration agents arrested imams from two Boston-area mosques yesterday on charges they were involved in a scheme that provided religious worker visas to immigrants who used them to enter the United States and work instead as gas station attendants, truck drivers, and factory laborers.'
"This was a nationwide religious worker visa fraud scheme designed to help illegal aliens," said Grenier. "These people had to be solely engaged in religious employment, and in many cases were not."

BREITBART.COM - Airport Arrest Turns Up Nuclear Info

'A man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after officials say they found him carrying more than $78,000 in cash and a laptop computer containing information about nuclear materials and cyanide.
Sisayehiticha Dinssa, an unemployed U.S. citizen, was arrested Tuesday after a dog caught the scent of narcotics on cash he was carrying, according to an affidavit filed in court.
When agents asked him if he had any cash to declare, he said he had $18,000, authorities said. But when agents checked his luggage, they found an additional $59,000. When they scrolled through his laptop, they said they found the mysterious files.'

Counterterrorism Blog: Saudi Prison Escapees Killed in Iraq

'Less than one week ago, reports began to filter in from Al-Qaida supporters claiming that two wanted Saudi Arabian terror suspects -- Abdelaziz al-Massud and Abdelaziz al-Falaj -- had been killed in clashes with security forces in neighboring Iraq. Though the Saudis have thus far been unable to confirm these reports, a video posted today on the Internet and marked with the logo of Iraq's Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC) appears to do just that. The recording--which was not officially released by the MSC through its usual channels--features close-up footage of the corpses of the two men and pays homage to them as "martyrs."
Al-Massud and al-Falaj were among a group of at least eight terrorist suspects who managed to escape from a Saudi prison in Riyadh last July. Al-Massud had already attempted to travel to Iraq on at least one prior occasion in 2006 in order to join Al-Qaida, but was intercepted before he could cross the border by Saudi security forces.'

The Blotter: Abramoff Reports to Prison; Officials Focus on Reid, Others

'As convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff reported to federal prison today, a source close to the investigation surrounding his activities told ABC News that Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was one of the members of Congress Abramoff had allegedly implicated in his cooperation with federal prosecutors.
A source close to the investigation says Abramoff told prosecutors that more than $30,000 in campaign contributions to Reid from Abramoff's clients "were no accident and were in fact requested by Reid."
In addition to Reid, the sources say Abramoff has been most closely questioned about his contacts with Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), who was defeated in last week's election.'

BREITBART.COM - Report: Lab in Landis case made 'administrative error' on 'B' sample

PARIS (AP) - 'The French anti-doping lab that tested American cyclist Floyd Landis' urine samples made an "administrative error" when reporting its findings on his backup "B" sample, the French newspaper Le Monde reported Wednesday.
Landis' lawyer, Howard Jacobs, has already alleged that the French lab made repeated errors in its analyses, including mismatched sample code numbers.
In a letter sent to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in September, Jacobs said the positive finding on the "B" sample came from a sample number not assigned to Landis.
"It's incredibly sloppy," Jacobs said at the time. "It has to make you wonder about the accuracy of the work."

Telegraph: British Muslim Lawyer refuses to take off veil

'A senior judge has been asked to decide whether female Muslim advocates may wear the veil in court.
The question was referred to Mr Justice Hodge, president of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, by an immigration judge at Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, who had difficulty in hearing a veiled legal executive.
Shabnam Mughal was dressed completely in black with a full-face veil leaving only her eyes visible.'

Orson Scott Card - RealClearPolitics - The Only Issue This Election Day

'I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations.
But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. And since the Democratic Party seems hellbent on losing it -- and in the most damaging possible way -- I have no choice but to advocate that my party be kept from getting its hands on the reins of national power, until it proves itself once again to be capable of recognizing our core national interests instead of its own temporary partisan advantages.'

Bloomberg.com: Venezuela's Rosales Kicks Off Campaign March Through Caracas

Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- 'Venezuelan opposition candidate Manuel Rosales, who is seeking to unseat President Hugo Chavez, kicked off a 26-kilometer (15.6-mile) march that will take him from one end of the capital of Caracas to the other.
Thousands of blue and yellow T-shirt clad supporters joined Rosales and opposition leaders in the working class neighborhood of La Vega in the eastern part of the capital. The march will end in the working class neighborhood of Petare in western Caracas, where Rosales will speak.'

PoughkeepsieJournal.com - Valley's dead cast their votes

'The new statewide database of registered voters contains as many as 77,000 dead people on its rolls, and as many as 2,600 of them have cast votes from the grave, according to a Poughkeepsie Journal computer-assisted analysis.
The Journal's analysis is the first to examine the potential for errors and fraud in New York's three-month-old database. It matched names, dates of birth and ZIP codes in the state's database of 11.7 million voter registration records against the same information in the Social Security Administration's "Death Master File," a database of 77 million records of deaths dating to 1937.
The state database was current as of Oct. 4, the master death index through the second quarter of 2006.
The same process has been used to identify deceased registrants in other states, but is not yet being used in New York.'

Ray Robison: NYT article on nuclear sensitive releases at DOD website

"What to keep in mind when you read the NYT article.

'Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq had abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein’s scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away.'

Steyn's book can't be found in Canada

'A Canadian author's book about the need to defend Western civilization against Islam's demographic juggernaut -- and the United States' vital role in that effort -- has become a best-seller in the United States, but remains all but impossible to buy at stores in [Canada].
Conservative columnist Mark Steyn's book America Alone has shot up best-seller lists: It stands at 13th on The New York Times list and 23rd on Amazon.com.
But Canada's largest book seller, Indigo Books and Music Inc., does not have the book in stock at its Chapters outlets or its other book-selling subsidiaries.
Mr. Steyn has charged that Indigo and its chief executive officer, Heather Reisman, underestimated demand for his book as a means of "boycotting" it.'

Pajamas Media: Burning Buses: “She was black but she looked white, her skin was peeled."

“Facts pop up once in a while like fish bubbles on a quiet lake—hundreds of cars burned on a relatively calm night, at least a hundred every night all year long, 2500 policemen injured since January 2006—and disappear without consequences.”

Another On Bites The Dust

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — 'A businessman pardoned by former President Clinton has been found dead inside his South Beach condo, authorities said.
Almon Glenn Braswell, 63, was found dead Oct. 28 in his Ocean Drive condo by his employees, and may have died from a previous injury, Miami Beach police said Thursday.
No additional information was released.
Braswell's death has been labeled "unclassified" pending more tests, the Miami-Dade medical examiner's said.'

DRUDGE REPORT: E-Voting Machine Smartcards Missing

'Political insiders have expressed alarm after 12 voter smartcards have gone missing from one Shelby County, TN early vote location!
The cards are used to activate electronic voting machines.
The location at the center of the controversy is Bishop Byrne High School on E. Shelby Drive in Memphis.
The polling place started out with 25 cards. By Wednesday, 11 were missing, says an eyewitness.
The location was given 5 more smartcards on Thursday.
And another card went missing!'

Church calls for action over gruesome violence toward Christians in Iraq | News | This is London

'Soaring violence against Christians in Iraq – including the alleged crucifixion of a teenage boy in Basra - has prompted the Catholic Church to call for a safe haven to protect minority groups as the country slides toward civil war.'

WorldNetDaily: Muslim insurgents behead 14-year-old Christian boy

'A website in Assyria is confirming that a 14-year-old Christian boy who was working a 12-hour shift maintaining an electric generator has been murdered by Muslim insurgents.'

WorldNetDaily: Student's 'Star Chamber' inquisition prompts lawsuit

'A lawsuit has been filed against Missouri State University after school officials forced a student to endure a "Star Chamber" interrogation because she would not sign a letter endorsing homosexual adoptions.'

RNW: Did imam's sermon incite Van Gogh murder?

'During the ongoing trial of another Dutch terrorism suspect, Samir Azzouz, it's emerged that Imam Fawaz of the as-Sunnah mosque in The Hague gave a sermon condemning Theo van Gogh just a few weeks before his murder. A recording of the sermon exists and in it the imam is heard uttering a curse against the Dutch director for his film Submission, which is critical of Islam. The film had been shown on television shortly before the sermon.'