The co-signer on the Park51 building Hisham Elzanaty gave $6,000 to the Holy Land Foundation in 1999 which existed solely to support Hamas. And as IPT pointed out to Fox NY, even back then it was well known the HLF was as a Hamas front group. If this doesn’t put the nail in the GZM’s coffin then nothing will…

(FOX-NY) – Fox 5 News reported Thursday that one of the financial backers of the Islamic mosque and cultural center project in Lower Manhattan once contributed to a terror group, although the investor says the contribution was made because he thought he was giving money to a harmless charity.

One of the key players in Sharif El-Gamal’s Mosque near Ground Zero is Egyptian born businessman, Hisham Elzanaty. Fox 5 News has learned exclusively and confirmed with Mr. Elzanaty’s attorney that Elzanaty made a “significant investment” in the development of the mosque near Ground Zero.

Fox 5 has also uncovered Elzanaty has teamed up with El-Gamal on at least two real estate deals: the controversial mosque site and another deal involving a commercial property in the Chelsea section of Manhattan.

In the Chelsea deal, mortgage documents show Elzanaty played a major role signing off as the guarantor on El-Gamal’s $39 million mortgage.

When Fox 5 News reporter Charles Leaf tracked down Elzanaty outside his Long Island home in Roslyn Heights last week Elzanaty avoided the camera and did not answer a single question about his business dealings with El-Gamal.

Fox 5 News has also learned that in 1999 Hisham Elzanaty sent money to an organization that would later be deemed by the U.S. government to be a terrorist group.

The organization was the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, also known as HLF. The now defunct group’s 1999 tax records show Elzanaty contributed more than $6,000 to HLF.

Two years later, in 2001, HLF was shut down by the federal government and designated as a global terrorist. After a mistrial in 2007, in 2008 five HLF leaders were convicted of providing material support to Hamas.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) is a non-profit research group that focuses on radical Islamic terrorist groups. The research group shared its information on HLF with Fox 5 News and IPT’s Managing Director, Ray Locker tells us HLF, “masked what their true purpose was, they funneled money to Hamas which used that money to conduct terrorist operations. In many cases they gave that money to the widows and children of so-called martyrs. ”

Federal investigators say HLF was set up as the largest Muslim charity in the United States based in Richardson, Texas, but from its inception the group existed to support Hamas.

Mr. Elzanaty’s attorney tells Fox 5 News exclusively his client believed he was making contributions to an orphanage.

But IPT’s Ray Locker claims even back then TV and newspapers were reporting suspicions of the group’s ties to terror. “If you gave money (to HLF) in 1999 you probably had some inkling that HLF was giving money to Hamas and therefore to terrorist operations,” Locker says.

Don’t forget, CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land terror trial…

Hey Barack, I think your cover has been blown…

(MSN News)- A Pakistani minister wants US President Barack Obama to offer Eid prayers at Ground Zero in New York and become the “Amir-ul-Momineen” or Caliph of Muslims.

Minister of State for Industries Ayatullah Durrani, who belongs to the ruling Pakistan People’’s Party, said the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr festival, expected to be observed on September 11, would be a “golden opportunity” for Obama to offer Eid prayers and declare himself the leader of all Muslims.

“In this way, all the problems of the Muslim world would be solved,” Durrani told The Nation newspaper.

Durrani, a former member of the Pakistan Ideological Council, contended that the Muslim world is in “dire need” of a Caliph and occupying this distinguished slot would provide Obama “exemplary titles” like “Mullah Barack Hussain Obama” or “Allama Obama”.

He said: “The time is approaching fast. Barack Hussain Obama must act now. This is a golden opportunity, Muslims badly need it.

Obama’’s elevation to the Islamic Caliphate would be the “key to success, he claimed but did not offer any explanation for his remarks.

H/T:Raymond

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This should serve as a warning, never drop acid before going on national television…

“There’s no doubt the economy is better than it was two years ago…. the problem is our messaging”

The next time we hear about Sofiane Ibrahim Gammu where will he be, Somalia, Pakistan or Yemen?…

(LWJ)- The Libyan government has released dozens of Islamist extremists and terrorists in recent days as part of an effort to reconcile with its opposition. The initiative is being led by Saif al Islam Qaddafi, the son of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi. Saif Qaddafi is battling other forces in Libya to one day succeed his father as ruler. And Saif’s reconciliation with terrorists who once opposed his father’s regime is part of a gambit to build his base of power.

Among the Islamists released is Sofiane Ibrahim Gammu, a former Gitmo detainee who was transferred to Libya on Sept. 28, 2007 and spent the next three years in a Libyan prison. Libyan officials say Gammu was once a driver for Osama bin Laden. But Gammu denied this allegation to Reuters: “I am not bin Laden’s driver. It’s a misunderstanding.”

Declassified memos prepared at Guantanamo tell a different story. The memos allege that Gammu, who was known as Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu (internment serial number 557) during his time in detention, was a longtime jihadist who served both the Taliban and al Qaeda.

Gammu served in the Libyan Army from 1979 until 1990, but his service was marred with legal troubles. According to memos produced at Guantanamo, Gammu was “arrested and jailed multiple times…for drug and alcohol offenses, going absent without leave and attempted rape.” He “was sentenced to four years in prison for drug trafficking,” but escaped prison and “fled to Sudan in 1992,” at which point he allegedly started serving al Qaeda.

The Gitmo files note that Gammu “worked as a truck driver in Sudan for the Wadi al Aqiq Company,” which was “owned by Osama bin Laden.” When the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an al Qaeda affiliate that has targeted Muammar Qaddafi’s regime, was formed in the mid 1990s, Gammu joined the group and was allegedly assigned to its military committee. In 1998, however, Gammu left the LIFG and joined the Taliban in Afghanistan, where he fought against the Northern Alliance.

Gammu continued to work with al Qaeda in Afghanistan. In memos prepared at Guantanamo US officials alleged that he “received military training at Osama bin Laden’s training camps in Afghanistan” and his “name and family information” were “listed on a document which contained details of al Qaeda operatives’ families.” The Gitmo files note that the document “is associated with a senior al Qaeda operative.”

After the Sept. 11 attacks, Gammu allegedly “met with al Qaeda operatives at a guest house in Kabul, Afghanistan…to discuss the evacuation of women and children.”

What kind of  ‘mainstream Christian’ attends a hate-infested Black Liberation Theology church for 20 years?…

(Politico) — President Obama is a “mainstream Christian,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday, questioning why Glenn Beck has said the president follows “liberation theology.”

“People are entitled to their own opinion, as ill-informed as it may be,” Gibbs told reporters. “But they’re not entitled to their own facts.”

Gibbs called Obama a “committed, mainstream Christian” and said he had “no evidence that would guide me as to what Glenn Beck would have any genuine knowledge as to what the president does or does not believe.”

Letterman spews out leftist talking-point after talking-point…

H/T:Doug Powers

Wait, they still watch Candid Camera?…

RABAT, Morocco, Sept. 2 (UPI) — A religious leader in Morocco has issued a fatwa calling candid camera TV shows “among the most grave and abhorrent of sins.”

Sheik Adnan Zohar, a member of the Scholarly Council’s Fatwa Committee, said the shows aim to create fear in the audience and require actors to lie, the al-Arabiya television network reported.

“In several candid camera episodes you would see a man crying, a woman calling out for help, or frightened people. Instilling fear in people is against Islam,” he wrote in his fatwa. “These programs are among the most grave and abhorrent of sins.”

The shows also humiliate people and encourage the audience to waste time better spent in worship and prayer, he said.

Zohar took particular aim at Taxi 36, a show on the state television network. He said everyone involved in the show, whether producers or actors, is involved in sin.

Well, the Disaster-In-Chief is a national tragedy…

(The Hill) — Democrat mocks Republicans at California event, saying party has suffered from “massive amnesia” since Obama was sworn in.

Republicans act as if President Obama’s inauguration ranks with Pearl Harbor and 9/11 as a national tragedy, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said this week.

“Now here is what apparently happened on Jan. 21, 2009 [sic], if you listen to the Republicans: It was, after Pearl Harbor Day or 9/11 of 2001, the worst day in American history,” Frank said at a local Democratic Party event in California last weekend.

He went on to lambast the GOP for thinking that the nation’s problems began with the 44th president, and not under his predecessor, President George W. Bush.

I think our Heroes have earned the right to legally drink a beer with dinner . . .

If 18 is old enough to lift a weapon in defense of your country, U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston says, it’s old enough to lift a cold beer on base.

The Savannah Republican has introduced legislation that would let service members younger than 21 drink beer and wine at post restaurants and clubs.

People as young as 18 may enlist but now must be 21 or older to consume alcoholic beverages on post.

Kingston said he’s thought about the matter as he’s stood on the tarmac of Hunter Army Airfield as soldiers prepared to deploy for combat.

“There they are in their rucksacks,” he said. “And they’re going off to operate Abrams tanks and Black Hawk helicopters and squeeze the triggers on their M-4 rifles.

“We tell them they’re responsible enough to do that and risk their lives, but not responsible enough to have a beer with their steak on post. I think that’s an insult.”

He said most people acknowledge many people under 21 drink even though it’s illegal in most states.

“Society tends to wink at what we know is going on,” he said. “I want us to address the issue responsibly when it comes to our military personnel.”

He said he tried to tack a similar measure onto a measure that authorizes military programs earlier this year, but wasn’t allowed to.

Kingston’s bill only applies to situations where beer or wine is intended for immediate consumption. It would not let personnel buy it at post stores and take it to drink somewhere else.

Savannah Now

There goes the left’s lone excuse why he wasn’t one of theirs…

(ABC News)- James Lee, the bomb-laden gunman who was killed by police in the lobby of the Discovery Channel, was once convicted and imprisoned for smuggling illegal immigrants into the country from Mexico.

The revelation that Lee had once smuggled illegals contrasts sharply with a hate-filled manifesto he left behind in which he describes illegal immigrants as “disgusting filth” and their children as “anchor baby filth.”

Documents in the 2003 court case document Lee’s descent into isolation and despair.

According to a copy of his plea agreement and a jailhouse confession written to the judge on the eve of his sentencing, Lee was choked and robbed in a Tijuana, Mexico, hotel room, before his assailants induced him to become a human trafficker.

Note: We call them “terrorists,” Obama’s left-wing base calls them “freedom fighters”…

“The Palestinian mother is a central partner in the struggle…
It is she who gave birth to the fighters, and she deserves
that we bow to her in salute and in honor.”

Those were the words of the Palestinian Authority’s Minister for Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa Karake, when he honored a Palestinian woman by awarding her “the Shield of Resoluteness and Giving.”

She received this honor because she is the mother of four sons who are serving a total of 18 life sentences in Israeli prisons. They all killed Israeli civilians in terror attacks.

Nasser Abu Hamid - 7 life sentences + 50 years – commander in Fatah’s military wing the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in Ramallah. Convicted of killing seven Israeli civilians and 12 attempted murders.

Nasr Abu Hamid – 5 life sentences – Member of terror faction of Fatah, Tanzim, and convicted of involvement in two terror attacks and arms dealing.

Sharif Abu Hamid- 4 life sentences – a member in one of the brothers’ units carrying out terror attacks against civilians and soldiers. Accompanied a suicide bomber to his attack in March 2002.

Muhammad Abu Hamid – 2 life sentences + 30 years – involvement in terror attacks.

Minister Karake also chose this week to visit the home of the suicide terrorist Ayyat Al-Akhras who in 2002 entered a Jerusalem supermarket and detonated a bomb murdering two Israelis and killing herself. The minister’s visit took place on the occasion of the Palestinian “National Day for Returning the Bodies of Palestinian and Arab Shahids and MIA’s.”

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The dumb-as-shit look on Sharpton’s face is priceless…

H/T:FoxNation

You knew this was coming…

H/T:Andy Canuck via Viral Footage

Just like the U.S. did in Iraq, our government will abandon Christians in favor of Muslims…

(CNSNews.com) – Christians in Pakistan’s flood-hit regions are doubly affected by the disaster as a result of anti-Christian discrimination by government relief workers and Muslim aid agencies, according to representatives of the embattled minority.

They are urging Christians to send assistance to organizations that will either help stricken Christians specifically, or at least ensure that Christians are not sidelined in the aid distribution.

As flood waters begin to recede, thousands of Christians are among millions of Pakistanis left homeless. Aid agencies are delivering food, clothing, building supplies and hygiene kits in a bid to prevent outbreaks of water-borne diseases.

Many have lost not only their homes but also their source of livelihood as their crops and subsistence fields have been washed away along with seed for next season’s planting.

According to the Pakistan Christian Congress (PCC), Muslim relief organizations and government agencies have been denying assistance to Christians affected by the flooding in Punjab province.

The PCC organ Pakistan Christian Post described the southern Punjab was a “hotbed” of extremist organizations which view Christians as “infidels.” It said local officials in fear of the radical elements were barring Christians from tent camps for flood victims.

Suicidal Liberal. If Muslims controlled America, how many synagogues would they allow to be built? What rights would Jews have? The right to die?…

(Washington Post) — Earlier this week, the Sept. 11 victims’ families group “Where to Turn” sent out a letter expressing opposition to a planned Sept. 11, 2010 protest of the proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero. “Such activities… disrespect the memories of our loved ones on this sacred day at this sacred site,” read the letter, which was signed by the group’s founder, Dennis McKeon, and posted on Politico.

Today, I spoke with Anti-Defamation League director Abe Foxman, who said he agreed with “Where to Turn” that the rally shouldn’t take place. Among those slated to appear is Dutch MP Geert Wilders, whom the ADL has previously criticized for anti-Muslim bigotry.

Foxman called the planned rally, and the recent incidents of anti-Muslim bigotry across the country, “un-American.”

On the rally:

I would agree with [Where to Turn], this is not a place for political demonstrations, for advocacy, especially on 9/11. This is a place for memory, for families to be together, to memorialize their loved ones, [to have] a moment of reflection and introspection. For people with political agendas to use the place and the moment for their own interests and their own platforms is desecrating the memory and very sad. Especially if some of the families of the victims are asking, their view should be taken seriously and respected.

Foxman had some harsh words regarding the presence of Wilders, as well as for conservative blogger Pamela Geller and her group Stop Islamization of America, which is organizing the protest:

[Wilders] is a bigot, he’s an anti-Muslim bigot, and one of the demonstrations being called for is being headed by someone who has an anti-Muslim agenda, often under the guise of fighting ‘radical Islam.’ The group vilifies Islamic faith and is engaged in [claiming] there’s a conspiracy to destroy American values, which is nonsense. The organizer in fact has stated that part of her agenda is to help garner support for Wilders, who is a bigot, who has a long record of anti-Muslim bigotry.

The war on Arizona continues. First they sued over  immigration law SB1070, yesterday against state colleges and now this…

Phoenix (AP) – The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics.

The lawsuit calls Arpaio and his office’s defiance “unprecedented,” and said the federal government has been trying since March 2009 to get officials to comply with its probe of alleged discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and having English-only policies in his jails that discriminates against people with limited English skills.

Arpaio had been given until Aug. 17 to hand over documents it first asked for 15 months ago.

It’s the latest action against Arizona by the federal government, which earlier sued the state to stop its strict new immigration law that requires police officers to question people about their immigration status.

“The actions of the sheriff’s office are unprecedented,” said Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the department’s civil rights division. “It is unfortunate that the department was forced to resort to litigation to gain access to public documents and facilities.”

Arpaio believes the inquiry is focused on his immigration sweeps, patrols where deputies flood an area of a city – in some cases heavily Latino areas – to seek out traffic violators and arrest other offenders.

Submission…

(Sports Grid)- USA defeated Iran in basketball today, which comes as a surprise to no one. What may raise a few eyebrows: team dancers were forced to wear long pants in a “nod to Muslim law.”

The Americans were led by two Kevins, Durant and Love, in their 88-51 beat down of the Iranians (oh, if only bubbling political conflict could be resolved on the parquet). In the days leading up to the contest, both teams downplayed the testy relations between their home countries in recent years.

Neither team would feed into the nationalistic fervor that is often such a huge part of international basketball, with the stock excuse for trash-talk being “We’re just here to play basketball.”

One interesting tidbit that arose from the game: the cheerleaders were forced to cover up.

[In} a nod to the Iranian supporters in Istanbul — which included minister of sports Ali Saeedlou earlier in the tournament — dancers were ordered to cover up for their performances during the game. Islam prohibits women from exposing their skin in public, and Iranian officials had turned their backs when the dancers performed in earlier games.

The dancers wore long pants Wednesday.

This isn’t the first time basketball was deprived of gyrating women during timeouts and intermissions at the world championships. In both games played by host country Turkey, dancers were forbidden from even coming out on the court. Oh public outcry over lack of sexy basketball dancers in Muslim countries, where are you?!

H/T:Spencer

Al Sharpton seen nodding in approval…

YORK, SC (WBTV) - The man who shocked the political world by becoming a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate has been accused of using anti-gay and racial slurs.

South Carolina candidate Alvin Greene is denying using the words.

Now former campaign aide Dottie Sue Maggart-Feldmen accused Greene of using the slurs in a voice mail to the York County man she says Greene was talking about.

In the message, which was obtained by WBTV news partner CN2, Dottie Sue tells Bigger she has resigned from the Greene campaign. She says on the way back from the forum in York Greene called Bigger a “fat white f—–.” She also says he called Bigger anti-white slurs.

Greene shocked the country in May by beating established politician Vic Rawl in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.

Have you no shame, Congressman?…

Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.) said he loves President Obama on a personal level, and believes that the president likes him very much, too.

Cao, a Republican elected in 2008 in a heavily Democratic district in New Orleans, said that he gets along very well with Obama on a personal level, though many other GOP lawmakers are more critical of the president.

“I love the president, and I believe he truly likes me,” Cao told the New Orleans Times-Picayune in a profile published on Thursday.

Cao has backed Obama on several major initiatives, voting for Wall Street reform and a repeal of the ban on openly gay and lesbian members serving in the military. Cao also voted for healthcare reform the first time in the House, but pulled his support after restrictions on funding for abortion were weakened in the final version of the legislation.

But despite his good working relationship with Obama, Cao suggested that his dealings with House Democratic leaders have been more frosty. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calf.) “has not approached me once,” Cao asserted.

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This is the most radical regime in U.S. history…

Via The Blaze

These stories are a little less amusing knowing the Mullahs are closer than ever to building a nuclear weapon…

(RFE)- Mojtaba Zolnour, deputy representative of Iran’s supreme leader in the Revolutionary Guard, has said that “Zionists” are waiting for the Hidden Imam to appear to kill him.

Hojatoleslam Zolnour made the comments earlier this week at Qom University.

He was quoted as saying that “Zionists” have security plans for Muslim pilgrimage sites including Mecca, Karbala, and other sites where he said it was likely that the Hidden Imam could appear. The Hidden Imam or the Promised Mahdi is the 12th imam of Shi’ite Islam, who Muslims believe will appear to bring peace and justice on Earth and put an end to tyranny.

“They’ve told their soldiers to kill immediately whomever they see with the characteristics [of the Hidden Imam] and not even take the risk to arrest him because he is a very awesome and dangerous person,” Zolnour said.

Last December, Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad accused the United States of doing all it could to prevent the return of Imam Mahdi.

“We have documented proof that they [U.S. leaders] believe that a descendant of the prophet of Islam will raise in these parts [the Middle East] and he will dry the roots of all injustice in the world. They have devised all these plans to prevent the coming of the Hidden Imam because they know that the Iranian nation is the one that will prepare the ground for his coming and will be the supporters of his rule,” he said.

H/T:ROP

Well, they do say prison changes you. Just sayin’ . . .

Politico: On Sept. 13, domestic virtuoso Martha Stewart will launch her series, “The Martha Stewart Show,” on the Hallmark Channel, and you can bet it will be way more than cookies and crafts. For starters, Stewart will also be doing up-close-and-personal prime-time interview specials with figures from the entertainment, culture and, yes, political worlds.

On Wednesday, POLITICO had a chance to ask Stewart which Washingtonians she would most like to talk with, now that she can put famous folks in the hot seat. “I would love to interview the first lady and I would love to interview Hillary Clinton,” Stewart said. “Also Nancy Pelosi…in detail. She’s a phenomenal woman – look at what she’s done. And she’s absolutely beautiful.”

Four jihadists planting an IED turned into a fine red Allah-mist by a Hellfire missile….

Shady…

The leader of the Ground Zero mosque got hugely valuable tax-exempt status for a Muslim organization he founded after claiming as many as 500 of its members prayed daily in a small, one-bedroom Upper West Side apartment also listed as his wife’s residence, The Post has learned.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf sought “church status” — an official IRS term for a house of worship of any religion — for the American Sufi Muslim Association, or ASMA, in 1998. The feds granted the request.

“Church status” is more than just an exemption — it means never having to pay taxes, file returns or reveal the sources of a congregation’s money or how it’s spent, according to the Washington-based Investigative Project on Terrorism, which discovered the group’s startling claims on the IRS form it filed seeking the special status.

On that form, the organization said it held services at 201 W. 85th St.

That’s a 17-story apartment building with no public space big enough to accommodate the 450 to 500 worshippers the group claimed regularly showed up five times a day to pray.

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Wow. Just Wow.
This is one heartless bitch, if it is true . . .

A New Jersey woman is devastated that her precious sports car — just repaired and fully gassed up — was wrecked by a suicidal man’s 40-story attempted death leap on the Upper West Side.

“I miss it. It’s my baby,” moaned Maria McCormack, who regrets lending her husband the 2008 Dodge Charger Tuesday for work. “I want to meet [Tom Magill] and say, ‘Why? Why my car out of all the cars in the city?’ “

McCormack’s husband, Guy, had the $14,000 muscle car parked behind 75 West End Ave. when Magill soared from 400 feet and landed on the rear windshield and trunk.

The vehicle broke his 126-mph fall and likely saved his life — but it killed the car, which was so extensively damaged that the insurance company will total it out.

“I wonder how he feels now that he made it. Does he feel like an idiot?” said Maria. “I hope he’s OK. But I just want to know why.”

The 42-year-old mother of four from Old Bridge recently spent hundreds of dollars fixing the rear brakes — and she says she got an oil change and filled it with gas just the day before the blazing red car was crushed like a tomato can.

“I was going to get the front brakes done . . . but thank God I had a migraine!” she said. “I can’t believe my car is gone.

Guy McCormack, 40, was far more merciful — agreeing to pony up the $500 insurance deductible.

“Geico said I could sue him . . . but I’m not going to do that. He has enough to worry about,” said the construction worker. “It’s a very small price to pay.”

Magill, 22 — who miraculously suffered only broken bones and blood clots — told investigators he “wanted to die,” according to sources.

NY Post

He gets a “A” for honesty but he claims they’ve changed their ways, that’s where he lost me…

(AFP)- The director general of the BBC admitted Thursday that his organisation had been guilty of a “massive bias to the left” but said “a completely different generation” of journalists now works at the broadcaster.

Mark Thompson told the right-of-centre Spectator magazine that there was an institutional bias when he joined the organisation, reinforcing the findings of a 2007 internal report which concluded that greater efforts were required to avoid liberal bias.

“In the BBC I joined 30 years ago, there was, in much of current affairs, in terms of people’s personal politics, which were quite vocal, a massive bias to the left,” Thompson said.

“The organisation did struggle then with impartiality. And journalistically, staff were quite mystified by the early years of Thatcher.”Now it is a completely different generation. There is much less overt tribalism among the young journalists who work for the BBC,” he added.

The 2007 report criticised the organisation?s slow response to the rise of Euroscepticism and immigration concerns, which it said were considered “‘off limits? in terms of a liberal-minded comfort zone.”

The Left has such a case of Obama Glorification Syndrome (OGS) that, when questioned, they fly into a rage . . .

“I know the president didn’t win down here, but there were a lot of people down here that voted for him, and I think I can speak for them and say we are not embarrassed yet,” Matthew Patterson, executive director of the Greene County Democratic Central Committee, said in a telephone interview on Sunday.

“My partner and I felt lots of frustration here lately, and we liked that sign and we thought that was a reasonable question to ask,” Steve Critchfield said in a telephone interview on Monday.

Critchfield and his business partner from Commercial One Brokers, a real estate firm in Branson, saw a similar sign online, bought it, and brought it to the Ozarks.

“I’ve certainly voted for people I’m embarrassed to say I’ve voted for,” he said. “We’re not naïve enough to think that we wouldn’t get someone to be upset. I’m just surprised how upset people are.”

Critchfield says he’s received death threats due to the sign; people accuse him of hate speech and racism. He insists the billboard was for something more American in the name of discourse, conversation, and old-fashioned debate.

“If everybody thinks [President Obama's] done a great job and they’re very happy,” he said, “then I guess they’d be buying billboards saying ‘I’m proud to have voted for him.’ That’s what makes America great, isn’t it?”

KY3

BTW, Even my cow-patty town has a similar billboard.

Imagine the outcry by the liberal elitists if 3,000 Israelis held a rally after the death of Palestinians?…

(MSNBC) – Palestinian gunmen opened fire Tuesday on an Israeli car in the West Bank and killed four passengers on the eve of a new round of Mideast peace talks in Washington. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility.

Assailants firing from a passing car riddled the vehicle with bullets as it traveled near Hebron — a volatile city that has been a flash point of violence in the past. Some 500 ultranationalist Jewish settlers live in heavily fortified enclaves in the city amid more than 100,000 Palestinians.

One of the victims was pregnant, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. Israel’s national rescue service said the victims were two men and two women, and Israeli media said everyone in the car was killed.

About 3,000 people joined a rally in Gaza to celebrate the attack. Hamas military wing spokesman Abu Obeida was among them and told The Associated Press: “The Qassam Brigades announces its full responsibility for the heroic operation in Hebron.”

What, no suicide bombers and cardboard Qassam rockets? At least be realistic…

Roger Ebert gives it two thumbs up!

Via Doug Powers

For some unknown reason I’m not worried, maybe it’s because the Arab armies couldn’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag…

Egyptian cleric Salem Abu Al-Futuh: The nation of Islam will return – despite our current crisis and despite the arrogance of the West. The West is bound to be destroyed. Just like Allah destroyed the Byzantine and Persian empires, He will destroy the West at the hands of the Muslims. This is an unequivocal promise. These countries will convert to Islam. Islam will reach these countries.

Let us examine the divine sequence: First, the Caliphate will return. Then, the Muslims will live in tremendous prosperity. The economy of the Muslims will be the strongest of all. You are probably thinking that I’m not well today if I say such things. By God, there’s nothing wrong with me. I am speaking words of truth.

Great conquests will ensue. We will conquer Italy.

By Allah, we will conquer Italy. By Allah, we will conquer Italy and move into [the rest] of Europe. Islam will enter that entire region. Even America, you ask? Yes, even America. North or south America? Both North and South America. We will enter all these countries, and people there will be joining Islam in droves.

I hope they know we have a bucket of rocks for their glass houses…

(Daily Caller)- The NAACP partnered with Media Matters, Think Progress and New Left Media to launch teapartytracker.org, a website that will specifically publish and monitor “racism and other forms of extremism within the Tea Party movement.”

Media Matters and Think Progress representatives said their content and reporting haven’t changed and that the NAACP approached their organizations seeking only to republish select content they’ve produced. The NAACP’s new teapartytracker.org is aimed specifically at highlighting “racism” in the Tea Party.

New Left Media, the duo of Chase Whiteside and Erick Stoll who use a “Trojan trick” to get interviews with Tea Partiers, is also a partner organization on the new site.

As for what Media Matters, New Left Media, Think Progress and the NAACP plan to do with teapartytracker.org, Think Progress editor Faiz Shakir and Media Matters Vice President for Research and Communications Ari Rabin-Havt said the NAACP contacted them about sharing content related to the Tea Party.

Shakir said the website isn’t meant to attack the Tea Party, only to “hold it accountable.”

“When they display intolerance and the kinds of racial signs that we’ve seen and the kinds of angry rhetoric, there’s nobody pushing back on that rhetoric or to check the record or fact-check it,” Shakir said. “I think it [the website] should be viewed in light of the NAACP being opposed to the intolerant elements of the Tea Party.”

Hey CAIR, you forgot to blame da Jooooos…

(CNSNews.com) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is putting some of the blame on both the Tea Party and the Republican Party for what it sees as a growing tide of anti-Muslim anger. CAIR officials said the rise in “Islamophobia” stems from the controversy surrounding the Islamic center and mosque that Muslims plan to build a few blocks from Ground Zero.

“We’ve seen a really strong uptick in Islamophobia recently – primarily sparked by the controversy over the Manhattan Islamic center,” Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR’s chief spokesman, told reporters at a press conference Wednesday. “We’ve seen hate vandalism at mosques in California; in Tennessee, we had an arson attack; at a mosque in Arlington, Texas, we had an arson attack; and something that wasn’t even reported nationwide, in May we had a bomb attack at a mosque in Jacksonville, Florida,” he said.

Hooper said the attacks could be driven by many factors: “The question is, why? Is it tied to the November elections? Is it tied to the rise of the Tea Party movement? Is it tied to the economy?” he asked. “I think it’s pretty clear that it’s been sparked…by these hate groups and their opposition to the Islamic community center in Manhattan.”

CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad was even more direct, saying that the Tea Party and the GOP have given the “green light” to a nationwide campaign to deny Muslims their civil rights and ultimately expel them from the United States.

“[W]e used to deal with individual cases of Islamophobia, harassments, and discrimination against Muslims,” Awad said. “Today, and in the past few months – almost maybe one year, we can say one year — we have seen an organized effort, we have seen organizations built to fight the presence of Muslims in the United States and to deny Muslims’ right to freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and even to be an elected official.

They should be hanged together…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh and another Muslim inmate have asked a judge to order a federal prison to allow them and other Muslims in their highly restricted cell block to pray as a group, in accordance with their beliefs.

The American Civil Liberties Union last Thursday filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis for summary judgment on behalf of Lindh, 29, and Enaam Arnaout, 47, who claim that the prison’s policy restricting group prayer in the Communications Management Unit violates their religious rights.

The ACLU contends there are no disputes over the facts of the case and that the law is on the inmates’ side, and asks the judge to rule in their favor.

Lindh, who is serving a 20-year sentence at the Terre Haute prison for aiding Afghanistan’s now-defunct Taliban government, wrote in a legal declaration that his religion requires him to pray five times a day, preferably in a group. “This is one of the primary obligations of Islam,” he wrote.

Praying in his cell is not appropriate, he said, because the Quran requires a ritually clean place for prayer and he is forced to kneel “in close proximity to my toilet.”

Work accident or airstrike?…

Ed, why do you make it soooo easy?…

In case you missed it this was in response to Special Ed’s “guarantee” he could beat Beck and bring 300,000 people to a rally…

Via Right Scoop H/T:Mike Stack