If we were being uncharitable, we could probably assign a motive to the Washington Post for publishing this story, but, hey, it’s early morning, and the article seems to avoid partisan rancor, so A deep recession and tougher border enforcement have led to a sharp decline in the number of immigrants entering the United States
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Good News! Illegal Immigration Has Dropped To Only 300,000 Per Year!
The Christian Science Monitor – The United States Justice Department is filing an “unprecedented” lawsuit against Joe Arpaio, the controversial sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County.
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Joe Arpaio: Why is Obama administration suing an outspoken Arizona sheriff?
(The Christian Science Monitor)
I don’t know, but my guess is that Victory Mosque supporters aren’t thinking too carefully about their viewpoints. Scroll forward to about 3:20 minutes at the clip. That’s Imam Dawoud Kringle debating Andrew McCarthy on Fox Business Channel. Imam Kringle twists and turns when David Asman asks him if “Hamas is a terrorist organization?” All folks have to do is check the Hamas Charter to understand the goals of these fanatics. The tide is turning against the leftist-Islamist alliance. Imam Rauf and Daisy Khan have been exposed and their backers debunked and repudiated. Most of all the despicable JournoList national media has once again disgraced itself. We no longer have even a shred of an objective press today in the United States. Where one finds decent, fact-based reporting, free of bias, that’s something to hold up to kudos and emulation. But we have to keep up with the fight. The tide is turning.
From Jonah Goldberg : Here’s a thought: The 70% of Americans who oppose what amounts to an Islamic Niketown two blocks from ground zero are the real victims of a climate of hate, and anti-Muslim backlash is mostly a myth. Let’s start with some data. According to the FBI, hate crimes against Muslims increased by a staggering 1,600% in 2001. That sounds serious! But wait, the increase is a math mirage. There were 28 anti-Islamic incidents in 2000. That number climbed to 481 the year a bunch of Muslim terrorists murdered 3,000 Americans in the name of Islam on Sept. 11. Now, that was a hate crime. Regardless, 2001 was the zenith or, looked at through the prism of our national shame, the nadir of the much-discussed anti-Muslim backlash in the United States. The following year, the number of anti-Islamic hate-crime incidents (overwhelmingly, nonviolent vandalism and nasty words) dropped to 155. In 2003, there were 149 such incidents. And the number has hovered around the mid-100s or lower ever since. Sure, even one hate crime is too many. But does that sound like a anti-Muslim backlash to you? Let’s put this in even sharper focus. America is, outside of Israel ,probably the most receptive and tolerant country in the world to Jews. And yet, in every year since 9/11, more Jews have been hate-crime victims than Muslims. A lot more. In 2001, there were twice as many anti-Jewish incidents as there were anti-Muslim, again according to the FBI. In 2002 and pretty much every year since, anti-Jewish incidents have outstripped anti-Muslim ones by at least 6 to 1. Why aren’t we talking about the anti-Jewish climate in America? Because there isn’t one. And there isn’t an anti-Muslim climate either. Yes, there’s a lot of heated rhetoric on the Internet. Absolutely, some Americans don’t like Muslims. But if you watch TV or movies or read, say, the op-ed page of the New York Times — never mind left-wing blogs — you’ll hear much more open bigotry toward evangelical Christians (in blogspeak, the “Taliban wing of the Republican Party”) than you will toward Muslims. No doubt some American Muslims — particularly young Muslim men with ties to the Middle East and South Asia — have been scrutinized at airports more than elderly women of Norwegian extraction, but does that really amount to Islamophobia, given the dangers and complexities of the war on terror? More at the link .
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The Myth of an Anti-Muslim Backlash
“We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non Muslims.”
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Ground Zero Imam Says U.S. Worse than al-Qaeda
Amazingly, today’s the first time I’ve actually tuned into ” This Week ” since Christiane Amanpour took over. I’ve watched video clips. But today I clicked on the tube right at 8:00am. The Karzai interview wasn’t so interesting. HE’S not interesting, I guess. I’m tired of him being in charge in Afghanistan and I just can’t help myself (rigged elections, gaffes up the wazoo, and who knows what else?). Anyway, it was the Daisy Khan interview that really snapped me to attention. Now that’s timely. But Amanpour immediate proved her critics correct, that she’s a hopeless leftist ideologue unsuited to hosting the program. See starts out : We turn now to the debate over the proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero. Opponents say that it’s just too close to the site of the 9/11 attacks, though it cannot be seen from there. It took an ABC News producer two minutes and 45 seconds to walk from ground zero to the site of the proposed center. But the controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States. And the backlash against Islam has been seen across the country, with mosques facing protests in California, Wisconsin and Tennessee. And some intelligence experts now say that the backlash could also bolster extremists abroad, who wish to portray the United States as anti-Islam. See that? All the leftist memes. And at the clip she flashes the New York Times ‘ earlier headline at the paper, ” U.S. Anti-Islam Protest Seen as Lift for Extremists .” That piece was fully debunked by both Tom Maguire and myself . Watch the clip: Daisy Khan reports that the possibility of relocating Ground Zero is simply “not on the table.” Khan repeatedly stressed that she and radical husband Imam Rauf have a “constitutional right” to build the mosque. Never do we hear her mention the flip side of rights, that of responsibility — especially the responsibility to give the arguments of critics a fair shake. And this “cultural center” is supposed to be about “interfaith understanding”? Inept public relations messaging, to say the least. Indeed, most interesting is the video segment showing Imam Rauf saying that ” United States policies were an accessory to the crime that happened ” when al Qaeda terrorists attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001. Daisy Khan’s response is even worse, that American policy caused the attacks as a result of our Cold War policies supporting the Mujahideen in Afghanistan: Imam Rauf was talking about ” the CIA support specifically to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban” … “you know, in CIA terms, a blowback of that. That’s what he meant .” Blowback. Oh, great. The favorite term of hardline critics of American foreign policy, those who claim U.S. neo-colonial “occupation” around the world is the “root cause” of global jihad against the U.S. Yep, 9/11 families will just be bowled over with that model of understanding and “outreach.” And actually, Ms. Daisy kinda leaves out the Koran’s injunctions to kill the infidels. Convenient, you think? And of course a Muslim-compliant Christiane Amanpour’s not likely to correct the defamations, regardless of the debate on whether she’s quick enough on the uptake to be even hosting this debate. Jeez, where are our modern David Brinkleys? Shoot, Jake Tapper would suit me just fine. More on this later. Stay strong friends …
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Daisy Khan: Moving Islamic Center ‘Not’ On the Table for Now
-By Warner Todd Huston With the shocking report by Christine Brim revealing that the folks involved in planning the Ground Zero Mosque are heading a major push to get Shariah law forced upon the United States, one has to wonder why this startling fact has not become the talk of the town among the Old Media
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Why Is Ground Zero Mosque Connection to Sharia Law Push Being Ignored?
Photoshop credit: Another Black Conservative Wonderful. Guess DHS Secretary Clownitano would call this more evidence that the system is working. Via AP : On each side of a towering West Texas stretch of the $2.4 billion border fence designed to block people from illegally entering the country, there are two metal footbridges, clear paths into the United States from Mexico. The footpaths that could easily guide illegal immigrants and smugglers across the Rio Grande without getting wet seem to be there because of what amounts to federal linguistics. While just about anyone would call them bridges, the U.S.-Mexico group that owns them calls them something else. “Technically speaking it’s not a bridge, it’s a grade control structure,” said Sally Spener, spokeswoman for the International Boundary and Water Commission, which maintains the integrity of the 1,200-mile river border between the U.S. and Mexico. Technically speaking, this is suicidal insanity.
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Open-borders bridges into America
