Islamophobia? Not really
By Jonah Goldberg | August 24, 2010

. . 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 . .

Really? The victims manage to carry on, the poor intrepid souls:

Fire At Tennessee Mosque Construction Site Now Under Federal Arson Investigation

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — . . authorities told mosque officials that four pieces of heavy construction equipment on the site were doused with an accelerant and one set ablaze, said Camie Ayash, spokeswoman for the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro . .

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Student Arraigned in Anti-Muslim Stabbing of Cabdriver

. . Mr. Enright asked the taxi driver, who was from Bangladesh, whether he was Muslim, Mr. Zaleta said. After the driver said he was, Mr. Enright responded with the Arabic greeting, “Assalamu alaikum,” according to the criminal court complaint.

Then Mr. Enright said, “Consider this a checkpoint,” before pulling out a Leatherman utility knife and slashing the taxi driver’s throat, Mr. Zaleta said. The driver turned and Mr. Enright slashed him in his face and forearms, Mr. Zaleta said . .

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Drunk shouts ‘terrorists,’ urinates on mosque rugs

NEW YORK — In the latest in a spate of anti-Muslim incidents over the last two days, an intoxicated man entered a mosque in Queens on Wednesday evening and proceeded to urinate on prayer rugs, New York police officials said.

The man, identified as Omar Rivera, reportedly shouted anti-Muslim epithets and called worshippers who had gathered for evening prayer “terrorists.” One witness told the New York Post the man was “very clearly intoxicated” and had a beer bottle in his hand at the time . .

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Man Charged With Hate Crime For Allegedly Punching Turban-Wearing Store Clerk

A 35-year-old Seattle man has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly punching a 7-11 clerk in the head.

Police say Brock Stainbrook walked into the 7-11 just after midnight Aug. 24, approached a clerk wearing a turban, threw change on the floor and then punched the clerk in the side of the head.

“You’re not even American, you’re Al-Qaeda. Go back to your country,” he then said, according to police . .

Muslims are a fractionally small part of the U.S. population. Strange that so many high-profile violent and bigoted attacks would target them, considering their marginal presence. They’re having a mysteriously bad American Summer.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Girls Tell CNN: Women’s “Empowerment” Means Getting As Drunk & Promiscuous As Guys
Posted by: Greg Hengler at 12:32 PM

As if you needed further proof that woman’s “liberation” (aka feminism) has had less than stellar results.

Since God’s distinct roles for men and women and the sanctity of marriage are considered quaint and beneath the enlightened intellect of today’s educated elite, some may see this as “progress,” and others see it as punishment.

[video here]

I probably could spend quite a bit of time talking about all the stupid shit in this Townhall blog post, but I won’t.

A.) If you look at where women were a hundred years ago, feminism is a planet-sized unqualified star-spangled success.
B.) Success came in spite of backwards-ass Christians like Greg Hengler who is likely no friend to women, even devout ones.
C.) Hengler can’t put together a coherent sentence or argument. God makes ‘distinct roles’ for men, for women, and for the sanctity of marriage? What, a righteous marriage can’t engage in filthy sex with men, get pregnant and then raise the kids? Or become a Catholic priest and molest the faithful?
D.) God’s roles are ‘beneath the enlightened intellect of today’s educated elite’? What has your God been asking you to do with your women — lick their feet? That’s certainly beneath me.
E.) Hey Greg. Why isn’t the same thing — getting drunk and having sex — an equally tragic thing for young, single Christian men? Oops. Your white-bearded paternalism is showing. This ‘punishment’ you speak of, that’d be for their un-Christian freedom, right? Piss off.

Though it sounds bad, though it carries risks, is it possible that this phenomenon of getting drunk, getting boinked and bragging about it is a good sign for women? Yes, it’s possible.

This is a video sure to get your blood boiling. Thanks to Mike Malloy for calling attention to it.

Keeper of the Mountains are a West Virginia group opposed to ‘mountain top removal‘ mining. ‘MTR’ is basically wanton environmental destruction, ultra-strip mining, a just-blow-the-shit-up ‘energy industry’ practice. The ‘who wouldn’t want a moonscape?’ transformation of beautiful West Virginia.

Here, the video:

What a lovely sight: fat, drunken, violent pro-corporate thugs just dying to bring bloodshed to a peaceful 4th of July celebration.

Some more background:
Larry Gibson and Kayford Mountain. Larry Gibson’s family has lived on or near Kayford Mountain since the late 1700′s. More than 300 relatives are buried in the cemetery on Kayford Mountain. Larry and his family used to live on the lowest lying part of the mountain, and looked “up” to the mountain peaks that surrounded them. Since 1986, the slow motion destruction of Kayford Mountain has been continuous — 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Eighteen years after the “mountain top removal” project began, Larry Gibson now occupies the highest point of land around; he is enveloped by a 12,000 acre pancake in what was previously a mountain range.

Keeper of the Mountains Foundation was created to fund Larry Gibson’s efforts to preserve and foster the values of moutain culture. KOTM also supports his ongoing effort to tell the story of the destruction of Kayford Mountain and the surrounding community as a result of mountain top removal. On February 2, 2005, the IRS determined that KOTM was exempt from taxation as a qualified 501 (c)(3) organization, and that contributions to KOTM are deductible under § 170 of the Internal Revenue Code. You may download a copy of our W-9 here.

Please pass the clip along…

Not that the wingnuts particularly care.

 
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