CAIR - Calling All Incidents Racist

Kafir-phobia: Americans as Violent Anti-Muslim Bigots

August 31st, 2006

The story that developed in July was just too good to pass up: a Jordanian-born restaurant owner in Xenia, Ohio had been the apparent victim of repeated attempts to burn down his store. The day after the third attack, when a Molotov cocktail had been thrown through the front window of his business, yet another explosion rocked the store – the second attack in 24 hours – sending the owner and his son to the hospital with burns over 80-90 percent of their bodies. An employee in an adjoining store was also taken to the hospital for injuries.

Just hours before the blast, the store owner had been interviewed by a local TV station vowing that he would never give in to pressure to close the store (video of the interview can be seen here).

Into this situation jumped the Cincinnati-area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) – the self-proclaimed Muslim “civil rights” organization suggesting that anti-Muslim hatred was at work. An item posted on July 14th on the national CAIR website screamed the headline, “Blast at Arab-American Restaurant ‘Suspicious’ .”

Karen Dabdoub, the local CAIR spokeswoman, was quoted in the local media saying,

“Anytime an attack like this happens, the perception in the Arab and Muslim community is that it is ethnically or religiously motivated. Especially in the absence of perpetrators being caught by law enforcement, that’s the fear. Until that (motivation) is discovered, people speculate, rightly or wrongly.”

The problem with CAIR’s narrative of anti-Muslim hatred in small-town America was that it wasn’t true. Arson investigators have determined that the final blast that severely injured the store owner, Musa Shteiwi, and his son, Essa, was set by the pair themselves. In a performance worthy of a Darwin Award, the Shteiwis were standing in a pool of gasoline that they intended to use as an accelerant in setting their store ablaze later that night when Musa Shteiwi took a break and lit up a cigarette, igniting the gasoline prematurely and causing the blast that inflicted their injuries.

But there’s more: prosecutors claim that Shteiwi had hired a former employee, Joshua Hunter, to commit the previous attacks against his store that CAIR had insisted were hate crimes committed by non-Muslim members of the Xenia community. Hunter has been jailed and charged with arson, and similar charges against Musa and Essa Shteiwi are pending until after they have recovered from their injuries.

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Patrick Poole is an author and researcher. He maintains a Blog, Existential Space.

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I have nothing to add but BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH........

Still A Loon

Prosecutors Drop Case in Ramsey Slaying

Aug 29, 6:21 AM (ET)

By CHASE SQUIRES

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - The sudden decision to drop the case against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey snuffed out yet another lead in the enduring mystery of who killed the 6-year-old beauty queen, but prosecutors vowed that the investigation would go on.

"This case is not closed," said District Attorney Mary Lacy, who planned to further explain her decision at a news conference Tuesday.

The case has never been closed, not since JonBenet's father found her body in the basement of their Boulder home on the day after Christmas 1996. For years, suspicion has focused on either an intruder or the girl's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey.

Karr, a 41-year-old schoolteacher fascinated with JonBenet and Polly Klaas, a murdered California girl, said after his arrest in Thailand earlier this month that he was with JonBenet at the time of her slaying, which he called an accident.

But Lacy said DNA tests and investigators did not put Karr at the crime scene. Prosecutors suggested in court papers that he was just a man with a twisted obsession who confessed to a crime he didn't commit.

Karr was being held at the Boulder jail until he can be sent to Sonoma County, Calif., to face misdemeanor child pornography charges dating to 2001. An extradition hearing was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.

Karr was never formally charged in the slaying. In court papers, Lacy defended the decision to arrest him and bring him back to the United States for further investigation, saying he might have otherwise fled and may have been targeting children in Thailand.

Lacy said Karr emerged as a suspect in April after he spent several years exchanging e-mails and 11 telephone calls with a University of Colorado journalism professor who had produced documentaries on the case.

The DA's office provided explicit details of Karr's statements to professor Michael Tracey, who alerted authorities. Karr told the professor he accidentally killed JonBenet during sex and tasted her blood after he injured her, prosecutors said.

"Are you asking me why I killed JonBenet? I don't see it that way," Karr wrote in a May 22 e-mail. "Her and I were engaging in a romantic and very sexual interaction. It went bad and it was my fault."

But the claims were lies, prosecutors said. The Denver crime lab conducted DNA tests Friday on a cheek swab taken from Karr and were unable to connect him to the crime.

"This information is critical because ... if Mr. Karr's account of his sexual involvement with the victim were accurate, it would have been highly likely that his saliva would have been mixed with the blood in the underwear," Lacy said in court papers.

She also said authorities found no evidence Karr was in Boulder at the time of the slaying. She said Karr's family provided "strong circumstantial support" for their belief that he was with them in Georgia, celebrating the holidays.

Defense attorney Seth Temin said Karr never should have been arrested.

When Karr was arrested in Thailand, Ramsey family attorney Lin Wood pronounced it a vindication for JonBenet's parents. Patsy Ramsey died of cancer in June.

On Monday, the attorney said: "From day one, John Ramsey publicly stated that he did not want the public or the media to jump to judgment. He did not want the public or the media to engage in speculation, that he wanted the justice system to take its course."

Nate Karr, John Karr's brother, said he was elated his brother would not be charged. "We're just going to be celebrating with family," he said.

But Scott Robinson, a Denver attorney who has followed the case from the beginning, said Karr may be charged with lying about his role.

"Seems to me there should be some criminal consequences," he said. "He has cost the taxpayers an enormous amount of money."

The district attorney defended the handling of the case, saying there was no way to take a cheek swab from Karr without alerting him that he was under investigation.

Also, Karr was about to start a teaching job in Thailand, and in his correspondence began to describe an interest in several girls "in much the same terms that he had described his interest in JonBenet," Lacy said in court papers.

In a July 19 e-mail, Karr described feeling excited because two 5-year-olds were "flashing their hot little bellybuttons at me" and later said a "naked little foot felt so sexy in my hand," prosecutors said. Karr's arrest was less than a month later.


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This guy may not have killed Jon Benet but he certainly is a first class wack-job! We can all sleep well at night now knowing that an innocent man was not convicted and he can now return to his regular gig - A SCHOOL TEACHER!!! Beware parents!

By the way, is the role of John Mark Karr being played by Kip Dynamite?




Also, I find it very appropriate that he goes by three names considering that, if he isn't already, he will probably soon be a serial murderer!

Free Speech Can Be A Bitch Sometimes (And So Can Idiocy)

Dixie Chicks Cancel 14 Shows on Tour

Aug 8, 7:11 AM (ET)

By JOHN GEROME

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Several concerts on the Dixie Chicks'"Accidents & Accusations" tour have been canceled after slow ticket sales, but the group says it has replaced them with other dates.

Kansas City, Houston, St. Louis, Memphis and Knoxville are among 14 cities no longer on the original schedule released in May, according to a revised itinerary posted Thursday on the Dixie Chick's Web site.

Other shows, including Nashville, Los Angeles, Denver and Phoenix, have been pushed back to later dates.

The North American leg of the tour kicked off July 21 in Detroit. Billboard magazine and other trade publications have reported lackluster sales in some markets, particularly in the South and Midwest.

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Group spokeswoman Kathy Allmand said Monday that the total number of North American dates remains the same, with several Canadian cities added in place of the U.S. shows.

The trio released a statement last week attributing the changes to attempts to "accommodate demand" and said more dates might be added next year.

The group also said the adjustments will allow them to promote the documentary "Dixie Chicks: Shut up and Sing," for the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

"We hope that our fans who were looking forward to a stop that is no longer on the tour will be able to join us at a nearby arena this fall, and we are sorry for any confusion or inconvenience these changes have caused," the Dixie Chicks said.

Many country fans criticized the band after lead singer Natalie Maines told a London audience in 2003 on the eve of war in Iraq that the trio was "ashamed" President Bush was from their home state of Texas.

County radio stations dropped them from their playlists and have been slow to welcome them back, despite strong sales of their latest album, "Taking the Long Way."

The album, which has more of a rock edge than their previous releases, spent several weeks at the top of the country albums chart and has sold more than 1 million copies.

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Even their hometown Dallas show had to be moved back due to poor ticket sales. For grins, I checked ticketmaster a couple of weeks ago to see what tix were still available and I could have purchased 8 together, halfway back in the lower bowl. Sad. Especially considering the tickets have been on sale since May.

Fatalie and the rest of the Chicks are certainly entitled to their opinion but you should never bite the hand that feeds you and not expect a response. Free speech works both ways in this great nation. It's a beautiful thing!

Looney Left Alert!

BERNHARDT TAKES ON AIRPORT SECURITY

Comedienne SANDRA BERNHARDT, close friend of Madonna, has threatened to fight new security measures at airports imposed after a terrorist attack on planes flying from the UK to the US was averted. From yesterday (10AUG06), passengers flying from and to America have been banned from taking non-essential hand luggage onboard jets. But Bernhardt, who is scheduled to fly out of New York's JFK Airport today (11AUG06) is determined to break the rule. She tells the New York Daily News, "When I go to the airport and they try to take my MAC Plushglass away from me, it's going to be World War III!"

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If HE causes any problems, they need to throw HIS ass in jail!

Hero Of The Left On Deathbed (or Die Castro, Die!!!)

Break out the cigars - Castro’s dying

By Jules Crittenden/ Online exclusive
Boston Herald City Editor
Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - Updated: 01:36 PM EST

It’s a tragic day for the earnest Left. One of their darlings may be about to nationalize the farm.
Castro’s health:
Castro’s coughing up blood. He’s handed over the reins to his kid brother Raul.
The original "Speak Truth to Powah" guy, the bearded, combat fatigue-wearing, cigar-chomping originator of Guerrilla-chic, is now as old and feeble as his cause: International socialism with a gun. It is on its last legs, and so is he.
Forgive me if I don’t adopt a reverential tone. Others will. Just wait and see. Forgive me if I don’t meet this development with the correct cocktail of respect and awe tinged by a vague sense of disapproval. Don’t worry. Others will. United States congressmen. The leaders of free nations in Europe. American media giants. Hollywood activistas. They will talk with poorly disguised admiration about a towering figure who thumbed his nose at the United States.


Thanks to Castro’s remarkable Madonna-like sense of marketing -- and our own cynicism in this difficult world -- it has always been too easy to overlook the thousands of political opponents imprisoned, tortured and killed; the hundreds of thousands who risked sharks, thirst and drowning at sea to escape his people’s island paradise; and the untold numbers who succumbed to wretched fates. Cuba had that great much ballyhooed national health system. Its peasants weren’t being oppressd by Yanqui imperialista multi-nationals anymore.
The history of the Cuban missile crisis, when Nikita Kruschev tried to gain leverage and instill fear by planting missiles 90 miles off our shores, only mentions Castro in passing as the puppet host. It is easy to overlook the fact that he too wanted to bring us to our knees.
Castro himself was always smart enough not to push it too far. Those were the bad years, when he had to make sure he wasn’t about to light up an exploding cigar, compliments of the CIA. But like his Venezuelan understudy, Hugo Chavez, Castro knew at the end of the day that the United States would tolerate a buffoon just offshore, as long as that buffoon, murderous though he may be, knew his place.
This is not to diminish Castro’s bloody accomplishments: the export of violent class warfare, with material support, throughout Central and South America and across the pond to Africa. Impressive for a people’s banana republic.
In Miami’s Little Havana, they are gearing up to party. You can rest assured they are looking forward to the brief reign of Raul, and the power struggle and ultimate collapse of Castro’s commie dream that is to follow. Let us just pray the Cuban Communists can just smell the cigar smoke and go quietly. Hey ... speaking of doddering Raul, I thought this was supposed to be a classless society.How come, of all the high-ranking card-carrying commies in Cuba, after an exhaustive island-wide search, no doubt, the best candidate to replace Fidel is his kid brother? Aren’t they going to have an election or something? ... Oh, right, never mind. [continue]

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