“Dispatches”? I recall a CBC radio program by that same name — hosted by some anglo (presumably non-Muslim); they had a Muslim producer who was far less radical and less pro-terror than the Anglo host…(and, yes, they were always in promo-mode, non-stop…)

J.S. on July 30, 2010 at 3:53 pm

Speaking as an amateur photographer/artist, I do see the technical merit in a picture like this. (Although, I would have done one a bit differently.) There are a number of places in that area of the world that I would love to see and shoot. However, I think I’ll stay around here. Lots of places to see in this little part of the world.

cirrus1701 on July 30, 2010 at 3:59 pm

Debbie Schlussel is nothing but a short minded racist blogger who only gets attention when she spouts out random racist garbage,well Debbie I dont hate you, I feel sorry for you.Maybe one day you will look back on what you have become and actually realize that hate has eaten the humanity right out of you and the only thing that remains is a shallow body filled with hate.

Te on July 30, 2010 at 5:02 pm

The terrorists who did the Mumbai massacre a few years back got around on their Blackberrys. They were following their own actions on real-time using this technology , and surprised and killed a few Indian cops as a result.

To Cirrus 1701- smart move. avoid the place and keep yourself in 1 piece as a result. BTW, why give them your money? I was there in the late 90’s….much different now, and I’m not going back, no matter how mystical.

To Te: Yeah, I wondered what would have happened if someone said those words to my cousins in the Ardennes forest in early 1945.

Not Ovenready on July 30, 2010 at 5:13 pm

My grandfather was a partisan so you cannot really emply im trying to be a pacifist here.I should state terrorists should be caught and brought to justice such as other criminals.But you cannot judge a whole religion on actions of extremist psychopaths.Everybody says that all muslims are terrorist supporters which is wrong.If u would judge a religioun on a base of extremist how about Christianity? Well have everybody forgotten the genocide in the 2WW or the Crusades? People dont hate everyone that is not in the same group,religion,country as you are.Now before you say im a terrorist supporter i agree every terrorist should be brought to justice,im not religious and i come from europe.

Te on July 30, 2010 at 5:27 pm

Debbie is not hateful. Can’t you tell that? She wants to protect our way of life, from being infiltrated by people who obviously hate us. Not all Muslims are evil, but many are. Go to Dearbornistan, you’ll be sickened.

Dina on July 30, 2010 at 5:42 pm

Well, the contributor of this photo is aptly named; Kathy Dragon. If this is on the level, of course it is liberal, terrorist-friendly propaganda. But what a coincidence; Ms. Dragon contributing a photo of two dragons.

Little Al on July 30, 2010 at 7:07 pm

Sure, they are regular soccer moms only with shit on their legs from their squat toilet. Just the same… only BETTER.

As goes Israel - So goes the World on July 30, 2010 at 7:11 pm

Debbie one of the few people and the only journalist astute enough to see through subtle agitprop like this for the insidious and sickening thing it is.

Quorum on July 30, 2010 at 7:21 pm

Deb –

I just realized…..I don’t even have an iPhone!!!!

Nick Fury on July 30, 2010 at 7:27 pm

I thought I was reading United States Today, not some bankrupt turkey-loving marxist utopian rag, for people who need a brain app. Muslims do not buy USA Never.

Seymour del-Uziens on July 30, 2010 at 7:28 pm

I have a secret I need to let everyone know…

I’m a homosexual muslum who’s afraid of my sexual proclivities…

That’s why I spew so much hate…

as goes Israel - so goes the world on July 31, 2010 at 12:32 am

That’s not really a secret.

Hamed on July 31, 2010 at 2:15 am

Oh Debbie, calling them hags?

Have you looked in the mirror? You look like someone pumped an entire vat of ass-fat in your face.

edward lear on July 31, 2010 at 4:23 am

Well i guess theres no point of telling you again that you have extremist in every religion, yes even judaism and christianity, but what you aparently dont get or more likely dont want to get thru to your head is that you should not judge everyone by the a actions of the few.Just remember fight fire with fire and you just create more fire.But maybe the mentality most americans have now “hey he is muslim therfore he must be a terrorist” just makes you hatefull.This might also be why you guys are loosing support from the rest of the world.And no im not a muslim supporter but i think all religions should be equal.But hey maybe only i think that for not having a religion.

Te on July 31, 2010 at 6:03 am

test

Jamal on July 31, 2010 at 9:48 am

To Te…

I’ll put it to you this way, fella… If it was Jews who piloted those planes on 7/11 you can be sure that every baseball and football stadium in the country would be jam packed with Jews totally denouncing that action and totally disassociating themselves from that monstrous barbarism. Do you recall even a small hall being rented anywhere in the US by Muslims for the same purpose? I suggest you don’t surrender your mind to intellectual formulas and a cerebral idealism that is wholly divorced from everything actually happening at ground level.

Arn on July 31, 2010 at 12:53 pm

All muslims are hateful? Do you know all muslims?

Islam hates everyone outside of itself? Take a look at christianity. They may have died down a little in recent years, but they’re still not perfect and happy happy with everyone outside of it. Personally, I’m an aethiest, and while I’m not being bombed for it, I have a lot of christian friends and there’s lots of times where they’ve tried to convert me in the same way the media twists the view points to their tastes – I don’t enjoy having others religions thrown at me as if I’m strange for not agreeing, but I don’t hate them for it.
As someone else mentioned, in the past christians have lead all sorts of violent crimes against other religions. Was all of christianity doing this? No.
In the same way, it’s a small number of muslims who are conducting terrorist attacks, that is no reason to say that every single muslim is a terrorist and that they are EEEEEEEEVIL.

As for this thing about them being just like us: YES, THEY ARE.
They are human. You’re human, I’m human, and so are those “hags”. Perhaps they’re in a country which has certain beliefs which aren’t the same as yours, but that doesn’t mean they’re using their iphones for evil.

Have you ever stopped to think the reason people who happen to be from this religion are terrorists because you’re talking about their people as violent, ignorant and evil hags who are of a different species?
Using technology to promote good my ass.

Char on July 31, 2010 at 1:38 pm

Char: ty thats my point but i dont think you can reason with them,either they are blind to the truth and logic or they are just not very inteligent people.But hey they are gonna say Debbie is a great person for opening the eyes of the public when all she is doin is spreding hate and lies about people she just doesent like.Well that reminds me of someone who started a war of somekind a long time ago.

Te on July 31, 2010 at 3:22 pm

Char sez:

“They are human. You’re human, I’m human. . . ”

One out of three–not bad in baseball.

skzion on July 31, 2010 at 4:43 pm

It is ironic how so called feminists take a blind eye toward Muslim oppression of women.

CaliforniaScreaming on July 31, 2010 at 9:29 pm

Actually what I noticed first about the photo, looking at it objectively, was the age of the women, not their Muslim dress. They could have been old Russian women in babushkas. I think that’s what caught the person who took this picture’s eye; you don’t usually think of elderly people in generally less technologically advanced countries using iphones or computers. They even look amused at themselves. And although Muslim terrorist have used advanced technology to perpetrate their crimes,these particular women don’t strike me as people who would use their iphones for that purpose.

JW on August 1, 2010 at 3:07 am

To skzion

I disguise my muslim status? oh so you know more aboute me than myself? Again im atheist and the my ancestry are celts and illirs which are far away from muslims.Maybe you should think that people who dissagree with Debbie are not all communist and muslims.Yes even us europeans dissagree.

Te on August 1, 2010 at 5:40 am

Skzion.

Well then i would call you ignorant.I actually speak 6 languages yes i believe 5 more than you do.In your so called truth i do believe that would make you subliterate.My primary language is of slavic origin and why in all logic would i write in germanic or latin based language if most of the populus on this blog is american?That is just not logical.Oh and since you say i dont write in germanic,ich glaube dass Sie sich irren.And before i end my post here i will give you an old latin saying which i believe you should learn. Amor mundum fecit.

skzion on August 1, 2010 at 10:45 am

oh i believe i didnt sign that post with my name.My bad.

Te

Te on August 1, 2010 at 10:47 am

Te, sweetie, I expect your use of other languages is as graceful as your use of English.

Of course, you still haven’t addressed anything substantive that I have said. You can put on airs all day, but you cannot divert my attention from your ignorance and your malice.

skzion on August 1, 2010 at 1:10 pm

(Hasn’t the dumbing down of Europe reached a scandalous level? One hundred years ago, there was at least some basis for snobbishness; now it’s just fraud.

skzion on August 1, 2010 at 1:18 pm

Te, I am tired of your refusal or inability to address my points, either because you are a Muslim or because you are too addled in your thinking to process new ideas. So, I’ll leave you with a dab of Torah with my off-the-cuff, unauthoritative commentary added for good measure.

“All those who are merciful with the cruel will come to be cruel to the merciful,” Talmud Kohelet Rabbah 7:16.

–> From this we learn – pay attention now – that mercy may have dreadful consequences, and one is morally obligated to avoid these consequences by refusing mercy to those who will use the opportunity given them for more wickedness. This means that your idiotic rambling about “humanity” just proves how repugnant – indeed, monstrous – your “morality” is, as your “morality” facilitates the murder of innocent people.

“Kohelet 3

1. Everything has an appointed season, and there is a time for every matter under the heaven. . . .
3. A time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break and a time to build. . . .
8. A time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.”

–> Here we see that sometimes war is good and peace is bad; sometimes hate is virtuous and love is despicable. Everything depends on the situation. Jews are not commanded to peace process or to love their enemies.

Enough.

skzion on August 1, 2010 at 8:09 pm

Te and skzion: cut that out and take it outside, boys. (Or is that “boiz”?)

Seriously, what Debbie is trying to say is that technology is irrelevant. It’s the people who use them that matter.

As much as I don’t care about organized religion, I respect everyone’s right to practice and worship their chosen god. It’s just that Islam works with a fractured canon that there is no way of telling how the followers are to believe. And all Mullahs claim to be prophets or messiahs. I don’t like that.

Trust me, some people should NEVER be in possession of a smartphone.

The "Reverend" Jacques on August 2, 2010 at 1:33 am

Te and skzion – what an interesting and funny series of comments. Keep it up skzion. Keep on beating up Te like you would a red-headed step-child. It really won’t work, though. I don’t think you can change Te’s limited mindset about the scope of the world we live in and the worldwide invasion of muzzie violence.

I would like to know why we do not have the hatred for the muzzies like we did for the Krauts, the Japs, the commie Soviets and the red Chinese. These muzzies are even worse – they just want to kill everybody, including themselves. I say give them a very large island (Madagascar?), a bunch of nukes, and let them blow each other up. Does anybody really give a rat’s ass about some stupid insect or plant life on it anyway if it will get rid of all muzzies?

– somewhere in Hawaii a village is missing its idiot

Jarhead on August 2, 2010 at 12:03 pm

‘Have you ever stopped to think the reason people who happen to be from this religion are terrorists because you’re talking about their people as violent, ignorant and evil hags who are of a different species?’

So if people say mean things about one’s faith, resorting to terrorism is a normal end result? Amazing that Jews and Christians aren’t piloting planes into skyscrapers, or strapping on explosives and doing homicide bombings then isn’t it? I’ll NEVER forget the arabs in Gaza (I refuse to call them PALS) dancing in the streets, throwing candy. Israel could have nuked them the next day and nobody in the US would have cared…

Nathan on July 19, 2011 at 3:20 am