Interesting that, at the Congress of Racial Equalityís 23rd annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Hirsi Ali received COREís International Brotherhood Award.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19143
So, a group which fought for black rights in the segregated South alongside MLK is honoring Islamofacism’s most visible opponent. Meanwhile, ICE is soiling the memory of Dr. King by honoring those who would subjugate blacks, Christians, women and Jews. How messed up is that!

sonomaca on January 26, 2007 at 11:27 pm

The Country of the Blind
by C. S. Lewis
Hard light bathed them-a whole nation of eyeless men,
Dark bipeds not aware how they were maimed. A long
Process, clearly, a slow curse,
Drained through centuries, left them thus.
At some transitional stage, then, a luckless few,
No doubt, must have had eyes after the up-to-date,
Normal type had achieved snug
Darkness, safe from the guns of heavn;
Whose blind mouths would abuse words that belonged to their
Great-grandsires, unabashed, talking of light in some
Eunuch’d, etiolated,
Fungoid sense, as a symbol of
Abstract thoughts. If a man, one that had eyes, a poor
Misfit, spoke of the grey dawn or the stars or green-
Sloped sea waves, or admired how
Warm tints change in a lady’s cheek,
None complained he had used words from an alien tongue,
None question’d. It was worse. All would agree ‘Of course,’
Came their answer. “We’ve all felt
Just like that.” They were wrong. And he
Knew too much to be clear, could not explain. The words —
Sold, raped flung to the dogs — now could avail no more;
Hence silence. But the mouldwarps,
With glib confidence, easily
Showed how tricks of the phrase, sheer metaphors could set
Fools concocting a myth, taking the worlds for things.
Do you think this a far-fetched
Picture? Go then about among
Men now famous; attempt speech on the truths that once,
Opaque, carved in divine forms, irremovable,
Dear but dear as a mountain-
Mass, stood plain to the inward eye.

WillPower on January 27, 2007 at 10:01 pm

Jihadwatch is reporting that the Conyers anti-Muslim profiling legislation is a go, and will likely pass (thanks to Ellison’s brilliant but scary orchestration of the flying Imam “incident”).
The AP story interviews a whining Imam from Troy Michigan Steve Mustapha Elturk, complaining how he has been stopped on airplanes and at Candadian border. Anyone in Michigan know who this guy is?
So, now, what do you do as a passanger on a plane filled with, say, 10 young Muslim males seated toward the front of the plane and at the various exits. You know they have not been checked. Do you roll the dice? Leave the plane and miss your meeting? What?

sonomaca on January 28, 2007 at 3:18 pm

Debbie, I always get slightly depressed on Sunday night. Are you like that?

Anonymous1 on January 28, 2007 at 7:51 pm

Hi Debbie,
I’ve been meaning to comment on this for quite some time. The above statements serve to highlight a much larger problem within our borders. We have a government of elected officials who are supposedly focused on the best interests of the real citizens of this country turning a blind eye to treasonous behavior. More importantly, I believe it would be helpful and appropriate to turn OUR focus on our Congress. The majority of them seem to be committing acts of COWARDICE, which only serves to embolden losers like those at top levels of ICE. Abraham Lincoln stated: “Congressman who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are Saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.” Maybe we should turn our focus to those who are doing exactly that at this critical time in our nation’s history.

FreeAmerican on January 29, 2007 at 9:18 am