By Debbie Schlussel

Despite all the hype about Arab Muslim Hezbollah supporter Rima Fakih winning Donald Trump’s Miss USA pageant, NBC might wanna look beyond the Donald and affirmative action for extremist Muslims in bikinis for ratings.

The Miss USA pageant was a bust, especially in the second hour when the Arab Muslima was closer and closer to getting the dubious title.  Nielsen ratings show that Miss USA was in third place behind ABC’s “America’s Funniest Videos,” for the first hour of the show.  The second hour was even more of a disaster, with the show not even placing in the top four, behind FOX’s “The Simpsons” and Univision’s “Nuestra Belleza.”

Sorry, Muslims and Hezbollah fans, your Miss USA just wasn’t as appealing as you think.  Also, during and after the show, the terms “Miss USA” and “Rima Fakih,” were never trending terms on Twitter, while “Lost Finale” and “American Idol” were.  So, the first Arab and Muslim (and Hezbollah-supporting) Miss USA was neither a TV ratings nor social media success.  Don’t believe the hype.

By Debbie Schlussel

Today, I got an interesting e-mail, below, from Ibrahim Parlak, an Islamic terrorist whom the government has been trying to deport for years. Parlak has developed a cadre of lefty celeb supporters, including Roger Ebert (who used a movie review to criticize me over Parlak). A James Bond director is even making a propaganda movie about him.

From: ibrahim parlak CafeGulistan@comcast.net
Date: Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:09 AM
Subject: DHS
To: writedebbie@gmail.com

Hi Debbie

DHS Detroit office ask me to go see them June 1st. Your wish might finely be granted. and you better start looking for some thing other then Ibrahim to make you popular.

It’s unfortunate that Ibrahim believes his own press. But he was never what made my site popular, and I haven’t written about him in a while. His tale has never drawn a lot of traffic. I wrote about him because it’s an important story of the failure of our immigration system.

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By Debbie Schlussel

I’ve never been a fan of the Red Cross and have always advocated that people not give to that organization.  Whether it was providing cover for Nazi death camps during the Holocaust or providing aid and comfort to Hezbollah and HAMAS terrorists during their various wars against innocent Israelis and other victims (and saying it would aid Al-Qaeda, too), the organization is despicable.  That’s not to mention the non-stop Red Cross aid to Palestinian and other Islamic terrorists, the use of Red Cross ambulances to transport HAMAS terrorists and their homicide belts, and disgusting way the Red Cross treated Israel’s version of the Red Cross, the Magen David Adom (Red Star of David), pursuant to Muslims’ demands.

But, now, the Red Cross has yet another sickening notch on its belt.  If you gave to the Red Cross, thinking your money was going–for example–to Haitian relief efforts, it might have, instead, gone to help Taliban terrorists fighting and killing American soldiers, as the Red Cross continues to use its funds to help Taliban terrorists.  It’s a safe assumption that your Red Cross donation is funding Talibanis because, as I’ve noted before, the American Red Cross gives hundreds of thousands of dollars to the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) for these efforts, as it did for Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006.  And we also know, however, is that money is a fungible good, and if you gave to the Red Cross for one set of victims, that gave the International Red Cross more money to give to the Taliban, the Al-Qaeda affiliate in Afghanistan.

The international Red Cross said Wednesday it would continue giving first aid training and kits to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, despite drawing angry e-mails from around the world and criticism from an Afghan official after the practice was publicized.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Painful.

That summarizes “Sex and the City 2,” which debuts in theaters at midnight tonight.  The movie was so long, slow, and boring, I wondered how long its 2.5 hours was in Sarah Jessica Parker dog years.  Or is that . . . Sarah Jess-equine Parker horse years?

Ba-dum-bum-ch.

Yup, my two jokes about this movie are funnier than most of the really bad, sex-laden puns and vulgarities that populate this cheesy, annoying waste of time.  The movie–which mostly took place at a gay wedding in New York and a trip to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (actually, filmed in Morocco)–had so many dumb R-rated double entendres and was so punny unfunny (“Bedouin Bath & Beyond”–haha, funny), it felt as if it was written by senior citizen pornographers who started a second career as bad nightclub act comedians in the Catskills.  Blechhh.  This horrible movie makes the first “Sex and the City” movie (read my review)–which I hated–look like Shakespeare.

Also, I didn’t know for whom to root:  the ugly Americans who are the female (at least, I think they’re “shes”) embodiment of everything the Islamic world claims is bad about us, or the sleazy Muslim phonies the movie tries to tell us are so charming, luxe, stylish and uber-modest.  Yes, the movie does take some satisfying digs at the uber-intolerant Muslims, but only at their prudishness, which isn’t the most accurate or even objectionable part of Islam or the Gulf States and the Middle East.  And just because a movie makes statements about the obvious, while still mostly glamorizing Abu Dhabi, doesn’t make it a great movie.  This is Exhibit A that it’s otherwise.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Quote of the Year:

We have better experience and expertise than the Mossad.

—Dubai Police Chief, Lt. Gen. Dahi Jacques Clouseau Khalfan Tamim.

[We interrupt this non-stop laughing fit with more commentary.]

Inspector Al-Clouseau:

World Fawns Over Inept Dubai Police Chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim

“Extraordinary . . . depth” of Dubai Police Hasn’t Caught or Even ID’d a Single One

Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh a/k/a Abu Abed, Rot In Jehenim [Hell]

It’s been more than four months since nearly a dozen assassins who may be Israeli Mossad agents did the world a huge favor by quickly clearing the planet of HAMAS terrorist and Palestinian smuggler of Iranian weaponry, Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh a/k/a Abu Abed, while he was staying at a Dubai hotel.  In those four months, Dubai’s Keystone Kops continue to play amateur hour and have yet to arrest or even locate a single assassin.

As I’ve noted before, that incompetence was rewarded with international accolades from Interpol and the Wall Street Journal.  Accolades for naming fake names:  Gail, Kevin, James, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, McScrooge, Heidi, Spencer, Brangelina, Fonzie, Scooby Doo, Carrie Bradshaw, Art Vandelay, and Jack Bauer.  Rumor has it that Sabrina Duncan, Kelly Garrett, Jill Munroe, and Kris Munroe are also soon to be on the list.  If that’s great police work, as I previously remarked, I hope they are assigned to my case if I ever commit murder.

Now, the Arab Muslim world is confirming their celebration of incompetence and that they don’t have much to offer us.  The Wall Street Journal–continuing to gush over this incompetent band of Islamic law enforcement idiots–reports that Arabian Business magazine ranked Dubai’s Inspector Clouseau-in-Chief, Dubai police chief, Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, as No. 2 on its “Power 100” list of the world’s most influential Arabs, behind FOX News/Wall Street Journal owner, Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal.

That should tell you something:  the Arabs’ biggest non-terrorist heroes are 1) an inbred prince with a penchant for funding Islamic terrorists through homicide bomber “Martyr Telethons;” and 2)  Al-Inspector Al-Clouseau.

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By Debbie Schlussel

It’s old, old news that Mexico’s laws against illegal aliens–and legal immigrants–are far tougher than those in the U.S., including the new Arizona immigration law.  And that’s why most of us knew that Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s recent attack on the law, while he was at the White House, was sheer hypocrisy.

But what is, in fact, news is that illegal aliens in Mexico are now speaking out about it  AND that one mainstream media source is actually even covering it.

Today, USA Today has nearly half a page devoted to the brutality of Mexico’s immigration agents and its tough immigration laws.  Kudos to reporter Chris Hawley for daring to tell the truth on the other side of the open Southern border.  At least our authorities–whether from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or the Arizona police–don’t beat illegal aliens to a pulp. We treat them with an excess of humane behavior, and that’s part of why we have the illegal alien problem to which Mexico’s doesn’t hold a candle.

Never thought I’d see this headline atop a page of that or any other mainstream media outlet:

Activists Blast Mexico’s Immigration Law

Glad to see it. And there’s more to see. The important excerpts:

“There (in the United States), they’ll deport you,” Hector Vázquez, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, said as he rested in a makeshift camp with other migrants under a highway bridge in Tultitlán. “In Mexico they’ll probably let you go, but they’ll beat you up and steal everything you’ve got first.” . . .

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By Debbie Schlussel

It was bad enough when Sean Hannity dissed the sacrifices and memories of our fallen troops by raising money in their name (the “Sean Hannity Freedom Concerts”) and sending a good chunk of it to his speaking engagement agent, his cronies that run a con-artist filled charity,  and using it to pay for his private jets and fancy travel and accommodations for himself and friends.  That was a scam which he continues . . . and continues to lie and obfuscate about.  But he’s not the President, just a scam artist with a giant audience on FOX News and ABC radio.

U.S. Army Sgt. Chris Moore @ the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Now, though, the President,  Barack Obama, is flat-out telling America he doesn’t care about our fallen troops.  He’s skipping the traditional Memorial Day laying of the wreath ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.  Hey, at least he’s honest.  More honest than when he faked his Selective Service Registration, years after the fact, a story I broke on this site over a year and a half ago.  So, I guess it’s kind of fitting that a guy who scammed his way out of registering for the draft, is blatantly F-U-ing his way out of honoring America’s fallen.

With the long Memorial Day weekend on the horizon, President Obama is finally addressing one of the great broken promises of his administration: his early pledge to return home to Chicago every six weeks or so.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Over a month ago, I posted the newest trailer for the “Sex and the City 2” movie, and complained that the trailer made it look like Abu Dhabi and the rest of the United Arab Emirates are some sort of decadent Western sexual playground, when just before that a couple was sentenced to 30 days in jail for kissing in public in Dubai.

The Atlantic (formerly known as Atlantic Monthly) quoted me with approval, noting as I had that the movie wasn’t even allowed to be filmed in Abu Dhabi and seemed like pan-Islamic propaganda for Gulf State tourism:

Sarah Jessica Parker [DS: or as we call her here at DebbieSchlussel.com, Sarah Jess-Equine Parker] had a vision. The plot of her new film, Sex and the City 2, would be set in the emirate of Dubai. The sultry resort city would be the perfect getaway destination for the franchise’s Manhattan-dwelling characters. Unfortunately for Parker, who executive-produced and starred in the film, Dubai wasn’t as welcoming as she thought it would be.

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By Debbie Schlussel

We have hundreds and hundreds of folks coming from Middle Eastern countries, and, frankly, I don’t think most of these people are coming here to cut our grass.

A number of readers, including commenter Sal, sent me this WSB-TV/Atlanta Channel 2 video (actually two videos put together) yesterday.  None of it is news to me, and it shouldn’t be to you.  Many Islamic terrorists come into America over the Southern border with Mexico.  And that’s been going on for years because we simply aren’t serious about securing our borders and stopping it. I’ve written about Islamic terrorists such as Hezbollah’s Mahmoud Youssef Kourani, who snuck into America through Mexico and lived in the Detroit area.  Kourani pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges a  few years ago.  And there are plenty like him.  So, I’m not shocked that there are many OTMs (Other Than Mexicans) who come over the Southern border with Islamic prayer mats, etc.  Like I said, not news to me or probably to you.  The only news is that the list (read it here and here) of illegal aliens caught at the Southern Border from Islamic/Middle Eastern countries is now being kept secret. But more evidence why we need Arizona to do the job the feds won’t do (because a lot of these Muslim OTM illegal aliens are in Arizona):

By Debbie Schlussel

I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of Americans assuming the risk in traveling to foreign lands that hate us, then exhausting U.S. foreign policy resources and bargaining chips to get out, once they are kidnapped or imprisoned.  It doesn’t matter whether they are tourists, left-wing journalists, or a combination thereof (in one case).

Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal:

Left-Wing Activist “Journalists” Detained “Hiking” near Iran

Lisa & Laura Ling: Wasted American Resources on Laura’s Jaunt to N. Korea, Now Hailed As Heroes. For What?

This week, we have a confluence of three such stories.  And the gushing and drooling over each of these groups–kidnapped American “tourists” in Yemen, imprisoned American far-left anti-Israel “journalists” hiking in Iran, and Laura Ling fresh from her North Korean prison stay–is annoying.  (I said the same about suspicious “journalist” Roxana Saberi, a sometime employee of the Ayatollahs and usually an Iran apologist.)

First, there is the latest such saga.  Gunmen kidnapped two American tourists in Yemen.  They’ve apparently just been released.  But who goes “touring” in Yemen?  Did they not hear about this dude named Anwar Al-Awlaki, who is behind many recent Islamic terrorist attacks and attempted attacks on U.S. soil.  His call to kill Americans might be a hint:  Don’t. Go. To. Yemen.  Dummies.  These people are idiots.  And I bet they’re either Muslims, themselves, or really, really delusional left-wingers who still see world-class armpits like Yemen as “exotic” locales for touring, and still romanticize Islam (while they hate all other religions except Buddhism).  “Oh, look, Amber.  Check out those charming headscarves.  How quaint. Ditto for that ornate beheading knife, which I’m sure is only used on sheep.”

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