By Debbie Schlussel
In the past, I’ve told you about First Islamic Investment Bank a/k/a Arcapita’s outrageous efforts to force Church’s Chicken franchisees (who held the franchises before Muslims took over the company) to carry halal-only foods.
But now the shoe is on the other foot. And it’s about time.
Kudos to Dunkin’ Donuts. Finally a company stands up to Islamic inflexibility and says, “Our way or Mohammed’s highway, er . . . sand-covered path in the desert.”

WESTCHESTER, Ill. – A Muslim franchisee of a suburban Chicago Dunkin’ Donuts store must surrender ownership after losing a legal battle over his religious objections to selling pork.
Walid Elkhatib’s attorney says the 59-year-old is removing Dunkin’ signage from his Westchester store.

Alhamdillullah [Praise allah]: Dunkin’ Donuts Says No to Halal

The chain sued Elkhatib last week to bar him from using the company’s trademark. That lawsuit followed a jury’s ruling that the chain didn’t discriminate against Elkhatib for refusing to renew his franchise agreement because he wouldn’t sell breakfast sandwiches containing pork.
Muslims are forbidden from eating pork and many also refuse handling it.
For nearly two decades, Dunkin’ allowed Elkhatib to not sell pork. But in 2002, the company said it wouldn’t renew the franchise agreement unless he sold all products.

Time to make the falafel, dude.

By Debbie Schlussel
Remember the National Endowment for the Arts? It’s the federally funded entity that funded “Piss Christ” (a cross in jar of urine) and photos by gay “artist” Robert Mapplethorpe of various obscene naked gay poses.
Well, now a group of celebrities want you to give $200 million more the the NEA. They include Wynton Marsalis, Josh Groban and this has-been fat chick–can you guess who she is? I’ll give you a hint: her name is Linda Ronstadt, and she was once the girlfriend (in her leaner days) of Gov. Moonbeam, now California Attorney General Jerry Brown.
Ronstadt whined to Congress that kids can’t sing “Happy Birthday” in the right pitch anymore because of less NEA funding. Hmmm . . . how does funding gay photos and crucifixes in urine-filled bell jars cause kids to sing on key? Just wondering.

Linda Ronstadt & Wynton Marsalis Put Their Hands Out to Congress
And, gee, you don’t see Josh Groban or Wynton Marsalis offering to give any of their multi-millions to fund this, just yours.
You know what? We have a way to fund art. It’s called the marketplace. And it doesn’t cost taxpayers an extra penny.
Wanna learn how to sing Happy Birthday with the proper pitch? Watch “American Idol” and listen to Simon’s advice. I guarantee that will help more with pitch than some warped “artist”‘s obscene and offensive trash that simply doesn’t have any willing takers in the free market.
$200 million isn’t a lot of money for the Hollywood elite. If every record company, every top singing star donated $5-10 million, they’d have plenty of money to give away to whatever crap “artists” they wish to. But they’re stingy, except when it comes to your money.
That’s when they put their hands out for the next Robert Mapplethorpe.

By Debbie Schlussel
As I’ve noted on this site, the groups of people you generally see engaged in food stamp fraud these days are Muslims often tied to terrorist groups like Hezbollah, which is what the fraud is,in part, financing.
And as we all know, those involved in food stamp fraud are scamming taxpayers in a major way.
Yet, in Ohio, prosecutors are seeking to reduce food stamp fraud from a felony crime to a misdemeanor.
And there are other soft-on-crime pursuits being pimped in Ohio. It’s an omen for the rest of America, as the Obama liberal criminal justice philosophy goes into action.

Shi’ite Muslim Food Stamp Fraudster Hussein Beydoun Gets Busted

Ohio’s county prosecutors are recommending major changes. . . .
The prosecutors also want to reduce several other non-drug crimes to misdemeanors from felonies, including assaulting a school teacher, administrator or school bus operator without physical harm; injuring a police dog or horse; illegal use of food stamps; and unauthorized use of a cable television or telecommunication device.

Do any of these crimes seem “minor” to you?

If approved, the changes would ratchet back some “tough-on-crime” laws enacted in the 1980s and 1990s.

Yup, those awful Reagan ’80s. The days of “excess”–when criminals actually got caught and had to face hard time.

John E. Murphy, executive director of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association, said the changes are intended to counter the Strickland administration’s proposal to ease prison overcrowding by allowing inmates to accumulate seven days of “earned credit” per month by participating in programming. The credit would allow them to reduce their sentences — even if they’re serving definite or “flat” sentences — so they can be released earlier.

Oh, and guess what? Criminal defense attorneys love this idea. Shocker.

Ian N. Friedman, a Cleveland lawyer who is president of the 700-member Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, called the proposal “a realistic approach” that recognizes the overcrowding in Ohio’s prisons and also acknowledges that there are alternative means of dealing with these cases other than prison.

Yes, why on earth should someone who scammed the taxpayers, by committing food stamp fraud, go to prison?
I mean, they’re not hurting anyone. Right?
Like I said, this is a sign of things to come nationwide under “ObamaJustice.”

By Debbie Schlussel
Up is down, right is left, black is white.
How do you know it’s Obama’s world, now?
That’s easy–businessmen who produce and sell things, not Muslims who fly planes into buildings and raise money for terrorist groups, are the new “terrorists.”
And American Muslim “former” terrorists like Imad Hamad (an FBI award revokee, “former” PFLP terrorist, and marriage fraud perpetrator) of the Muslim-dominated, fraudulently-named American Arab Anti-Discrimination are cheering on this absurd replacement. More on that later.
In London, businessmen were warned NOT to wear suits or ties to work today or risk violent attacks for their crime of working for a living and engaging in that horrible thing called “commerce.” Watch this video report. It’s disturbing. The best quote is from the guy who says it’s the little guys, the working men who wear suits and the big hedge fund guys are the ones who’ve doffed the coat and tie. Ditto for the man who says that the suit is the sign of gentility.

And don’t forget, the tie is also rejected by the Commander-in-Chief himself and his newest bud, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who rejects this Western dress. The anti-suit alliance of Obama, Ahmadinejad and other Muslims, and the G-20 terrorists is no coincidence. They have a lot in common: the attack on achievement . . . Western achievement and greatness, which comes from capitalism, from business.
Then, there are my friends in Dearbornistan and elsewhere throughout America–the Muslims who openly support terrorist groups like HAMAS and Hezbollah and whine whenever one of their fellow co-religionists is arrested after being caught plotting to kill us. They applaud this new designation and distinction of who is a “terrorist.”

DEARBORN, Mich. – . . . We love bad guys in America, even when they’re not really bad. . . .
Now, a fresh group has been dropped into the cultural dunk tank. Bin Laden? Back-burnered, at least for now. Instead, in these jumbled days of economic uncertainty, fairly or unfairly, America’s newest Snidely Whiplashes bear faces like those of Bernie Madoff, AIG executives and the private jet-flying heads of the Big Three automakers. . . .
“Someone always needs to get dragged into the hot seat. It’s part of the American process,” says Imad Hamad, regional director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

Funny how Hamad wasn’t so sanguine and cheery for “the American process” when he and his fellow co-religionists, who openly support terrorist groups and help funnel money to them via “charities” were rightfully (but only barely) in the “hot seat,” where they should have remained.
While they continue to plot our destruction from within, we’re their willing accomplices by focusing our anger on innocent businessmen, not dangerous terrorists and their enablers and supporters who are legion in the mosques and falafel joints in our midst.
Disgusting.
Hey, You Know Who Doesn’t Like Ties? . . .

By Debbie Schlussel
In the land of Hollywood and liberals, hybrid cars and being “green” is hip and possible (all while these same hypocrites live in giant energy-sucking mansions and fly energy-sucking private jets).
But in the real world, it’s the death knell for businesses already struggling to survive in a downward-spiraling economy.

A group of taxi drivers and medallion owners is suing the City of Boston to block the requirement that all 1,825 cabs in the city be hybrids by 2015, saying the measure could put many of them out of business.
The plaintiffs say they do not oppose hybrid cars and generally favor the greening of the fleet. But they bristle at a regulation that they must buy new hybrids instead of less expensive used ones, and want the city to delay the changeover.

Safest Best to Put Cabbies Out of Business

“I support the used hybrids,” said a plaintiff, Raphael Ophir of Jamaica Plain, who owns three hackney medallions and leases them to several cabdrivers. “But with this economy, with big companies going into Chapter 11, and with no credit available . . . delay it for two or three years.”
Andrew Hebert, a manager at USA Taxi Garage in Dorchester and the publisher of a magazine for the taxi industry in Boston called Rearview Mirror, said: “The owners are essentially saying, ‘Look, we’re not against going green, we’re against going broke.’ ”
Officials from the Police Department’s Hackney Carriage Unit, which regulates the taxi industry, would not comment on the federal lawsuit, according to Elaine Driscoll, a police spokeswoman.

Of course not. What’s to comment? There’s simply no excuse for this enviro-zealotry on steroids that will increase economic strife for everyone and cripple services, like cab transportation.
When will the absurdity end? Maybe when one of the greeniacs can’t finds he’s unable to get a cab at Boston Logan Airport.
Big government at work.
And by the way, this is just a small preview of Obama environmental policy’s future effects on all aspects of the auto industry. It puts people out of business.
Aren’t you glad the government took over General Motors?

By Debbie Schlussel
Two women’s soccer players at tax-funded Central Michigan University will get $225,000 each for having willing, long-term sexual relationships with their soccer coach, Tony DiTucci, in a settlement with the school. And they didn’t even file their lawsuit yet.
And, no, these two soccer sluts weren’t “forced” or “pressured” into it. Incredibly, their lawyer, Jennifer Salvatore, has the chutzpah to say that they had long-term sleeping arrangements with their coach because of his “skilled manipulation and seduction.” Is that code for “he was hot” or “he was good in bed”? I’ll have to check my sexual harassment litigation jihad dictionary and get back to you.
HUH? Taxpayers are paying this because some easy women were repeatedly “conned” into the sheets by a lothario and then found out they were part of a greater harem?

Yes, the relationship was probably inappropriate because he’s their coach, but these women are adults who willingly–of their own volition–slept with their 35-year-old coach. So why are taxpayers footing the bill? At over 200K apiece, I’d say these “soccer players” are the highest paid call girls on record. Nice work if you can get it. I only wish the mainstream media would have the guts to print the names of these $225,000-priced soccer prostitutes. I hear the hard-working girls walking the street on Detroit’s Eight Mile Road want to get in on the act.
For the record, the coach says the women came on to him.
Hmmm . . . where are all the feminists who claim women are independent beings who can make their own decisions without being vulnerable to men? Perhaps wishing they could laugh all the way to the bank with these soccer players who took advantage of Title IX feminist baloney . . . and their coach–and are laughing all the way to the bank.
Central Michigan said “it was in the ‘best interest’ of the players and the university to make a deal before a lawsuit was filed.”
Uh-huh. Sure it was. The payin’ is easy, when the money ain’t yours.
He Said, Multiple Scorned Shes Said. You pay.

By Debbie Schlussel
I said before the start of the trial of University of South Florida “Just Fireworks” Smiling Terrorist and Muslim, Youssef Megahed, that I didn’t think the feds would succeed in convicting him.
Megahed and his accomplice Ahmed Mohamed were caught by South Carolina Sheriff’s Deputies in August 2007, with pipe bombs/explosive materials in the trunk of their car. Their stories about visiting beaches didn’t add up, and soon it was discovered that one of them lived in a house owned by Islamic Jihad frontman Sami Al-Arian and that one of them made videos on how to turn remote control toys into explosive devices on airplanes, etc.

I hope I’m wrong about the outcome of this trial. But so far, the jury has already been deliberating for more than 2 hours, yesterday. Not coincidentally, today on April Fools Day, the fools, er . . . jurors will continue deliberations. This case should have been a slam dunk. They should have returned with guilty verdict on all counts in 45 minutes or less. Oh, and don’t forget: one of the juror’s son-in-law is Muslim.
As I noted on this site before the trial began, the feds did not believe they’d win this case, as they flub most major terrorism cases . . . perhaps on purpose. Their incompetence is that gross and legion. In fact, the feds were so worried, they desperately tried to get Megahed to take a plea deal, as they obtained from his accomplice Ahmed Mohamed (whose plea deal was so desperately obtained that they did not require his cooperation or testimony at the Megahed case–yup, incompetent).
I’ve known about certain aspects in the case that weren’t published in mainstream media reports some of which have come out in the trial. For instance, Megahed and Mohamed went to Walmart stores all over Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. They made tiny purchases on multiple Walmart cards at each store. The prosecutor mentioned this.

Monk wondered why the pair would stop at four Wal-Marts along the way and purchase items such as a drill, glue remover, gun patch, rifle kit, solvent and a rifle rod.
“They made a point to not purchase all those items at the same Wal-Mart stores,” he said.
He said Megahed’s fingerprints were found on the boxes of their purchases as well as on a gas can. They were all in the trunk, Monk said, proving he must have noticed the PVC pipes there.
Assistant federal public defender Adam Allen said the duo hit Wal-Marts because they were broke and had several gift cards. Megahed was in a rifle club [DS: in violation of his student visa . . . hello?], which he said explained some of the purchases. The gas can was in the trunk because Mohamed had run out of gas on a trip to Key West [DS: hmmm . . . isn’t that gay vacay land?] not long ago.

But here’s what prosecutors didn’t tell jurors: Gift cards are often used by drug dealers, terrorists, and other criminals to load up vast quantities of money and conceal it from authorities. At the time, Walmart gift cards were the gift card of choice because Walmart allowed cardholders to load amounts in excess of Patriot Act and federal reporting limits and to cash out the cards. That’s no longer the case as a result of this case.
Also, the reason the men bought little items at each store was to conceal their real purpose for hitting the stores. They were trying to buy guns, and at each Walmart, they were (thankfully) refused by employees who followed the law and demanded proof of citizenship or residence. Video from the stores apparently shows them trying to purchase guns. I don’t think the prosecutor–Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Monk–mentioned any of this, based on the coverage I’ve read of the trial (absurdly, prosecutors were barred by Judge Steven Merryday from mentioning the guns). Nor did he mention that the Megahed/Mohamed gun range shooting partner was another USF Muslim foreign student who was engaged in marriage fraud and was caught in New York by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, trying to leave the country at the time his M&M friends were caught. Not to mention these things is simply malpractice and deliberate flubbing of a good criminal case. There’s more which should have been mentioned that wasn’t and which you haven’t read elsewhere. I’ll disclose at some point in the future.

Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimeen [The Muslim Brotherhood]:
Pops Samir Megahed, Youssef Megahed, Bro Yahia Megahed
Also, one last thing: You’re paying for Youssef Megahed’s defense. He’s represented by a Federal Public Defender. But you have to ask yourself, if he’s so indigent that he needs American taxpayers to foot his bill, how did his father and brother afford fancy garish suits, and why did his lawyers say his father is a successful Tampa engineer? An engineer can’t pay for his own kid’s lawyer? And what happened to the Government of Egypt’s announced plan to pay for Megahed’s defense? Poof. Up in smoke. Better to rob and scam the American infidels and have them pay for the defense of this Islamic terrorist. That’s halal money, baby.
The joke’s on you, America. Happy April Fools Day to all of us.
Youssef Megahed Walk Watch, Day One.


Bad Sign: Islamic Terrorist Youssef Megahed’s Jury Still Out

By Debbie Schlussel
This is just one of the many reasons why the whole Bush tough-on-terror, Axis of Evil tough-talking stuff was just plain fiction.
As I noted on this site, for all of its tough talk against Iran, the Bush Administration increased trade with Iran 1800%, to just under $150 million from the paltry $8 million to which the Clinton Administration reduced it.
But now there’s this, which began under Clinton and spanned almost the entire Bush administration. Yup, WE–that’s us, America–financed Iranian, Syrian, Sudanese, and Cuban nuclear development.
Ostensibly, the program is supposed to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, but if you believe that, I have some land in the Sahara desert to sell you. It’s kind of like buying a fat chick a pizza “to promote the positive dietary use of calories.”
This isn’t just another reason not to pay U.N. dues. Talk about DumbAssity:

Four countries designated by the U.S. as terrorism sponsors, including Iran and Syria, received $55 million from a U.S.-supported program promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy, according to a report by Congress’s investigative arm.
Iran received more than $15 million from 1997 to 2007 under the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Technical Cooperation program, according to the Government Accountability Office report set to be released Tuesday. An additional $14 million went to Syria, while Sudan and Cuba received more than $11 million each, it said.
The U.S. is the largest funder of the United Nations body’s program and provided $20 million in 2007, or about a quarter of the budget, the report said.
The Technical Cooperation program funds some projects with a direct connection to nuclear energy, but many other projects it funds have no such link. Recent examples include projects to improve livestock productivity and eradicate the tsetse fly in Africa.
The GAO said it was concerned that some of the projects could provide expertise useful both for peaceful purposes and for the development of nuclear-weapon capabilities. The U.S. Energy Department, which reviews these proposed projects for the State Department, examined 1,565 such proposals between 1998 and 2006 and found that 43 of them had some degree of proliferation risk. The IAEA approved 34 of them, the report found.
Iran says it is developing nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes, but the U.S. fears it is seeking a nuclear weapon. Syria is under investigation for alleged covert nuclear activities, and U.S. officials have said a Syrian site bombed by Israel in 2007 was a nuclear facility.
U.S. oversight of the IAEA program is weak, the report said.

U.S. oversight of everything is weak. In fact, the phrase “U.S. oversight” is for all intents and purposes an oxymoron.

Officials at the State and Energy departments often know only the titles of proposed projects, it said. The State Department division dedicated to monitoring the program shrank in 2005 by two-thirds to five employees.

Meanwhile, the number of State Department employees assigned to promoting Palestinian statehood and other pan-Islamic causes is growing by leaps and bounds. Oh, and by the way, Bush Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham was too busy giving tours and details of our nuclear security to Iran and other such states.

A top IAEA official at the Technical Cooperation program told the GAO that the program aims to engage as many countries as possible and “there are no good countries and there are no bad countries,” the report said.

No good countries and no bad countries? HUH? We might as well just surrender now.

The IAEA also said confidentiality agreements often prevent it from providing details about the projects for which countries are seeking aid.

Well, then, that confidentiality should keep us from funding such U.N. programs. They don’t disclose, we shouldn’t finance.
And here’s the money shot:

The report recommends that Congress prohibit the State Department from funding projects in countries that sponsor terrorism, but the State Department opposes this. In a written response to the report, State officials said withholding U.S. money wouldn’t stop the programs from being funded and would discourage other countries from fulfilling their funding obligations.

WHAT THE HELL . . .? We shouldn’t stop funding terrorist nations’ nuclear ambitions because this would discourage other countries from paying their U.N. dues?! Is this not the very definition of INSANITY?????
Un-fricking-believable.

The GAO earlier assessed the IAEA program in 1997, when it said the IAEA wasn’t doing enough to ensure it funded only peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Um, where the heck were National Security Advisors Sandy “Burglar” Berger, Condoleezza Condi Clueless Rice, and Frances Townsend on this? Blind, deaf, and dumb. And we continued the funding for over a decade. Sickening.

The new GAO report said some of the IAEA technical-cooperation funds go to countries that haven’t signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty or to countries that haven’t signed safeguard agreements with the IAEA to ensure they aren’t developing nuclear weapons.
The report found that 17 countries and territories lacking safeguard agreements received nearly $7 million in 2007. The IAEA did halt future funding for some Technical Cooperation projects involving Iran in February 2007, after the U.N. sanctioned Iran for its nuclear activities.

Awesome.
How, exactly, is America even still in existence with such asinine, willling, and wanton enabling of our enemies? How, indeed.

By Debbie Schlussel
The United States doesn’t recognize it. Even the United Nations doesn’t recognize it.
And there is no official country called “Palestine.”
But there is, according to the State of Illinois.
Check out this official form the State of Illinois provides to request for the certification of documents for foreign use.
What’s interesting is the countries that aren’t listed. These must be the countries for which people most often request official certified documents and records. Saudia Arabia, Jordan (the REAL “Palestine”), and that fake “Palestine” country. That’s scary. And what do they need the documents for? I wonder which documents are the most requested going to those three entities in particular.

By Debbie Schlussel
Think Barack Hussein Obama’s insistence that GM fire Rick Wagoner was bad?
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
House Financial Services Committee Chairman and former gay brothel landlord Barney Frank and the Democrat leadership in Congress are pushing through a tough measure, which allows the government to set pay of any and all employees at any company receiving any money from the federal government. It echoes Soviet-style economic policy.
The bill is set to be voted on by the entire House, next week.
Yes, America, you’ve regressed a long way, baby.

In a little-noticed move, the House Financial Services Committee, led by chairman Barney Frank, has approved a measure that would, in some key ways, go beyond the most draconian features of the original AIG bill. The new legislation, the “Pay for Performance Act of 2009,” would impose government controls on the pay of all employees — not just top executives — of companies that have received a capital investment from the U.S. government. It would, like the tax measure, be retroactive, changing the terms of compensation agreements already in place. And it would give Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extraordinary power to determine the pay of thousands of employees of American companies.
The purpose of the legislation is to “prohibit unreasonable and excessive compensation and compensation not based on performance standards,” according to the bill’s language. That includes regular pay, bonuses — everything — paid to employees of companies in whom the government has a capital stake, including those that have received funds through the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP, as well as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The measure is not limited just to those firms that received the largest sums of money, or just to the top 25 or 50 executives of those companies. It applies to all employees of all companies involved, for as long as the government is invested. And it would not only apply going forward, but also retroactively to existing contracts and pay arrangements of institutions that have already received funds.
In addition, the bill gives Geithner the authority to decide what pay is “unreasonable” or “excessive.” And it directs the Treasury Department to come up with a method to evaluate “the performance of the individual executive or employee to whom the payment relates.”
The bill passed the Financial Services Committee last week, 38 to 22, on a nearly party-line vote. (All Democrats voted for it, and all Republicans, with the exception of Reps. Ed Royce of California and Walter Jones of North Carolina, voted against it.)
The legislation is expected to come before the full House for a vote this week, and, just like the AIG bill, its scope and retroactivity trouble a number of Republicans.

What’s that I hear? The sound of Karl Marx’s ghost chuckling from his grave.
We’re from the government, and we’re here to screw, er . . . “help” you.
Exit Question: If Stephen Gobie was still operating his male “escort” service out of Barney Frank’s Capitol Hill apartment, would Timothy Geithner get to set the, um, “wages”?
After all, he was living there at Barney’s pleasure, so you could say there was the requisite “government” funding involved.