By Debbie Schlussel
Congresswoman Sue Myrick really knows what’s important in this day and age of Islamic terrorism, 20 million illegal aliens, mass home foreclosures, etc. Watch this really short video (1 minute, 20 secs) of her tribute to an important “statesman” constituent of hers. You have to watch until the very end to hear her very stateswomanlike special effect sound.
Oh, and one other thing: She’s honoring this guy for his gazillion championships in an industry that is, well, . . . doesn’t she know that it’s fixed?:

Nature Boy.
UPDATE: To be fair to Sue Myrick, she is one of the few Congresspeople who truly gets it on radical Islam. Still this video is inane.

By Debbie Schlussel
While most Navy men–and most members of any branch of the U.S. military–are serving our country for lower salaries and benefits than the average American, some are apparently not so “civic-minded”.
Navy personnel in at least eight states were indicted for sham marriages to illegal aliens. Not exactly patriotic and anything but the oath they gave to “serve and protect” our country:

Federal authorities have combed through eight states since early Wednesday morning, arresting suspects in a sweeping investigation into fraudulent marriages between Navy sailors and illegal immigrants.
Three indictments unsealed Wednesday afternoon charge 33 people – current and former sailors and their brides. Thirteen defendants appeared in U.S. District Court as federal agents searched seven other states for the remaining suspects.

Federal authorities have been targeting bogus marriages and Navy housing fraud for at least two years, having already arrested at least 40 other individuals here and in New York.
This is the largest one-time sweep, and Navy officials said they hope this puts an end to the practice. More than 73 people have been arrested so far, with dozens convicted, jailed or deported. . . .
The arrangement benefits both bride and groom. The brides, here illegally, get the fast track to green cards and, possibly, citizenship. The sailors get an increase in their housing allowances, plus payments ranging from $1,000 to $6,000 from their brides.
Authorities say they also have national-security concerns: The illegal immigrant could be seeking to cause harm. . . .
Word of the scheme spread through Norfolk Naval Station over the past several years. Sailors learned they could take home thousands more a year in housing allowances if they married, according to court papers. The Navy said the scheme has cost taxpayers more than $225,000. . . .
Most of the brides . . . came here on short-term student or visitor visas. The court papers say the marriages were never consummated. . . .
Other arrests were being made in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia and California.
One attorney representing a defendant in a related marriage fraud case questioned the government’s methods in tackling the problem.
Stephen P. Patrizio, a Philadelphia attorney . . . said he doesn’t understand all the effort being put into jailing illegal immigrants in marriage fraud cases when they will end up being deported anyway.
“I think there’s a whole lot of other things that need more attention.”

Such as . . . ?
Some of the soldiers in the case are stationed aboard the Iwo Jima, another amphibious assault ship.
Talk about serving with dishonor. These Navy men need to be court-martialed.

By Debbie Schlussel
Unless you say the Shehada (the Islamic oath of martyrdom that is the key act of conversion to Islam), you might want to avoid public facilities in the UK . . . especially swimming pools.
This latest example of the Muslim tolerance we’re always being told about is emblematic of the religious apartheid they want to–and will, if given the chance–impose upon us.
If you want the definition of the word “dhimmi” (status of a non-Muslim in a Muslim society), this is the epitome:

A stunned dad and his little boy were banned from swimming at a popular public sports centre – because they are not Muslims.

Welcome to Islamic Apartheid

The man, known only as David T, and his 10-year-old son were stopped from going into the pool at Clissold Leisure Centre in Stoke Newington, east London.
Last night embarrassed management at the complex said staff were wrong to turn customers away from the designated ‘men-only modesty session’ on Sunday morning.
The council says the special early-morning get-togethers are aimed at community groups who have strict rules on segregation.
But the dad and his lad were prevented from swimming when they turned up at 9am on Sunday.
David T said: “I arrived at the pool to discover that they were holding what staff described to me as ‘Muslim men-only swimming’.
“I asked whether my son and I could go as we were both male. I was told that the session was for Muslims only and that we could not be admitted.
“I asked to speak to the duty manager, who confirmed that this was the case.”
He added: “I asked what would happen if I turned up and insisted I was Muslim.
“The manager suggested that they might ask the Muslims swimming if they minded my son and I swimming with them.
“If they didn’t object, we might be allowed in.”
The men-only modesty swimming sessions take place every Sunday from 8am to 9.30am.
Two websites have been advertising the sessions for Muslim men only.
But a leisure centre spokesman said staff were out of order to refuse people entry for being non-Muslim.
He said: “The member of staff the user spoke with at the time was mistaken when referring to the session as Muslim only. [DS: Mark my word. There was NO mistake. This is policy.] . . .
A spokesman for Hackney Council said: “None of Hackney’s leisure centres have religiously segregated swimming sessions in their public timetables. [DS: Uh-huh.]
“In common with most public swimming facilities, there are single sex sessions, and this session was men only.

Correction: MUSLIM men only.
We’ve seen the left and U.S. Muslims reactively defend separate hours for sexes and walls in privately-owned gyms, so that Muslimas can work out in immodest, scanty clothing without “turning you on.”
But this one is blatant discrimination, blatant elevation of Muslims and simultaneous lowering of non-Muslims to non-human status. I can’t wait to hear their excuses for this one.
Religion of Peace and No Dipping w/”Dirty” Infidels. Britain, the latest caliphate.
Time to get that yellow star out from my grandmother’s early 1940 “accessories” collection.

By Debbie Schlussel
This absurd lawsuit isn’t new. I’ve written about it before. But this month, it’s coming to trial.
While there are many valid claims and disputes that go to court, there are also far too many that are like this one.
A former Detroit Red Wing hockey player and a team masseur (and their wives) are suing a car dealer who sold a limo to a limo company, whose unlicensed driver then crashed it. They’re suing because they were injured and disabled in the accident. But the lawsuit is preposterous. Vladimir Konstantinov and Sergei Mnatsakanov are saying it was too hard to find their seatbelts, and so they didn’t wear any. Therefore, it’s the car dealer’s fault when they got injured.
You follow? Me, neither. At least, not logically. But in most lawsuits, it’s not about logic or the actual blameworthy party. It’s about following the money and who has the deepest pockets. This is the McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit all over again, in even less sensical terms:

The men weren’t wearing belts because they were tucked under the seats, the suit said.
Findlay Ford Lincoln Mercury has denied the charges, saying it didn’t design or make the Lincoln Town Car — only sent it to a now-defunct Ford-approved Michigan company to be stretched into a limousine by Ford standards.
The three-week trial before U.S. District Judge George Steeh could include testimony from at least two dozen witnesses, including Wings owner Mike Ilitch, executive Steve Yzerman and the limo driver who walked away from the crash, Richard Gnida, who worked for a Belleville firm.
The vehicle hit a tree on Woodward in Birmingham after Gnida fell asleep at the wheel on the way back from a golf outing. Defenseman Slava Fetisov also was in the limo but wasn’t seriously injured.

The two former Red Wing employees also sued Ford Motor Company.
I feel sorry for the injured men. One was paralyzed from the waist-down and the other has serious head injuries, which require 24-hour care. Their careers with the pro hockey team ended with that fateful accident.
But the accident is the dual fault of the unlicensed negligent limo driver and the limo company, which didn’t do an adequate background check on the driver.
And neither of those parties has any money.
So, what do greedy lawyers do in a case like this? They sue the innocent business that sold the perfectly fine automobile . . . the business that did nothing wrong and had no connection with the accident. Soak the rich.
And you wonder why cars and insurance are so expensive these days. The $10 billion litigation tax from unworthy suits like these are a significant portion of the reason.

By Debbie Schlussel
So, what were they saying about transvestitism and transsexualism not being mental illnesses?:

A man in a flowery blouse and makeup deliberately slammed his vehicle into a lingerie shop because they wouldn’t give him a job, police said.
Jeremy Paul McIntosh, 27, who calls himself a cross-dresser and often wears women’s clothing, is in the Oakland County Jail and facing charges. He had applied for a job at the Intimate Ideas shop on Union Lake Road in January and became upset when he wasn’t hired, according to a police report of the incident.

Jeremy Paul McIntosh: Would You Buy Lingerie From Him?

Police say McIntosh showed up at the store about 9 p.m. Saturday and told a female employee he was going to run his Geo Tracker into the store because the company refused to hire him. Shortly after he left, the employee heard a vehicle hit the building seven times, causing merchandise to fall off of shelves and doing about $3,000 in damage.
“When the employee went outside to see what happened, (McIntosh) told her his Tracker was totaled but the building was really tough,” said Undersheriff Michael McCabe.
McIntosh, who was wearing women’s makeup, blue capri pants, red flip-flops and a flowery blouse, and a matching bra, told deputies he was homeless and wanted a job.
“He said he was homeless and was sick of freezing in his car at night,” McCabe said.
McIntosh was checked for injuries by the Commerce Fire Department but refused medical treatment and was taken into custody.

Not only does this guy need psychiatric help, but so do so many others like him who cross-dress and/or get sex “re-assignment” surgery. If only gay and lesbian rights groups stopped saying this isn’t a mental issue.
This guy is Exhibit A that it is.
On the other hand, maybe they should have hired him–it would open up a whole new “market” of customers in a rough Michigan economy.

By Debbie Schlussel
Last year, I told you about self-anointed medical “expert,” Jenny McCarthy.
Yup, the same Jenny McCarthy who has a medical degree from the Hugh Hefner School of Advanced Silicone Medicine and Porn Sciences. And don’t forget her valuable medical expertise gleaned from her days hosting MTV’s “Singled Out” and her current scientific gig “dating” (euphemism) Jim Carrey.
Because her son is autistic, she looked for something to blame it on, and . . . voila, “child vaccines cause autism.” At least, that’s her theory and that held by a growing group of alarmists with the same medical “expertise” as McCarthy.

Bimbo Science: Jenny McCarthy’s Strange New Respect
Bodes a Bad Prognosis For America
And it’s frightening parents from giving their kids necessary vaccines against diseases that are now making a comeback because of Jenny’s Bimbo Science. McCarthy and her ilk have succeeded in persuading otherwise responsible parents to retreat back to the Stone Age when it comes to their children’s health and available preventative medical treatments. Who knew that taking off your pants for the world (that’s how McCarthy reached the D-list) would cause modern pediatric medicine to regress decades?
It’s like a scene from the movie, “Idiocracy.”
Sadly, giant medical institutions are also buying into this chic, hip new fad of Bimbo Science. Yesterday, Henry Ford Health Systems–one of the largest chains of hospitals and health care centers–hosted former Playboy centerfold McCarthy at a large banquet to address its physicians and medical staff and impart upon them her B-movie and Playboy naked video medical theories.
A local TV station ran a clip of Henry Ford’s chief of pediatrics praising McCarthy’s bizarre views on vaccines. I thought I was daydreaming. But then it got worse. On video, McCarthy told the audience that her son is no longer autistic because she’s giving him certain vitamins and a gluten-free diet. She said she can take her son “on” and “off” autism in a three-month span, based on diet, exercise, and vitamin supplements. Hmmm . . . has she been channeling Tom Cruise? Autism is a mostly permanent condition that isn’t shed by a summer of workouts and cuisine at the spa.
But don’t tell that to Dr. Bimbette or the actual physicians at Henry Ford Healthcare.
Ironically, on the same day that McCarthy was on her Bimbo Junk Science tour of Detroit, a real-life brain scientist, Sam Wang, had a great op-ed against Dr. Jenny. Wang–whose sister is autistic and who is associate professor of molecular biology and neuroscience at Princeton University–is co-author of Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life. That means he might know just a tad more about what causes autism than Jenny McCarthy, BD (Doctor of Bim).
Says Wang:

I am angry that this coverage is spreading dangerous myths. My sister, Karen, is autistic. In the 1970s, my parents wondered why she behaved so differently. . . .
Autism is a neurological disorder, and its signs appear by the age of 1 or even earlier. It is highly inheritable. In identical twins where one is autistic, the chance that both are autistic is greater than 50-50. Even non-identical twins and siblings are at increased risk. . . .
Recently, celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy and other activists have taken to the airwaves to repeat the myth that autism is linked to vaccination. Although peer-reviewed scientific evidence overwhelmingly opposes their views, they have attracted attention. In a recent discussion on Larry King Live, three pediatricians invited to make the case for science were no match for McCarthy’s star power. Situations like this could mistakenly persuade parents to leave their children unvaccinated and vulnerable to contagious diseases. . . .
What are McCarthy’s credentials? She is an actress and comedienne[DS: not sure she’s either of those] – with an autistic son. Her career took on new life after she wrote a best-selling pregnancy guide. Like all parents of autistic children, she wrestled with the question of what caused his disorder. She recalled that her son was vaccinated about the time his symptoms first appeared. Aha! That’s it. Here is an example of her reasoning: “I believe that parents’ anecdotal information is science-based information.” . . .
She concluded that two events happening around the same time must be linked. They used the principle that coincidence implies a causal link. [DS: Wang describes how a rescinded, mistaken study finding blamed autism on thimerosal, but McCarthy’s son] was born in 2002, after thimerosal was removed from vaccines.
The problem is compounded by “source amnesia,” in which people are prone to remember a statement without recalling where they heard it or whether the source was reliable. . . . Such errors of reasoning hinder us from distinguishing real causes from coincidences. . . .
I wish that preventing autism were as simple as withholding a few injections. . . . I understand the vital importance of vaccination, not only for maintaining our baby’s health but also protecting our community from infectious diseases. Our daughter’s next shots are in two months.

Sadly, the people who buy into Jenny McCarthy’s Silicone Bimbo Science aren’t the kind blessed with critical thinking skills or the kind to read an op-ed like this . . . even in McPaper (USA Today).
And that’s why McCarthy’s “scientific lectures” to Medical Doctors and personnel of a major hospital in a major city will continue . . . and will harm American children’s health.
Perhaps those parents who listen to McCarthy and risk their children to diseases thought to be a thing of the past are the latest form of Darwin’s “natural selection.”
You wouldn’t trust this peroxide blonde with built-in floatation devices to treat you for cancer. Why would anyone consult her for advice on their own developing kids’ health?
Don’t embrace this new “McCarthyism.” Skank “science” is bunk.

By Debbie Schlussel
**** UPDATE: I posted this earlier today, but had technical problems with the photo I posted. The JPEG of the Arab American News’ and Osama Siblani’s tribute to the terrorist who masterminded the Jerusalem school massacre of young boys, and call to terrorists to continue in this “work” is now fixed and visible below. Remember, the man who published this is tight with Bush’s new nominee for U.S. District Court, Stephen Murphy III. ****
Yesterday, President Bush announced the nomination of U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy III a/k/a “Abu Porno” to a Federal Judgeship in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
I’ve repeatedly detailed on this site how Murphy allowed Hezbollah financiers from the Hammoud and Chahine families to leave the country, then indicted them once they were conveniently out of reach. I’ve written about how Murphy has the worst record of prosecuting terrorists of any U.S. Attorney in the country. I told you how his tight friendship with Islamic terrorism financiers is so tight that, last month, he had to recuse himself and his entire office from the prosecution of Saddam spy Muthanna Al-Hanooti of HAMAS/Al-Qaeda charity, LIFE for Relief and Development, with whose officers Murphy is close.

Stephen Murphy: Bush Federal Bench Nominee
Soft on Terrorists, Friends with Them
I’ve also detailed how Murphy repeatedly praised Ayatollah Khomeini’s former Navy imam, and clapped vigorously when the Imam said, “What’s going on in the South of Lebanon [Hezbollah], that’s not terrorism. That’s legitimate resistance.” At the same gathering, Murphy stated he was unsure why Hezbollah was on the State Department Terrorist List and that it was merely a “humanitarian group that builds hospitals and orphanages.”
Murphy stated that he came to this conclusion about Hezbollah while lunching with his good friend, Osama Siblani, publisher and owner of the Arab American News. As I’ve noted on this site, Siblani was identified as an American agent of Hezbollah by the Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Seyassah.
But last month was a new low for Siblani and his paper (which is believed to be subsidized by Hezbollah). The paper–which practices Arafatian deception in publishing one set of “moderate” articles in English and another set of pro-terrorist ones in Arabic–published a glowing, Arabic tribute, pictured below, to Ahmad Al-Balboul, head of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade terrorist group and the man who planned the shooting murder of eight kids at the Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav school in Jerusalem. Al-Balboul was killed in March by Israeli counterterrorism agents.
Siblani was asked to and did post this tribute to terrorist leader Al-Balboul by his terrorist family. So, you see, Siblani uses his newspaper as a messenger for Islamic terrorist groups all over, not just his own Hezbollah. And this terrorist messenger–encouraging terrorists to keep on keepin’ on–is the confidant of Bush’s latest federal bench nominee. Splendid.

This Call to Terrorists Was Published in the Arab American News
Here is the English language translation of what Siblani–future Judge Murphy’s friend–wrote in his newspaper:

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
From the Koran: “Do not think that the people who were martyrs are dead, but they are alive in the eyes of Allah.”
The word of Allah is the truth.
[Picture of Ahmad Al-Balboul]
We bring the news from the Balboul family in Palestine and all immigrants the martyr of the leader of the group of Shohdaa El-Aksa [Al Aqsa Martyrs], the courageous Ahmad Balboul and his friends from Saraya El-Kodos [The Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Brigades], the martyrs Mohamed Shehata and Imad El-Kamel and Issa Marzook [DS: three other terrorists assassinated] the ones that have been murdered by the aggressive hand of the Jews in the city of Bethlehem on Wednesday March 12, 2008. Their martyrdom affects all the Arab and Islamic Nations and condolences came from Lebanon and other Arabic countries to the families of the murdered.
To all our innocent martyrs and to all Lebanon martyrs and to all the people of Islamic and Arabic nations forever glory.
From Allah we come and to Allah we shall return.

This is the “work” of Osama Siblani, friend of Bush’s current U.S. Attorney and choice for federal judge.
Check out this picture. It’s worth a thousand words.

The Company Stephen Murphy Keeps . . .

U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy w/Islamic Terrorism Supporters Osama Siblani, Shereef Akeel, Imad Hamad & Noel Saleh
The men pictured, above, with a smiling Murphy are (from left) Murphy’s close personal friends Siblani, publisher of the openly pro-homicide bomber Arab American News (which proudly supports, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Louis Farrakhan). The taller man standing in the back is Shereef Akeel, a lawyer for Islamic terrorist groups and charities. Beneath him and to Murphy’s right is “former” Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist Imad Hamad. To Murphy’s left is Noel Saleh, who openly stated that he gave money to Hezbollah. Saleh is an ACLU attorney who filed the lawsuits challenging the Patriot Act and NSA wiretapping. The are pictured at their monthly love-fest at Murphy’s office.
Write and call the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to tell them what you think of President Bush’s “stellar” choice for the Federal Bench.
Remember how they told us the reason to vote for Bush was his judicial nominees? They lied.

By Debbie Schlussel
More evidence, today, that the feds know that Youssef Samer Megahed and Ahmed Abdellatif Mohamed are Islamic terrorists and want them removed from the U.S. Megahed (whose surname means, aptly, holy warrior) and Mohamed–the smiling terrorists who claimed they needed pipe bombs near a military installation in the middle of the night because they were going to hold a “barbecue”–were charged with firearms violations that would lead to the deportation of at least one of them.
Whenever the feds are unsure they will win a terrorism case–which is most of the time because they’re incompetent and PC-obsessed–if they aliens are terrorists, they charge the terrorists with something that is easy to prove and which will get them deported.
That’s the case here:

Mohamed and Megahed: Smiling Terrorists Soon to Face Trial

The seven-count indictment, filed Tuesday, supersedes a two-count indictment handed up Aug. 29. That indictment charged both men with illegally transporting explosive material and charged Mohamed with demonstrating how to make an explosive device.
The new indictment also charges Megahed, 22, and Mohamed, 26, with possessing an unregistered firearm. It includes charges against Mohamed similar to those that a USF graduate faced in connection with a visit to a Tampa gun range.
Mohamed has been charged in the new indictment with illegally possessing a firearm, violating his student visa. Karim Moussaoui, 28, was found guilty by a jury earlier this month on a similar charge and is in jail awaiting sentencing.

Sadly, Megahed–Mr. Holy Warrior–is a legal resident and can lawfully possess a firearm. If our country had any cojones at all–and it does not–we would revoke Megahed’s green card for not registering the firearm.

Mohamed is charged with all seven counts of the new indictment. If convicted of all the charges, he could potentially go to prison for between 10 years and life. If convicted on the charges of transporting explosive materials and possessing an unregistered firearm, Megahed faces a maximum of 10 years in prison on each count.
The pair are scheduled to go to trial on the explosives charge on April 28. Mohamed is scheduled for trial May 12 on the charge of demonstrating how to make an explosive device. Prosecutors said he posted a video to YouTube, showing how to turn a remote control toy into a detonator.

Let’s hope the juries in these South Florida cases are not typical of the O.J.-style juries that have been trying all the other terrorism cases there. They’ve already blown it on Sami Al-Arian and now have two hung juries on the Islamic terrorists who planned to blow up the Sears Tower.
But, as I’ve detailed on this site, it’s not just the idiotic juries who must have been abroad on 9/11. It’s the Department of Justice, which has blown most terrorism cases and just doesn’t give a damn.
Going through the motions, America. Why else do you think the terrorists are smiling?

By Debbie Schlussel
A year ago, today, a crazed killer terrorized students and faculty at Virginia Tech. While several were murdered, one of the murdered gave his life to save many others. That man was the brave American/Israeli Jew, Dr. Liviu Librescu, Blessed Be His Memory. This brilliant scientist, Holocaust survivor, and survivor of Communist tyranny, died so that others–22 others!–would live.
I remember how proud my late father–knowing he was dying of cancer–was of Dr. Librescu’s heroic final act. The stereotype is that Jews are weak people, but Dr. Librescu betrayed that image. Alas, my father sarcastically said he was waiting for Steven Spielberg to do a movie defaming Dr. Librescu and glorifying Cho Seung Hui, as he did the same with innocent Israeli athletes and Palestinian terrorists in “Munich,” the propaganda fiction movie parading as history. As my dad noted, the scene was the same: Dr. Librescu was like the brave Israeli Olympic team coach in trying to hold the door shut from the terrorist killers, trying to save others.
Watch this great video on Dr. Librescu, a man of uncommon courage and bravery, and honor his memory:

The video was produced by the great Rabbi Shea Hecht, Chairman of the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education, who also sent this article to me and asked me to post it. I happily oblige:

Liviu Librescu, Z”L

Courage Under Fire
Have you ever wondered how you would react to an emergency situation? A real emergency? All of us have been tested. But most people haven’t been tested with the ultimate test of all: What if you could save the lives of others by giving up your own?
On April 16, 2007, Liviu Librescu was given the ultimate test.
He was able to save his own life but some of his students would die or he could give his life, but many young students – with their whole life ahead of them – would be spared the murderous weapon of a fellow classmate.
Librescu passed the test and gave up his life. He took four bullets on that day, while he held the door to his classroom closed so his students could escape.
At least 22 young lives were spared by Professor Librescu’s courageous actions.
What can we learn from the professor’s courage under fire? What real life lesson can we take from him since most of us are not called upon to give our lives for others?
There is a lot to learn.
The fact that Liviu Librescu, of all people, was the one to give his life so others may live is a lesson in and of itself.
Professor Librescu grew up in Romania and as a young boy suffered persecution at the hands of the Nazis, may their names be blotted out. When WWII was over the Communists ruled in Romania. The professor then suffered once again for being a Jew.
When Librescu finally reached Israel he had every reason to live only for himself. He spent so many of his young and formative years under persecution that it was essentially his time to enjoy.
But he taught at Tel Aviv University and Technion in Haifa giving over his vast knowledge, made a name for himself as a special professor and was invited to Virginia Tech as a visiting professor. Librescu so impressed the University that he was invited to stay.
Professor Liviu Librescu, a man who understood murder, who understood persecution, showed courage under fire. He knew that he must save his students – the ones with their futures ahead of them.
At this point he could have said, “Madmen took enough of my life. I should run and save myself.”
But he was a mentsch. He told his students to run and save themselves.
Even at the bitter end he was worried about others.
His legacy to us is that regardless of our own personal circumstances, we should be aware of those who need more and be ready to give of ourselves.

AMEN.

By Debbie Schlussel
This outrageous story from e-mailer Beryl Dean has been verified and is absolutely true:

My friend Miriam Bedein traveled to Britain early in April. She arrived on British Air from Israel, and as she arrived at the baggage claim, she observed that there were no porters at the site.
She asked what was happening of the gentleman who was taking her to the baggage carousel, and he said “Ooh, the porters are Muslim and they will not handle any luggage coming from Israel” (In Britain, the porters take the luggage off the carousels and take them to your cab, etc.) While it was not his job, the gentleman was kind enough to get her luggage for her.

London’s Heathrow Airport & Islam: Best to Avoid Both

She is writing British Air about this incident, asking why they tolerate, and what they are doing about, this unacceptable situation.
Perhaps you also will write to British Air:
And to Heathrow Airport.
EL-AL probably gets the same treatment. Write to them as well.

I urge my readers to write, particularly to British Air and Heathrow Ariport. But I have another solution, as well:
DON’T GO TO BRITAIN.
It’s essentially a Muslim Nation–Dar Al-Islam. Let them have halal bangers and mash all they want, but not our dollars. This situation is in place, because–as with all things–the Brits kowtow to Islam and have allowed this intolerable behavior.
**** UPDATE, 04/18/08: I looked into this some more and just got off the phone with Miriam Bedein’s friend, lawyer Beryl Dean. It’s absolutely correct. They don’t call them “porters” in Britain, they call them “skycaps,” and they are pre-arranged, not waiting around the luggage carousel. Moreover, Miriam Bedein is in a wheelchair, and it was pre-arranged that a skycap come to wheel her from the plane to the luggage and then to help port her luggage. However, they refused to show up because her flight and luggage were from Israel. And that IS the policy of Brit Muslim skycaps.