By Debbie Schlussel
My friends, KGS of Tundra Tabloids and “D,” noticed that the first Muslim free medical clinic just opened in Ohio, with CAIR’s man, Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison, at the tiny grand opening. Why would a Congressman from Minnesota go to another state to honor the opening of the Muslim Clinic of Ohio, a small medical clinic?
Well, maybe, because it’s the latest step in a grand scheme to offer free healthcare to the needy . . . and then impress upon them the virtues of a certain religion held by all of the doctors and financiers of this clinic. Actually, not maybe. For certain. It’s the latest way to entice new converts into Islam. They help you get better and then show you “the way” to get “completely better.” A similar clinic was started here in Michigan (though it didn’t fare well):

Congressman Keith Ellison Helps Open the Latest Effort in Islamic Conversion

At least 15 Muslim primary care physicians are signed up and credentialed to work at The Muslim Clinic of Ohio, Dr. Ramzieh Azmeh, the co-founder of the clinic, told the Dayton Daily News.
Azmeh, a board certified internist and pediatrician, added that another 50 specialists are also ready to contribute.
America’s first Muslim congressman, Keith Ellison, was present at the clinic’s grand opening on Sunday morning. Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat, famously used a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson at his swearing-in.
The clinic is the brainchild of the Dayton Mercy Society, a Muslim group that promotes community service and Islamic values.
“Our goal is to engage the Muslim community in outreach work and let people know that Muslims are part of this community,” Dr. Alkhawaga, who sits on the board of the society, told the Dayton Daily News.

Sure it is. My friend, “D,” an Arab-American non-Muslim who saw this, writes:

Another way to be loved by Americans, hence infiltrating, recruiting and using them for their cause. Hezbollah/Palestinian style.

Exactly.
The question is: Is this clinic completely “free,” or are American taxpayers helping to foot the bill through Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements? If the latter is the case–which is likely–there are possible church/state issues here? Oops, I forgot–there is no mosque/state separation. It only applies to every single other religion.
The other issue is this: If the clinic does get federal funding, who will monitor what goes on there? Answer: No-one. Medical privacy laws, like HIPAA, shield any meaningful form of investigation. And, aside from that, the feds look the other way when it comes to Islam, anyhow. Don’t expect that to change here.
Another issue: Can you, an infidel, trust that you’ll get proper medical care from a Muslim doctor . . . especially if you refuse to convert? Don’t bet on it. As I’ve noted, there have been many cases of Muslim doctors in America maltreating non-Muslim patients. The story of Joseph Applebaum’s murder at the hands of Dr. Osama Ahmed Ibrahim is a primer in that.
Again, read Tundra Tabloids’ insightful commentary on this latest example of Dawa. . . or as I like to call it, Muslim penicillin.

First, Do Harm

By Debbie Schlussel
My late father and I used to have a code phrase we’d use whenever there was a leftist–particularly a Jewish leftist–who went out of his/her way to pander to Islamofascists. We’d say that foolish person was “a likely candidate for Lunch in Tul Karem.”
That’s because in 2000–at the height of Palestinian homicide bombings against innocent civilians in Israel–the Hebrew-language Israeli newspaper, HaZofe (now called, “Makor Rishon,” or Primary Source) had an interesting, but not surprising, story: Two Jewish Israeli peacenik businessmen went to Tul Karem in Samaria of the so-called Palestinian Authority to have lunch with their friends–two Palestinian restauraters, who who were “peace activists” and “moderate” Muslims, who only wanted to make nice with the Jews.

“Lunch in Tul Karem” Is Not a Meal or a Place . . .


. . . It’s a State of Mind w/ a Certain Result
The two Israeli Jews told all of their friends about their “peace mission” with these two non-violent Palestinian specimens of humanity. (FYI, Tul Karem–home to Al Quds Open University–is a hotbed of Islamic terrorism and bomb-making factories.)
Not long after they reached the Tul Karem restaurant, the two Israeli men were found bloody, slaughtered dead, and dismembered at their peace-loving Muslim Palestinian friends’ restaurant in Tul Karem, at the hands of their two “moderate” Muslim friends. No word on whether the Jews got to eat a digestible meal before their halal lunch of steel blades.
Now, yet another woman voluntarily went for “Lunch in Tul Karem” and met her predictable, Darwin-esque fate:

An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey.
The naked body of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, 33, known as Pippa Bacca, was found in bushes near the northern city of Gebze on Friday.
She had said she wanted to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people.
Turkish police say they have detained a man in connection with the killing.
Reports say the man led the police to the body.
Ms di Marineo was hitch-hiking from Milan to Israel and the Palestinian Territories with a fellow artist on their “Brides on Tour” project.
They had separated in Istanbul, planning to reunite in Beirut.
Ms di Marineo was last seen on 31 March in Gebze.
An Italian embassy official told the Associated Press news agency police tracked the man when he put a new SIM card into Ms di Marineo’s mobile phone.
Local media identified the suspect only by the initials MK and said he had a previous conviction for theft.
Ms di Marineo’s sister, who had gone to Turkey to look for her, identified the body. An autopsy is being conducted in Istanbul.
“Her travels were for an artistic performance and to give a message of peace and of trust, but not everyone deserves trust,” another sister, Maria, told the Italian news agency, Ansa.

Ya think? This is another one of those “Guess the Religion” episodes. Just a gander, but I’ll bet that “M” in the “MK” initials stands for Mohammed. Either way, he’s a Turk, which means that he’s a Muslim and didn’t quite go for the “Brides on Tour” peacenik thing.
Best to avoid “Lunch in Tul Karem” at all cost and “consume your meals” in the real world.
Thanks to my brave friend, “S from M,” who sent this story, which she rightly says, falls into the “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love, and Understandin'” file.

By Debbie Schlussel
A California man locates his stolen car, and those who occupy it flee the scene, leaving behind Iraqi money and an explosive device in the car. But, per usual, where there are huge red flags, the FBI says, “No terrorism here, people (watch the video).” Yup, the Sgt. Schultz of Federal law enforcement keeps on givin’.
Oh, and authorities are pawning this whole thing off on a Latino guy, without asking why he was carrying an IED along with “a pile of Iraqi cash.” Those Latinos–always with a penchant for Iraqi dinars and explosive devices, ya know?

But, by basic deduction, it’s quite obvious the FBI is lying and believes this is a terrorism matter. If this were just a car theft, it would be a local police matter. If it was just a car theft and a matter of explosives, the ATF would take over. If it was a car theft involving an illegal alien–from Mexico OR Iraq–ICE would have the case (or look the other way and make local police take care of it and release the alien to freedom, per usual). But the FBI is the lead agency “dealing” with terrorism. That’s why the Feeble But Interloping agency is involved with this case.

The FBI is now involved in the theft of a car after it was found in Los Lunas with an explosive device and Iraqi currency inside FBI agents say that they have ruled out terrorism .
The car was reported stolen last week. After the theft, the car’s owner was fueling his motorcycle when he spotted his stolen car.
“While he was refueling his motorcycle, low and behold, the vehicle that he had reported stolen that belongs to him happened to pull into the gas station area also,” said Los Lunas Police Captain Charles Nuanes.
The car’s owner pulled the keys out of the ignition of his stolen car and the people in the car fled.
When police arrived, they found the explosive device and less than $1,000 worth of Iraqi cash.
“We don’t know what their intentions were,” said Nuanes. “We don’t know what they were planning on doing with any of this.”
Police suspect Toby Jaramillo, who is well known to Valencia County law enforcement, was behind the car’s theft. He’s in jail charged with stealing another car.

Hmmm . . . so Police Captain Nuanes doesn’t know what their intentions were or what they were planning on doing. I’d say with an explosive device and Iraqi, they weren’t headed to a beach party. I mean, I’m no cop, but I think it’s quite obvious their intentions weren’t good ones.
But we must always assume the best whenever we encounter car thieves on American soil, carrying Mid-Eastern cash and explosive devices.
Anything other than that would be “un-American.”
It sounds to me like this man, Jaramillo, likely helped smuggle Iraqi terrorists into the country, and may even be involved with them in other ways.
Thanks to forever vigilant reader Duane for the tip. He asks me whatever happened to the case of Sasan Ghazal, the Iranian caught in February in North Carolina with illegal drugs and and an explosive device in his car.
Good question. Will have to look into it to see how the FBI pawned that one off on the “not terrorism” angle.

By Debbie Schlussel
Before he died last year, my late father wanted to make sure I read an in-depth Wall Street Journal article from over a decade ago that he kept in his files of important newspaper articles. He told me he both enjoyed–and was frustrated by–reading the article, which wasn’t meant to be comedy, but sure read like one.
It was the story of how the FBI ceaselessly bungled the investigation of Wen Ho Lee, the Chinese scientist accused of stealing technology from an American nuclear lab and giving it to the Chi-Coms. Lee probably did it, and all the evidence coupled with strange and suspicious behavior (and constantly-changing stories) pointed that way. But because the FBI threw the case, through ineptitude and stupidity, Lee is today a free man, who remains on American soil and successfully sued media outlets. Whatta country.

Or, more precisely, what an incompetent law enforcement agency. That’s why my dad wanted me to take note of the article. He felt–rightly so–that it was emblematic of everything I’ve been writing about the undeservedly hallowed, once-premier federal law enforcement agency, whose reputation now rests largely on PR and very little on positive results or achievements.
The Lee “investigation” was classic Clouseau-ean (as in Inspector Clouseau) stuff. One agent, who’d been a lightbulb salesperson just six months earlier, was suddenly atop the investigation and arrived completely unprepared for an interview with Lee. Really, I’m not making this stuff up. And similar bungling plagued the entire “investigation.”
That’s why–6.5 years since 9/11–we are worse off than we were 6.5 days after the attacks. And it’s also why I’m not a tad surprised by today’s Wall Street Journal article on how the FBI repeatedly bungled attempts to get the student records of a suspect linked to the 2005 London subway bombings. The story is the same old comedy of errors and study in bureaucratic brainlessness that took place with Lee. Different ideology–this time it’s Islam, not Communism–but same bungling, albeit with a lot of resistance by a recalcitrant college:

Missteps by Federal Bureau of Investigation officials caused delays in the investigation of a man initially linked to the 2005 London subway bombings. . . .
The FBI documents, released Monday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, describe a series of miscues by FBI officials as agents in Raleigh, N.C., tried to obtain records for a former university student who investigators initially thought had ties to the London bombers. The missteps appear to have delayed the investigation by a day or two, according to the emails.
The emails are likely to provide ammunition for critics of the Bush administration and the FBI at congressional hearings Tuesday and Wednesday on the misuse of national-security letters, which has been documented by Justice Department audits.
National-security letters are administrative subpoenas issued without judicial oversight in national-security investigations to obtain certain private records, such as credit-report information and telephone-billing records, but not student records. . . .
The FBI emails don’t identify the student whose records were being sought.
According to the FBI emails, about a week after the July 2005 London bombings, agents went to the university with a grand-jury subpoena for the student’s records. An agent had some of the university records in hand when he received a call from superiors that FBI headquarters had instead ordered a national-security letter to be issued for the information, the emails say.
The agent handed the records back and went through the internal FBI channels to get a national-security letter approved by superiors in Washington, according to the documents.

What an idiot! A bird in the hand is . . . the FBI giving the bird back and retracing his steps to make it harder. Hello . . . ? I much prefer the old FBI, where the guy in charge may have worn a dress, but he knew what he was doing and so did his agents.

After receiving the national-security letter, the university refused to hand over the records, arguing that such records aren’t allowed to be released under such letters, the documents say. The FBI emails describe how agents then went back to the grand jury to get a new subpoena issued. The university complied with the grand-jury subpoena and turned over the records, according to the documents.

What’s more, as I’ve detailed, the FBI simply hasn’t stayed on top of monitoring foreign students. “Project Strike Back,” a program begun by the FBI right after 9/11 to monitor terror suspect students was swiftly abandoned, even as President Bush repeatedly, geometrically multiplied the number of Saudi-sponsored student visas in America to the latest high number of 30,000. If even only one percent of these students are terrorists (and that’s a conservative estimate), that’s 300 Islamic terrorists in our midst, “subject” to the same FBI bungling, in which agents waste days handing back evidence and going through new and harder channels to get it.
FBI monitoring of foreign college students–and domestic ones–should have been an ongoing program, not a reactive comedy of errors, once a terrorist attack has been perpetrated. But FBI personnel have far more important things to do, now that it is the lead agency in fighting terrorism . . . like digging up a farm to look for Jimmy Hoffa’s remains.
Feel safer now under the “counterterrorism” Prez?
T minus 9 months until he’s gone. Sadly, the FBI–Forever Buttkissing Islam/Forever Blowing Investigations–remains a permanent fixture in the never-ending Keystone Koppery charged with keeping America “secure.”
The existence of this FUBAR Bureaucracy is Interminable.

By Debbie Schlussel
I used to think the reason Herschel Walker’s NFL career didn’t work out was the Heisman curse.
In my view, if you win the Heisman (as Walker did), the odds are your pro football career will be a relative bust. Remember Heisman winner Charlie Ward from Florida State University? His NFL career worked out real well . . . on the hardwood of the NBA. Not shabby, but not football either. Ron Dayne (whom I once tutored when I was a grad student at the University of Wisconsin) was a great running back in college, but in the NFL, he’s not as big a star and has been a relative disappointment (though he’s fared better than other recent Heismen).

Multiple Heisman Disorder: Herschel Walker is This Century’s “Sybil”?
He was possibly the greatest colleged football running back ever. But, now, ten years after a failed NFL career, Walker is telling us that it’s not the Schlussel Heisman Curse Theory in action. Instead, it’s that he has multiple split personalities. And we’re not talking his previous split personality as both an NFL and USFL player (which probably contributed greatly to his failure on the pro grid-iron, just as Doug Flutie’s tri-partite career in the USFL, CFL, and NFL did him in).
Nope. Walker is claiming that he has many personalities, including a White guy. His bizarre therapist, Jerry Mungadze (who is Black), claims he can tell the personality is White because of the way he brushes his fingers through his hair, “which only White people do,” he told ABC News’ “Nightline,” tonight.
Sorry, but I’m not buying it. And neither are Walker’s former teammates and coaches, none of whom ever saw the White dude or any of Walker’s other alleged personalities manifest themselves. It’s a convenient excuse, though: I didn’t catch that touchdown because that wasn’t me. It was that unathletic White guy personality, Al the Cracker. Or: I dropped the ball because that was my stripper personality, Amber, who was looking for a pole, not pigskin.
So, why–after he’s disappeared into American obscurity and is only a multiple choice answer to a question in Trivial Pursuit, Sports Disappointment Edition–is Herschel Walker coming out with the Sybill theory?
Well, it might have something to do with that book–out today–that he’s pushing. We’re in the post-Paris (Hilton) era. People–especially people like Herschel Walker who see in it a second chance at faded stardom–want attention. And bizarre sells. Terry Bradshaw crying and talking about depression? Ho hum. But multiple personalities? Now we’re talking. It’s hip to be afflicted. And what could be more bizarre than a failed sports star who claims he is many people including a White guy? Well, it doesn’t beat the pregnant man story, but it’s close enough. Plus, it satisfies the PC “White Men Can’t Jump” allegation. A-ha: Herschel Walker stank because he was part White–at least, mentally, he claims.
Even the Farrelly Brothers couldn’t dream up this absurd script. And if they did, we’d say it wasn’t believable in the least.
And it isn’t in real life, either. The only one who seems to believe it–or at least participate in the hoax–is Walker’s ex-wife, Cindy Grossman, (does she get larger child support and/or alimony payments if the book does well?) and his “therapist” who sees a bizarre White guy personality behind every visage. Watching Herschel Walker in the ABC interviews, I have to say he’s as good an actor as he was a pro NFL player. No Oscars coming anytime soon.
Dr. Mark Levy, a distinguished life fellow at the American Psychiatric Association and assistant clinical professor psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, says the whole multiple personality diagnosis–now called by the PC-term, “Dissociative Identity Disorder”–is bunk:

“It probably isn’t real,” Levy said. “Dissociation is real. It occurs after trauma in some people and in psychosis, like schizophrenia. However, I’ve never seen a so-called multiple personality in 35 years of practice.”

It seems the only multiple personalities in Herschel Walker are the split between the fantastic athlete who won the Heisman in college and the one who–while still head and shoulders above the common man in athletic prowess–couldn’t get it done once he hit the pros.
It happens.
But “Sybil“–and an alleged White personality who brushes his fingers through his hair–has nothing to do with the lack of touchdowns and rushing yards.
That’s the whole nine yards. And that’s about as far as this farce will go. For this weird fib, the endzone is nowhere in sight.
This past week, Walker was scheduled to run with the Olympic torch. Question is: Which personality was running with it? Hopefully, not the Tibetan Monk, the slave laborer, or the Darfur victim.
If it was the “White guy,” I hope he didn’t burn his hair.

By Debbie Schlussel
Exactly a month from today, it will be Israel’s 60th anniversary of official Statehood, although there has been a Jewish state in Israel for thousands of years. The day is known in Hebrew as “Yom Ha’Atzmaut”–Independence Day. Jews all over the world will be celebrating, even in this day of Obamacide and Jhimmi Cartertude and Olmert “Apartheid” pronouncements.
Or will they? Not exactly the case in Detroitistan. “Jews”–or is that JOOOOS? (hard to tell, in this case)–don’t want to upset the Muslims in Islamerica’s Ground Zero. So the “celebration” won’t exactly be a celebration.

Detroit Jewish “Leaders” Like Robert Cohen Are Embarrassed by Israel’s Battle Victories, Find Them “Stressful”

6 Day War:
Israeli Soldiers Recapture the Western Wall/Liberate Jerusalem
A couple of years ago, I told you about Robert Cohen. He’s the paid mouthpiece no-one elected to speak for me, and yet he’s the “spokesman” for the Detroit Jewish Community. He’s also the surrender monkey who sent out a letter “explaining” why he’d continue to pander to the most extremist of Muslims on behalf of me (again, he was on no ballot that I ever cast), just after the same ones marched on Dearbornistan, calling Jews and Israel, “Nazis,” and praising their mass murderers–Nasralleh, Fadlallah, Hezbollah, and HAMAS. Cohen’s also the guy who attended Hezbollah trainee, Houssein Zorkot‘s preliminary hearing in Dearbornistan and urged a Dearbornistan rag’s reporter to be lenient in its coverage of the guy.
Well, today, it’s more of the same. He sent out an article from today’s Detroit Newsistan (written by resident pan-Islamist fellatio organ, Gregg Krupa) to his list of fellow Jewish surrender monkey liberals and wimp-owitzes, bragging:

Council worked with [Jewish Welfare] Federation’s Marketing Department to place the story below in today’s Detroit News.

But here’s what’s in the article about his Israel’s 60th “celebration”:

“We are embarking on a yearlong celebration . . .,” said Howard Dembs, director of marketing for the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
“We are also very cognizant of trying to stay away from political angles, the wars and fighting — all of the things that are so stressful and controversial.”

Hmmm . . . why not just forget about celebrating Israel’s anniversary at all–you know, to avoid “all of the things that are so stressful and controversial,” like the idea of a Jewish state or the State of Israel?
It’s BS statements like this that are the reason many of us Jews in North America feel more connected to Israel and America than ever, and more alienated from the organized, self-anointed, self-hating Jewish Community bureaucracy than ever.
We are proud to be Jews. We are proud to be Americans. And we are proud of Israel. These bureaucrats who collect their bloated paychecks from the contributions of Grandma Sadie or Grandpa Moses, are none of the above. And it is, frankly, extremely disgusting.
They used a “marketing” department for this? What were they marketing–Greater Palestine 2008?
I’m not quite sure how Robert Cohen and the Detroit Jewish Federation (the organized self-proclaimed bureaucracy of the Jewish Community) believe Israel was established or how it remained a country. But guess what? No-one said, “Hey, Jews, after killing and progromming and Auschwitz-cooking and Inquisitioning you for centuries, we’re finally going to allow you to stay in the country, where you’ve had a strong presence for thousands of years, so here’s the keys.”
Israel was established, it was sustained, through not just sweat and tears, but lots of blood. That’s right. Israel’s existence–its survival–was made possible through wars and fighting and politics, and controversy. To forget the wars and the soldiers who died–who gave their lives for Israel–is to deny Israel’s very existence. And to be ashamed of those soldiers and those wars they won–in which they regained Jerusalem and liberated it for 41 years and counting–is to say, we are ashamed to be Jews.
Israel’s wars–most of them, anyway–were a source of pride for Jews around the world. They were mostly proud victories. And they told the world, we Jews are not wimps. And we won’t be bullied or attacked without a strong, swift response. My late father used to tell me how when he was a kid, gangs stopped attacking Jewish kids on the streets and sidewalks, when Israel won its War of Independence in 1948; how the world respected the Jews, after the victories of the Six Day War in 1967 and the Yom Kippur War. It made him prouder to be a Jew.
Now, these fools–who resemble the Kapos of Treblinka and Bergen Belsen in their pandering to the Muslims of Dearbornistan–are embarrassed by the great Israeli victories that made it a state? They find it “stressful”?
Nauseating.
Let’s face it, these people like Robert Cohen and the organized Jewish community are ashamed to be Jews . . . even though–through this wimpy attitude–they are the walking worst stereotypes put forth by anti-Semitism.
E-mail Mr. Cohen and ask him why he’s so embarrassed about Israel, and why he continues to enable the enemies of not just the Jews, but the enemies of ALL Americans.
People have been saying since 9/11, that the Jews are the canary in the mine. But if Robert Cohen is your canary, he’s the one who willingly flies into the cat’s mouth . . . and chops himself up first to make for easy consumption and digestion. He is nothing but the malodorous fart that comes out the cat’s backside. And the same goes for Howard Dembs and the others who find Israel and its history so “stressful.”
Needless to say, I will be absent from Detroit’s organized-and-unrepresentative Jewish Community’s embarrassed-of-Israel 60th anniversary fest. (But I will be celebrating here with a much larger, more thoughtful audience.)
For me, May 14th will be a bittersweet day. While I know that Israel has 60 official years behind her, you have to wonder with “leadership” like Robert Cohen’s and Howard Dembs’ mirroring the Olmert “leadership” in Israel, how much longer the Jewish state will survive thereafter.
Welcome to the Obama era, where empty, anti-Semitic, pan-Islamist personalities are more embraced by the Jewish establishment than “stressful” things like Israel’s tremendous victories in battle. That’s because they’re more comfortable in their starring roles as the Captains of Capitulation at a time when America, the Jews, and Israel can least afford it.
Who needs Jimmy “Jimmuh” Carter . . . with Jewish “leaders” like these?

By Debbie Schlussel
Well, in this case, neither polygamist walks into a bar (or isn’t supposed to, anyway), because their respective religions proscribe alcohol consumption.
But the two polygamists are treated quite differently. And it’s all about PC.
I’m talking about the Texas compound that, last week, was raided by authorities, and over 400 kids seized and put in foster homes or shelters with the women from the compound. The area–populated by followers of Warren Jeffs’ extremist Mormon splinter group, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints–was said to be dominated by men with multiple wives, men who are age 50 and older having sex with teen girls.
Whose “Reprogramming” is Vital to Our National Security: Theirs . . .

Or Theirs? . . .

Press accounts have said that the kids, particularly the girls, need to be “deprogrammed” from this religion, and that it is abusive, polygamist, and unconscionable in its “rapist” behavior toward young teens. Oh, and they dress in quaint, modest clothing. Can you imagine hearing representatives from the state saying this about say, a certain religion whose name begins with an “I” and ends with an “M”, with an “S-L-A” in the middle?:

Now, if the state gets its way, hundreds of children could be put in foster homes, in what could be a wrenching cultural adjustment that may require intensive counseling.
“What they are up against is having to deprogram an entire community.”

The story is dominating the news, unlike another religion that regularly does the same thing in far greater numbers all over America, and all over the world.
While I agree with all of that–that the behavior and conduct is wrong, you could say the exact same thing about another compound dominated by an extremist religion whose middle-aged men have multiple wives, have sex and kids with underaged women, and are “programmed” to be abused. The compound is called “Dearbornistan” and the religion is Islam.
The only difference: While the behavior of the Jeffs’-associated polygamists is abhorrent, 19 of their fellow co-religionists didn’t slaughter 3,000 Americans, and thousands more haven’t tried and/or succeeded at other attacks. And millions of their fellow co-religionists haven’t professed their love of those who vow destruction of America.
So, tell me, where should the FBI and the federal government be focusing its attention . . . Islamic America or the far minor and less threatening Warren Jeffs’ America? They haven’t even found the alleged 16-year-old who tipped off law enforcement and made the alleged complaint.
When Muslim women in Dearbornistan, some aged 12 and younger, have kids with 50-year-olds with several wives, authorities look the other way and say “it’s okay because they’re married ‘in the eyes of the mosque,’ and this is how it’s done in their religion.” There was once a statutory rape case involving an underaged Muslim girl who gave birth in Dearborn to the child of a Muslim man decades her senior. But that was the result–the case was dropped because “the mosque says it’s okay.” And there have been no other cases like it prosecuted in Dearborn.
Two very similar religions . . . two very different treatments by legions of federal agents and the law enforcement policy-makers from above.
I know who needs to be de-programmed and reprogrammed. And it’s not just women in bonnets, gingham dresses, and braided, long hair in Texas.
So, how to get the government off the Jeffs’ cult followers’ backs?
Well, they need to hijack some planes with box-cutters for starters . . . .

By Debbie Schlussel
**** UPDATE, 04/13/08: Scroll Down for Video ****
It’s hard to pick the most absurd member of the Detroit government, because indicted Mayor Kwame “The Kingpin” Kilpatrick has his strong competitors. One of ’em is Detroit City Councilwoman, Monica Conyers, “wife” of far-left Congressman and oft-rumored gay John Conyers (“not that there’s anything wrong with that“).
Ms. Conyers, decades her husband’s junior, has an interesting record of drunken bar brawls and other idiocy. My favorite move of hers was her attempt to rename the Detroit Tunnel to Canada after her “bearded” husband. It was symbolic of all of his (and her) under-water, tunnel-vision “ideas.” She’s a never-ending source of hilarity. We’re laughing at her, not with her.

And today was no exception. During an episode of the sitcom called the Detroit City Council, Ms. Conyers called city council prez Kenneth Cockrell, Jr., “Shrek,” and started shrieking:

You’re not my Daddy. You’re not going to disrespect me. Grow up! Control your house and learn how to treat women.

Old Enough to Be Her Daddy: John & Monica Conyers
As usual, there was absolutely no reason for her newsmaking outburst. The woman is a loon and a joke, but then so is pretty much everyone “running” Detroit.
Exit question: Who’s your Daddy, Monica?

By Debbie Schlussel
Recently, I wrote about the Minneapolis “public” charter Muslim school, TIZA (Tarik Ibn Zayid Academy), publicized by Minneapolis columnist Katherine Kersten. I wrote about how the school is sponsored by an Al-Qaeda/HAMAS charity, and how there are many schools like this in Ohio, Michigan, and elsewhere. As I wrote, the school violates the separation between church and state, but not the separation between mosque and state, which doesn’t seem to exist.
Well, here’s the future of American tax-funded public education, b/c we, our President, and the powers that be in this country did nothing (by Cartoonist/Illustrator Roger Latham):

Reminds me of this . . .

Burqa Family Photo

By Debbie Schlussel
This weekend, there’s really nothing new at the box office worth seeing. Best to rent something like “Idiocracy,” or to see “21” or “Flawless“–two great movies still at theaters. “Prom Night” was not screened for critics, a sure sign it’s a bomb. And while “The Visitor” is out in limited release in New York and L.A., this weekend, I’m saving my complete review of this propaganda flick for a column, separate from this rundown of this weekend’s new features, and am giving you only a brief note on that film.
* “Street Kings“: I really wanted to like this Keanu Reeves vehicle because I like movies about cops and street gangs. But this film was preposterous. Extremely violent and bloody for no reason, the plot was confusing, silly, and so completely convoluted and cockamamie, it was simply not to be believed. A total mess.

Although it’s supposed to be about a cop fighting bad cops, “Serpico” it ain’t. Al Pacino is turning over in his . . . Oh, wait. He’s sort of still alive, and hopefully, for his continued health, he doesn’t go see this “Serpico Way, Way, Way Lite.”
Reeves plays a bad cop who is played as a hero in the media because his commanding officer (Forest Whittaker) and fellow cops cover for him. But the members of his unit tell him that his former partner is telling Internal Affairs everything.
Soon, he finds himself implicated in the gang shooting of his former partner, and it’s up to him to lobby the IA officer to see things “his way.” But, soon, after he wins ove the IA guy, he suddenly becomes the good bad cop fighting really bad, bad cops. Make sense? It didn’t to me, either. Scenes, in which the IA detective is going with him on crime busts did not bear any resemblance to reality in a major city police department, where IA men are separate and don’t mix in this stuff.
If lots of shooting at close range, bloody shot up bodies and faces, and decaying heads wearing grills a/k/a “gryllz”, is your thing, then this movie is for you. But if you’re looking for any sort of exciting plot–actually any plot–keep looking.
Aside from that, any movie with the annoyingly silly Jay Mohr playing a cop with a mustache and trying to play it seriously, is simply unconvincing. I laughed each time I saw his mug onscreen. Ditto for Sarah Jessica Parker’s former “Sex & the City” love, John Corbett, trying to play a rough cop. He needs to go back to Carrie and her gazillion pairs of stiletto-heeled shoes, because the badge and gun ill fit him. Double ditto for Hugh Laurie of FOX’s “House.” I’ve never thought he carried off the fake American accent well, and his Internal Affairs position is a caricature, if anything.
The only highlight is Cedric the Entertainer playing a drug user and low-level dealer. That should be a hint about the caliber of this flick. (Rappers Common and The Game are also in minor roles.)
There’s no street (and very little king) in Street Kings. It’s the king of stinkers. Skip this utter disappointment whose sole point is to shoot ’em up on screen.
* “Smart People“: Since I’m a big fan of Dennis Quaid, I wanted to like this movie, but just couldn’t. Quaid, who dons a beard and a fatsuit to play a washed up, bitter college professor and widower, has a chance meeting in the hospital with a doctor who used to be one of his students. The doctor (Sarah Jessica Parker) used to have a crush on her professor, and upon learning about it, he asks her out. But being the pompous, full-of-himself Victorian lit prof that he is, she has to tell him off to get him to change. Soon, they are dating, but can it work? And do we care? I didn’t.
In the meantime, his annoying “Young Republican” daughter (aren’t all Young Republicans “annoying” in Hollywood? And by the way, if you’re still in high school, it’s “Teen-Age Republican”; “Young Republicans” are in their 20s, 30s, and 40s) is trying for a perfect SAT score and makes all the perfect gourmet dinners for her dad. She has no life, and is way too snarky and smart for her own good. The prof’s adopted, druggie, loser brother (Thomas Haden Church, who steals the show in this movie) comes to stay with them, and he’s the most normal. And very funny. The end.
It figures that critics would rave over this depressing, pointless movie. And that, once again, they’d rave over the most over-rated actress in Hollywood, Ellen Page (from “Juno“), who plays the Young Republican daughter. She always plays the same annoying role–the young Janeane Garofalo. That’s what she sounds and looks like. And she’s equally annoying. Picture Garofalo 20 years ago playing a caricature of a high school Republican. That’s this movie. Or at least enough of the movie to make my mind keep saying to me, “Please, make it stop.”
Pointless and a waste of 1.5 hours and ten bucks. Smart People will avoid “Smart People.” It’s simply a dumb idea. Sorry, Dennis.

* “The Year My Parents Went on Vacation“: It’s 1970, Pele is Brazil’s soccer star on the verge of winning the cup. And a young Brazilian boy’s leftists parents are on the run from the junta that takes power.
The boy is dropped off to stay with his grandfather in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Sao Paolo. But his grandfather died of a heart attack, and together the Orthodox Jewish Holocaust survivor senior citizens take care of this boy, whom they learn is not a Jew (he is uncircumcized and his mother was not Jewish). We watch the Orthodox men, in beards and black suits, and their women watching and cheering on Brazil’s soccer team on TV, along with the young boy–a huge soccer fan.
While it has it’s charm–the Jewish neighborhood’s warmth and appreciation for this boy, whom they treat like one of the family–it’s also schlocky. And it’s kind of pointless and not really worthy of 2 hours and $10. And as a religious Jew, I can tell you, they got a lot of technical stuff wrong (such as a decorative, lacquered coffin at the Orthodox funeral of the grandfather; Orthodox Jews use plain, unvarnished wood caskets, so they will disintegrate into the earth as quickly as possible–“ashes to ashes, dust to dust”). But, hey, why would Hollywood be interested in accuracy? (Technically, this foreign language film wasn’t made by Hollywood, but it’s promoted by them, and you get the point.)
* “The Visitor“: Stay tuned for my complete review column on this movie. In the meantime, I can tell you that it must be Washed-up-pompous-White-male-widower-college-professor-with-no-meaning-in-life Week at the movies. Like Dennis Quaid’s character in “Smart People,” the lead in this film is a washed up college prof and widower who is sleepwalking through life, but as in “Smart People,” he’s woken up and his life given meaning–not by an attractive young female doctor, but by two Muslim illegal aliens squatting in his apartment, who give him joy and culture and life. Yup, I have a lot more to say about this inaccurate propaganda film. Like I said, stay tuned.