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My wife and I were at the Fullerton Amtrak station and she nudged me and said “look what’s coming”. I looked in the direction she nodded and saw a women (I think) dressed in the head-to-toe Muslim burka, complete with gloves and just the tiniest slit in the veil for her to look out of. She looked like the women in this photo, though her hands were not visible:

If she had been carrying a scythe I would have been expecting a major train crash. She looked like walking death – the scariest looking thing you’ve ever seen.

I’ll never understand how any rational person can look at that and think that the Muslim world with their Sharia law represents anything but a giant leap backwards in time and social development.

A few minutes later we saw the women waiting in the Amtrak lounge in Fullerton station. My wife immediately dubbed her the “Burka Lounger”.

From Don Surber:

From Reuters: “The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.”

Separation of church and state?

Nyah.

That only applies to Christian denominations.

This story would be the answer to the question “What could be done to tick off the people about this mosque even more?”

Or perhaps to the site of a controversial new mosque in NYC.  Read S.E. Cupp’s piece in the Daily Caller on how some enterprising Italians dealt with proposed mosques in their towns.

There were protests for and against the Ground Zero Mosque in NYC today and a couple of anti-mosque protest slogans caught my eye:

“Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all the terrorists were Muslim.”

And:

“Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Islam I Learned on 9/11.”

Some of those supporting the mosque wonder why opponents complain about the mosque but don’t complain about the strip club that’s already nearby.

 Easy.

 As I recall no strippers flew airplanes into the World Trade Center.

Great moments in Sharia law:

A Saudi man convicted of paralysing a fellow countryman in a cleaver attack is being threatened with having his spinal cord cut in a tit-for-tat punishment.


The ultra-conservative desert Kingdom enforces Islamic law and on rare occasions metes out punishments based on the ancient code of an ‘eye-for-an-eye’.


The case judge in the northwestern province of Tabuk has sent letters to several hospitals seeking their advice on whether it is medically possible to render the attacker’s spinal cord non-functional, local newspapers said.

If you illegally park in a handicap zone do they punish you by making you handicapped?

With the poll results out today that say 24% of Americans think Obama is a Muslim, many pundits are pointing to a May 2008 NY Times piece by Edward N. Luttwak.  Take a look:

BARACK OBAMA has emerged as a classic example of charismatic leadership — a figure upon whom others project their own hopes and desires. The resulting emotional intensity adds greatly to the more conventional strengths of the well-organized Obama campaign, and it has certainly sufficed to overcome the formidable initial advantages of Senator Hillary Clinton.

One danger of such charisma, however, is that it can evoke unrealistic hopes of what a candidate could actually accomplish in office regardless of his own personal abilities. Case in point is the oft-made claim that an Obama presidency would be welcomed by the Muslim world.

This idea often goes hand in hand with the altogether more plausible argument that Mr. Obama’s election would raise America’s esteem in Africa — indeed, he already arouses much enthusiasm in his father’s native Kenya and to a degree elsewhere on the continent.

But it is a mistake to conflate his African identity with his Muslim heritage. Senator Obama is half African by birth and Africans can understandably identify with him. In Islam, however, there is no such thing as a half-Muslim. Like all monotheistic religions, Islam is an exclusive faith.

As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no difference that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he renounced his religion. Likewise, under Muslim law based on the Koran his mother’s Christian background is irrelevant.

Of course, as most Americans understand it, Senator Obama is not a Muslim. He chose to become a Christian, and indeed has written convincingly to explain how he arrived at his choice and how important his Christian faith is to him.

His conversion, however, was a crime in Muslim eyes; it is “irtidad” or “ridda,” usually translated from the Arabic as “apostasy,” but with connotations of rebellion and treason. Indeed, it is the worst of all crimes that a Muslim can commit, worse than murder (which the victim’s family may choose to forgive).

Read the rest of it here.

The White House felt they had to respond to today’s poll results From Fox News Politics:

White House: “President Obama is a committed Christian, and his faith is an important part of his daily life. The president’s strong Christian faith is what guides him through (the nation’s) challenges but he doesn’t wear it on his sleeve.”

Jim Nolte adds this via Twitter:

Not good when the best evidence of your Christianity is 20 years spent in Reverend Wright’s church.

I guess the real problem for Obama is the fact that he’s been president for 19 months, in the public eye for years before that, written two autobiographies, and yet a tremendous number of Americans don’t think they know who he really is.  I don’t think George W. Bush ever had that problem.

Local news station KTLA ran an online poll regarding the Disney employee that’s demanding to wear her hijab (head scarf) to work everyday. She’s now suing Disney, but if this goes to trial she better look elsewhere for jurors:

It’s not a scientific poll and both sides can certainly stack the results but I imagine these numbers are probably pretty representative of the people around here.

I have a couple of questions for the woman:

1. Does your official Disney ID show you wearing a hijab?
2. When you were interviews by Disney were you wearing a hijab?
3. When you attended employee orientation were you wearing a hijab?
4. At any point during the interview or hiring process, or during your early training did you tell Disney you were required to wear a hijab according to your religious beliefs?
5. Were you recruited by the local union to create bad PR for Disney because of the ongoing labor dispute?
6. Was this whole thing a set-up from the start?

(image from Winds of Jihad)

She thinks she’s striking a blow for Islam but in fact she’ll make it even less likely that Disney will hire Muslim workers in the future, and is creating public relations problems for a religion that doesn’t need anymore PR problems right now.

Yesterday I had the story of the various lefties who suddenly have a new-found love for George Bush and want him to bail Obama out with a statement supporting the Ground Zero Mosque.  Jim Treacher offered the words Bush should use to reply to those requests:

I’d love for somebody to ask Bush about it, and for him to say something to this effect: “Thanks for asking, but according to President Obama, I’ve caused enough problems already. I’m sure you folks can figure it out without me.” And then smile, and wish the questioner a nice day, and walk away.

Exactly. However, Bush is a class act and probably will just abstain from any comment, even one like this which is richly deserved.

The Corner found an article from 2006 that describes the other two mosques in the Ground Zero area:

Recently, the SLA [State Liquor Authority] notified three businesses on West Broadway that it is moving to revoke their liquor licenses. All four establishments are in the vicinity of Masjid al-Farah, a Sufi mosque in a nondescript two-story building at 245 West Broadway. According to the state’s Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) law, liquor licenses are prohibited for establishments that are on the same street and within 200 feet of a building ‘occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship …’ …

Tribeca Tavern owner Greg Kosovoi said that for 10 years he was unaware that a mosque was next door. Eric Benn, co-owner of the 11-year-old Bubble Lounge, said the same.

‘None of us knew there was a mosque there,’ he said. ‘What kind of research are we supposed to do? Do we knock on every single door?’

The building at 245 West Broadway, open for services twice a week, has no signage other than the following four lines, in small print, on the door:

Dergah/Nur Ashki Jurahai/Sufi Order/Masjid al-Farah

A report written by an SLA investigator and obtained by the Trib concludes that the building is indeed a mosque, but states: ‘There are no signs or any indication that there is a Mosque located in the building.’

Given the small and almost invisible nature of the previous mosques does it sound like there’s a demand for a $100 million dollar 15-story building with a 500 seat auditorium and a swimming pool? And the area where this would be built is a commercial banking district with very few residents. Given Islam’s prohibition on collecting interest on loans I can’t imagine there are a bunch of Muslim bankers in that area that need a mosque to run to in the middle of the day.

This is a victory mosque, celebrating the deaths of 19 “martyrs” who hijacked the 9/11 planes. Nothing more, nothing less.

Time Mag has a survey on how Americans are feeling these days toward their Muslim neighbors:

Opponents of the planned Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan have public opinion firmly in their corner. According to a new TIME poll, 61% of respondents oppose the construction of the Park51/Cordoba House project, compared to 26% who support it. More than 70% concur with the premise that proceeding with the plan would be an insult to the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center. Opposition to the project appears to derive largely from the conviction that the proposed site of the project — just two blocks from Ground Zero, in a building that formerly housed a Burlington Coat Factory outlet — is so close to “hallowed ground,” as President Obama put it.

Yet the survey also revealed that many Americans harbor lingering animosity toward Muslims. Twenty-eight percent of voters do not believe Muslims should be eligible to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. Nearly one third of the country thinks adherents of Islam should be barred from running for President — slightly higher than the 24% who mistakenly believe that the current occupant of the Oval Office is himself a Muslim. In all, just 47% of respondents believe Obama is a Christian; 24% declined to respond to the question or said they were unsure, and 5% believe he is neither Christian nor Muslim.

Muslims aren’t doing themselves any public relations favors these days. The Ground Zero Mosque is angering a great number of Americans, and local stories like the Muslim Disney employee that thinks the Constitution gives her the right to wear a hijab to work are doing significant damage to their standing in the eyes of non-Muslim America. If you had seen this woman’s self-righteous news conference you could quickly understand why public sentiment is turning against Muslims.

As far as those who think Obama is a Muslim, I’ll just refer to an Egyptian Coptic Christian doctor that I know.  He grew up in Egypt surrounded by Muslims and has said that without a doubt Obama is at heart a Muslim.  Barry may have attended the nutty Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Christian church for 22 years, but as the old saying goes:

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to your garage makes you a car.

Deeds say more than words: