Minnesota: Terror Suspect Received Haz-Mat License

This kind of thing goes along with other stupidities in the 'Homeland Security' Department:

1) Dishing out money evenly to all states so that Wyoming or North Dakota gets the same amount as New York or California

2) Short changing the Coast Guard and the port cities, probably until after a diry bomb explodes in New York harbor.

3) Short changing New York City in general with respect to 9/11 funds

4) Ashcroft making big splash news conferences whose claims are the denied by Homeland Security, while things like the above still happen TODAY.

5) Making 9/11 a political issue

etc, etc

Forget the politicians doing the right thing on their own:

1) We at NoJihad have collected ALL of Hugh's past postings and are putting them up on the site (with Hugh's blessings) along with a continually refined word index, to create an 'Internet Book' of the 'Writings Of Hugh'. Go to Hugh's JihadWatch Posts We are about 20% done, and falling behind all the time. Click here for Islam For The Perplexed, that execellent primer that should printed and given out on street corners. Feedback welcome at wwwnojihad@yahoo.com

2) We are issuing an open invitation to anyone who wants to contribute to our site by writing cogent essays or doing a bloggish thing (like I do). No need to be a scholar (after all there is only one Hugh), just well-read. Email me at questioningIslam@yahoo.com.

3) We are trying to put together a letter to be sent ON A SPECIFIC DAY, say, after the election,
AND MONTHLY THEREAFTER, to the President and Vice President, along with the appropriate local
congress-people stating the facts about Islam, our concerns about current policy and specific
actions that we would like to be taken. IF 10,000 OR 100,000 OR 1,000,000 PEOPLE SENT EMAILS, our concerns cannot be ignored. If there supposed to be 6-8 million Muslims in America and our federal government get 10 MILLION emails PER MONTH, maybe someone will notice (and at least CAIR will go berserk!)It is one thing to preach to the converted, quite another to convert others to action. We should keep doing this until the government responds. We will be putting up a first cut of the letter soon, and any suggestions for the content of the letter can be sent to the above email address.

Ethelred Smith

Well, ultimately somebody found out that Elzahabi was a bad actor. I shudder to think, though, of what he might have done had he been allowed to drive a haz-mat.

Lets face it here, unless Muslim names start setting off alarm signals, (That would significantly narrow down possibilities), 21st century America can expect to start paying the non-Muslim tax very shortly.

Thank you Ted Kennedy, ACLU and proponents of total immigration policy!

Oh, and thank you CAIR, your propaganda is awsome!!

This is just another example of the way in which innocent, peaceful Muslims are treated in your racist, intolerant, hateful country. Here are a few more such examples.

Do you really believe that actions like these will go unpunished?

Stop warring against Almighty Allah (swt). Stop oppressing Muslims.

Allahu akbar

Reza:

Do you really believe that actions like these will go unpunished?

Funny, but I didn't see a single mention of anyone kidnapping and beheading any of these "innocent, peaceful Muslims."

Perhaps you posted the wrong link.

Let me see...

Two Muslims in America are attacked and hit by ignorant neanderthals, or;

200+ million people are murdered for not being Muslim, by Muslims.

Yep, we are obviously the oppressors.

Reza:

Intolerant ?Racist?hateful? You are right Reza , that perfectly, and overwhelmingly describes "radical Islam" as most of the civil world views it.

Tell me ,do you accept the 36 articles of the Hamas charter? Do they represent the true Ideology of Wahhabism,and Salafism? Do you support the more than 30 Islamic terrorist groups throughout the world that the United States State department recognizes? Do these Islamic groups represent a peaceful political effort in their actions in an attempt to get what they want in a political and democratic forum? --Just asking.

You are right though, there are peaceful Muslims and there are in fact moderate muslims in the world who I wish would speak up louder in the world.

There was a movement over a century ago in Russia and central Asia to bring Islam into the the 21st century called Jadidism and that Ideology among moderates is still trying to succeed in the modern civilized world as has Christian and Judaio theology evolved. Sadly Russia crushed the Jadidist movement in the early 1920s` as part of the forming of Soviet cummunism under Lenin.

Are you part of that moderate movement or are you speaking from a radical and fundamental point of view?

Kepha1,
This reminds me of the INS papers clearing the 09/11 hijackers to attend flight school being issued exactly six months after 09/11. "Ultimately" they were prevented from completing their training.
And while I'm on the subject, Ethelred, while I applaud all your efforts and the efforts of NoJihad, isn't waiting until 2005 to start a letter-writing campaign like waiting until 1067 to repulse the Norman Invasion? As shown so thoroughly by Samantha Power in her book "A Problem From Hell" our elected officials will not move on this issue beyond increased bureaucracy and increased handwringing (just as they have during every humanitarian crisis since the Armenian genocide a century ago) because even if they get 300,000,000 emails or letters, there will be no motivation for whoever is elected to act, because there will be no political consequences for not acting, at least for a few years.That is why your Quixotically poignant "We should keep doing this until the government responds" ultimately (even if it succeeds)will fail. Nothing should point this up more painfully than the images of French troops entering Liberia (a nation founded by American ex-patriots) earlier this year or more recently Colin Powell on a fact-finding mission to Sudan over two decades after the first Jesuits (some possibly American-born) were martyred.
Unless your issue is a plank on some political party's platform, it is a non-issue, and will remain a non-issue until a candidate's policy makers are made to understand that there will be political consequences (such as collapse) for not having your plank in their platform by 11/02/04. For example, if, in fact, the Republicans stand to lose (as has been suggested)Florida (and by extention, possibly the White House)as a result of potentially 60,000+ Moslems not voting for Republican this time around (as it appears they did in the 2000 election)all the letters sent in 2005 will matter not against the "moderate" Moslem plank the Republicans may include in their platform to safeguard the that particular voting block.This is not an aberration,ora corruption, this is the way our system, albeit still in it's adolescence, if not it's infancy, works. And we need to simply deal with it in the present, in the present crisis, and worry about fixing it when we have the luxury - twenty or thirty years from now.

Andrew,
Your sarcasm is sharp and I envy your gift for brevity...however, as Michael "Kramer" Richards once put it, "If ya wanna be a smart-aleck, first ya gotta be smart". That means doing your homework, homework, homework, or risk becoming yet another am radio yammerhead or worse, a former competent, respected financial news analyst morphed into embarrassed resident curmudgeon like, say, CNN's unfortunate Lou Dobbs.
First of all, experienced law enforcement, especially at the Federal level (whether anyone listens to them is another story)knows that even if a subversive foreigner keeps their original name, they nonetheless work through the "thin veil of sympathizers". In other words,the name on the hotel register or truck rental will end up being "Smith" or "Jones" anyway.This is why, if and when "21st century America can expect to start paying the non-Muslim tax very shortly" the Islamists, like the Romans, the British, the Ottomans and all other occupying forces, will send their faithful lackey - your good neighbor "Bubba" - around to collect it.

As far as immigration is concerned, ACLU, et al., can yammer all they want (and they usually do)the fact remains that we have had, since 1996, the most draconian immigration laws this country has seen in almost 75-100 years, to no avail. Why? Because perhaps what we really need are bumper stickers reading "It's the Corruption, Stupid".

Reza,(aka,"It's us Stupids, Stupid")
...oh, just go screw yourself! Nobody asked you!If you had anything of substance to contribute, people like me wouldn't have to waste our time digging up Moslem voting stats, and analyzing their possible repercussions on the Republican Party in Florida - but, noooooo! Instead you waste space, online and onplanet, just like your Christian and Jewish fundamentalist co-dependents with your tribalism-bordering-on-incest concept of society, and a pathologically narcissistic conviction of "It's true because I believe it" over the heat-inspired gibberish begun three millennia ago by a nomad who thought he heard voices commanding him to kill his son! Where the hell were you when the Republican Guard marched over the bodies of the defenders of Kuwait?Where the hell were you when Americans like me were standing like human shields between a group of terrified eight-year old Moslem girls whose only "crime" was wearing their hajib to their school and drunken, howling savages four times their size with a rock in one hand and a broken beer bottle in the other? Where the hell were you when Moslem refugees were evacuated to American shores because there were no Islamic states would have them? Where the hell are you every day when one of those refugees, after ten years, still examines numbered photographs,numbers that correspond to remains recovered from yet another mass grave,for the the t-shirt, shoes,wristwatch, or other personal item that will tell them that yes, now at last you may begin to mourn.
Or, as catherine put it, "I spit on your rock!"

Bob_Owens,

The numbers of Moslems "in America attacked and hit by ignorant neanderthals" is actually much higher than the two you and catherine beat up at closing time last week (just kidding, I swear!)but the point is nonetheless well taken - Reza's assholic "It all started when you punched me back" argument, well,in a word, sucks, and is the sort of apples and oranges comparison that has mired this whole debate from the very beginning, as far back as Edward Said's 1980 book "Orientalism" (which, to this day, I'm convinced sold so well because it had a killer dust jacket and a one-word title).

By the way, speaking of monitoring attrocities, I can't help noticing that so-called "liberal" states, like California, seem to have a disproportionately high concentration of anti-islam violence! I haven't figured out why yet, and I'm beginning to believe when I do, people aren't going to like the answer...that's OK, it won't be the first time I was hated for being right (as if anyone needed a reason, somedays).

I'll point this out again for those of you who missed it - check out Reza's email address. Could anything BE more clearly stated?

CGW

Good to point that out the 666 in the e-mail address..it's been especially clear for some time now.