Senator Foghorn Leghorn until recently was embodied in the Senate by Senator Fritz Hollings and by Senator Robert Byrd, but Hollings flew the coop, and now only Byrd is left. He has been mentioned at Jihad Watch before.
Here is a post I wrote in 2004, with some editing for style and readability:
Last year, while visiting a friend at Fort Jackson, the largest training base for the American army, located on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina, I took a walk around town. In the cemetery outside the Trinity Episcopal church, I noted down those celebrated names, so many of them Huguenot in origin (I recall reams of Ravenels).
I saw the antebellum mansions, the handful that had escaped the mass destruction inflicted, quite unnecessarily, by Sherman in February, 1865. The magnolias in the garden of the State capitol. The museum, with its early Italian canvases -- a legacy of S. S. Kresge, who liked to spread his art wherever Kresge’s stores were to be found. And at his death, one was to be found in Columbia, South Carolina.
And there was the campus of the University of South Carolina which -- now speaking as Senator Foghorn Leghorn -- “I declare has, Suh, the prettiest campus imaginable, with its green, and its South Caroliniana library, and those belles from so many Beauforts who, this being the modern south, without those Vivien-Leigh manors, and manners, are no longer content to study French, dancing and deportment, but these modern young women now come, Suh, I say proudly, Suh, these young women come to the University of South Carolina in Columbia to study chemistry, and anthropology, and en-vi-ron-men-tal sciences. And that’s a fact, Suh, that's a fact."
Yet, not a quarter-mile from the campus, on one of the thoroughfares, I spotted, on the second-story wall of a nondescript structure housing a Laundromat or fast-food place, a sign about Islam and a local mosque.
It was one of those "Et in Arcadia Ego" moments. Here, even here, where sweet magnolias blossom, round everybody's door, Islam had made its way.
And now we have the tale of what a single determined carrier-out of Da’wa can do in a single school, to his innocent Infidel victims, among the schoolchildren entrusted to his care. Should he be fired, forthwith, for violating the Constitution and carrying out religious instruction in the most aggressive possible way? Of course he should. And what will the ACLU do? Because if it comes to his defense, it should understand that exactly the same kind of behavior will be permitted to Christian teachers with a mission -- and the ACLU doesn’t want that kind of thing, now does it? And precisely what are the doctrines of Islam which this man is inveigling his students into, little by little, starting of course with the seemingly-inoffensive Five Pillars of individual worship (shehada, zakat, salat, Ramadan, and hajj)?
The list of what this one determined Da’waist has done should, however, give pause. If he can do all of that, and if every Muslim is required to conduct Da’wa, not least in order to justify his living in an Infidel society that has not yet been turned into a Muslim one, then we must worry, greatly, about all the other efforts --- in schools and at workplaces, in police stations and fire stations, in coffee klatsches and in soup kitchens, in post offices and in a thousand other meeting-places -- at Da’wa by a relentless and determined group of people.
And it is interesting to consider the other prong of the Islamic attack on our ways. For who is it who for so long benefited from Saudi and other Arab largesse, and helped to misinform us about the nature of Saudi Arabia, and hence about the nature of Islam? For the hatred for Infidels that is taught in Saudi schools did not start after 9/11/2001, but has always been central to Saudi life, to Saudi sermons, and textbooks, and attitudes. And who was more influential in confusing matters, in hiding Saudi reality, in defending the Saudis, than a series of ambassadors to Saudi Arabia, some of whom promptly went to work for the Saudis after “retiring,” some of whom went to work even while on the job, angling for jobs for their friends as P. R. specialists for the Saudis?
It is at that same Columbia campus, near to that beautiful horseshoe, that the Ernest R. “Fritz” Hollings (no family connection to the “Fritz Hollings” mentioned in Under Cover by John Roy Carlson) Center for somethingorother is situated. Among the Great and Good of the South Carolina establishment, one must mention Crawford C. Cook, whose picture is somewhere on the campus, and perhaps listed at the Hollings Center. Hollings, of course, went out with a rant about “Jewish neo-cons” and has been consistently anti-Israel. Crawford Cook was a friend not only to Hollings, but to former Governor of South Carolina John C. West, who defended the Saudis even while he was ambassador, and even while he was ambassador arranged for a P.R. job with the Saudis for his friend Crawford Cook. It is a tight little world, the world of Columbia politics, and West, Cook, Hollings, and others made Washington just a little safer for the Saudis.
So instead of the Horseshoe, think of a triangle. There is the Sunni Triangle, where American soldiers are being asked to fight and die because the government in Washington is still engaged in the Light-Unto-the-Muslim-Nations folly instead of realizing the war is a war of self-defense against Islam, and the best way to conduct that war is to do nothing to prevent the Muslim peoples from realizing that it is Islam itself that is responsible for the political, economic, social, and intellectual failures of Muslim societies -- and then, perhaps, Ataturk-like, the more level-headed among them will work, quietly, to constrain (for there is no reforming) Islam.
And then there is the triangle in Columbia: this local Muslim, working his relentless Da’wa on innocent schoolchildren, the well-paid and well-connected who used their political power and influence (West, Cook, Hollings) to muddy the waters when it came to the nature of Islam and the nature of Saudi Arabia, and the third part of that triangle -- the young Americans training to go to war. But the war they train to fight at Fort Jackson will do nothing about the Cooks and the Wests on the one hand, those who curried favor, directly or indirectly, with Saudis and other potential Arab paymasters, and the local pusher of Islam in the schools. Both are dangerous, both must be stopped -- at the low end, and at the upper end.
And those young Americans, especially the Reservists and National Guardsmen, who signed up to defend their homeland in a case of absolute necessity, should not be sent to Iraq on what is now a fool’s errand. If American soldiers are to be used as a cold-blooded instrument of policy, even of misguided policy, the regular army is that instrument. The rest should be kept at home to educate themselves, and then others, and to watch vigilantly over both those who conduct Da’wa, and those who sell their offices and their influence. One hardly knows which side of the Jihad-push -- the paid propagandists and apologists or the promoters of Da’wa -- are more dangerous. But they are certainly more dangerous, here and in Europe, than the local Muslims in the Sunni triangle, whom the Shi’a and Kurds, if better armed, will be perfectly capable of holding in check themselves, without any further loss of American life.
Meanwhile, this tourist guide to Columbia ends on a dendrological note. The trees in the Congaree Swamp, the last large-scale stand of primitive uncut trees in the United States, I say Suh, are certainly worth the visit for the Shagbark (Carya ovata) and the Sugarberry (Celtis laevigata) and the Water Locust (Gleditsia aquatica) and a thousand others standing as still as the Standing Stones of Callanish. All are awaiting your visit. And so are the tiny churches, each more adorable than the next, that dot the side of the road as you make your way to the Congaree Swamp from Columbia, and here is the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church right here, with its promised sermon – “I Am My Bro’s Keeper” -- which is a theme that appeals.
Posted by Hugh, on December 8, 2004, at 3:42 PM.
I think it holds up.
I have no idea just how long it's going to take before people stop writing these insulting Amos and Andy cum Uncle Remus articles portraying Southerners as stupid, slow-speaking bigots, but I am one South Carolinian who's had enough. As an alumna of the University of South Carolina who has been, like many, a staunch opponent of "Fritz" since the first time he ran for Senate. And those little Christian churches that dot the countryside are NOT preach "Yo, Bro" bullshit. Nor are they preaching race hatred, supremacy or apartheid. Having been a civil rights worker in the late '60s at the time the South was making the shift, I can attest that whole communities use their relationship with Christian principles to get across the bridge, and I've frankly not seen it's like in the North or the West in my lifetime.
And as for this condescending "suh" and "bro" fake Southern accent that is demeaning in the extreme, I despise and resent. And I want this specious bullshit removed from the board.
It's completely insulting. And frankly, having been in the first pre-med class at the University of South Carolina that admitted women to the program -- *** in 1967, HUGH -- *** I find your conflation of the present-day South with a surprise that a woman might chemistry in the Land of the Gamecocks some 40 years out of date, along with your whole insane premise here.
If people talked this way about the Jews or the blacks they'd never get away with it.
Look at the title: Senator Foghorn Leghorn. That explains the "suhs" which are not meant to be, and are not, slurs. There's something missing in your response. It's called a Sense of Humor.
And more thing.
You apparently are tone-deaf and cannot detect the considerable affection and admiration that the descriptive bits about Columbia offer. From the description of the Horseshoe (one of the most beautiful campuses in America), to the reams of Ravenels lying in the churchyard of Trinity Episcopal Church, to the note taken of the paintings distributed in small-city America through the posthumous beneficence of S. S. Kresge, to the reminder, made in deliberate passing, about the entirely unnecessary destruction of the city (including many private artworks and libraries) by Sherman's men during their sweep through, I would have thought anyone coming from that area would be pleased. I certainly would be, and indeed I happen to have a family connection to South Carolina, though not to Columbia.
Finally, when you ignore the tribute to the magnificent Congaree Swamp, and act as if my noting the tiny black churches is condescending, you show a tin ear. And I did not make up, as mockery, but recorded, out of affection, the sign I saw on one such church on the way to Congaree, which did, in fact, read "I am my bro's keeper."
You've missed the point. You decided once you saw the Senator-Foghorn-Leghorn stuff to take umbrage, and you continued, idiotically, to take umbrage despite the real contents, and the attitude, that that piece displays -- put up, by the way, by Robert, who has his own very close South Carolinian connection.
Hugh, you need to find your adult and get out or your princely "I'm such a great writer" ego.
The intimation that the Foghorn Leghorn would find surprise that a woman would learn chemistry at USC is insulting both to the university and to the woman who indeed studied chemistry there. It portrays the people of the whole area as stupid, backward, and socially unconscious to the point of being Neanderthal.
The whole thing makes cartoons of Southerners. When you have talked about other high schools and colleges in the country having problem with Muslim aggression, have you lampooned them and made a cartoon out of their problems and the threats to them?
So why is it all right to succumb to the temptation to lampoon Southerners one more time? Would you have lampooned a school in Illinois? one in Colorado? What do you use if you do that? Indians? If the example is from Vermont, do you tease Northerners about when (if ever!) their women are allowed to take chemistry classes? The "Backward Yankee" approach?
No, you don't tease them at all. But if it's Southerners it's different. There is a OBVIOUS prejudice on yoru part to lampoon Southerners, the only group in America you can get away with doing it to.
Is it funny that there is a high school in Irmo, South Carolina, that has TWO ACLU lawsuits to deal with now? Is that funny? It is disrespectful of them to treat it so.
No, this wasn't about news. It was about your believing you're a real Jerry Steinfeld of the airwaves ... or you wouldn't have been so ENAMORED of this piece that you dredged it up from THREE YEARS AGO so you could see it in print again.
Your "affection" is lost on me. What don't you remove this and write a piece that is RESPECTFUL BOTH OF THE PEOPLE AND THE GRAVITY OF THE PROBLEM and talk about the efforts that are going in these communities who KNOW this is trouble and are having to face down lawsuits to keep their children from being brainwashed by CAIR representatives in their own schools?
cc: The State newspaper, Columbia, SC
IrmoExplorer.com
Let's see where the "folks" in those "Yo, Bro" churches that dot the countryside find this humorous, Suh!
Hugh, this article indicates that you posted it.
And why don't you let Robert decide when he wants to post connections to people or locations related to himself since he is a seriously targeted person.
You are capable of editing anything on this board. Take that reference off right now. Another indication that you are not quite your usual responsible self entirely this afternoon.
I am a graduate of Irmo High School, and I am writing this to you from the very Horseshoe you describe. My entire life has revolved around the campus of the University of South Carolina. My window overlooks the same Trinity Episcopal Cathedral you describe. This is my life, my home, my world.
I am a daily passionate reader of jihadwatch, Daniel Pipes, etc. Just this morning I had a conversation with a noted South Carolina Jewish scholar, who informed me that there was talk about an endowed chair for Holocaust Studies, (South Carolina being the first Jewish enclave in the New World, before Charleston even was part of a state). It was declined, in favor of a misguided idea that 'all holocausts' should be studied, as a sort of comparative holocaust department. Ridiculous. There was one Holocaust; there are many genocides.
I have recently learned that Wadie Said has been hired to teach in the University's School of Law, presumably about Islamic Law. He was rejected by Wayne State, after complaints about his defense of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's North American representative Sami Al-Arian. But the University found him an acceptable cadidiate for its faculty.
Apparently, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia will be picking up the tab for Saudi students who are coming in record numbers to the University. No mention of whether female students will be allowed to attend. Or if he will pardon the young woman who recently appealed to him to cummute her sentence of 90 lashes after she was gang raped by a group of men. Quaddafi will also be sending students here on scholarship, and again picking up the tab. I wonder if the parents of exchange students killed in the Lockerbie bombings or any of the survivors of the terrorism of the IRA, with weapons sold to them by Lybia, will appreciate that fact. Islam Awareness Week is coming up on campus. But I don't know of any programs related to fighting terrorism, global jihad, etc.
I did not take offense at your column. You are quite right to point out the anti-semitism of the old South, even as one of our buildings on the Satehouse grounds is named after the venerable Solomon Blatt. Hollings and others fit rightly into this category. Jimmy Carter continues this tradition. I don't know what they are thinking, but Foghorn Leghorn certainly fits the bill.
Over the holidays, I was driving down Main Street, when the sounds of traditionl Jewish music filled the air. An orthodox Hanukkah ceremony was taking place on the Statehouse steps, right in front of our Capitol Building's official Christmas Tree. I remmeber thinking how proud I was to live in such a tolerant state, where no one would object to the beautiful Jewish music and prayers. I also wondered how long that would last, before someone objected, on the grounds they were offended.
Contrary to perceptions, South Carolina is the most racially integrated place I have ever lived, and I have chosen to return to it for its peaceful, relaxed lifestyle. I love it here precisely because it is a refuge from the ugliness currently pervading the world.
I understand your sentiments, Mr. Fitzgerald. Please come back and visit. If I'd have known you were strolling around Trinity, I would have run downstairs to meet you!
And I'll keep you posted on any new developments.
To MS:
1. I posted the original, in 2004. Today Robert re-posted it. When the piece is by X, it says, by convention, "Posted by X," even if Y has put it up.
2. You have shown yourself to be humorless and to miss a great deal. If I were you I'd be quiet. Very quiet.
There will be no female students coming from Saudi Arabia. The fact that US allowed these visas at all is absurd. The fact that it ignored every tenet of international conventions on the rights of women is a human rights violation.
Please also remember that Senator Hollings was elected by the people of South Carolina to serve as Senator from 1966 to 2005.
Strom Thurmond served from 1954 to 2003.
It is not a lampoon. They do indeed speak they way Hugh describes. They did indeed marvel that a young woman should study chemistry. It is THEIR responsibility for their comments, viewpoints, and image they projected to the world. Don't get mad at the person who notices. If you don't like their message, blame them, not Hugh.
Hugh wrote: If I were you I'd be quiet. Very quiet.
Hmmm ...
That sounds like a threat, Hugh.
rememberpimfortuyn--
I would not exist had two people well-known to me not been married in South Carolina, and as a consequence, I have fond feelings for that state and for the palmetto. I hope you read my piece and not the crazed response to that piece by another poster above. I don't know why you mention antisemitism as if I had charged the state or the city, or the university with it. I didn't. It was Fritz Hollings, and Hollings alone, whose rant about "Jewish neo-cons" I noted, and whose building, named so modestly after himself, appears to be linked to both the late John C. West (see his career as promoter of Saudi Arabia) and West's friend Crawford Cook. I wasn't writing about anyone but Hollings.
By the way, J. B. Kelly tried to talk Hollings out of being such a supporter of the Saudis back about 1980-81. He didn't realize that Hollings had other mental pathologies (in a mild form, but still obvious) which might have explained his susceptibility to the Saudis.
Finally, your news about Wadie Said is terrible, and I wonder if Saudi money, and therefore influence, played a role. Find out as much as you can, and let us know.
That Biblioteca Caroliniana on campus is beautiful, isn't it?
Oh, well, I mention the anti-semitism of the old South as having to do with the KKK's grouping of black, Jews, and Catholics as all being their enemy, and we know that Robert Byrd was a member, I don't know about Hollings. I did not construe your comments as insulting to the city, state, or culture, just one small part of it. In fact, I do feel the tremendous affection you have for South Carolina. No offense taken on my part. I was merely pointing out that even from other quarters, multi-cultural ones at that, the same weird anti-Jewish thinking creeps through.
I walk past the Caroliniana Library several times a day, and with spring coming up it is like a technicolor movie. I can send you a beautiful jpg black and white photo of it.
As a Southerner, a Virginian, I thought it was a great piece. Another delicious literary morsel from Head Chef Hugh.
I in no way found it offensive or disrespectful towards Southerners, blacks, the Univeristy of South Carolina or the state of South Carolina.
It was, as Hugh said, full of affection for South Carolina, the city of Columbia, its inhabitants, and and the university.
Morgaan Sinclair is tone deaf and HIGHLY sensitive towards traditional caricatures of Southerners, black or white. This has caused many problems with her reading of the article. She has totally and completely missed the boat on this post. 'Tis a pity, it's delightful.
Morgaan.....step back for a bit, take a breather and read it again. You're way off..........waaaaaay off.
Ms. Sinclair:
Your point has been made, shrilly. I will attest that from my experience the South is a fine place.
Mr. Fitzgerald:
You are never ever ever wrong. And your sense of humor is renowned. So please help me finish the punchline of this modest little joke...A bluestocking and a pedant walk into a bar ... because the bar was set too low?
The main point, the practice of dawa where there might possibly be no legal justification of it is the real issue here. And that's chilling. Isn't anyone watching? What was lacking in the rich culture of the South (or the North, or the East or West) that any form of Islamic proselytizing of this kind was required?
Vashine --
I'll meet you in Charlottesville, at The Lawn, where Edgar Allan Poe, Woodrow Wilson, and Katie Couric all lived.
Chatillon --
I'll meet you outside the cemetery of the Trinity Episcopal Church, or under one of the magnolia trees on the lawn in front of the State House. You choose.
This looks like the beginning of some beautiful friendships. Now where have I heard that before?
Sir:
I am honored to oblige you in this matter. And if I am delayed, please start without me.
Yours, etc.
Don't know if either of you is a girl, but if so, don't forget to bring your ucipital mapilary.
"If people talked this way about the Jews or the blacks they'd never get away with it."
-posted above by Morgaan Sinclair in response to a percieved slight against "the whites" of the South
The following was posted by Morgaan on February 18, 2007-
"Bottom line: When the term "Serb" and "ethnic" are in the same sentence, it's time to panic. Because the word "cleansing" generally comes next."
"...I want this specious bullshit removed from the board."
-posted above by Morgaan Sinclair
here here!
STOP POSTING SPECIOUS BULLSHIT MORGAAN
Even the taxonomic Latin was affectionate.
As a Univ. of South Carolina alumnus, that sure did bring back memories.. of the horseshoe and all.
And a big hello to other USC people here!:)
Go Gamecocks!
Hugh, Morgaan, and everyone else, in reference to this thread and others:
Dum spiro spero.
(That's the state motto of South Carolina. In my youth I thought it had something to do with Mr. Agnew.)
Cordially
Robert Spencer
Moragaan...
If this were my site I would give you the boot for disrespect. You are out of control. I'm sure I'm just the latest person to tell you that
The key for you is restraint and self control. I don't appreciate your disrespect for Hugh
My state of mind also has a Latin motto:
Something about "meos iambos."
Hugh,
Everybody knows it was Elmer Fudd, not Foghorn Leghorn who said:
"Be quiet, be verwy, verwy quiet"
So there! :)
What an odd controversy.
I'll take the heterodox view that Mr. Fitzgerald is, in fact, capable of error. Alas, today's episode provides no supporting evidence.
Ms. Sinclair appears to have suffered some form of synaptic accident. For this, we should extend our deep and heartfelt sympathy; nevertheless, on certain points the record must be set straight:
Foghorn Leghorn is a venerable and dignified comic character who does not deserve the mockery and denigration that Ms. Sinclair has heaped upon him.
(Amos and Andy, indeed!)
Additionally, it appears that "Yo, Bro" is an accurate cite of neither the church billboard, nor Mr. Fitzgerald--nor of the Bible itself (although am I incorrect in thinking that one of the latter day translations has the beginning of 2 Corinthians as "Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, yo?")
Mr. Fitzgerald merely mentions the word African in the name of a church and suddenly Ms. Sinclair is reading "Yo, Bro" where no "Yo, Bro" exists. (?!)
Has our protagonist of reconstruction, our enlightened Southerner, our old civil rights era protester ended up protesting way, way too much?
To which ah say, ah say, boy, ah say, pull yor self tugethah, boy!
I like Senator Byrd. Yes, he was on the wrong side of regarding the KKK. And he fully admits his wrong-headedness.
Just out of curiosity, how many nonogenarians from the South had, at *no* time in their life, racist ideas? I would expect close to zero. However, that generation has had to learn to change their views for the improvement of society.
Yes, he was on the right side when it came to Communism (agin' it).
Yes, he was on the wrong side authorizing use of force in Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
Yes, he again *learned* from his mistake and was on the right side in not authorizing Bush's fiasco in Iraq.
I have no idea what his thoughts on Islam are.
Senator Byrd believes that the US Constitution was divinely inspired and the best document ever created by which to govern humans. He carries a copy of it in his pocket wherever he goes. Byrd is a self-made intellectual.
Call him Foghorn Leghorn if you want, Hugh, but it does not apply. Byrd has gravitas. More than any other member of the Senate. And if that's not saying much, then Byrd would agree that we get the leaders we deserve in a democratic republic.
Hugh-
She's very difficult, but she's for real. I'll take that over bullshit any day, so give her a pass. She's not a weasel, which should enable you and her to stand on common ground.
BTW, I'm not a weasel either. A friend of mine once told me I was most formidable when I face adversity. He said "You don't know when your beat, that's the reason for your success". She's somewhat like that too.
Senator Byrd is most famous for bringing home the West Virginia bacon. If you are home, waiting for that bacon, and don't care how wastefully -- for everyone -- that bacon may have been acquired, then he's the Senator for you.
But his Roman-toga act, as imaginary heir not only to Americans Webster and Clay and Calhoun, but also to Cicero thundering against Catiline, the brave lone Senator Byrd standing athwart some imagined road to disaster, does not quite fit, and for two reasons.
The first can be found in paragraph one above, with the allusion to the pork-barrel legislation for which this Lawgiver is justly famous. Grub, grub, grub -- not exactly senatorial, in the ways of the ancients.
The second is Byrd's oratory. In order to be Webster or Clay or Calhoun, your periodic sentences, your solemn perorations, must not be a Hollywood scriptwriter's notion -- in one of those 1930s movies, when they still paid quaint attention to words, as they did to character development and even to plot (imagine!)-- of how those pre-Civil War Senators spoke (think of Paul Muni as Clarence Darrow, and you are beginning to get the idea).
No, Everett Dirksen was closer to that ideal, than Byrd, and certainly had a much more resonant voice, though even Dirksen too was comical. Up on Capitol Hill, lo these many years, they just haven't been able to cut the Macaulayan mustard.
Byrd's speeches may put some, chiefly elementary school students, in mind of a book of Great Orations of the Past. He puts me in mind of the cartoon cock-of-the-walk allusion which got the whole brouhaha started at this very thread.
Hugh,
You described "Pork-barrel Bob" to a Tee.
If one ever wanted a definition of hubris, Byrd is a living example every time he opens his mouth about how how much he loves the Constitution. Hubris, with a generous dose of hypocrisy thrown in for good measure.
Hugh,
The Lawn is quite nice, but I prefer The Range, particulary 47 West Range, just a few doors down from Edgar Allen Poe's room. Stop by for a bourbon sometime. Tell them you know a Brother.
Were I still there, I'd be sure to treat you to some proper southern Virginia moonshine.
I wasn't at all offended by Hugh's comments and portrayal of South Carolinians. His affection and admiration for both the place and the people were obvious.
I live in Georgia, about sixty miles from Columbia. Like Morgaan, I'm fed up with the ubiquitous, stereotypical portrayals of Southerners as inbred, retarded bigots fifty years behind the times who fly Confederate flags from their front porches and play Dixie on antique Victrolas while yearning for the good old days of slavery and segregation. The South is a unique and enchanting area of our nation, and the cities are every bit as modern and progressive as the rest of the country. A southern drawl is not indicative of slow-wittedness, contrary to popular consensus. Old myths die hard, especially in the small minds of elitist, cosmopolitan sophisticates, who feed on them to sustain their narcissistic superiority. The South still gets a bad rap, over thirty-five years after segregation ended and a concerted campaign to end all forms of racial discrimination began. Today's Southerners are no more racist than any other Americans; some people are racists and they live everywhere.
Back to the subject at hand. I go to Columbia often in the summer just to shop at the Farmers Market, where you can find anything your heart desires in the way of fresh produce. And I love the airport since they remodeled and enlarged it. Reminds me of Charlotte, but not as big. Anyway, Columbia is TEEMING with muslims. I don't know why they flocked to this particular area but I'm sure there is a well-orchestrated agenda involved. CAIR even has a regional office there. There have been several highly publicized incidents involving muslim teachers proselytizing in the schools. CAIR is right on top of things, as always, with their partners at the ACLU.