In June of 2009, Asia Bibi, mother of fi…

In June of 2009, Asia Bibi, mother of five, was working in the fields on the farm of Muslim landowner Muhammad Idrees, near the village of Ittanwali, when her boss told her to fetch some water for the rest of the crew.

After Asia brought the water, some of the women–all Muslims–refused to drink it because it had been brought by a Christian, making it “unclean.” The women called Asia an “infidel” and called Christianity a “religion of infidels.”

Asia reportedly responded by telling the Muslim women that Christ died on the cross for our sins. She told them Jesus is alive. “Our Christ is the true prophet of God,” she reportedly told them.

Upon hearing this response, the Muslim women became angry and began to beat Asia.

When Muslim men in nearby fields gathered to attack Asia, she fled to her home, but angry Muslims followed her, took her out of her home, severely beat her, and tortured her children.

They announced from mosque loudspeakers that she would be punished by having her face blackened and being paraded through the village on a donkey.

When local Christians informed the police, the police saved Asia’s life by taking her into custody, holding her in Nankana city “for her own safety.” Under pressure from local Muslim leaders, the police registered a blasphemy case against her.

Two courts in Nankana found Asia guilty of the “crime” of blasphemy and, on November 8, 2010, Asia was fined US$1,190 and sentenced to death by hanging.

Ashiq Masih, her husband, doesn’t have the heart to break the news to their two youngest daughters.

“They asked me many times about their mother but I can’t get the courage to tell them that the judge has sentenced their mother to capital punishment for a crime she never committed.”

Asia’s case is now under appeal, but she has been being held in isolation since June of 2009, essentially for the crime of sharing her Christian beliefs with her Muslim neighbors. Her family is one of only three Christian families in a village of more than 1,500 families. Asia’s family has lived in the village of Ittanwali for many generations.

Between 1986 and August 2009, at least 974 people have been charged with blasphemy against Islam.

This week, an anti-blasphemy resolution, “On Combating Defamation of Religion,” is coming to a vote at the U.N.

Pakistan has been actively pushing for passage of this resolution since 1999.

One thing you can count on, passage of this resolution will not offer protection for Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, or any other non-Muslims.

More Shariah law, anyone?
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Cross-posted at Bread upon the Waters.

Person of the Year Prattle

What passes for debate at Time, via NRO’s Geraghty.

2009 was Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, for saving us all. Well, that remains to be seen. What fresh hell.

2008 was Barack Obama. Ditto.

2007 was the murderous Vlad Putin.

I think Time owes us a good one. For a change.

If they can’t bring themselves to name the eeevil Sarah Palin (because, after all, how many conservatives read Time) then the TEA Party would be a good choice. Just in the interest of their retaining a shred of journalistic integrity. Or they too may be sold for a dollar.

Who’s your pick, folks?

Obama the PC Media Punchline. It Begins

We had the CNN piece on the slurpee shtick–bored with Barack.

We have a NY columnist talking openly about the president’s “diminishing brand” and speaking of him as his own First Lady.

Now the WaPo’s Dana Milbank, who loves to lampoon from the left, openly mocks the Barackstar: On the Daily Show, Obama is the last laugh.

What do you do when you’re not cool any more?

Dude.

–More at Memeorandum.

More. Well, well. The NY Times The Caucus. According to them this is what was cut from the show due to the president boring on, uh, time constraints:

The interview went longer than Mr. Stewart expected – so long, in fact, that the show’s producers decided to cut out the original introduction Mr. Stewart taped, which include a riff of him fiddling with a pen and drumming his fingers on the table while making the president wait, and his introduction of Mr. Obama as “White House chairman of the council of Economic Advisers Austan Goolsbee’s boss.’’ A spokeswoman for the show said it was the first time the show consisted of a single interview.

Even nastier stuff. How interesting. What will Stewart do to motivate the vote at his Saturday rally?

Get your vulture fart carbon credits

What do you do if you create some rodent roadkill with your Prius?

The left’s plenary indulgences for a price. Mental anguish and otherwise.

Noise pollution? More mental anguish.

I still remember Bill Clinton’s eagle launch.

…In contrast, Joe Miller has a bear permit. HT NRO.

And consumers are backing away from social statements.

Seriously, though, the left has gone way too far. As we’ve all noted, the 1010 group let the mad mask slip. James Taranto asks what kind of people blow up children, and notes where we have heard this before.

We are all roadkill now to them, hmm.

Or are men more tolerant than women?:)

Geraghty in Morning Jolt:

The conservative blogosphere takes up an issue near and dear to my heart, political mixed-marriages. It began from a New York Times article profiling some couples, including NR’s Richard Brookheiser and his wife Jeanne Safer.

Neo-neo-con observes, “Note that, in the marriages described in the article, it’s the woman who’s the liberal and the man who’s the conservative. This ties in with statistics showing that, ever since a transition time somewhere during the 70s or early 80s, women consistently have been more likely to vote Democrat and men Republican. . .. I’ve personally known a number of marriages of the mixed political variety. Almost all of them have conformed to this Democrat-woman Republican-man pattern. Almost all of them seem to be working out pretty well. In the olden days, the couples I knew used to laugh that they shouldn’t bother to vote because their votes always canceled each other out. Now, however, there’s a lot less laughter.”

I don’t know. I’m laughing.

“Luckily many wives view their husbands as barely functional Neanderthals so it’s often not a huge stretch for guys,” quips Maetenloch at Ace of Spades.

Mrs. CampaignSpot hates appearing in my columns, but there’s no way to address this issue without drawing from personal experience. I read the incredulous responses and am surprised at how much other people are surprised. At the end of the day, there is a lot more to life than politics. If the paramount priority of a relationship was to be with someone who was similar to you, we would all be homosexual. If you find somebody who you love, who loves you, who can put up with your quirks and foibles, and whose quirks and foibles only drive you up the wall in the good ways, grab them. You have the rest of your lives to plant seeds of doubt about their usual political notions.

What do we think about this? Are men more tolerant than women?:) As the discussion goes, you usually don’t see a conservative woman married to a liberal guy. Carville and Matalin the exception. (But then, is James Carville your usual leftist?)

As for me, I grew up as a Dem (where Dems were anti-commie and pro-life) and when I met my spouse wondered how a (Goldwater) Republican could be so nice. Now I’m more conservative than he is. And less nice:)

And probably the stultifying political correctness had something to do with my recognition I didn’t belong as a Dem–major intolerance there.

P.S. And interestingly, as we’ve seen this election year, women, a lot of whom are independents, may have their biggest impact through the TEA party. They’re looking at the burden on the next generation and getting involved as never before.

It may be even some single women don’t see Big Government as a reliable provider.

Chicago-Amsterdam Flight Terror Arrest

Boxcutters and cellphone taped to Pepto-Bismol. A test run.

Checked the luggage to Yemen but boarded the flight to Amsterdam.

Why Chicago.

…Lots of activity lately.

More here.

Do we want a theocracy of terror here?

Video. Holocaust Survivor Cursed Out by Ground Zero Mosque Supporter

Jonah Goldberg:

Here’s a thought: The 70 percent of Americans who oppose what amounts to an Islamic Niketown two blocks from Ground Zero are the real victims of a climate of hate, and the much-ballyhooed anti-Muslim backlash is mostly a myth.

Let’s start with some data.

Americans are more aware than ever the PC media is cowardly, malicious and IGNORANT–willfully or just your usual leftie navel-gazing–when it comes to defending our freedom.

More at my spot.

…We are well aware. Bread Upon the Waters. Nice Deb.

Why Won’t Bloomberg Let A Church Destroyed on 9/11 Rebuild?

Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was destroyed on 9/11 by the collapse of the Twin Towers, has spent NINE YEARS trying to get building permits. Nine. Long. Years.

From Fr. Constantine J. Simones Waterford, courageous pastor of St. Nicholas Church:

Shame on Mayor Michael  Bloomberg and the members of his Landmarks Preservation Commission for  voting 9-0 to allow the building of a Muslim mosque at ground zero in  New York City.

Too many Americans are sleepwalking when it comes  to understanding Islamic policies during the last 1,400 years of what I  see as its brutal history. No one talks about St. Nicholas Greek  Orthodox Church, which was crushed by the collapsing Twin Towers.

Why  is the mosque put on the fast track to construction when St. Nicholas’  reconstruction is being hindered by New York City bureaucracy?

Wake  up, America, before it is too late. The Greek Orthodox faithful of the  Balkans were enslaved by Islam for 500 years. Ask me what it means to  live under the laws of Islam, under Sharia Law and the Hadith. Call me  and I will provide a history lesson on what can be like to live under  Islam extremists.

Fr. Constantine J. Simones Waterford

About the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church:

Since  1922, St. Nicholas Church had stood as a quiet sanctuary of prayer and  reflection amidst the tumultuous and bustling crossroads of commerce.  For the past nine years the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey has  used bureaucratic obstacles and false promises to hinder the rebuilding  of the St. Nicholas Church.

As Nice Deb (who has published an excellent commentary about the Ground Zero mosque, don’t miss it) pointed out:

City officials, eager to deflect the criticism of a righteously outraged  public, claim that nothing can be done [to stop the mosque from being built on hallowed ground]… something that anyone who has  contended with zoning boards across the country knows to be untrue.

Ask the congregation of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church of New York City.

Many thanks to patriot Chris Wysocki at Wyblog for a heads up on the Ground Zero Church. You’ll want to read his report on moderate Muslims in New York (and watch the video) here.

Cross-posted at Bread upon the Waters.

Gutfeld on Beck. Suspicious Packages

On his gay bar idea next to the Ground Zero Mosque. Video.

…but you know, in Iran it’s OK to pimp your mosque. Pedophiles welcome.

P.S.

The women can tweet only when a brother or other male relative is beating them.

Um, do we think stoning is evil? Or what.

…One brave Muslim woman.

–crossposted at BackyardConservative

Most Articulate President Ever: Obama calls African-Americans a ‘mongrel people’ on The View

Via Memeorandum

Perhaps President Obama should have taken Ed Rendell’s advice and skipped the estrogen fest we have come to know as “The View:”

When asked about his background, which includes a black father and white mother, Obama said of African-Americans: “We are sort of a mongrel people.”

“I mean we’re all kinds of mixed up,” Obama said. “That’s actually true of white people as well, but we just know more about it.”

The Hill gets out the mop to clean up after that disaster:

The president’s remarks were directed at the roots of all Americans. The definition of mongrel as an adjective is defined as “of mixed breed, nature, or origin,” according to dictionary.com.

Obama did not appear to be making an inflammatory remark with his statement and the audience appeared to receive it in the light-hearted manner that often accompanies interviews on morning talk shows.

Yes of course we often hear that light-hearted banter from the Jerry Springer genre. When in Rome as they say…

Oh but there is more -Read the rest at Ruby Slippers

Collective Score Blanketball and Other Nightmares

Living like a liberal. Let them count the ways.

Some conservative apres-beach reading from Matt Labash, The Weekly Standard

I especially enjoy the Parenting Liberally part, naturally. Sounds like he has cute kids in spite of the modern liberal torture he is putting them through.

More living like a liberal news, alternative reality version, via Ace: Sheila Jackson-Lee: I’m So Glad That We Won In Vietnam And That Both Vietnams, North and South, Live Together In Peace Side-By-Side

I guess we can all get along if we let a few things slide. Like History. Geography. Culture.

The country.

P.S. More on Jackson-Lee from Moonbattery.

The Political Rape of Nikki Haley

Much as I mostly disagree with Kathleen Parker, the WaPo excuse for a sort of rightie who went for Obama in a big way, she’s mostly right on this one. Aside from the credibility of Folks. And how can we forget her disgusting column suggesting John McCain had the hots for Palin and that’s why he chose her as his VP. As No Sheeples notes in the previous post, some have no decent experience, some have not learned from experience. Perhaps Parker has. Maybe she is atoning for that:

This obsession with people’s personal lives, including the hand-wringing analyses of Al and Tipper Gore’s marriage, has turned us into a nation of purse-lipped old maids. No offense to purses. I’ve resisted commenting on the Gores’ decision to split after 40 years of marriage because what possibly could I know? Apologies to the deeply conflicted, but the Gores’ divorce has no bearing whatsoever on my life.

I reluctantly decided to weigh in on the Haley story because therein lie issues of more general consequence. This isn’t only politics at its worst. It’s a persecution, a witch hunt, a political rape. “All I know to do is fight,” said Haley by phone Friday. “Just stay strong and keep a smile on your face. . . . I refuse to let this distract me.”

As we know there is a special virulence reserved for conservative women, not only political bloggers, but those who run for office.

It’s brutish power, it’s thuggish warning. It makes it more difficult for women to run, especially if they have families, especially young ones.

How to combat this? Shine a light on the ugliness. Shame those who would shame.

The Clintons wrung their hands about the politics of personal destruction even as they engaged in it. Democrat identity politics demonize those who don’t conform. The Left, led by this president resort to ad hominem attacks when they can’t debate the issue.

And now we see this same kind of nastiness in a Republican primary in South Carolina. Shame on those men. And if you can, Vote Nikki Haley tomorrow. Standing strong.

Ground Zero Mosque Imam Sponsors Gaza Blockade Run

The New York Post is reporting that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the point man for the planned Ground Zero mega-mosque, “is a key figure” in the group that is the biggest donor to the Free Gaza Movement, which is “a key organizer of the six-ship flotilla that tried to break Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza strip.” The group, called Perdana Global Peace Organization [it’s always about peace, isn’t it] is based in Malaysia. Their donation? $366,000 (“so far’). The imam’s participation was published on the group’s own Web site.

Efforts to reach Imam Abdul Rauf yesterday for comment were unsuccessful.

He’ll think of something to say. Maybe he’s on the phone with Mayor Bloomberg right now coordinating their press releases. Meanwhile, New Yorkers are preparing for a protest against the mega-mosque to be held tomorrow noon at the corner of Church and Liberty Streets at Ground Zero.

Deborah Burlingame, the sister of the American Airlines pilot whose hijacked plane struck the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, said the indirect ties of the imam to the protesters who confronted Israeli forces Monday were not surprising.

“I think it goes to show he is not the man he represents himself to be. We have two Imam Raufs,” she said.

“We have the anti-Israel, anti-democratic imam, and we have the smiling, soft-spoken moderate Muslim who says ‘Why can’t we all get along?’

The Free Gaza Movement is a charity that has made nine seaborne aid missions in the past two years to break the Israeli blockade.

Cross-posted at Bread upon the Waters.

What a Deal: A Ground Zero Mosque and Sharia Law in the U.S.

Who could resist a two-fer like that?

Not surprisingly, the imam spearheading this mosque is a big supporter of Muslim law ruling American Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, and everybody else, and has written that the purpose of this mosque is to lay the groundwork to establish shariah law in the U.S.

This link will take you to a petition to stop the building of the mega-mosque in the Ground Zero kill zone. I strongly encourage you to make your opposition known to Mayor Bloomberg, the Financial District Committee who approved this plan, and Community Board No. 1 who gave them authority to do so.

You are asked to be polite in your communications by blogger Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, co-founder of the human rights group, Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), which is hosting a rally at Ground Zero on June 6 at noon to protest the construction of this mosque.

More at Bread upon the Waters.

Ha Ha! Now We Can Talk About…

This is what qualifies as intellectual heft. I don’t hear the right getting their undies in a wad about Kagan’s proclivities but have a “Devout” Catholic on the Court and even though he’s been there since Reagan, that’s something to talk about and you know it’s just scary.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/05/18/sex_lives_of_supreme_court_justices.html

Asking is this normal for the Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to have nine children? Mind you, he’s been on the court since 1986 but hey, it’s hilarious to point at the man who sits on the highest court and laugh at him and his wife for their personal witness of their faith.

If you google Antonin Scalia, you’ll find chortles from the left over the examining of he and his wife having 9 children…because such a thing makes him unfathomable to those who wish to mock a justice for his faith and family to advance their own agendas. Nice tolerance folks. Way to make us see that gosh, we should all love you for all your open-mindedness and higher understanding of what’s what.

Having 9 of my own, I can tell you, you are always hearing opening and closing arguments. You must sift through countless renditions of life to hear something of what actually happened and you have to trust your own judgement sufficiently to apply your values as you render a verdict.

But giggle giggle giggle, “it’s not normal.” Reading the responses felt like hearing twittering adolescents on a party line.

Seeing as there are only 9 in total at any time, the Supreme Court is not a Photoshop of America, it’s supposed to be the highest court with the finest minds; or doesn’t that teaching at the University of Chicago after graduating from Harvard Law Degree that he has count for something?

Oh, I forgot, all academic weight is negated by the moniker Conservative and those 9 kids according to the Liberal Handbook for allowing people to hold positions of power.  Must remember to pick one of those manifestos up….

Former Hoops Star Palin Fights for Highland Park HS Girls

Sarah Palin took suburban Chicago Rosemont by storm in her speech last night and directly challenged the suburban Chicago Highland Park High School decision to ban their championship girls basketball team from playing at a tournament in Arizona. Palin: “Keeping the girl’s basketball team off the court for political reasons? Those are fighting words,”. Sun Times front page Palin: “Them’s fightin words”. The Tribune story calls Palin a conservative “firebrand”. Hmm, who’s afraid of strong women?

More here.

Another PC travesty? Will sports take a hit?

I have really been tired of boycotts for a long time having been an unwilling observer of Jesse Jackson’s shameless corporate shakedowns (which have been elevated to an art form by this Chicago Way White House–extending it to all the rest of us soon enough). Now it’s hitting sports over the Arizona immigration law flap. David Harsanyi takes this on:

Sports happens to be one of the most meritocratic institutions in this nation. It divides us into regional and traditional clusters. To inject corrosive political grandstanding into this thing that so many of us love can only undermine the camaraderie of fans, who are able to put aside their ideological differences, financial situations and often their worries to partake in a communal gratification that politicians and “activists” only pretend to understand and foster.

Sadly for some high school girls who love to play basketball, their school has cancelled a planned trip to Arizona. Even in this liberal suburb of Chicago there is pushback. Because not all games are political ones–and most people understand that. Must every facet of our lives be subordinated to political control?

P.S. As the American flag incident illustrates, many of our schools no longer seek to teach but to indoctrinate.

Supreme Court Unable to Save Memorial Cross from Desecration

Less than two weeks ago, on April 28th, five members of the Supreme Court decided to let an 8-foot war memorial cross stand in the middle of the Mojave Desert despite the objections of an Oregon man distressed by the possibility that he might someday drive through the Mojave Desert and, from the road, view that memorial cross, which had been erected in 1934 by members of the local post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Against the possibility that the eyes of someone driving through the Mojave Desert might momentarily rest on an object he considers offensive, the cross has been covered with plywood for the last 10 years as the ACLU worked to have it removed from a desert preserve owned by the U.S. government. Over the weekend, “vandals” took it upon themselves to finally remove the plywood covering from the cross. A few hours later, on Sunday, when workers were sent to replace the plywood covering, they found that the problem of having a memorial cross exposed to public view had been solved, not by plywood, but by “by thieves who cut the metal bolts that attached the symbol to a rock in the sprawling desert preserve.”

Authorities are suggesting that the cross was removed by “scrap metal scavengers.”

Uh huh.

As reported by The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, California, the president of the Liberty Institute, one of the law firms representing the veteran caretakers of the Mojave desert cross, had this to say:

This is an outrage, akin to desecrating people’s graves. It’s a disgraceful attack on the selfless sacrifice of our veterans. We will not rest until this memorial is re-installed.

The VFW also promised that the memorial will be rebuilt:

“This was a legal fight that a vandal just made personal to 50 million veterans, military personnel and their families,” National Commander Thomas J. Tradewell said.

The cross had been sitting on land controlled by the National Park Service until a transfer of the section of land on which it stood could be transferred to the VFW in a land exchange ordered by Congress. That was a compromise that the plaintiff and the ACLU refused to accept. They adamantly fought to have the cross torn down before the land was transferred, which was the demand that brought the case to the Supreme Court. After hearing oral arguments, the court said:

The goal of avoiding governmental endorsement does not require eradication of all religious symbols in the public realm. . . .

Of course, some people will never quite understand the protections afforded to society when the majority of its members honor such simple rules of conduct as “Thou shalt not steal.”

Cross posted at Bread upon the Waters.

San Francisco not a sanctuary for some

In The American Thinker, quoting the Chronicle:

Hundreds of people marched into Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting to express their fear, frustration and outrage. But so far the response has been disappointing, particularly from the San Francisco Police Department. It seems intent on downplaying the role of race and its impact in the community.

(snip)City officials, including the Police Department, say these assaults are part of a larger crime picture where gangs of kids take advantage of a vulnerable group of small stature.

Euphemisms and evasions, what else is new?

This illustrates once more, the law needs to be enforced even-handedly.

…and then of course we have actual violence taking place in some of these open border rallies, unlike the accusations leveled at tea partiers who are supposedly fomenting it.

More. The Left Fuels a Backlash on Illegals – Ralph Peters, New York Post

Ah, the simple life

WaPo via Weekly Standard:

“I’m enjoying the run when something catches my eye and it’s this coyote. I know he knows I’m there. He never looks at me, he is laser-locked on that dog,” [Gov. Rick] Perry said.

“I holler and the coyote stopped. I holler again. By this time I had taken my weapon out and charged it. It is now staring dead at me. Either me or the dog are in imminent danger. I did the appropriate thing and sent it to where coyotes go,” he said.

Perry said the laser-pointer helped make a quick, clean kill.

“It was not in a lot of pain,” he said. “It pretty much went down at that particular juncture.”

Texas state law allows people to shoot coyotes that are threatening livestock or domestic animals. The dog was unharmed, Perry said.

Perry’s security detail was not required to file a report about the governor discharging a weapon, said Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange.

“People shoot coyotes all the time, snakes all the time,” Mange said. “We don’t write reports.”

The governor left the coyote where it fell.

“He became mulch,” Perry said.

Don’t mess with Texas, where stultifying bureaucracies and political correctness have yet to dominate practical reality.