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Credit: Zombie Tons of you are stunned, outraged, and sickened by the new Flight 93 Memorial, the “Crescent of Embrace.” I called the architect responsible for the redesign, Paul Murdoch of Los Angeles, yesterday for comment. He did not return my call, but he did speak with the Johnstown, Pa., Tribune Democrat, as quoted in [...]

Because there are so many unanswered questions in talk host Michael Graham’s removal from Washington’s WMAL, I’ve been pressing both sides for real answers. One side is revealing more, while one of Graham’s (now former) co-hosts has issued a wimpy public statement. Was Graham really fired for offending CAIR’s fringe Islamists? The latest is here [...]

Score one, perhaps two, for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Said to have terror group ties to Hamas and others, CAIR has succeeded in permanently removing WMAL/Washington talk show host Michael Graham from the airwaves. That’s after the conservative ABC radio host criticized Islam in a blunt, but not particularly outlandish, manner. The score could [...]

Conservative radio talk show host and NRO contributor Michael Graham has been suspended from WMAL-AM without pay in Washington, D.C., for bluntly challenging Islam last week on air and this week in a column. Excerpt from his JWR piece: I take no pleasure in saying it. It pains me to think it. I could very [...]

83 dead. Who will be first to blame Bush, Blair, and Iraq? Joe Gandelman has an excellent round-up, as always, with reminders of al Qaeda’s longtime targeting of Egyptian tourism. The Counterterrorism Blog also has comprehensive coverage. Andrew Cochran notes: In looking for a motive, note that the trial of the October 2004 suspects is [...]

The father of 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta applauds the 7/7 London terrorist attacks. Via CNN: CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) — The father of one of the hijackers who commandeered the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, praised the recent terror attacks in London and said many more would [...]

Magdy El-Nashar, an Egyptian man with North Carolina ties, is wanted by London police in connection with last week’s terrorist bombings. El-Nashar had a PhD in biochemistry. He studied chemical engineering at North Carolina State in 2000. Based on this list of recent graduates, it appears he did not complete his course of study at [...]

The Brits are on a manhunt. Via the Wall Street Journal: British police have asked their European counterparts for information on a Moroccan man, Mohamed Guerbouzi, in relation to the terrorist attacks in London yesterday, a Brussels-based European police official said. Mr. Guerbouzi has been under investigation in Britain in connection with two previous attacks, [...]

…”desecrated” by, you guessed it, a Muslim: BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) – A Muslim Virginia Tech student says he was the person who left a burned Quran at a local mosque last month, saying it had been damaged in a fire and he hoped it could be given a respectful disposal. Police initially had said the [...]

Opening arguments begin today in the long-awaited terrorism trial of fired University of South Florida computer science professor Sami Al-Arian and three co-defendants. We’ll be learning a lot about the feds’ decade-long surveillance of the alleged Jihadi supporters, through wiretaps and other evidence-gathering that began under the Clinton administration, but was inaccessible to prosecutors until [...]

That’s the headline you won’t be reading over this AP story filed tonight on investigative findings released by Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, the commander of the detention center in Cuba. Buried down in the AP story about Quran abuses at Gitmo, we learn: [Hood] said his investigation found 15 cases of detainees mishandling their own [...]

That’s the gist of a recent survey of college-educated men and women in Egypt, Morocco and Indonesia. Anti-American feelings are widespread in the Muslim world and extend to U.S. consumer brands, according to a report released Wednesday. It suggested the U.S. burnish its image with a change in tone and by publicizing aid programs. But [...]

Denver mourned the loss of Det. Donnie Young this weekend as National Police Week opened. If you have never been to a police funeral, I can tell you that you will never be able to listen to the sound of bagpipes again without your heart aching. You can see video of Det. Young’s funeral here. [...]

Last week CAIR successfully pressured National Review into pulling two books critical of Islam from its bookselling division, NR Book Service. NR’s capitulation, while understandable from a business perspective, was disappointing to those of us who expect NR to stand firm against political correctness and bullying by liberal activist groups. (Rich Lowry’s weakhearted defense of [...]

The Council for Arab Islamic Relations (CAIR) successfully pressured National Review to pull ads for two books criticizing Islam. And Google is trying to curb expression of something or other over at the Jawa Report. CAIR is well within its rights to call for a boycott of National Review rather than critique the books it [...]

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on the Pentagon to discipline Lt. Gen. James Mattis, who earlier this week said it is “fun to shoot some people.” “We do not need generals who treat the grim business of war as a sporting event,” said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. “These disturbing remarks are [...]

As I noted earlier today, Robert Spencer and Jihad Watch have been doing cutting-edge reporting on the Armanious murders. Today JW revealed new details about the killings that the MSM have yet to report: Shortly after the murders, members of the Egyptian consulate went to visit the family to encourage them to keep quiet. And [...]

Guess who said this: Although not all Muslims are terrorists, unfortunately, in today’s world, most of the terrorists are Muslim. It was Shohreh Aghdashloo, the lovely Iranian actress who plays a controversial role in FOX’s hit TV series, 24. The Council on American-Islamic Relations launched protests over a plot line involving a Muslim family of [...]

There’s a huge, 1,947-word page A1 story in the Washington Post today that I urge you all to read, all the way through. Reporter Jacqueline L. Salmon follows Rizwan Mowlana–local director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations for Md./Va. and head of a newly-created charity called “Asia Relief“–to Sri Lanka as he sets out to [...]

Lo and behold, CAIR-NJ has condemned the vicious Armanious murders. A few other new angles and developments: ABC News reports that a cousin of the slain family has been a translator working for the prosecution in the trial of Lynne Stewart. She is the radical lawyer accused of smuggling messages from imprisoned Sheikh Omar Abdel [...]

Have you read about that Egyptian Christian family of four murdered in Jersey City Heights two days ago? The New York Post reports today that the father was an outspoken critic of Islamists: Hossam Armanious, 47, who along with his wife and two daughters was found stabbed to death in his Jersey City home early [...]

From the “Malkin’s Believe It Or Not” file… CAIR, the Muslim activist group that has at least three former officials who have been indicted on charges of terrorism, money laundering or fraud, was recently welcomed by the State Department to discuss foreign policy initiatives. From Islam Online: CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad presented in the [...]

Surprise, surprise. Wassef Ali Hassoun, the Lebanon-born Muslim Marine who claimed to have been kidnapped and then was charged with desertion, has disappeared again. From FOX News: Hassoun had been on leave with his family in West Jordan, Utah, when he was scheduled to return to Camp Lejeune (search), N.C., on Tuesday, military officials told [...]

On April 9, 2003, Amy Goodman of radical-left Pacifica Radio’s “Democracy Now” interviewed Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes about his areas of expertise–Middle East and Islamic issues. Out of the blue, Goodman suddenly switched gears and asked Pipes: “Did you support, do you now, looking back on the internment of Japanese Americans in World War [...]

Here’s the latest on the U.S. Airways employee “sickout” that ruined a lot of travelers’ Christmas spirit. The company and unions deny that an organized protest took place. Whatever you call it, it resulted in the cancellation of 65 flights on Thursday, 176 on Friday and 143 Saturday. Blogger LaShawn Barber has a firsthand account. [...]

In August, the Council on American Islamic Relations demanded that law enforcement officials in McAllen, Texas, investigate an intentionally-set fire at a Muslim store as a possible hate crime. As CAIR noted in one of its endless press release decrying Islamophobia in America: “The fire followed two separate incidents in which unknown parties painted the [...]

So, Muslim convert Yusuf Islam (a.k.a. Cat Stevens) was denied entry to America and the world thinks a human rights atrocity has been committed. Boo-hoo. As I’ve said many times before, there is no right to enter this country. It is a privilege. The entitlement goons at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, of course, think [...]

The State Department, after consultation with the Department of Homeland Security, has revoked the visa of a Muslim scholar with possible links to terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda: Russ Knocke, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman, told Reuters on Tuesday, that the work visa was taken back because of a section in federal law applying [...]

The University of Michigan released a study purporting to show widespread abuse and harassment of Arabs and Muslims in America. From the Washington Post: Derogatory comments — “Go back where you came from!” or “Ooh, are you a member of al Qaeda?” — were the most common form of abuse. Others alleged job discrimination and [...]

Sens. Judd Gregg and John Sununu of New Hampshire have discovered the feds’ old catch-and-release game…not with fish, but with illegal aliens. The Union Leader reports: [Gregg and Sununu] want to know why federal immigration officials decided not to step in when New Ipswich police stopped a van carrying nine illegal aliens this week. New [...]