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Source: Albany Times-Union
Raven Furbert, 12, made headlines last month when she blew the whistle on her Schenectady, N.Y., school district, which banned her from wearing a pro-military beaded necklace and bracelet. Raven has an uncle serving in Iraq and crafted the jewelry during Christmas vacation. School officials told her the jewelry was “gang-related.”
The Albany Times-Union [...]

Brown University’s president is concerned about the homogeneity of opinion on campus. Inside Higher Ed reports:
Amid a national debate on whether colleges are open to all viewspoints, Brown University’s president gave a surprising talk to students Tuesday to welcome them back for the spring semester.
Ruth Simmons, the president, told them she was concerned about reports [...]

Check this out. Hispanic activists are mad at the makers of the American Girl dolls (my mom bought my daughter her first one, Samantha, for Christmas…a great improvement over Bratz dolls IMO).
So, what’s the latest protest about? The ethnic activists don’t like the story line that accompanies the Marisol doll because her family moves from [...]

Most of my readers are probably familiar with the famous multiple-choice quiz that implicates Muslim men in various terrorist attacks. For example,
In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
(a) Scooby Doo
(b) The Tooth Fairy
(c) Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid with dynamite left over from the
train job.
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages [...]

Make sure you are not drinking anything near your computer when you read this.

Update: Reader Mike Gaffney writes in…
As a Red Sox fan, I thank GOD that this twit has a Yankees cap on

The New York Times’ obituary of football star Reggie White contains the following indictment:
White created a stir in March 1998 with a speech to the Wisconsin State Assembly. In it, he referred to homosexuality as “one of the biggest sins in the Bible” and used ethnic stereotypes for blacks and whites.
At the time, White, considering [...]

Joe Gandelman gets into the ancient non-denominational-winter-solstice-holiday spirit.
John Hawkins finds a Seussian tribute to this non-religion-specific celebration.
And “Happy Ramahanukwanzmas” shirts are still on sale at Glenn Beck’s site.

My column today is about the persecution of Christians around the world. While we’re all having a jolly time covering the war on Christmas, there are many forgotten victims of the bloody, repressive war on Christianity by Islamists and totalitarian regimes. Excerpt:
In Iraq, Islamist rebel troops have declared open season on Christian churches, priests and [...]

If you live in or near Bogota, N.J., or feel like driving there to play a small part in the War to Save Christmas, check this out:
Bogota Mayor and Republican Gubernatorial candidate Steve Lonegan told Essex County Republicans last night that he is organizing an “illegal” night of Christmas Carols, Hanukah songs and other musical [...]

Secularists in Vermont have demanded that a state-run veteran’s home take down a cross decorated with red, white, and blue lights. Employees at the Vermont Veteran’s Home had put the large cross atop a gazebo to honor local Vermont Guard troops who left last month for a tour of duty in the Middle East. After [...]

Didja see this? From Onalaska, Tx.:
The lyrics of a satirical Christmas song are brewing controversy at a local school. One parent says the words are racist. School officials in the town of Onalaska say it’s just a big misunderstanding. The song is called “Leroy, the Redneck Reindeer.” There are no direct references to racism in [...]

“Happy Ramahanuqwanzmas.”
(Hat tip: Reader Garth Olson)
Update: Another reader clues me in to the origins. It’s a Glenn Beck thang!

Earlier this week, many of you contacted Denver mayor John Hickenlooper (MileHighMayor@ci.denver.co.us) after I wrote about his effort to replace the city’s “Merry Christmas” sign with a “Happy Holidays” sign. As you all know by now, Hickenlooper heard us–and tons of other protesters– loud and clear. The phrase “Merry Christmas” will not be removed from [...]

The persecution never ends. Denver has launched war against a church group that wanted to march in the city’s Christmas parade “Parade of Lights.” (I hate, hate, hate that p.c. euphemism.)
From the Denver Post: Parade Organizers Say Christmas Carols May Be Offensive To Others
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper recently announced that next year the phrase [...]

From Fox News…Students Free to Thank Anybody, Except God:
ANNAPOLIS, Md. � Maryland public school students are free to thank anyone they want while learning about the 17th century celebration of Thanksgiving � as long as it’s not God.
And that is how it should be, administrators say.
Young students across the state read stories about the Pilgrims [...]

Blogger Justin Katz of Dust in the Light enlightens us in NRO today on the Bar Association’s anti-religious bias .

Tom Ridge made a splash yesterday with news that al Qaeda is recruiting non-Arabs. He used the opportunity to deride racial and ethnic profiling as an effective counterterrorism tool. Here’s a piece I did today in response. The fact that al-Qaeda is using some non-Arab recruits does not render racial/ethnic/religion/nationality profiling moot. As long as [...]

Here’s a great story of a small-business owner in Seattle fighting onerous regulations that restrict competition in the name of the “public interest.” From yesterday’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
A Senegal-born hair braider who learned that traditional trade from her grandmother is challenging Washington laws she says could drive her out of business, or out of the state.
Attorneys [...]

Here’s a quick roundup of stories involving the American flag under attack this holiday weekend:
- A bemused Washington Post reporter attends an American flag-burning protest in Egypt: “The most curious thing about an American flag burning, for an American, is the embarrassingly warm welcome you get here.”
- Boston Red Sox player Keith Foulke was forced [...]

Oh, dear Lord. WBIR reports:
An East Tennessee man who runs an organization that works to memorialize American soldiers and police officers is now battling the U.S. Army.
Bob Parker runs a non-profit organization called “Fallen Friend.” Since 1996, Parker has sent special medallions to the survivors of soldiers and police officers killed in the line of [...]

In this otherwise unobjectionable Wall Street Journal op-ed by Alan Bromley, who recounts a typically dreadful experience at an Ivy League graduation last weekend, he complains:
The dean of the School of Education talked about our country’s isolation and “our need to learn more about” Islam and Muslims–not their need to learn about multicultural capitalism that [...]