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Clothes made in Morocco, and presumably made by Muslims

RELIGION: ‘MADE BY A MUSLIM’ BRAND TO BE LAUNCHED
Damascus, 19 April (AKI) – Besides saying it loudly and proudly, Muslims who treasure their religious heritage can also show it, and they will soon be able to do so by buying and wearing products bearing the “Made by a Muslim” label.
A group of Islamic businessmen meeting in Damascus, Syria have launched a initiative they say involves 7,500 companies around the world and which aims to encourage Muslims to boycott products made in countries hostile to Islam and to opt instead for those manufactured in Islamic nations.

“In light of the growing hostility faced by Islam and by Muslims in the Western world, after the events of September 11, a sentiment further amplified by the publication of offensive cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed,” the businessmen said in a statement, they had decided to set up a computerised international database that contains guidelines for the production, distribution and sale of products “that can represent an alternative to products from the West”.

The strategy involves labelling products so that counsumers will be able to know where they originate from and that they have been made by Muslims. For example: Made in Syria and Made by a Muslim.
The businessmen who have launched the initiative say the hope the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the body that groups together most Muslim nations, will support it and that will press governments of member states to promote the Muslim-made products.

Muslims made this…..

Wild Thing’s comment………
So kind of a jihadist FUBU? Just what the world needs!
The question is often asked, “Why can’t or don’t Muslims integrate with the societies they migrate to”? The answer is they don’t want to integrate. Their plan is to dominate.

Keith Ellison (aka Keith Hakim, Keith X Ellison and Keith Ellison Muhammad)

Ellison to Jews: Reach out to CAIR
JTA

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) unsurprisingly does CAIR’s bidding. Jews will reach out to CAIR the day they reject the legitimacy of the state of Israel and judge legitimate the Palestinian ‘resistance’`s mass-murder of diners and commuters, which is to say: not likely very soon…though our own quota of useful idiots have reached out to CAIR with the following results….

The first American Muslim in the U.S. Congress called on Jewish groups to engage with a controversial American Muslim body.

“If CAIR is willing to talk, talk to CAIR,” Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said of the Council on American Islamic Relations.

His address Tuesday to the Reform Movement’s Consultation on Conscience conference in Washington was the first speech to a national Jewish group for Ellison, who emphasized that he does not share all of CAIR’s views.
The organization is among the harshest critics of Israel, and in the 1990s defended Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization. It has muted such support since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, but still will not condemn Palestinian terrorist attacks as it does attacks by al-Qaida.
Ellison spoke positively of his recent tour of Israel, the Palestinian areas and Syria

Wild Thing’s comment…….
NO, how about instead …….reach out for an Uzi!!!
. . .calls to mind, Little Red Riding Hood. . .’just reach out Red and hug your Grandmother’.

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards greets Rev. Al Sharpton before speaking at the ‘Keepers of the Dream Awards Dinner’ Wednesday, April 18, 2007 during the 9th annual National Action Network convention in New York. Wednesday, April 18, 2007 in New York.
Democratic presidential contenders are scrambling for support in what’s being dubbed the Al Sharpton primary. This election, the high-profile Sharpton, fresh from the fight over Don Imus’ derogatory remarks, is attracting all the party’s major candidates this week for his annual National Action Network convention.(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

And what do you think they might be saying to each other or thinking:
Al, with the combined hairpower between us, there is nothing we can’t accomplish!
Tawana was so misunderstood!
Edwards: “I like you, Al. You’re ‘clean’. You’re ‘articulate’. But most important, you have a LOT of money!!!”
Sharpton: Holy $#it, I think this breck girl is gonna kiss me.

Chemical Found in Second Pet Food Ingredient, Recall Expanded
Fox News…….. for complete article
The chemical, melamine, is believed to have contaminated rice protein concentrate used to make a variety of Natural Balance Pet Foods products for both dogs and cats, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
Previously, the chemical was found to contaminate wheat gluten used by at least six other pet food and treat manufacturers.
Both ingredients were imported from China, though by different companies and from different manufacturers.

A lawmaker said Wednesday the Chinese have refused to grant visas to FDA inspectors seeking to visit the plants where the ingredients were made. An FDA spokesman later said the visas were not refused but that the agency had not received the necessary invitation letter to get visas.

“It troubles me greatly the Chinese are making it more difficult to understand what led to this pet food crisis,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told The Associated Press after meeting with the FDA commissioner, Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach.

A message left Wednesday with the Chinese Embassy in Washington was not immediately returned.
Natural Balance said it was recalling all its Venison and Brown Rice canned and bagged dog foods, its Venison and Brown Rice dog treats and its Venison and Green Pea dry cat food.
The recalls now include products made by at least seven companies and sold under more than 100 brands.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Can you IMAGINE – the FDA is being REFUSED to inspect the plants. The safety and unsanitary conditions must be horrendous.
And what is ludicrous is Science Diet is making their food in Kansas (the wheat belt) with wheat imported from China.
When all this horrible stuff started with the dog and cat food, we switched to this. They like it and it is safe.
Eagle Brand Holistic Dog and Cat food

An act of heroism amid the horror…………

In this photo released by the Librescu family in Israel, Tuesday, April 17, 2007, Romanian-born lecturer Liviu Librescu is seen in an undated photo. The Israeli lecturer killed in the Virginia Tech massacre was a Holocaust survivor who later escaped from Communist Romania. Relatives said Librescu, an internationally respected aeronautics engineer and a lecturer at Virginia Tech for 20 years, saved the lives of several students by blocking the gunman before he was gunned down in Monday’s shooting, which coincided with Israel’s Holocaust remembrance day.

Liviu Librescu and wife Marlena

Israeli professor killed in US attack
THE JERUSALEM POST
As Jews worldwide honored on Monday the memory of those who were murdered in the Holocaust, a 76-year-old survivor sacrificed his life to save his students in Monday’s shooting at Virginia Tech College that left 33 dead and over two dozen wounded.
Professor Liviu Librescu, 76, threw himself in front of the shooter when the man attempted to enter his classroom. The Israeli mechanics and engineering lecturer was shot to death, “but all the students lived – because of him,” Virginia Tech student Asael Arad – also an Israeli – told Army Radio.
Several of Librescu’s other students sent e-mails to his wife, Marlena, telling of how he had blocked the gunman’s way and saved their lives, said Librescu’s son, Joe.
“My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee,” Joe Librescu said in a telephone interview from his home outside of Tel Aviv. “Students started opening windows and jumping out.”
Librescu was respected in his field, his son said.
“His work was his life, in a sense,” said Joe. “That was a good place for him to practice his research.”
Librescu was a Holocaust survivor who escaped communist Romania for Israel in 1978 and moved to Virginia in 1986. By coincidence, he was murdered on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
A noble man indeed! Clearly, the professor had something to do in his life that spared him during such horrific events but lead him to stare evil in the face unflinchingly. He did not ‘go silently into that good night’.
Between this man and the Zach Petrowski student who threw himself at a door, you have the sense that there were folks who saw what was what and knew not to try words when words meant nothing.
Our true character is always revealed by our first response. I can think of no better way to leave this world than in spontaneous sacrifice for your fellow human beings. He acted the way many soldiers have acted by throwing themselves on live grenades. God Bless him! And God bless Petrowski the student I mentioned also.
Darleen has also written about this wonderful man.

The most hated family in America, the Westboro Baptist Church, who hates soldiers and pickets soldiers’ funerals.

“Thank God For Dead Soldiers”

This sick church you see in the above video has now decided to ……….
WBC to Preach at Funerals of Virginia Tech Dead
Westboro Baptist Church

WBC will preach at the funerals of the Virginia Tech students killed on campus during a shooting rampage April 16, 2007. You describe this as monumental horror, but you know nothing of horror — yet. Your bloody tyrant Bush says he is ‘horrified’ by it all. You know nothing of horror — yet. Your true horror is coming. “They shall also gird themselves with sackloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads” (Eze. 7:18).
Why did this happen, you ask? It’s simple. On April 16, 2007, this nation, through the offices of your military and conspirators therewith took a shot at the servants of God — your marksman was limp and lame and he had terror all around, so he did a lousy job. But what you get for your trouble is that your God shot at you! The LORD your God sent a crazed madman to shoot at your children, and he didn’t miss. Get this straight — God sent this South Korean madman to kill 31 of your children at Virginia Tech. Was God asleep while this took place? Was He on vacation? Of course not. He willed this to happen to punish you for assailing His servants.

Wild Thing’s comment…..
First of all there is NO way these people are Christians, NO WAY.
I sure hope there is a special place in hell for this church and it’s members for what they have done regarding our troops and now what they plan to do at the funeral for the Virginia Tech students that were killed.

Second Male May Be Involved in VA Tech Massacre
Police Cite Person of Interest in Dorm Killing; Dead Gunman Yet to Be ID’d
ABC news
A tranquil college campus in Virginia became a killing field Monday morning. At least 33 people are dead in the worst mass shooting in modern American history.
A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 33 people and wounding another 30 before he was killed, police said.
On the Web site, Tech reported the shootings at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre campus at West Ambler Johnston, a co-ed residence hall that houses 895 people, and said there were “multiple victims” at Norris Hall, an engineering building.
Campus police have identified a person of interest who is not currently in police custody. Police say the person of interest is a male who knew the female who was killed in the original double homicide at the West Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory. Flinchum also said he is not a student and that he knew the female who was killed in the original double homicide.
Two guns were recovered, a 9 mm pistol and a .22-caliber pistol.
Flinchum said they have ruled out the possibility of a murder-suicide in the first shooting, and that investigators have a preliminary identification of the shooter involved in the Norris Hall shooting. The police will not release the identity at this time.

When asked to describe the scene at Norris Hall, where the second shooting took place, Flinchum called it, “one of the worst things I’ve seen in my life.”

While Flinchum would not name any of the victims, he did say university staff members were among the dead.
Some students question why administrators did not cancel classes after the first shooting, and why it took more than two hours to inform the university community via e-mail about the shootings.
According to Steger, the administration locked down West Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory after the first shooting. But classes weren’t canceled because the shooting was believed to be tied to a domestic dispute and campus police believed the shooter had left the campus.

“Schools should be places of safety and sanctuary in learning,” President Bush said from the White House. “When that sanctuary is violated, the impact is felt in every American classroom and every American community.”

Wild Thing’s comment……
This is an unspeakable tragedy. Prayers for the loved ones and families of those killed. And prayers too for those injured and healing emotionally for all the victims.
Now we watch while they begin to blame guns, Bush, or anyone else except for the actual kiler for these murders. Teachers should be trained how to use a gun and just think if some of the teachers had been able to have a gun, say locked in their desk they could have done something to at least stop some of the killings that occured.

Sadr raises pressure for US to withdraw
Telegraph.co.uk
The United States faced a fresh challenge to its presence in Iraq yesterday when supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr’s radical Shia Muslim movement quit the Baghdad government to demand a deadline for withdrawal of its troops.
By pulling out of the ruling Shia Alliance coalition, Sadr has moved a step closer to outright confrontation with the American-led military effort to stabilise Iraq.

A Shia militiaman wears an identity card with a picture of Moqtada al-Sadr on the back

The loss of Sadr’s followers, including six cabinet ministers, does not deprive Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister, of an overall majority but does reduce his scope for horse trading between competing factions.
Sadr triggered the crisis in a letter to supporters that demanded a timetable for withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq. It said:

“I pray for God Almighty to bestow on the Iraqi people a government that is independent from occupation and one that works hard in the service of its people.”

The movement holds one quarter of parliamentary seats in the Alliance which governs in coalition with Kurdish parties. The bloc’s parliamentary representative, Nassar al-Rubaie, said the decision was taken after Mr Maliki rejected an ultimatum to confront the Americans.
Behind the scenes, the split has been on the cards for months. Mr Maliki issued a statement yesterday thanking Sadr for instructing his ministers to resign, so that competent “independents” could be appointed.
The White House welcomed the development, reinforcing its support for Mr Maliki as he launches a much postponed government reshuffle.
Sadrists were until yesterday in control of key ministries including health, transport and tourism.
There were widespread accusations that these ministries had become sectarian enforcement operations under the influence of their political leaders.
In parallel Sadr has sought to distance his movement from an unpopular government. Mr Rubaie said:

“The prime minister has to express the will of the Iraqi people. They went out in a demonstration in their millions asking for a timetable for withdrawal. We noticed the prime minister’s response did not express the will of the people”

Mr Maliki managed to persuade the Madhi army, the armed wing of Mr Sadr’s movement, to reduce attacks on coalition forces but recently Sadr has resumed aggressive activities and his supporters have taken to the streets to challenge the authorities.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Don’t you just love how this reject has been playing both sides of the fence. He has representation in a legitimate government, but expects that government to look the other way when his followers intimidate and murder those who “see” things differently then he does. Its time for Maliki to step up to the plate and say “Thanks, but we dont need you anymore.”
He has called for the killing of American troops. That makes him the enemy, not opposition political party.Take him out and take out his followers when they protest in the street.
Problem solved, we win.

Jackie Mason Video Blog 11 on “Al Sharpton and Don Imus”

Wild Thing’s comment…….

Amen Jackie!

Lawmaker Under Fire For ‘Illegal Alien’ E-Mail
Man Apologizes; Some Colleagues Not Satisfied
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.
A state lawmaker is coming under fire for sending what he thought was a funny e-mail message to his colleagues.
Some people do not find it very amusing and want him to make a public apology.

Rep. Don Brown, R-DeFuniak Springs, sent a message from his state e-mail account that said, “Don’t forget to pay your taxes – 12 million illegal aliens are depending on you!”

Brown said the message was intended to be humorous and to remind people about the upcoming tax deadline.
He apologized and said as far as he’s concerned, he’s done with the issue.
But members of the Florida Hispanic Legislative Caucus are taking exception to Brown’s e-mail, calling it inappropriate and saying such e-mails have no place in the Florida House.

“That term, illegal alien, is extremely insulting to many individuals and I think there has to be something a little bit more public and a little bit more contrite in his apology,” an unidentified member of the caucus said.

OH but the Democrat illegal aliens lover is NOT satisfied with an apology. NOOOooooooo
Check this out…………..
Lawmaker draws criticism for illegal-immigration joke
Rep. Luis Garcia Jr., D-Miami Beach, the interim chairman of the Hispanic Caucus, sent a message of his own — to Speaker Marco Rubio, R-Miami, saying he had heard several complaints from Hispanic members and Haitian constituents.

“This e-mail has no place in the Florida House,” Garcia said.

State Rep. Rene Garcia, R-Hialeah, said that “the comments in this e-mail reflect an ignorance as to the founding of both this state and our country. It deeply saddens me that this mentality still exists in what we consider to be a forward-looking government.”

Wild Thing’s comment……
Hey Garcia KISS my LEGAL American Ass!
Let me get this straight. We can no longer refer to illegal alien criminals as illegal aliens because they might get offended? This would be funny if it wasn’t so scary. I am sick and tired of the GOP apologizing. Apologize for what? The obvious fact that illegal aliens take advantage of tax payer dollars? They do. In fact, I can say on first hand knowledge that this is fact.
Absurd. PC culture run amok. They are illegal aliens! They are not lawfully here! Whats next? Will we hear PC folks complaining that we shouldn’t call drug dealers drug dealers and murderers murderers? Identifying a criminal by the name of his crime should not be offensive. And it sure as heck isn’t racist as some of the La Raza types have said.
When are our feckless leaders going to step up take a litte heat and speak the truth! ILLEGAL ALIEN IS JUST WHAT IT IS ILLEGAL!!!!!! There is no apology for who they are, you have no rights in this country because you have broken our law by entering ILLEGALLY. These organizations that demand rights, apologies, and all sorts of give me’s are in it for political cloat, media attention and government funding they can extort from our tax dollars!.
There is no doubt in my mind that political correctness is going to absolutely destroy this country. It damn near already has.