Update on the Imams

The imams who were pulled off a US Airways flight in Minneapolis now have legal counsel. The say they are upset about many of the false reports and accusations regarding the incident floating around the right-wing controlled corporate media. Of course the right-wing theofascist pundits are apoplextic claiming the religious leaders are simply trying to "cash in" on "political correctness." Personally I hope the imams sue the hell out of US Airways (if they don't then the terrorists win!).



Over at Commondreams.org Amy Goodman has an excellent piece called It's Bigotry That Should Be Silenced, which ran in yesterday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. It's an outstanding commentary on the issue of the imams and other bigotry that's been shown toward American Muslims and those of us who do not tow the republican line.



What's next? Jailing Catholic nuns for wearing "disguises," or praying over "mystery beads?" Or locking up some Lutheran for reading from a bible while flying back to Nebraska? On the other hand I wish someone had locked up (anti-Catholic and gay-hater) State Senator and Congresswoman-elect Michele Bachmann for assaulting with prayer gay members of the legislature at their desks in an effort to turn them straight.

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Technorati Tags: Bachmann, Islam, Religion, bigotry, imams, US Airways

Ok, so now it's colder

0 (that's a zero) degrees this morning. Why anyone, especially some early settler, would want to move here is beyond me.

The True Sickness that is Fox

The White House right-wing propaganda arm that calls itself Fox "news" once again displays the sickest part of America. This time right-wing extremist radio head Mark Williams unleashed a stream of venom and invective while appearing on the well know hate-speech program Hannity Colmes. Williams claimed that the imams who were thrown off a US Airways flight last month in Minneapolis, simply for praying, were "either terrorists..." or trying to cash in on "the politically correct lottery," by getting themselves thrown off the plane and then suing the airline. Of course, as any true right-wing pundit, Williams offered no evidence of either claim.

via Media Matters for America

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Update on our Dangerous Congressman

This time the news is not too good for national racist and xenophobic hate monger radio "host" Dennis Prager. Minnesota Monitor has a nice update on Prager's self-created controversy attacking Minnesota's new Congressman Keith Ellison. As you know by now Ellison, representing Minneapolis and a large part of Hennepin County, is a Muslim. His district also happens to have a significant Muslim population. When asked, the freshman congressman said he'd take his "oath of office" on a copy of the Koran. Prager, on his radio show, simply "went off," to put it nicely. He called Ellison all sorts of names and declared that taking the oath on the Koran was un-American and would lead to the end of "American civilization."

Now, several National Jewish organizations have weighed in against Prager. This is important because many Theofacsist commentators and pundits were supporting Prager, claiming that his Jewish background meant that his comments couldn't be construed as racist. Not so says the Anti-Defamation League and the Reform Movement's Religious Action Center: a bigot by any other name is still a bigot.

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Technorati Tags: Prager, hate, Ellison, Islam, Muslim, Koran

I Love This

Journalists calling BS

When I was one, that's what it was all about. Dan Froomkin talks about it's importance and how it works for him at the Washington Post.

Hat tip to AmericaBlog's John in DC





Technorati Tags: Jouralism, BS, reality, truth, Froomkin

Big Money, Big Oil kills speech again

In areas already reported, big oil, in this case Exxon-Mobil, has managed to keep the truth about global warming out of the hands of American students. The National Assoc. of Science Teachers has rejected an offer of 50,000 (yes, all those zeros) free copies of Al Gore's seminal work on the effects of global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, to be placed in science classrooms. The NAST groups claims that it wants to keep "special interests," out of the classrooms and does not want to make a "political" endorsement of the film's well-documented facts. But in reality the NAST has accepted huge donations of media and materials produced by the oil companies. The group has chosen sides with big money and big power over what really is an inconvenient truth.
via various sources
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Technorati Tags: Inconvenient Truth, Exxon-Mobil, Gore, NAST, global warming

Cheney called to the woodshed

Well it seems that the Royal House of Saud isn't too pleased with the Bush/Cheney conduct in the administration's attack on and occupation of Iraq. So the Saudi's told Dick Cheney to report for a little 'talking to.'

via Think Progress

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OK, this is really scary

Radical right-winger and disgraced former Republican Congessman Newt Gingrich, told a gathering of "free speech supporters," that the rules of free speech may have to change. Gingrich called for his crack down on the constitutional right in a speech at the annual Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment award dinner, in front of about 400 people. The former Republican hardliner wants to shut down free speech in what was an unsubstantiated claim to prevent "terrorists" from using "free speech abuse," to somehow attack national security. Apparently, his thought is: ideas are too dangerous to share.

via Raw Story

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And a little more 'proud to be a bigot' in America

An item by Robin Marty at Minnesota Monitor. This one about a Townhall article written by the self-styled "conservative" Dennis Prager. In fact Prager reveals his roots as one of the new theofacists, when he writes that Minnesota's new Congressman from the 5th CD, Keith Ellison, should not be allowed to take his oath of office on the 'Koran.' Prager goes on to equate the Koran to Hitler's Mein Kampf. Welcome to the new Jim Crow America.

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More Biogtry In America

Following the story about the imams ejected from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix. Raw Story has an item about a item in the right-wing Washington Times. The paper claims that the Islamic religious leaders were "loudly praying," and "terrorizing" the airliner. Of course there's no substance, only a xenophobic agenda.

via Raw Story

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CNN Picks up story of Minnesota Bigotry

CNN now picks up the story of how 6 imams were ejected from a US Airways flight at MSP airport simply for being Muslim. The story has a few more details, especially the one about how it was a note from one passenger that got them six pulled from the plane.



Note: the video links do not work. I can't tell if they are just bad or were scrubbed. But none work, so it makes me believe they were pulled because they made a case prejudicial against US Airways, big money and power in advertising.





Technorati Tags: imams, islam, US Airways, bigotry