By Debbie Schlussel
I’m so jaded about the “Religion of Peace” that nothing its “peaceful” members do shocks me anymore. But this latest story is kind of like an episode of “The Twilight Zone.”
33 kids are missing from a Muslim-dominated Muslim city in the United Kingdom and it’s believed the kids were sent by their families to forced arranged marriages. And there are 14 other British cities where the same thing has happened.
So, if there families sent them, how were they reported missing? Well, they simply stopped going to school, and school officials reported their truancy. And the kids weren’t at home, either. You do the math.
Thanks to reader Sean for the tip. He points out that a certain two words are missing from this story, “Islam” and “Muslim”:

Muslim Children Sent to Mass Forced Arranged-Marriage Wedding

Dozens of children are missing from school amid fears they have been forced into arranged marriages, it was revealed yesterday.
In Bradford, 33 children remain “unaccounted for” after being off school for at least two months with no explanation.
The Government is also concerned about another 14 areas of the country where it is feared children under 16 could also be missing from school rolls.
The figures were disclosed yesterday by Children’s Minister Kevin Brennan during evidence to the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, which is investigating the controversial issue of forced marriages.
He revealed the results of worrying inquiries by officials in Bradford, a city with a substantial Asian population [DS: Euphemism for Muslim; Hello . . . ?]
Children’s Minister Kevin Brennan: disclosed the figures yesterday
Mr Brennan said Bradford City Council lost track of 205 youngsters last year.
Further inquiries had established the whereabouts of 172 – leaving 33 unaccounted for. . . .
Committee chairman Keith Vaz, a former Labour minister, said . . . “The figures you have given us quite frankly have shocked members of this committee just in relation to Bradford.”
He added: “There are 14 other areas where there are missing children. This is totally unsatisfactory.” . . .
The national Forced Marriage Unit was set up three years ago to tackle the problem regarded as “an abuse of human rights and a form of domestic violence”.
Laws coming into force this summer will allow victims to obtain court injunctions against anyone trying to force them to marry. . . . .
A spokesman for the local education authority in Bradford played down any fears, saying parents may have simply failed to register their children at another school since moving house.

“Nothing to see hear, move along.”
Since this goes on in America, too–there are many Muslim girls in Dearbornistan who’ve been forcibly married, under-age, against their will–how long ’til America sets up a National Forced Marriage Investigation Unit?
Answer: Never. The Michigan and Federal authorities have looked the other way in cases of forced marriage and statutory rape involving Muslims.
Don’t expect any change until it is far too late.

By Debbie Schlussel
While video games are touted as ways to improve shooting and other tactical skills, a generation of Marines who are playing video games more and hunting and analyzing the outdoors less is missing crucial skills.
That’s not me talking. It’s Col. Fred Padilla of the U.S. Marine Corps’ School of Infantry West, which now must train Marines in a way they didn’t have to in the past. A new program, “Combat Hunter” teaches new Marines the skills they used to learn while hunting and tracking.
The headline in an AP story on this calls it “Brainpower Over Firepower.” While hunting and hunters in America are derided as the activity of hicks and rural folk, clearly AP–and the Marines–are admitting that hunting does, indeed, teach skills of cunning and other important aspects of intellect:

We Need More of This in This

[It is the] problem of telling friend from foe that the Marine Corps is trying to confront head on with a new training program that pushes brainpower over firepower.
Unveiled to reporters this week, the program – “Combat Hunter” – teaches human behavioral analysis, law enforcement profiling techniques and big game hunting and tracking practices. The program puts Marines through the paces of identifying and tracking an enemy without firing a shot.
“This is really about investing in the minds of Marines,” said Col. Fred Padilla of the Corps’ School of Infantry West, which oversees the training.
Padilla said today’s Marines have grown up inside their homes, playing on computers and with video games. They adapt to the use of new technology and equipment more quickly than earlier generations.
But it is also problematic, he says.
“They didn’t grow up outside,” learning how to analyze their surroundings or learning about the outdoors, he said. Earlier Marines had skills like hunting and tracking under their belts.
“What we are seeing now is a generation of Marines that don’t have those skills,” Padilla said.
The two-week course, which the Marines began testing in April 2007, includes classroom training and practicing scenarios in a fake Iraqi village at Camp Pendleton that has been used for various training exercises since the war began in 2003. The village built out of cargo shipping containers features an open-air market, a mosque, a police station and a bank.
About 750 Marines, mostly squad leaders, have been trained. They spread their knowledge among their troops. The training program has been in development since 2006. . . .
Greg Williams, a civilian contractor who works as a combat profiler and helped develop the training, says “Combat Hunter” teaches Marines to “read the human landscape.”
Though neither Williams nor the Corps would explain the training techniques in depth, the primary focus is identifying human behavioral patterns.
“It’s basically learning to turn that gut feeling into action,” Marine Capt. Brian Iglesias said.

There’s another important aspect of hunting not mentioned here. While there are some female hunters, it is innately a masculine activity, as is the hunting instinct. As the pop culture forces in our society continue to blur the gender roles and to take men away from masculine activities and into non-gender specific activities like video games, it’s not a good thing.
(For the record, while I support Americans’ right to keep and bear arms and hunt as they please, my own religion prohibits hunting. In Judaism, hunting is not allowed for sport. And since, kosher slaughter laws require that animals be slaughtered essentially by decapitation with a very sharp blade (designed to put the animal in as little pain as possible), kosher animals are slaughtered in captivity. Thus, hunting is prohibited.)

By Debbie Schlussel
While bragging to USA Today about her worldwide webcast class, in which HRHSBotU (Her Royal Highness, Supreme Being of the Universe) Oprah teaches a new age course to America’s women on how to be a better person and live a better life minus a billion dollars and a daily talk show, Queen Oprah dissed John McCain:

Winfrey says she’s not sure yet whether she’ll have a role in the fall campaign. . . . What about John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee? “Oh, please,” she replies. “Bye-bye.”

I’m really sick of this–these queens of idiocy–first Gloria Steinem, now Oprah–dissing McCain. Please watch this five-minute video from A&E “Biography,” showing John McCain from captivity. Oprah ain’t good enough to wash his feet:

What about Oprah Winfrey?
Oh, please. Bye-Bye. If only. If only she would go away.

By Debbie Schlussel
I predicted exactly this result last May, when I first learned of and wrote about “Aliens in America.”
Executives at The CW television network and the American Muslim community are shocked–shocked!–that the show is getting very low ratings and is about to be canceled, despite massive promotion. But not me, I said then:

Here’s hoping–and predicting–that “Aliens in America” is a big flop.

CW’s Faltering “Aliens in America”
May rigor mortis set in soon. The show is about an idiotic White Christian family in Wisconsin (aren’t all American non-Muslim families idiotic?) that brings a Pakistani Muslim exchange student to live with their loser, unpopular son because he needs a friend. The show is unbearable. No surprise that CAIR and every other “mainstream” Muslim group applauded this groanworthy sitcom. Every single character–from the high school principal to the parents to the fellow Americans students–are coarse, uncultured, boorish idiots, save the brilliant, civilized, kind, generous, easily-adapting Muslim foreign student.
When I first learned–and wrote on this site–about this show, early, last year, I predicted the show would be bad. And it met my worst expectations.
And, again, they’re shocked–shocked!–that this anti-American show, in which Americans are a lesser life form and Muslims are G-d’s gift to humanity, is not appealing to the American TV-viewing public.
Gee, I wonder why. The show’s co-writer/producer David Gaurascio claims that his unfunny, stupid show is good because “these are not stereotypical characters at all.” Really? I’d say they fit the propaganda in the newspapers and media throughout the Islamic world to a T. No surprise, since CAIR was consulted for the show.
This show can’t be canceled fast enough. But TV “critics” can’t handle it that this uber-PC show is tanking. The Detroit Newsistan’s Makeisha Madden Toby and E!’s Kristin Dos Santos are begging people to watch this horrid show and contact the CW’s owner, Warner Brothers Pictures.
Good luck. But this show is so stinky, agenda-laden, anti-American, and substandard, I predict none of that will save it.
***
One other thing–When I first wrote about this show, I did agree that Muslims are the smart ones and we Americans the dumb ones in one respect:

The only comedy is that perpetrated on America. Reportedly, the show will make fun of Middle America and positively portray Muslims here on student visas as far smarter.
To some extent that is true, as we allow so many Muslims from all over (but especially from the Middle East) to come here, and we never see them again. They are the smart ones. And we are truly dumb, though not in the Homer Simpson way that this comedy will portray Wisconsinites. But dumb in the sense that we allow this and look the other way when the students suddenly disappear in to the great American abyss to plan and perpetrate jihad against us.
So many Muslims here on student visas overstay never attend or even enroll in school and overstay their visas, disappearing into oblivion. But you won’t see that in “Crossing Over,” or in “Aliens in America.”
In both, we are either evil or stupid (or both), and they are the smart, sympathetic ones.

Now, if they made a show about that, more people–including me–would certainly watch.

By Debbie Schlussel

As I’ve remarked on this site so many times, one of the great things about America is the entrepreneurial spirit of so many brilliant fellow citizens. As in Israel, Americans invent so many new devices to make our life simpler and to give us information we’d never dream of obtaining for future health decisions.

You don’t see any of this in the Islamic world. The only thing they invent are new methods of barbarism. In that, their high tech capacity is limitless, but that’s it.

The latest invention is a DNA test for younger men to determine if they’re going to go bald. I can see why Muslims would never invent this, since Greater Hirsutia doesn’t really have a need. And who needs a test about whether their mustache will grow to Saddam-mustachioed. splendor?

The DNA test isn’t too expensive, though experts disagree on its reliability in predicting whether men under 40 will hold onto their coiffures or go Kojak.

My question is, what do you do with the info if you’re a guy who learns you’re very likely to go bald? I suppose it means you approach the debate of “nature v. hair implants” early:

Young men who are worried about losing their hair can now take a DNA test that will determine their odds of going bald before 40.

HairDX, an Irvine, Calif.-based company that created the test, says the test searches for a genetic variant that 95% of all bald men share. Men who test positive for the genetic variant are at 60% risk of going bald before 40. The test also identifies whether a man has a less-common variant that means an 85% chance of not going bald by that age.

For $149, men can swab the inside of their cheek and send off the DNA sample to the company, which sends back results three to four weeks later that give all the hairy details about what is in store for their scalp. The test, released in January, is available on the company website and some doctors’ offices.

Decrying 99.9% of hair-loss products on the market as “scams,” company president Andy Goren says the DNA test provides a solid basis for when and how to seek treatment. . . .

Angela Christiano, an associate professor of genetics and development at Columbia University who is skeptical of the test’s reliability, says it is hard to pinpoint the cause of baldness because very few genes connected to hair loss have been identified.

Although HairDX analyzes one genetic variant for hair loss, other still-unknown variants play a vital role in determining baldness, she says.

“Picking one gene is a little arbitrary,” Christiano says. “There’s really nothing else you can look at, though. If we don’t know what the other 10 genes are, it’s hard to know what the contribution of this gene is.”

Spencer Kobren, founder of the American Hair Loss Association, acknowledges that the test isn’t perfect but still gave it the group’s endorsement.

“To me and other physicians, we really think for the first time there may be a good indicator of hair loss, and why not utilize it?” he says.

Kobren says men usually wait until they see signs of balding before taking any action, but knowing they are genetically destined to lose their hair might give them the jump-start they need to keep their locks.

Yet another sign of America’s follicularly obsessed times, but also its ingenuity and ceaseless creative inventions.

And, then, there is always the option of a hair transplant.

By Debbie Schlussel
Over the weekend, both Detroit papers (the Free Press and the Newsistan) gushed that Detroit will soon have an emergency passport office. The federal government calls it a “Gateway” passport office. I call it a GETAWAY passport office. (At least they have the letters right.) The only thing Detroit is a “Gateway” city for is Hezbollah. And that’s why this new office is nothing to cheer about.
It used to be that those from Michigan and other locales in the Midwest would have to travel to Chicago to obtain an emergency passport. From a national security and law enforcement standpoint, that was a good countermeasure for those criminals and terrorists suddenly seeking to flee the country.

Guys Like Jason Bourne . . .
Aren’t the Ones in Line @ the Quickie Passport Shop
Yes, some of them already have a valid passport and others live in the Chicago area, anyway. But the fact remains that a significant number of Islamic criminals and terrorists, like Hezbollah financier Talal Chahine and Hezbollah arms supplier Fawzi Mustapha Assi, fled the country back to Lebanon from the Detroit area. While Chahine had multiple passports and other IDs (some of it in violation of U.S. law), Assi did not (he fled the country by wearing a hijab and cross-dressing as a Muslim woman to get over the border to Canada). Another, Ali Hourany, a Shi’ite Muslim honor-murdered his girlfriend, Daniela Erica Munoz. He fled the country to Lebanon, immediately, before feds could stop him.
But there are other such Islamic terrorists and criminals who might not have a valid passport–and installing a government quickie-passport shop in Detroit will clearly help them elude capture. State Department officials on an official panderfest tour of Michiganistan announced, Friday, during an “international border summit” that “community demand” led to their decision to open the quickie-passport office.
It’s very clear who that “community” is that is demanding. They always demand. And we always give in, no matter how deleterious to our national security and survival. Those at the “international border summit” including top ICE officials, like Abu Moskowitz, who always bend over forward for that community.
Ask yourself this: Who else needs a passport outta here in a hurry? And which such group has a significant presence in the Detroitistan area? Hint: It’s not the Grandma Jones from Oscoda.
Unless your name is Ahmed or Shahida and you need to high-tail it out of her, most of the rest of us can wait the 4-6 weeks to get our passports. It’s those who did something suddenly and didn’t plan ahead whose escape we’re now making it easier to facilitate.
Yes, I know that, sometimes, we might win the Nobel Prize or have an uncle blown up in Beirut, whose remains we must identify. But how often does that happen to the average American not named Carter, Gore, or Mohammed? Most of us don’t have close relatives abroad whose funerals we must attend, either. Those cases are a tiny, tiny percentage of the reasons behind emergency passport applications, especially those emanating from the Detroit area.
It’s not exactly Einstein work to predict whom we’ll be seeing at the Getaway,er . . . “Gateway” passport office.
The feds say that the Detroit Getaway Passport office will employ 40-60 employees. That’s a lot of employees for, apparently, a heckuva a lot of quickie-Hezbo and HAMAS passports.
Heckuva Job, Bushie!

By Debbie Schlussel
For the last two years, representatives from Walmart’s corporate headquarters met with and pandered to the most extremist, Islamofascist leaders in Dearborn’s Islamic community, including FBI award revokee and “former” Islamic terrorist Imad Hamad, so that they could plan the new so-called “Arab American” Walmart in Dearbornistan. But there’s nothing “Arabic” about it. Walmart didn’t meet with Chaldeans (Catholic Iraqis) or Maronite Christians from Lebanon or even the Druze community. They met only with Muslims.

 

This store is not “Arab-American.” It’s ISLAMIC. That’s why the Walmart panderers met with extremist, Hezbollah-supporting Imams, and terrorist Hamad. And that’s why Newsweek writes about his second wife (his first was a sham marriage for citizenship when he violated his student visa), Arwa Hamad (who has a penchant for filing insurance claims and lawsuits over “car accidents”–not, of course, mentioned in the Newsweek article). No mention if there are footbaths in the locker room for the store’s many Islamic employees, but I’m sure they’re there.
And, to make matters worse, Walmart hired Suehaila Amen, an openly anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, pro-Hezbollah Shi’ite Muslim to give ethnic sensitivity training to Walmart employees. Yup, an anti-Semite supporter of Islamic terrorists giving sensitivity training. Sounds about right. As a teacher in the Dearborn Public Schools, Suehaila’s close relative, Lila Amen, violated campaign finance laws by using Dearborn Public School resources to campaign for her Muslim friend and Medicaid defrauder Ismael Ahmed when he ran for University of Michigan regent (he now runs the State of Michigan’s Medicaid unit, after defrauding it). Yup, Walmart is into ethics . . . Islamic world “ethics”.
But it gets even worse. Walmart is violating the law–engaging in price-fixing agreements with the Islamic community and agreeing not to underprice its local Hezbollah-financing Shi’ite stores, so as not to put them out of business. Why will they do this for Ahmed and Mohamed, but not Mom and Pop Smith in other American communities? If I were one of the many businesses across America driven into the ground by Walmart, I’d sue Walmart on discrimination and unfair competition grounds, since the retail giant only helps its Muslim competitors stay in business. Who wants to join me in my complaint against Walmart to the Federal Trade Commission for unfair, anti-competitive practices and price-fixing? It’s patently illegal. I wish I could say this is capitalism at its worst. But it’s not capitalism or free market competition. It’s whoring:

 

As Arwa Hamad strolls a new Wal-Mart, an eight-foot display of olive oil stops her in her tracks. “Oh, wow,” she says, marveling at the sight of so many gallons of Lebanese extra virgin. “We could go through one of these in a week in my house.” Around the corner, row upon row of gallon jars of olives‚Äîfrom Turkey, Greece, Egypt and Lebanon‚Äîsoak in deep hues of purple, red and green. “Look at the size of these olives,” says the stay-at-home mother of three and native of Yemen. Hamad, 34, has shopped at Wal-Mart before, but never one like this. She is overcome with nostalgia as she spots Nido powdered milk and Al Haloub Cow, canned meat she calls the “Arabic Spam.” “My father loves this,” she says. “People from war-torn countries, this is what you lived on when you couldn’t go out of the house to shop.” This Wal-Mart, though, isn’t in a war zone. It’s in Dearborn, Mich., home to nearly a half-million Arab-Americans, the largest concentration of Arabs outside the Middle East. [DS: Um, Dearborn is, indeed, a war zone. It’s a silent cultural war. And we’ve lost.]

 

 

As-Salaam Aleikum to Islamo-Walmart. How May I Jihad You? 

As America changes, so does the store where America shops. In Dearborn this week, the world’s largest retailer opens a store like no other among its 3,500 U.S. outlets. Walk through the front door of the 200,000-square-foot supercenter and instead of rows of checkout counters, you find a scene akin to a farmers market in Beirut. Twenty-two tables are stacked high with fresh produce like kusa and batenjan, squash and eggplant used in Middle Eastern dishes. Rimming the produce department are shelves filled with Arab favorites like mango juice from Egypt and vine leaves from Turkey used to make mehshi, or stuffed grape leaves. A walled-off section of the butcher case is devoted to Halal meats, slaughtered in accordance with Islamic law (when a Wal-Mart manager noticed the pork section was too prominent he ordered it moved, since Muslims don’t eat pork). In the freezer case, you’ll find frozen falafel. You can also pick up a CD from Lebanese pop singer Ragheb Alama or buy Muslim greeting cards.
Wal-Mart’s Arab-American emporium provides a preview of the retail giant’s latest strategy to boost business as it reaches the saturation point in its American expansion. . . . The Dearborn store, though, is the most extreme example of the concept. Wal-Mart offers its standard fare, plus 550 items targeted at Middle Eastern shoppers. “In the past, Wal-Mart has been pretty cookie-cutter when it comes to merchandise,” says Dearborn store manager Bill Bartell. “But this time, we really got to know the community. We’re blazing a trail here.” . . .
Wal-Mart started two years ago to meet with imams and moms, conducting focus groups at Middle Eastern restaurants. Wal-Mart learned the community wasn’t as concerned about seeing Arabic-language signs as they were with dealing with Arabic-speaking staff. So Bartell hired about 35 Arabic speakers, including Suehaila Amen, a local middle-school teacher who is providing ethnic-sensitivity training to the 650 employees. He also learned not to bother stocking traditional Muslim clothing, like the headscarf, or hijab, Amen wears. “The community told us, ‘I would not feel comfortable coming to Wal-Mart to buy my hijab’,” says assistant store manager Jordan Berke. “We’re not here to overstep our bounds.” [DS:; Translation. We’re here to pander. How much further would you like me to bend over?]
Despite the sensitive sell, local shopkeepers still worry about Wal-Mart. “There is a fear factor in the business community,” says Osama Siblani, publisher of Dearborn’s Arab American News. To allay those fears, Wal-Mart is making an extraordinary promise: it will not undercut the prices of the small local merchants (though it will still go after Kroger). The insular company even agreed to be scrutinized by a “community advisory board” made up of local Arab-American leaders to ensure it isn’t harming the mom-and-pop shops. One example: Wal-Mart agreed to charge one dime more than local grocers for a six-pack of pita bread.
Arwa Hamad says her devotion to Dearborn’s Muslim merchants doesn’t simply rest on one thin dime. After all, when her husband goes to their Arab butcher, he buys in bulk. “It’s hard to get half a lamb at Wal-Mart,” she says. And yet, the more she wanders the aisles, the more she likes. There are the Turkish sweets and dried dates her kids love, and the Nescafe coffee she adores. “This brings back memories from home,” she says. “I’ll never forget Mustafa’s corner store, but as soon as this place opens, I’m coming here with my checkbook.” Going native just might be the next way Wal-Mart wins.

Mustafa’s “corner store” (the Green Market–a giant Hezbo-financed market with the blessing of Sheikhs Nasrallah and Fadlallah back in Lebanon) is well-known as a supporter of Hezbollah, and he’s been under investigation for years (by then-U.S. Customs agents in Detroit) for money-laundering to the terrorist group. And we can’t have Walmart hurting that. Can we?
Disgusting. I WILL NEVER SHOP AT WALMART AGAIN! And neither should you.

By Debbie Schlussel
I believe in the free market, but only when it’s actually a free market. That means level playing fields on both sides. Given that, you have to wonder how the “great” NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, fosters that. The Clintons supported it, and so did most Republicans.
Today, we’ve got a great example of how it fosters Phree Trade (that’s my short hand for Phony Free Trade):

Some are dented, scratched and rusty. Others rattle and belch under faded paint jobs. But the “’98” soaped onto their windshields and a surprise change in Mexican import rules have turned a single year’s worth of used cars into pick of the used-car lot.

Beginning Monday, only cars made for the 1998 model year – none older and none newer – can be legally imported into Mexico. Car dealers were given notice only a month ago.
Until now, used cars 10 to 15 years old were scooped up at auction by South Texas used car dealers and rapidly sold to Mexicans hungry for affordable transportation and “la novedad” – or novelty – of unfamiliar makes and models.
Cars newer than that were banned from imports as unwelcome competition for Mexican car dealers, and anything more than 15 years old was seen as a potential environmental and safety hazard.
But now, under pressure from Mexico’s new car dealers who say “vehiculos chatarra,” or jalopies, undercut their sales, the Mexican government is allowing only 10-year-old used cars to be legally imported into Mexico.
All of a sudden, 1998 Luminas, Astro vans and Ranger pickups are sought-after trophies.
The Mexican Association of Automobile Distributors, which pushed for the change, said it was needed to “stop the accelerated conversion of our country into the world’s biggest automotive garbage dump.”
The Mexican Consulate in McAllen said the change was made “to restrict the entry of vehicles that compete with the Mexican car industry.”

Yup, let’s hear it for Phree Trade . . . from the year 1998.
This reminds me a lot of parts of the Arab world, like Syria, where you can find a lot of American jalopies on the road.
Mexico . . . the new Phree Trade Arab world on our border.
Yo Soy 1998 Americana. (I never learned Spanish, so please forgive me if that’s wrong.)
Can’t wait until Mexico’s gamers are only allowed to play video games from 1998. Oh, wait, most video games aren’t made in the U.S., so they aren’t being cheated and displaced from the market under a Phree Trade agreement like NAFTA.

By Debbie Schlussel
It’s headline news in Detroit that Hezbollah-money-laundering restaurant chain La Shish has closed its doors and is now out of business. The restaurant, owned by fugitive Hezbollah-financier Talal Chahine, laundered over $20 million to Hezbollah and is now out of business.
But that’s not the headline to me. The headline is that–even though Chahine defrauded the IRS out of $7 million in taxes on about $21 million in income and used that to fund a terrorist group that murdered hundreds of Americans–it was allowed to remain open for business for more than two years after the fraud was discovered by the government and for nearly two years after its owner, Chahine, was indicted.

While the stories (the Free Press front-pager and prominently-placed Detroit Newsistan story) mourn the loss of this poisonous Michigan business, there are plenty of innocent, hard-working Michigan businesses shutting their doors in our difficult economy. Those businesses did nothing to defraud the U.S. government. And they didn’t finance mass murder by a terrorist group that has murdered the second highest-number of Americans, after Al-Qaeda (more, if you count the many American soldiers who were victims of Hezbollah IEDs in Iraq).
No, here’s the real headline: The U.S. government–led by Bush U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy a/k/a “Abu Porno”–not only refused to freeze and/or seize Chahine’s assets, they refused to seize his passport, allowed him to flee to Lebanon, and to operate his restaurant chain from there. If you defrauded the IRS of millions, do you think your business would still operate, with you collecting the profits in Lebanon? Or do you think the IRS would seize the assets, shutter the place, and sell it, while freezing any and all bank accounts? None of that was done to Chahine.
Yup, our government treats Hezbollah terrorist financiers way better than you, the little guy who didn’t finance the mass murder of hundreds of innocent civilians worldwide.
And don’t forget that Chahine was also running an illegal immigration ring, through which he facilitated marriage fraud of his multiple sisters-in-law and other Lebanese employees, and paid off INS/ICE official Roy Bailey to help him in this endeavor. Also don’t forget that he enlisted his sister-in-law, Nada Nadim Al-Aouar Deladurantaye Valley Prouty, to spy on the U.S. by infiltrating the FBI and then the CIA. And for that, the U.S. allows this man to continue operating his restaurant for two years even though he’s a “fugitive” (they allowed him to flee) in Lebanon?
Chahine still has access to all of his multi-millions in banks here from Lebanon, and has reportedly transferred most of them to offshore accounts. My Lebanese intelligence sources tell me he has married a new wife and started a new company, reportedly in steel and construction. And while he reportedly has over 11 children with different women in Michigan–some of whom are now on welfare here–he still has the good life, because the U.S. government has allowed all that for the last two years.

Sickening: Sob Stories Over Hezbo Financier Talal Chahine
And then there are the various pigs in Detroit who kept this business afloat. There are pigs like aging new age hag/annoying Detroit Free Press columnist Susan Ager. In a column, she recommended that Michigan employers, desperate to attract bright employees from elsewhere to our dying state, should take them for a meal at La Shish. When one of my readers e-mailed her asking why she’d recommend a restaurant that defrauded America and financed terror, she nearly tore the person’s head off. The death of outrage against terrorists started long before 9/11, and it is a symptom of sick souls like Ager. If she were starring in her own Nicholas Berg video, she’d probably try to gurgle down her last bite of shish tawook and sing the praises of the restaurant in the process.
I won’t be suprised if Ager joins the group-think chorus in the Detroit media, full of nauseating sob stories over this terrorist financier and his restaurant. It’s sad that hard-working, innocent Michigan business owners don’t merit this sympathy when they go under. If only they, too, financed Islamic terrorism.

U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy a/k/a “Abu Porno”:
Allowed Hezbollah Financier to Flee U.S., Restaurant to Stay Open
Then, there is this pig, Linda Nowinski. This resident of the Detroit suburb of Livonia wasn’t ashamed to tell the Detroit Free Press that she continued to patronize the restaurant with her equally piggish coworkers and is upset that she won’t be able to eat there anymore:

“Now what am I going to eat?” customer Linda Nowinski, 56, of Livonia said Sunday after pulling up to a La Shish drive-through window in Westland. She said she and coworkers regularly ate at the restaurant.

Yup, this is why we’re losing the domestic and international wars on terror. We can’t even get a post-middle age woman to stop financing terrorism, lest it interrupt her regularly scheduled diet of shawarmeh. If you know this woman and her La Shish-patronizing co-workers, you are friends with a conscience-less piglet.
They–and too many others in the Detroit area–kept La Shish afloat in the two years after it was made clear the restaurant financed terrorism. They didn’t care. Because they needed their tabbouli fix, and wouldn’t sacrifice eating at even another Middle Eastern restaurant to do the right thing. Lazy gluttons, who put “vastly more important priorities” like gastronomic matters over matters of conscience, will be the death of us. American wants versus what’s good for America against terrorists is a losing battle that we–not the terrorists, not Muslims–are losing for ourselves.
And still there are sleazy others–Arabs that Jews in Detroit continue to patronize, despite the fact that they knowingly and eagerly did business with Chahine. One of those is Samir Saleh–frontman of several Mezza Mediterranean restaurants in the Detroit area. He opened La Shish franchises, knowing full well who Chahine was–it was well known in the Arab (and FBI) community here for years what Chahine was up to.
Yet, despite willingly engaging in business with this Hezbollah financier and contributing substantially to his profits, the Detroit Jewish News–twice!–wrote false articles encouraging Jews to patronize his restaurant in a Jewish neighborhood, which had been faltering after Chahine’s indictment. More bellies of pigs at work? No, in this case, it’s an ideological self-hatred of the Jewish establishment that begs to bend over for its avowed enemies and their enablers, like Saleh.
And then, again, is the government–which under the “leadership” of Bush and his man Stephen Murphy, looked the other way on Chahine and his restaurant and bent over backward to give him and his falafel joint every break imaginable.
On the Detroit Free Press website, a minority Detroit-area ICE agent wrote that he was persecuted for refusing to eat there after Chahines was indicted. His comment should not surprise you:

iceman721 wrote:
I work in Homeland Security and sat in a briefing over a year ago where the Detroit FBI detailed the contributions from this guy to Hezbollah. I refused to eat there when I first got wind of the “possible” links to terrorism by this business. I am a minority but many of my Caucasian friends still ate there and then called me racist for not taking them my money. The Detroit area FBI & IRS agents should be commended for their fine work getting to to the bottom of their terrorist ties. Oh and for the extreme liberals out there the Patriot Act was used extensively to gather the intelligence that took this guy down!
3/3/2008 8:11:51 AM

Although he doesn’t say specifically that federal agents continued to eat there, I happen to know that Michigan/Ohio ICE Special Agent in Charge Brian Moskowitz a/k/a “Abu Moskowitz“ ate there repeatedly with his Muslim friends, including “former” Islamic terrorist Imad Hamad and designated Hezbollah-agent Osama Siblani. Ditto for all of the tops feds in town, as well as top DHS federal officials when they visited town. I’ve written about this before.
Now, that La Shish is out of business, the feds in town are bragging to the Detroit Newsistan that they will sell off La Shish’s assets to pay its debt to the Michigan Department of Treasury and the IRS, now that those assets are basically worthless. Big deal. Again, they waited two years, refused to seize the vast millions Chahine possesses, and now they are doing this tiny, meaningless pittance for the benefit of press and PR.
Thank Heaven for small favors. And that’s my response to this whole thing–Thank Heaven for small favors.
The fact remains: The big fish in financing Hezbollah, defrauding the IRS, running an illegal alien smuggling ring for countless Hezbollah Muslims who now live in our midst, and spying on the U.S. at the highest levels–that big fish, Talal Chahine, remains free and unblemished, living his millionaire lifestyle.
Thanks, President Bush, for being so “tough” on terrorism.
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Another sign that Chahine lives the good life: Last week, he reportedly orchestrated the prison breakout of his son-in-law, who is serving in a Lebanese jail. It’s an apparent trap. As I’ve noted, Chahine’s son Khalil Chahine is in a Michigan prison for an honor killing of a Maronite Christian engaged to his Muslim former girlfriend. Chahine has argued that the son-in-law, not his son, did it, and reportedly orchestrated the breakout so that the son-in-law will face the charges for what his son actually perpetrated. More on that later, but the point is that Chahine has the protection of Hezbollah and the Lebanese government at the highest levels. They do what he wants.
And we let him go.

By Debbie Schlussel
If you’re a hockey fan like me, or even just a fan of “Slap Shot” one of the two greatest hockey movies ever (the other is “Miracle“), you’ll love this story. Christian Hanson, son of the only real Hanson among “Slap Shot’s” brawling “Hanson Brothers,” is profiled tonight on ESPN (see full video below). A dead ringer for his father and “uncles,” Hanson didn’t even know about his father’s stint in the 1977 movie until he saw it on the team bus. At almost 22, he plays hockey for Notre Dame.
Reminds you of the good old days before hockey was sanitized of fighting and became extremely boring:

Christian Hanson, now a junior center on Notre Dame’s hockey team, was 13 when he happened to see the 1977 cult classic Slap Shot. As it aired on screens in a bus carrying his youth hockey team, he was stunned by one of its stars – his father Dave. And, as Christian says in an ESPN feature airing Sunday, his father’s acting seemed way out of character: “I’m just sitting there watching, and I’m actually befuddled. My dad is up there hackin’ and whackin’ and beatin’ guys up – and swearing. I never saw any of this at home.”
But Dave, who hadn’t planned to show Christian the film until his son was older, says the action wasn’t choreographed: “We weren’t acting. … I left everything on the ice. That often meant dropping the gloves and knocking the snot out of the other guy.”

The Hanson Brothers, Their Son/”Nephew”, Christian Hanson

Dave played one of the film’s three Hanson brothers – the other two were actual brothers and not related to Dave – who are hard-nosed enforcers.
For Dave, who had NHL stints in the 1978-79 and 1979-80 seasons, it was art imitating life: He also played in the now-defunct World Hockey Association — racking up 497 penalty minutes in 103 games.
After his playing days ended in 1984, Dave worked at a ski resort and managed ice rinks. Christian says his friends can’t guess at his dad’s past: “They say, ‘It’s amazing with Mr. Hanson, he’s just so laid-back and so quiet and such a nice person.’ “

Visit the Official Hanson Brothers Website.
My previous work on “Slap Shot” and the Hanson Brothers: “Feel Old?: Hanson Brothers Turn 30.”