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If you’re a Christian concerned with the viability of your religion and you still don’t think we’re fighting the fight of our lives against Islam, then you need to read “Last Rites in the Holy Land” from the July 23, 2007 issue of Newsweek (most of which is posted below).
Arabia’s Christians are now meeting with the same fate meted out to Arabia’s Jews. This is not a new development, as Muslims have attacked Christians throughout the centuries since Islam’s inception. But the attacks are once again at their height and in a revivalist phase. I’ve written about this many times, but it bears repeating. And in many ways, Christians who foolishly allied with Islamists against the Jews and Israel are “getting it back” in spades.

Read this distrubing article, and tell me whether you still believe that Islam is the “Religion of Peace” or, more accurate, the Religion of Pieces:

He refused to leave Baghdad, even after the day last year when masked Sunni gunmen forced him and eight co-workers to line up against a wall and said, “Say your prayers.” An Assyrian Christian, Rayid Albert closed his eyes and prayed to Jesus as the killers opened fire. He alone survived, shot seven times. But a month ago a note was left at his front door, warning, “You have three choices: change your religion, leave or pay the jeziya”–a tax on Christians levied by ancient Islamic rulers. It was signed “The Islamic Emirate of Iraq,” a Qaeda pseudonym. That was the day Albert decided to get out immediately. He and the other 10 members of his household are now living as refugees in Kurdistan.
Across the lands of the Bible, Christians like Albert and his family are abandoning their homes. According to the World Council of Churches, the region’s Christian population has plunged from 12 million to 2 million in the past 10 years. Lebanon, until recently a majority Christian country–the only one in the Mideast–has become two-thirds Muslim. The Greek Orthodox archbishop in Jerusalem, where only 12,000 Christians remain, is pleading with his followers not to leave. “We have to persevere,” says Theodosios Atallah Hanna. “How can the land of Jesus Christ stay without Christians?” The proportion of Christians in Bethlehem, once 85 percent, is now 20 percent. Egypt’s Coptic Christians, who trace the roots of their faith back to Saint Mark’s preaching in the first century, used to account for 10 percent of their country’s population. Now they’ve dwindled to an estimated 6 percent. “The flight of Christians out of these areas is similar to the hunt for Jews,” says Magdi Allam, an Egyptian-Italian author and expert on Islam, himself a Muslim. [DS: Allam was a Maronite Christian last name, so his family was likely forcibly converted to Islam at some point.] “There is no better example of what will happen if this human tragedy in the Arab-Muslim world is allowed to continue.”
Nowhere is the exodus more extreme than in Iraq. Before the war, members of the Assyrian and Chaldean rites, along with smaller numbers of Armenians and others, constituted roughly 1.2 million of the country’s 25 million people. Most sources agree that well over half of those Christians have fled the country now, and many or most of the rest have been internally displaced, but some estimates are far more drastic. According to the Roman Catholic relief organization Caritas, the number of Christians in Iraq had plummeted to 25,000 by last year. Of the 1.7 million Iraqi refugees in Jordan and Syria, half are Christians, says Father Raymond Moussalli, a Chaldean vicar who now says mass every night in a basement in Amman. “The government of Saddam used to protect us,” he says. “Mr. Bush doesn’t protect us. [DS: Of course, not. He’s too busy uttering his “Islam is peace” mantra and taking his shoes off at extremist mosques.] The Shia don’t protect us. No Christian was persecuted under Saddam for being Christian.”
Over the centuries, the region’s Christians have frequently made common cause with their Muslim neighbors. Leaders of some Christian factions even backed Hizbullah during last summer’s Lebanon war, and Arabic-speaking Christians in the Palestinian territories have regularly sided with the Muslim majority against the Israeli occupation. Five years ago Palestinian militants found sanctuary from Israel’s tanks inside Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity.
Nevertheless, old relationships are crumbling now. When Pope Benedict XVI quoted a medieval scholar’s critical comments on the Prophet Muhammad, last September, furious Palestinians reacted by torching at least half a dozen churches on the West Bank. About 3,000 Christians remain in Gaza–many of them seeking new homes somewhere else. “We’re living in a state of anxiety,” says Hanady Missak, deputy principal of the Rosary Sisters School in Gaza City. Militants ransacked the school’s chapel during the battle between Hamas and Fatah last month. Crosses were broken and prayer books burned. . . .
“There is no future for Christians in Iraq for the next thousand years,” says Rayid Paulus Tuma, a Chaldean Christian who fled his home in Mosul after two of his brothers were gunned down gangland style. His pessimism is shared by Srood Mattei, an Assyrian Christian now in Kurdistan: “We can see the end of the tunnel–and it is dark.”

We bear part of the responsibility of that darkness. We’ve allowed our President to repeatedly gush over, comfort, and enable the princes and kings of the darkness–the rulers of Islamic nations and their co-conspiratorial imams on our shores.

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A couple of interesting reads in today’s USA Today:
* What do Iraq War vets and dolphins have in common?
A good number of both of them are amputees, and the development of prosthetic fins for dolphins helps develop better prosthetics for humans. Fascinating story of Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics’ Kevin Carroll and Brian Kolfage who lost both legs and a hand on Sept. 11, 2004 in a mortar attack in Iraq.

Kevin Carroll with Dolphin Tail Gel Prosthetic
In general, I think Americans and American institutions and companies go way too far to accomodate animals. But, in this case, there’s a positive result for our disabled veterans. So, I’m all for it. That’s one of the many great things about America. We’re constantly inventing and innovating and making our lives better. In the Islamic world, they are only good at innovating new ways to murder and maim.
* “Does Height Equal Power?”
That’s the title of the cover story in USA Today’s Money section. The article talks about how tall CEOs use their height to command respect and authority. Even tall women execs wear heels to appear even more towering. The article says that, for us shorties, being louder and dominant is also a step up. To me–I’m about 5’1″/5’2″–I don’t mind being short at all. As a woman, I enjoy it, and I’d never want to look like a WNBA player. Height is not power in my life. Readership is (among other things). But, like the women in the article, I like wearing high heels.

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Not too long ago, I wrote about the pandering visit to Muslim extremists, paid by Central Command official and David Letterman look-alike, . He said the military wanted to get more Muslims involved. We constantly hear that from all branches of our Armed Forces, who heavily recruit from that community (usually to little success).
Several Muslim soldiers have turned out to be traitors and have even tried to murder fellow soldiers and share information on troop movements with Al-Qaeda.
Now there is the latest–the story of Megde “Mike” Ismail, a Michigan native and contractor with the U.S. Army. He’s been investigated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and tried to skim more than $800,000 in kickbacks and bribes. Shame on the infidel Army man, Major John Cockerham, who was in on his Mid-East style scheme. But at least he is facing justice and cooperating. Not the case with fugitive Ismail:

In the desert where water can be priceless, a Michigan resident and an Army major hoped to skim more than $800,000 in kickbacks and bribes for fixing contracts to sell bottled water to the American military in Kuwait and Iraq, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents claimed Tuesday in federal court filings in Detroit.
Agents said that while 30-year-old Megde (Mike) Ismail showed a briefcase crammed with $300,00 in kickback cash at a 2005 clandestine meeting in a Kuwaiti parking lot, Major John Cockerham never collected on the deal because he feared that ATM security cameras would record him withdrawing the money back in the United States.
The scheme and others that Cockerham said totaled $7 million from military contractors were part of federal court filings in Detroit to forfeit $172,109 seized from a Bank of America account said to have been opened by Ismail.
No criminal charges have been filed and federal authorities declined to comment. Efforts to contact Ismail — believed to be a Wayne resident and who may now be in Kuwait — were unsuccessful. Cockerham, now believed to be a civilian, did not respond to phone messages left at his home in San Antonio, Texas.
According to the court filings, Cockerham identified Ismail from a passport photo. The filings also say that Ismail is an American citizen from Michigan who’s worked for several military contractors in Kuwait.
Defense Department agents raided Cockerham’s home last year and he was said to have admitted that he took more than $7 million in bribes from military contractors while he was procurement officer in Kuwait. One of those deals, agents said, called for him to get a 10% payoff of a contract for bottled water.
Ismail came to a meeting in a parking lot outside a military base in Kuwait with $300,000 cash as his first payment, Cockerham told investigators. Cockerham said that he and Ismail planned to get as much as $800,000 each in the water deal, but the major was concerned about getting the money back to the United States.

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I’ve written that, so far, I think Rudy Giuliani will be the toughest President when it comes to Islamic terrorism. As I’ve written, his recent Michael Chertoff gives me pause. Still, I think Giuliani has shown in the past, and , that he has the cojones to do what’s needed.
But, like most conservatives, I have a lot of problems with Giuliani on other important issues. He has a bad track record on deporting illegal aliens and enforcing immigration laws. That’s an issue that is interwoven and inextricable from terrorism. And then there are his social issue positions. We know his views (from which he has not flip-flopped) on gay marriage, though while I oppose that, it’s not a deal-breaker for me in my vote for the White House.

Last night, I screened “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry” (my complete review will be posted on Friday). Like many of my smart readers–notably Garbanzo Toons–, the new Adam Sandler film–while a movie about two straight firemen, er . . . “firefighters” who fake a gay domestic partnership for pension benefits–is, in the end, a whopping 2-hour campaign ad for legalized gay marriage. The movie–which I thought I’d like (and hated)–is disgusting (far exceeding the paltry PG-13 rating; so many in-your-face men’s naked butts, I thought I was in Elton John’s hot tub). As I , the funniest moments are in the trailer, and overall, like most Sandler movies, this one is NOT funny (and, again, it’s repulsively disgusting; simply gross).
Yesterday, it was announced that among celebrities, only Giuliani got any star-studded cash. He got some green from Frasier’s Kelsey Grammar, and more notable, . I also noted in “Chuck & Larry,” that the New York City fire captain who oversees Chuck & Larry’s firehouse (played by Dan Ackroyd) brags that he worked for “the Great Mayor Giuliani,” as he delivers a monologue in favor of gay marriage and gay rights.
It was a little too in-your-face for me and a little too Giuliani-gay-marriage-in-your-face for me. Watching the movie, which has a lot of cross-dressing scenes and themes, reminded me of . I’m not saying he’s gay. With three wives, he’s hetero-serial. Still, the whole embrace of the gay culture and the in-your-face tutus and butterfly costumes was a little much. The many parents who brought their kids to the screening were a little too New York Times Square for my taste, a little too much enunciation of the “dark side” of Giuliani.
Will Rudy get away from all that as a President? I think and hope so. But movies and themes like these don’t help his cause in the conservative camp.
And we need to see a lot more Rudy counter-terror tough speak and a whole lot less “Chuck & Larry” tributes. Whatever your views on gay marriage, some of Giuliani’s get-ups (Marilyn Monroe, etc.) are simply unPresidential.
Most Americans don’t want–or need–a “Chuck & Larry” Presidency. We want a man who is serious on serious issues that are life and death for all of us–regardless of sexual preference.

The “Chuck & Larry” Prez?

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A couple of weeks ago, in the aftermath of the , –a successful and brilliant anesthesiologist who trained at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University Medical School.
Dr. Dorin–who has followed the issue of Muslim Medical Doctors and jihad in America since 9/11–maintains a website on Jihad and American Medicine/Preventing Medical Terrorism. And he wrote a book, “Jihad and American Medicine: Thinking Like a Terrorist to Anticipate Attacks via our Health System,” published soon.

First, Do Harm
But now The Washington Post is censoring him. Hoping to capitalize on the news about the Muslim Doctor Terrorists, he wanted to place a classified ad in the paper to drum up early sales. But, after initially accepting and confirming they’d publish the ad, The Post refused to run his benign ad, which contained merely the title of the book and the price. Here is the text of the ad:

Book–Pre-order: “Jihad and American Medicine,” $49, Prevent Terrorism, www.adamdorin.com

Here is the e-mail correspondence between Dr. Dorin and The Washington Post:

—–Original Message—–
From: Alina Massey MasseyA@washpost.com
To: Adam Dorin, MD
Sent: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 6:47 am
Subject: Re: Ad#40342
Dear Advertiser,
After speaking with my supervisor we determined we are not able to run your advertisement due to content.
Thank you,
Alina
*__________*
http://www.washingtonpostads.com/

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From: Adam Frederic Dorin, M.D., MBA
To: TWPCoReply@washpost.com
Sent: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:59 am
Subject: Fwd: Ad#40342
Please explain why this ad was turned down. I have copies of the original ad (and many others have reviewed the ad–all of whom see it as perfectly “benign”), which lists an upcoming book by Greenwood Publishing Group/Praeger Securities International (Fall 2007) and is listed on Amazon.com. I fear that individuals of Arabic or Muslim background have misinterpreted my book (which is about counter-terrorism in the health care setting) and exercised their own brand of bias against my book. Here is the ad:
Book–Pre-order: “Jihad and American Medicine,” $49, Prevent Terrorism, www.adamdorin.com
I will forward the Washington Post’s own receipt for my ad separately.
Thank you.
Adam Frederic Dorin, M.D., MBA
http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C9637.aspx

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———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Adam Frederic Dorin, M.D., MBA
Date: Jul 10, 2007 9:24 PM
Subject: Washington Post Employees Ban Ad for Book on National Security
To: health@washpost.com, national@washpost.com, bwletters@washpost.com, letters@washpost.com
In my advertisement (Ad # 40342), a book I wrote (which is on Amazon.com, Greenwood.com, my website AdamDorin.com, amongst other places; pub. date 11/30/07) is advertised like any book: “Book–Pre-Order book, “Jihad and American Medicine,” $49, Prevent Terror, www.adamdorin.com”
For this, I paid by credit card, and the payment was accepted. I was later notified by a classified department employeed, Alina Massey, that my ad had been rejected by her and her supervisor for “content” (I have all the electronic records). Please explain how my book, which is about describing and offering solutions to safety and security risks inherent to the American healthcare system, has been banned from the Washington Post Classified Section. Please also explain how the Montgomery County Sentinel (which has previously, and is currently running a much more lengthy ad), Greenwood Publishing, Amazon.com, consultants to the Department of Homeland Security, a senior Deputy Director of the FBI Counter-terrorism Division, leading academicians, international terrorism experts (as well as a Maryland State Senator, physicians, laypersons, and others) have given their support and praise to this literary work in contrast to the Washington Post.
I am giving the Washington Post a fair chance to respond, before expanding my inquiry and protest over this matter.
Sincerely,
Adam Frederic Dorin, M.D., MBA
http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C9637.aspx
See New Website: http://www.JihadandAmericanMedicine.com

This is an outrage.
Next time you hear Washington Post reporters rail against censorship, don’t believe it. Their employer gives even better than it gets.
And apparently, you can’t even mention a book critical of Islam in an ad on its pages.
In support of Dr. Dorin, don’t buy any ads in the Washington Post, and order his book.

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. . . in which men are slacker-losers and the women are put-together, directed, smart careerists? Movies like etc.?
Well, so is The New Yorker film critic David Denby. Read his excellent (but long) “A Fine Romance: The New Comedy of the Sexes.” Here’s an excerpt:

His beard is haphazard and unintentional, and he dresses in sweats, or in shorts and a T-shirt, or with his shirt hanging out like the tongue of a Labrador retriever. He’s about thirty, though he may be younger, and he spends a lot of time with friends who are like him, only more so–sweet-natured young men of foul mouth, odd hair, and wanker-mag reading habits. When he’s with them, punched beer cans and bongs of various sizes lie around like spent shells; alone, and walrus-heavy on his couch, he watches football, basketball, or baseball on television, or spends time memorializing his youth–archiving old movies, games, and jokes. Like his ancestors in the sixties, he’s anti-corporate, but he’s not bohemian (his culture is pop). He’s more like a sullen back-of-the-classroom guy, who breaks into brilliant tirades only when he feels like it. He may run a used-record store, or conduct sightseeing tours with a non-stop line of patter, or feed animals who then high-five him with their flippers, or teach in a school where he can be friends with all the kids, or design an Internet site that no one needs. Whatever he does, he hardly breaks a sweat, and sometimes he does nothing at all.
He may not have a girlfriend, but he certainly likes girls–he’s even, in some cases, a hetero blade, scoring with tourists or love-hungry single mothers. But if he does have a girlfriend she works hard. Usually, she’s the same age as he is but seems older, as if the disparity between boys and girls in ninth grade had been recapitulated fifteen years later. She dresses in Donna Karan or Ralph Lauren or the like; she’s a corporate executive, or a lawyer, or works in TV, public relations, or an art gallery. She’s good-tempered, honest, great-looking, and serious. She wants to “get to the next stage of life”–settle down, marry, maybe have children. Apart from getting on with it, however, she doesn’t have an idea in her head, and she’s not the one who makes the jokes.
When she breaks up with him, he talks his situation over with his hopeless pals, who give him bits of misogynist advice. Suddenly, it’s the end of youth for him. It’s a crisis for her, too, and they can get back together only if both undertake some drastic alteration: he must act responsibly (get a job, take care of a kid), and she has to do something crazy (run across a baseball field during a game, tell a joke). He has to shape up, and she has to loosen up.
There they are, the young man and young woman of the dominant romantic-comedy trend of the past several years–the slovenly hipster and the female straight arrow. The movies form a genre of sorts: the slacker-striver romance.

You get the point. Hollywood hates successful, good, decent, hard-working men. But loves those characteristics on women.
And life imitates art . . . after a while of Hollywood constantly hitting young men (and women) over the head with this view.

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Open Hezbollah supporter (with terrorist ties), Nasser Beydoun (and several unidentified partners) recently bought the Fairlane Club of Dearbornistan, Michigan.
I’ve written a lot about Nasser Beydoun on this site. And the purchase is a symbolic changing of the guard at Ground Zero of Islamo-fascist America. The Fairlane Club, once a prestigious, exclusive health club, gym, and place to play tennis was opened in 1975 for wealthy Ford Motor Company executives, their wives, and families to exercise, play, relax, and hold catered affairs. It has courts and facilities for most sports, a spa, a state-of-the-art gym, and banquet and meeting rooms.
But, with ’70s decor and a matching aura, the club has been in decline for years, just as Ford is, and fell out of favor. It currently only has 2,000 members.

Hezbollah Supporter Nasser Beydoun Snatches Up Health Club
Beydoun’s purchase of the club raises eyebrows. Many Dearbornistan residents wonder where the money is coming from, both for the purchase and the extensive remodeling and other expenses he plans to undertake in reviving the club. Are the true investors Islamist Arab governments? Hezbollah?
Beydoun’s father, Mohammed, returned to the Hezbollah stronghold of Bint Jbeil, where he built a mansion and now lives. (We, U.S. taxpayers, however, paid to bring him back to the U.S., last summer, during Hezbollah’s war.)
And Beydoun is Secretary of a Dearbornistan-based Lebanese charity, which sends hundreds of thousands of dollars to Hezbollah-dominated South Lebanon, each year. Observers say the money is likely going to Hezbollah or Hezbollah-controlled facilities and organizations. Yet, the officials charged with investigating this sort of thing– and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent in Charge for Michigan/Ohio –are in bed with Beydoun, openly feting him at every turn.
Of note, one of Beydoun’s three fellow officers in the charity, was co-owner of a Dearbornistan department store property co-owned by Hezbollah financier, (owner of , from which he ), now a federal indictee and fugitive from justice, who escaped to Lebanon.
Then, there is , the U.S. affiliate of Al Mabarrat Association, headed by Hezbollah spiritual leader, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah (who issued the fatwa to murder 300 U.S. Marines and civilians in Beirut and almost 100 civilians at the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina). Two of its Dearborn-based officers–Fouad T. Beydoun, Ahmad J. Bazzi, and Nazem Baydoun–are Nasser Beydoun’s cousins.
Nasser Beydoun is an open supporter of Hezbollah. As I wrote, he appeared and spoke at at least two Hezbollah rallies I attended last summer. His extremist rhetoric in support of the terrorist group matched other blatantly anti-American, anti-Semitic speeches at both events.
As head of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce, he made clear why America was a mere adjective in the title of his organization. Beydoun traveled all over the Mid-East telling Islamist groups that the purpose of his group was to get America to change its policies on Israel.
And the Fairlane Club will be no different. Add it to the list of Dearbornistan hang-outs where Hezbollah supporters can and do rally in support and secretly plan funding and money-laundering operations.
Incredibly, Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis was actively recruiting Beydoun to run for the U.S. Senate as the Michigan Republican nominee. That should tell you something about the state of the Michigan Republican Party, where supporting Jihad is not a disqualifier, but a resume-enhancing entry.

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about “Crossing Over,” a Hollywood movie currently being shot and starring Draft-Dodger Harrison Ford and far-lefty Jeff Spicoli (a/k/a Sean Penn). Ford plays an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, Penn a shorter role as a Border Patrol agent.
a former top ICE Deputy Special Agent in Charge, Kevin Jeffrey, is a consultant to the film and that ICE “leadership” (if you call that “leadership”) warned agents and personnel not to cooperate with the movie. For once, I agreed with ICE brass because the movie is sympathetic to Islamofascist illegal aliens and makes ICE agents–specifically Detention and Removal Operations agents who round them up–look like the bad guys for doing their jobs and trying to deport them. Reality Check: They are the GOOD guys.

Draft-Dodger Harrison Ford is Hollywood’s Silver Screen ICE Agent
Well, today, I received the complete “Crossing Over” script from one of my loyal Hollywood spies and tipsters. I am reading it and will give my complete review, along with juicy tidbits and dialogue excerpts, very soon. Yup, I do the job The ICE Princess’ overpaid PR team doesn’t.
Stay tuned.

No Joke: This is Hollywood’s Version of a Border Patrol Agent

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****  UPDATE, 02/15/10:  ‘Memba Her?: Texas Lesbian Muslim Terrorist Chick Caught Again . . . w/ Three Bombs ****

How many chances do two Muslim women get to violate the law with terrorist threats and test the system?
Many chances, apparently, if they’re of Arlington, Texas. ?
As , Al-Homsi, a Syrian with dual citizenship, was friends with Wadih El-Hage, Osama Bin Laden’s personal secretary, convicted of the two 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa.

“Kimberly” Asma Al-Homsi & Aisha Abdul-Rahman Hamad:

Lesbian Muslim Terror Suspects Act Crazy to Test System
In February, the two women–who live together as lesbian “domestic partners” (which is supposed to be haram–forbidden–by Islam) were caught surveilling planes’ take-off and landing at Dallas’ Love Field airport with binoculars. And they were also caught pacing and counting the number of paces inside the airport terminals (which authorities say is a typical surveillance and planning technique).
On July 4th, the women were reported driving near the runways at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
And Al-Homsi is already on probation for a 2005 incident in which Garland Road in Richardson, Texas had to be shut down because she said she had a grenade she was waving at motorists (it turned out to be a fake) and threatened to blow it up. The two women have repeatedly been questioned by the FBI and Al-Homsi has long-range assault rifle and explosives training according to a February intelligence bulletin issued in the Dallas area.
Yesterday, police had a six-hour stand-off at Al-Homsi’s and Hamad’s home, and it appears set up by Al-Homsi to test police response time and methods/procedures regarding explosive devices. Al-Homsi shot at Arlington police robots with a paintball gun, while they tried to detonate an apparent explosive device on the lawn, and a bomb squad was called in for four explosive devices found in the home. Both women were arrested after the episode. Police found “lots of ammo” and “things used in different types of devices,” which they wouldn’t discuss further.
Al-Homsi called police, early Monday morning, claiming Hamad, had threatened her with a knife, but again, it appears to be a set-up to test police response. The Al-Homsi/Hamad neighbors have long lived in fear and can’t allow their children to play outside. WATCH THE NEWS VIDEO from Dallas/Forth Worth’s CBS 11.
More from the Dallas Morning News:

Police say that Monday morning, when an officer came to the door, Ms. Hamad threatened to shoot him. She told him the only way she would leave was in a body bag.
So began the standoff, during which she fired a paintball gun at a tactical robot and missed, police say, and at the end of which a negotiator persuaded her to come out peacefully. Once outside, Ms. Hamad, 50, fought with them while they tried to handcuff her, police say, so they used a Taser on her.
Police took Ms. Hamad to a hospital, where she was to undergo a mental evaluation. She is likely to face assault charges, Arlington police spokeswoman Christy Gilfour said.
Meanwhile, police searched the home on Wembley Road and found four explosive devices, one of which was sitting on a bedroom table.
Citing an ongoing investigation, Arlington Assistant Fire Marshal Stephen Lea would not say what the devices were.
“We do not know whether they would function as [explosive] devices until we have time to study them and look at them and test the materials,” Mr. Lea said. “I can tell you this; there wasn’t anything in there that would have blown her house to pieces.”
Ms. Hamad’s friend and alleged victim, Ms. Al-Homsi, was jailed on a charge of possessing a prohibited weapon. She was being held, with bail set at $3,000. . . .
Dallas police and federal terrorism officials have acknowledged investigating the pair, but police officials have said they had no direct evidence the women have ties to terrorism [DS: “Ties” to it? They ARE it.]. The women have accused authorities of violating their rights and of religious and racial profiling.

I don’t believe for a second that either one of these women is crazy. They’re just acting that way to test the system for their Islamofascist comrades–test the system, conduct dry runs, and see how much they can get away with. And they’re getting away with a lot. Way too much. They are laughing at us.
Don’t forget, Al-Qaeda has long instructed operatives–per its training manual and elsewhere–to do things to obscure their real plots, including directions to act crazy or insane, so plots won’t be taken seriously, once discovered.
These “chicks” are textbook examples.
Read , Muslim lesbian terror suspects who repeatedly test the system . . . and get away with it:

Thanks to reader GINO for the update tip.

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Welcome to the new McCarthyism (with apologies to Senator McCarthy, who was somewhat right about many in Hollywood who truly hated America).
If you are for secure borders and don’t like illegal alien criminals running rampant all over our country, you will be the object of the new witch hunts.
Take Frances Semler. Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that the 73-year-old woman was appointed by Kansas City, Missouri Mayor Mark Funkhouser to serve on the city’s Parks and Recreation board.

Courageous: Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser
Stands Down Open Borders Orthodoxy
But lefties and a religous coalition of more lefties is protesting her appointment. Why? Because Semler is a volunteer for the Minutemen Civil Defense Corp. And apparently, you can’t voluntarily patrol our interior looking for illegal aliens and be a good American. You must live and let–criminals, lawbreakers and terrorists–live.
They are trying to depose Mrs. Semler. But three cheers to brave Mayor Funkhouser, who is refusing to give in to the PC crowd. He continues to support Mrs. Semler. And I like how he defines “diversity,” bucking convention. Three cheers also to the Mexican-American colleague who is supporting Mrs. Semler. And finally, kudos to the many Minutemen who protested outside the hope of an intolerant Kansas City Councilwoman, Beth Gottstein, who voted to remove Semler.
More:

An elderly woman’s appointment to a local parks board doesn’t normally generate controversy. But in Kansas City, Mo., Frances Semler’s new position on the city’s Parks and Recreation board has unexpectedly fanned the flames of the debate over illegal immigration.
The 73-year-old Mrs. Semler is an activist in the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a controversial volunteer civilian patrol formed two years ago to secure U.S. borders and crack down on illegal immigrants. . . . And as the stir over Mrs. Semler’s appointment shows, the Minutemen’s influence has spread deep into Middle America, far from the U.S.-Mexico borders where the anti-illegal-immigrant group originated.
The controversy began on June 11, when Kansas City’s new mayor, Mark Funkhouser, announced he was replacing a Parks and Recreation board that he said was rooted in a “culture of elitism and community divisiveness” with new commissioners representing a “wealth of experience, perspective and diversity.” Mrs. Semler was one of five new commissioners.
The next day, her connection to the local Minutemen chapter was made public by the daily Kansas City Star. The city’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Coalition of Hispanic Organizations, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Jewish Community Relations Bureau held a news conference on June 14 to condemn the appointment. Later that day, the city council, voting 9 to 3, adopted a resolution calling for Mrs. Semler’s removal from the parks board. . . .
“This is about racism and divisiveness — everything we are not supposed to be about,” said council member Beth Gottstein, who voted for Mrs. Semler’s removal.
Mrs. Semler, a former president of the county rose society, said in an interview that she had joined the anti-illegal immigrant group late last year because “I believe very strongly in obeying the law.” She denies being a racist.
The mayor says he didn’t know of Mrs. Semler’s affiliation with the Minutemen but doesn’t believe it will interfere with her performance. “As long as her personal behavior is good … I don’t see why I should remove her,” Mr. Funkhouser said in an interview. The mayor said he chose Mrs. Semler because she is “smart, creative and caring. She is not a racist.”
He noted that he had appointed a Hispanic as president of the board and two black men to be commissioners. “Diversity is also about diversity of views,” he says. . . .
Two days after the city council approved a resolution against Mrs. Semler’s appointment, several demonstrators gathered outside council member Ms. Gottstein’s gated condominium with placards protesting her vote. Her office has been flooded with angry email from Minutemen supporters across the country, she says.
The mayor, who confirms reports that Mrs. Semler campaigned for him ahead of the March 27 election, isn’t the only one standing by her. John Fierro, the new president of the parks board and a third-generation Mexican-American, also defends the appointment. “I am comfortable working with her at this time,” he said in an interview. “I don’t see any reason to think she is going to be divisive in her ability to support the department.”
Mrs. Semler says her affiliation with the Minutemen won’t interfere with her work on the board, which controls a $56.5 million annual budget and oversees 213 parks and 132 miles of boulevards. “I am interested in safe, clean parks for all,” she said.