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The “Religion of Peace” strikes again. Remember that Muslim who e-mailed me , telling me how “feminist” his religion is? Well, I’m not a feminist, but his relgion doesn’t even come close.
A woman in France asked her Muslim husband for a divorce. And now she has no eyes. Sadly, this act of extreme brutality only garnered a 30 year sentence:

A man who ripped out his wife’s eyes in a fit of rage was sentenced by a French court to 30 years behind bars on Tuesday.
Mohamed Hadfi, 31, tore out his 23-year-old wife Samira Bari’s eyes following a heated argument in their apartment in the southern French city of Nimes in July 2003 after she refused to have sex with him.
Bari, who had demanded a divorce before the attack, was permanently blinded. [DS: Gee, thanks for the tip. No more eyes, and yet, she’s blind.]

Hadfi, a Moroccan, initially fled to Germany. He was arrested and sent back to France, where he was indicted for “acts of torture and barbarity leading to a permanent disability”.
Prosecutor Dominique Tourette demanded that he be sentenced to 30 years in prison, two-thirds of which must be served in full, calling the defendant a “diabolic torturer”.
Once his sentence is served, Hadfi will be deported and barred from ever returning to France.
His lawyer Jean-Pierre Cabanes meanwhile insisted there were extenuating circumstances.
“This is the result of a marriage that was arranged, not chosen,” he said, pointing to the gulf separating his client, who came from southern Morocco, and his young wife, who had grown up in France.
Cabanes begged the jury for leniency, claiming his client’s action “appeared to stem from a mental illness”.

Yes, we know what that “mental illness” is called. It starts with an “I,” ends with an “M,” with an “S-L-A” in the middle. (And, FYI, I originated that line, NOT the author and columnist who stole it from me for his book.)

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I admire Superbowl champion coach Tony Dungy, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. A G-d-fearing man with Main Street America values, he downplayed the race issue in this year’s Superbowl and never swayed from his Christian values in his quest to win the Big Game. That’s something I believe helped get him there.
Now, Dungy has done something with a lot more guts. He’s come out in favor of a ban on gay marriage. Dungy knows that this controversial stand will lose him a lot of money.
Gay rights groups will pounce on current and potential sponsors and endorsement deals, and Dungy will ultimately lose significant funds for taking this stand. For that reason, most athletes would run like Roger Bannister away from taking such a strong political stand. And that’s why it’s so gutsy that Dungy too a different path.

Superbowl Champ Indianapolis Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy
Opposes Gay Marriage
The National Football League is running fast and furious away from Dungy and his comments. And I can’t blame them. If I were running a pro sports league, I’d stay far away from politics, especially political issues. Nobody wants a mix of Rosie O’Donnell and Sean Penn in their Sunday afternoon football.
That’s why I have my reservations on Dungy’s pronouncement. I oppose gay marriage. Marriage is between one adult man and one adult woman only. But I wouldn’t like it if Dungy took the opposite stand and came out in favor of gay marriage. And I do believe that athletes and sports figures should stay out of politics, just as I feel showbiz types should and have repeatedly said so.
Still, I give kudos to Dungy for taking a stand that he knows will lose him a lot, but will allow him to publicly stand on principle.
More from USA Today:

Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy said he knows some people would rather he steered clear of Indiana’s gay marriage debate, but he clearly staked out his position nonetheless.
The Super Bowl-winning coach “embraced” the stance of an Indiana organization supporting an amendment to the state constitution that would ban gay marriages, and he added Tuesday night at a gathering of the Indiana Family Institute that he’s “on the Lord’s side.”
“We’re not trying to downgrade anyone else,” said Dungy, coach of the Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts. “But we’re trying to promote the family – family values the Lord’s way,” Dungy said. “IFI is saying what the Lord says. You can take that and make your decision on which way you want to be.”
Asked about Dungy’s comments, the NFL provided the following response through spokesman Greg Aiello:
“Coach Dungy is speaking for himself and expressing his views, which he is fully entitled to do. No doubt there are people in our league that have a different view. We respect the right of employees to have and express their views and don’t regulate the political or religious views of team or league employees.”

Contrast the diplomatic way the NFL distanced itself from Dungy with the obnoxious cut-and-run way the League and ESPN treated Rush Limbaugh on a far less controversial issue.

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Last year, I told you about . But he’s not the only girlie-man with SMID (Surname/Masculinity Identity Disorder).
Today’s USA Today Life Section has David Lunde, Jedi Master of PhotoShopping)

Some guests clapped, some chuckled at what they presumed was a joke and most looked at one another in confusion. The couple spent the entire reception and some of their honeymoon explaining to people what they had done.
The groom, you see, had started his day as Mike Davis and ended it by doing something precious few of his brothers-in-arms do: He took his wife’s last name instead of her taking his. . . .
Mike Salinger, who said it cost him about $350 to change his name legally, concedes he changed his name “because I’m a big ole granola liberal and I wanted to tweak the tradition while showing my wife I love her.” . . .
Christopher Sclafani and Jeannie Rhee avoided the wedding-night scene the Salingers endured by instructing their deejay not to introduce them with their last names, but their decision to take on both names without a hyphen caused other problems. The new Christopher Sclafani Rhee was immediately and persistently called Mr. Rhee, which most people assumed was his whole last name.
“People could not handle the idea that a man had a two-part last name,” says the 34-year-old Washington, D.C., lawyer. “The first couple of months were incredibly jarring. Then we realized both are hard names to spell and to explain, so I just accepted this (Rhee) as my new last name.”
Sam Van Hallgren, 32, co-host of the movie-review podcast Filmspotting, had to explain himself not just to his listeners but even to his co-host, Adam Kempenaar. Kempenaar was caught by surprise the first time Van Hallgren introduced himself at the top of their show with his new name. Van Hallgren was formerly Sam Hallgren until he wed Carrie Van Deest in August and they both took on the new, combined names.
Van Hallgren received a scathing note from a longtime listener with a subject line that read, “Sam, turn in your man card.” The listener asked what “sissy juice” the host was drinking.

Yes, exactly what sissy juice was he drinking? Was it Absolut or Caribou Coffee? Hard to tell.
The story also talks about other couples with hyphenated last names. I just can’t wait until two hyphenated surname kids get married, and they have four-hyphenated names and so on and so on and so on.
And that’s assuming the male half is masculine enough to produce offspring–in these cases, hardly a sure bet. For these guys, locating their testicles might be like playing “Where’s Waldo.”

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Well, no wonder Congress won’t do a thing to investigate the absolute incompetence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Valley-Girl-in-Chief a/k/a “The ICE Princess” and the complete disarray of her agency under her hegemony.
They know even less about what she does than even she does.
Take Congressman Vito Fossella, a Republican Congressman from Staten Island, New York. He is upset that the naturalization ceremony for new citizens has less frills and pomp, due to budget cuts (these cuts are actually a good thing, Congressman Fossella).
Because he’s so upset, he wrote a letter protesting this to The ICE Princess:

Congressman Vito Fossella: Nice House, Nobody Home
(Julie Myers Baglady by David Lunde/Lundesigns)

Although efficiency is to be applauded, in this case it comes at an unacceptable psychic cost, Rep. Vito Fossella (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) wrote yesterday in a letter to Julie L. Myers, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“The naturalization ceremony is a defining moment in a new citizen’s life,” Fossella said. “A day this important in the life of an immigrant should not be reduced to what one federal judge likened to a ‘paper-pushing’ ceremony.”

Problem is–while she “oversees” (and in her case that’s a very generous term) many things at ICE that are troubled under her reign–she has nothing to do with the naturalization process, nor does ICE in any way.
Memo to Congressman Fossella: Citizenship and Immigration Services– headed by The ICE Princess’ fellow incompetent and undeserving Homeland Security crony, –is the agency in charge of the naturalization ceremonies, usually featuring naturalized undesirables whose backgrounds he and his agency .
Gonzalez is the one who as opposed to Myers who and a phony award for fiscal accountability while she wastes millions on , and .
Please get your croniest hacks straight, Congressman.
The lesson here is this: Congress will never do the right thing and straighten out ICE or adequately question the incompetent Veruca Salt of ICE, Julie Myers. They don’t even know what she or her agency does.
Yup, the same Congress that wants to give amnesty to illegal aliens. G-d help us.

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For the record, I think Hooters is a sleazy place. People who “go there for the great Buffalo wings” are the same as those who read Playboy “for the articles”: lascivious liars, who use the facade of food for the obvious reason they’re there–whatever is missing in their private (usually marital) life. (And the “waitstaff” is equally sleazy–if you’re not a swimsuit model for Sports Illustrated or lifeguard on South Beach, don’t wear a bikini to work.)
I’m not prude, but you don’t have to be Einstein to recognize that Hooter’s is the kind of place you expect at which you expect Bill Clinton to be a regular, after a hard day’s work as chief judge of the Hawaiian Tropic Bikini Contest. And you need not be an elitist to note that if you eat there, you’re very common, not classy.
That said, I find all the press coverage of yesterday’s announcement that Hooters will open in Tel Aviv, Israel to be interesting and filled with more of the “I go there for the wings” dishonesty.

Not Kosher
Yesterday, Hooters spokesman Mike McNeil speculated about whether Hooters Tel Aviv would offer kosher food. Here’s a clue from someone who knows just a tad about kosher and Hooters: never the two shall meet.
For a restaurant to be kosher, it not only has to serve only kosher food, it has to be manned at all times by a kosher inspector, usually an Orthodox rabbi. There is no way any legitimate kosher certification operation will either certify as kosher or allow its inspectors to operate in an establishment where women are wearing almost nothing. In general, that, too, ain’t “kosher.”
Bottom line: Hooters isn’t kosher. And never will be. And that’s a good thing.
Also interesting to here Hooters spokesman McNeil speak about how Hooters menus are based on local “tastes.” Funny to hear the words “taste” and “Hooters” in the same sentence. Reminds me of last year, when .
Class, indeed. But he forgot the essential adjective: “low.”

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I’m glad that Michael Auberry–the latest missing Boy Scout–was found, yesterday. But when a Boy Scout is lost just over a mile away from camp–and, again, he’s just the latest Scout reported missing recently–you have to wonder just what they’re teaching the Boy Scouts these days.
In fact, you need not wonder at all. I’ve detailed some of the absurd badges Boy Scouts are getting these days for, among other things, , etc. The Boy Scout motto of “Be Prepared” needs to be dropped. Today’s Boy Scouts aren’t prepared at all. Their organization–in many cities–has become extremely dumbed down.

While he miraculously survived on stream water for four days in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Auberry couldn’t find a camp that was almost within striking distance. Why? And why did he leave a camp in the middle of nowhere? Because he was “homesick.” That doesn’t really sound like a Scout. He’s lucky a rescue dog found him. In fairness, Auberry said he lost his glasses in the woods.
But many Boy Scouts, today, can’t build a tent or even read a compass. Forget about starting a fire or much else. The Scouts are not so much about camping, anymore, and a lot more about PC activities that make young male minds mushy (the Girl Scouts are just as bad, if not worse, giving out badges for learning how to live life without men, as a single mother, etc.).
Don’t be surprised that so many Boy Scouts are getting lost, these days, so close to camp. They’re not being taught to be Scouts anymore. They’re taught useless propaganda and “lessons” that will never help them survive when push comes to show.
The Boy Scouts simply aren’t what they used to be. And it’s emblematic of the rest of American culture–defining masculinity and boyhood downward.

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In my view, Attorney General Gonzalez didn’t fire enough of his U.S. Attorneys. Number one on that list should have been the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan,
Last year, I told you all about him, when (for the Sixth Circuit), the second highest court in the nation.
Murphy is a well-known sympathizer with Islamic terrorist groups, saying he thinks Hezbollah is just a humanitarian organization, despite the fact that the group murdered hundreds of Americans. Attorneys who worked with him at the U.S. Attorney’s office also said he is a porn addict, who wasted the day away showing them online porn, while on the U.S. taxpayer payroll. And he’s just plain in competent, turning down important cases, and losing so many other ones, including the embarrassing Barnwell decision.

U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy: Don’t Let Him on the U.S. Court of Appeals
Murphy made racist statements against Black Republicans and a Black Bush Administration official in the presence of several parties. And he praised an anti-Semitic, Holocaust denying disciple of Ayatollah Khomeini.
Though he is the U.S. Department of Justice’s chief official in the heart of Islamic America, he has the WORST prosecution rate of terrorism cases of any U.S. Attorney in the nation. Top that off with the fact that he hung out with and praised officials of charities that funded Al-Qaeda and HAMAS; and he allowed Hezbollah financiers to flee the country.
Given these things and protests by many Republicans, we thought the Murphy nomination was dead in the water after the Senate did not vote on it and it expired. But don’t accuse President of never making the same mistake twice. After all, he’s the one who couldn’t get the “fool me once, fool me twice” saying right.
Bush has, indeed, been fooled twice–he renominated Stephen Murphy a/k/a “Abu Porno” to the Federal Court of Appeals bench, yesterday. President Bush made a big political mistake renominating Murphy. It will come back to haunt him. Too bad Bush didn’t heed the famous words of “The Who”: “Don’t get fooled again.”
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In today’s Detroit Newsistan, the nation’s only Iranian agent/political columnist, , lectures us infidels on the need to hear a “wake-up call . . . to stand up” against domestic violence. His absurd, hypocritical columns appear thanks to Detroit News Editorial Page Editor and all-around phony, Nolan Finley.
What took Elahi, an extremist and disciple of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, to come to this conclusion? Why it was the rare crime of an infidel husband in Michigan, Stephen Grant, who murdered and then dismembered his wife.

Hmmm . . . Should a Guy Who Embraces Hezbollah
Lecture American Men About Violence?
Hezbollah’s Mohammed Fadlallah & Imam Mohammed Ali Elahi
But while Elahi is concerned about the crimes of infidel males against women, he’s none too concerned about the far more frequent crimes of violence his co-religionists practice against women, with the complete sanction of Islam. For example, , the former head of youth programs at Elahi’s mosque is now in prison for honor-killing a Christian Arab, , for daring to get engaged to Chahine’s Muslim former girlfriend.
While Elahi preaches to us Infidels about the need for “piety, modesty and intellect [in marriage]. . . before the glitter of worldly attractions,” one of the largest donors and most prominent donors to his mosque, (Khalil’s father) had an illegitimate daughter out-of-wedlock allegedly while he was still married to one of his wives. He’s left the woman and the kid with nothing, while he lives a life of luxury in Lebanon, after fleeing federal charges of funding Hezbollah and tax evasion to the tune of over $20 million.
Then, there is Imam Elahi’s own association with violence. He is a tight associate of Hezbollah spiritual leader, Imam Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah–the man who issued the fatwahs for the attacks by Hezbollah on our Marines and Embassy in Beirut (murdering over 300 men and women), the suicide bombings of the Jewish Community Center in Buenes Aires (murdering almost 100), and the bombing of the Khobar Towers. For those multiple acts of mass-murder, Elahi has no such concern or condemnations as the single murder of Stephen Grant’s wife.
And finally, there is Elahi’s claim that:

We need more reasonable, gender-neutral laws in dealing with divorce cases. If you don’t like to live with you [sic] wife or husband, separate with respect and fairness, not taunts and selfishness.

Ironically, Elahi is not calling for these “gender-neutral” laws of “respect and fairness” in Islam, whose gender-specific laws–allowing divorce only with the husband’s permission, and requiring several male witnesses to prosecute a rape of a woman–he thinks are just fine.
Spare us your lectures and feigned concern, Imam Elahi. And look in the mirror.
Pot. Kettle. Black. Elahi. Islam.

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. . . this is?

Here’s a hint: He and his unmarried “partner” and their two illegitimate children star on, “Family Jewels” (should be called “Illegitimate Family Jewels”) a reality show for A& E. He and the girlfriend, former Playboy Playmate and semi-porn movie star, Shannon Tweed, went through twin facelifts together.
Anything for love, er . . . attention and continuing moolah, when you’re well past your heyday.
Answer:

Gene Simmons (Real Name: Chaim Witz) of KISS
I used to like Gene Simmons when he and said really stupid things on the Rosie O’D level:
From my November 2001 column, “”:

“We don’t comment on whales and the rain forest. We don’t try to be ambassadors to Bosnia. Duh. You need a rock star for that? Some idiot who couldn’t tune a guitar six months ago is now an environmental specialist? I blame media for giving rock stars more credence than they deserve. Why don’t they ask Al Gore how to play bass?”
That was Gene Simmons, founder and bassist for the rock group, KISS, in a 1997 interview with USA Today’s Edna Gundersen. Simmons was right. That’s the kind of rock star we need more of in America. Stick to music and stay out of politics.
It’s especially good advice in 2001, with the War Against Terrorism. But unfortunately, especially now, every rock star apparently feels the need to spew forth an opinion though it’s neither needed nor wanted.
Even Simmons has now unwisely chosen to ignore his own advice. On a recent episode of ABC’s “Politically Incorrect,” his comments about the war were either completely wrong or nonsense. First, he said, “‘Islam,’ by definition, means ‘peace.'” No, it means “submission.” Then he attacked Christianity for the Crusades, which happened how many centuries ago? That justifies attacks on the WTC in 2001 by Muslims? (FYI, the Muslims had their own crusades, and forcibly converted thousands of Jews and Christians to Islam.)
Another Simmons gem: “At the end of the day, this guy Bin Laden, he’s not evil. He’s not good, he’s not evil.” Not evil?! Huh?
But at least Simmons only sounds non-sensical and foolish. It’s the rock stars who sound like they might really know something–but don’t–that are worse. . . .

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With suicide car bombs going off every day, and internecine warfare between feuding Muslims escalating, you’d think the most important issue facing Iraq’s Maliki government would be law enforcement or getting the Iraqi Army in shape. Or even just keeping electricity and utilities working beyond a few hours a day.
But you would be wrong.
Instead, as Jerusalem Post investigative reporter Micheal Freund writes, the most important issue–the one the Iraqi government is putting great energy into–is the Arab Boycott of Israel.

Iraqi Leader Noori Al-Maliki Sets Priorities Straight
So glad they’ve have their priorities straight. And, FYI, the boycott is being enforced against U.S. companies–companies YOU–the American Taxpayer–is financing to HELP this backassward country get back on its feet. This is what our soldiers are dying for?! Yet again, no good deed goes unpunished. (And, as , it’s illegal for U.S. companies to abide by the Arab boycott of Israel.)
Read Michael’s entire report on this absurdity. And read his blog, too.
**** UPDATE: Cox & Forkum has a nice cartoon to go along with this.