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In case there was any doubt why our public schools are turning out dummies–junior leftists, who are dummies–here’s one of the reasons.
Yesterday, while the rest of us were remember that Islamic terrorists–15 of 19 of were came from Saudi Arabia–Berkley High School teacher Angela Church (in the Detroit suburb of Berkley, Michigan) taught her students about 9/11 . . . from the SAUDI perspective.
She told The Detroit Newsistan:

Since we know the American perspective, we’re going to watch a video, “9/11 Through Saudi Eyes.” The idea is to give them a sense that there is more than one perspective out there and then make comparisons.

Why does she assume her 9th- and 10th-graders “know the American perspective”? They’ve probably been given a steady diet of this dung by other teachers just like Church. And why doesn’t she just show them “Loose Change,” while she’s at it? After all, there is more than one perspective out there, right?
Memo to Angela Church: Put Mein Kampf on reading list for next semester.
Then, there’s Christine Kuhl, a 4th-grade teacher at Detroit-area Norup School in Oak Park. Listen to her curriculum from yesterday:

“Kids need to know that for every one of those crazy people there are a million people who love them and are passionate about taking care of them,” Kuhl says. “We have to avoid making the world a fearful place for children.”

Yes, don’t be fearful of Islamic extremists. Don’t worry. They won’t blow up your plane, your church, your school, your pizza shop. Like Rodney King asked, “Can’t we all just get along?” More like, can’t we all just be blind, deaf, and dumb to the very real threat that faces America? Raising American kids to be coddled, stupi,d and “understanding” won’t solve anything in this world.
With dummies like this teaching America’s kids, it’s no surprise, more dummies and addled minds are the end result.

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I figured I’d top off the day with something good about America, its good, old-fashioned, masculine men–one of whom is my good friend, Chris Kennedy. He’s one of the many we still have here in America, amongst the growing crowd of girlie-men.
Chris is something rare in Hollywood and in the Kennedy family (he’s a distant Kennedy cousin), a conservative actor with good Midwestern values. I’ve known Chris about half my life, and he has always been a good friend, attending all my appearances on shows shot in L.A. He was a member of the 1994 Wisconsin Rose Bowl Champion Football Team and has been on Monk, Friends, Party of Five, and many other shows and movies. I last wrote about Chris .
But now he’s in a very, very cool ad for the Shelby GT 500 Mustang, posted below. Hint: Chris is the hot guy on the right saying, “I couldn’t find a speed limit I liked in America.”

Chris tells me the ad was filmed on Vancouver Island, Canada, where the street signs were temporarily changed to German. Chris Kennedy’s website is here.

My Friend, the Very Hot Chris Kennedy

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They don’t take a break on 9/11. After all, for some of them, it’s a day of celebration:

— NOUR IDRISS kayidriss@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:19:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: NOUR IDRISS kayidriss@sbcglobal.net
Subject: your cousin
To: dschlussel@yahoo.com
Hay de bitch
I have to say that your cousin is the best member of your family and I tell you why…..
first :one less Jew on the planet ,that is always a good thing.second he saved humanity from another schlussel Zionist,and best of all , ha was the best place for a bomb to blow up.

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A few weeks ago, I was contacted by ABC “Good Morning America” producer Mabel Chan for a story she was producing for this past Saturday’s pre-9/11 “GMA.”
The topic was supposed to be 9/11, five years later, and how America’s Muslims are faring. Chan and I spoke on the phone, and she told me she’d be interviewing the TracFone suspects from Dearborn, . She told me of the absurd thesis of the story–that Muslims are the victims of 9/11, five years later. And the story which aired did not disappoint.
Ms. Chan, reporter Ron Claiborne, and ABC News did disappoint, however. While they told their sob story, they missed the real story–that since 9/11 America’s Muslims have been empowered and favored over all other religionists, like never before. I told this to Ms. Chan and gave a lot of examples.

Extremist Muslims For Whom We Should Have Phobia, Post 9/11:
Ali Houssaiky, Osama Sabhi Abulhassan & Osama Siblani
She asked me to send her links to my articles on the topic, and I spent a great deal of time doing that. Then, she complained that she couldn’t access my website, that the articles were too long, that she wanted me to cut and paste articles, that she didn’t understand articles–every excuse you’d hear from a lazy moron, but not a legitimate producer who wanted to put together a good report for a major national network morning news show.
She was completely clueless about the most basic things. And that should tell you something about GMA. I told her how the top federal law enforcement officials in Detroit meet monthly with Muslim extremists who openly support terrorist groups. She asked why that is wrong. I asked her if it would be okay of mob officials got such regular meetings. She didn’t know what “the mob” was. She’d never heard of it. No lie.
When I explained it to her, she got frustrated and decided she didn’t want to interview me for the story, giving me a million excuses, including that she had a sudden medical problem. She promised she’d get an opposing view for this sob story. But she never did. Throughout the 5 minute, 20-second report–very long for TV news–there is not a single opposing viewpoint to the BS, but plenty of apologists for Islamofascism, like Jim Zogby (head of the Arab American Institute) and pan-Islamist academic, John Esposito (of Georgetown University).
The entire story–by reported Ron Claiborne–is transcribed here. The video is here. As you can see for this set-up, they found the most clueless-sounding, intolerant-appearing Americans, with the most prejudiced-sounding clips they could provide of “ugly, bigoted Americans” as the foil for the Muslims. This explains why she couldn’t have me on. I was too reasonable.
The fact is that Islamophobia is a concept creation by terror supporters to avoid addressing the problem: their religion fosters and supports terrorists. What Americans are justly afraid of is supporters of this religion’s extremism and fascism, which would impose their lifestyle on us. They are afraid of the terrorist groups supported by those same religious fanatics, all of whom just so happen to be Muslim.
The story quotes and portrays extremist Osama Siblani, editor and publisher of the Arab American News as some sort of loyal American and patriot. But he is an . He was by a Kuwaiti newspaper. This is a loyal American? No. Loyal Americans don’t defend groups that blow up 300 plus U.S. Marines and civilians. They don’t support and defend America’s enemies.
The story also sobs over Houssaiky and Abulhassan, the TracFone buyers who lied to police and obstructed justice. The lie is not mentioned. But Abulhassan is quoted as saying that he told the police he did nothing wrong. Actually, Abulhassan told Washington County, Ohio sheriffs the exact opposite–that he knew what he did was wrong and that he knew there could be no legitimate purpose for buying that many cellphones.
But don’t count on ABC to tell you that. Don’t count on ABC to tell you that Abulhassan’s and Houssaiky’s investigation is continuing, and that last week, a grand jury hearing was held (details here and here). Or that they will have to plead guilty to lying to police, an open and shut case. Nope, ABC pretended their slate was wiped clean.
Just like the ABC whitewash of Islamic extremists, 5 years after 9/11. Good Morning America? More like Good Morning IslAmerica.
There is a phobia that’s loud and clear here. And it’s not a fear of Islam. It’s a fear of telling the truth about its extremists here in America.

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Meet Marilynn Rosenthal, a far-left, retired sociology professor at the University of Michigan. She lost her son, Josh, in the 9/11 attacks. But she’s using his murder to defend those who murdered her son–and to attack America, Christians, Jews, and Israel.
And she has the dubious distinction of being one of the few 9/11 family members who testified for the defense of Al-Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Mousaoui at his trial, to the rightful disgust of the other family members present.
Every town has that far-left free newspaper–the one with pimp and prostitute ads in the back that keep it in business, as it tries to present itself as the noble opposition.

Marilynn Rosenthal:
“Understands” and Defends Qaeda Terrorists Moussaoui and Al-Shehhi
In Detroit, this “alternative” paper is The Metro Times. Predictably, The Metro Times’ 9/11 fifth anniversary cover story glorifies Dr. Rosenthal and her despicable work. She’s written a book comparing her innocent son to the despicable terrorist, Marwan Al-Shehhi, who piloted the plane that killed her son at the World Trade Center–and “understanding” Al-Shehhi. In her son’s name, she’s funding a lecture, tonight, by Islamofascist apologist, Juan Cole.
Here are some choice excerpts from Rosenthal’s warped moral equivalency world:

The way I think about 9/11 is reflective of that. My basic reaction was that we have to understand all the levels of what happened. What happened to Josh, and what happened to the 2,782 other people who were killed? Who were the people who killed them, and what motivated them? This was not a random act of madness. . . .
And when I started to find out about the pilot Marwan al-Shehhi, the jihadist who crashed the plane into the south tower and killed Josh, I began to think of him as being part of another global enterprise. So here were these two young men whose lives came together. I think they died at the same moment, at 9:03 a.m. on Sept. 11. And they were part of two globalized movements that intertwined with each other. . . .
So, Osama bin Laden is a very sophisticated, very worldly, very successful businessman with a broad sense of business organization and business technology. He also has a certain set of beliefs about the Muslim world. I just found that rather intriguing. . . .
History is full of true believers. They’re not the first ones to give their lives for a cause that they believe in. They did it in a fashion that’s sort of outside the bounds of conventional warfare. But conventional warfare might be a 20th century phenomenon.

Rosenthal says that the extremist Muslim rhetoric at the mosque of Al-Shehhi–the terrorist who piloted the plane into the WTC and killed her son–is like that of Christians and Jews, that they’re morally equivalent:

You can hear the echoes of fundamentalist Christians who can’t tolerate any view but their view. You can hear echoes of the fanatic fundamentalist Jews who think that God promised them Syria and Iraq as part of the greater Israel, and because God promised it, therefore you should have it, even if you have to fight for it.

Get a clue, lady. What Christians or Jews in contemporary times ever murdered innocent people as an organized part of their religion? What Jews are claiming Iraq or Syria? But Syria and most Arab Muslims are claiming Israel.
And apparently Rosenthal believes we should negotiate with Al-Qaeda:

People say that the only way to deal with fanatics is to fight ’em, kill ’em. It’s hard for me to accept that. It seems to be the lesson of history that if you do that, all you do is create more fanatics. We seem to be better at military technology than at useful, creative diplomacy.

Hello? They want us dead. As Rush Limbaugh said, “You can’t negotiate with those whose starting point is our death.”
Here’s her view on the Moussaoui trial:

I was horrified that the government was spending millions of dollars for what in essence was a sham trial. Frankly, that was my motivation for testifying. It was a crime to use the American justice system to ask for the death penalty for a man who’s half demented and a marginal figure in al-Qaeda. It’s just shocking, utterly shocking.

No, what’s shocking is that, despite the fact that Islamofascists murdered her son, Marilynn Rosenthal is helping them. What terrorist isn’t “half-demented”? But a 9/11 family member who engages in this type of reprehensible behavior is probably not just “half” demented.
Unfortunately, she’s the “complete package.”

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Just over a week ago, American convert to Islam and Al-Qaeda spokesman a/k/a “Azzam Al-Amriki [Azzam the American]” delivered the Islamic terrorist group’s 9/11 fifth anniversary message, “An Invitation to Islam.”
He implored Americans to convert to Islam to “join the winning side.” Kind of like Darth Vader’s pitch to Luke Skywalker to “come over to the Dark Side, and together we will rule the galaxy.”
This weekend, CAIR terrorist apologists celebrated a woman who lost 8 family members on 9/11 for her new conversion to Islam.
Now, People Magazine has joined Adam Yehiye Gadahn’s chorus for it’s 9/11 message. We’ve already noted how . People implores the rest of the mind-addled, female celeb mag reading audience, to do the same.

Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn, Darth Vader & People Mag:
They Want You to Come Over to the Dark Side
In its September 4th issue, with JonBenet Ramsey on the cover, People ran an article about how “a growing number of American women find a safe haven by embracing an ancient faith,” Islam. (No matter that Judaism and Christianity are far more ancient faiths than Islam, which ripped off part of both and reconstituted them.) The article features a bevy of hot blondes who converted and found true meaning in the “Religion of Peace.”
Still as hard as it tries to make women feel that Islam somehow empowers women, the article by People “reporter” Sandra Marquez, doesn’t exactly paint a picture of a faith that wise women would want to join (though women who read people generally aren’t too wise). The various stories about the clueless, lost women are actually quite comical, and a warning for others considering the step over into Darth Vader’s world.

People to Women: Convert to Islam, Like Angela Collins

Islam Convert Angela Collins Before
Take Angela Collins, 30. The sexy blonde with blue eyes converted to Islam because she felt she missed something growing up as a latchkey kid, and the religion

filled a void that existed since her parents divorced when she was 5. “As I’m reading [the Koran], I almost feel as if I am being parented.”

Well, she may have felt parented, but she also felt violence:

In 2003 she married a Kuwait-born Muslim, but their marriage was rocky. They are currently going through a divorce, and she had to obtain a restraining order.

Restraining orders are not exactly a very attractive feature for joining a religion.

Islamic Convert Nicole Aeschleman
Then, there is Nicole Aeschleman, a 25-year-old lawyer. She

converted to Islam in 2004 after emerging from a six-month partying spree–getting drunk and dating men who weren’t interested in relationships [DS: or getting green cards].

To the rescue: Nabil Michraf, a Morroccan studying in France. Guess where he lives now? Well, he married Aeschleman. He’s here.
She had to compose a marriage contract enabling her to get a divorce if her husband doesn’t let her work or takes additional wives. In most other religions–for obvious reasons–you don’t need this kind of “pre-nup.” Most other religions don’t permit multiple wives and only allow the husband to grant a divorce, a la Islam.
Then, there’s Timna Valore-Schulze, 24, who wanted to become a nun, but converted to Islam in 2001, after she determined that

“it was the most feminist religion I had ever seen” because of its support for women’s rights.

HUH?! Earth to blind, deaf, and dumb chick . . . .
After she converted to Islam,

her mother jotted down her friends’ phone numbers from her cell phone after the 9/11 attacks and reported them to the FBI as potential terrorists.

This is People Magazine at work, doing the work of Adam Gadahn for him. People’s post-9/11 prescription (and Gadahn’s)–If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em–will be the death of us.
Thanks to readers Sean M. and Hans W. for the tip.

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Well before 9/11, my cousin Arnie Schlissel started a project, “All Schlissels are linked,” creating a family tree of all Schlussels, Schlissels, and Schlessels from around the world. We are all related to one man in Poland in the 1700s, Yoska the Holy One (a righteous, heroic man, who was murdered by the anti-Semitic Countess Tarnowski).
Even though many of my relatives were wiped out by the Nazis, the Schlussel/Schlissel/Schlessel family remains strong and numerous. This past summer, we had a family reunion in the New York City area. One of those who never had a chance to attend was my cousin, Jon Schlissel, murdered on 9/11. He died when the second plane hit his office in the South Tower. He worked on the 87th floor. Jon is survived by his sweet mother Ruth Schlissel, age 85, and his brother, Larry Schlissel.

Jon Schlissel Z”L: My Cousin Murdered in the 9/11 WTC Attacks
Jon was also a hero, perhaps on 9/11 and definitely during his life. A fitness devotee, he regularly worked out and was very muscular. On 9/11, everyone in his office got out and survived–everyone except Jon, a man in a wheelchair and a heavyset woman. Jon’s brother, Larry, said he believes Jon didn’t make it because he was trying to assist the other two in getting out.
Jon, who grew up in Long Island, was exactly the type of man Muslim extremists hate–exactly the type of man who could live free in America, but not in any Muslim nation. He was a Jew. And he was gay and a gay rights activist–a regular attendee at the Pride March in New York and a vocal voice and pot-stirrer in New Jersey local politics.
And in fact, lest we forget, some Muslims in America, are happy Jon was murdered in the towers. Bassem Abulhassan, the 27-year-old brother, of , sent me :

— Bassem Abulhassan bassemabulhassan@yahoo.com wrote:
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:06:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bassem Abulhassan bassemabulhassan@yahoo.com
Subject: Dropped Charges
To: dschlussel@yahoo.com
By the way, how is your cousin Jon doing these days? Ouch. Did I hit a sore spot.

(Scary that Bassem Abulhassan is attempting to become a member of the Michigan Bar.)
Jon bought a Victorian home in a bad neighborhood of Jersey City, New Jersey and restored it to the most minute detail. As a result, others moved into the neighborhood, restored homes, and it is now a gentrified area. Jon’s home of 7 fireplaces and 14 rooms is a regular stop on home tours. Jon was a community activist who restored a local park and movie theater, Loew’s Jersey Theatre, in Jersey City. He gave a lot of money to charity. He was an ACLU member who believed in equality for everyone, his brother, Larry, told me.
Larry said,

You would never know Jon was gay, unless he told you. He used to tell gay activists at the Pride parade, “Why would you wear a dress?” He told gays they needed to act normal to get respect and equal treatment, not act or dress like freaks.

Jon worked for the government, as an accountant for the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance. He was a supervisor for corporation tax and audited some of the world’s largest corporations. Contrary to outrageous Muslim assertions, Jon and many others with Jewish surnames who worked for the Department, did not get “the memo” for Jews not to show up to work on September 11. All of these people–Jews and others–showed up and were murdered by Islamic terrorists.
Larry Schlissel told me:

9/11 is not a special day of remembrance of my brother for me. I remember all victims today. But I miss Jon every single day, no more or less than on 9/11. Every day, I think, ‘I should tell this to Jon.’ But I can’t because Jon isn’t here. He was the sweetest nicest guy you ever could meet. He extended himself so much to his friends, his community, even people he barely knew. He convinced a guy who was fed up with his job to fulfill his dream of becoming a doctor and going to medical school. That person is now a happy doctor. That is the kind of guy Jon was–always friendly, always smiling, always helping others.

As my cousin, Bruce Miller, wrote:

For as long as the Schlissel Family and its extended family exists, Jon will be remembered by all on each and every anniversary of 9-11. May his name always be remembered as a blessing.

Amen to that.
Read the New York Times profile of Jon, a remembrance from Jon’s friend, Ron, and statements of others who knew him well. Articles about Jon from the Jersey Journal, here and here.
Never forget the attacks of 9/11 and who committed them. As we frequently note on this site, it wasn’t the Samoans who murdered almost 3,000 Americans.
Jon Schlissel, Zichrono LiVrachah (Blessed Be His Memory).
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An e-mail from one of this site’s readers, Michael F., who was Jon’s friend:

Subject: hello from texas
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:55:55 -0500
From: Michael F.
To: dschlussel@yahoo.com
I just found your website via a link from elderofziyon.
Just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate what you do…and also…I knew your cousin Jon when I lived in NYC.
He was a nice and kind person and I was shocked when I got e-mails from mutual friends telling me the horrible news from that horrible day.
Sometimes it seems as if this world is getting crazier every day.
Thanks again and good luck to you.
Michael

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Here are a few of my observations on the first half of the edited version of “The Path to 9/11,” which ran on ABC, tonight:
1) Why does Mohammed Atta (played by actor Martin Brody) look more like newly retired Detroit Red Wing Steve Yzerman than like Mohammed Atta? Just asking. (The resemblance to Yzerman is far more pronounced in the movie than in the pics below.)

Mohammed Atta, Actor Martin Brody, Hockey Star Steve Yzerman
2) You read it on this site first, months before the movie:
* to detonate bombs on planes, a reason TSA and airport security officials have been on the lookout for Middle Eastern men sporting the .
* . We knew it. The producers of “The Path to 9/11” knew it. But .
3) Point of correction: The movie incorrectly identified Customs Inspector Diana Dean–who stopped Millennium Bomber–as a Customs Agent. She was not. We from liberal Judge, the Dishonorable John Coughenor.
In fact, at that time (end of 1999), the United States Customs Service was still intact–with the Office of Investigations (the agents) and the Inspectors (at the border/airports/ports). That was one of the great things about pre-9/11–the agents and inspectors communicated with each other and worked together. Now, the former Customs inspectors are Customs & Border Protection agents, together with former INS inspectors. And both CBP and ICE (the agency into which INS and Customs Agents went) are a mess.
You can vaguely hear the INS inspector (not shown on screen) waving Ressam into the States before Dean catches him. But if you didn’t know about it, you wouldn’t notice in the movie. Also not shown, after he was caught by Dean, the INS inspectors tried to slam Ressam’s car trunk (filled with volatile explosives) shut, which would have blown the car up.

3) Point of correction #2: We can tell, big-time, that the FBI had a big hand in this movie. John Miller, who is now one of its PR spokespeople, wrote the book, “The Cell,” on which it is based. So the FBI–not accurately at all–comes off smelling like a rose. When, in fact–in counterterrorism–the Bureau stunk like something else.
In the movie, the FBI is portrayed as having followed the cell that bombed the WTC in 1993, ever since its member El-Sayyid Nosair murdered Rabbi Meir Kahane. The blame for letting them off the hook is laid at the feet of the NYPD. But in fact, it was the exact opposite of that, in reality. . In fact, the FBI did NOT pay attention to Kahane’s murder at all. They ignored it. That is confirmed in many, many reports and investigations, including “Jihad in America.” Had the FBI paid attention to Kahane’s murder (instead of dismissing it as a minor, lone angry Muslim killing a Rabbi the FBI didn’t like and was also spying on), they would have discovered Ramzi Youssef, the ’93 WTC bombing plot, etc., well before it happened. The movie is disingenuous on that.
Ditto for its portrayal of the NYPD as dropping the ball on Muslim informants. That’s never been the case. The NYPD and FBI have been at odds before and especially now, because many of the terror plots caught in NYC were discovered and stopped by the NYPD, not the clueless FBI, . The NYPD’s counterterrorism division is much better than the FBI’s, and the Bureau doesn’t like it one bit. The FBI’s counterterrorism officials have openly dissed the NYPD for having officers in Israel, for example, etc. Tough to be Famous But Incompetent.
4) In a “Nightline” special right after (which we figure was put into place to replace the 15-20 minutes of the movie we figure was cut to please Clintonistas), ABC’s Brian Ross discussed the “cold trail” in the search for Bin Laden, despite the “$25 million reward.”
But, in November 2004, the House passed legislation doubling the reward to $50 million. According to AP, that’s the official reward amount, now. That Brian Ross–who is supposed to be ABC’s chief investigative correspondent in the war on terror–still doesn’t know that (assuming AP is correct) is telling.
5) We like newcomer Mido Hamada, who does great work as Northern Alliance leader Massoud.
6) So far, former New Kids on the Blocker Donnie Wahlberg is okay as secret FBI operative “Kirk.”

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**** SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE–Scholastic CEO’s Sad Cave & Outrageous New 9/11 Teaching Materials ****
ABC is not the only party to cower to liberals–including Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright–and their attempts to silence the upcoming docudrama, “The Path to 9/11.”
Now Scholastic is bowing to the Clintonistas, too, according to today’s Wall Street Journal (hidden in its Marketplace section for some strange reason). In many ways, Scholastic is more important than ABC because it creates classroom teaching materials to help children discuss issues, in this case the fifth anniversary of 9/11. Scholastic developed material to help teachers discuss “The Path to 9/11” with students.

But the WSJ reports that Scholastic is yanking those materials, under pressure from liberal websites, including liberal-turned-conservative-turned-liberal David Brock’s Media Matters for America, which attacked Scholastic materials for being anti-Clinton, among other things.
The Journal reports:

Kyle Good, a spokeswoman for Scholastic, said the publisher had acted swiftly on Wednesday after concluding that its material wasn’t up to its own standards. “We intend to have a new discussion guide complete with background information posted on Friday morning.
Ms. Good said Scholastic saw several online reports Tuesday morning that raised concerns about the material. “We immediately did a thorough review of the discussion guide and decided to redo it,” she said.

Incredibly, among Media Matters concerns was that the Scholastic materials asked students to debate whether the media hinder our national security.
It’s now “not up to standards” to debate the media’s role in sabotaging the war on terror? What ever happened to liberals’ demands for free speech and the free exchange of ideas?
Apparently, they don’t support those concepts when the ideas attack their behavior in weakening our national security.
**** UPDATE: Read Scholastic CEO Richard Robinson’s absurd apology to lefties and Clintonistas. Here are the outrageous new questions that will be “taught” with Scholastics “revised” teaching materials. Instead of questioning the press, they’re now questioning America’s Mid-East policies and the “root causes” of 9/11. Welcome to the Clintonized 9/11:

1. What are the matters of dispute in the docudrama? What are the scenes that were altered or did not happen? How do these scenes affect your understanding? Are the changes part of an effort by the producers to shape your beliefs about these events? In your view, is this an appropriate way to treat an event such as this?
2. What are the different views of the relationship between the attacks of 9/11, the Iraq War, the war in Afghanistan, and the unrest in the Middle East? Many people believe that there is no connection between Iraq and the events of 9/11. Others believe that the broadly defined “War on Terror” justified the invasion of Iraq. As you study the background of events leading up to and following 9/11, what do you think?
3. There is a long history of conflict in the Middle East. How well do you understand each of the countries involved and what influences their behavior?

Robinson claims:

We believe that the rewritten discussion guide presented herewith will help your students interpret the ABC docudrama, The Path to 9/11, and hope that you will find it helpful in understanding the relationship between facts and drama, and the background of the different views about 9/11 in the U.S. and around the world.

No, it does none of those things. But it does indoctrinate students in the ideology of the left on 9/11. Not good for America.

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A 16-year-old (now 17) American girl meets a Palestinian Muslim looking for a green card and wife online. She lies to her parents and flees to the West Bank, Israel to convert to Islam and marry the man. FBI agents and a whole host of others got to her in time. (We’ve written about it , , , , and .)
So what do Katherine Lester’s shameless father and stepmother from a Michigan hicktown do? They whore her out for interviews with “Good Morning America” and other news shows–all for the glamour of the lights. And they talk to Seventeen Magazine.
And what does Seventeen do? On the eve of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, it GLAMORIZES this foolish girl’s absurd trip to the Mid-East. The October issue of Seventeen, now on the stands, bears this headline for your daughters: “Online Love: Make It Work!” The 5-page article, as told to 17 by Lester, is incredible, incredibly irresponsible. It glamorizes the whole runaway-to-convert-to-Islam-and-get-married act.

Incredibly, this Lester chick is still mesmerized by the online Muslim, Abdullah Jimzawi, who told the papers he wanted to marry her, move to the U.S., and get a green card like a lot of men in his town near Jericho (a hotbed of Palestinian terrorists), Israel. She tells Seventeen:

Abdullah was different from any guy I’d ever liked. . . . He really seemed to like me for who I was. He also was respectful and family-oriented, which I thought was amazing for a guy who was 20.

Duh. He wanted a green card. Hello? . . . .
We had so much in common: We liked the same music, food, and books.
Duh. He wanted a green card. Hello? “Same . . . food and books”? How many falafel joints are there in the cornfields of Gilford, Michigan? Not many, if any . . . for now.
And by the way, it helps to have Palestinian relatives living here to facilitate the runaway. Jimzawi’s cousins live in the Bronx, New York (are they here legally?) and bought her the $2,000 plane ticket to Israel. She stayed overnight at their home. What if they were not as nice as they ended up being to her? What if they were illegals and terrorists? This is what Seventeen Magazine is glamorizing to America’s daughters.
And by the way, we doubt the many quotes Lester gives of Abdullah, where he constantly tells her to visit him in “Israel.” Palestinians consider the West Bank to be Palestine. It’s doubtful he ever called it Israel.
Unfortunately, upon Lester’s return to the U.S. (she was intercepted by FBI agents in Jordan), the FBI allowed her to avoid the embarrassment she should have gotten:

The FBI agents walked me off the plane directly onto the runway so I wouldn’t have to go through the terminal and do a “perp walk” past all the television news cameras camping out there to get pictures of me. . . . My mom and dad were waiting in a car that was parked on the runway near the plane.

Incredibly, Lester’s clueless father and stepmother continue to allow her to talk for an hour, every day, with the Palestinian Muslim who enticed her to runaway to the Muslim world to convert to Islam and marry at age 16.

Katherine Lester: Seventeen Glamorizes the Transformation from This to This
And, of course, Seventeen glamorizes Abdullah Jimzawi a/k/a “Abdullah Psycho” as some knight in shining armor, quoting this green-card, American wife seeker as some sort of modern day Romeo:

I love her and I want to marry her. I don’t think Katherine made a mistake when she ran away–she was coming to Israel so we could get married. I had the ring for her, and my mom had started planning the engagement party and the wedding ceremony. . . . No one can stop us from being together.

If only Seventeen had taken the opportunity to inform teen American girls about the perils and dangers of Islamic extremists and the “life” women must suffer in the Islamic world. Instead, it glamorized it as a teen romance adventure.
Ironically, Katherine Lester tells Seventeen that she’s a fan of the rock group, “Disturbed.” We recommend she heed the advice of its lead singer, David Draiman, who is totally clued in on Islamofascism in the Middle East and everywhere else.
In Lester’s case, her irresponsible father and stepmother aren’t doing much to parent their child or stop her from further damage. But you can be more attentive to what your daughters are doing . . . and the trash, like Seventeen, that they are reading.
Try to monitor what your young teens are reading in these vapid magazines. Or your daughter could soon be in the Mid-East wearing a burqa and helping some Muslim get a green card.
And by the way, as we’ve written, once she converts to Islam, she’s always considered a Muslim. Any apostasy from it is punishable by death.
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BTW, as for Katherine Lester’s irresponsible father and stepmother–Terry Lester and Krista Lester, –we got a nasty e-mail from Stepmommy Krista. She made all kinds of excuses for her taking this girl out to all the TV shows and glamorizing this, all kinds of excuses for continuing to let this girl have a relationship with this Muslim, green-card seeking Palestinian suitor. But in the end, she just can’t be a parent. She’s too dazzled by the lights.
But that didn’t stop her from telling us that we’re not a real news source. But if this site is not a real news source, why did she waste so much time and energy sending me such a long, melo-dramatic e-mail?
We’ve heard they’ve been contacted to make a TV movie. We doubt they turned the thousands down. We pick Drew Barrymore to play Katherine and Courtney Love to play stepmommy. Maybe Lindsay Lohan’s father can portray Mr. Lester.