By Debbie Schlussel
Terrorists, who take Americans hostage, are being elected to leadership positions all over the Muslim world.
First, there’s Iran. Yesterday, AP reported that Iran’s President-elect was one of the captors of the American hostages who were taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy and held captive in Iran for 444 days from 1979-1981. Former hostages Chuck Scott, David Roeder, William J. Daugherty, Don A. Sharer, and Kevin Hermening said they recognize Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who won the Iranian “elections,” as one of their captors. “He was extremely cruel,” Sharer said. But some psychobabble psychologist knows better: Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus claims they have “false memories” based on race and ethnicity. Perhaps the ditzy Ms. Loftus of UC-Irvine might forget terrorists who held her captive for over a year. But normal people would not.
Then, there’s Lebanon (a/k/a Greater Syria/Iran). Hezbollah official and Syrian-backed Nabih Berri was re-elected Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament. Berri, head of the Shi’ite Amal Militia, served as spokesman, negotiator, and media mastermind for Hezbollah in its , during which the Hezbollah hijackers tortured and murdered Navy diver Robert Stethem. Berri’s re-election celebration resulted in the kind of celebration unique to the dimwitted, Muslim Arab Middle East: “festive” gunfire killed three and injured seven.
The wimpy American “response” to the election of these America-haters and murderers is very telling. Regarding the Iranian terrorist’s election, White House spokesman Scott McClellan uttered the usual fertilizer: “We are looking into [it] to better understand the facts.” Whatever. To the “Lebanese” re-election of Berri, no response at all. What was that President Bush once uttered about being “on our side or the terrorists’ side”? Which side are we on?

By Debbie Schlussel
Remember Oprah fave author Terry McMillan? She’s the one who married a much younger Caribbean man–23 years younger. The novel and movie screenplay she wrote, “How Stella Got Her Groove Back,” extolled that relationship with her young boyfriend-come-husband.
Well, it turns out her relationship was a fake. In fact, the man is gay, and “Stella” married him so he could get a green card, on his way to becoming a U.S. citizen. No wonder this man in his twenties was so “attracted” to this female authoress, much his senior. All of this is coming out in McMillan’s divorce, in which she’s claiming her “paramour” (“para”-something, anyway) was gay all along. Well, then, why did she marry him and bring him here? If she knew he was gay all along, she committed marriage fraud and should be prosecuted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). And he should be deported. (Don’t hold your breath for either–for a variety of PC reasons, she’s untouchable.) I have a suggestion for a sequel: “How Stella Got Prosecuted for Immigration Fraud.” Don’t look for her good friend, Oprah, to do a follow-up on her past show lauding McMillan and her phony old matron-young dude marriage.

By Debbie Schlussel
The press is making a big deal out of the “acquittal” of Nasser Al-Mutairi, an ex-Guantanamo detainee and accused terrorist. Of course, the press would make a big deal out of it. But, the most important detail is that the acquittal was IN KUWAIT!
While Kuwait was once a strong ally (remember we saved the country from Saddamist extinction during the first Gulf War) and we still have some troops and bases there, Kuwaitis in government and the courts have become very extreme, and fundamentalist Islam has taken over–to the point where Kuwait’s ambassador during the Gulf War no longer lives there and is embarrassed by anti-American sentiment and Islamist behavior, there. Islamo-fascist Kuwaitis murdered a U.S. Marine and a civilian contractor. (Nice thanks for saving their country from Saddam-imposed oblivion.) For most accused terrorists, Kuwait has either dropped charges completely, acquitted completely, or given such lax, soft sentences, that the Kuwaiti “justice” system is a joke when it comes to terror–and much else.
So, it is NO SURPRISE that this terrorist, once held at Guantanamo, has been “acquitted” of involvement in terror. Al-Mutairi was one of twelve Kuwaitis awaiting trial for terrorism. (Maybe we should return them to Gitmo for real justice, since it won’t happen in Kuwait.) Al-Mutairi claims he was in Afghanistan doing “charity work.” Right. His lawyer thanked the Kuwaiti judiciary for not being influenced by the “political” side of the case. You know what that means: Al Qaeda is bad in America’s eyes, but it is a legitimate political “resistance” group in the view of many Kuwaitis.
“The lawyer always told me I am innocent,” said Mutairi. In other words, he himself didn’t know he was innocent. But his lawyer told him so. Guilty as charged.

By Debbie Schlussel
I’m violating Steven Spielberg’s review policy for “War of the Worlds” and telling you what I think ahead of tomorrow’s scheduled release date. I saw the movie at a press screening, last night, and was disturbed by the message: Don’t fight terror, and everything will work out. (In contrast, Spielberg definitely fights for his own interests. Security was literally tighter than that for going to the White House to meet the President. No purses allowed. Three wandings by security.)
It’s bad enough that Steven Spielberg is adding “balance” and factual inaccuracy to the story of the Israeli Mossad’s efforts to assassinate terrorists who killed Israeli Olympic athletes–in his upcoming film, “Vengeance” (I’ve detailed that ). It’s bad enough that his message in “Vengeance” is that fighting terrorists and killing them is bad and doesn’t work. But his similar message in “War of the Worlds” is arguably worse–because the movie, with fantastic special effects, is likely to be one of his bigger hits.
Spielberg said “War of the Worlds” is a parallel for 9/11 and serves as a “prism” through which to view 9/11, the War on Terror, and our presence in Iraq. The movie makes that very clear. People running from exploding and falling buildings, walls and kiosks covered with “missing” signs and pictures for those looking for lost relatives, people giving blood — these are all 9/11 references.
But the message is: Don’t fight terrorism. It will miraculously go away if you leave it alone and it breaths our air and culture. Puh-leeze.
SPOILER ALERT: Not a big spoiler, but stop reading here, if you don’t want to know about a part of the movie.
Soldiers, with their tanks, hummers, and assorted weapons are wasting their time fighting the alien terrorists. Their hummers come back empty and on fire.

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By Debbie Schlussel
This is a test. Who uttered this quote?
“Women are all the same. We’re just trouble. I think it’s punishment from G-d to have put men and women on the same planet . . . . Women are full of buttons, little buttons, millions of buttons. And men have just the on and off switch. Men need only food and you-know-what. We need so much more. We’re like–what do you call them? Barrels without bottoms. There’s no way to satisfy women. Ever.”
Is there outrage over this quote? No. But imagine the outrage if this quote had been uttered by, say, Rush Limbaugh–or any prominent male conservative. The feminist whining would be tremendous. Gloria Steinem and the NOW gang would have gotten out their sharpest knives. But, since it was uttered by Latina/Lebanese female pop star Shakira in the July issue of Blender, it’s no big deal. Instead, Blender calls Shakira, “Miss Universe,” and lauds her for being able to “curse in Arabic.” Talk about double standards. (Detroit Free Press’ John Smyntek does say, “Where’s Gloria Steinem?”)

By Debbie Schlussel
Poor locked-out NHL millionaire Jeremy Roenick. He apparently can’t take the criticism from fans who are tired of spoiled NHL players’ incessant whining. Oops! Did I just call him “spoiled”? That’s a no-no with Roenick, who says fans who use that adjective about him to “kiss my ass.”
Wait, there’s more: In his obscenity-laced tirade against the customers who pay his salary (when he’s not locked out trying to get more money), Roenick said if fans don’t realize how hard Roenick and the other spoiled NHL millionaire crybabies are working to make the game of pro hockey better, “then don’t come.” At an expensive golf club during a lavish charity golf outing, Roenick added, “We don’t want you at the rink, we don’t want you in the stadium, we don’t want you to watch hockey. . . . Everybody out there who calls us spoiled because we play a game – they can kiss my ass. . . . I will say personally, personally, to everybody who calls us spoiled, you guys are just jealous, and screw you guys.”
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. Maybe Roenick should be sentenced to a fan “sensitivity training” course. Now, he’s claiming the comments were “taken out of context.”

By Debbie Schlussel
Much is being made about Steven Spielberg’s upcoming inaccurate, revisionist history and “balance” (code for morally equivocating Islamic terrorists with their victims) in his new film, “Vengeance”–about the Israeli Mossad’s tracking down of Palestinian terrorists who murdered Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. But anyone who knows the history of this movie, based on a George Jonas book of the same name, should not be surprised.
Jonas admits he has only one “source” for most of the information in his book and that many of the incidents could not be verified. Many of his “facts” were refuted by testimony in a Norwegian trial of Mossad agents who accidentally killed a Moroccan waiter, there, and were caught. Spielberg has not contacted anyone in the Mossad, the Israeli government, or the agents who were involved in the operation, some of whom discredited Jonas’ book.
As I wrote in a last summer, Spielberg halted production to avoid upsetting terrorists during the Olympics. Just out of respect and “sensitivity” for terrorists’ wishes. Then, Spielberg realized this was a bad P.R. move and had his publicist claim the reason was something almost as absurd, but much less believable: that Spielberg was just too upset each day–sobbing while reading pages of the script–to continue. Right, and the sob-scenes in “E.T.” also made him halt production. Not.
One wonders if Spielberg’s “balance” will involve visiting the family of Cleveland-based parents of David Berger, the handsome, American-born, Israeli Olympic weight-lifter, who was among the murdered athletes. Don’t count on it. The film, starring the outspokenly pro-Palestinian Ben Kingsley, is bound to be no different than the “balanced” Oscar-winning documentary, “One Day in September,” which–as I wrote in another column–showed the murder of the Israeli Olympic athletes from the victims’ families’ and Palestinian terrorists’ points of view–as an action thriller.
Spielberg’s “Vengeance,” appears to be an indictment of our current War on Terror. According to Reuters, Daniel Craig, who stars in the film, told an entertainment magazine that , “it’s about how vengeance doesn’t . . . work–blood breeds blood.” The one accidental assassination–of the Moroccan waiter in Norway–is being used to discredit the entire operation, which was a SUCCESSFUL War on Terror. There will always be accidental deaths in fighting terror, but that doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be a strong and swift response to it.
Don’t hold your breath for real balance, such as Spielberg visiting terror-host state Syria (on the State Department’s terrorist list) to interrogate and film Jamil Al-Gashey, the only surviving murderer of the Israeli Olympic athletes. He enjoys a life of safety and freedom under the protection of Syria’s government, where he moved because, he said, he didn’t want his daughter to grow up without a father. No biggie that he killed the fathers of several daughters of the Israeli athletes. Don’t look for any of that in “Fighting Terror is a Bad Idea, as Told by Steven Spielberg.”
Question: Why did Spielberg make the Nazis look bad–and even melt to their deaths–in “Raiders by the Lost Ark”? Where was the balance? Ditto for “Schindler’s List.”

By Debbie Schlussel
This morning, U2 Rock Star and wanna-be policy maker, Bono, was on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” on the same platform as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. And last week, he was featured in People, pictured with Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and President Bush. Puh-leeze, this is a guy who constantly wears blue- or purple-lensed sunglasses in the middle of the day–including during his meetings with Rice and Bush AND on “Meet the Press” for the entire Tim Russert.
I’ve written about how misguided and ludicrous Bono’s efforts are, several times over the last several years, the best of which is “.” The piece details how Bono’s pie in the sky debt relief and aid program rips off U.S. taxpayers to fund terrorists, like the government of Sudan (host to Bin Laden for years) and others. Yet, he’s gotten the Prez and way too many others to buy into this ludicrous program: transferring wealth of American taxpayers and average Joes to high-living terrorist host-states and their leaders, while the people continue to starve. Talk about seeing the world through rose- (or blue-) colored glasses. Instead of asking us to give OUR money, not his, to fund this, why doesn’t Bono give up his expensive tinted CHANEL glasses.

By Debbie Schlussel
Why were the female soldiers, who were murdered and/or maimed by a homicide bomb, Friday, in the convoy that ended their lives? The reason is important: Out of respect for Islam. The female soldiers were on their way to a Fallujah checkpoint, to relieve other female soldiers. All of these female soldiers were being utilized for one purpose–so that Muslim women could be questioned and, if necessary, searched by other women, not the forbidden Infidel men. Because they risked their lives to respect Islamists, they were murdered by Islamists. In return, as The Jerusalem Post reports, Islamic jihadists are now targeting our female soldiers. That is how much they respect Infidel women–as in, not much.
You know the trite saying, “Give an inch, and so-and-so takes a mile”? Well, we can’t say just that about the “Religion of Peace.” In fact, for RoP, this new amended version of the adage seems appropriate: “Give an inch, and Islamists take lives.” The question to be asked is why we would give an inch in Fallujah, home to the burning to a crisp of four Americans, then dangling them on display to the cheering townsfolk. Pavlov’s dog applies here. Why reward this hellish place, which takes pleasure in that? The sensitivity here, by us, is misplaced to the extreme. Four female soldiers dead, thirteen wounded.

By Debbie Schlussel
Morgan Spurlock of “Supersize Me” fame is now the purveyor of an Islamo-phony “documentary” on F/X. And he tried to get me to play a supporting role. I wrote about it in today’s Wall Street Journal. A different, much longer version runs .