By Debbie Schlussel
Morgan Spurlock got famous from his Oscar-nominated documentary, “Supersize Me.” He ingested supersized McDonald’s meals three times a day for thirty days, then blamed McDonald’s for his changed physique and health.
Now, he’s using his thirty-day premise to get Americans to ingest his bloated version of radical Islam on cable’s F/X Network.
Last year, I received a request to appear in Spurlock’s new reality show, “30 Days.” The six-episode series began Wednesday Night. The episode for which I was being recruited, “Inside an American Muslim Family,” airs next Wednesday. It features Spurlock’s childhood friend from West Virginia, David Stacy, spending thirty days “living as a Muslim” in the Detroit area.

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By Debbie Schlussel
In the heart of Islamic America, why is Detroit Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent in Charge pushing through the nephew of “former” PFLP terrorist, current Hezbollah and Hamas supporter, and FBI award revokee in the recruitment process to become an ICE agent in his office? And why is Abu Moskowitz pushing through resumes from Muslims chosen for him by radical Islamist Hamad? Sources say Moskowitz got Hamad’s nephew an expedited interview with recruiters in his Detroit ICE office (from which he oversees Michigan and Ohio ICE operations), requested that the recruiters “push him through” to Washington, and personally recommended Hamad’s nephew to be among the new agents hired by Moskowitz. Sources also say that Moskowitz handed recruiters a stack of resumes of Muslim Arabs especially chosen and forwarded to him by Hamad, and requested expedited interviews for those individuals.
Is it appropriate for Moskowitz to be pushing through Hamad’s relatives and hand-picked candidates for agent jobs investigating money-laundering, drug-dealing, and illegal alien smuggling by Muslims, when Hamad opposes these investigations at every step of the way, and refers all defendants in such matters to his friend and ADC official, lawyer Nabih Ayad? (Moskowitz appears in a photo with Ayad, Hamad, and other assorted jihadists in Hamad’s latest newsletter.) Should a “former” terrorist who still openly supports Islamic terror, was in an illegal sham marriage, , and whom the government fought to deport for decades, now become the unofficial Muslim recruiter for Detroit ICE? I report. You decide.
If you are disturbed by this development, contact Brian Moskowitz, or better yet, contact his boss, ICE Director of Investigations Marcy Forman.

By Debbie Schlussel
Uh-Oh! The “Religion of Peace” has struck again in Metro Detroit. In the Oakland County suburb of Madison Heights (not near Islamo-Dearborn, for those of you unfamiliar with Detroit), a near honor-killing of a 15-year-old girl at the hands of her brother–with her parents’ approval!–took place. Since she was only put in a wheelchair with a broken back, and not killed (yet), we’ll call it an “honor-beating.”
What was the teen girl’s “crime”? The girl, a student at Lamphere High School, had a relationship with a non-Muslim boy, a real no-no in Islam (for the women, not the men–who can date and dishonor all of the Infidelettes they want). The brother, Ahmad Abdelmomen, beat her, after which, “she complained of the injury to her parents, but they didn’t take her to a doctor because they condoned the punishment her brother gave her,” said the Robert Zivian, the case’s prosecutor.
Where are Detroit area Islamic leaders condemning this disgusting, hate-crime-by-proxy attack? Where is Arab leader, “former” PFLP terrorist, FBI award revokee, and Detroit ICE SAIC buddy, ? Deafeningly silent. On the other hand, perhaps his silence is a good thing. Last year, regarding a similar “honor-beating” attack on a Dearborn Muslim Arab girl for having a non-Muslim boyfriend, Hamad defended the parents and attacked the girl.

By Debbie Schlussel
In his zeal to call me a “creep,” Chicago Sun Times sports “columnist” Ron Rapoport invented and attributed to me a quote I never wrote or uttered, in his column in yesterday’s edition of the paper. Rapoport wrote:
“OK, who’s the bigger creep? . . . or conservative commentator Debbie Schlussel, who wrote, “Patrick looks like a woman, as opposed to the 169 players in the WNBA, who look like men.”
Where did I write that? It’s not in , to which he is referring. Rapoport is so LAZY, he didn’t bother to read my column at all. Instead, he merely plagiarized a sentence from WNBA player , and falsely presented it as a quote from my column. It ISN’T. Some journalist.
HEADLINE: CHICAGO SPORTS COLUMNIST PLAGIARIZES WNBA PLAYER
It’s a sad day when a sports columnist needs to plagiarize a WNBA player for material. But don’t look for a retraction in Rapoport’s column. No fact-checking, false reporting, and plagiarism–three no-nos in journalism, and Rapoport’s guilty of all of them. In response, the only thing he can say is “I’m Not Rappaport.” Well, at least, he spelled my name right.
*** UPDATE: After an e-mail to Rapoport pointing out that he fabricated and plagiarized his column, attributing a quote to me that I NEVER uttered or wrote, Rapoport has the chutzpah to ask me to send him the column. What am I–his unpaid researcher? Call me a “creep,” do your own research, lazy writer.

By Debbie Schlussel
The she-males in the WNBA sideshow just can’t take it. First, I received a “creative” . Now, it is Mercury player Kayte Christensen, who is so bothered by my , she’s written an anti-Debbie-Schlussel-anti-WNBA column in the Arizona Republic.
But apparently Christensen needs to go back to school to learn how to read. She claims that I take “credit away from a female trying to succeed in a man’s world.” I do? Where? In my anti-WNBA column, I give credit for Danica Patrick for doing exactly that. How many WNBA players play against men? Well, that may be a trick question, because there actually may be a lot of male WNBA players–based on appearance, anyway. But I refer to real men in my column and point out that the WNBA players do NOT compete against men, but whine for not getting equal pay, respect, attention, ratings, ticket sales, endorsements, yadda, yadda, yadda. If they wanted to succeed “in a man’s world,” WNBA players would try-out for the NBA and not have their own league.
Christensen also defends her teammate Anna DeForge, who had a lesbian relationship with her coach in exchange for more playing time, as a great role model for America’s kids. Sleeping with the boss to get ahead–great role model, Kayte. Puh-leeze.
Christensen is mad that women in sports are judged by looks when men are judged only on performance. That’s not really true–a female sports columnist wrote about her lust for LA Dodger Shawn Green’s “jewels” in the locker room, and Major League Baseball player Gabe Kapler was regularly praised for his muscular physique, more often than his baseball swing. But even when it is true, get a clue. As I, again, wrote in my column, sports is showbiz. Looks count. In men’s sports, men want to be them, and women want to date (euphemism) them. In women’s sports, unless you look like Anna Kournikova or Danica Patrick, there won’t be that dynamic–unless you count the lesbian audience, and you can’t build a sports league on that minute customer base. Sorry, Kayte.
Finally, Christensen claims that David Stern and the NBA are still supporting the WNBA after 8 money-hemorrhaging seasons because they want the league “to succeed in all realms, not just financially.” As in any business, there is only one measure of success in sports–the bottom line. If they want to be equal to the men, why do they demand a different yardstick to measure them?
Christensen joins another critic of my WNBA column, my cousin and aspiring teen columnist, Mallory Greitzer, who also critiqued the column in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Mallory’s was far better than Kayte’s, but Kayte and Mallory, thanks for spelling my name right.

Finally Senator Dick Durbin realizes that it’s just a little absurd and lot more outrageous to compare our troops to the Nazis and our luxe detention camps for terrorists to Nazi Death camps for innocent people. But do you consider this an apology? I’m not sure. Saying, “Some may believe that my remarks crossed the line,” implies that he doesn’t, himself, believe his remarks crossed the line. My deserved better.

By Debbie Schlussel
I’m not saying Barbara Barlow is your typical homeless person, but . . . . What do you think of homeless people, like Barlow, who want your pity, but have plenty of time, money, and energy to devote to millionaire basketball players for teams owned by billionaires? In advance of tonight’s Spurs-Pistons NBA Finals game, Detroit Free Press sports columnist Nicholas J. Cotsonika’s column on Barlow is not only interesting, it’s a light must-read.
Homeless Barlow, of San Antonio, has slept in a dumpster and a box next to the highway, but she burns money on pricey Manu Ginobili jerseys, Spurs t-shirts, her large basketball card collection, and a radio (spends all day listening to Paul Harvey and sports radio). And she is an autograph hound, who regularly trolls around the away team’s hotel for their signatures–not too mention her scouting of David Robinson’s wedding. And while she won’t pay for herself to live anywhere, Barlow regularly pays for storage of her NBA memorabilia. Why is she homeless? “I’m lazy,” Barlow says. Doesn’t sound lazy to me–when it comes to basketball. She, like some other homeless, needs to get her priorities straight.

By Debbie Schlussel
Now we know why “former” PFLP terrorist was once set to get an award from FBI Director Robert Mueller (it was revoked after a 2003 NY Post column I wrote). He didn’t know better. And doesn’t have a clue about terrorism and terrorists.
Pre-9/11, it was bad enough that the FBI was far behind the curve on terrorism. Terrorism was like the circular file for agents. It wasn’t “sexy,” and they dreaded being assigned to it.
Post-9/11, the FBI claimed that terrorism was its top priority. Don’t believe the hype. A story by AP’s excellent investigative reporter, John Solomon, shows how just how phony the FBI’s professed dedication to rooting out terrorists is. Depositions in a lawsuit by Bassem Youssef, the highest ranking Arab FBI agent, show how embarrassingly clueless the FBI–from the top brass on down–is. And none of the top FBI brass felt knowledge or expertise in terrorism was important in the least. No surprise, since it would disqualify all of them, who–shockingly–don’t know the most basic characteristics regarding Islamic terror.
That FBI Director Robert Mueller didn’t know how the blind cleric, Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, was linked to Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, would be hilarious–if it weren’t so pathetic and disturbing. (Rahman was the spiritual leader for the ’93 WTC terrorist attacks, and was convicted for it. Now, in prison, the attack he inspired was an Al-Qaeda attack. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, is the uncle of Ramzi Youssef, mastermind of the ’93 WTC attacks.) Ditto for FBI Counterterrorism director through 2003, Dale Watson, who could not tell the difference between Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims. That is significant because the major Islamic terrorist groups are allied with particular Islamic sects–Hezbollah is Shi’ite and is funded by Iran’s Shia government; and HAMAS and other Palestinian terrorist groups, as well as Al-Qaeda, are Sunni. (Though, these days, the groups have started to work together. They hate each other, but they hate us more.)
When FBI agent Coleen Rowley exposed Mueller’s refusal to let agents look at the hard-drive of Al-Qaedan Zaccarias Moussaoui–which might have uncovered the 9/11 plot, top FBI brass countered that Rowley didn’t know much about terrorism. Pot. Kettle. Black.

By Debbie Schlussel
In “honor” of Father’s Day, ABC News has a ludicrous story about wannabe Hollywood actors who “find themselves” through “Fathers’ Voices” and “fathering themselves.” Huh? It’s really just another liberal pop psychology attempt to trash men and denigrate fathers–like the rest of Hollywood has been doing for decades. “A lot of the world’s instability, on personal and global levels, is caused by men’s misguided ideas of masculinity,” said Greg Sanders, creator of the ironically titled solo show, “Not About My Father.” Whatever.
These guys are just future Hollywood “Dads of Dubious Distinction,” an excellent compilation–by Detroit Free Press features editor John Smyntek–of why many of us were lucky enough to be born not to the wealth, fame, and mansions of liberal, bizarro Hollywood, but to normal, regular red state American families headed by a father who knows and lives the meaning of the word.
I’m lucky my Dad is not one of these Hollywood “Dads,” but a real, devoted, mainstream American Dad who served his country and loves his family. The Greek Philosopher, Epicurus, said, “Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one’s entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is friendship.” Thanks for being my greatest friend, Dad, and Happy Father’s Day!

By Debbie Schlussel
Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill) compared Guantanamo Bay detention of Islamic terrorists to the Nazis death camps, a comparison predictably loved by the Terrorist News Network a/k/a Al-Jazeera. My late grandfather, Isaac (who was also interned at Dora, Gross Rosen, and several other Nazi death camps), and my grandmother, Adele, both miraculously survived the Nazi death camp of Bergen Belsen (where Anne Frank was put to death), where they met and my mother was born. My grandparents were not terrorists who murdered innocent Americans. They were innocent kids whose only crime was being Jewish. My grandparents–if they hadn’t lost all of their teeth in the Nazi death camps–would have loved to eat glazed chicken and rice pilaf, like these Islamic murderers that include the 20th hijacker and Bin Laden’s personal driver.
Instead, he nearly starved to death, amid no food, hard labor, and freezing conditions over several years. He watched many of his fellow inmates die from these conditions, as did my grandfather’s entire family. When my grandfather and the others in Bergen Belsen were liberated by our brave American soldiers, my grandfather was lucky to have fainted in the rush to eat bread served by the troops. The others, who did not faint, and ran to eat the bread were so starving and undernourished that they died from the richness of the bread. This is the same as Guantanamo? Senator Durbin, you are deranged. When I was little, I asked my grandfather why he did not have a tattooed number on his arm, like some of my other Holocaust survivor relatives did. He told me that at that point, Hitler was so intent on finishing off the Jews through the “Final Solution,” that he did not want to waste the time of giving him and others a number. He just wanted to put them to death in the ovens. Fortunately, my grandparents survived and came to this great country. There is no final solution going on in Guantanamo. We are not trying to kill the inmates there, even though many of them would love to kill us–after much torture. They are there for two reasons only–justice and saving Americans’ lives from the new Nazis, radical Muslims. Dick Durbin, get a clue and apologize to your country!