When is a Map Not a Map?

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com

You will have to highlight the text to read. I don't know what the problem is.

Portion of a map of the Middle East in the display at UC Irvine

On Tuesday, I visited an exhibit at UC Irvine put up by the Arab-American Museum of Dearborn, Michigan. It highlights the contributions of Arab-Americans to the US and includes representations of several military personnel who are Arab-Americans, none of which is objectionable.

Below is an e-mail sent to the campus community by Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Thomas Parham..

Dear UCI Community, 


You are invited to view "Patriots : Peacemakers: Arab Americans in 
Service to our Country", a multi-media interactive exhibit on 
display at the UCI Student Center in Doheny Beach C & D rooms from 
9a.m. to 9p.m. and is open through Saturday, January 26, 2013. This 
traveling exhibit is from the Arab American National Museum (AANM) in 
Dearborn, Michigan and is making its West Coast premiere at UC Irvine. 
The AANM is an Affiliate member of the Smithsonian Institute in 
Washington D.C. 

The Patriots & Peacemakers exhibition tells the story of over 100 
years of contributions by Arab Americans to three arenas of national 
service: the U.S. military, diplomatic service and the Peace Corps. 
The AANM designed the exhibit to shine a light on the acts of heroism 
and sacrifice of generations of Americans of Arab descent, and to 
challenge prevailing stereotypes. The display opened on Veterans Day 
2011 at the museum in Michigan. 

On Sunday, January 20, in conjunction with the exhibit, the Middle 
East Studies Student Initiative at UCI (MESSI) is sponsoring "Arabic 
Calligraphy" at 1 p.m. with Maece Seirafi, and at 2 p.m. Dr. Faiza 
Shereen and Rima Nashashibi will give a talk on "Who are Arab 
Americans?" in the Emerald Bay Room at the UCI Student Center. 

Having viewed the exhibit myself, I encourage our campus community to 
take the time to visit the display to learn about these important 
contributors to America's history. 

Sincerely, 

Thomas A. Parham, Ph.D. 
Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs 


Learn about the exhibit at 
arabamericanmuseum.org/patriots.and.peacemakers_socal 

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I do want to make two observations:

First of all, the Arab-American Museum in Dearborn is the same organization that honored Helen Thomas with a sculpture after she made her anti-Semitic comments.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/342993645/helen-thomas-sculpture-project

Secondly, one of the displays shows a map of the Middle East (above) which-you guessed it- omits Israel. It is all called Palestine. On Tuesday, I observed it myself.

Dr Parham, with all due respect, how can you put your imprimatur on this exhibit when it presents students with a politically falsified map of the Middle East? What kind of educational experience is that?

This week, students, faculty and staff at all UC campuses are being sent a questionnaire on the UC Campus Climate project. I cannot wait to fill it out.

"One person's hate speech is another person's education."

A Classic Huffpo Piece

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com



Cross-posted from Atlas Shrugs and Huffpo

Craig Considine, who is a PhD candidate (naturally), has written the below piece in the Huffington Post and not even that readership is buying it if you go by the comment thread. It is a comparison of George Washington and the Prophet Mohammed.

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-considine/an-unlikely-connection-between-the-prophet-muhammad-and-george-washington_b_2439940.html

I invite comments on both sides of this question. As for Mr Considine, he will surely be a great professor someday.

Update: I have joined the comment thread on this piece at Huffpo and the conversation is worth following. Considine is taking a lot of hits. Keep in mind that the Huffington Post is the biggest liberal blog of all.

Abbas Expresses Admiration for Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com



Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is the man with whom Israel is supposed to negotiate peace with. Previously, he has declared that the future Palestinian state will contain no Jews. Now he has declared his admiration for the past Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al Husseini. (Hat tip Israel National News)

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/163916#.UO9GVG9ZWSq

I am not sure the writer's description of the Grand Mufti is entirely accurate as to his relations to Hitler. Husseini actually resided in Berlin during the war, from where he made broadcasts to the Arab world urging them to drive the Jews out of their lands. He also helped organized a Bosnian Muslim SS division, which fought on the Germans' side. After the war, he was briefly held in France then quietly sent to Egypt rather than upset the Arab world by trying him as a war criminal, which was exactly what he was.



Any man whom you would see in the above two pictures is nobody to be admired.

Teacher Put On Leave After Stomping On The US Flag In Front Of Students

By Findalis
Monkey in the Middle


Hat Tip to Wake Up America

Scott Compton, an English teacher at Chapin High School in Chapin, S.C. has been put on administrative leave after students detail his actions in classes where he took an American flag, threw it on the floor, and stomped on it while telling his students "‘This is a symbol, but it’s only a piece of cloth. It doesn’t mean anything."

One parent, Michael Copeland, said he heard his teenage daughter discussing the incident and asked her to tell him the whole story.

“He drew a couple of symbols, like one of them was a cross, and he said, ‘What does this represent,’ and everybody said, ‘Christianity,’” Copeland explained to WIS.

“Then he proceeds to take down the American flag, and said, ‘This is a symbol, but it’s only a piece of cloth. It doesn’t mean anything,’ and then he throws it down on the floor and then stomps on it, repeatedly,” Copeland continued.

“I asked what was he trying to get, the point across? And she said, ‘I don’t know,’ and he said, his explanation was there would be no consequences, it’s just a piece of cloth that doesn’t mean anything.”

The best response I have seen so far reportedly comes from Mark Bounds, a spokesperson for the school district:

“Our superintendent served in the military, I served in the military for 20 years, our flag is a symbol of our freedom, and so many people have fought and died for that liberty, and so we take this action very seriously,” Bounds added.

As well they should.

I am sure there are a number of active military and veterans, among many others, that would take offense at Mr. Compton's actions.

Chapin High School
300 Columbia Ave.
Chapin, SC 29036
Phone - (803) 575-5400
Fax - (803) 575-5420

Ross, Akil
Position: Principal

Email: ARoss@lexrich5.org

803-575-5400
School Web site: Akil Ross - Principal

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On a personal note:

When I was in school (During the Stone Age) we were respectful to the flag.  We had better been.  If we had done such a deed in front of our classmates, forget our teachers, we would have gotten our heads handed to us by our friends, families, teachers, etc...   If a teacher had done this, he would have found himself in the hospital by our fathers (most of whom fought in WW 2).

What Scott Compton did is just a sign of the ineptitude of our teachers.  The lack of morals and patriotism that we have been seeing for the last 4 years.  Our children are being indoctrinated (There is nothing that even resembles teaching.) by members of the Communist Party, by people who wish to destroy this nation.

If you have children in the Public Pubic Schools get them out now!!!  Home school them if you cannot afford to put them in a decent school.  Do it today!

The Fantasies of Nihad Awad

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com



Hat tip Daily Caller





Coming on the heels of Al Gore's sale of Current TV to Al Jazeera, this latest bit by Daily Caller is quite timely. Nihad Awad, the CEO of the unindicted co-conspirator organization CAIR, has told a Saudi interviewer that Muslims actually discovered America first.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/04/cair-chief-claims-muslims-discovered-america-first/

Of course, this would fit in perfectly with the extremist Islamic doctrine that anywhere Muslims tread must be once again Islamic land-Spain, for example. And make no mistake, the CAIR types are extremists no matter what their protestations to the contrary.

“Some documents and accounts indicate that Muslim seafarers were the first to reach the U.S., [so] the bottom line is that Islam played a part in the establishment and development of the U.S.,” Awad told the Saudi interviewer, in an interview in a New York studio.

  Document number 173


And so goes the reasoning in Awad's fevered mind that America must (once again) be Islamic. The guy sounds like he's been smoking his underwear.

What's next, Awad-Neil Armstrong was a Muslim? 


At least Awad cannot claim to have invented the Internet. Everybody knows that was Al Gore. In fact, that was first reported on Al Jazeera.

Outlook for Christians in Middle East Not Good

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com



Hat tip Jerusalem Post

In the below Jerusalem Post article, 2013 is not shaping up as a good year for Christians in the Middle East. Not surprisingly, there is only one country in the region that is welcoming (with isolated exceptions). That is Israel. In most other countries in the region, it appears that Christians are facing increased persecution and leaving.

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?ID=297962&R=R1

I would like to ask the reader how much of this have you heard on National Public Radio or on ABC, CNN, NBC or CBS? Not much, I'll bet. Why not? Think it is not a big story that one of the three Abrahamaic faiths that was born in the Middle East is disappearing from the region? That would leave only Israel and its Jews, and we already know that the Arab Jews were driven out of the other countries back in 1948. Only a few thousand remain. If Israel disappears, that would basically leave one faith in the region, right?

Isn't that the goal?

I raised the question of the persecution of religious minorities in the Middle East last year at Loyola Marymount University during one of those events promoting sharia put on by local Islamic leaders.

http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2012/04/shariah-workshop-at-loyola-marymount.html



"When called upon, I introduced myself, and  my question went like this:

"We have heard a lot of talk today about hate and intolerance, but there is an 800 pound gorilla in the back of the room, and its name is hate and intolerance. It is not the hate and intolerance that may or not be directed to you, but the hate and intolerance that is being carried out by Muslims against religious minorities in Muslim countries-people being killed and their places of worship destroyed-from the Coptic Christians in Egypt, to the Christians in Pakistan, the Jews in Yemen, the Baha'i in Iran, the Christians in Iraq and the Christians and animists in Sudan. In addition, Jews in Europe are now experiencing the worst anti-Semitism since the 1930s. It has gotten to the point where they cannot walk the streets wearing Jewish garb lest they be insulted, spat upon or assaulted. Yes, some of the perpetrators are neo-Nazis and skinheads, but the primary perpetrators are young, male Muslim immigrants.  'I am not attributing that to Muslims in America', I said. 'I don't hate Muslims and I don't know anyone in this room who does, but why do you never speak out against that hate and intolerance?"

Qazwini was the first to respond. He said there were two problems. First of all, most of these countries are not free countries, and for the past 8 decades, the Western superpowers, including the US, have supported these regimes. "Don't blame Islam", he said. "Don't blame it on Muslims."

Qazwini  also said that he has been active on the UC Irvine campus for 17 years and every Friday, he speaks out against this intolerance.

Jackson stated that it was a "false criteria". He also said, "Just because a problem persists, doesn't mean that Muslims are not speaking out. "Nobody is more concerned or affected by extremist interpretations than Muslims".

Hathout stated that he had just been involved in a Muslim conference on religious minorities (in Muslim countries). He also stated that "oppression of the majority will lead to oppression of the minority." 
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This is what you get. 

In the coming years, we had better get ready for a few more million refugees to the West coming out of this region. These I will support. And they will have tons of things to tell us when they get here. I just hope somebody will listen because precious few are listening now.

First They Came For The Guns...

By Findalis
Monkey in the Middle


And took them out of their hands in Great Britain.  They promised the population that they would be safe, that crime would reduce to almost nothing.  It didn't happen.  In fact, crime increased.  Crime with knives increased.  So now they will ban the knife.

The good news is that if we ever do get that assault rifle ban, followed by a handgun ban, followed by a ban of anything that can shoot bullets, the “Banners” will still have a banner year of banning all the other ways with which people kill other people.

Violent crimes haven’t gone away with the UK’s gun control. They’ve actually gone up.

Britons suffer 1,158,957 violent crimes per year, which works out at 2,034 per 100,000 residents. The U.S., meanwhile, has a rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, which is lower than France’s, at 504.

Instead of gun crime, the UK worries about knife crime. And has been practicing knife control.

The UK outlawed the switchblade and gravity knife in 1959.

In 1988 possession of a pocket knife with a blade larger than 3 inches in public became illegal.

In 1996, it became illegal to sell a razor blade to anyone under the age of 16.

In 2007, you needed a license to be able to sell “non-domestic knives.”

Despite all that knifepoint robberies rose by 10 percent this year and there are some 60,000 stabbings each year. So the push is on to outlaw long kitchen knives. Once that’s done, surely utopia will be at hand.

A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase – and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings.

They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon.

They consulted 10 top chefs from around the UK, and found such knives have little practical value in the kitchen.

None of the chefs felt such knives were essential, since the point of a short blade was just as useful when a sharp end was needed.

The researchers say legislation to ban the sale of long pointed knives would be a key step in the fight against violent crime.

“We suggest that banning the sale of long pointed knives is a sensible and practical measure that would have this effect.”

Certainly no law-abiding person needs a long blade kitchen knife. No one is talking about outlawing all kitchen knives. Just the ones with long blades. No reason for anyone to go beyond a paring knife anyway.

The chefs say so and what does Julia Child know anyway.

Take a good look America. This is where we’re headed under liberal dominion.

Source

What happens if you are a young girl and you need to shave your armpits? Or a boy age 15 and that peach fuzz is growing dark

I suppose the 10 top chefs they asked were vegans.  I need a long, sharp blade to filet fish.  Need a long, thick blade to butcher a kill.  Heck try to carve a roast or a turkey with a steak knife.  I need a very sharp long knife (and sharp fork) to do that too.

You cannot legislate safety for every situation.  You can kill with a steak knife, razor, heck a very sharp Swiss Army Knife.  Unless you have a cop following each and every person 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, you will never prevent murders.

I suggest every person who cooks, who carves, who loves their freedom to rise up and strike a blow for freedom and kill this stupidity before it gains any grounds with the ruling Elites.