I’m getting paranoid importing from YouTube because of the tags they introduce, and tags might be one of the reasons it takes me hours to get a compose screen on Vox. However, this one came up on demand, which is a relief.
I showed this to my neighbourhood yesterday, but as the YouTube one is public, I have no problems sharing it more widely. It was my TV appearance last month on CTV, with Angela and Megan on Good Living. This was not networked, but it was very fun to do. The set reminded me a bit of the Good Morning one at Avalon, except I got one thing that I was promised but never got: a subtitle with both my and Lucire’s names.
Athlete: Four piece out of London, England. You’re probably familiar with their 2005 single Wires, which saw them being becoming household names in the UK and even saw them make it to Australia. Unsurprisingly, this wasn’t their first release (Vehicles and Animals was their first full-length album) and hasn’t been their last.
Following the release of Tourist (the album that contained Wires) was the release of the 2007 album Beyond the Neighbourhood. I must admit, this release didn’t make a big impact in Australia and as it seems, didn’t make it into the collection of many, claimed to be considered “a disappointment” by some.
Much like Coldplay, Athlete has been critically acclaimed for their songwriting efforts picking up a Mercury Music Prize nomination and winning an Ivor Novello award for Wires. The band has additional similarities to Coldplay, in that their music it quite mellow and mature; appealing to a slightly older audience than your general indie-pop/rock. If you hate Coldplay though, never fear their music is not quite in that same realm of “ya mum probably likes it”. That is, I don’t think mums would dig Athlete. They still retain that slight edge which will appeal to the kids, but maybe not the ones that think dressing like they stepped out of the 80’s is cool.
To celebrate the upcoming February 2010 US release of the bands fourth full-length album Black Swan (the album was released in the UK in August), the band have recently released an EP entitled, The Getaway.
Black Swan, is not, as you may have thought, a tribute to the state emblem of Western Australia, but apparently, encompasses the events and emotions that the boys from Athlete have gone through. Based around the tale that saw the Black Swan being seen as a mythical animal for hundreds of years, until someone went to Western Australia (obviously) and the metaphor that life is made of up significant events, some of which can be shocking, both good and bad.
Don’t worry, it’s not all sadness and gloom. The first single from Black Swan, Superhuman Touch (which is also on the EP), is quite upbeat and lyrically uplifting. Whereas the EP title track, The Getaway, is less uplifting, but just as heartwarming and emotive lyrically.
To mark the EP's release, Athlete is offering a free download, which is a deal well worth jumping on. So, to get your grubby hands on this freebie you just need to pop along and join the mailing list at http://www.originalsignalrecordings.com/Athlete/us/
You can also download the EP from iTunes at http://bit.ly/10Dcg3
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Major
Jeffrey Dinsmore was LtCol Chessani’s intelligence officer. He has
served as an active-duty Marine for over 23 years. In yesterday’s
testimony, he informed Board members of the complexity of the daylong
engagement in Haditha on November 19, 2005. He also informed the Board
his intelligence assessment before November 19, 2005 indicated Marines
were going to be attacked in Hadtiha that day. Follow-on intelligence
after November 19, 2005 confirmed to Major Dinsmore and LtCol Chessani
that the attack on November 19, 2005 was one they were expecting from
foreign fighters—namely Syrians. 
Next
to testify, was Major Luke McConnell, company commander of the Marines
originally charged in the case. He explained to Board members that he
spoke to his Marines, as their commanding officer, during and after the
engagement. He personally fought in the engagement. He confirmed his
company was in a daylong battle with insurgents. He also went to where
the Marines entered homes to clear out insurgents. Major McConnell was
briefed by Lieutenant Kallop, the units platoon leader, that he ordered
the Marines to clear the homes of insurgents and unfortunately there
were civilians killed as collateral damage. 
Remember VeriChip, the Florida company that once dreamed of injecting its human-implantable RFID microchips in everyone from immigrant guest workers to prison inmates?
We haven’t heard much from the company since a dipping stock price nearly got it delisted from the NASDAQ in March. But it’s still alive, and in November it pulled off a seemingly incongruous acquisition. Now called PositiveID, the new company is a merger between VeriChip and Steel Vault, the people behind NationalCreditReport.com.
With a human-implantable microchip maker now running a credit-scoring and identity-theft-protection website, privacy activists are worried again. “The attraction to investors is the potential for synergies,” says Mark Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. “You have to anticipate over time there will be an attempt to integrate the services.”
“Sci-fi wise, you could have a chip read by a scanner that determines your credit-worthiness,” says Evan Hendricks, editor of Privacy Times. “Or you could have a credit card implant.”
VeriChip and its former owner Applied Digital have been drawing fire since 2004, when the FDA approved the rice-sized injectable RFID for human use. While the company primarily pushed the chip as part of a system to index medical records — a kind of subcutaneous MedAlert bracelet — Richard Sullivan, then-CEO of Applied Digital, had a penchant for wantonly confirming every nightmare of cybernetic social control.
After 9/11, it was Sullivan who announced the VeriChip would be perfect as a universal ID to distinguish safe people from the dangerous ones. He dreamed of GPS-equipped chips being injected into foreigners entering the United States, prisoners, children, the elderly. He thought the VeriChip would be used as a built-in credit or ATM card.
Indeed, in 2004, one of VeriChip’s earliest deployments was at a Barcelona nightclub, where VIP patrons could pay 125 euro to get the chip installed in their arms as a debit card for drinks.
But today, Sullivan’s replacement says the company has no plans to market the VeriChip as a path to instant credit, despite the recent acquisition.
With his white-buttondown shirt open at the chest, PositiveID CEO Scott Silverman spoke about the merger in an interview at the company’s office suite in Delray Beach, Florida. “Using the chip to relate to the credit-reporting services of NationalCreditReport.com, or even using it for financial transactions … has not been a part of our business model for five years or more, since Sullivan’s been gone, and is not part of our business model moving forward,” he says.
Silverman also backed away from some of the Orwellian ideas floated by his cyberpunk predecessor. “I can tell you that … putting [the chips] into children and immigrants for identification purposes, or putting them into people, especially unwillingly, for financial transactions, has [not] been and never will be the intent of this company as long I’m the chairman and CEO,” he says.
Yet in 2004, Silverman told the Broward-Palm Beach New Times that the VeriChip could be used as a credit card in coming years. And in 2006, he went on Fox & Friends to promote the chipping of immigrant guest workers to track them and monitor their tax records.
And ahead of the recent merger, VeriChip gave a presentation to investors hinting there would be some cross-pollination between the two sides of the business. It plans to “cross-sell its NationalCreditReport.com customer base” (.pdf) the Health Link service and vice-versa. So, Americans with implanted VeriChips will be encouraged to divulge their finances to PositiveID, while credit-monitoring customers will be marketed the health-record microchip.
Critics of chipping are moved by a variety of concerns, ranging from the pragmatic to the religious — anti-RFID crusader Katherine Albrecht believes the technology is the Mark of the Beast predicted in the Book of Revelation, but also doubts its efficacy as a medical tag: VeriChip’s instruction manual warns that the chip may not function in ambulances and areas where there are MRI and X-ray scanners.
Security is another issue. RFIDs can generally be scanned from distances much greater than the official specs suggest. Nicole Ozer at the ACLU of Northern California notes that after Wired magazine writer Annalee Newitz experimentally cloned her VeriChip in 2006, the company continued calling it secure.
But human chipping has high-profile fans as well, including former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, who left his job as overseer of the FDA in 2005 — a year after VeriChip’s approval — to join the company’s board of directors. Thompson announced he would personally join the 700 to 900 Americans who have the chip installed in their bodies. (He later reportedly reneged.)
Whatever its plans for the future, PositiveID is focused on its original mission for now: implants tied to medical records. On December 1, the new company announced it’s collaborating with Avocare, a Florida health care business, in the hopes of bringing its “health care identification products” to 1 million patients.
15 Million Americans Are Out Of Work. So Why Is Our Government Still Bringing In 1.5 Million Foreign Workers A Year?
It doesn't make sense. 15 million Americans can't find a job and our government is still allowing 1.5 million foreign workers a year to enter this country and take American jobs. And that's not counting the illegal workers taking jobs. With Americans losing their houses and struggling to put food on the table, how can we continue giving jobs away? Does anyone really believe there's a labor shortage? And yes, Americans will do "those jobs."
Email This Ad To Everyone You Know!
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A Taxpayer-Friendly Plan That Opens Up Jobs For More Americans
You hear a lot of talk about job creation these days. And most of it is just that, talk. Here's a simple plan that will open up millions of jobs for Americans at little cost to taxpayers. It's time to take action and STOP the great American job give-away.
- Worksite Enforcement: An estimated 8 million illegal workers hold jobs today. Stepped up enforcement of existing worksite laws and programs such as E-Verify will open up jobs for American workers immediately.
- Time Out For Temporary Worker Visas: More than 90,000 visas were issued last year alone to foreign temporary workers. And we're still doing it today. Stop giving visas to non-agricultural workers and open those jobs to American Workers.
- Time Out On Most Permanent Foreign Workers: Of the 1.1 million immigrants admitted to the U.S. last year, 3 of 4 were potential job seekers, while Americans were losing jobs. Reduce the flow of immigration and jobs will open for Americans.
Spread the Word!
Most Americans don't realize their own government is giving their jobs away or that by taking some simple steps, we could open up millions of jobs for U.S. workers. So, if you want to help, start talking to your friends about it. Talk to the media about it. Send emails. Spread the word. Tell everyone you know. And get fired up about it because putting the interests of foreign workers ahead of American workers just isn't right. Email the newspaper ad above and TV spots below to your friends. Then, go to the "How You Can Help" section below and take action. It's up to all of us to stand up for the American worker now. Who knows, the job you save could be your own!
Email These TV Spots To Your Friends Now.
http://www.americanworker.org/
How You Can Help -- If We All Speak Together, We'll Be Heard Loud and Clear.
- Talk About It! Many Americans have no idea we're still bringing in 1.5 million foreign workers a year to take American jobs. So talk about it, send emails and helps us communicate what's going on. Talk to your friends and talk with the media. If we all speak together right now, we'll be heard loud and clear!
- Start Asking Our Leaders Questions:
- Why are we bringing in 1.5 million foreign workers to take jobs when 15 million Americans are out of work?
- Ask why Congressman Gutierrez is insisting President Obama stop worksite enforcement of immigration laws? Enforcement is opening jobs across the country for unemployed Americans. Unfortunately, since President Obama took office, worksite enforcement has declined significantly.
- Why aren't Jobs created by stimulus money just for American workers? That's right, there aren't safeguards in place to make sure Stimulus money jobs go to Americans? That idea was rejected! Right now, illegal workers and foreign workers are allowed to take Stimulus money jobs.
- Why are Congressman Gutierrez and Senator Schumer so adamant that we need to give illegal aliens amnesty and bring in more foreign workers now! That's not Comprehensive Immigration Reform. That's Comprehensive Amnesty. It would also be a Comprehensive Disaster for the American worker.
- Call President Obama at 202-456-1111. President Obama can make changes to the nation's immigration policies without Congressional approval. Call him and tell him we need to reduce the number of foreign workers coming to this country to take jobs, so Americans can get those jobs.
- Believe it or not, many in Congress don't know we're still giving jobs away. If you want to help educate members of Congress, the Congressional switchboard can be reached at 202-224-3121.
- Join a CFAW Group. For that matter, join them all! Get active and let's make a difference.
Statistics: I have stripped out 6 kbyte worth of tags from the 260 kbyte I had yesterday afternoon. The file is now c. 254 kbyte. Pretty sucky for nearly four hours’ work, but we are talking about undoing three years of blogging here.
I can’t say I’ve noticed major improvements to Vox’s compose screen coming up. I suppose one could say this now takes minutes rather than hours or days, and it sometimes comes up without a refresh (if you give it a quarter- or half-hour).
Back to work.
What's your favorite thing about the holidays? Least favorite?
Going out in the snow and then coming home to cozy hot chocolate and a fireplace. Well, we don't have one but one day we might. I also love making gifts by hand. And the challenge of an eco holiday. It makes me focus on what's important We seem to have a running theme for the holiday. Spaces, cooking, reusing. I'm almost done sorting the attic. I'm hoping that by the time we move to a new home, we'll have 5-10 containers of belongings each, not including furniture. Isn't that enough?? A few gifts we're giving involve repairing stuff. In the meantime we have no idea what we're doing for Winter Solstice. Sometimes our region has chocoalte tastings. I bought a few cookbooks. Sharing food and gifts is a nice part of the holiday. I like the colorful lights too. Fire is an important symbol of the season. I'm trying to picture our new home next year. I hope we can be hosts for once. We'd invite our guests to watch the birds flitter around the conifers. And have hot cider waiting by the fireplace when we come inside. We'll have bird wreaths and nuts for the squirrels so we can watch them from the picture window.
Grrr. Been trying to download Office 2020 beta for several hours. Major problem the download program keeps crashing explorer 8. It seems Microsoft's own download program violates Windows XP protection from service pack 2. To work round this you need to edit your c:\boot.ini to remove the /NoExecute=OptIn parameter here:
I am only 1 speech away from earning my ACS award!
Two more Advanced Manuals nearly complete.
Humorously Speaking:
1. Planning Ahead to Live Your Dreams - 10/15/08
2. Mistaken Identity - 11/19/08
3. Adventures In Motorcycling - 12/17/08
4. The "Big Dip" Stories from the Road - 01/28/09
5. My Incongruous Life - 03/04/09
Communicating on Television:
1. When Money Is Free - 04/01/09
2. M. T. O. (Minimum, Target, Outrageous) - 09/16/09
3. [Scheduled in January]
4. Campaign Shenanigans - 12/09/09
5. Why and How To Use Mind Mapping - 11/18/09
The Successful club Series:
1. Moments of Truth Part 1 the presentation - 07/15/09
2. Moments of Truth Part 2 the evaluation - 11/04/09
[Workshop with club members evaluating our club]
Do you recall the story of Rifqa Bary?
In short: Rifqa converted to Christianity around age 14 or 15. Rifqa’s discovered her conversion away from Islam at about age 16. Rifqa’s father became violently upset with his daughter so she fled to a Church in Florida. She had communication with the Florida Church via Facebook which enabled her to feel safe from her father in Ohio. The Florida and Ohio Court system did not discover a threat from Rifqa’s father so she was forced to return to Ohio. The last post I made of Rifqa’s plight at SlantRight is entitled, “Rifqa Bary: Does America Prefer She Just Die?”
Commenter Jim Phelan sent this random notification concerning a rally Rifqa Bary on December 22, 2009:
December 22 Rally for Rifqa Bary DORRIAN COMMONS PARK, ACROSS THE STREET FROM FRANKLIN COUNTY JUVENILE COURT 11AM - 2PM, December 22 Franklin County courthouse, Franklin County juvenile court,4th floor 373 S. High Street; Columbus, Ohio 43215 Source: missionamerica.com
When I went to the missionamerica.com website for confirmation on Jim’s information I failed to find the information. I felt there had to be some confirmation some place so I checked out the Rifqa Bary website which is kind of tracking her journey. I discovered a link to Pam Geller’s Atlas Shrugs who seems to be the premier person keeping Rifqa’s plight in the public eye as well as diffusing the seeming pro-dad version of events. Here is a detailed description of the Rifqa Bary rally to be held in Columbus, Ohio:
12/22 CHRISTMAS RALLY FOR RIFQA ON THE DAY OF HER DEPENDENCY HEARING
PLEASE JOIN PAMELA GELLER, ROBERT SPENCER, DR. ANDREW BOSTOM
"DORRIAN COMMONS PARK"
ACROSS THE STREET FROM
FRANKLIN COUNTY JUVENILE COURT
11AM - 2PM
Franklin County courthouse
Franklin County juvenile court
4th floor
373 S. High street
Columbus, Ohio 43215Simon Deng
Ex-Slave Sudan
The Indian Experience with Jihad
Jamal Jivanajee
Pastor, Fellow Apostate and Rifqa's friend
Geller, Spencer, Bostom
THERE WILL BE SPEAKERS, FELLOW APOSTATES FROM ISLAM, INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS FIGHTING BLASPHEMY LAWS AND DEFENDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE AGE OF JIHAD. I IMPLORE YOU TO STAND WITH THIS GIRL. SHE REPRESENTS AMERICA IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ENCROACHING SHARIA LAW.
Directions to the Franklin County Courthouse & Rally: Franklin County Juvenile Court, 373 South High Street, Columbus (Ohio).
Rally Site. The Rally will be held at the Dorrian Commons Park, lying East and immediately adjacent to the Franklin County Courthouse, where Rifqa Bary’s Juvenile Court Hearings will be held later in the day. For those wishing to attend that public hearing, assuming room in the Courtroom, hearings are scheduled to begin at __.__ _.m.
Courthouse Address. The Franklin County Courthouse is located at 373 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215.
By Automobile. The Franklin County Courthouse lies just East of the intersection of Interstate highways I-70 and I-71, off of exit 100A on I-70 (near the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy Rivers). Exit the freeway North, just a block until W. Mound Street, and turn East, to your right onto W. Mound. Drive East on W. Mound for just 4 blocks until you reach South High Street. Turn South, to your right, and you will see the Courthouse and rally site.
High Street, by the way, is the dividing line between E. & W. Columbus, so don’t be alarmed if you see streets with E. & W. designations: things are literally just “across the street” from each other, in relation to all of the events described herein.
Event Parking. The Courthouse is served by several large parking lots immediately to the North across W. Mound Street. The parking lot is bound on the West by S. Front Street, to the North by Main Street (which appears to be Ohio Highway 62), and to the East by S. High Street, upon which the Franklin County Courthouse fronts.
Another major parking lot lies to the North of the event, north and south between E. Main Street and E. Rich Street, and east and west on South High and South 3rd.
Hotel Accommodations. Here's a link to help you look for travel accommodations. Less than a block North of the Courthouse, and immediately to the South of the large parking lot described above, there is the Westin Columbus Hotel on the Southeast corner of the intersection of South High and East Main.
By Air. Port Columbus International Airport (CMH) is just 6 or 7 miles Northeast of downtown. At the link below, the map also has off to the left margin an interactive service for securing flights in and out of Port Columbus.
It appears the Rifqa Bary rally serves two purposes: 1. an education on the nature of Islam. 2. Garner support for emancipating Rifqa since the dates corresponds to a Court date for that purpose. Rifqa becomes 18 on August 10, 2010.
Rifqa Bary’s website links to an AP release posted in the Columbus Dispatch dated December 1, 2010. The article starts out neutral but finishes giving a pro-dad version.
Plan says runaway teen convert and family should talk
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 11:52 AM
Updated: Tuesday, December 1, 2009 01:05 PM
Columbus Dispatch
COLUMBUS -- A runaway Christian convert and her Muslim family must listen to each other's views about religion if they are to reunite, a possibility that appears in jeopardy since the girl continues to refuse any contact with her parents or siblings, a caseworker says.
A case-management plan filed yesterday said Rifqa Bary and her parents should hear what each has to say about Islam and Christianity as a step toward a possible reunification. But the plan, written by a government caseworker, also said "severe differences" exist between the 17-year-old girl and her parents over what led Rifqa to run away to Florida over the summer.
The girl has said she feared her father would harm or kill her for leaving Islam. Her father has denied the claim.
"Parents concern is that Rifqa has a false perception of their religious beliefs and that her understanding creates a barrier to reunification," wrote Margaret Shirk, a Franklin County Children Services Board caseworker. "Rifqa's concern is that her parents do not understand her practice of Christianity."
Bary's parents, Mohamed and Aysha Bary, agree with their daughter being in foster care for the moment, but are concerned about her and would like a family relationship with her again, according to the plan.
Shirk's plan says Rifqa Bary has made it clear she wants no contact with her parents or her brothers. The girl talked to her brothers on the phone while she was in Florida but since then decided she wants no contact with them either, the plan said.
"Rifqa has been insistent about not having any contact with her parents and now with her siblings for what she has expressed for healing purposes," the plan said. "Rifqa continues to express fear about returning home."
The plan also calls for finding other relatives or nonrelatives that Rifqa could be placed with if reunification with her parents isn't a possibility. The goal is to bring them together by Aug. 10, when the girl turns 18, after which she would be on her own and could leave foster care.
The girl's family is originally from Sri Lanka and emigrated in 2000 to seek medical help for Rifqa, who had lost sight in her right eye when she fell and struck a toy airplane at home.
Rifqa disappeared July 19 and apparently stayed with friends of a minister she knew in Columbus for two days, according to court documents.
The minister, Brian Williams, drove Rifqa to the Columbus bus station, where she took a bus to Florida and was met by "Christian associates" she met on Facebook, according to an Oct. 15 complaint filed by her father seeking her return from Florida.
Police used phone and computer records to track the girl to the Rev. Blake Lorenz, pastor of Orlando, Fla.-based Global Revolution Church. Authorities said the teen had met him through an online Facebook prayer group.
A Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation found no credible threats to the girl.
Here is an article also dated December 1 by Pam Geller posted at Human Events that gives a better picture of Rifqa’s plight:
Rifqa Bary In Solitary Confinement
By Pamela Geller
12/01/2009
Human Events
The vise is tightening further on Rifqa Bary, the teenage girl who converted to Christianity from Islam and then fled to Florida from her Ohio home in fear for her life. Now she is in foster care in Ohio, in imminent danger of being returned to her family, and the Ohio authorities, at the command of the Barys’ lawyer, continue to isolate her.
Rifqa Bary has been in Ohio for well over a month and still there is no “approved visitation” list of friends who are allowed to see her. How can this be? How can it be that friends who request a visit, and whom Rifqa requests to visit, are repeatedly told that “there is no approved visitation list”? Is it not the very mission by objective of children’s services to protect the health and welfare of a child? Why has this one child in particular been denied visits from friends?
Rifqa has also been deprived of access to the phone and Internet. She has also been denied “pastoral guidance.” Convicts, murderers, rapists, and pedophiles all have access to “pastoral guidance.” Rifqa’s close friend and fellow ex-Muslim, Christian pastor Jamal Jivanjee, explains: “If you are incarcerated in an American prison today, you have the right to have a visit from a Pastor. Rifqa Bary does not have this most basic right that most criminals have today.” Is that how powerful and influential Islamic supremacists have become in the state of Ohio -- that one young girl is starved of spiritual nourishment so as not to insult Islam?
Jivanjee experienced this firsthand when he was in Columbus and learned that Rifqa wanted to see him. Jivanjee notes that this young girl is under unique pressure: “Unlike most girls her age, Rifqa wonders how long she’ll be in a safe home, or how long before the Ohio court system extradites her back to her parents custody that she fled from out of fear for her life. Many expect that she’ll be taken back to Sri Lanka immediately if that is the case. Because of Rifqa’s apostasy from Islam and conversion to Christianity, a woman’s prison, forced marriage, or even a death sentence await her back in her native land.” Yet despite her obvious need for encouragement and support, Rifqa was denied the opportunity to see Jivanjee. “It seems,” he said, “that Ohio has effectively put her into solitary confinement.”
Jivanjee asks the basic questions that every American should be asking: “How can this be good for Rifqa? On what grounds can they keep her from the most basic of privileges that are afforded to common criminals? Why has Rifqa Bary been in Ohio for almost one month, and they have still yet to approve a visitor’s list for her? Is this not an outrage?”
Has everyone gone mad?
No phone. No net. No friends. No religious succor.
This is why I so fiercely fought her return to Ohio. Columbus, Ohio, is home to one of the largest Somali Muslim populations in the United States: 70,000 and growing. This is the group, Somali Muslims, that has been at the epicenter of myriad busts for jihad activity in recent weeks. Is Rifqa safe in this devout Muslim community?
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland thinks so. Strickland issued a statement back on September 14th, on why Rifqa Bary should be returned to Ohio: “Child welfare agencies and authorities in Ohio and Franklin County are fully capable of providing for the security and well-being of Ohio’s children. The governor believes this is a family matter and therefore would most appropriately be handled here in Ohio with the assistance of the child welfare and foster care system.” He concluded: “We have no reason to believe that she would be unsafe in Ohio.”
Yet Ohio child services continues to earn its infamous reputation as one of the country’s worst places for children in foster care. The Columbus Dispatch reported in December 2008 that “an alarming number of children being watched by child services because they were at risk have died of abuse and criminal neglect, twice the national average (having a national average for such deaths is deplorable in itself).”
Even worse, investigative reporter Patrick Poole has recently discovered that the imam of Rifqa’s parents’ mosque, Salah Sultan, led a Hajj trip to Mecca in 2002 with Anwar al-Awlaki, the jihadist imam with whom Fort Hood murderer Nidal Hasan was in close contact.
Rifqa: isolated, alone, and in danger of being returned to Islamic jihadists who believe apostates from Islam should be killed.
What has happened to America?
Don’t forget Rifqa Bary! If you are able to attend the Columbus, Ohio rally for Rifqa attend. If not, Rifqa’s website provides an address to send a Christmas card to let her know she has supporters and that she is not alone.
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