VIDEO: Mosque controversy takes strange turns

Eric Allen Bell: Anti-Mosque Protester Calls Police on Film Maker [Video]
Posted on 21 September 2010 by Garibaldi Kevin Fisher has been a staunch and vocal opponent to the planned Murfreesboro, Tennessee Islamic Cultural Center. In this video he responds quite strangely to a normal greeting from Documentary film maker, Eric Allen Bell. VIDEO: Mosque opponent hospitalized following verbal dispute with filmmaker A well-known opponent of the proposed Islamic Center of Murfreesboro was hospitalized over the weekend following a verbal confrontation with a Documentary...

"Barbarians at the Gate: The GOP's Health Reform Plan"
My colleague Jeff Kluger, who covers Health and science, has penned an impassioned defense of the Affordable Care Act, inspired by his kids' reaction to his recent Outpatient surgery. An excerpt is below. Full piece here . Discuss. I had a bit of surgery last week. It wasn't much the kind of Outpatient operation that would once have had me hospitalized for three or four days, but with new, less invasive procedures, had me in and out in five hours. When I arrived home, my daughters (ages 7...

President Obama's Aunt Speaks Out About Living Illegally in U.S.
"If I come as an Immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen." Those are the words from 58-year-old Zeituni Onyango of Kenya in a recent exclusive interview with WBZ-TV.   Onyango is the aunt of President Barack Obama. She lived in the United States illegally for years, receiving public assistance in Boston.   'I KNEW I OVERSTAYED'   Aunt Zeituni, as she has come to be known, first surfaced in the public light in 2008, in the final days of the Presidential...

Obama's aunt says US obligated to make her citizen
Boston — President Barack Obama's aunt, who lived for years illegally in Boston, says in her first interview since being granted asylum that the United States has an "obligation" to grant her Citizenship. Zeituni Onyango (zay-TUH'-nee awn-YAHN'-goh) tells WBZ-TV that she came to the U.S. from Kenya in 2000 but couldn't afford to leave when she was originally denied asylum in 2004. She says she fell critically ill and was hospitalized. When she was discharged, she lived in a Homeless...

Students sickened by chemical fumes in Roosevelt lab
Several Roosevelt University Students were sickened, and three hospitalized, after experiencing Headaches and throat irritation from chemical fumes in a Loop laboratory Wednesday afternoon. A Level 1 hazardous materials response was called about 3:30 p.m. to Roosevelt Universitys Auditorium Building on the 430 block of South Michigan Avenue after a Student opened a container in a lab and other Students complained of Headaches and throat irritation, Fire Media Affairs spokesman Quention Curtis...

Bud Selig won't expand use of instant replay for postseason
Related Articles Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig on Monday ruled out increased use of instant replay by umpires to review close calls during the postseason this season. Selig said he discussed the matter with the special committee of managers, management and ownership he appointed in December. “I brought the subject up, as I always do with everybody,” Selig said. “I don’t get the feeling that there’s a lot of support for it, at least their conversations with...

Macomb County news: Exam today in embezzlement case
A pre-exam conference is set for 8 a.m. today. Curt Dumas, 53, is accused of bilking St. Clair Shores of about $27,000 by taking money from scrap metal sales, having a water bill for his wife's home waived and using a city Laptop AirCard for personal use at his Richmond Township home from 2006 to this year. Dumas is charged with embezzlement by a public official, a 10-year felony, and public money/safekeeping, a two-year Misdemeanor. The case was transferred to Eastpointe from 40th District...

Entitlement mentality personified
President Obama’s Aunt Zeituni, an Illegal Alien until recently, claims that the American system took advantage of her . In fact, this ‘system’ saw that she was hospitalized and treated for an illness and has been supporting her ever since. Where in the world is she going to get that except here? “If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen.”

Trial resumes for man charged with killing woman, 2 daughters in Conn. home invasion
NEW HAVEN, CONN. — A State Police sergeant has testified that the men charged in the Home Invasion killings of a Connecticut woman and her two daughters were found in possession of the Victims' belongings. Sgt. Karen Gabianelli testified Wednesday in New Haven Superior Court that a knapsack with one the Victim's initials on it was found in the pickup truck used by the suspects. The trial of Steven Hayes resumed Wednesday after being delayed early this week when the judge was hospitalized...

Police pursuit ends with crash in Richmond
RICHMOND, CALIF. — Authorities say one person was injured when a car that was being pursued by Police crashed in Richmond, sparking a fire that damaged a building. Police began pursuing the vehicle, which they suspected was stolen, Tuesday night in Vallejo. The chase reached speeds of more than 100 miles per hour and continued into Richmond, where the driver crashed into a truck around 8:30 p.m. Authorities say the truck caught fire, and the flames spread to an adjacent building with six...

Republican Calls Ground Zero Mosque A "Victory Mosque" For Terrorists
By Jeremy P. Jacobs Nurse Renee Ellmers has gone up an ad in her bid against Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-NC) that seeks to make the proposed construction of a Mosque near Ground Zero a central issue of the race. The ad is one of the most striking we've seen on the Mosque issue. It plays like a history lesson at first, then says that the Ground Zero Mosque would be a "victory Mosque" for Terrorists. "After the Muslims conquered Jerusalem, and Cordoba, and Constantinople they built victory...

Bizarroland of the bully mosque bigs
Michael Goodwin Mark the moment: The battle over the Ground Zero Mosque has passed through the looking glass and into the wonderland of insanity. Surprise, surprise, the "summit" of national and local Muslim organizations early this week turned into a rally-around-the-mosque gathering. While that was predictable, the logic justifying the move is as scrambled as the landscape Alice discovered behind the mirror. It is now the "Extremists" opposed to the Mosque who are the reason why it must be...

Major Donor to Ground Zero Mosque Also Gave to Hamas Front
FoxNews.com reports that a Donor who made a significant investment in the Ground Zero Mosque and Islamic center project named Hisham Elzanaty donated to an organization in 1999 later shut down in 2001 for financing Hamas. There is no conclusive evidence that Elzanaty was aware that the front, the Holy Land Foundation, was supporting the Terrorist group. Elzanaty gave over $6,000 to the Holy Land Foundation in 1999, back when it was the largest Islamic charity in the country. The HLF...

Mosque Discrimination: Did Public School Officials Violate Anti-Discrimination Policy During Field Trip? (Part 1)
This past May, a group of sixth grade middle School Students from the Wellesley, Massachusetts Public School District visited the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center as part of a School sponsored field trip. Our sister site Big Peace recently revealed the details of this visit, as well as the Controversial ties that the Center’s parent organization, the Muslim American Society, has to Terrorism as what Federal Prosecutors have labeled as “the overt arm of the Muslim...

Md. man arrested in ex-wife's death, arson
COLUMBIA, MD. — A Columbia man accused of stabbing his ex-wife to death and setting her apartment on fire is now in police custody. Howard County police say 35-year-old Damon White was Arrested and taken to jail Tuesday after being released from the Hospital. He's being held without bond. White is charged with first-degree Murder, Arson and other offenses in the Sept. 7 death of 34-year-old Thelma Wynn. Police say White had been temporarily staying with Wynn and stabbed her to death,...

Florida father apologizes for school bus tirade, threats
(CNN) -- A Florida man apologized Tuesday for boarding his daughter's School Bus earlier this month and threatening the other Children and the Driver, saying he acted out of frustration over Students Bullying his daughter. "I handled it the wrong way when I went on the Bus," James Jones said. He said he does not condone storming on the Bus or his Profanity-laced tirade in front of Students. "I really strongly believe we should do it a different way," he said. "But at...

Nevada governor hurt in fall from horse at ranch
Related Articles Reno, Nev. (AP) A spokesman for Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons says the Republican was thrown from a horse at a ranch and was taken by ambulance to a Reno medical center. Daniel Burns, the Governor’s Press Secretary, told the Reno Gazette-Journal late Tuesday that the extent of Gibbons’ injuries wasn’t clear. But he says the 65-year-old was moving his arms and legs and was coherent and alert. Burns says Gibbons was helping break a young horse at a ranch north of...

Obama's Aunt: 'United States Has The Obligation To Make Me A Citizen'
Zeituni Onyango is the native Kenya half-sister of President Obama ’s late father who suddenly finds herself back in the media spotlight. Last night, Boston’s WBZ-TV broadcast an interview which is sure to polarize many citizens concerned with the plight of Illegal Immigration in the United States. “If I come as an Immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen,” said Onyango, which is sure to be used over and over again by those looking to embarrass the...

Obama aunt says US obligated to make her a citizen, she's been treated as 'public enemy No. 1'
Boston — President Barack Obama's aunt, who lived for years illegally in Boston before being granted asylum in May, said the United States has an "obligation" to grant her Citizenship. "If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen," Zeituni Onyango told WBZ-TV in an interview that first aired Monday. Onyango came to the U.S. from Kenya in 2000 and was denied asylum by an Immigration judge in 2004. She was granted asylum earlier this year by the same judge who...

Man shot after firing at cops in Detroit strip club
Police were called to Club 007 on the 5300 block of East Outer Drive around 6:35 a.m. today for a possible breaking and entering. Officers found a door ajar and entered the Club when a man inside opened fire on them. Police fired back, injuring the man. His injuries are not life-threatening, Detroit Police spokeswoman Sgt. Eren Stephens said. The officers were not hit in the exchange of gunfire. The suspect was hospitalized for his injuries, Stephens said. Contact MATT HELMS: ...

Imam Behind New York Islamic Center Fears For His Safety
The Imam associated with the proposed Manhattan Islamic Center, Feisal Abdul Rauf, has protection provided by the New York Police Department because of concerns for his safety in the wake of the controversy surrounding the center’s establishment. “There’s just a lot of crazies and that’s why he has Police protection from the NYPD,” the Rev. James Parks Morton said Monday of his friend Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. “I know that he’s being guarded, that...

Father and son tell Syrian tales on the brink of extinction
When Rashid al-Hallak was a boy, all of the Coffee Shops in the Syrian capital had their own storytellers or hakawatis who would recite tales deep into the night of great deeds and heroes of the past. But now the age-old art of public storytelling that he keeps alive is dying out, as Young People shun a craft that attracts little money. Hallak bristles with excitement for his subject, and says he has 180,000 stories in his repertoire, including the epic tales of Antarah ibn Shaddad, famous for...

Muslim groups back Islamic center near Ground Zero
NEW YORK (AP) — Leaders of prominent U.S. Muslim groups are calling for a national week of interfaith dialogue to combat religious intolerance, saying they support the Right to build a Controversial Islamic Center near Ground Zero. "We stand for the Constitutional Right of Muslims, and Americans of all faiths, to build houses of worship anywhere in our nation as allowed by local laws and regulations," the Muslim leaders said Monday in a statement delivered at the site of the proposed...

Resolving the Afghan Conundrum
The Women of Afghanistan have historically been little more than chattel, and their status sunk to new lows under the woman-fearing Taliban. Women were not allowed out of their homes even to shop for groceries without a male escort, and were required to cover themselves head to toe lest a passing imam see any portion of their flesh and succumb to a frenzy of lust for which she--not he--would be held accountable. The mullahs exerted more effort policing Women (read: keeping them in their place)...

Egg exec apologizes, but House panel blasts company
WASHINGTON — A member of the family that owns one of two egg farms linked to the recent, massive Salmonella outbreak apologized to its Victims and pledged not to resume selling fresh eggs until its farms are free from disease. "While we always believed we were doing the right thing, it is now very clear that we must do more," Peter DeCoster, chief operating officer of the Wright County Egg operations, told the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Rep. Bart Stupak , D-Mich,...