Dear Duke Community. Now that we've been called on this, pretend it never happened...
Dozens of Duke professors have posted "an open letter to the Duke community" on the Web, explaining an ad last spring that has been widely criticized as a condemnation of lacrosse players. Ooooooops. Jump the gun there, did we?
The new letter, signed by 87 faculty and posted at www.concerneddukefaculty.org, refuses to apologize for the ad and reiterates concerns about issues of race and sexual violence on the Duke campus. It says the so-called "Group of 88" ad published in the Chronicle last April has been grossly misinterpreted. That ad has been a subject of heated debate on blogs, and its signers have received angry and sometimes racist e-mail messages. Ah, yes. "Grossly misinterpreted". Translated: We didn't say what we said.
"The ad has been read as a comment on the alleged rape, the team party, or the specific students accused," the letter said. "Worse, it has been read as rendering a judgment in the case. ... We reject all attempts to try the case outside the courts, and stand firmly by the principle of the presumption of innocence." It was actually a statement about the...ummmmmmmm...weather. Yeah! That's it!
The letter was signed by "concerned faculty," many of whom endorsed the original ad. The ad, entitled, "What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?", included anonymous statements by students talking about racism and sexism on the campus. The ad also thanked "protesters making collective noise." "Collective noise"? Sounds like one of Mao's...
The letter this week has backed off that a bit, saying, "We do not endorse every demonstration that took place at the time." Ummmmm...which ones did you endorse? Which ones were you against?
William Chafe, a history professor who signed both the ad and the letter, said the bloggers' interpretation of the ad has become the version people accepted. And that's wrong, he said. "We're trying to simply set the record straight and clarify we never claimed the lacrosse players were guilty," Chafe said. I ¢Ÿ Tenure.
No matter what happens with the lacrosse sexual assault case, the letter said, issues of race and sexual violence still exist on campus and should be addressed.The "Group of 88" has been portrayed as politically correct, left-wing professors who rushed to assume lacrosse players were guilty of rape. The professors have been harshly criticized as the sexual assault case began to unravel. And there's only 88 of them?
The rhetoric has been heated on the Duke campus, where President Richard Brodhead has called for a restoration of the "fabric of mutual respect." Two weeks ago, a group of economics professors signed a letter saying the professors supported lacrosse players and all student-athletes, and expressing regret that Duke professors were viewed as prejudiced against some students. That prompted an online petition signed by more than 450 Duke alumni and Duke supporters, standing behind the economics professors. Many of the petition signers targeted their anger at the "Group of 88." Holy shit ! We're outnumbered!! We never saw that coming!
In the online letter, concerned faculty say they won't apologize despite the fury."There have been public calls to the authors to retract the ad or apologize for it, as well as calls for action against them and attacks on their character," the letter said. "We reject all of these. We think the ad's authors were right to give voice to the students quoted, whose suffering is real. We also acknowledge the pain that has been generated by what we believe is a misperception that the authors of the ad prejudged the rape case." As always, we really see no need for an apology, so can we all just... pretend this never happened and get on with our tenured, well paid, cushy lives? You know, MOVE ON?
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"The disaster is the atmosphere...." -- we're told. The students' perceptions matter and deserve to be "give[n] voice." Perception is everything to these leftists. If something is percieved to have happened it is the same as happening. Except when what they have done or said is percieved differently than what they percieve. They want to stir things up but don't want to be responsible for what they unleash.
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The Duke 87 is apparently somewhat different than the Duke 88. Some profs dropped out and some profs, either wanting 15 minutes of fame or some support in getting tenure, joined.
Organizers couldn't quite get enough replcements to get back to 88.
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A hundred years ago, a white women falsely accusing a group of black men would end up with a real lynching by a bunch of knuckle dragging low lifes and thrill seekers. Today, when a black woman falsely accuses a group of white boys it a bunch of self important arrogant unapologetic pseudo educated welfare for the lefty hanger-ons at what used to be an institution of 'higher learning' that engages in virtual lynchings. The story is the same, it's just the characters have changed places. It's never been about right or justice, it's always been about power.
PHILADELPHIA -- A criminal defense lawyer was arrested after a sheriff's deputy found him naked with a 14-year-old girl in a courthouse conference room, authorities said Tuesday. Larry Charles, 49, has been charged with solicitation, attempted statutory sexual assault and related counts, said Lt. Dan Bagnell of the Police Department's Special Victims Unit.
A sheriff's deputy making his rounds in the Criminal Justice Center on Monday afternoon looked into a lawyers' conference room on the third floor and discovered Charles and the girl, Bagnell said. He had asked for sex. But there was no physical contact we're aware of by the time the deputy arrived at the scene", Bagnell said.
Bagnell said the girl was not a client of Charles, but their exact relationship was not clear. Charles was awaiting arraignment early Tuesday afternoon and bail was not yet set. A woman who answered the phone at his office said she could not immediately comment. Courts were closed Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and it was unclear how Charles and the girl got into the conference room. Though court proceedings were not in session, the courthouse was open for attorneys who might want to conduct other business in the building.
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It's Philadelphia. This is normal.
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Just his intern. Nothing to see here; move along.
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What IS it with men who want to abuse young teens? Can some of you guys on the Burg explain this? What is going on? Just can't understand the appeal. Porn addicts? Mohammed wannabes? This is just disgusting.
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I think alot of it is tied in with the way women are potrayed in movies and TV now. From my rare glimpses of TV nowdays, virtually all of them seem to revolve around impossibly young actors/actresses having sex. Doesn't matter if they're lawyers, pathologists, doctors, superheros, it's all about the sex. When you add to this that most people's leisure lives revolve around TV, TV is reality.
That's what I think it is, other than clear examples of vermin needing to be removed from the gene pool. Preferrably through a few weeks of public torture but then I'm mean.:p
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Typical behaviour of the "profession" of lawyering.
When will people realize these "lawyers" cost us too many living wage jobs, economic opportunities and, more and more lost liberties every day?
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What IS it with men who want to abuse young teens?
Power. They get power from it, power they can't normally get on their own. Sure, there are other contributing factors, but mostly it is all about power.
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Correct me iff I'm wrong, but aren't a lot of Philly State = Public Buildings in mid-1990's under techy surveillance, andor Half-and-half wid lots of armed officers on station??? FETISH FOR VOYEURISM??? In any case, his legal career looks about over.
A samurai sword wielding vigilante has come to the rescue of two Police officers when they were attacked by an armed gang in South Shields, England. A group of men had forced their way into a house and were ransacking the place when passing plain-clothes officers were alerted by a woman inside screaming. The criminals outnumbered them and were armed with a hammer, knives and chains and attacked the Police officers.
As one of them stabbed at a Policeman with his knife, a mysterious do-gooder appeared from nowhere and attacked him with a samurai sword. One of the burglars began running away but was stopped by the stranger who struck him on the arm with the sword.
Two of the criminals were arrested, but in true hero style the samurai disappeared before police could speak to him. A third man was arrested later and two more are still being hunted.
Police are especially keen to trace the man with the sword who came to the aid of their officers, and have asked for anyone with information to call them.
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I would stay hidden and lose the sword. The armed citizen certainly would be persecuted.
They already want ban swords in the UK buy the way. Can you believe that banning swords in the UK? You know you are a serf when you can't have a sword.
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Police are especially keen to trace the man with the sword who came to the aid of their officers, and have asked for anyone with information to call them.
Does not sound like the bobbies want to say "Thank you guv'nor" to this hero, but give him a judicial wedgie. Rue Britannia
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The man with the sword is described as being male, between 3 feet and 7 feet tall, weighing between 50 and 500 pounds, with hair and wearing clothes on some parts of his body.
If you see see this man, please call your local weenies, I mean Police.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch Party for Animals, which entered parliament for the first time last November, has forbidden the laying of poison to deal with a mouse infestation in its offices, a newspaper reported Wednesday. So now the vermin have a safe haven to breed and reinfest the rest of the buildings. Sort of like Waziristan for mince ...
The party, which campaigns for animal rights and compassionate farming, will only allow humane traps in the parliament wing where its offices are housed, allowing trapped mice to be released unharmed, the daily De Telegraaf reported.
The Dutch parliament, or Binnenhof, which is centered around a cluster of medieval buildings with turrets and a moat, has a lingering problem with vermin, the paper said. It added one Christian Democrat politician joked he had strewn bread crumbs around before handing over his office to the Party for Animals.
The party says it is the first animal rights party to be elected to parliament anywhere in the world. It won two seats in last year's general election.
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In related news the other parties have taken to leaving their food debris and garbage in the section of the offices housed by the Dutch Party for Animals.
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This is just the beginning. Wait'll the wrongful death suit gets filed.
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Probably one of the few events that would actually get the FTC to pull the station's license. Expect another round of 'regulations' on appropriate 'promotion' activities by license holders soon. That's going to turn out to be the most expensive Wii/console on the planet when all the loses are tallied.
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IIRC--first year of law school was a long time ago--there was a case where a radio station had one of its DJs doing some promotion where he would announce his presence in various places in town and give away goodies to anyone who showed up within the next ten minutes. Somebody ran a stop sign while racing to get to the DJ and collect the goodies and caused a wreck, and (IIRC, again) the radio station ended up with civil liability for creating a forseeable hazard.
I doubt the FTC will mess with the broadcast license. The civil suit will take them down quite neatly.
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Why didn't I think of this?
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Excalibur: yes, she does, and if I'm defending this case, I'm going to be arguing contributory negligence (mainly 'cause it's all I got!). The ultimate question for the court will be what proportion of fault to assign to her, and what proportion to the radio station (for inducing her to do it, and an implied representation that the activity was safe). How that all shakes out in terms of damages depends on how the doctrines of contributory and comparative negligence are applied in that particular state. (Here in Ohio, if the plaintiff is more than 50% at fault, there's no recovery; in other states, a plaintiff who's 90% at fault could still recover 10% of her damages.) (There's also maybe an issue of intervening and superseding cause that might save the radio station's bacon, but that's heading into trial-geek territory and I'm not a trial geek.)
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Amsterdam's red light district is reportedly to receive a bronze statue dedicated to prostitutes around the world. According to the Dutch agency ANP, sculptress Els Rijerse made the statue at the request of a former prostitute Mariska Majoor, who a decade ago founded a centre on prostitution in the Dutch capital. Majoor was quoted as saying by ANP that the statue would be a first of its kind and that it had received the blessing of the city authorities.
The statue represents a self-assured woman, her hands on her hips, looking sideways towards the sky, and standing on a doorstep, ANP said. The precise place where the statue will be laid and its title have not yet been announced, it said.
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The statue represents a self-assureddrug-addled, shopwornwomanjunkie, her hands on her hips, looking sideways towards the skyfor her next trick and hoping it's not a vice cop or a creep with a knife, and standing on a doorstep.
There. Fixed it for ya.
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This is their enlightened, progressive society?
A company in western Sydney is a prime source for DVDs that contain extremist Islamic rantings against Jews, women and infidels, the AJN has learned.
Islam 1 Productions, based in Minto, provides an online service for the production and distribution of Muslim fundamentalist DVDs that featured prominently in a UK documentary that aired on Britains Channel 4 this week. The documentary, titled Undercover Mosques, exposed established British mosques including Londons Central Mosque that are selling DVDs predicting the mass killing of world Jewry and denigrating women and infidels.
The DVDs, which are produced in NSW and distributed worldwide, include sermons made by Sydney-based Sheikh Feiz Mohammad and lectures given in Australia by American Sheikh Khalid Yassin.
In one DVD, titled Signs of the Hour, Sheikh Feiz imitates the noise of a pig when referring to the Jewish people, who he says will be killed on the day of judgement. In another, Sheikh Yassin speaks of the filth that Christians and Jews believe in.
The director of Islam 1 Productions, Lebanese-born Subi Alshaik, told the AJN that his company had been unaware of the inflammatory nature of some of the DVDs and would remove them from the shelves. But as the AJN went to press, the DVDs were still listed on the website. Alshaik explained that the companys webmaster was away on holiday.
Alshaik said that most of the DVDs of Muslim clerics, including the ones by sheikhs Feiz and Yassin, were taped in Australia. Sheikh Feiz is based in Liverpool, Sydney Yassin visited Australia in 2005. Alshaik claimed, however, that in many cases the company itself did not monitor the contents of the tapes, but inscribed them directly onto the DVDs. Obviously we do not agree with racist statements. We are not out to defame anyone. We realise times are changing, Alshaik said.
He added that the lecture tapes series had helped to establish his company financially, but that the company was now focusing on producing DVDs that teach the tenets of Islam to young children, and had no interest in promoting inflammatory material.
Nonetheless, Alshaik charged Channel 4 and the company that produced the documentary with taking the inflammatory quotes out of context and of seeking to defame Islam. He said his company was considering legal action against the documentarys producers for airing portions of the DVDs without the companys permission.
Full disclosure - I pretty much spent every summer growing up in VA, and spent 4 of the happiest years of my life stationed there at Langley AFB. Having said that, Virginia has one of the most obnoxious(not it's representatives and employees but its policies) and intrusive state governments in the Union. The vehicle stickers are a good example of that, and I'm glad this guy won a round. Sadly, the politicians aren't being made to pay back every dime they got through illegal means but are instead gearing up to close the loophole. From www.washingtonpost.com, H/T to www.reason.com . EFL'd, RTWT.
A Ticket On a Taurus Grows Into Much More
Legion of Citations In Va. May Be Void
The Great Virginia Parking Ticket Battle began with a burst of expletives one Saturday morning in October 2000, when Woodbridge resident Robert W. Eberth, a retired Navy captain, found a $35 citation on the windshield of his 1990 Ford Taurus. NO VALID STATE INSPECTION, it said.
Eberth had been ticketed under Prince William County Code 13-322, mandating up-to-date inspection stickers for vehicles parked on public roads. True, Eberth had allowed the Taurus's registration to lapse. But he was saving the car for his teenage son and had parked it in the private lot of his apartment complex.
Eberth examined the ticket. He cursed a little more. Then he looked up 13-322 on the Internet. "Something is very wrong with this picture," he said to himself. He checked the box marked "contest."
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And then there was the @#$%^&*() property tax on cars (is that still around?) I hated that shit with a passion. I love the Commonwealth, but you're right, Mike: The government is becoming more and more intolerable, at least according to my friends who still live there.
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It's around $300 for my wife's car and $150 for my truck. Every freaking year, not like most states where you just pay a sales tax for the honor of purchasing one in their fair state.
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Look for the new law, if as described, to be ruled unconstitutional regarding covered or parked cars on private property. I think the US Constitution still applies to VA regarding due process. Do you really think Barney and his merry band of meter maids will be successful in getting a warrant for searching every garage or back yard for a possible expired sticker? VA still has its share of rednecks and I can see Billy-Bob surprising some wandering cop....
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Kentucky hits you for a percentage of what they determine you car is worth. And it's usually worth a lot more than you'd think. They get you whether it's running or not, boat, rv's, airplanes, everything.
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Still compared to the olde Florida Intangibles tax that's nothing. The Intangible Tax was a direct tax on assets. A penalty for saving, being lucky or having prudent parents.
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I'm currently a citizen of the Old Dominion. It appears a majority of the voting population has proceeded to lose its collective mind, first voting in a tax-and-spend idiot in Kaine, then following that by voting out George Allen. I think it's something in the air drifting down from the People's Republic of Maryland but whatever the cause, I sure as Hell don't like it and if it continues, I'm outta VA. They can get their tax bucks from some other sucker.
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As someone in the state of CA who has had vehicles confiscated (by a landlord from a legally parked space, and from the state on at least 2-3 separate occasions) I welcome anything that blasts away at illegal seizure laws.
The seizure laws were put in place to combat drug dealing. They were extended thereafter to encompass a whole host of minor "crimes" and misdemeanors to bolster state tax bases and to initimidate citizenry. THEY MUST BE REPEALED!/em>
The common property of common citizens must not be subject to seizure by the government in any fashion. This is clearly unConstitutional.
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Even GA has a tax yearly on the value of our cars, and like SC4291 said, they usually value my car a LOT more than what I could really get for it.
Our State Legislature is trying to drum up support to do away with it though. And, on that note, what's up with all the tax-and-spend Republicans lately? Our Gov., Sonny Purdue, just proposed a State budget that's 25% more than what it was in 2000! Taking notes from Dubya I guess.
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See, if your state has voter referendums, you should start a tax that only affects elected officials in the legislature and the governor and lt. gov. 50% tax on all income and personal assets per year sound right to me. Bet you get about 500x the signatures you need;)
City police on Tuesday registered cases against three prayer leaders for alleged misuse of loudspeakers and delivering anti-government speeches during their Friday sermons.
Police officials deputed outside the mosques reported to Aabpara police station that the prayer leaders of three mosques used loudspeakers, which had been banned by the district administration. They were Maulana Abdul Aziz of Lal Mosque, Maulana Muhammad Ali Fazal of Jamia Masjid at Sector G-6/2 and Maulana Abdul Aziz Hanif. The officials had also informed their high-ups that these clerics had delivered speeches against the government. On the recommendations of the Legal Branch, police have registered cases against all the three under Section 188 of the Pakistan Penal Code. Meanwhile, Aabpara police have arrested a person, Imran Khalid, on the charges of distributing objectionable material about the marathon race that was held in Lahore last Sunday.
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...Maulana Muhammad Ali Fazal of Jamia Masjid at Sector G-6/2...
Snow fell on the palm trees of West Los Angeles and Malibu Wednesday afternoon as Jack Frost visited the Southland again. NBC4 forecaster Fritz Coleman said the mixture of precipitation in West Los Angeles at about 3 p.m. included a dusting of snow. Residents in West Los Angeles said the snow accumulated in parking lots, on cars and around palm trees near Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards and other areas.
The last snowfall recorded at Los Angeles International Airport was in January 1962, according to the National Weather Service. Trace amounts – less than 0.5 inches – were reported, according to the NWS.
Snow fell earlier Wednesday in Malibu and caused traffic problems on the area's winding and narrow roads. More snow was reported in Canyon Country, where a resident said he has not seen snow for about 10 years.
In the San Fernando Valley, the lowest overnight temperature in Van Nuys was 35 degrees, with the mercury falling to 29 degrees in Woodland Hills, said Seto.
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it got down to 20 here in Santee (one of the inland coldest/hottest parts of San Diego)....apparently rain coming in tomorrow, which will raise the temp. Al musta had a mon-wed booking
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This is obviously another sign of global warming - just a prelude to the oceans simmering to a boil.
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And once Earth's enviro is under control, we only have 999,999-plus or whatever Earth-sized planets to go before we can intimidate = order the Sun to surrender.
At local mosques, the hunt is on for qualified leaders.
When Sheik Ahmed Dewidar, 40, arrived in New York from Egypt in the mid-1990s, he led prayers at a mosque in the basement of a small office building on 44th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues. Packed to the gills, the space could hold 300 people.
Today, Dewidars mosque occupies a trim six-story building on 55th Street between Lexington and Third avenues. The Islamic Society of Mid-Manhattan comfortably accommodates 1,000 men and women. For Dewidar, the fantastic growth of his community with 36 nationalities, numerous languages and many worship traditions is a direct result of Americas religious freedom. I should give credit by the grace of almighty God to the system of this land, he said.
Attendance has risen steadily in recent years at mosques across the city and the nation. The influx has been fueled partly by growing immigration from Muslim countries and partly by newfound interest in Islam from Muslims already here. But now American mosques are having trouble finding enough imams like Dewidar who are qualified to serve their growing and diversifying congregations.
The imam serves as a religious and social guide to the Muslim community. Traditionally, the term denotes a high level of theological training. In the U.S., though, the term often is used more loosely to recognize religious leadership within a community.
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Rimawi pointed to incidents such as the removal before Thanksgiving of six imams from a commercial flight in Minneapolis. The imams had prayed at the gate before boarding, and other passengers asked authorities to remove them from the plane, concerned the imams were preparing for a terrorist attack.
Why can't any reporter get this story right? Is it intentional, laziness, or gullibility?
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Islamic Circle of North America: ICNA has established a reputation for bringing anti-American radicals to speak at its annual conferences. Moreover, experts have long documented the organization's ties to Islamic terrorist groups. Yehudit Barsky, a terrorism expert at the American Jewish Committee, has said that ICNA "is composed of members of Jamaat e-Islami, a Pakistani Islamic radical organization similar to the Muslim Brotherhood that helped to establish the Taliban." (Pakistani newspapers have reported that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a leading architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was offered refuge in the home of Jamaat e-Islami's leader, Ahmed Quddoos.) On September 27, 1997, another Pakistani Islamist leader, Maulana Shafayat Mohamed, played host to an ICNA conference at his Florida-based fundamentalist madrassa (religious school), which served as a recruitment center for Taliban fighters.
In 2000, CNSNews.com made public a press release, originally posted on a Middle Eastern website, from a July 2000 ICNA meeting, which read: "Jamaat e-Islami's supporters have an organization in America known as ICNA " The press release also recounted some of the views expressed at the aforementioned ICNA meeting. These included an exhortation that "Islam must be translated into political dominance"; pleas for support for "jihad" in "Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine, Iraq [against U.S. forces], southern Sudan, and in Bosnia/Kosova [sic]"; an appeal for unity among Pakistani Muslims against "Hindu Brahmins and Zionist Jews"; and an endorsement of Muslim women's inclusion in carrying out jihad. One Islamic leader present at the ICNA event complained about "human rights violations" being carried out by the U.S. government against the terrorist mastermind Omar Abdel Rahman, spiritual leader of Egypt's Islamic Group.
In part because of such revelations, ICNA is now under investigation by U.S. authorities for possible connections to terrorist groups. In December 2003, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee requested that the Internal Revenue Service provide detailed information on 25 U.S. Muslim organizations, including ICNA.
Fucking reporters too stupid to use google.
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Jamaica Muslim Center: The Islamic Thinkers Society, aka the Intellectual Thinkers Society, is the new face of Al Muhajiroun in the United States. The proof that they are not a fringe organisation can be seen in a list on their website which shows them as organisers of a demonstration in front of the Danish Embassy in New York. Demonstrators carried signs with texts such as "Allah's wrath is on the way".
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The Islamic Thinkers Society is closely tied to the Islamic Circle of North America which operates out of Jamaica, Queens. ICNA's Young Muslim Society is tied to the Islamic Thinkers. The Muslim American Society merged with ICNA in 2002.
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ICNA's Young Muslim Society: The Young Muslims (YM) was founded well over a decade ago, as a subsidiary of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), an organization that was created specifically to emulate the violent Muslim Brotherhood of Pakistan, Jamaat-e-Islami. Through ICNA, YM holds events that feature as speakers some of the most radical individuals in the Islamic community. These events include youth camps, which, prior to the attacks on 9/11, were referred to as jihad camps.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Animal party bans mouse poison in parliament
Amsterdam's red light district is reportedly to receive a bronze statue dedicated to prostitutes around the world. According to the Dutch agency ANP, sculptress Els Rijerse made the statue at the request of a former prostitute Mariska Majoor, who a decade ago founded a centre on prostitution in the Dutch capital. Majoor was quoted as saying by ANP that the statue would be a first of its kind and that it had received the blessing of the city authorities. 
City police on Tuesday registered cases against three prayer leaders for alleged misuse of loudspeakers and delivering anti-government speeches during their Friday sermons.
At local mosques, the hunt is on for qualified leaders.
