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THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, September 16, 2010


THE ETERNAL FLAME OF MUSLIM OUTRAGE


Shhhhhhh,


by Michelle Malkin Syndicated Columnist


we’ re told. Don’t protest the Ground Zero mosque. Don’ t burn a Koran. It’ll imperi l the troops. It’ l l inflame ten- sions. The “Muslim wor ld” wi l l


NEVER FORGET WASHINGTON


by Oliver North Syndicated Columnist


- According to the “experts,” anyone older than 10 will re- member trau- matic events for the rest of their l ives. That ’s certainly true of the thousands of World War II veterans and


family members I have met doing interviews for our “War Stories” series on Fox News Channel. All of them can recall where they were when they learned of the at- tack on Pearl Harbor, whom they were with and what was said. It should be the same for the terror attack nine years ago on Sept. 11. My friend Tom Kilgannon, pres-


ident of Freedom Alliance, and I clearly remember all those things and more about that terrible day. At 8:30 a.m., we boarded North- west Airlines Flight 238 in De- troit, headed for Reagan National Airport. Fifteen minutes later, the aircraft lifted off on time, and we headed south toward our na-


tion’s capital in a cloudless blue sky. We never arrived at our in- tended destination. Shortly before we were due to


land at Reagan Airport, the cap- tain announced over the public address system that the aircraft was being diverted to land at nearby Dulles International Air- port -- but offered no explanation as to why. Tom, who was sitting across the aisle from me, soon gave us the answer. “As we began our descent into


Dulles International Airport, I checked my pager,” he recalled. “Young people today forget this was before BlackBerrys and iP- hones were available. The screen on my pager was full of breaking news alerts: “’Plane Crashes into World Trade Center.’ “’Second Plane Crashes into World Trade Center.’ “’Fireball Reported at Penta-


gon.’


“’Car Bombs Reported at State Department and Capitol Hill.’ “These and other headlines flashed across my pager. We now know that in the haste to report See NORTH on 21


“explode” if it does not get its way, warns sharia-peddling imam Fei- sal Abdul Rauf. Pardon my na- tional security-threatening impu- dence, but when is the “Muslim world” not ready to “explode”? At the risk of provoking the


ever-volatile Religion of Perpetual Outrage, let us count the little- noticed and forgotten ways. Just a few months ago in Kash-


mir, faithful Muslims rioted over what they thought was a mosque depicted on underwear sold by street vendors. The mob shut down businesses and clashed with police over the blasphemous skivvies. But it turned out there was no need for Allah’s avengers to get their holy knickers in a bunch. The alleged mosque was actually a building resembling London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral. A Kashmiri law enforcement official later concluded the protests were “premeditated and organized to vitiate the atmosphere.” Indeed, art and graphics have


an uncanny way of vitiating the Muslim world’s atmosphere. In 1994, Muslims threatened Ger- man supermodel Claudia Schiffer with death after she wore a Karl Lagerfeld-designed dress printed with a saying from the Koran. In 1997, outraged Muslims forced Nike to recall 800,000 shoes because they claimed the com- pany’s “Air” logo looked like the Arabic script for “Allah.”


In 1998, another conflagration spread over Unilever’s ice cream logo -- which Muslims claimed looked like “Allah” if read upside- down and backward (can’t recall what they said it resembled if you viewed it with 3D glasses). Even more explosively, in 2002,


an al-Qaida-linked jihadist cell plotted to blow up Bologna, Italy’s Church of San Petronio because it displayed a 15th cen- tury fresco depicting Mohammed being tormented in the ninth circle of Hell. For years, Muslims had demanded that the art come down. Counterterrorism officials in Europe caught the would-be bombers on tape scouting out the church and exclaiming, “May Allah bring it all down. It will all come down.” That same year, Nigerian Mus-


lims stabbed, bludgeoned or burned to death 200 people in protest of the Miss World beauty pageant -- which they considered an affront to Allah. Contest orga- nizers fled out of fear of inflam- ing further destruction. When Nigerian journalist Isioma Daniel joked that Mohammed would have approved of the pageant and that “in all honesty, he would probably have chosen a wife from among them,” her newspaper rushed to print three retractions and apologies in a row. It didn’t stop Muslim vigilantes from torching the newspaper’s offices. A fatwa was issued on Daniel’s life by a Nigerian official in the sharia-ruled state of Zamfara, who declared that “the blood of Isioma Daniel can be shed. It is abiding on all Muslims wherever they are to consider the killing of the writer as a religious duty.” Daniel fled to Norway. In 2005, British Muslims got all


hot and bothered over a Burger King ice cream cone container See MALKIN on 16


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