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August 13, 2008

MATALIN: CORSI’S BOOK ATTACKING OBAMA ‘GOOD PIECE OF SCHOLARSHIP’

Aggregated from: Tikun Olam

Jerome Corsi, the right-wing pamphleteer who wrote Unfit for Command, and helped set the tone for the Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry in 2004, is back. He’s now trying to do the same to Barack Obama with Obama Nation: Mr. Corsi has released a new attack book painting Senator Barack Obama…as a...

August 8, 2008

Barack Obama's Muslim Outreach Coordinator Resigns

Mazen Asbahi, the attorney who had volunteered as Barack Obama's outreach coordinator to Muslim and Arab-Americans, has resigned after accusations of ties to Jamal Said, an imam at a fundamentalist mosque in Illinois. Asbahi briefly sat on the board of Allied Assets Advisors Fund with Said in 2000. Bloggers from the Middle East react in this post from Jillian York.

Wanted: Muslim outreach advisor untainted by terror associations

Aggregated from: Israel Matzav

On the surface, Mazen Asbahi looked perfect for the role that the Obama campaign wanted him to play. Clean-shaven, dressed for success, a senior corporate associate at Chicago's sixth largest law firm, Asbahi seemed like just what the Obama campaign sought: A Muslim success story who is fluent in Ar...

CAIR Uses MSM To Whitewash Asbahi Resignation

Aggregated from: Yid with Lid

Once again the Mainstream media has allowed itself to be a tool for the Hamas affiliated Muslim organization CAIR. Mazen Asbahi was appointed head of Muslim outreach for the Obama campaign. Two weeks later he "was resigned" because of his association with Jamal Said, the imam at a fundamentalist-con...

Apocalypse I: McCain’s Ringtone for the Christian Right

Aggregated from: South Jerusalem

Let’s update political jargon. Writers still use “dog whistle” for a political message heard clearly by one audience but entirely missed by everyone else. That’s so twentieth-century. Please update to “teenage ring-tone”: Young ears hear it. Older ones don’t. Students yes, profs no. Yo...

August 7, 2008

Marching Toward Hell?

Aggregated from: Austrolabe

Marching Toward Hell? August 7th, 2008 — Amir I’m reading Michael Scheuer’s Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq at the moment; an interesting book by the author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radica...

August 6, 2008

Kill them before they kill you

Aggregated from: Egyptian chronicles

I am not surprised at all , it is something expected from McCain supporters ,already it is not the first time we hear that kind of nonsense against us as Muslims , but the new thing that it comes from a person that not radical Zionist Christian but a Vietnam’s veteran Ex-POW general Bud Day. T...

Are There Brains Under Them Yarmulkes?

Aggregated from: My Right Word

Obama, McCain Supporters Have Kippot on the Brain Maybe. But do the skullcap wearers have...brains?...

Russia: Muftis Refuse to Visit the U.S.

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Window on Eurasia writes that a group of Russia’s Muslim leaders has turned down the State Department's invitation to visit the United States for political reasons. ...

Jerome Corsi’s new Obama book–save your fifteen bucks

Aggregated from: Camel's Nose » Election 2008

The blogosphere is all atwitter about the latest Obama book just released yesterday, Jerome Corsi’s Obama Nation.  Supposedly, snarky Obamabot bookstore employees are intentionally keeping the thing hidden away, while wildfire rumors had it as number one on the New York Times bestseller list ...