Jihad Jane II: American Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31 Identified from Colorado
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Your Saturday red meat! Must watch! One of my favorite talk show hosts and a great thinker. Also his book “Liberty and Tyranny” is a must read for everyone.
First, a short interview with Mark Levin
Here’s the full speech.
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(Found at El País and Global Voices Online).
A man, with an homosexual “background” (he was sentenced to learn by heart a chapter of the Coran after a prior criminal process) has been found “guilty” of homosexuality again, after recording a video in which he, impersonating a policeman, tried to seduce another man, asking him for sexual favors in exchange of a supposedly unpaid fine. Of course, it was all a play, but that hasn’t stopped Saudi justice from condemning him to a prison term of one year, a fine of 5000 rials (€975) and a thousand lashes.
His father considers his own son as “unstable” and has blamed the other man, whose identity is unknown, for the video recording.
According to Police Lt. Nawaf Bouq, who told Arab News, the young man is facing three charges: One is for homosexuality; the other for general security; and the third is for impersonating a police officer.
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A Lebanese man has been arrested in northern Lebanon for killing his sister earlier this week in what authorities described as an honour killing, a security official said on Friday.
“The 24-year-old victim was single and apparently had a boyfriend,” the security official told AFP. “(Her brother) admitted shooting her twice in the head to cleanse the family honour.”
The woman was only identified by her initials, as was her 28-year-old brother. Her body was discovered on Tuesday on the main road of the village of Hakr al-Daheri, in the northern Akkar region.
There are not a lot of news about honor killings in Lebanon, but discrimination against women still exists. This article writes about women’s situation in Lebanon. Regarding violence against women, it says:
gender-based violence and impunity in spousal abuse remain pervasive, Khalaf said, although she added a number of organizations and help lines are increasingly available for women in need of help. Honor killings still occur – between 1999 and 2007, 66 court sessions reportedly took place related to 82 murders of women, with lenient sentences given to their perpetrators.
“When courts are incapable of upholding basic legal rights in the face of political and societal pressures, those guilty of spousal abuse, gender-based discrimination, or even murder, often walk free,” said Kelly.
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They say there’s little they can do except not allow the child brides into the country until they’re 16.
Federal immigration officials say there’s little they can do to stop “child brides” from being sponsored into Canada by much older husbands who wed them in arranged marriages abroad.
Top immigration officials in Canada and Pakistan say all they can do is reject the sponsorships of husbands trying to bring their child-brides to Canada. The men have to reapply when the bride turns 16. The marriages are permitted under Sharia Law.
Muslim men, who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents return to their homeland to wed a “child bride” in an arranged marriage in which a dowry is given to the girl’s parents. Officials said some of the brides can be 14 years old or younger and are “forced” to marry. The practice occurs in a host of countries including: Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Lebanon.
And as Robert Spencer points out, far too few people realize that the persistence of this practice in Muslim communities stems from Muhammad’s own example:
“Narrated ‘Aisha: the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death)” (Sahih Bukhari 7.62.64).
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What a buffoon.
Via Commonsense & Wonder: (via ZIP)
Instead of smoothing ruffled feathers in Jerusalem with interviews to the host media, Vice President Biden snubbed them all and granted the only interview of his trip to the Arabic Al Jazeera TV, whose news content is sharply slanted against Israel, US military campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and the Western war on terror.
If you missed it earlier, Biden slammed Israel during his visit for expanding settlements saying they were “underminng US troops”
(Sydney Morning herald)- THE Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, was set to withdraw from all peace talks with Israel last night after the announcement this week that 1600 apartments would be added to Jewish settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.
The announcement enraged the visiting US Vice-President, Joe Biden, who has told the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that it was liable to ‘’set the Middle East on fire”.
Mr Biden blames Mr Netanyahu for the decision, telling officials on Wednesday that the United States’ close relationship with Israel was jeopardising its other bilateral relationships across the region.
”This is starting to get dangerous for us,” he reportedly castigated Israeli officials. ”What you’re doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us and it endangers regional peace.”
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The state-run media can’t stop ranting and raving about the evil prison at Guantanamo Bay. Democrat Dick Durbin ranted that soldiers at Gitmo could be compared to Nazi or Soviet Gulags in their treatment of prisoners.
Except when you ACTUALLY look at how the prisoners are treated, you get an entirely different picture.
From the American Spectator:
Every detainee held at Gitmo has 24/7 access to the hospital specifically set up for them, complete with an X-Ray machine (to accommodate the high number of sports injuries, including those from the popular intramural soccer games) and Intensive Care Unit. Detainees are offered annual physicals, in-patient and out-patient treatment, and interpreter services. At the hospital pharmacy, detainees have over 500 different brand-name medications available to them — anything that is unavailable at the pharmacy can be obtained from off the base. The hospital’s mental health unit has a psychologist and psychiatrist on staff for the detainees.
The detainees are provided 6,000 calories a day (assuming they eat all they are given). They have their choice of six meal options for each of their three daily, hand-delivered meals (regular, vegetarian w/ fish, veggie no fish, high fiber, soft diet, bland diet), along with their choice of salad and dessert. All of the meat is certified “halal” per the requirements of Islam, making it expensive for the kitchen to purchase.
The Gitmo library contains more than 13,000 books, almost a thousand magazines, and hundreds of DVDs — for whatever reason, the most popular books amongst the detainees is the Harry Potter series. Books are available in English, Arabic, Pashto, Farsi, Russian, and French. Additionally, every detainee receives USA Today, plus one Saudi newspaper and one Egyptian newspaper, along with two Korans. Gitmo offers several classes for detainees — literacy (Arabic and Pashto), English-as-a-second-language, and art — and also allows for at least four hours of recreation a day, sometimes in groups. Three of the camps I saw had outdoor soccer fields, and various camps also had foosball, table-tennis, and aerobic exercise equipment.
The religious preferences of the detainees are taken very seriously. In addition to the two Korans, detainees also receive prayer rugs, prayer caps, and prayer beads. They pray five times a day, and are allowed to observe Muslim holidays such as Ramadan, for which the kitchen adjusts its own cooking schedule. In the recreation yards of Camp 5, the maximum security camp, there are black arrows painted on the cement, pointing towards Mecca so the detainee will know which way to face for prayer. The same camp has several clocks in the recreation area, in case one stops working, so that detainees will know exactly when to start praying.
The Guantanamo Joint Task Force employs a 52-year-old of Middle Eastern descent named “Zak” as a “cultural advisor,” to serve as a conduit between the detainees and Gitmo personnel. He conveys that his job is to help guards and detainees understand each other, and to educate those who have to interact with the detainees. Gitmo personnel have 24/7 access to Zak, who has taught the guards that detainees will not answer their cell door while praying, and also says that the guards themselves are completely silent during prayer time, just so they will not be accused of interfering with detainee religious practices.
Read the rest at Am. Spectator
Why can’t the media simply be honest about Gitmo? I think we all know the answer to that.
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Apparently he passed a background check in 2008.
He also worked for former Democratic Governor Jon Corzine’s campaign in 2005.
Astute Bloggers and AJC reported:
A New Jersey official says a suspected terrorist who worked at a complex of nuclear power plants did not breach security there.
Mike Drewniak, a spokesman for Gov. Chris Christie, says his office has been told that Sharif Mobley was supervised and had no problems when he worked at three power plants in Salem County from 2002 to 2008.
PSEG Nuclear spokesman Joe Delmar said Thursday that Mobley worked as a laborer for several contractors at the three plants and others in the region.
The 26-year-old Mobley, who grew up in New Jersey and later lived in Philadelphia and Newark, Del., is in custody in Yemen as a suspected member of al-Qaida.
A spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington says those charges have nothing to do with his employment at the plants.
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We’re not on it yet, but there’s always next year. There’s some GREAT bloggers on there and I suggest you check all of them out.
Top 40 Conservative Blogs of 2010 - Rightwingnews.com
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Yeah this is old news, but it is important. Basically the islamists are saying that if we call genocide genocide, they will take their ball and go home.
TURKEY NOT TO SEND BACK ITS AMBASSADOR TO US, ERDOGAN
(ANSAmed) – ANKARA, MARCH 9 – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey would not send back its ambassador to U.S. before seeing clear results, as Anatolia news agency reports from in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he was set to receive the ‘King Faisal International Prize’. On March 4, Turkey temporarily recalled its ambassador in Washington D.C. Namik Tan minutes after a U.S. congressional panel approved a resolution labelling the incidents of 1915 as “genocide”. The resolution on Armenian allegations related to the incidents of 1915 was adopted at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs in a voting of 23-22. Shortly after the measure passed the committee voting, Turkish government said in a statement that Ambassador Tan had been recalled to Ankara for consultations. Speaking to reporters, Erdogan said that adoption of the resolution concerned Turkey, adding that the U.S. was a strategic ally and partner of Turkey. Erdogan said that the decision was not binding, however, the attitude was important. He said that the attitude of the U.S. in the next period was very important for Turkey, adding that Turkey was waiting for the attitude the U.S. would assume next. Erdogan noted that he did not believe the U.S. would sacrifice its strategic partner for simple political discussions. He said that Turkey would assess the situation in a large scale, and would not send back its ambassador before seeing a clear result. Turkey and Armenia signed two protocols on October 10, 2009 to normalize relations between the two countries. The protocols envisage the two countries to establish diplomatic ties and open the border that has been close since 1993. (ANSAmed).
2010-03-09 15:51
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I’m so sick and tired of people whining and complaining about US so called “torture”. It’s an excuse to pay no attention to the truly disgusting acts of torture committed all over the world everyday. Leftists falsely claim some moral high ground which is really nothing more thana political straw issue to demonize the US. If they really cared, they would actually speak out about the REAL torturers.
Peter Moore and his four guards were abducted from a Finance Ministry building in Baghdad in May 2007 by up to 100 men in Iraqi security force uniform, driving police vehicles. What ensued was 31 months of REAL torture.
The survivor of Britain’s longest hostage crisis in 20 years revealed yesterday how he endured months of torture during his ordeal in Iraq.
Peter Moore told The Times that he was hung by his arms from a door as a punishment and doused in water by his captors. Speaking in detail for the first time since his release, he also told of a series of mock executions.
At one point, guards put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger, simultaneously firing a real round from another weapon. “I remember thinking: I’m dead. It’s not that bad. It’s not that painful. And then, reality check, hold on I’m handcuffed and still blindfolded. I can hear people laughing.”
The IT worker, who had been in Baghdad a matter of weeks when he was kidnapped, said he feared that he would die from illness after suffering severe diarrhoea and vomiting as he spent months shackled to a metal grille over a window. To kill time and to maintain his sanity during more than 31 months as a hostage, he counted dots on a curtain and invented a wife during hours of interrogation.
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At the lowest point, Mr Moore was chained up in a small room with four guards in a house he believed was in Basra. “They handcuffed me behind my back, stood me on a chair next to a door, put my hands over the top of the door, pulled down on the handcuffs and kicked the chair away. That was quite painful,” he said.
hattip: Beej
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Maybe he went all jihadi crazy because of, as Obama put it after 9-11, American’s society’s “lack of empathy” or something… No way it could have anything to do with Islam.
Foxnews - A suspected Al Qaeda militant from New Jersey is being investigated by the FBI after his arrest in the Middle East for allegedly trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen, WMGM-TV in Atlantic City reported.
Federal sources confirmed that 26-year-old Sharif Mobley is in custody after a shooting rampage in a Yemeni hospital that killed one guard and injured another.
FBI spokesman Rich Wolf in Baltimore said the agency is looking into the case. Mobley was reportedly being held prisoner in the hospital and was caught after a chase following the shooting.
Mobley’s mother told WMGM-TV the accusations are false but did say that when she last spoke to her son in late January he was in Yemen. She said the FBI had visited her for questioning but insisted her son has never been in trouble and is a good Muslim.
Mobley’s father, Charles, said the family was waiting for further information.
“We don’t know nothing, we’re trying to hear something,”Charles Mobley told WMGM-TV.
Mobley’s former classmates from New Jersey expressed shock at both his suspected Al Qaeda ties and his deadly escape attempt in Yemen.
“I remember him from high school,” WMGM-TV quoted Dawn Bass. “He was just outgoing. He wanted to be, like, the center of attention. He was a nice kid. It’s shocking. I wouldn’t expect anybody that I graduated with to do something like that.”
The FBI declined to comment further on the case, but sources say federal investigators of Buena, N.J. have an interest in Mobley and are waiting for more information to come out of Yemen.
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Could be. It would be great if they take back that which is theirs, and banish shariah back to the ummah, where it belongs.
Compliments of Tundra Tabloids
FRENCH RESISTANCE TO SHARIA RESTUARANTS BEGINS IN QUICK HAMBURGER CHAIN…….
The Tundra Tabloids reported a week ago on the French hamburger chain, Quick, that decided to strip pork products from its menu in order to serve the religious needs of the local population. They didn’t even bother to offer two kinds of sandwiches, one halal and the other with pork, so now the people are (justifiably) up in arms and beginning to show their anger over being force fed with sharia nonsense in their secular state. KGSA herd of 70 dissatisfied pigs invaded Quick Halal Villeurbanne on Sunday morning. They intended to protest against the decision to remove the bacon burger and cons of the new offer Quick who now proposes that the halal its customers. It is unacceptable that a chain of “restaurants” which is largely Caisse des Depots et Consignations, in the French State, participates in the exclusion and segregation of the French in their own country.A state that contributes to development in our territory of Muslim ritual slaughter which, remember, forbidden to stun the animals during their slaughter resulting in an unacceptable and unnecessary suffering in animals. Especially that To do this, Quick Payroll tax on Islamic certification of Halal products which are known to what used to finance Islamic proselytizing. And all this while that is no longer a pig in a growing number of school canteens and that prohibits the association of French Solidarity distributing pork soup to the needy.The herd then left the school in song and will not hesitate to return to show his displeasure when Quick pig does not waive the Islamization of our country gourmet.I am sure many will accuse me of being an islamphobe, or intolerant. To them I say go live in a muslim country, and try to get a ham sandwich with your dinner. Everone always insists we respect their culture when we visit their lands. Yet those same lesions on society never insist on OUR culture being respected, our laws adhered to.
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We send aid workers to muslim countries, jihadis kill them. That’s islamic gratitude, I guess…
U.S. Charity Is Attacked In Pakistan; 6 Are Killed
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Six Pakistani employees of the American Christian charity World Vision were killed Wednesday and seven others were wounded in an attack on the aid group’s offices in a remote village in northern Pakistan.
Pakistani authorities said about a dozen masked militants stormed the building at about 9:30 a.m., pulled the staff members out of their offices and herded them into a single room, then started shooting indiscriminately. The attackers set off a bomb as they left, destroying the offices, which are located in North-West Frontier Province, in the village of Oghi, near the disputed region of Kashmir.
A spokesman for World Vision said the attackers robbed the employees and stole computers and telephones from the office before opening fire.
Officials in Pakistan said the assailants were of different ethnicities and spoke a mix of Urdu, Pashto and the Pakistani dialect Hindko as they shouted at the aid workers, telling them that they had been “forewarned to stop spreading immodesty.”
World Vision, based on the West Coast, called the attack the worst single act of violence in its 60-year history and said it was suspending its operations in Pakistan as the authorities there investigated the attack. The group has about 180 employees in the country, the vast majority of them Pakistanis.
“There was no advance warning, no threat of violence, nothing,” said Dean Owen, a spokesman for World Vision at its offices in Seattle. “It was unannounced, unprovoked, completely out of the blue.”
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
World Vision is among the largest Christian charities in the world, and it says it has thousands of staff members working in almost 100 countries on projects related to disaster relief, development, health and other issues. It is among many international aid groups that have had operations in northern Pakistan since October 2005, when a devastating earthquake killed thousands.
World Vision’s office in the area focused on providing relief in the aftermath of the quake, and had been doing community development work, Mr. Owen said.
Militants have stepped up attacks against military, police and civilian targets in North-West Frontier Province since the Pakistani Army began an offensive against them last autumn. On Feb. 20, a police officer was killed in an attack on police stations in Mansehra and Balakot, near the site of Wednesday’s attack.
In February 2008, militants attacked the offices of Plan International, a British aid agency in Mansehra, killing three Pakistani workers.
Government officials in the provincial capital, Peshawar, worry that militants uprooted by the Pakistani Army’s offensive are moving into the northern districts of North-West Frontier Province, which borders Afghanistan, posing new security challenges for the government. There have been reports that militants were moving into tribal areas in the region.
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Yesterday there was a plot uncovered in Ireland where 7 people were arrested with conspiracy to assassinate Lars Vilks, the original creator of the Mohammed cartoon. In a noble act of defiance, 3 Swedish newspapers republished the cartoons. Bravo…
STOCKHOLM — At least three Swedish newspapers on Wednesday published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog after an alleged plot to murder the artist who created it was uncovered in Ireland.
The controversial drawing by Swedish artist Lars Vilks was printed in Stockholm papers Dagens Nyheter and Expressen and the Malmo daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
Irish authorities on Tuesday detained four men and three women suspected of involvement in an alleged plot to kill Vilks. Irish police said Wednesday those arrested were two Algerians, two Libyans, a Palestinian, a Croatian and an American woman married to one of the Algerian suspects. They were not identified by name.
Sydsvenska Dagbladet said it printed the drawing as part of its news coverage of the alleged plot. Expressen said it printed it for its news value and to take a stance for the freedom of speech.
Here’s the cartoon (Caution to Muslims, you may find the following image offensive)
Mohammed Cartoon Lars Vilks
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Stick to your brilliance in acting and film making, Tom
Tom Hanks: America Wants to Annihilate Terrorists Because Theyre Different (Newsbusters)
Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what’s going on today?”
Read more for full context
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She’s a bit well known in the anti-jihad community especially if you frequent the Jawa report who’s had somewhat of an ongoing “relationship” with her and her antics.
Via Foxnews:
A Pennsylvania woman known to authorities as “JihadJane” has been charged in federal court with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft.
The indictment, unsealed Monday, charges that Colleen R. LaRose and five unindicted co-conspirators recruited men on the Internet to wage violent jihad in South Asia and Europe, and recruited women on the Internet who had passports and the ability to travel to and around Europe in support of violent jihad.
The accused co-conspirators are located in South Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the United States.
In June of 2008, LaRose posted a comment on YouTube under the username “JihadJane,” stating that she is “desperate to do something somehow to help” the suffering Muslim people, according to the indictment.
She was also know to authorities as “Fatima LaRose.” The indictment describes LaRose as in her 40s.
Here’s the DOJ indictment:
WASHINGTON – David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and Michael L. Levy, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, together with Janice K. Fedarcyk, Special Agent-in-Charge of the FBI in Philadelphia, today announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Colleen R. LaRose, aka “Fatima LaRose,” aka “JihadJane,” with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft.
The indictment charges that LaRose (an American citizen born in 1963 who resides in Montgomery County, Pa.) and five unindicted co-conspirators (located in South Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the United States)recruited men on the Internet to wage violent jihad in South Asia and Europe, and recruited women on the Internet who had passports and the ability to travel to and around Europe in support of violent jihad.The indictment further charges that LaRose and her unindicted co-conspirators used the Internet to establish relationships with one another and to communicate regarding their plans, which included martyring themselves, soliciting funds for terrorists, soliciting passports and avoiding travel restrictions (through the collection of passports and through marriage) in order to wage violent jihad. The indictment further charges that LaRose stole another individual’s U.S. passport and transferred or attempted to transfer it in an effort to facilitate an act of international terrorism.
In addition, according to the indictment, LaRose received a direct order to kill a citizen and resident of Sweden, and to do so in a way that would frighten “the whole Kufar [non-believer] world.” The indictment further charges that LaRose agreed to carry out her murder assignment, and that she and her co-conspirators discussed that her appearance and American citizenship would help her blend in while carrying out her plans. According to the indictment, LaRose traveled to Europe and tracked the intended target online in an effort to complete her task.
“Today’s indictment, which alleges that a woman from suburban America agreed to carry out murder overseas and to provide material support to terrorists, underscores the evolving nature of the threat we face,” said David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division. “I applaud the many agents, analysts and prosecutors who worked on this important investigation.”
“This case shows the use terrorists can and do make of the Internet,” said U.S. Attorney Michael L. Levy. “Colleen LaRose and five other individuals scattered across the globe are alleged to have used the Internet to form a conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism, culminating in a direct order to LaRose to commit murder overseas. LaRose – an American citizen whose appearance was considered to be an asset because it allowed her to blend in – is charged with using the Internet to recruit violent jihadist fighters and supporters, and to solicit passports and funding. It demonstrates yet another very real danger lurking on the Internet. This case also demonstrates that terrorists are looking for Americans to join them in their cause, and it shatters any lingering thought that we can spot a terrorist based on appearance.”
“This case demonstrates that the FBI and our partners in the law enforcement and intelligence communities must continue to remain vigilant in the face of the threats that America faces, in whatever form those threats may present themselves or no matter how creative those who threaten us try to be,” said Special Agent-in-Charge Janice K. Fedarcyk of the Philadelphia Division of the FBI. “We must use all available technologies and techniques to root out potential threats and stop those who intend to harm us.”
If convicted of the charges against her, LaRose faces a potential sentence of life in prison and a $1 million fine.
This case was investigated by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. It is being prosecuted by Jennifer Arbittier Williams, Assistant U.S. Attorney from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and Matthew F. Blue, Trial Attorney from the Counterterrorism Section in the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
The public is reminded that an indictment is an accusation and a defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
Here’s a copy of the indictment.
Jawa has more including the history of JihadJane
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Even though Foxnews is light years ahead in media fairness compared to the rest of the liberal controlled establishment, sometimes they are just plain wrong. Here’s a perfect example:
Foxnews’ Special Report Trashes Geert Wilders
and
Glenn Beck calls Geert Wilders a “Fascist”
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