Ummm, I thought the sole purpose of a gift shop IS SELLING SOUVENIRS…

Leftist Angela Levin writes for the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom. While she is a completely dhimmified moron, the article does have a photo of an adorable kid wearing a souvenir shirt.

Greetings from Guantanamo Bay … and the sickest souvenir shop in the world

The sands are white, the sea laps gently and crowds of bronzed Americans laze in the Caribbean sunshine.

They have a cinema, a golf course and, naturally, a gift shop stocked with mugs, jaunty T-shirts and racks of postcards showing perfect sunsets and bright green iguanas.

Only the barbed wire decoration, a recurring motif, hints at anything wrong.

Welcome to “Taliban Towers” at Guantanamo Bay, the most ghoulishly distasteful tourist destination on the planet.

As these astonishing mementoes show, the US authorities are promoting the world’s most notorious prison camp as a cheap hideaway for American sunseekers – a revelation that has drawn international anger and condemnation.

Just yards from the shelves of specially branded mugs and cuddly toys, nearly 300 “enemy combatants” lie sweltering in a waking nightmare.

Aww are the terrorists being made to suffer??? Well, Jimmy crack corn, and I DON’T CARE. In fact I wish the soldiers would stop wasting taxpayer dollars feeding them, giving them medical care, and just feed them to the sharks. But that would be cruel to the sharks.

It is six years since foreign prisoners, many captured in Afghanistan, were first taken to this US-occupied corner of Cuba. Yet even now, no charges have been brought against them.

While the detainees lie incarcerated, visitors can windsurf, take boat trips and go fishing for grouper, tuna, red snapper and swordfish.

The United States’ 1.5million service personnel and Guantanamo’s 3,000 construction workers are eligible to visit the “resort”, which boasts a McDonald’s, KFC and a bowling alley.

They even have a Wal-Mart supermarket.

The vacation comes at a knock-down price: just $42 (£20) per night for a suite of air-conditioned rooms, including a kitchen, bathroom, living room and bedrooms.

But it is the souvenirs that have led to the greatest criticism. One T-shirt from the gift shop is decorated with a guard tower and barbed wire. It reads: “The Taliban Towers at Guantanamo Bay, the Caribbean’s Newest 5-star Resort.”

Another praises “the proud protectors of freedom”. A third displays a garish picture of an iguana and states: “Greetings from paradise GTMO resort and spa fun in the Cuban sun.”

Newsbusters goes on to expose her propagandist lies (I will not insult actual journalists by giving her the respect of calling her “journalist”) about the alleged Guantanamo Wal-Mart.

Freedom lovers and those that want ALL TERRORISTS killed dead can order your Gitmo Gear here.

hattip to Moonbattery and Burning Hot

Indonesian separatist gets life in jail

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A court has sentenced the leader of a separatist group in eastern Indonesia to life in prison for waving the flag of a mostly Christian secessionist movement in front of the president last year.

At court official said at least 19 others were convicted of treason and sentenced to between 10 and 20 years over the flag-waving demonstration, which was nonviolent.

Notice, as this was a CHRISTIAN demonstration it was PEACEFUL, and he was not calling for anyone who is not Christian to have their head cut off, or inciting Christians to strap on a bomb laden vest and detonate in a market square. Unlike muslims when they protest a movie that simply repeats violent, intolerant and hateful verses found IN THE QURAN, and then complain they are being discriminated against, and that they are peaceful.

Short article (of course since it only affects a Christian who was peacefully demonstrating, not some muslim whackjob calling for death to infidels) can be read here.