Followed by a goon shadow

[54anickel]

http://www.indystar.com/articles/2/181577-1752-021.html

They can't find Osama bin Laden, but they've saved us from Cat Stevens.

They can appoint Daniel Pipes, the notorious Muslim basher, to the U.S. Institute of Peace; but they won't let Tariq Ramadan, a renowned Muslim scholar, teach at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

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Little explanation was given by the Department of Homeland Security for intercepting a transatlantic flight last week and deporting the "Peace Train" guy. "Activities that could be potentially related to terrorism," the feds said. The best intelligence, if you will, is that some of the many charities he has supported since embracing Islam in the 1970s may channel money to groups the U.S. deems non grata.

Something like those American movers and shakers who do business with Saudi Arabia, where most of the 9/11 killers came from? Not exactly. Those people work directly, get lots of money in return, and do not get their flights interrupted.

Nor do the industrialists -- likewise tied, really tied, to the Bush administration -- who sold so much hardware to Saddam Hussein over the years. Compared to a fellow with controversial opinions who wants to visit the United States, what kind of threat could a mere supplier of a dictator pose to us?

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. This gives the impression

that the US is anti Muslim. And, frankly, from what Bush has done, I think he is. And he's too stupid to realize this plays into the hands of bin Laden and other Wahhabists and weakens the stature of peaceful moderate Muslims like Yusuf Islam.

[UpInArms]

2. kick

:kick:

for the "twin" post :hi:

[54anickel]

4. HA! Hey there UIA. Great minds again I guess. n/t

[Gyre]

3. Their tentacles are flexing

for the big one. I wonder if they'll rough us up before taking us away to the Laurel Canyon Concentration Camp?

Gyre

[Demeter]

5. I'm Being Followed by an Air Marshall....

with thanks to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me on NPR.

This had to be a John Ashcroft special.