MEOW!!!!
It’s Halloween and while every other site is giving you fake, bullshit pictures of girls you never see, we here at TBTL are keeping it real.
October 2009
Monthly Archive
Sat 31 Oct 2009
Fri 30 Oct 2009
Way to ruin a picture.
Thu 29 Oct 2009
Michigan Man Sues for Right to Put Back Family’s Nativity Scene on Public Median
A Michigan man has filed a federal lawsuit claiming his constitutional rights were violated when he was ordered to remove a Nativity scene from the median of a public road — a creche that his family has displayed at the location for 63 years.
John Satawa, of Warren, Mich., filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Friday in an attempt to be allowed to put back the 8- by 8-foot Nativity scene his late father built in 1945.
“The Nativity display has been a tradition not just for my family, but for the whole community for 63 years,” Satawa told Foxnews.com in a statement. “I am disappointed the Road Commission would not stand up for our community and our Constitution and that is why I was compelled to file this lawsuit.”
According to Satawa’s lawsuit, St. Anne’s Parish received a donation of Christmas statues in March 1945 that were too large to house inside the church — so they were moved to the public median outside. Jack Eckstein, president of the village of Warren at the time, granted permission for the move.
As a result, a Christmas tradition was born the lawsuit reads.
Source: Fox News
I love Christmas, but it doesn’t belong on a public road. I’m sorry to hurt the feelings of folks who enjoy the Nativity scene, but it is a public road, so the nativity scene should be removed. No matter how much ‘Christians’ believe they are being singled out, just move the scene off of public property and there will be no issue.
Just because this has been a tradition doesn’t mean the law doesn’t apply and it doesn’t mean the rest of the ‘community’ believes a Nativity scene is the best use of public roads. Religious folks don’t understand this because their feelings are hurt and when it comes to religion and feelings, logic need not apply.
Community is a great word to get behind, since it implies everyone agrees, it’s just that the last time I checked Community didn’t mean only Christians. When it comes to public infringement on religious rights Christians won’t back down as was the case in Hamtramck, Michigan where many opponents to a daily Muslim prayer call voiced their displeasure. Most people, Christians, were upset because they had to listen since it was broadcast and could be heard outside of the mosque.
Joanne Golen, a lifelong Hamtramck resident, said she finds the content of the call to prayer offensive.
It says Allah is the one and only God. I am Christian. My God is Jesus Christ. That is my only objection — that I have to listen to a God other than the one I believe in praised five times a day
I wonder if Joanne has a problem with the public Nativity scene all non-Christians have to drive by and be subject to everyday?
I would like to know how Mr. Satawa and the St. Anne’s Parish would feel if the community decided a new tradition should be formed, since the Christian tradition did have a 63 year monopoly on the public space. Instead of having a Nativity scene, a Hannukah display could be erected, or a Kwanzaa display, but my guess is Mr. Satawa, or the Parish at large wouldn’t be too keen on that idea.
DIFFERENCE??????
Wed 28 Oct 2009
Imam Who Led Radical Islam Group Killed in FBI Raid
DETROIT — Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested several members of a radical Sunni Islam group in the U.S., killing one of its leaders at a shootout in a Michigan warehouse, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Agents were trying to arrest Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, at a Dearborn warehouse on charges that included conspiracy to sell stolen goods and illegal possession and sale of firearms. Authorities also conducted raids elsewhere to try to round up 10 followers named in a federal complaint.
Abdullah refused to surrender, fired a weapon and was killed by gunfire from agents, FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said.
In the 43-paged complaint unsealed Wednesday, the FBI said Abdullah, also known as Christopher Thomas, was an imam, or prayer leader, of a radical group named Ummah whose primary mission is to establish an Islamic state within the United States.
No one was charged with terrorism. But Abdullah was “advocating and encouraging his followers to commit violent acts against the United States,” FBI agent Gary Leone said in an affidavit.
He told them it was their “duty to oppose the FBI and the government and it does not matter if they die,” Leone said.
Source: Associated Press
Luqman Ameen Abdullah is dead, but guess what, there a dozens more just like him waiting in the wings. In case you were wondering who some of the next ‘Terrorist Leaders’ will be to spring up in the US look no further than MANA.
What is MANA? Well it is the Muslim Alliance in North American and they have a clear mission. Here is an excerpt from their web site.
MANA is a national network of masjids, Muslim organizations and individuals committed to work together to address certain urgent needs within the Muslim community. These needs include the great social and economic problems that are challenging Muslim communities especially in the inner city; the need for the involvement of masjids and Muslims in community service projects which are aimed at improving society as a whole; the need for systematic and effective dawah programs to help bring more non-Muslims into Islam; the need for new Muslim programs that will help them to grow in Islam. MANA is therefore an open organization that is agenda driven.
Let me summarize the mission of MANA.
To convert all non-Muslims to Islam by any means necessary, including terrorism and murder.
Here is a nice long list of MANA members who will be replacing Luqman Amin Abdullah as your friendly neighborhood ‘activist’.
MAJLIS ASH-SHURA
In alphabetical order:
* Hodari Abdul-Ali, Businessman and Activist (DC)
* Luqman Abdul Haqq, President, Universal Companies (Phila)
* Luqman Amin Abdullah, Imam, Masjid Al-Haqq (Detroit) – DECEASED
* Tahir Abdullah, Amir, Jama’at of Shuhu Uthman dan Fodio
* Johari Abdur Malik, Director Outreach, Dar al-Hijrah (VA)
* Jihad Abdul-Mumit, Activist (VA)
* Khalil Abdul-Rahman, Imam (Greensboro, NC)
* Asim Abdur-Rashid, Imam, Masjid Mujahidin (Phila)
* Talib Abdur-Rashid Imam, Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood (NY)
* Mutawwaf Abdush-Shaheed, Imam, Masjid Al-Mu’min (Cleveland)
* Abbas Ahmad, Imam, First Cleveland Mosque (Cleveland)
* Luqman Ahmad, Imam and Writer (Phila)
* Nadim Sulaiman Ali, Imam (Atlanta)
* Amir Al-Islam, Professor, Medger Evers College
* Ihsan Bagby, Professor, U. of Kentucky
* Aneesah Nadir, Professor, Arizona State University
* R. M. Mukhtar Curtis, Chaplain in Federal Prison Bureau (MI)
* Umar al-Khattab, Imam, Masjid al-Fajr (Indianapolis)
* Khalid Abdul-Fatah Griggs, Imam, Community Mosque (Winston-Salem)
* Altaf Husain, Former Pres. of MSA-National; Ph.D. in Social Work
* Anwar Muhaimin, Imam, International Muslim Brotherhood (Phila)
* Rami Nashashibi, Executive Director, Inner-City Muslim Network
* Siraj Wahhaj, Imam, Masjid al-Taqwa (NY)
I don’t pretend to know what the folks in this video are saying, but enough with the religious stuff and get on with the community work as Americans, helping all Americans, if that is truly what Muslim groups like MANA are trying to do.
Yeah right.