Youth Suspended Over Sketch of "Gun"

You see the drawing above that looks like a gun? According to WorldNetDaily.com, a 13-year-old boy was suspended from school for drawing it. Why, you may ask was he suspended, it was because school officials thought that drawing posed a threat. Mind you, the boy never brought a gun to school. Matter of fact the parents say they do not even own a gun. Is his suspension an overreaction? I think it is. The boy never drew a person getting shot it is just a "gun"--or what is supposed to be a gun, I guess.

There may be something deeper going on here. If you look at the drawing again there are happy faces on the gun. Is he promoting guns I wonder? Or maybe putting guns in a positive light? Maybe the school officials just objected to him drawing a gun period. If he would drawn another weapon like a switchblade would they have considered him a threat then? Where is the ACLU legal support for the boy? After all isn't the boy's freedom of expression being violated? If he would have been suspended for drawing Jesus mockingly or a marijuana cigarette then the ACLU would have probably shown up to defend him. Then again maybe the school officials would have let that slide. Hard to say what they would have done.

Terror Group Converts Gaza into Hamastan

From The Israel Project.org:

Since Hamas took over Gaza by force in mid June 2007, the Iran-backed terrorist group has consolidated its military and Islamic authority over the Palestinian people. Examples of Hamas's militarily growth include:

• Importing sophisticated technological weapons into the Gaza Strip;
• Smuggling in more than 20 tons of explosives;
• Increasing militant manpower to 13,000;
• Sending more than 20 militants to Iran for training and instructing 400 more in Gaza;
• Creating a naval guard force.

Examples of Hamas's Islamic authority include:

• Banning "all demonstrations and public gatherings" that do not have special permission and beating up protestors;
• Ordering the closure of popular television programs that portrayed the problematic situation in Gaza;
• Kidnapping a Christian professor from Palestine University in Gaza City, Ana al-Sayegh, forcing her to convert to Islam and forging a marriage between her and a Muslim man;
• Forbidding women to wear bathing suits to swim in a Gaza hotel pool, even on days designated for women only;
• Shutting down a coffee shop where men and women sat together, sometimes touching;
• Producing a children's television show in which a Mickey Mouse clone named Farfur came under international criticism for conveying messages about Islamic supremacy as well as hatred of Jews and Israel. The pressure to change or shut down the program led Hamas to produce a show in which Farfur was killed off by an actor posing as an Israeli who appeared to beat him to death. Farfur is regarded as a martyr in the episode. He was replaced by a bee character who says he will "…continue on the path of Farfur, the path of Islam is the solution. The path of heroism, the path of martyrdom, the path of jihad warriors. In the name of Farfur, we shall take revenge on the enemies of Allah, the murderers of the prophets, the murderers of innocent children, until Al-Aksa will be liberated from their filth."

The above example is what would happen if sharia law would be norm of the world.

Bishop Urges Christians to Call God 'Allah'

From WorldNetDaily.com:

Catholic churches in the Netherlands should use the name Allah for God to ease tensions between Muslims and Christians, says a Dutch bishop.

The idea of calling God Allah is not only unnecessary but stupid. For one thing in the Qur'an, the word 'God' and 'Allah' is used interchangeably. For example, one verse says: "In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful." And another verse says: "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful." To me both verses say about the same thing.

This whole deal smells of political correctness which I detest. All political correctness does is to make the person using p.c. speech feel better. I don't really care if in Netherlands' past they called 'God' Allah. That was their choice back then. The moderate and traditional Muslims don't care if you say the word God instead of Allah. It's trivial to them mainly because both words are used interchangeably in the Qur'an. Using the word 'God' is not an offense. A Muslim spokesman referenced in the article even said the Moroccan mosques never asked for this gesture. So, why do it? If you really want to upset a Muslim drop the Qur'an on the floor. And if you are trying to appease the fundamentalist Muslims, well, you can never appease them. The only way to make them happy is to become a Muslim.

President Bush's Charleston AFB Speech

President Bush should give a speech like this every month. What follows below is a subset of his full speech he gave at Charleston Airforce Base July 24:

Our top commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, has said that Al-Qaeda is public enemy number one in Iraq. Fellow citizens, these people have sworn allegiance to the man who ordered the death of nearly 3,000 people on our soil. Al-Qaeda is public enemy number one for the Iraqi people. Al-Qaeda is public enemy number one for the American people, and that is why for the security of our country, we will stay on the hunt, we will deny them safe haven, and we will defeat them where they have made their stand.

Some note that Al-Qaeda in Iraq did not exist until the US invasion and argue that it is a problem of our own making. The argument follows the flawed logic that terrorism is caused by American actions.

Iraq's not the reason that the terrorists are at war with us.

We were not in Iraq when the terrorists bombed the World Trade Center in 1993.

We were not in Iraq when they attacked our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

We were not in Iraq when they attacked the USS Cole in 2000, and we were not in Iraq on September the 11th, 2001. Our action to remove Saddam Hussein did not start the terrorist violence. An American withdrawal from Iraq would not end it.

Our troops are now working to replicate the success in Anbar and other parts of the country. Our brave men and women are taking risks, and they're showing courage, and we're making progress for the security of our citizens and the peace of the world. We must give General Petraeus and his troops the time and the resources they need so they can defeat Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

President Bush could have added:

We were not in Iraq when Barbary pirates who happened to be Militant Jihadists attacked our American ships back in colonial days.

The Barbary pirates were referenced in the Marine hymn with this line: "To the shores of Tripoli." There were two Barbary Wars back then. Here's the interesting part. The Americans asked Adja why his government was hostile to American ships, even though there had been no provocation. The ambassador's response was reported to the Continental Congress:

"That it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman [Muslim] who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise."

Does that quote above sound familiar?

Actually, the militant Jihadists can be traced back further. The main reason the Knights of Templar were created was to protect Christians from militant Muslims. The Christians were making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem at the time when they were being attacked.