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American Muslims must "cut out the cancer of coercion" in Islam
A friend posted this essay on Facebook, and I think he gets to the heart of the problem with Islam in America and the west. With his permission I'm reposting it here. An Open Letter to Muslim Women in America By Scott Pendleton As a young journalist, I spent two...
Remembering 9/11 and the enemy that still hates us and our freedom
I don't remember exactly what I was doing this morning at 7:46 a.m. Central time, eleven years to the minute after Islamic radicals flew a large commercial jetliner into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, but I was probably scrambling to find a working copier to copy the...
Fallin declines to reauthorize Governor's Ethnic American Advisory Council
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has declined to issue the executive order necessary to reauthorize the Governor's Ethnic American Advisory Council, according to a story in the Oklahoman. Fallin had 90 days after she took office in January to decide whether to extend the life of the councils, which were formed...
Links elsewhere 2010/11/14
Clearing out my browser tabs and clearing my conscience of failing to write a blog post about each one: Gabriel Malor, co-blogger at Ace of Spades HQ, will be on 1170 KFAQ with Pat Campbell at about 6:30 to discuss the CAIR lawsuit to stop Oklahoma's anti-sharia amendment. Joe Miller...
CAIR's sharia lawsuit and Miles-LaGrange's injunction
Federal Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange, a Clinton appointee to the Western District of Oklahoma and former Democrat legislator from Oklahoma City, blocked the Oklahoma State Election Board from certifying the landslide passage of SQ 755. SQ 755 forbids Oklahoma courts from looking to "the legal precepts of other nations or cultures....
More Tulsa and Oklahoma blogs
Some recent finds worth telling you about: Here are two fairly new "news around town" blogs devoted to Tulsa: Tulsa Loop and This Tulsa. This Tulsa has a very cool logo (featuring the BOK Tower, the Mid-Continent Tower, and University Club Tower), and they encourage readers to submit links of...
CAIR sues Abercrombie & Fitch over Tulsa hijab decision; Coburn protests ISNA grants
As See-Dubya says, "Whom to root against?" The worst reactionary impulses of the seventh century, or the engines of postmodern degradation? A pox on both their houses. That's in reference to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint filed by the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK)...
Wi-fi while traveling
A collection of links to the free wi-fi establishments I've visited while traveling, to be updated from time to time: Community Bakery, Little Rock, Arkansas Stardust Video and Coffee, Orlando, Florida Austin Coffee and Film, Orlando, Florida Boba Cafe and Deli, City Market, Savannah, Georgia Mosaics on Main, Belleville, Illinois...
"Ethnic American" really does mean Muslim
Urban Tulsa Weekly reporter Brian Ervin digs deeper into the controversy over the Governor's Ethnic American Advisory Council (GEAAC) and its gift of a special centennial edition of the Koran to state legislators. As BatesLine first reported back in May, the Governor's Ethnic American Advisory Council was created by executive...
Ethnic American Advisory Council should reflect ethnic diversity, Reynolds says
State Rep. Mike Reynolds is putting the focus in the recent Centennial Koran uproar where it belongs: Why did Gov. Brad Henry create a state agency devoted promoting the interests of the Muslim religion, and why does it exist under a misleading name? I refer, of course, to the Governor's...
Islamic Society of Tulsa honors "Truthers"
zTruth is a blog, evidently based here in Tulsa, that focuses on Islamic organizations in the West and the spread of dhimmitude, homeland security, and immigration enforcement. Here's a recent entry with a stunning insight into attitudes of the leadership of the Islamic Society of Tulsa: On August 25th, The...
Zuhdi Jasser: An interview with a moderate Muslim leader
Erick Stakelbeck's latest report on Hot Air is an interview with Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. Jasser, a cardiologist living in the Phoenix area, was born in Wisconsin and served 11 years as a Navy medical officer. He believes faithful Muslims are freer to...
Jamal Miftah interview in FrontPage magazine
Just posted on FrontPage magazine is an in-depth interview with Jamal Miftah, the Tulsa Muslim who last fall wrote a bold guest opinion condemning terrorism in the name of Islam and was expelled from the Islamic Society of Tulsa's mosque. The interview fills in some fascinating details about Miftah's background...
Religious blackjack dealer demands right not to handle cards
An incredible dispatch from Las Vegas over the JYB newswires: For Marvin McJimpsey, Vegas is truly Sin City. His faith prohibits playing cards, but his job as a blackjack dealer at the Luxor Casino requires him to shuffle, deal, and slide cards across the green felt to eager gamblers who...
<em>L'essence de la Rue Cerise</em>
What makes Cherry Street (15th between Peoria and Utica) the lovely place it is, maybe the nicest street in Tulsa? This week's Urban Tulsa Weekly column tries to distill the essence of Cherry Street so that we can learn and apply the right lessons from its success. Also in UTW...
Eteraz.org: A conversation with Jamal Miftah
Blogger Ali Eteraz has posted an interview with Jamal Miftah about his banning by the Islamic Society of Tulsa (IST). (See my previous entries on the topic here and here.) (Eteraz describes his website, eteraz.org, as "the first interactive blog for Positive Muslim Activism." "Eteraz is an online forum whose...
Who is Mujeeb Cheema?
This entry is a work in progress, a place to summarize links and information for later analysis, by me or other bloggers. The story of Jamal Miftah, the Muslim who was banned from the Islamic Center of Tulsa for writing an op-ed critical of al-Qaeda and those who commit terrorist...
Get your kicks on US 62?
Charles of Dustbury lists some of his life's ambitions (them that are printable, or nearly so). One of them is to drive a couple of the diagonal U.S. highways that are still official: US 62 from El Paso, Texas, to Niagara Falls, New York, and US 52 from the...
Our man in Cairo
Meryl Yourish links to no-holds-barred interview with U. S. Ambassador to Egypt David Welch by a panel of Egyptian journalists. Welch not only defended U.S. policy in the region but politely challenged the assertions of the Egyptians. At one point in the interview, a journalist brings up the "humiliating" video...
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