More Islamophobia

Rafah Toma survived one of the most horrific attacks on Iraq's tiny Christian community — the siege on a Baghdad church two months ago that left 68 people dead — only to be gunned down in her home Monday by thieves stealing her cash and jewelry.

It was not immediately clear whether Toma's death was the latest attack to target Iraq's beleaguered Christians, or instead another of the brutal robberies that have become commonplace for all Iraqis, Muslim and Christian alike.

The priest that found her battered body, Father Mukhlis, serves at the Our Lady of Salvation church where more than 120 people were taken hostage on Oct. 31 after gunmen stormed the building during an evening Mass. He said that Toma, who was in her 50s, was one of the parishioners at Mass that evening.

"It was her fate to not die in the attack on the church but to die by gunmen who killed her to steal her gold and money," he said. "Christians face a tragedy in this country."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110103/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq

Maybe one day our media and the intelligentsia will report the truth - - innocent Jews and Christians are attacked daily by Islamic fundamentalist terrorists.

Until them, the attacks will be largely ignored, but the defensive responses will be criticized.

Arlen Specter's "zig-zag-zig political path"

As Arlen Specter leaves the Senate after 30 years, the one-time corruption-busting Philadelphia prosecutor and architect of the "single-bullet theory" of the John F. Kennedy assassination says he wouldn't change a thing about his zig-zag-zig political path.

Specter began and ended - for now - his political life as a Democrat and spent the intervening four decades as a Republican. But he sees himself as an independent who often bucked party leadership - ultimately ending his career.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/02/1997179/specter-a-democrat-and-in-between.html

"Zig-zag-zig political path" is a pretty nice way to describe a flip flopping, back stabbing, two faced, self serving career politician, who went from liberal Democrat to Reagan Republican and back to where he started for the sole purpose of keeping his job.

Mayor Bloomberg

One week after a blizzard paralyzed the city, the snowdrifts were melting Sunday but the mountains of trash were growing.

The Department of Sanitation announced it would resume garbage pickups on Monday for the first time since the Christmas weekend storm dumped 20 inches of snow on city streets. Trash collection was suspended while crews struggled to plow streets, Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty said.

"We are able to resume garbage pickups now that significant progress has been made in clearing away the aftermath of last Sunday's massive blizzard," Doherty said Saturday.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other city officials endured days of withering criticism for the city's slow response to the storm. Bloomberg visited some of the neighborhoods hardest hit by the snow and confessed the city's handling of it was "inadequate and unacceptable."

http://www.lex18.com/news/1-week-after-blizzard-nyc-garbage-is-piled-high/

New York City's mayor was so busy lobbying for the Ground Zero mosque, and laying the groundwork for a presidential run, that he was too busy to plow the streets or pick up the garbage.

Maybe now he'll shut up about "The Third Way" and "No Labels" and do his job.

Permanent U.S. bases in Afghanistan?

A leading GOP lawmaker on U.S. military policy says he wants American officials to consider establishing permanent military bases in Afghanistan.

Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina says that having a few U.S. air bases in Afghanistan would be a benefit to the region and would give Afghan security forces an edge against the Taliban.

Graham tells NBC's "Meet the Press" that he wants to see the U.S. have "an enduring relationship" with Afghanistan to ensure that it never falls back into the hands of terrorists.

President Barack Obama plans to begin drawing down American forces in Afghanistan next year and hand over security to Afghan forces in 2014.

Obama has talked about an enduring presence in Afghanistan but not exactly what that would entail.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110102/ap_on_re_us/us_us_afghanistan

A leading GOP lawmaker wants "permanent military bases in Afghanistan" and "an enduring relationship" with Afghanistan.

Obama wants "an enduring presence in Afghanistan".

Neither seems to care what the American people want.

House GOP to move this week on Obamacare

Republicans plan to try to repeal the health care law almost immediately after taking control of the House, setting the stage for an early confrontation with President Obama.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/03/breaking-house-gop-to-move-this-week-on-health-care-repeal/

The GOP campaigned on a promise to try to repeal Obamacare.

As one of their first orders of business, they are going to try to repeal Obamacare.

Why is keeping your promise such big news in Washington, D.C.?

More Islamophobia

Muslim extremists may have planted a bomb which struck an army barracks in Nigeria's capital, the country's president has said, highlighting the dangers and confusion still gripping a nation beset by violence in recent weeks.

No-one has claimed responsibility for Friday's attack which killed at least four people and injured 21 others celebrating New Year's Eve in the barracks' open-air beer garden and market.

President Goodluck Jonathan promised those at a church service in Abuja, the oil-rich nation's capital, he would find those responsible. However, his vague remarks seemed only to show that security agencies remain ill-prepared to halt the violence as the nation nears what could be a tumultuous April election.

http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/world-news/bomb-kills-30-at-nigeria-barracks-2480076.html

The media blames Judeo Christian Islamophobia for inciting Muslim violence . . . but when was the last time you heard about any Judeo Christian anti Muslim violence?

More Islamophobia

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak vowed Saturday to "cut off the hand of terrorism" after a suspected suicide bomber attacked a Coptic Christian church in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria and killed at least 21 people as worshippers emerged from a New Year's Day Mass.

It was the deadliest attack against the country's Christian minority in more than a decade and the latest in a wave of violence against Christians in the Middle East. Experts said that it would stoke growing tension between Egypt's majority Muslims and Coptic Christians, who make up about 10 percent of the country's 80 million people.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11002/1115000-82.stm

Remember, according to the American media, it's all the fault of Judeo Christian Islamophobes.