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Barack Obama's main Muslim affairs advisor, Mazen Asbahi, has resigned (also via The American Thinker). The WSJ had opened an investigation into his background and found:
In 2000, Mr. Asbahi briefly served on the board of Allied Assets Advisors Fund, a Delaware-registered trust. Its other board members at the time included Jamal Said, the imam at a fundamentalist-controlled mosque in Illinois.I'm sure there's still many more shady people working for Obama just now. So we still need to keep our eyes open and see who they are. Here's some background on Jamal Said's mosque. More on this at Paxalles, Infidels Are Cool.
"I served on that board for only a few weeks before resigning as soon as I became aware of public allegations against another member of the board," Mr. Asbahi said in his resignation letter. "Since concerns have been raised about that brief time, I am stepping down...to avoid distracting from Barack Obama's message of change."
The eight-year-old connection between Mr. Asbahi and Mr. Said was raised last week by the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report, which is published by a Washington think tank and chronicles the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, a world-wide fundamentalist group based in Egypt. Other Web sites, some pro-Republican and others critical of fundamentalist Islam, also have reported on the background of Mr. Asbahi. He is a frequent speaker before several groups in the U.S. that scholars have associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Justice Department named Mr. Said an unindicted co-conspirator in the racketeering trial last year of several alleged Hamas fund-raisers, which ended in a mistrial. He has also been identified as a leading member of the group in news reports going back to 1993.
Mr. Said is the imam at the Bridgeview Mosque in Bridge-view, Ill., outside Chicago. He left the board of the Islamic fund in 2005, Securities and Exchange Commission filings state. A message left for Mr. Said at the mosque was not returned.
Allied Asset Advisors is a subsidiary of the North American Islamic Trust. The trust, which is supported financially by the government of Saudi Arabia, holds title to many mosques in the U.S. and promotes a conservative brand of Islam compatible with the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and also akin to the fundamentalist style predominant in Saudi Arabia. Allied executives did not respond to inquiries.
Jose Medillin has been executed for his rape and murder crimes. Now, I suggest they cremate him into oblivion too. More on this at Michelle Malkin, Macsmind, Ace of Spades HQ.
In Britain, a woman was thrown onto the train tracks in Kent after she told some youths to stop smoking on the train tracks. She fortunately survived.
There will be a religious woman from Kochav Yaakov taking part in the Olympic taekwondo tournament (via The Muqata and Daled Amos). I think this is very inspiring news.
Two stabbing attempts were fortunately prevented.
Read this horrific news at the Investigative Project about how Democrat Mike Gravel, a former senator from Alaska, incited against the federal prosecutor of Sami al-Arian by calling on people to stalk the prosecutor's children (via The Corner and Ace of Spades HQ). This is the blood-boiling obscenity that Gravel uttered:
Gravel: "Find out where he lives. Find out where his office is. If you've got some chutzpah - which is a word that you don't hear often - if you've really got it, find out where he lives, find out where his kids go to school, find out where his office is; picket him all the time. Call him a racist in signs if you see him. Call him an injustice. Call him whatever you want to call him, but in his face all the time. They can't take the heat; deliver it to them. We have to stop laying down to these injustices."What Gravel said there has got to be a most serious offense, and I hope he's arrested, tried, and also sued for inciting against children. The prosecutor should sue his pants off.
France's government is considering raising the tax on fatty foods. That's probably a good idea, if it helps to discourage people from eating too much to get overweight.
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