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But Not Really</title><description>&lt;st1:state style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" st="on"&gt;BAVARIA&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" st="on"&gt;Germany&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; – Over the recent years, many academics and journalists raised concerns over how Muslim minorities will &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467792048&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"&gt;affect the cultural integrity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" st="on"&gt;Europe&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;. Many books and articles have been written arguing that the increase in Europe’s indigenous Muslim population, fuelled by conversion and immigration, would ultimately lead to Islamicization resulting in “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://kenlydell.typepad.com/photos/cartoons/eurabia.jpg"&gt;Eurabia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;”, “Euro-shari’ah”, “Londonistan,” or, my favorite, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1630000/images/_1630515_dumbledore.jpg"&gt;“The Axis of Evil Men that are oblivious to the Biryani embedded in their Beards.”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;For the first time in history, Europeans have redirected their racial hatred from &lt;a href="http://www.tshirtrebel.com/uploads/American%20Idiot.jpg"&gt;all things American&lt;/a&gt; to all things Muslim who are supposedly responsible for &lt;a href="http://www.hupi.ch/FunStuff/Schwachsinn/IndianTrain2.jpg"&gt;overpopulation&lt;/a&gt;, stealing jobs, increasing crime, and, more suspiciously, leaving mysterious flower pots at restrooms all across their respective countries.&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;No single issue has been more contentious then the donning of the hijab by Muslim women. The controversy began in the late 1980s when &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;France&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; decided to ban the hijab in public schools. The issue flared up again last October when &lt;a href="http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html"&gt;Jack Straw&lt;/a&gt;, a leading official within Tony Blair’s government, called upon Muslim women to abandon &lt;a href="http://www.explosm.net/merch/images/ch_xtremists.jpg"&gt;extremism&lt;/a&gt; and “integrate” into British society by taking off their veils.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_khkrzuvEIOo/RbndJCrQW7I/AAAAAAAAAAM/MhTK2n2xolk/s1600-h/the_soup_nazi.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 343px; height: 285px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_khkrzuvEIOo/RbndJCrQW7I/AAAAAAAAAAM/MhTK2n2xolk/s400/the_soup_nazi.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024290006715358130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Germany&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; joined in on the fray last week when the highest appellate court in &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Bavaria&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt; ruled that it was not unconstitutional for German states to ban religious symbols in public schools. Therefore, the court held, it was &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070116/ap_on_re_eu/germany_head_scarf_ban"&gt;unlawful for Muslim women to wear headscarves&lt;/a&gt; while teaching in public schools, although the laws created exemptions for robes worn by Catholic nuns and skull caps worn by Orthodox Jews because they were “Occidental.” &lt;a href="http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/amc0241l.jpg"&gt;Judge Huber&lt;/a&gt; began his ruling by shouting “&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;West Side&lt;/st1:place&gt;” and making a gang symbol with his fingers before arguing that legislators could ban the hijab in order to promote gender equality and integration. He said “There’s no discrimination in these laws! The Muslims are &lt;a href="http://www.fmft.net/archives/klansman%201/pic02995.jpg"&gt;separate, but still equa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fmft.net/archives/klansman%201/pic02995.jpg"&gt;l!&lt;/a&gt; There’s nothing more German than to single people out for discrimination by the law. What better way to incorporate Muslims into German society than by segregating them and making them dress differently from people of other faiths? Maybe we can make them wear special symbols such as &lt;a href="http://www.humboldt.edu/%7Erescuers/book/damski/johnpix/armband.gif"&gt;armbands&lt;/a&gt; stating whether they’re integrated or not. That’s a great idea! I’m surprised no German has thought of this before!” He paused for a moment to ask himself “Or have they?” as he stroked his toothbrush mustache.&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;The judge’s sentiments were approved by many Germans such as Christoph Kannengiesser, the Deputy Secretary General of Konrad Adenauer Foundation, who said that "We must not allow Muslim women to separate themselves from German society. We have to work harder to &lt;a href="http://www.odisea.ucv.cl/download/recopilacion%20imagenes/Historia%20Universal/Primera%20y%20Segunda%20Guerra%20Mundial/Tropas%20Nazis.jpg"&gt;integrate them&lt;/a&gt; and the women also have to be willing to integrate.” Mr. Kannengiesser proceeded to explain his brilliant program for integrating Muslims. “This is a big problem that must be addressed immediately. The best solution for this integration debacle is to create special integration camps. This shouldn’t be too hard; we’re Germans. We have plenty of experience building &lt;a href="http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/hol-pix/ike1.jpg"&gt;‘special integration camps.’&lt;/a&gt; Haha. That’s an inside joke. Okay, not really, but still. Anyhow, I’ve developed a special test for determining if Muslims are integrated or not. First, we can tie stones around them and throw them into a body of water such as a river. If they float to the top, then they’re not integrated and we’ll burn them at stake. If they sink and drown, that means they’re integrated. It’s a great idea! It worked on integrating witches into European culture, didn’t it?” &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Muslim women have not given up the fight to wear the veil. They have proposed a &lt;a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/images/kkk-robe-l.jpg"&gt;new design for a veil&lt;/a&gt; that may be more “in line” with the Occidental values espoused by the court.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36836420-591165783205083120?l=moxnewsflash.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/moxnewsflash/~3/dslUPcp_kCI/german-court-upholds-ban-on-religious.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Abu Turab)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_khkrzuvEIOo/RbndJCrQW7I/AAAAAAAAAAM/MhTK2n2xolk/s72-c/the_soup_nazi.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2007/01/german-court-upholds-ban-on-religious.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36836420.post-116823707709137623</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-01-07T22:17:57.110-08:00</atom:updated><title>Saddam Execution: Parody of Justice</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/gfo/lowres/gfon54l.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/gfo/lowres/gfon54l.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;Those of you who have frequented this website in the past know exactly what Mox News is about. It’s a website that uses satire to mock the main stream media establishment while informing Muslims of issues that concern them. Normally, we use a literary device called a “parody” when making fun of the news. This past week, &lt;a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1168156388201190.xml&amp;coll=6"&gt;Saddam Hussein was executed in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Iraq&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; Fortunately for us (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it) &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;there is no need to make a parody of this event because the event itself was a parody. The parody in the execution of Saddam Hussein is not one of humor, but of justice. Saddam Hussein was a tyrant and a despicable man. He killed his own countrymen and engaged in war crimes against others using heinous weapons, some of which were provided by the &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;US&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; government when it was supporting him to contain the Iranian Revolution. As terrible of a dictator and a human being as Saddam was, however, he deserved a fair trial. The manner in which his trial was conducted was not all that different being lynched from a lamppost on the streets of &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Baghdad&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, like some of his countrymen are being hung today. Street justice is not justice at all. It is a parody of justice. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;This farce of a trial began when it was decided that the location of the trial itself which was in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Iraq&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; instead of the &lt;a href="http://www.icc-cpi.int/about.html"&gt;International Criminal Court&lt;/a&gt;. This tribunal was established in 2002 in order to prosecute individuals charged with genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crimes of aggression. Unsurprisingly, the U.S. has avoided submitting itself to the jurisdiction of the ICC and has gone so far as to have &lt;a href="http://www.iccnow.org/documents/CICCFS_BIAstatusCurrent.pdf"&gt;made treaties with a variety of&lt;/a&gt; countries that prohibit the surrender of American nationals, current or former government officials, military personnel, and employees. Countries that refused to sign such agreements have had their aid cut. The main reason why the &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;U.S.&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; has expressed such opposition to the ICC is most likely because it doesn’t want to be charged with violating these crimes. With regards to Saddam Hussein, perhaps the reason why the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;U.S.&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; didn’t want him tried in the ICC was because the ICC doesn’t utilize the death penalty. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Although the court is often described as a court of “last resort” and normally defers to national judicial systems, &lt;a name="Israel"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;there is something very suspicious about the decision not to have the trial in the ICC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Firstly&lt;/span&gt;, the decision to try Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi Special Tribunal and not the ICC was not a decision of a democratically elected indigenous Iraqi leadership, but a decision that was made by the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_Provisional_Authority"&gt;Coalition Provisional Authority&lt;/a&gt;, which was created, funded, and sustained by the U.S. Department of Defense and had its authority enforced by the military, not the Iraqi police or its military. The CPA still occupies many of Saddam’s palaces as offices, even though power has been supposedly “transitioned” back to the Iraqi people. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The second point &lt;/span&gt;to take note of regarding this "trial" was the crimes that Saddam was charged with. He was charged with committing crimes against humanity for his ruthless oppression of the inhabitants of Dujail after a failed assassination attempt by Shi’as in 1982.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;What is suspicious is not necessarily what he was charged with, but he was not charged with. In his tenure as dictator, he was responsible for countless tortures, assassinations, use of chemical weapons against civilians, and many other heinous crimes dating up to the invasion  in Gulf War II. Yet, this laundry list of crimes was completely ignored and the focus was solely on the actions that occurred in 1982. Why weren’t all of the charges brought against him? &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Perhaps the &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;US&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; was concerned about evidence being exposed that showed that it was complicit in some of Saddam’s acts. The American relationship with &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Iraq&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; began in early 1980’s when President Reagan removed &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Iraq&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; from the list of known terror states. Desperate to lock in the Islamic Revolution of Iran, the US began sending &lt;a href="http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/arming_iraq.php"&gt;massive financial and military aid&lt;/a&gt; to Iraq: in 1982, Iraq was given 60 defender helicopters, the Defense Intelligence Agency began providing the Iraqis detailed information on Iranian deployments, tactical battles, plans for air strikes and bomb damage assessments; in 1983, the CIA began funneling $5 billion in unreported loans to Iraq; they were given computer controlled machines tools, computers, scientific instruments, special alloy steel and aluminum, chemicals, and other materials that would be used to develop Iraq’s missile, chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons programs; the US also began sending Howitzers, Huey helicopters, and bombs to Iraq in violation of the Arms Export Control Act. In spite of known intelligence that Iraq was using chemical weapons against both Iranian military and civilians, an American civilian named Donald Rumsfield met with Saddam Hussein and assured him of US friendship and materials support on December 20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;, 1983. A year after this meeting, the CIA began sharing information with Iraqi intelligence on how to calibrate mustard gas attacks on Iranian troops. In 1986, when the United Nations Security Council passed resolutions condemning &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Iraq&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;’s use of chemical weapons, the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;US&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; blocked this resolution. Around the same time, the US Department of Commerce licensed 70 biological exports to &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Iraq&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, at least 21 of which were lethal strains of anthrax. These very chemicals were used against Saddam’s own citizens in subsequent years such as in 1988 when Saddam killed thousands of Kurdish civilians. Later that year, the US Department of Commerce approved shipments to &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Iraq&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; that were used in manufacturing mustard gas. 1988 was also a good year for Dow chemicals, which sold $1.5 million in pesticides to &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Iraq&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, even though they knew that such “pesticides” were going to be used to eliminate human beings, not insects and other vermin. During this entire period, not a single official in the American government raised any concerns or objections to the legality of these actions. They ignored them entirely because the &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;U.S.&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; was focused solely on defeating &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Iran&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and not dispensing justice. It turned a blind eye to the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein and remained silent about it until it was against the “national interest” to support Saddam. Suddenly, some of these skeletons were brought out of the closet when Saddam was charged with these war crimes. Unfortunately, many other skeletons, both figuratively and literally speaking, will remain hidden because they can indubitably traced to the American government through financial or military support. [For more information, &lt;a href="http://jinnzaman.blogspot.com/2007/01/war-of-errorism-part-i.html"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The third point&lt;/span&gt; to take note of regarding this “trial” was the day that the verdict was announced: November 5&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;, 2006. Two weeks before the &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;U.S.&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; mid-term elections. This fact did not go unnoticed by Saddam’s defense attorneys, who &lt;a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10409222"&gt;urged the court to delay&lt;/a&gt; the announcing of the verdict. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fourthly&lt;/span&gt;, according to the former judge who presided Saddam’s trial, Rizkar Mohammad Amin, stated that the decision to perform the execution on Eidh ul Adha was in &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070101/wl_mideast_afp/iraqjusticesaddam_070101144532"&gt;violation of Iraqi law.&lt;/a&gt; He said &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“The implementation of Saddam's execution during Eid al-adha is illegal according to chapter 9 of the tribunal law. Article 27 states that nobody, even the president (Jalal Talabani), may change rulings by the tribunal and the implementation of the sentence should not happen until 30 days after publication that the appeals court has upheld the tribunal verdict. The hanging during the Eid al-Adha period (also) contradicts Iraqi and Islamic custom. ‘Article 290 of the criminal code of 1971 (which was largely used in the Saddam trial) states that no verdict should implemented during the official holidays or religious festivals,’ he said.”&lt;/span&gt; [&lt;a href="http://www.juancole.com/"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;] Even though such a ruling was in violation of the law, a fatwa was given by Shi’a ‘Ulema approving of the hanging. Why is that not surprising?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;From this point onwards, everyone knows the story because they’ve &lt;a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/362748/saddam_hussein_execution_amateur_footage/"&gt;seen the video.&lt;/a&gt; Witness how this man was taunted by his executioners, witness how they cut him off while reciting the Shahadah. The fact that such a video was take in the first place shows that protocol at the highest levels of the Iraqi government was violated, illustrating exactly how deep sectarian affiliations have penetrated the government. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Saddam Hussein was not the sole person to be lynched that day, justice itself was lynched. His execution will not bring solace to his victims nor to &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Iraq&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; as a whole. The manner in which his execution was handled will inflame sectarian violence to greater levels than they already are at. After the execution, Sunnis aggrieved by his execution &lt;a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Sunnis-angry-over-Saddam-hanging/2007/01/02/1167500093669.html"&gt;barged into the Shi’a Samarra mosque&lt;/a&gt; and staged a fake janazah. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Of course, from the beginning, this "trial" was not about justice, it was about vengeance, it was about dealing with a rogue agent, it was about eliminating challenges to American hegemony. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;There is nothing more glaringly morally bankrupt than hosting an execution for crimes against humanity that is carried out by a government which has been deeply infiltrated by death squads.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;The &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;United States&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; government will deny responsibility for this debacle, just like it refused to accept responsibility for the terrible deeds done at Abu Ghraib or &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Guantanamo&lt;/st1:placename&gt; &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Bay&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. These sorts of activities reveal a very ugly pattern of behavior that is downright psychotic. Who will be held accountable for these crimes?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;u&gt;Our suggestion:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/20/2007/2329"&gt;Impeach President Bush&lt;/a&gt; and his entire administration and ship them over to the International Criminal Court so that they can be tried for &lt;a href="http://www.iacenter.org/Iraq/hussein-execution01052007.htm"&gt;crimes against humanity&lt;/a&gt;, like Saddam should’ve been tried. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms" style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;" align="center"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;"O ye who believe! Stand out firmly for Allah, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to Piety: and fear Allah. For Allah is well-acquainted with all that ye do."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;" align="center"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Surat&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; Al-Maidah 5:8]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36836420-116823707709137623?l=moxnewsflash.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/moxnewsflash/~3/sXobwHZ8HEo/saddam-execution-parody-of-justice.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Abu Turab)</author><thr:total>16</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2007/01/saddam-execution-parody-of-justice.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36836420.post-116727820910452253</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 03:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-12-27T20:25:54.853-08:00</atom:updated><title>Mox News needs you!</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Who Should Be The Eidh Mascot?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every religion has its fair share of symbols and personas. Christmas has Santa Clause, Hannukah is represented by a menorah, Easter has the Easter Bunny, and so on and so forth. If Eidh, the Muslim holiday, had a mascot, who would it be?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We've come up with three potential candidates for this position. Based on YOUR votes, we're going to pick an official Eidh mascot. The winner for this poll will be announced on &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monday January 1st. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Send this post to your friends and family so they can vote too by sending them our &lt;a href="http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2006/12/mox-news-needs-you.html"&gt;permalink&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The mascot that receives the most votes will be featured in the upcoming film "Gandaghee 2."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p45/moxnews/dm3hugcopy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 680px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 429px" height="335" alt="" src="http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p45/moxnews/dm3hugcopy.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;form action="http://poll.pollhost.com/vote.cgi" method="post"&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="150" border="0"  style="color:#008888;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Who should be this years Eidh Mascot?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="5"&gt;&lt;input type="radio" value="1" name="answer"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;"&gt;A. Money Man&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="5"&gt;&lt;input type="radio" value="2" name="answer"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;"&gt;B. Three Hugs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="5"&gt;&lt;input type="radio" value="3" name="answer"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;"&gt;C. Uncle Clause&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="5"&gt;&lt;input type="radio" value="4" name="answer"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;"&gt;D. Other (offer your suggestion in the article comment box)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;input style="WIDTH: 143px; HEIGHT: 4px" type="hidden" size="18" value="ZmJ6YW1hbjAwNwkxMTY3Mjc3ODQzCTAwODg4OAkwMDAwMDAJQXJpYWwJQXNzb3J0ZWQ" name="config"&gt; &lt;center&gt;&lt;input type="submit" value="Vote"&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="View" name="view"&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="right" colspan="2"  style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cast your vote for the Mox News Eidh Mascot 2006! Use your vote wisely as there can be only one!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Ali&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36836420-116727820910452253?l=moxnewsflash.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/moxnewsflash/~3/oqlg6TQIZq8/mox-news-needs-you.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nixon)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2006/12/mox-news-needs-you.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36836420.post-116694669300149436</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-12-23T23:51:33.013-08:00</atom:updated><title>Seasons Greetings</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Dear Mox News Readers,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;"&gt;Seasons greetings and happy holidays.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Santa Clause&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Guantanamo Bay, Cuba&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;PS: Don't carry suspicious packages when travelling or you'll end up like me. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5733/162/1600/274590/santaMox.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5733/162/400/914714/santaMox.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36836420-116694669300149436?l=moxnewsflash.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/moxnewsflash/~3/2kRSsdYiyv4/seasons-greetings.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Abu Turab)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2006/12/seasons-greetings.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36836420.post-116648304134243538</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-12-19T05:17:42.313-08:00</atom:updated><title>Conference on Denial of “Holocaust Denial Conference”</title><description>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5733/162/1600/90240/wiran12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5733/162/320/246453/wiran12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CHISINAU, Moldova&lt;/span&gt; – &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;White supremacists, anti-Zionist orthodox Jews, and ha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;rdlin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;er&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; Iranians were angered by an announcement earlier today by the Prime Minister of Moldova that his country will be hosting a conference inquiring whether the Holocaust Denial Conference hosted in Iran last week ever happened. Mr. Vasile Tarley, the head of state of the obscure eastern European country located next to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" st="on"&gt;Ukraine&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;, hailed the conference as a landmark event in history that will culminate in the dissolution of Denial Conferences in the fashion of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" st="on"&gt;Soviet  Union&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;“I am quite aware of the amount of controversy that thi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;s will generate in certain intellectual circles, but there is no conclusive evidence that this so-called ‘Holocaust Denial Conference’ ever occurred. Once we’ve exposed this glaring historical farces, Denial Conferences will finally come to an end! . . . Unless of course, we choose to host some more of our own Denial Conferences on Denial Conferences. That’s okay though, because it’s not really a Denial Conference . . . it’s a double-negative you see . . .  it makes perfect sense if you look at this &lt;a href="http://4815162342.canalblog.com/images/winterfist_flowchart.jpg"&gt;flow chart&lt;/a&gt;,”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;  he stammered. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;A clearly agitated reporter from &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Iran&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; hammered the Prime Minister with questions. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“What do you mean there was no conference? I was there! I wrote articles that were published in at least twelve different newspapers!”&lt;/span&gt; he blurted out incredulously.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Mr. Tarley dismissed these claims and many others immediately, scoffing &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“These are all fabrications. This conference was nothing but a hoax. Those articles were nothing but a hoax. In fact, YOU’RE nothing but a hoax!” He proceeded to close his eyes, cross his arms across his chest, and began chanting “You’re not really here. You’re not really here. &lt;a href="http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/4106/bunny0te.jpg"&gt;Na-na-na-boo-boo.&lt;/a&gt; I don’t see you.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;The adamant reporter refused to give up and held up pictures that showed him at the conference along with Iranian President Ahmedinajad. He said &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“Look at these! I was totally there! I got freaking wasted there!”&lt;/span&gt; The &lt;a href="http://www.fatsquad.com/sammy/drunk%20again.JPG"&gt;picture&lt;/a&gt; showed a young man passed out on the floor with the words “I'm extremely gay" written across his forehead along with a mustache and goatee drawn in permanent black marker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"&gt;The Prime Minister persisted in his state of denial &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“Those pictures look fake, they’re probably photoshopped. That’s not even Ahmedinajad. That could be anybody. If you fold the picture in half, then flip it upside down, the image gets subverted into the &lt;a href="http://www.shopweb.net/images/twin20s.jpg"&gt;twin towers burning&lt;/a&gt;. There was never an “Ahmedinajad” nor was their ever a conference! Free your mind. There is no spoon!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;In addition to well-known Israelis and Americans who desire tough sanctions against &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Iran&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; for its nuclear weapons development program, the conference is expected to attract an awkward crowd of misfits such as Iranians who denied that the conference occurred even though they personally attended it. The conference will also be attended by 15&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; century Spanish conquistadors who will go so far as to declare that &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Iran&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; itself does not exist. Their leader, a man named &lt;a href="http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/homeSecurity1492_med.jpg"&gt;Christopher Columbus&lt;/a&gt; was earlier reported to have created a group on the popular networking website Facebook called “We’ve Discovered The New World!” which contained the following statement: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“For many a year, our sturdy ships were checked across the seas by the dastardly Turks and were denied our Christian right to India’s spice routes. By the mercy of the Lord, after months of sailing on unknown rough waters, we came across this fair land and intend to colonize it for our Noble King and his Fair Queen. For glory, God, and gold, I say.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/D/J/bush_meninblack.jpg"&gt;Colin Powell&lt;/a&gt; will be attending the second day of the conference, but his concern is not whether the Holocaust Denial Conference occurred, but merely to reiterate his earlier opinion that Saddam Hussein still has weapons of mass destruction. In a special phone interview with Mox News Flash, he told us &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“I stand by my presentation at the United Nations several years ago. Even though these so-called weapons experts claim that there are no weapons of mass destruction, we know they’re there. I have an insider source who told me it was &lt;a href="http://members.aol.com/tarrytown8/colpro.jpg"&gt;Colonel Mustard&lt;/a&gt;, in the Kitchen, with a WMD. All we need to do is locate this Colonel Mustard character and find his kitchen, and we’re guaranteed to find these missing WMD’s.”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;We tried contacting &lt;a href="http://www.sasan.tv/images/AB_ahamdinejad_OIL.jpg"&gt;Mr. Ahmedinijad&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Iran&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, but we were told he was too busy working on a &lt;a href="http://www.2elevate.com/sweden/dinner_karen_201201/images/06.%20The%20more%20I%20think%20the%20more%20confused%20I%20get.jpg"&gt;counter-denial conference&lt;/a&gt; of the Denial Conference on &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Iran&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;’s Holocaust Denial Conference.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36836420-116648304134243538?l=moxnewsflash.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/moxnewsflash/~3/TnRTFhY_vro/conference-on-denial-of-holocaust.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Abu Turab)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2006/12/conference-on-denial-of-holocaust.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36836420.post-116619297880336383</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-12-17T17:11:35.240-08:00</atom:updated><title>Somalian Islamists Reject al-Qaeda Link</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5733/162/1600/901257/somalia_sm05.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5733/162/400/285615/somalia_sm05.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Mogadishu, SOMALIA - Somalia's most powerful Islamist group, the UIC (Union of Islamic Courts) today dismissed US claims of links to al-Qaeda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;At a press conference earlier this week &lt;a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/image_big_teaser/international/photosvideos/photos/george-bush-leads-the-us-towar.jpg"&gt;President Bush&lt;/a&gt; delivered his verdict on the situation, by saying &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"We will protect the American people from those who wish to harm us. The Bin Ladens, the Saddam Husseins, the Zarqawis, and these... these... who is it this time, Condy? Oh yeah, them Africans. Wait, I thought we dealt with them during the &lt;a href="http://www.busoknoz.com/images/bush-katrina.jpg"&gt;whole Katrina thing&lt;/a&gt;... *pauses* Well, whoever they are, we're gonna smoke 'em out of their holes, bomb their evil land with shock and... what'd Rummy used to say... anyway, we'll do that, and then give them freedom and democracy. The U.S. people are safe in my hands. Yee-haw!" *&lt;a href="http://www.wolfblog.net/images/bush_cowboy.jpg"&gt;shoots gun&lt;/a&gt; in air*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ac/Pennywiseclown.JPG/250px-Pennywiseclown.JPG"&gt;US Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ac/Pennywiseclown.JPG/250px-Pennywiseclown.JPG"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;expanded on the White House's well-structured and eloquent comments, and claimed the country had been hijacked by radical elements, and cited various examples of Islamic brutality: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Well, there's clearly a problem there. People are not living in freedom and democracy. For instance, there's the whole issue of being beheaded after 3 days for not praying, people are regularly beaten if they dare to leave the mosque without permission from the evil regime; women are brutalised for attending schools; and children are being put in enforced labor camps at an age when most kids in the West are attending kindergarten."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;A spokesman from the UIC chairman's office, Abu Abu Abu Tiktik, responded to the claims: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"We are totally baffled by these &lt;a href="http://www.defensetech.org/images/straight%20jacket.jpg"&gt;crazy talks.&lt;/a&gt; We are bringing peace and security after many many years of bloodshed and violence, and the Bush regime is trying to derail this. I will tell you, we do not behead people for not praying. Yes we have the death penalty for certain crimes in our country, like murder and rape, but so does America. You have the &lt;a href="http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005850361"&gt;injection of lethality&lt;/a&gt;. We are a new government, we are a poor country, we cannot afford this injections of lethality. We have to use other methods available to us."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;When asked to comment on people being beaten for leaving the mosque early, Abu Abu Abu Tiktik chuckled and said: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Oh that. Lol. Oh that was just Baba Abba. It's a funny story really. He broke his wudhu (state of ritual purity) when he kneeled down and broke wind. He rushed out of the prayer hall to wash, but in his haste he tripped over the guy prostating behind him, and knocked heads with another guy, so he developed a nose bleed. He rushed out trying to stop the blood dripping onto the prayer hall floor, but he wasn't paying attention and he ran straight into a nearby tree with low hanging branches. It knocked him out cold. It was like... what you call it... &lt;a href="http://www.variety.com/graphics/photos/variety100/laurel_hardy.jpg"&gt;the Laurels and Hardys show.&lt;/a&gt; you should have been there."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;According to the spokeman, just at that moment, a CNN news crew was passing by, and seeing the injured man lying on the floor in the front of the mosque, reported that he'd been beaten for leaving the mosque early.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;As for the women being restricted from attending schools: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Oh, yes, there were some women, and those women&lt;/span&gt; were&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; reprimanded for attending school. We assessed their academic skills, and we told them they needed to go to university, because they had the ability, and because places were needed for the new intake of 6-8 year olds. But some of them didn't understand, and one of them got quite upset because she had been the school milk monitor for a couple of years, and was very attached to that, so we had to usher them out."&lt;/span&gt; Coincidentally a &lt;a href="http://elsmar.com/pdf_files/various%20picture%20files/Sheeple%20Watch%20Fox%20News.jpg"&gt;Fox News team&lt;/a&gt; who were embedded in the UN Milk Float which was delivering milk to the school at the time, saw the humdrum and reported it as women being prohibited from access to education. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Oh, no, no nothing like that,"&lt;/span&gt; insisted Abu Abu Abu Tiktik. "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Go to the univerisity if you don't believe. The former milk monitor is now the sheesha monitor at the university."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The State Department claimed that children of pre-school age were put into enforced labor camps. What did the UIC have to say about that? &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Yes. Yes, this is true. Very young children are put into labor camps. And we are very troubled by this. However, the reality is that these children have been taken as part of the World Bank's program to utilise the children's small fingers in producing miniature buttons on designer fashion label clothes. They are there under U.N. custody. Unfortunately at this time. We have no control over that."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;This was put to a White House spokesperson, who said: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Ah. Oh right. Yeah, about that... but you see... those &lt;a href="http://www.dayafterindia.com/january204/images/child_terrorist.gif"&gt;children are extremists&lt;/a&gt;, and actually have links to al-Qaeda, and sure, they might be working 14 hours a day on sewing buttons onto designer jackets, but we've found this is a valid interrogation technique in line with the Geneva Convention. We're protecting the American people from these children."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The so-called national government lead by the &lt;a href="http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=831732006"&gt;CIA-fundeded&lt;/a&gt; "Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism ("ARPCT") complains that the UIC was supporting terrorism by providing stability to the country through such activities as: re-opening &lt;a href="http://www.somalinet.com/news/world/English/3290"&gt;Mogadishu Airport&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5279414.stm"&gt;Seaport&lt;/a&gt; after being close for almost a decade, &lt;a href="http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=55122&amp;SelectRegion=Horn_of_Africa&amp;amp;SelectCountry=SOMALIA"&gt;fighting pirates&lt;/a&gt; that were preventing food aid from coming into the country, opposing the destruction of the environment, and &lt;a href="http://somalinet.com/news/world/Somalia/4123"&gt;banning the use&lt;/a&gt; of narcotic substances. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Making Somalia safe goes against its long history of instability. Their actions are so out of the ordinary, that they MUST be terrorism." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36836420-116619297880336383?l=moxnewsflash.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/moxnewsflash/~3/0VfcD6SLsgY/somalian-islamists-reject-al-qaeda.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jamroll)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2006/12/somalian-islamists-reject-al-qaeda.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36836420.post-116502103517706146</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-12-04T15:16:34.926-08:00</atom:updated><title>Shaikhs On a Plane!</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5733/162/1600/370426/sheikhs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5733/162/400/273411/sheikhs.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;st1:place style="font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;" st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;MINNEAPOLIS&lt;/st1:city&gt;,  &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;Minnesota&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;- US Airways was pleased to announce that six Muslim Imams have won a secret lottery prize today. Joe Goebbels, spokesman for the airlines, read an official statement from the company where he announced that six, count them six, Muslim imams were lucky enough to win a secret racial raffle. The statement declared that the Imams had not been pulled off the flight because they were flying while Muslim, but because each one of them had won a secret and completely random raffle game and it was out of sheer coincidence that all of the winners of this “special lottery” were Muslim. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Mr. Goebbels said &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;“I was really excited when we found out that all six winners of our secret raffle were Muslim. Muslims are often racially profiled at airports by bigoted scumbags who can’t tell the difference between terrorists and m&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;oderates. This prize will do a great job at telling the world that US Airways does not condone racism and bigotry in any way, shape, or form. Seriously though, those people who engage in racial profiling of Muslims based on nothing but physical appearances and misinterpreting practices such as prayers are complete morons. We strongly feel that only idiots with brains the size of peas would do such a thing.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; Mr. Goebbels passionately began criticizing those that engage in such practices&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; “Damn, what kind of lamoid tools could possibly even think of engaging in such blatant stereotyping? I can’t fathom how such people could be so narrow-minded and stupid to make such generalized conclusions abo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;ut the adherents to a faith that has over 1,600,000,000 devotees, that’s one in six people on the face of the earth folks! In fact, perhaps the reason why all of the winners of our secret raffle were Muslim is because there are so many friggen Muslims in the world! It just boggles the mind how people could take the actions of a few thousand terrorists and apply them to over 1,600,000,000 Muslims! That’s less than 1% for crying out loud!!! Man, am I glad that our company isn’t retarded like that and would NEVER EVER even CONTEMPLATE engaging in such gross violations of human rights for a people that make up a huge portion of the human race and have made contributions in every single field of knowledge, including, but not limited to astronomy, mathematics, physics, philosophy, naviga&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;tion, literature, sociology, and economics. Man, that stuff pisses me off.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Visibly shaken for his sympathies of a minority that has been targeted and abused, Mr. Goebels paused for a moment to contain his emotions before continuing. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;“I can’t believe some people misinterpreted our actions as being based on race and religion.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; He rolled his eyes as he continued &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;“Only a completely competent and drug-free mind would come up with such a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; dumb conclusion.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;The winners of this purported “secret special raffle” were lucky enough to be the first picks for a “secret special draft”. The Imams were not going to be drafted as players for a famous &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;Minnesota&lt;/st1:state&gt; basketball team, but drafted as members of forced conscription thanks to a bill recently introduced into Congress by Senator Rangel from &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;New York&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;. The six imams were pulled off of US Airways Flight 300 and won an all expense paid trip to fight in the front lines of wars that will be fought all over the world by the newly formed “We’re Not Being Imperialist, We Really Care About You And Your Pet Turtles” Peace Corps. The imams received stunningly gorgeous orange jumper suits designed by Armani with matching designer head hoods that were specially made by Tommy Hilfiger.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p45/moxnews/6imamcopy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p45/moxnews/6imamcopy.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Incredulous reporters had a hard time swallowing US Airway’s claim that they did not engage in racial profiling and queried whether the decision to take the imams off the flight had anything to do with a note that was written by a paranoid passenger. The passenger purportedly stood up after watching the Imams praying and shouted &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“I am sick and tired of these mother****ing Sheikhs on this mother****ing plane”&lt;/span&gt; and stormed to the front of the plane and handed a note to an air hostess. The note from a passenger read: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“2-6 suspicious Arabic men on place. All were together, saying ‘. . . Allah . . . Allah . . .’ cursing &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place style="font-style: italic;" st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;U.S.&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;involvement w/Saddam before flight. P.S. would you like to go on a date with me?”&lt;/span&gt; The air hostess responded by ejecting the passenger from the plane and into the nearby ocean, where he was promptly torn apart by man-eating sharks all the while yelling &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“They ate me! The ****ing sharks ate me!”&lt;/span&gt; Allegedly, the air hostess proceeded to inform the captain of the note who directed the men to be kept off the plane. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;The spokesman for US Airways guffawed &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“Oh that little note! Well, we can’t deny that they were Arabics. These guys were clearly made up of 28 letters that perfectly represented guttural sounds and occasionally needed a fathah, kasrah, and dhamma for clarification . . . of course they were Arabic! And what’s up with this all this ‘Allah Allah Allah’?” I’m not trying to be a racist bigot, but that’s un-American. If the founding fathers wanted this country to worship Allah, they would’ve written it into the Bible. We’re not engaging in stereotypes of Muslims, we hate all Muslims equally! That’s why we kicked them off the plane . . . err . . . I mean they were so lucky to have won that raffle! Ha. Ha. . . .Crap.”&lt;/span&gt; Pausing in the middle of his response, he blinked twice, ran away from the podium, dived into a plane, flew off, and was never seen again. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;The Imams themselves could not be reached for comment because their mouths were muffled by their designer head hoods.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;New Line Cinema has made a deal with US airways to document the incident in a movie entitled “Shaikhs On a Plane.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36836420-116502103517706146?l=moxnewsflash.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/moxnewsflash/~3/5zPqAxw7s5w/shaikhs-on-plane.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Abu Turab)</author><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2006/12/shaikhs-on-plane.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36836420.post-116453354109184465</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-12-01T21:44:11.603-08:00</atom:updated><title>ISNA Switches to Calculations for Matrimonial Services</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;CHICAGO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;, &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;Illinois&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; – The Islamic Society of Nothing Accomplished (IS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;NA) announced today that it would utilize its infamous “calculation method” for its matrimonial services. The “calculation method” first appeared last Ramadhan when ISNA issued a pre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;ss conference and expressed its concern about the rising trend of Muslim unity and vowed to do everything in its non-existent power to stop it. A committee was formed which consisted of various Muslim intellectuals, scholars, and scientists, all of whom had advanced degrees in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; Uncle-ology. The committee formulated a very simple step by step program for determining the “sighting” of the moon to commence &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;the beginning of the holy mo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;nth: &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Step 1: Find the Qu’ran and Sunnah&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Step 2: Completely ignore it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Step 3: Use an 8-Ball to do Istikharah&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Step 4: If the moon is actually sighted, accuse the people who sighted the moon of causing fitnah and causing fitnah is wrong because only ISNA has the exclusive right to cause fitnah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: right; font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5733/162/1600/338354/isnacalculations.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5733/162/400/620544/isnacalculations.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;The calculations which resulted from the formula created massive chaos all across North America as various communities were to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;rn apart over whether to follow the Traditional method of moon-sighting as described in the Qur’an and Sunnah or to follow ISNA. Some Muslims opted to follow &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Saudi Arabia&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, which goes against the Qur’an, Sunnah, and what the magical 8-Ball told ISNA. The ensuing fighting that erupted in Muslim communities was so shocking that Sunnis and Shi’is in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Iraq&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; had to stop from their daily slaughter of each other to issue condemnations of ISNA’s policy. Adding to the confusion is the fact that some people are still waiting for the moon to be sighted.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;After the chaos of the moon-sighting de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;bacle, ISNA went back to work planning ways to destroy &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;hatever vestige of Muslim unity remained. The committee of Uncleologists went back to work for two w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;eeks straight and decided that they had a new way of applying the moon-sighting calculation. They hypothesized that the failure of the moon sighting (-1) multiplied with the failure of its matrimonial services (-1) would equal a positive success (+1) and thus redeem ISNA from its previous flops. With the frothing excitement of a crack addict visiting &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Baltimore&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;, they proceeded to revamp their matrimonial services by abandoning the classical “sighting” method. For the purposes of marriage, the sighting method is actually two equally valid methods: local sighting and global sighting. Local sighting is based on an in individual observation of a potential rishta. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5733/162/1600/866574/aunty-color-code.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5733/162/400/392863/aunty-color-code.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Under this method, potential spouses were judged on how close they resembled an albino.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; The&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; ideal spouse would be someone who was&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; so white that they&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; were actually transparent. The global sighting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; method looks at a potential rishta based on their country of origin. Under this method, young M&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;uslims make their decision &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;to marry someone based solely on the country of origin. Of course, such a method almost always devo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;lves into inbreeding since people end up marrying their cousins. This might explain why all Punjabis look alike. Or at least why they have big noses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Or it could be because they genetically evolved large nose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;s in order to steal the white man’s air, in which case we salute them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The sighting method is not &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;without its downsides. It has&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; been dire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;ctly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;attribute&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;d &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;to an increase in blood pressure and celibacy in Muslim youth. One anonymous practitioner of the sighting method said “Matrimonial meetings with aunties suck. They look you up and down like you’re a slab of meat. I can’t be judgmental about others while aunties are judging me! It’s the most&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;painful thing I’ve ever been through."&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;o:p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The moonsighting committee had its name changed to “F-1” for some reason that we still aren’t able to deduce. The committee incorporated immigrant Muslim computer scientists and mathematicians who were sick and tired of being rejected from American Muslim women who wouldn’t marry them using the “sighting” method because they looked, and smelled (mostly smelled) like fobs. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;The calculation method is rather simple:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ol  style="margin-top: 0in;font-family:trebuchet ms;" start="1" type="1"&gt;&lt;li  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;If applicant is a doctor, Rishta score      = Infinite Points&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;If applicant works in IFSM, Rishta      score = 4,000&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;If applicant has an MBA, Rishta score =      300 (Sliding scale based on automobile brand)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;If applicant is a liberal arts major,      Rishta score = -2930&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;If applicant is a political science      major, Rishta score = Astaghfirallah! (Go to al-Fatihah, go directly to      al-Fatihah. You do not go to Masjid. You do not get Nikkah.)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;ISNA plans on implementing its marriage calculation method into a computer program entitled Microsoft Shaadi V. 1.3. Like all other Microsoft programs, it is expected to fail almost immediately, just like every other attempt by ISNA to do something productive.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;In conclusion, we advise the Muslim youth to stay away from the lobby scene and the matrimonial services that are being propagated by ISNA. In fact, we advise you to stay away from ISNA altogether. Load up on as much garlic, wooden stakes, and silver bullets as your monthly allowance can afford. In the event of an ISNA representative coming your way, immediately call the UCPD and tell them that there are Muslims in the library again. It'll be like the running of the bulls . . . except instead of bulls . . . you'll have cops  . . . with tazers . . . and the singing flesh of ISNA. Remember, only you can prevent fitnah fires.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36836420-116453354109184465?l=moxnewsflash.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/moxnewsflash/~3/oAu0e5gzLgI/isna-switches-to-calculations-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Abu Turab)</author><thr:total>9</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2006/11/isna-switches-to-calculations-for.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36836420.post-116430420238382310</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-11-23T11:53:48.096-08:00</atom:updated><title>Happy Thanksgiving!</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1652/4228/1600/201884/alijeemblackfriday%20copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1652/4228/400/691468/alijeemblackfriday%20copy.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" &gt;Happy Thanksgiving from The Mox News Flash. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: Don't die, you crazy, crazy shoppers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36836420-116430420238382310?l=moxnewsflash.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/moxnewsflash/~3/PJlLUzUOgMs/happy-thanksgiving.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nixon)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2006/11/happy-thanksgiving.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36836420.post-116413743861426780</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-11-21T11:38:00.733-08:00</atom:updated><title>Shootings, Murders, Genocide Occur as Wii Becomes Available in the U.S.</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In what has been termed the “greatest rise in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;criminal activity  since the Prohibit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;io&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.theultrageeks.com/spanish/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/wii.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 208px;" src="http://www.theultrageeks.com/spanish/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/wii.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;n”, Americans woke up&lt;br /&gt;yesterday to a bloodbath all across the country following the release of Nintendo’s new gaming system, the Wii. This year, fanatical gamers came to department stores a few days early and set up camp. In their little makeshift tents, they stocked up on potato chips and red bull and spent their time worshipping robotic deities, begging them to expedite the coming of the game system that would save humanity by turning it into a bunch of mindless zombies. All was quiet on the Eastern front . . . until the games we&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;re released. That’s when all hell broke loose. Various gangs fell upon the seemingly unsuspecting gamers to steal their lunch money, give them wedgies, and snatch Wii’s wherever they could be found. Not all gamers submitted to such humiliation and, instead, put up a stiff resistance. One gamer went berserk and began knifing everyone around him within a 1 mile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; radius in the city of brotherly love, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Philadelphia&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;. Sinc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;e he ended up killing a good deal of the population off, the homicide rate actually went down for change.&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Even the watchful eye of the Best Buy mercenary team known as the “Geek Squad”, which was armed to the teeth with donuts, snazzy VW Beetles, and iPods, wasn't enough to prevent many people from being robbed by seedy toddlers and 30-year old unemployed fat men. Nintendo spokesman, Mary E. O lamented at these activities saying &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;“If paramilitary nerd troupes are not enough to prevent these types of activities, we’ll have no choice but to call in a more intimidating military force. I’m thinking . . . UCPD . . . armed with Wii wand tazers.”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Apparently, no one informed her that UCPD was already on the scene of many of the robberies . . . tazering people and stealing their Wiis then asking them to stand up and when they couldn’t because they were dead, they tazered them again.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;The situation appalled the international community to such an extent that the United Nations set up refugee camps at Best Buys and &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Circuit&lt;/st1:placename&gt; &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;City&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;’s. Kofi Annan could not be reached for comment because he was too busy wildly gyrating his hands which were firmly clasped to two Wii wands in an effort to beat Hans Blitz’s highest score in a game developed by O.J. Simpson entitled “If I Did It” which is a game where players can assume various murderers in history who supposedly didn’t murder people, but if they did, they would’ve done it by stabbing them to death, hiding the bodies, fleeing from the police in a white Ford Bronco, confessing to the murder, and having their “dream team” of lawyers find loopholes in the justice system to get them out scot-free. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Perhaps the biggest let down of the entire slaughter was the Wii system itself. Gamers learned the hard way that Wii nunchucks weren’t effective against real nunchucks and real fists. They soon discovered that the wands only worked against bullets if they got the memory packs which won’t be released until 2012, when Nintendo finishes building its newest gaming system powered by nuclear energy.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;In &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Palestine&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;, protestors formed huge chains of human shields to protect their radical Islamist gamers from having their Wii systems stolen by Israeli helicopters. Those news stations that mistakenly reported the Israeli incursion as a legitimate attack against suspected terrorists apologized for their error and admitted that they were all working for the Zionist plot to control the world.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36836420-116413743861426780?l=moxnewsflash.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/moxnewsflash/~3/DJgjkhwit_s/shootings-murders-genocide-occur-as.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Abu Turab)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2006/11/shootings-murders-genocide-occur-as.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36836420.post-116413728047455337</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-11-22T06:14:34.110-08:00</atom:updated><title>Universe Implodes: Or Maybe That Was Just Your Head</title><description>&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;EVERYWHERE, &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;USA&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; - Many people woke up on Wednesday morning expecting some degree of normality, but would soon to discover a series of fortunate events. Socks were found matching without holes, Bill O’Reilly converted to Islam, women actually started making sense in arguments about relationships; just a few of the bizarre indicators that something strange was afoot in the cosmos. As the day progressed, a smorgasbord of unexpected events unfolded.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;First and foremost in this never-ending list of Microsoft upgrades to the Universe was the violent coup d’etat in the &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;US&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; legislature by the Democratic Party. Armed with votes that were still sizzling from the ballots and with absolutely no idea what the hell they were doing, the Democrats breached the Capitol’s perimeter on a gigantic pirate ship. They had their baseball caps turned to the sides and proudly displayed their flipped out depends and chanted &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“Guess whose back? Back again? Tell a friend.”&lt;/span&gt; But the Republicans weren’t going to go down quietly and put up a stiff resistance. In the beginning of their counter maneuver, they attacked the ideological footing of the Democrats by insisting their views would be supporting terrorists by engaging in this . . . how you say . . . “thinking process”. . . which they condemned as evil. When that failed to work, the Republicans drew out their secret weapon: Karl Rove. They fired the fattest man alive from the world’s biggest catapult and directly hit the Democrat’s pirate ship, sinking it and much of the free world, into the recesses of the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Potomac&lt;/st1:place&gt;. That wasn’t enough to stop the wave after wave of Democrats bravely putting their lives on line to fight for entry into the nation’s legislature. It was only a matter of time before the Republican army, consisting mostly of demons and girl scouts, caved in. The second they broke the Republican line, the Democrats began fighting over the booty: house and senate seats and those classy Corinthian-leather chairs. An air of sadness filled the country’s capital as the landscape revealed scores upon scores of bodies. Most of the dead apathetic young men who, when given the option by MTV to “Vote or Die”, chose the latter and performed mass ritual suicide in the streets.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;The second indicator of massive change in the universe was the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Well, technically speaking, he didn’t resign, he was fired by President Bush since he’s the one who made the announcement. Mr. Bush stated that “A bigger, faster, stronger view” was needed to solve the innumerable debacles created by the Bush administration spanning the distance between &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Morocco&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and the outer rings of Saturn. The President praised Rumsfeld for his accomplishments during his term. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“Donald, or Donald Duck as I like to call him, has done things that no other Secretary of Defense in American history has been able to accomplish. He’s brought our military into the 21&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup style="font-style: italic;"&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; century through his hyperbolic time chamber training device, he’s taught many soldiers the fusion dance which bares a resemblance to the Macarena, and he’s single handedly managed to piss off every single human being on the face of the Earth. That last one is a tremendous accomplishment because I set the bar kinda high there with my war on terror. The American people still respect him as a person and just want to be friends, but sort of wanna keep their options open and see other Secretary of Defenses, the younger, sexier kind.”&lt;/span&gt; The rest of his words were drowned in the din of munchkin protestors who sang “&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Another surprise was the election of &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;America&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;’s first Muslim congressman, Keith Ellison, who won a seat in the House of Representatives. Islamophobes responded by throwing a vicious temper tantrum until they got tired, sat down, began sucking on their thumbs and whimpering for their mommy’s. Glen Back, a card carrying member of the “I Hate Muslims Because I'm a Redneck” Party and, coincidentally, commentator on CNN, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV7tP1_0xrQ"&gt;interviewed Representative Ellison&lt;/a&gt; and asked him “&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I’m not saying you’re a terrorist, but if you were a terrorist, would you be a terrorist?” &lt;/span&gt;Representative Ellison responded that he was not a terrorist, but was cut off by Glen Back who began shouting &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“I KNEW IT! YOU’RE TOTALLY A TERRORIST! ONLY A TERRORIST WOULD SAY THAT! YOU ADMITTED IT ON NATIONAL TV! DIE! DIE! DIEEEEE!”&lt;/span&gt; Representative Ellison never lost his cool and quietly said &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“I think I’m going to support the ‘Use of Federal Funds To Go Back in Time and Abort Glen Beck’ fund.”&lt;/span&gt; We here at the Mox News Flash congratulate Representative Ellison and scream like teenyboppers every time we hear his name and hope he will sign our beards. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;In the midst of these universal revolutions, there is one thing that clearly hasn’t changed: the Redskins. They still suck. That’s the one universal constant. The universe might explode or something, but the Redskins will still be there . . . somehow . . . someway . . . still sucking . . .like they always do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36836420-116413728047455337?l=moxnewsflash.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/moxnewsflash/~3/Gckc08Yp4Wc/universe-implodes-or-maybe-that-was.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Abu Turab)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2006/11/universe-implodes-or-maybe-that-was.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36836420.post-116342258217523745</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-11-22T06:15:03.286-08:00</atom:updated><title>Rebranding Works for the Taliban</title><description>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;KABUL, Afghanistan &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;- The incumbent administration in the White House is famous for its &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.normalbobsmith.com/hatemail164_repubskickassi.jpg"&gt;catchy slogans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; especially in ultimatums to enemies. Favourites include "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;You're either with us or against us", "Unleashing shock and awe", and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/bloggraphics/Imlovinit.jpg"&gt;"Dahdah dah dah daaah, I'm lovin' it."&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; In October 2001, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.bush-whacking.com/mo%20bush%20smaller.jpg"&gt;U.S.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; gave an ultimatum to the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.gwjokes.com/pictures/tali-bush.jpg"&gt;Taliban&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; government of Afghanistan - &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Hand over OBL or face the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;" href="http://991.com/newgallery/Star-Trek-Wrath-Of-Khan---A-260465.jpg"&gt;wrath of Kahn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;".&lt;/span&gt; Initial Taliban memorandum leaked around the time indicated a certain level of confusion over the "wrath of Kahn" comment. A senior Taliban Joint Chiefs of Staff committee concluded that the "wrath of Kahn" was actually a typographical error and referred to local baker, Amatullah K&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;han of 27 Burkha Street, Kabul. It was decided by the Taliban high command, that since the only weapons Amatullah Khan owned were a tandoori oven and a kebab skewer, the threat could be neutralised, and the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.laughparty.com/items/164.jpg"&gt;U.S. ultimatum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; refused. This misunderstanding proved costly for the Taliban government, when the U.S. reduced Afghanistan to rubble with sustained &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.londonstimes.us/toons/cartoons/johann_carpetbombing.jpg"&gt;carpet bombing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;, and the government toppled.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;But now they're making a comeback with new tactics. And although news reports seem to suggest the ta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;ctics of suicide bombing and guerilla warfare, the real reason behind the Taliban's second coming seems to be... corporate rebranding.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taliban spokesman, Mohabbat Ali Khan, explained: "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;After the U.S. bombings and invasion back in 2001, we had to retreat and rethink our strategy. We realised after the "Kahn" fiasco, that there was a real need for us to concentrate on effective communication and marketing, to the wider world. There was also a few PR-costly incidents of over-zealous stewards &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;who had been beating women for watering their lawn, and banning kites and satellite TV. We undertook a thorough investigation and it emerged that they were actually &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.wildandexotic.co.uk/images/Kazakh%20eagle%20hunter.jpg"&gt;illegal Kazakh contract workers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;, not Afghans. I don't think I need to go into too much detail about Kazakhs- everyone's seen the Borat film, you reach your &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;own conclusions."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"That's why,&lt;/span&gt; " explained Mohabbat Ali Khan &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"we undertook a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.lab404.com/work/images/rebranding/2.jpg"&gt;corporate branding programme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; and hired U.S. PR firm, and it's done us a world of good."  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Gone are the trademark Suzuki pickup trucks with Cadillac E&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;scalades in their place. Also gone are the traditional Afghan shalwar kameez to be replaced by sharp designer business suits and quality Italian shoes. The black turbans remain to distinguish themselves as Taliban but they now sport corporate logos on the front. "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;We found that the turbans were big enough for advertising space, and we've had multinationals lining up to sponsor us"&lt;/span&gt; chuckled Mohabbat Ali pointing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; to the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"Just do it"&lt;/span&gt; logo plastered on his turban. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"We're also developing a clothing and footwear line, under the name "Tali-BAM!. "We're trying to reconnect with the people of Afghanistan and show them that its cool to be Taliban, and it doesn't mean ranting and barbarity, but hip, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.johnberman.com/pics/funny/nerd_youre_cool.jpg"&gt;cool,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt; and trendy".&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As well as attracting foreign investment, the rebranding project has helped their image with the local population too. Fifteen year-old teenager, Allah-Pyaara Khan, enthusiastically waits for the Taliban's new flagship sneaker being released in spring 2007: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"They new &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.20minutestolessstress.com/niceshoes.jpg"&gt;Gee-Had Ones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt; look awesome. Every&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;one wants a pair. They're not out for a couple months, but my uncle in Pakistan works at the factory where they're being produced so I might be able to get some early. My friends are going to be so jealous!"&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Local farmer, Tikka Khan, agreed that the Taliban had changed. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"To be honest, they weren't as bad as everyone made out in the first place. Sure they didn't allow &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.concealedposition.com/CornerImages/nike_burkha.jpg"&gt;my daughter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt; to go to school, and they told me my beard had to be double fist length, when normally I only have it one and a quart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;er fist length, but they did bring peace and security to the region. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;But now, they've definitely &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_apr2002/TMAT.jpg"&gt;improved&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;. They've agreed my beard can be one and a quarter length, and that's the most important thing. Oh, and my farm is now sponsored by America."&lt;/span&gt; gesturing to the Starbucks logo branded on his prize cow.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The British Armed Forces stationed in Afghanistan admit the rebranding is hampering their efforts in combatting the Taliban. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"We're trying hard to tell the Afghan people that the Taliban ar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;e barbaric, uncivilised dead-enders. But when they turn up with their smart clothes, fast cars, and their skinny mocha lattes, with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.rebellog.com/text/blog/blogfoto/burkha01.jpg"&gt;burkha babes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt; in tow, its an uphill struggle."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;And with slight irritation, General Thomas Poshbrittington of the British Army says &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"We try our best to fight the Taliban, but they keep trying to coordinate with us, and their corporate sponsor camera crews keep getting in the way. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;It's a real nuisance, when in the middle of battle, a Taliban commander comes up to you, and asks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt; to do "that take" again, because his turban wasn't on straight. I mean this is not how you &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.pritchettcartoons.com/cartoons/cave.gif"&gt;conduct a war&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;, is it?"&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mohabbat Ali Khan talks excitedly about future projects in the pipeline, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Yeah, the British Army have been really great, but we're hoping to do something with the Americans soon, a live battle, to be aired during the Superbowl ads. It's going to be a great opportunity for the Taliban to really break out onto the U.S. market. It's going to be great for the Taliban, and great for Afghanistan."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We here at the Mox News Flash condemn the Taliban and their satanic corporate sponsorship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;"  &gt;This Article Was Sponsored by:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5733/162/1600/starbuck2.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5733/162/320/starbuck2.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"  &gt;"Drink O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"  &gt;ur C&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"  &gt;offee . . . 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Mr. Gonzales praised the efforts of &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;U.S.&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; Marshals stating &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;“We haven’t done such a mass round up of human beings since the Nazis!”&lt;/span&gt; He proceeded to give them all two thumbs up. &lt;a href="http://www.cybertronical.com/allsites/starwars/main/aliens/jabba_the_hutt/jabba.jpg"&gt;Roger Ebert&lt;/a&gt;, ululated in his native tongue and gave it two blubbery appendages down. The Attorney General shot him with a tazer and said &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;“Alright folks, lets get these guys some soap and vaseline and send them on their merry way. Andale! Arriba! Arriba!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Civil rights organizations all across the country immediately began scrutinizing the list, termed "The Schindler's List", for human rights violations. John Babbit, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5733/162/1600/constitution.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 131px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5733/162/320/constitution.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; made a stunning finding. In a phone interview, he explained his discovery. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“I &lt;a href="http://www.google-sux.com/"&gt;obtained&lt;/a&gt; a copy of the list of fugitiv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;e felons from the Justice Department and began making rounds to the various prisons which were housing the arrestees when I noticed an ancient parched document being used as &lt;a href="http://www.treachery.net/%7Ejdyson/humor/stainless_steel_toilet_paper.jpg"&gt;toilet paper&lt;/a&gt;. On closer inspection, I was shocked to discover that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;this document was the Constitution!&lt;/span&gt; I immediately called up Attorney General Gonzales and demanded an explanation. He told me that President Bush was going to address this issue later tonight.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Later in the evening, the &lt;a href="http://cherryfairy.com/Images/bush.jpg"&gt;President &lt;/a&gt;indeed appeared. “&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;My fellow Americans, tonight I come before you to explain some recent actions that I as dictator-for-life, I mean Commandante-in-Chief, have taken. Recently, it has come to my attention that the Constitution contains this little clause in the 4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup style="font-style: italic;"&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup style="font-style: italic;"&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, and 6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup style="font-style: italic;"&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; amendments that have come to be termed as . . . how you say . . . 'due process'. Although this due process might seem rather innocent at a first glance, my dashing powers of perception have found out . . . that they give people certain rights! Things like . . . right against self-incriminalization, right to an attorney, right to a fair trial, and so on. What’s worse is that the Constitution has been giving these so-called 'rights' to Terra-ists which is definitely 'aiding and abetting' them. It is for this reason that I am sending the Constitution to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place style="font-style: italic;" st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Guantanamo&lt;/st1:placename&gt; &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Bay&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; as a 'combatant’s enema'.”&lt;/span&gt; He paused for a moment as a secret security agent quickly ran up to the &lt;a href="http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/b/a/bush_furiousgeorge2.jpg"&gt;President &lt;/a&gt;and anxiously whispered something in his ear. The &lt;a href="http://www.amifobornot.com/images/Bush/bush-funny-face-3.jpg"&gt;President &lt;/a&gt;firmly nodded his head and corrected himself saying &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“I meant enemy combatant. Anyhow, we must make it clear to the terrosaurists that aiding and abetting terraformists is terraflorism.The Constitution is a te:rawr:ist because it gives terROARists this 'due process', it should be called “die process” because it hates our freedoms and way of life. I’m also sending the Supreme Court to Gitmo for aiding and abetting the Constitution by interpreting it, which means that it also aids and abets terrorism.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;The Supreme Court had nothing to say because it had already been arrested and sent off to the Cuban military facility in a brown paper lunch bag along with a peanut better and jelly sandwhich which was promptly thrown  in the trash, a Polly-O string cheese which was traded for a  fake tattoo of  a rare Yu-Gi-Oh card, and two rolls of Fruit-By-The-Foot which were the things packed by mommy that were actually eaten. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.karenlynngorney.com/hippies.jpg"&gt;American Civil Liberties Union&lt;/a&gt;, which has chosen to represent the Constitution in a &lt;a href="http://www.kidsclick.com/images/candyland.jpg"&gt;imaginary court&lt;/a&gt;, has vowed to fight the administration’s decision, arguing that detaining the Constitution is unconstitutional. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Vice President &lt;a href="http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/i/k/cheney_drevil.jpg"&gt;Dick Cheney&lt;/a&gt;, speaking from his &lt;a href="http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/death-star-2.jpg"&gt;summer home&lt;/a&gt;, responded by pointing out that the Constitution couldn’t invoke constitutional rights because it would “support the terrorists.” He promptly fired a gigantic laser beam at &lt;a href="http://www.sitevip.net/kevin-bacon/images/index_botom_left.jpg"&gt;Kevin Bacon&lt;/a&gt; who was connected to Al Qaeda through at least six different degrees. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;British filmmakers announced yesterday that they will be documenting the journey of the Constitution from a mild-mannered American who loved hanging out with the founding fathers and pissing off Republicans into a radical baby-gnarling zombie-infested ideologue who runs around in between the prayer lines during ruku and deserves to be punted out of the Masjid like a football. They have decided to call the movie “Road To Guantanamo 2: Revenge of the Sith (and by Sith we mean Dick Cheney).” The film will undoubtedly cast shocking images based on real life events such as the Constitution in an orange jump suit being beaten in a cagematch by Hulkamania. Another graphic event that might be portrayed in the movie could be about how the Constitution was attacked by vicious guard dogs and military police responded by having salt poured into its open wounds causing him to melt like a slug. The movie might also show the riot that ensued after a Constitutional amendment, a text religiously revered mostly by liberal hippies, being thrown and flushed down the toilet. Perhaps the most horrifying event to be displayed in the movie will be in regards to when the Constitution was locked up in solitary confinement with flashing lights and repeatedly forced to listen to K Fed’s “Lose Control”. This last event resulted in the Constitution being hospitalized and made nearby baby unicorns cry blood. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;Later this month, the “Articles of Confederation” will be sworn in as the new governing legal document. This event will be followed by an after-party commemorating “The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.lambcity.com/images/LCC%20Hillbilly%20weekend%202004/hillbilly14.jpg"&gt;Victory of the South&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt; Against Northern Aggression”. A separate “after-party” will be held for Muslims and Arabs at “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.leefbaarrotterdam.com/lr/Images/Abu%20Graib.jpg"&gt;Club Abu Ghraib&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;” (No Need To Dress to Impress, in Fact, No Need to Dress at All, But Everyone Must Bring Their Own Bags).&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36836420-116314119598961582?l=moxnewsflash.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/moxnewsflash/~3/776kcroV_7I/bush-expands-definition-of-enemy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Abu Turab)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2006/11/bush-expands-definition-of-enemy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36836420.post-116293006586789530</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-11-22T06:15:30.923-08:00</atom:updated><title>Sony Unveils PS3 Game</title><description>&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MACHINE CITY, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Matrix&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;/span&gt;Earlier today, Sony unveiled its &lt;a href="http://www.filespace.org/banana/cocaine.jpg"&gt;new gaming system&lt;/a&gt;, the Playstation 3. The PS 3 contains many of the same features as the earlier Playstation systems, but now comes with wireless web, a DVD player, an internal George Foreman Grill, and diabolical weather control. Aside from &lt;a href="http://www.o-dub.com/images/cheney-devil.jpg"&gt;Dick Cheney &lt;/a&gt;who was heard whimpering “gimme gimme gimme!” at the mere mention of diabolically  controlling the weather, most of the audience expressed their curiosity as to which game would accompany the system when it would be made available for sale later this month. During the question and answer session, Alfred Smith, from Minneapolis, Minnessota stood up and asked &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“Which game will accompany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; the new system?” &lt;/span&gt;Other members of the audience (which was comprised mostly of obese teenagers, &lt;a href="http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/03/tomcruise_narrowweb__200x401,0.jpg"&gt;scientologists&lt;/a&gt;, and unemployed Rastafarians) echoed his sentiments as excited whispers filled the room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mysite.verizon.net/myk15/girliearnoldsm.jpg"&gt;Arnold T-1000&lt;/a&gt;, the half-human half-machine founder of Sony, fired bolts of lightning into the air to silence the murmuring crowd. He shouted &lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" &gt;“Fools! Behold the power of cheese!”&lt;/span&gt; while the lights dimmed and a screen came down from the ceiling. An old woman's head exploded in anticipation of the preview of the game. Or maybe it was just Dick Cheney being diabolical again. Regardless of the cause of the old women's sudden loss of level headedness, frankly speaking, we at the Mox News Flash don't really care about old people anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"&gt;The opening cinematic scene shows a little Muslim boy running into a Masjid as an &lt;a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/original/demonstration_-_muslim_protester_points_his_toy_gun_at_ronald_mcdonald.thumb-thumb.jpg"&gt;Islam-o-fascist&lt;/a&gt; chases after him. After the sequence ended, the title of the game appeared in bold letters: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“Grand Theft Masjid.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5733/162/1600/alijeem2copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5733/162/320/alijeem2copy.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"&gt;The concept of the game is modeled off the highly successful “Grand Theft Auto” game developed by the Rockstar company. However, instead of stealing cars, players must steal the shoes of people attending salatul jumaah while avoiding the &lt;a href="http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/images/nkotb.jpg"&gt;Mutawaa &lt;/a&gt;– the heavily bearded religious police armed with highly reflective sunglasses and bid’a blasters. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The game begins in the parking lot of the Masjid where the main character is tasked with obnoxiously parking his &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20051226/sp2.jpg"&gt;taxi cab &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;in an attempt to create a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.lolcars.com/images/huge-traffic-jam.jpg"&gt;gridlock so horrendous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;, no one in a 400 mile radius will be able to move. After successfully pissing off 80% of the local population, players must direct their character to run into the masjid while avoiding confrontations with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.worldproutassembly.org/images/pakistani.jpg"&gt;angry Pakistanis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; who will be late to work at gas stations all across the country. Upon entering the Masjid, one must steal as many shoes as possible while stuck in the midst of hairy, smelly men pushing and shoving each other around while heading nowhere.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The next level occurs in the bathroom. Players must deftly maneuver around the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.worth1000.com/entries/181000/181219RwYV_w.jpg"&gt;dirty Masjid bathr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.worth1000.com/entries/181000/181219RwYV_w.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 82px;" src="http://img.alibaba.com/photo/11170348/Slippers.summ.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.worth1000.com/entries/181000/181219RwYV_w.jpg"&gt;oom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; while hopping around in two left sided non-matching slippers. The objective of this level is to try and find a stall that is not doused in urine and fecal matter. Players only have two minutes to accomplish this near-impossible feat before all the breathable air in the bathroom runs out and the character succumbs to the noxious gas emanating from the hordes of people constantly making and breaking (mostly breaking) their wudhu. If the character dies during this level, his body is immediately snatched up by the Mutawwa and taken to the kitchen where his corpse is diced up into bits and put into &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://web.mit.edu/paksmit/www/pictures/tg04/images/biryani%21.jpg"&gt;biryani &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;that will be served at the upcoming fundraising dinner.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p face="trebuchet ms" class="MsoNormal"&gt;If players survive the Masjid bathroom, they still have to make it in time to pray four rakaats before a boy, whose voice sounds like he's finally reached puberty, issues the adhan. After this, players must sit through the Imam’s khutbah  without falling asleep. After the khutbah is over, players must run out of the room before the announcements are made by an &lt;a href="http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2004/05/27/hamza372.jpg"&gt;incoherent  Arab man &lt;/a&gt;or they’ll be stuck in the game forever and forcefully conscripted into the Tableeghi Jamaat. This part of the game is truly interactive because the Tableeghi Jamaat will actually jump out of the TV screen and ask you to come with them for forty days repeatedly until you succumb. No we're serious. You're screwed for life if you die in this game. These guys dont' take "no" for an answer (although they will take first born sons, jews, and expensive Picasso paintings as acceptable substitutes).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;The most challenging level of the game by far occurs in the darkest, gloomiest, coldest depths of the masjid known as "The Dungeon" (affectionately termed "The Sister's Quarters" by the Masjid Board). In addition to being a prison cell for sisters convicted for the crime of being born female, this area of the Masjid also serves as a vacuum cleaner closet, a garbage disposal, and a gateway leading to the seventh circle of hell. The first challenge in this level is for players to enter quietly in order to order to avoid getting spiked in the face by &lt;a href="http://www.themuslimwoman.org/images/sex_scandal_kashmir.jpg"&gt;sisters &lt;/a&gt;wielding high-heeled shoes while screeching "We can't hear the Imam!" The next challenge in this mission is to tell them that the khutbah has been over for four hours and they are getting evicted into the street in order to make room for the brand new brother's entertainment room which is comprised of a jacuzzi, tiki bar, and Playstation 3 entertainment system. If the sisters don't rip the character to shreds, he escapes the Masjid and is forever free from the Mutawwa, the Tableeghi Jamaat, and uncles that demand you place some funds into their kufis-turned-donation-boxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;There are many other levels in the game, but we don't want to spoil the entire game for you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Weapons featured in the game include shoes, miswak, bid’a blasters, shirk shooters, kufr cleavers, and prayer rugs laced with barbwire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;This game has been rated &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;“M” for "Makruh"&lt;/span&gt; by the Saudi Gaming Association and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"A" for "Astaghfirullah ul azeem, la hawla wala quwatta ill billah" &lt;/span&gt; level of harmness by the Hardcore Hanafis of Houston Gaming Association.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36836420-116293006586789530?l=moxnewsflash.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/moxnewsflash/~3/l9QQXaUie9s/sony-unveils-ps3-game.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Abu Turab)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2006/11/sony-unveils-ps3-game.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36836420.post-116238671949706195</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-11-19T05:03:42.550-08:00</atom:updated><title>Halloween Terrorist Plot Foiled in Southern Iraq</title><description>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BAGHDAD, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Iraq&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;- In what's being heralded as the coalition's greatest success in combatting the insurgency in Iraq since the &lt;a href="http://www.billywatts.com/worth1000/giant%20saddam%20and%20bugs.jpg"&gt;fall of Saddam&lt;/a&gt;, US marines and Iraqi army personnel crackdown hard on a Halloween terrorist cell inside the volatile country and reaped results.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The &lt;a href="http://home.germany.net/100-218882/Hintergrunde/muppet_show001.jpg"&gt;Iraqi Ministry of Defence&lt;/a&gt; confirmed that 63 year old, Mrs Yatabtab WaDalla from 193 Camel Street, Baghdadistan, Baghdad, was arrested in connection with conspiring to violate the no fly zone. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Private Pat PattyCake of the 4th Armoured Division explained how the operation began: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"We first noticed the suspect during preparations for our Halloween party back at the base.  She came in and suspiciously reached for the broom in the corner.  Naturally figuring it was Halloween and all, we suspected she was a witch.  We let our superior officer know and he said he would look into it. Like most of our other war on terror operations, we decided to rigorously pursue this "witch hunt" . . . except this time . . .we thought we actually had a witch . . . usually we just chase after our tails . . . or mailmen." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Intelligence reports suggested that the woman was in fact a witch, and that her innocent sweeping up was actually intended to be a cover for her true motives, to commandeer the broom, and to pilot it above the skies above Baghdad, in order to violate the no-fly zone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;A &lt;a href="http://www.internetweekly.org/images/trent_lott_xmas_card.jpg"&gt;Whitehouse spokesman &lt;/a&gt;confirmed &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"We just could not allow that. No-fly zones above Baghdad are there to protect the people of the United States. I mean today, we let a witch fly across the no-fly zone and tomorrow everyone will be wanting to do it. Before we know it al-Qaeda will be running our schools hospitals, maybe even our &lt;a href="http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/T/G/osama_minibin.jpg"&gt;dental surgeries&lt;/a&gt;. Is that what you want?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The intelligence hinged on two key identifying factors : the broom, her &lt;a href="http://www.themuslimwoman.org/images/muslim_women_u7.jpg"&gt;black clothing&lt;/a&gt;, and her nose.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;When questioned on whether it could be possible that Mrs WaDalla's black clothing was nothing more than a black abaya, the traditional outergarments worn by Iraqi women, a spokesman for CTU Los Angeles, Jack Bauer said:&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; "Yes that's possible, but just take a look at her nose. Tell me that's not a witch's nose. I based my decision to go ahead with the operation based on the size of her nose, and the &lt;a href="http://www.irelandsown.net/bush-nazi.jpg"&gt;White House&lt;/a&gt; backed me up on that decision, 118%."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iupac.org/images/ci/2005CI/2704/mad_scientist.jpg"&gt;Professor Nigel Naselbaum&lt;/a&gt; of the Harvard Technological Institute of Nasal Excellence confirmed the intelligence conclusions, pointing to secret X-rays taken by satellite of Mrs Yatabtab WaDalla. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Here we can see the nasal cavities are huge and airy. This allows for greater oxygen to enter the bloodstream, nourishing the cerebral cortex and stdies have shown that this can lead to encouraging feelings of terrorism."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;"The declination across the bridge area, giving it what might be referred to as a "hook nose" appearance, merely confirms without a doubt that Mrs WaDalla was more likely to be a member of an al-Qaeda sleeper cell."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;A neighbour, Miss Katyousha Camelhoof who lives on the same street as Mrs WaDalla was shocked and suprised at the revelation that the apparently &lt;a href="http://www.science.unsw.edu.au/images/user/BOBimages/OldLady.jpg"&gt;"sweet old lady"&lt;/a&gt; was the al-Qaeda number 2 in Iraq. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"I mean yeah, I'm totally shocked, yeah. I mean she's been doing cleaning jobs for nearly 45 years now. I don't know what would have possessed her to start weaponising her broom like that, all of a sudden. I mean you think you know someone your whole life, then they turn out to be an &lt;a href="http://www.peteykins.com/sparklepony/Rumsfeld60105a.jpg"&gt;al-Qaeda commander&lt;/a&gt;."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Critics said that Mrs WaDalla was victimised for being dressed in black and possessing what many have called a rather unsightly hooknose. It later emerged that the strange chanting of witches spell that Mrs WaDalla was engaged in was actually a recitation of the Quran, the book that Iraqis traditionally read to ward of &lt;a href="http://www.kls2.com/~eds/photos/2002/1031/DSC00002.jpg"&gt;evil spirits&lt;/a&gt; around Halloween time. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;US General Tommy Franks later apologised on behalf of the US for the inconvenience caused to Mrs WaDalla saying &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"It was an honest mistake. When you're up against a battle hardened enemy who is willing to die for their beliefs, and then you're faced with a hooknosed lady dressed in black sweeping up with a broom, its natural to assume she was a witch operating for al-Qaeda. In this particular instance we were wrong, but look at her nose for&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; Christ's sake!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36836420-116238671949706195?l=moxnewsflash.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/moxnewsflash/~3/mpodbXD3UQ8/halloween-terrorist-plot-foiled-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jamroll)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2006/11/halloween-terrorist-plot-foiled-in.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36836420.post-116227658579164932</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-11-19T05:01:12.533-08:00</atom:updated><title>Jack Straw Calls for Integration . . . Again</title><description>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LONDON,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;United Kingdom -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/thesaurus?book=Thesaurus&amp;va=idiot&amp;amp;x=0&amp;y=0"&gt;Jack Straw&lt;/a&gt;, a leader of the House of Commons and high-ranking official in Prime M&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;nister Tony Blair&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;s government, is at the center of another cultural controversy. Earlier this&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; month, Mr. Straw made headli&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;nes worldwide when he complained that veils worn by Muslim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; women fomented divisions between Muslims and non-Muslims in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;England&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5733/162/1600/sad%20clown.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5733/162/200/sad%20clown.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Yesterday, he repeated his calls for Muslim women to "take their niqabs off, spin it &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5733/162/1600/sad%20clown.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="75" preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"&gt; &lt;v:stroke joinstyle="miter"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"&gt;&lt;v:path extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"&gt;&lt;o:lock ext="edit" aspectratio="t"&gt;&lt;/o:lock&gt;&lt;v:imagedata src="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5COWNER%7E1.YOU%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_image001.jpg" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5733/162/200/sad%20clown.jpg"&gt;&lt;/v:imagedata&gt;&lt;/v:path&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:stroke&gt;&lt;/v:shapetype&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;round their heads, like a helicopter" during a press&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; conference where he candidly also cal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;le&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;d for clowns to “abandon their silly costumes and integrate just like the rest of us".&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;While sipping on a slurpee through his namesake, the British politician passionately declared &lt;i&gt;“For centuries, clowns have b&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;een&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; an insular minority in this country. They dress differently, talk differently, and they look funny. Clown costumes are a veil of separation between clown minorities and mainstream Britons” he said. “Plus, &lt;a href="http://www.ihateclowns.com/"&gt;they scare &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ihateclowns.com/"&gt;me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ihateclowns.com/"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;with their fake noses, wigs, and make up. It reminds me of the terrible times this country went through during the 80’s when fashion tastes reached an all time low. What was up with &lt;a href="http://newwaveinparis.free.fr/boy.jpg"&gt;Boy George’s hair&lt;/a&gt;? It was a weapon of mass destruction. Anyhow, the point is, clowns are evil Christ-killers who hate our freedoms.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;To illustrate his utter hatred towards clowns, Mr. Straw issued an order to a military officer who promptly nuked Clownistan, also known as "Bollywood" in common parlance. &lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Clown organizations all across the country expressed their disapproval of the politician’s comments. A few hours after the press conference, the &lt;a href="http://www.clownarmy.org/"&gt;Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army&lt;/a&gt; ("Al-Clowniroun" in Arabic), held a protest in front of Parliament in a gigantic red tent. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;For the most part, t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;he demonstration was peaceful as protestors chanted &lt;i&gt;“Jack Straw is a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulrophobia"&gt;coulrophobic&lt;/a&gt;.”&lt;/i&gt; It wasn’t until a few of the more radical clowns pumped their fists in the air and shouted &lt;i&gt;“Clown Power!”&lt;/i&gt; that police intervened and began spraying the demonstrators with tear gas through flowers pinned in their suits and began making arrests. Some clowns were seen being chased by police dogs, lions, tigers, and bears. An on looker shook her head as she uttered “Oh my!” in disgust. A clown wearing a cowboy hat was killed after being chased by a raging bull which threw him in the air with its horns. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u1:p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;u2:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="75" preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"&gt;&lt;u2:stroke joinstyle="miter"&gt;&lt;u2:formulas&gt;&lt;u2:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"&gt;&lt;u2:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"&gt;&lt;u2:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"&gt;&lt;u2:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"&gt;&lt;u2:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;&lt;u2:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;&lt;u2:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"&gt;&lt;u2:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"&gt;&lt;u2:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;&lt;u2:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"&gt;&lt;u2:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;&lt;u2:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"&gt;&lt;/u2:f&gt;&lt;/u2:f&gt;&lt;/u2:f&gt;&lt;/u2:f&gt;&lt;/u2:f&gt;&lt;/u2:f&gt;&lt;/u2:f&gt;&lt;/u2:f&gt;&lt;/u2:f&gt;&lt;/u2:f&gt;&lt;/u2:f&gt;&lt;/u2:f&gt;&lt;/u2:formulas&gt;&lt;u2:path extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"&gt;&lt;u1:lock ext="edit" aspectratio="t"&gt;&lt;/u1:lock&gt;&lt;/u2:path&gt;&lt;/u2:stroke&gt;&lt;/u2:shapetype&gt;&lt;u2:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75"&gt;&lt;u2:imagedata title="" src="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5COWNER%7E1.YOU%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_image001.png"&gt;&lt;/u2:imagedata&gt;&lt;/u2:shape&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;During the MTV Clown Awards last night, Sad Eyes, leader of the human rights organization &lt;a href="http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/uploads/anti-zionist.jpgo2jw6r.jpg"&gt;“Insane Clown Posse”&lt;/a&gt;, shocked viewers when the former quietly said &lt;i&gt;“Jack Straw hates clown people.”&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Michael Myers, his co-host, swiftly responded by knocking him upside the head with a mallet. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;v:stroke joinstyle="miter"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"&gt;&lt;v:path extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"&gt;&lt;o:lock ext="edit" aspectratio="t"&gt;&lt;v:imagedata src="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5COWNER%7E1.YOU%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_image001.jpg" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5733/162/200/sad%20clown.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ser3.imgdump.net/images/bush-clown.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 164px; height: 187px;" alt="" src="http://ser3.imgdump.net/images/bush-clown.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/v:imagedata&gt;&lt;/o:lock&gt;&lt;/v:path&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:stroke&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Across the Atlantic, White House spokesman &lt;a href="http://www.photohome.com/pictures/mixed/donkey-1.jpg"&gt;Tony Snow &lt;/a&gt;refused to address a reporter’s question as to whether George Bush would have to integrate into mainstream British culture. After he expressed the Bush administration's support for clown integration and clownicide, he was asked by a New York Times Reporter &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Does this mean President Bush will have to integrate as well? I mean . . . c'mon . . . even without the make up . . . he kinda looks and talks like . . . a . . you know . . .you know a . . . clown." &lt;/span&gt;After pressing a red button which caused the ground to open up from beneath the reporter causing her to plummet into a den of man eating &lt;a href="http://www.prestonidaho.org/store/vote16.jpg"&gt;ligers&lt;/a&gt;, Mr. Snow said&lt;i&gt;“Although we support the War on Humor and the British desire to eliminate comedy and make the world a dry and bitter place, they have no jurisdiction over the United States. We respect their sovereignty and expect them to respect hours and will continue to support them in torturing and killing clowninists. We’ll smoke them out of their circuses or rodeos, wherever they may be. Besides, President Bush isn't wearing a clown costume . . . thats all real.” &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;In a related note, &lt;a href="http://www.sillyjokes.co.uk/images/dress-up/wigs/big-afro.jpg"&gt;radical Muslim cleric Shaykh Babba Ganoush&lt;/a&gt; angrily demanded that Mr. Straw "quit clowning around." In an e-fatwa that was uploaded to his myspace page next to depressing and melodramatic emo poetry, Shaykh Gannoush wrote: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“Retards like Straw need to stop being ass clowns and integrate with normal, non-idiotic people.”&lt;/span&gt; The Shaykh was immediately arrested by &lt;a href="http://www.onlinesports.com/images/ssg-uss-16e.jpg"&gt;M 16 agents&lt;/a&gt;, placed into a gigantic green canon, and fired across the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;British Isles&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; into France, along with some other &lt;a href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38909000/jpg/_38909101_chirac_203bodyap.jpg"&gt;famous clowns.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;v:stroke joinstyle="miter"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;&lt;v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"&gt;&lt;v:path extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"&gt;&lt;o:lock ext="edit" aspectratio="t"&gt;&lt;v:imagedata src="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5COWNER%7E1.YOU%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_image001.jpg" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5733/162/200/sad%20clown.jpg"&gt;&lt;/v:imagedata&gt;&lt;/o:lock&gt;&lt;/v:path&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:stroke&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36836420-116227658579164932?l=moxnewsflash.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/moxnewsflash/~3/D-AeL58aoM8/jack-straw-calls-for-integration-again_30.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Abu Turab)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://moxnewsflash.blogspot.com/2006/10/jack-straw-calls-for-integration-again_30.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>

