A 20-year-old woman from Iraq has died in an Arizona hospital, nearly two weeks after her father, police say, ran her over with a car because she had become “too Westernized.”

Noor Faleh Almaleki died Monday of injuries suffered when she was run over October 20 in a parking lot in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria, Arizona, police there said. Authorities said they expect to change the aggravated assault charge against her father, Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, to more severe counts after meetings with prosecutors, Peoria police announced.

Peoria police said Faleh Hassan Almaleki believed his daughter had become “too Westernized” and had abandoned “traditional” Iraqi values. Peoria police spokesman Mike Tellef told CNN the family moved to the Phoenix area in the mid-1990s, and Almaleki was unhappy with his daughter’s style of dress and her resistance to his rules.

After the incident, Almaleki’s father drove to Mexico, abandoning his vehicle in Nogales, Peoria police said. He then made his way to Mexico City and boarded a plane to Britain, where authorities denied him entry into the country and put him on a plane back to the United States, police said.

A friend of the daughter, Amal Edan Khalaf, 43, also suffered serious injuries in the attack, police said. Almaleki faces a separate aggravated assault charge in connection with her injuries.

He is currently held in Phoenix, with bail has been set at $5 million, Tellef said.

Says the New York Daily News:

At a court hearing over the weekend in Phoenix, county prosecutor Stephanie Low told a judge that Almaleki admitted to committing the crime.

“By his own admission, this was an intentional act and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family,” Low said. “This was an attempt at an honor killing.”

Family members had told police that Almaleki attacked his daughter because he believed she had become too Westernized and was not living according to his traditional Iraqi values.

The Religion Of Peace™, once again.

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For the first time since he took over in the White House, Americans don’t see eye to eye with President Barack Obama on the important issues, according to a new national poll.

According to the poll, which was released Tuesday, 48 percent of people questioned say that they agree with Obama on the issues that matter most to them, with 51 percent saying no.

Most Americans, 56 percent, don’t approve of the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama, and only a third believe that Obama has done enough to deserve the prize.

“Obama is facing crunch time on a number of controversial issues, from health care to financial regulation to cap and trade to Afghanistan,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

And why is this? Says Pat Buchanan:

The alienation and radicalization of white America began long before Obama arrived. He acknowledged as much when he explained Middle Pennsylvanians to puzzled progressives in that closed-door meeting in San Francisco.

Referring to the white working-class voters in the industrial towns decimated by job losses, Obama said: “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

In their lifetimes, they have seen their Christian faith purged from schools their taxes paid for, and mocked in movies and on TV. They have seen their factories shuttered in the thousands and their jobs outsourced in the millions to Mexico and China. They have seen trillions of tax dollars go for Great Society programs, but have seen no Great Society, only rising crime, illegitimacy, drug use and dropout rates.

They watch on cable TV as illegal aliens walk into their country, are rewarded with free educations and health care and take jobs at lower pay than American families can live on – then carry Mexican flags in American cities and demand U.S. citizenship.

They see Wall Street banks bailed out as they sweat their next paycheck, then read that bank profits are soaring, and the big bonuses for the brilliant bankers are back. Neither they nor their kids ever benefited from affirmative action, unlike Barack and Michelle Obama.

They see a government in Washington that cannot balance its books, win our wars or protect our borders. The government shovels out trillions to Fortune 500 corporations and banks to rescue the country from a crisis created by the government and Fortune 500 corporations and banks.

America was once their country. They sense they are losing it. And they are right.

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A pistol-packing pastor who drew national attention earlier this year for hosting a “God-and-Guns” event at his church is stepping down from the pulpit to serve his flock with a new mission.

Pastor Ken Pagano ended his 30-year career last month when he resigned from the New Bethel Church in Louisville, Ky., saying that he wants to focus on church security and Second Amendment rights — a crusade he insists is better fought outside the ministry.

“Thirty years was a good, long run, but it’s time for a change,” Pagano told the Washington Times. “If I can write my own ticket, I want to get involved more in Second Amendment issues as they affect the church, and I can do more from outside the pulpit than from behind it,” Pagano told the paper.

About 200 people attended Pagano’s “Open Carry Celebration” at the New Bethel Church in June. The event commemorated the roles of religion and gun ownership in American history, and included a handgun raffle. Attendees were also provided with firearms-safety information.

While Pagano says the event drew mostly positive responses, it made him realize that he might have another calling — keeping worshippers safe.

Pagano has since teamed up with New York Rabbi Gary Moskowitz, who has worked to protect synagogues from terrorist attacks, to form the International Security Coalition of Clergy, an organization dedicated to “making the vulnerable less vulnerable,” according to their mission statement.

The group promotes the use of armed and trained security at houses of worship. Kentucky law allows residents to carry guns openly in public, with restrictions.

“Churches are very soft targets and very vulnerable to attack from terrorists and other homegrown, disgruntled individuals,” Pagano told The Washington Times. “Unfortunately, most religious leaders are living in denial,” he told the paper.

Pretend, for a moment, that you’re a criminal. You want to either steal folk’s stuff, or cause general mayhem. Would you target some place where the people might have guns, or would you target a place where you are confident no one has a gun, and where most people will simply give up without a fight?

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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has raised the stakes against Israel by describing the Holocaust as a lie, just as world powers are trying to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions of an Iran in political turmoil.

“The pretext (Holocaust) for the creation of the Zionist regime (Israel) is false … It is a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim,” he told worshippers at Tehran University at the end of an annual anti-Israel “Qods (Jerusalem) Day” rally.

“Confronting the Zionist regime is a national and religious duty.”

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that confronting Israel is a national and religious duty. A holy war.

From The New York Times:

In a speech to a pro-Palestinian rally, which also fell on the eve of the Jewish New Year, Mr. Ahmadinejad called confrontation with “the Zionist regime” a “national and religious duty,” news reports said.

Several reports quoted him as saying the Holocaust was false pretext for the establishment of Israel in 1948. “It is a lie” based on an unprovable and “mythical claim,” he was quoted as saying in the speech.

Mr. Ahmadinejad said the Israeli “regime has no future. Its life has come to an end,” Reuters reported.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Israel’s life has come to an end. An ultimatum.

From Breitbart:

Experts at the world’s top atomic watchdog are in agreement that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead, according to a secret report seen by The Associated Press.

The document drafted by senior officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency is the clearest indication yet that the agency’s leaders share Washington’s views on Iran’s weapon-making capabilities.

The document says Iran has “sufficient information” to build a bomb. It says Iran is likely to “overcome problems” on developing a delivery system.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can build a nuke whenever he wants. All he needs now it to perfect his missile to deliver the nuke. Anyone want to guess where the first missile would be aimed?

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The Iranian authorities have ordered the family of Neda Agha Soltan out of their Tehran home after shocking images of her death were circulated around the world.

Neighbours said that her family no longer lives in the four-floor apartment building on Meshkini Street, in eastern Tehran, having been forced to move since she was killed. The police did not hand the body back to her family, her funeral was cancelled, she was buried without letting her family know and the government banned mourning ceremonies at mosques, the neighbours said.

Just damn.

Not content with killing Neda for no reason, not content with giving her lifeless body back to her family, not content with burying her without letting her parents know, the leadership of Iran has thrown her family out of their home.

Iran’s leader is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. A lot of the protests are focusing squarely on him.

Where I come from, once an animal goes wild there is only one thing you can do about it.

Of course our Teleprompter Reader, elected by 60 million of you, still thinks a rousing stanza of “Kum Ba Yah” can solve this crisis. Hope And Change.

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The St. Gabriel Possenti Society promotes the public recognition of St. Gabriel Possenti, including his Vatican designation as Patron Saint of Handgunners.

St. Gabriel Possenti was a Catholic seminarian whose marksmanship and proficiency with handguns single-handedly saved the village of Isola, Italy from a band of 20 terrorists in 1860.

The Possenti Society offers a variety of materials related to St. Gabriel Possenti and a biblical understanding of self-defense.

The Savior of Isola

In 1860, a band of soldiers from the army of Garibaldi entered the mountain village of Isola, Italy. They began to burn and pillage the town, terrorizing its inhabitants.

Possenti, with his seminary rector’s permission, walked into the center of town, unarmed, to face the terrorists. One of the soldiers was dragging off a young woman he intended to rape when he saw Possenti and made a snickering remark about such a young monk being all alone.

Possenti quickly grabbed the soldier’s revolver from his belt and ordered the marauder to release the woman. The startled soldier complied, as Possenti grabbed the revolver of another soldier who came by. Hearing the commotion, the rest of the soldiers came running in Possenti’s direction, determined to overcome the rebellious monk.

At that moment a small lizard ran across the road between Possenti and the soldiers. When the lizard briefly paused, Possenti took careful aim and struck the lizard with one shot. Turning his two handguns on the approaching soldiers, Possenti commanded them to drop their weapons. Having seen his handiwork with a pistol, the soldiers complied. Possenti ordered them to put out the fires they had set, and upon finishing, marched the whole lot out of town, ordering them never to return. The grateful townspeople escorted Possenti in triumphant procession back to the seminary, thereafter referring to him as “the Savior of Isola”.

Sure enough, there are those that believe the story to be complete fiction, and others that believe it impossible that a monk would ever take up arms for any reason. I wasn’t there in Isola in 1860, so I don’t know for sure what happened. The Jeff Cooper Legacy Foundation calls him the Patron of Marksmen, and who am I to argue with the Good Colonel?

But I want to believe this story. I want to believe that not all that choose to follow Christ’s examples take their discipleship to also mean being pacifist in the face of imminent danger. Therefore, as far as this humble blog is concerned, I deem the story about St. Gabriel Possenti to be true, and I recommend he be designated by the Vatican as the Patron Saint of Handgunners.

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An unknown group calling itself Deccan Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the massacre in Mumbai. There is some talk of the attacks coming from a group called the Indian Mujahedeen. A U.S. counterterrorism official said the level of sophistication in the attack leads officials to believe that it might be tied to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), although LeT denies any responsibility. But the sophistication of the execution of the attacks, and the deliberate targeting of Westerners, makes it probable that it was, in fact, Lashkar-e-Taiba that is responsible.

Lashkar-e-Taiba – the Army of the Righteous or Pure – is the terrorist wing of the Pakistan-based Islamic religious party, Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad (an Islamic anti-Christian missionary organization that was formed in 1989). It is one of the three largest and best-trained terrorist groups murdering and mutilating Hindus, Christians, Communists, and peaceful Muslims in Kashmir, the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. It is a jihadi group of Wahhabi persuasion, backed by Saudi money and protected by Pakistani intelligence services.

Lashkar-e-Tayyba is a member of Osama bin Laden’s International Islamic Front for Jihad against the U.S. and Israel, as well as of the United Jihad Council. Its chief sponsor is the Pakistani government, supposedly a US ally in the fight against global terrorism.

The Lashkar-e-Tayyba’s agenda is outlined in a pamphlet titled “Why are we waging jihad.” It includes the restoration of Islamic rule over all parts of India and propagates a narrow Islamic fundamentalism based on the Wahabi sect.

Gunmen arrived by boats at the Mumbai waterfront near the Gateway of India monument in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday night, November 26. The gunmen hijacked cars, including a police van, and split into at least three groups to carry out their attacks, killing more than 120 people, with another 300-900 people wounded. Innocent people. Unarmed civilians. People guilty of no crime.

One group headed toward the Cafe Leopold, a popular hangout for Western tourists, firing indiscriminately at passers-by on the street. The group then opened fire and lobbed grenades at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station. As police rushed to the scene of the attacks, gunmen attacked the Cama Hospital for women and infants. Several people were killed at the hospital.

Two other groups attacked the Oberoi and Taj Mahal hotels, taking hostages there. The gunmen also took hostages at the Chabad House, where several Jewish families live. The gunmen gunmen fired indiscriminately from the Chabad House. Stray bullets killed a couple in their home and a 16-year-old boy who stepped outside.

Authorities found 8 kilograms (17 pounds) of RDX, one of the most powerful kinds of military explosives, at a restaurant near the Taj, indicating that the attackers may have been planning more violence.

The terrorists launched a sophisticated, multi-pronged attack into a city of 18 million residents. This requires planning, training, funding, and detailed reconnaissance. The targets were chosen carefully to achieve maximum effect. The terrorists hit hotels, a train station, a movie house, a residential complex, and a hospital – all soft targets. They also were able to plant bombs in taxis as well as capture a police van, which was then used in a drive-by shooting spree. The assault teams coordinated and synchronized their attacks to overwhelm Mumbai security. The terrorists were able to take a significant number of hostages. They knew where to find foreigners.

Was this a practice round for an attack in England or the US? Was India selected because of its lack of security? There is already evidence that Westerners, not Indians or Hindu, were specifically targeted. Was al-Qaeda quietly behind all of this?

Is there anyone else out there besides me that is really getting fed up with Islamic terrorism? No, not Christian, Jewish, or Hindu terrorism. No, not Buddhist or Shintoist terrorism. And no, not even n Shamanistic, Paganistic, or Scientologist rooted terrorism.

Islamic terrorism, from The Religion Of Peace™, that is responsible for approximately a quarter of all terrorism fatalities worldwide, as well as various acts of acts airline hijacking, beheading, kidnapping, torture, assassination, roadside bombing, suicide bombing, and rape. If you pull your head out of the sand (or maybe your butt) for more than a few moments you will discover that terrorism and violence in Islam isn’t a phenomenon due to either political or economic injustices, nor is it a recent phenomenon, nor is it an infrequent phenomenon. The painful truth, the one that few media elites or social apologists are loathe to speak, is that terrorism and violence are fundamental components of Islam. Hatred of the Jews and the Christians, and the call for their killing, is quite normal, and is a divinely ordained obligation which is placed on all Muslims by Allah. The Quran promises that death in the cause of Islam transports one instantly to Paradise.

The larger, richer, and more powerful Islam becomes, the more deaths by terrorists will be seen on the nightly news.

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Barack Obama was rated the most liberal United States Senator in 2007 by the non-partisan National Journal — farther left than Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, and self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders. He rarely mentions this extreme voting record as he campaigns throughout the heartland, just as he refrains from telling middle America what he really thinks of those who live there. Obama waits until he’s in San Francisco to do that. At a chic fundraising dinner, Obama sniffed that average Americans get “bitter” and “cling” to their guns and religion—as if these were shameful crutches. He may look down his nose at you, but he still wants your vote.

Obama also expressed disapproval of Americans’ (apparently) selfish way of life, scolding his fellow citizens for doing awful things like driving SUVs, heating their homes to a comfortable temperature, and eating as much as they’d like. Note the return of John Kerry’s “global test” in his remarks. If this is how he lectures Americans while he’s still pandering for votes, one wonders how preachy a President Obama might get.

This is the change you want to believe in?

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Says Rusty:

Associated Press photographer Rahmatullah Naikzad was a witness to a Taliban murder. The two women were alleged to have been prostitutes who served Western clientèle.

A quick Yahoo News photo search of Rahmatullah Naikzad seems to indicate that he’s very friendly with the Taliban.

We would remind the AP that the act of the Taliban inviting a reporter to the murder means they wanted this news out there. The AP was clearly being used as a propaganda outlet for the Taliban.

Does this make him an accomplice or only a witness to the crime? When you know a crime is about to be committed, do you not have a moral and ethical obligation to try to prevent that crime? Even if you’re a journalist? Even if all you do is try to call the authorities, in this case someone in the Afghani government or NATO?

The sequence of photos Naikzad indicate that he was with this band of assassins the day/night before the murders, and was still there the following morning to witness the two women get their heads blown open with gunfire.

Not only was this photographer able to capture a few still pictures, but he also captured the event on digital film as well. You can hear at least one of the women screaming after the first shots are fired.

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The Taliban wanted publicity shots of the “event” and he gave them what they wanted. Way to pad your resume, dude. Anything for that paycheck, huh. Will you be traveling to Palestinian enclaves in Israel to follow the terrorists while they murder Israeli children?

You can claim you are outraged, you can claim you only wanted to show the violence against women, but in the end, they wanted the publicity and you gave it to them. You could have somehow lost the memory card, the video tape, the film (whatever media you chose), but then you might not have been paid or worse, not invited back for more.

Folks, there is evil in this world. And to do nothing in the face of evil makes you evil’s willing accomplice, and just as guilty.

Rahmatullah Naikzad, I invite you to come over to my house. I’ll serve you some wonderful southern pulled-pork BBQ. Then I’ll lock you in a room with my four large dogs. The next morning you should make great fertilizer for my garden.

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STEP 1: As of April 23 there was a web page at the official Obama campaign site. It featured Hatem El-Hady as a “friend” (read: fundraiser) for Obama. Also on that page was a notation that one of El-Hady’s friends is none other than Michelle Obama.

STEP 2: As of April 25 the page had been edited to remove Michelle Obama’s name as a friend of El-Hady.

STEP 3: As of later in the morning of April 25 El-Hady’s entire page has disappeared.

How odd, don’t you think?

So who is this Hatem El-Hady? El-Hady is the former chairman of the Toledo-based Islamic charity “Kind Hearts for Charitable Human Development”. This “charity” was actually a front for funneling funds to Hamas and other Middle East terrorists groups, their US assets having been frozen by the US Treasury for terrorist ties.

So what we have is the leader of a fake charity, one whose real purpose was to sneak away US dollars to support Hamas, a US-designated terrorist organization, and is also a favorite fundraiser for the Obama campaign, and a friend of Michelle Obama.

STEP 4:, thanks to Powerline:

When Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer decided to retire in 1995, she hand-picked local left-winger Barack Obama as her successor. In order to introduce Obama to influential liberals in the district, she held a function at the home of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. This was, really, the beginning of Obama’s political career, and it linked him forever with Ayers and Dohrn, with whom, as his campaign has acknowledged, he continues to have a friendly relationship.

Ayers and Dohrn were famous radicals, and fugitives from the law, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Dohrn, actually, was the more famous of the two; she was the head, as I recall, of Students for a Democratic Society or one of its factions. Dohrn was crazy. She is the only public figure, to my knowledge, to approve publicly and enthusiastically of the Charles Manson murders.

Ayers was a would-be murderer of soldiers and policemen, but he wasn’t a very good terrorist. He had the ill fortune to be the subject of a profile in the New York Times on September 11, 2001, in which he said that he didn’t regret his attempted murders and only wished that he had planted more bombs.

Domestic terrorist Bill Ayers hosted Barack Obama’s first fundraiser.

SUMMARY: Maybe a politician can’t pick his relatives, but he can choose those who host fundraisers on his behalf and those he surrounds himself with. Barack Obama owes the American people an explanation of his choice of friends and political associates.

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