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TLC’s “All-American Muslim” must be doing something right

One of the most remarkable things about any nation is often times, its history and not its people.   What makes the history remarkable does however depend on nothing less that its people.   The people who refuse to learn from the past and repeat it as often as they can ignore that times and situations changes.   Nothing proves this more than the uproar coming from the TLC show All American Muslim and the advertisers running for cover. According to Dylan Stableford’s article titled “ Another company pulls advertising from TLC’s ‘All-American Muslim’   “On the heels of a controversial decision by Lowe's Home Improvement to pull its advertising from TLC's "All-American Muslim" following protests from a conservative group, another company has decided to do the same--though it claims it was not because of the backlash.   In a letter of apology to customers , an executive at Kayak.com , the online travel site, explained the decision to stop advertising on the new re...

As the lunacy continues

I was watching Hardball with Chris Matthews this evening and the topic of conversation was lawmakers in Texas who seemed to feel that this country may soon be taken over by Shari Law.   Sharia “ literally means "the path to a watering hole."( www.religioustolerance.org ). Chris’ guest was David Korn from Mother Jones Magazine and Jack O’Reilly the Mayor of Dearborn, Michigan.   The reason Mayor O’Reilly was invited during this segment is because those Texas lawmakers claimed that this invasion of this path to a watering hole would originate in Dearborn. Just in case you wanted to know more, there are four main schools of Sharia law:   ·          Hanbali: This is the most conservative school of Shari'a. It is used in Saudi Arabia and some states in Northern Nigeria. ·          Hanifi: This is the most liberal school, and is relatively open to modern ideas. ...