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McDonald's Israel has refused an offer to open a branch of its restaurant chain in a mall slated to be built in the West Bank settlement of Ariel, according to a report in the Calcalist newspaper.
Tzahi Nahmias, the realtor who is marketing the mall's commercial space, told the paper that McDonald's refused to open a branch because Ariel is located beyond the Green Line.
McDonald's confirmed that it did not intend to open in Ariel and said that its refusal to operate in the West Bank "had always been the restaurant chain's policy," according to the report.
Nahmias said that there were other companies besides McDonald's, that he refused to name, that expressed concerns that opening in the mall would negatively impact their international business.
Rami Levy, Israeli supermarket magnate and one of the entrepreneurs behind the Ariel mall, did not refer specifically to McDonald's decision but he did tell the paper that businesses that refuse[ing] to open in the West Bank also harm the Arab population there.
"I do not accept that companies make business decisions that are informed by political considerations. The mall in Ariel is expected to employ Arab and Jewish workers from the area and to provide services for these populations" Levy said.
"This boycott is superfluous, and it harms the Arab population that it is supposedly trying to protect," he added.
Israeli artists as well as academics have boycotted the city because of its location beyond the Green Line.
In March, during US President Barack Obama's visit to Israel students from Ariel University were not invited to a speech that he gave in Jerusalem to Israeli university students.
Activists are calling to boycott McDonald's burger restaurants nationwide over the refusal by Omri Padan, owner / CEO of McDonald’s Israel and a founder of Peace Now, to place a branch in the new mall being built in Ariel, because of its location. [...]
Demonstrators protesting the McDonald's decision called to consume Israeli Burger Ranch fast food in branches across Israel in response.
Samaria Council Chairman Gershon Mesika said in a statement, "Burgers and politics should be kept independent of each other. Supporters of Israel around the world may decide to make a statement on behalf of [Judea and Samaria] Yesha.
“Local residents will surely enjoy the Ariel mall Burger Ranch menu, and McDonald's may come to realize the financial implications of its decision."
Likewise, Yigal Delmonti, deputy director of the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha Council) charged, “McDonald’s has turned from a business into an organization with an anti-Israel political agenda.
While I can support McDonald's in itself, I cannot support Padan if this is how he's going to run business, and his continued associations with Peace Now are a serious problem. The Ariel mayor says McDonald's has become the real loser in this affair:
Fast food chain McDonald’s is the biggest loser from its own decision to boycott the city of Ariel, Mayor Eliyahu Shviro said on Thursday.
[...] "There is no place in our country for boycotts, it's a miserable decision. We condemn any boycott which comes from ideological motives," he said.
Shviro said that not having a McDonald’s in Ariel was no big loss, as there were enough big chains lining up to open branches in the city’s new mall. [...]
Anyone who boycotts Ariel, said Shviro, ultimately harms peace efforts with the Arabs more than he harms the city.
“When they wanted to boycott the Ariel University they also hurt the Arab students who study there,” he noted. “When factories chose to boycott the industrial zone in Ariel, they hurt the Arab workers who make five times what they earn in PA cities like Shechem and Ramallah.”
Shviro added, "If they boycott us, then the Palestinian employee ends up being fired and returns to violence. If that's what they want – let them go ahead. We are the ones who really demonstrate how to make peace and how to co-exist. Anyone who hurts Jews also hurts the Arabs because co-existence comes from below."
The Mayor noted that all attempts to boycott Ariel to date have failed miserably, pointing out an attempt several years ago by leftist actors to boycott Ariel's cultural center which fizzled out with time.
"We have a university that is thriving, the boycott of the cultural center failed, and there are shows from both Israel and abroad taking place there all the time,” said Shviro. “The mall will open and succeed as well. [Businessman] Rami Levy (who will operate the new mall) recognizes the potential of Ariel’s residents and students, and I hope the government will give us the opportunity to build and develop because the city of Ariel has the potential to triple itself.”
If Padan continues down his awful path, he'll only destroy his local franchise in the end.
BOSTON, Massachusetts — A US grand jury on Thursday indicted teenager Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on 30 counts in connection with the April double bomb attack on the Boston marathon that killed three people and injured more than 260.
The counts include using a weapon of mass destruction and causing death by bombing a public place. Federal prosecutors said 17 of the charges carry a possible death penalty.
Tsarnaev is to be formally arraigned in Boston district court on July 10, prosecutors said in a statement announcing the charges after weeks of questioning the man at his prison hospital bedside.
Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan are accused of leaving two pressure cooker bombs at the marathon finish line on April 15 that sprayed nails and other metal debris into the huge crowds.
The ethnic Chechen Muslim brothers are also said to have killed a campus police officer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the giant manhunt that followed. [...]
US investigators have been looking into the brothers' links to radical Muslim elements in their native Russia. Tsarnaev was naturalized as an American citizen last year.
The indictment says that while hiding in the boat, the critically wounded Tsarnaev wrote on it: "The US government is killing innocent civilians."
"I can't stand to see such evil go unpunished," he added. "We Muslims are one body, you hurt one, you hurt us all."
Charges announced by prosecutors include use of a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, bombing a public place resulting in death, malicious destruction of property resulting in death, using a firearm causing death and carjacking.
The indictment alleges that the brothers conspired to carry out the attack on the 117th Boston Marathon from February this year.
Video released by police at the time showed two young men walking calmly through the crowds to place backpacks which it later emerged contained pressure cooker bombs.
The bombs were detonated seconds apart, killing a boy, a Chinese student and a woman restaurant manager. At least 13 of the injured had limbs torn off.
The bombs "were designed to shred skin, shatter bone, and cause extreme pain and suffering, as well as death," said the indictment. [...]
The indictment alleges the brothers had five home-made bombs, a semi-automatic handgun, a machete and a hunting knife when they drove to MIT and shot and killed a police officer. [...]
"Seventeen of the charges authorize a penalty of up to life in prison or the death penalty," said the prosecutors' statement.
Let's hope Tsarnaev is sentenced to the latter, because he fully deserves it.
The Israeli doctor who won a libel suit victory in the Mohammed al-Dura case regrets that he was unable to help French media analyst Philippe Karsenty to do the same. [...]
In an interview with Arutz Sheva, David repeated his assertion that the Mohammed al-Dura shooting video was fake, and revealed what he believes was the child’s real cause of death.
“Mohammed al-Dura’s father assisted Israel. Hamas murdered one of his children. Then they demanded that he bring a different son – Rami al-Dura – and make it look like IDF soldiers were murdering him,” he declared.
“That child who was supposedly killed by the IDF is alive to this day,” he added.
David has previously noted that Mohammed al-Dura is on record as having been admitted to a Gaza hospital several hours prior to the alleged shooting involving the IDF.
He expressed regret that he had not been present to help Karsenty in his libel suit. David explained his own winning strategy when facing France’s highest court.
“It’s a totally political trial. That’s why in my trial I fled from politics and focused on scientific proofs based on medical documents,” he recalled.
After an initial conviction by a lower court, “I changed my strategy and focused on the science. That was Karsenty’s mistake, that he waged a political war with a political court,” David asserted.
He expressed regret that he had not been called to testify on Karsenty’s behalf, as the doctor who proved in court that Jamal al-Dura’s supposed bullet wound scars were actually scars from surgery performed by an Israeli doctor – himself.
“That was [Karsenty’s] fatal mistake, that he didn’t use me. He had a winning card, I introduced him at one point to the man who was commander at the IDF position, his testimony was also golden – but he decided to go it alone, and that is why it didn’t work,” he said.
I'm surprised too. David was fully open to assisting somebody in trouble, yet said person wouldn't even accept his offer? Serious error. It remains to be seen if Karsenty will do what's necessary to rectify the mistake.
For more than 20 years now, we have been told that this country was going to get hotter and hotter and hotter, and that global warming was going to change our climate in a fundamental way. Do you remember that? We were told that Britain was going to have short, wet winters and long, roasting summers. It was going to be like 1976 all over again, with streakers at Lord’s and your Mr Whippy melting before you could even lick it, and Hyde Park scorched into a mini Kalahari.
They said we were never going to have snow again, and that we should prepare for southern England to turn gradually into a Mediterranean world. There were going to be olive groves in the Weald of Kent, and the whole place was going to be so generally broiling in summer that no one would be able to move between noon and 4pm, after which people would come out to play boules and sip pastis, to the whine of a mandolin, in the dusty square that had once been a village green.
That’s what they said: the BBC, and all the respectable meteorologists– and I reckon there were tens of thousands of people who took these prophecies entirely seriously. Omigod, they said to themselves, we are all going to fry.
... and they were fools!Fools who believed that the global warming soothsayers really meant what they said or that they had a clue what the weather would be in the next 10 years.
I hope I don’t need to tell you that we have not experienced a Mediterranean climate – not since they started to tell us to expect it. On the contrary, we have had some pretty long and miserable winters – including the last one, in which I saw snow settle in London on four separate occasions – and our summer is at risk of becoming a bit of a farce. As I write these words, I am looking out yet again at lowering grey clouds, in what should be the peachiest time of year – and now these so-called weather forecasters and climate change buffs have the unbelievable effrontery to announce that they got it all wrong. They now think that we won’t have 10 years of blistering summer heat; on the contrary, it is apparently going to be 10 years of cold and wet.
I don't really know what the British public, in general, believes about AGW. But certainly, it seems clear, the Mayor Of London has no qualms about being a Global Warming Denier.
Meanwhile, our President is making caustic comments about any American who would dare to question the idea that we must completely remake our Energy Economy because of the threat of Global Warming, the danger of which, he assures us, "can be measured in lost lives":
President Obama angrily blasted climate change skeptics during his energy policy speech Tuesday at Georgetown University, saying he lacked "patience for anyone who denies that this problem is real."
"We don't have time for a meeting of the flat-Earth society," Obama said. "Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it's not going to protect you from the coming storm."
Earlier in his remarks, Obama said the "overwhelming judgement of science, of chemistry, of physics, and millions of measurements" put "to rest" questions about pollution affecting the environment.
"The planet is warming. Human activity is contributing to it," Obama said.
"We know that the costs of these events can be measured in lost lives and lost livelihoods."
There is no room for doubt. King Obama has pronounced his decree. Skeptics are idiots. People are dying.
“I am very disappointed because I thought that there was a chance that the justice system would find me not guilty of defamation,” he said. “I don’t have the verdict, the written verdict, the argument of the judges, but the verdict was postponed twice so they only found me guilty on the third time,” he said, implying that there is more at play in the case than meets the eye.
There most certainly is. He shouldn't have overestimated the judges, no matter where they stand in private.
“I think it is a dark day for French democracy and I think it is a dark day for the truth,” Karsenty declared of the verdict, adding optimistically, “and the truth will prevail in the end, I don’t know when, I don’t know how, but I know that it will prevail.”
Karsenty sharply criticized the French justice system and those that participated in what he calls the “covering up” of a “blood libel.”
“I see that some people on the other side are very happy because they are saying it is a day of honor for journalism. It is a day of shame for journalism, and I think it is a day of shame for French democracy which is covering up from the bottom, to each and every level a blood libel,” he said.
“All the journalists aligned behind Enderlin,” he said of Charles Enderlin, the France 2 Jerusalem bureau chief, whom he accused of fabricating parts of the segment, “Sarkozy granted him the Legion of Honor.”
Karsenty came across as disappointed but also hopeful, and said that his work on the case was not over.
“I don’t see where the light comes from,” he continued “but if I would say something I would say ‘gam zu letovah’ (also this is for the best.)”
“I will try and expose this lie of course,” he promised, adding “the thing is I am not sure which way I want to expose it, but I want to expose it of course.”
Asked about his current legal options following the court decision Karsenty mulled: “I can do exactly as France 2 did, go to the French supreme court. But I am not sure that I want to go there firstly because I think that the French judicial system is not fair.”
“Last time I won this case, and even after I won this case the court of appeals didn’t admit the truth, so the judicial way is not the way to have the truth revealed, but was only a tool to force France 2 to bring their argumentation,” he said.
“But it was not useful in getting them to admit the truth,” he concluded.
It most definitely is shame for journalism, especially if we recall how the mainstream press in France flatly refused to cover the large demonstration against Islamofascism there.
As for Sarkozy, if he had nothing against giving a reward to Enderlin that he didn't deserve, that only puts his respect for Israel under a question mark. Again, depending on the perspective, it's not entirely a bad thing that he lost the election, since he didn't make as convincing an effort as he could have to curb Islamofascism and dhimmitude in France.
If Karsenty intends to appeal the verdict, that's good, but as he signals, that can't be the only thing he should do. He also has to find the right ways to spread this information to the wider public, since it's an issue that should concern one and all. The libel law that says the burden of proof lies solely upon the defendent in a lawsuit has to be challenged and abolished, otherwise it'll be impossible to fight Islamofacism effectively.
A Long Island teenager, allegedly radicalized by online videos of al Qaeda leaders, tried to fly overseas earlier this year in hopes of joining a branch of the terrorist group, telling an undercover agent he wanted to engage in a violent "jihad," U.S. officials said Wednesday.
In a criminal charging document made public on Wednesday, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn alleged that Justin Kaliebe, 18 years old, told undercover agents that he desired to travel to Yemen to join a group known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula or Ansar al-Sharia and participate in jihad, which he described as "doing the J word."
A convert to Islam at a young age who decided to throw his life away all for the sake of baseless hate and death.
Brad Pitt's "World War Z" imagines a world overrun by a zombie pandemic, leading to an unlikely new global power structure. Two of the few countries that have kept the zombies at bay are Israel, which shelters Israelis and Palestinians behind a wall, and North Korea, which has removed the teeth of its citizens to prevent zombie biting.
It's a curious portrait of geopolitics that's left some moviegoers scratching their heads. Is a wall of unity for both Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem an ironic commentary on the West Bank barrier being constructed by Israel alongside Palestine? Or a suggestion that a wall - which resembles the Western Wall - can be a positive force in the Middle East?
There's little time for rumination on such questions in "World War Z" before the next swarm of zombies attacks. Any whiff of foreign policy contemplation is snuffed out by the stampeding undead, who seem about as interested in politics as the average summer moviegoer.
But in their wake, some have questioned just what, exactly, "World War Z," is saying about Israel.
"Will (foreign moviegoers) conclude that the filmmakers (are) saying that Kim Jong-un and Benjamin Netanyahu are the wisest leaders in the world, except that Kim is a little bit wiser, because he's uncontaminated by humanitarian sentiments?" wrote Hendrik Hertzberg for The New Yorker. "North Koreans still have a few teeth in their heads, but Israel has already built a wall. Will foreign audiences, or potential audiences, interpret the film's message to be that the only thing wrong with the existing wall is that it's not sealed tight enough?"
The Los Angeles Times' Steven Zeitchik wrote: "In the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a wall is a heavily fraught symbol. But here it turns into an instrument of peace?" [...]
In the book, uninfected Jews and Palestinians are quarantined behind a huge wall in Jerusalem. The haven is spoiled not by zombies, but by civil war, which breaks out when Israel's ultra-orthodox rebel. In the film, the Jerusalem scene (shot in Malta) is the film's grandest set piece (seen widely in TV ads) where zombies mount the wall like ants.
I find this stupefying for plenty of reasons, the biggest one being the potential moral equivalence involving Israel and Jews/Muslims or Israelis/palestinians. And even the book's depiction of Haredis as troublemakers may fall flat if it only paints them all with the same brush, and trivializes any and all wrongdoing by the Muslims. I don't have a very high opinion of Pitt, and his new movie based on such a tasteless sounding book sounds faithful enough to the source material, even if it leaves out the ultra-orthodox part. Just more propaganda to push the false narrative of "palestinians" while not offering an ounce of criticism for anything they do.
European Union negotiators have agreed a package of reforms to agricultural subsidies which will see big farms lose up to 30% of their payout. Ministers reached a deal with Euro MPs and the European Commission. However, environmentalists say many of the green measures in the original proposals have been swept away. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and rural development payments account for nearly 40% of the EU's long-term budget.
Rich fled from the United States to Switzerland in 1983 after he was indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury on more than 50 counts of fraud, racketeering, trading with Iran during the U.S. Embassy hostage crisis and evading more than $48 million in income taxes — crimes that could have earned him more than 300 years in prison. Rich remained on the FBI's Most Wanted List, narrowly escaping capture in Finland, Germany, Britain and Jamaica, until Clinton granted him a pardon on Jan. 20, 2001 — the day he handed over the keys to the White House to George W. Bush.
Rich's pardon catapulted him into the headlines once again. According to Federal Election Commission records, Rich's ex-wife, songwriter Denise Rich, gave $201,000 in political donations to the Democratic Party in 2000 as lawyers for the fugitive financier pressed the U.S. government to drop the case. Rich's attorneys turned to Clinton when the Justice Department refused to negotiate. Federal authorities investigated but found no evidence of wrongdoing, while election officials also dismissed a complaint accusing Denise Rich of donating campaign money and furniture to Hillary Clinton in exchange for the pardon. Bill Clinton also denied any wrongdoing and said he acted on advice by prominent legal experts not connected to the trader. Eric Holder, the current U.S. attorney general, was deputy attorney general to Clinton, and recommended Rich's pardon.
The court that took up the latest suit in the Karsenty-vs-Enderlin rivalry has turned dhimmi:
A French media analyst was convicted Wednesday of defamation for accusing a state television network of staging a video that depicted a young boy being killed in a firefight between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli soldiers. [...]
A Paris court fined Philippe Karsenty 7,000 euros (NIS 33,000) in the defamation case filed by network France 2. Karsenty accused the network’s Jerusalem bureau chief, Charles Enderlin, of fabricating parts of the segment. [...]
Karsenty called the verdict “outrageous.” A lawyer for France 2 said it was a victory for journalists.
More like it was a vindictive act against Israel influenced by the French left because Israel dared to call a spade a spade. Now I hope Karsenty will appeal this verdict. In any case, Enderlin is clutching at straws, and his continued persecution of Karsenty at this point is only proving him an extremely dishonest man.
I hope that, just like the Israeli government helped Dr. Yehuda David out, they'll also come to Karsenty's aid. It's time to get serious regarding this whole atrocity.
French-Jewish artist and activist Ron Agam told The Algemeiner that the whole case was a set up.
“Karsenty never had a chance here. The television station is a government outfit and the unions are anti-Israeli. This entire judgement is not about justice, but about defending the indefensible,” he said.
“It is comparable to one of the biggest lies of the republic, it is a shame that the French justice system cant see the truth and they are hiding behind lies,” he added.
It's possible the court was pressured by the government to convict Karsenty, all because even they have no respect for Israel. It's time for the Israeli government to get serious, if you ask me, and protest against this embarrassment.
Police opened fire after a mob armed with knives attacked police stations and a local government building, Xinhua news agency quoted officials as saying. There are sporadic outbreaks of violence in Xinjiang, where there are ethnic tensions between Muslim Uighur and Han Chinese communities.
WHEREVER ISLAM COMES INTO CONTACT WITH NON-ISLAM THERE IS VIOLENCE.
WHEN ISLAMO-FASCISTS CAN'T COME INTO CONTACT WITH NON-MUSLIMS, THEN THEY KILL OTHER MUSLIMS.
THE PROBLEM ISN'T ISRAEL OR GITMO OR KARZAI OR ERDOGAN.
The US and Afghan presidents have "reaffirmed" their support for holding talks with the Taliban, despite an attack in central Kabul on Tuesday. Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai agreed in a video conference that a peace process was the surest way to end the violence, the White House said. They also reiterated their backing for a Taliban office in Doha. Three security guards and four militants died in the assault on the presidential palace and a CIA station.
WE OUGHT TOO BE HITTING BACK AT THEM TWICE AS HARD AND NOT IGNORING THEIR VICIOUS DUPLICITY WITH MORE NEGOTIATIONS.
An Israeli security guard who shot dead a Jewish man at the Western Wall is suspected of murdering him after "a verbal confrontation", a court protocol revealed on Tuesday, according to AFP.
The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court also allowed to publish the name of the suspect of the Friday shooting -- Hadi Qabalan, a resident of the Druze village Beit Jann in northern Israel, who had served as a border police officer before becoming a security guard.
Qabalan had initially told police he shot Doron Ben Shloush dead in an act of self-defense after the latter yelled "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great) and tried to pull something out of his pocket, presumably an object that could be used to attack him.
This, Qabalan said, led to him suspecting that Ben Shloush was a Palestinian terrorist.
However in a turn of events, the court protocol showed that Qabalan was being held "on suspicion of murder", having shot Ben Shloush after "a verbal confrontation between the two."
According to the NRG-Maariv news website, Qabalan shot Ben Shloush – a 46-year-old homeless man who frequented Jerusalem's Old City and was subject to rage attacks -- after on Friday the latter called him a "son of a bitch Druze", following weeks of confrontations between the two.
The court extended Qabalan's remand by another six days.
Oh good grief. So this was really a case of a thin-skinned Arab who, while not an Islamist, still had a very weak moral compass. Very sad.
A member of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta group, whose leaders claim to have excellent relationships with Muslims, was viciously attacked by a Muslim in Amsterdam over the weekend. The victim, Yosef Anteby, has lived in Holland for many years, and is a well-known anti-Israel activist.
A report on the Kikar Shabbat web site quoted Anteby as saying that he had been badly beaten by the Muslim, despite repeatedly identifying himself and his affiliation. He required medical treatment as a result of the beating.
In a statement, Neturei Karta said that Anteby was “attacked by a Muslim immigrant, possibly Pakistani. The immigrant began to rant against the Jews and the Jewish religion. They began angrily beating the victim. Rabbi Anteby sustained numerous blows and asked for help from passerby, but these ignored him. He then tried to escape, but was unable to, as his non-Jewish attacker was too strong. Finally Rabbi Anteby fell, unable to move, and the non-Jew then ran away.”
The report said that Anteby finally was able to get up and flagged down a passing police vehicle, which took him to a hospital for treatment. He remains under observation, in good condition, but suffering from aches and pains related to the beating, the report added.
In its statement, Neturei Karta attributed the attack to the “Zionist evil, which causes anti-Semitism all around the world, until even those who are truly observant and faithful Jews are liable to fall victim, and pay a high price for the Zionists' sins.”
So it's only Israel's fault - and not the Koran's - for what happened to the man. Realistically, it wouldn't make any difference if Israel were obliterated, the Islamofascists would still target every last Jew left on the planet, as well as many other races they despise. And the Neturei Karta extremists fail to comprehend that. A very sad situation indeed.
There have been only two McDonald's restaurants in the U.S. that have offered halal food. Both were in east Dearborn, Mich., which has a sizable population of Arab-American Muslims.
But after a contentious lawsuit that accused the restaurant chain of selling non-halal items advertised as halal, McDonald's has yanked its Halal Chicken McNuggets and Halal McChicken sandwiches off the menu. The move brings to an end a unique product that made the two McDonald's restaurants popular with Muslims.
But not with many others. The lawsuit was obviously because they didn't sell every single product on the menu as halal, even though it is their right to decide what products they want to make halal and what not. And if the Islamists who filed the lawsuit don't want to eat at a resturant that's not serving everything the way they want, they don't have to spend their money there at all. They could open their own resturant and save everybody a lot of time.
A transgender first-grader who was born a boy but identifies as a girl has won the right to use the girls’ restroom at her Colorado school.
The Colorado Rights Division ruled in favor of Coy Mathis in her fight against the Fountain-Fort Carson School District.
Coy’s parents had taken her case to the commission after the district said she could no longer use the girls’ bathroom at Eagleside Elementary.
In issuing its decision, the state’s rights division said keeping the ban in place “creates an environment that is objectively and subjectively hostile, intimidating or offensive.”
Coy’s mother, Kathryn Mathis, said she’s thrilled that Coy can return to school and put this behind her.
The kid's name is "Coy". He's a boy who identifies as a girl.
So at six years of age, his mother is already taking cases to the School District.
Do you think, perhaps, that name, Coy, was given on purpose?
Do you think, perhaps, Coy Boy's parents had an agenda before Coy Boy was born?
UPDATE - In this interview, we find that Coy's parents do have other "kids". The other kids are, apparently, not demanding to use the bathrooms for the opposite sex.
But initially, in response to the fact that Coy (who is a boy) would not be allowed to use the girl's bathroom, Coy's parents decision was to remove all their children from the school.
Hmm.
Having seen that video, what do you think? Let's be clear, what the parent are fighting for is this: They want their boy/girl, Coy, to be able to use his penis in the girl's bathroom. They want him to be able to pull out his penis and urinate in the girl's bathroom. Note that the mother gives the following statement, as her reason: "We just want Coy to have the same opportunity as all the other children." Do you think these parents are just troublemakers, or are they parent's who are so obsessed with the feelings of their children that they have become completely myopic? Or, do they have a point? For my part, I don't want any penises in the bathrooms that my daughters use at their school, or at any place where they will frequent as children. Is that too much to ask? ------------------------------ Here's more information I am digging up on Kathryn Mathis and her family:
Welcome Kathryn! First off, why don’t you tell us a little about you and your family.I am a mom of 4 amazing, wonderful, awesome children (and one on the way!). Dakota is 5 1/2 years old and has Autism. Coy, Max, and Lily are 3 1/2 year old triplets. Coy is our special little neuro-typical child. Max is also on the Autism spectrum. Lily had a very bad brain injury as a 4 month old and is about like having a 1-2 month old baby, but is so much fun (and feisty!). I work full time at home as Lily’s nurse as well as being a professional photographer outside the home. My husband, Jeremy, is a full time student at two colleges and should be done with school in Spring 2012.
So, THIS WAS WRITTEN 2 1/2 YEARS AGO.
AT THAT POINT, APPARENTLY, SHE WAS NOT REFERRING TO COY BOY AS TRANSGENDER.
COY WAS REFERRED TO AS "NEURO-TYPICAL".
THAT MEANS HE WAS THE ONLY CHILD WHO WAS NORMAL.
TWO AUTISTICS AND A BRAIN-DAMAGED CHILD, AND COY WAS THE ONLY NORMAL ONE.
THAT'S A LOT OF PRESSURE, ISN'T IT?
It seems Kathryn Mathis always had a thing for "Special Needs Children". She wanted to be a Neonatologist specializing in helping kids with Special Needs:
What did you want to be when you grew up? How does your real life today compare?
Interestingly enough, I wanted to be a Neonatologist that specialized in special needs babies. While I’m not a Dr, I did end up in the health care field and work 24/7 with my special needs kiddos. I also dedicate part of my photography business to volunteer photography of special needs children, infants in the NICU, and terminal (or passed) children.
And then, sadly, she wound up with four children, two Autistic, one brain-injured child, and a Transgendered.
Münchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP or MBP) is a controversial term that is used to describe a behavior pattern in which a caregiver deliberately exaggerates, fabricates, and/or induces physical, psychological, behavioral, and/or mental health problems in those who are in their care.
They do it to get attention. Yeah, and then there's this article on Kathryn and Jeremy Morris, form the Gay and Lesbian Alliance:
Kathryn and Jeremy write: They gave Coy three options for where to go to the bathroom; the boys' room, the staff bathroom with adults, or the nurse's bathroom which is used by sick children. Coy is not sick, she is not an adult, and she is not a boy. Coy is a girl. She wears girls' clothes, is addressed by everyone at the school using female pronouns, and has been accepted by her classmates and teachers as a girl. But if the school separates her from all her classmates to use the bathroom, they are singling her out for mistreatment, and teaching her classmates that it's okay to discriminate.
The UK Independent won't mention their religion, of course, but anyone who knows the components of the Religion of Peace will know where these creepy residents from Jordan are getting their beliefs from:
A new generation of teenagers in the Middle East believe honour killings to be 'justified', according to a new study of young people in Jordan.
The disturbing findings in a study by researchers at the University of Cambridge shows the brutal practice of vigilante justice, predominantly against young women for perceived slights against family 'honour,' still holds sway for significant proportions of the adolescent population.
In one of the first studies of its kind, social attitudes of 15-year-olds in the Middle Eastern country's capital Amman towards honour killings, revealed almost half of boys and one in five girls believe killing a daughter, sister or wife who has 'dishonoured' or shamed the family is justified. A third of all teenagers involved in the research advocated honour killing.
Jordan, like some other countries in the Middle East and Asia has an old tradition of honour killings and a poor record when it comes to criminalising such violence against women.
But they won't say where the mindset comes from, or what educational/religious system leads to it. The Wash. Times does reference it, fortunately:
Though there is nothing new about this phenomenon, which is commonplace in the Muslim-Arab world, it is nevertheless crucial for it to be exposed as often and as thoroughly as possible. It is particularly necessary for it to be examined in countries viewed as “moderate” or “democratizing.”
When a country like Jordan is called "moderate" that's more a problem than a good omen. Since violent crimes like honor murders are part and parcel of the Islamic belief system, it's not good enough for a country like Jordan to just be "moderate".
