Friday, September 28, 2007
The local Muslim American Society/Islamic Society of Boston email list is circulating announcements from the home office in protest of the resignation Dr. Esam Omeish from a Virginia Immigration Commission. Here's a roundup at LGF including video of Omesh.
Omesh was in Boston doing fundraising for the Islamic Society of Boston just two weeks ago. Miss Kelly has much more on Omesh and the local connections here, here and here.
The MAS/ISB email announcing a Mahdi Bray press conference includes a couple of quotes from commenters at the Washington Post blog. To whit:
I listened to Dr. Omeish's comments very carefully, and I must say that I find nothing objectionable about them. His remarks about Israel are factually accurate, and our own government's uncritical support of Israel's government, whatever its actions, is unhelpful to say the least. Some listeners may be put off by the passion with which he delivered his very logical comments. That is a matter of style, and should not influence our judgment of what he says. I must admit that I did not hear the phrase "jihad way", but the concept of jihad is very poorly understood in this country. The greater Jihad is the internal struggle within our soul to live up to the teachings of the prophet. It is analogous to the struggles of Christian mystics and has nothing to do with physical combat.
There you go. It's nothing but the facts about Israel, and really, though he was standing next to a giant model of the Dome of the Rock and praising the Palestinians for their pursuit of the "Jihad way" and pledging support for it...why that's just the "spiritual" Jihad he was talking about. Yeah, that's the ticket, because Hamas and accomplices are all about the "Greater Jihad."
What nonsense. Evil nonsense, since its presentation here is intended purely to deceive.
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Just to let you know that in Firefox the 'Recent Entries', 'Last 5 Comments' column is overlapping your post on the right hand side.
In Konqueror (Linux, KDE) the post is readable with 'Recent Entries' and 'Search' columns well over to the right.
Freaky. Someone else emailed the same thing and I figured it was another IE6 thing. I'm on Firefox and didn't see a problem.
I did just fix two things (One was a single in place of a double quote in a link which can really mess things up). How's it look now?
Have refreshed and it is much better; but a silly question: weren't the two columns mentioned meant to be on either side of the post?
No, that I changed some time ago. This is a three column format -- First the main column (580px wide), then the sidebar column that starts with Recent Entries (160px wide), then the sidebar with Search at the top (220px wide).
I used to have it as two equal sidebars on either side of the main content column.
Thank you for the feedback. Please don't ever hesitate to mention format oddities and misspellings and all that. As you can see, sometimes even the same browser will parse things differently and there's just no way for me to know.