I Am Clairvoyant: Yasmin Fostok Threatened By Extremists

By Noel Bagwell
Oct 14, 2008

Evidence of My Fortune-Telling Abilities

Wow! That didn’t take long! I should have been tracking this a lot more closely. According to a September 27, 2008 article on the Daily Mirror: “Extremists threaten to kill Muslim cleric Omar Bakri’s pole dancing daughter Yasmin Fostok.” I predicted that Yasmin Fostok would be the victim of an “honor killing” because  of who her father is. Ms. Fostok isn’t dead, yet, though… so, perhaps, claims of clairvoyance are somewhat premature.

Radical Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed's daughter Yasmin Fostok is a topless, tattooed pole-dancer

That article says:

The terrified pole-dancing daughter of radical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed is in hiding after death threats from Muslim extremists.

Yasmin Fostok, 27, who has a three-year-old son, is said to feel suicidal after it was revealed she works as a pole dancer.

I strongly believe that these threats against Ms. Fostok should be taken seriously, and I hope the British authorities are doing all they can to protect this young woman. According to reports, she is in a safe house. But the greatest danger, according to reports quoting one of her friends, may be from herself. According to sources close to her, she is suicidally depressed. Her lawyer Iqbal Ahmed said, “Yasmin is outraged and feeling quite suicidal.”

Why Does Obama Not Agree That the United States is a Christian Nation?

Just a short post to bring to your attention an interesting article from about a year ago. Michael Medved, a nationally syndicated radio host and author of several nonfiction books, argues that John McCain was correct to describe The United States of America as a “Christian Nation.”

He has a five-point argument, concluding that The United States of America is a “Christian Nation.” I do not intend to make a case for or against Mr. Medved’s views, but I do find them interesting.

John McCain is on the record as agreeing with Mr. Medved that America is a Christian Nation. Perhaps more interesting, however, is the question: why does Barack Obama not agree with John McCain on this issue? I think it would be very interesting for the moderator of the final 2008 Presidential Debate to ask that question.

Mickey Mouse Tries to Register to Vote

The cartoon character’s application, which included a stamped logo of ACORN, was rejected by Florida elections officials over the summer.

FOXNews.com

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Mickey Mouse is as American as apple pie, and he has starred in films, TV shows and video games. But apparently he can’t vote.

Florida elections officials rejected Mickey’s application this summer. It is unclear whether Mickey tried to register as a Democrat or a Republican. But the application included a stamped logo of ACORN, the community organizing group that is facing accusations of voter registration fraud.

What happened to Iceland?

Jon Danielsson
Economist, Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics

The crisis will hurt ordinary Icelandic households.

The first real casualty of the credit crunch is Iceland.

Its failure was caused by two distinct factors, the first entirely predictable, and the second less so.

The predictable element in Iceland’s failure is linked to the actions of its central bank.

Over the past years, Iceland has pursued a policy of inflation targeting, similar to the UK.

This means the central bank targets inflation, raises interest rates if inflation is above the target, and lowers them if inflation is below target.

Such a policy has a sound foundation in economic theory and is often appropriate for large countries.

In the case of Iceland it was disastrous.

U.S. follows Britain to buy up bank shares as FTSE and global stock markets soar

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:38 PM on 14th October 2008

• U.S. follows UK by using $250bn to buy bank stocks
• Global markets soar as investor panic eases
• FTSE rises almost 6% as bank shares climb
  
• Iceland the exception as stocks slide 76%
  

The U.S. followed Britain’s lead by unveiling plans to spend $250billion (£143bn) on bank stocks today to pull its crippled economy back from the brink.

As emergency measures around the world bolstered confidence in the global financial system, President Bush confirmed the U.S. would mimic Gordon Brown’s rescue plan.

More than a third of the $700billion bail-out agreed by Congress will be used to buy equity shares and inject capital to rescue struggling financial institutions.

‘This is an essential short-term measure to ensure the viability of America’s banking system and the programme is carefully designed to encourage banks to buy these shares back from the government when the market stabilises and they can raise capital from private investors,’ Mr Bush said.

The drastic move effectively amounts to the part-nationalisation of the U.S. banking system and echoes similar measures in the UK and across Europe.

Sombre: President Bush announcing details of the U.S. recapitalisation scheme today. It was his 21st emergency statement on the economy since September

The emergency action, rippling from London around the globe yesterday, saw markets rise across Asia and Europe and in Australia, Russia and India today.

HONOR KILLING: Yaser Abdel Said Becomes the “Featured Fugitive” on FBI’s Website

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
By Maxim Lott

Almost a year after two teenage girls were found dead — allegedly executed by their father — in the back seat of a taxicab in Texas, the FBI is saying for the first time that the case may have been an “honor killing.”

Sarah Said, 17, and her sister Amina, 18, were killed on New Year’s Day, but for nine months authorities deflected questions about whether their father — the prime suspect and the subject of a nationwide manhunt — may have targeted them because of a perceived slight upon his honor.

Amina (left) and Sarah Said

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The girls’ great-aunt, Gail Gartrell, says the girls’ father killed them both because he felt they disgraced the family by dating non-Muslims and acting too Western, and she called the girls’ murders an honor killing from the start.

But the FBI held off on calling it an honor killing until just recently, when it made Yaser Abdel Said the “featured fugitive” on its Web site.

“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell everybody all along,” Gartrell told FOXNews.com. “I would say that’s a victory.”

But some Muslims say that calling the case an honor killing goes too far.

“As far as we’re concerned, until the motive is proven in a court of law, this is [just] a homicide,” Mustafaa Carroll, the executive director of the Council of American-Islamic Relations in Dallas, told FOXNews.com.

He said he worries that terms like “honor killing” may stigmatize the Islamic community. “We (Muslims) don’t have the market on jealous husbands … or domestic violence,” Carroll said.

The United Nations estimates that 5,000 women are killed worldwide every year in honor killings — mostly in the Middle East, where many countries still have laws that protect men who murder female relatives they believe have engaged in inappropriate activity. A U.N. report includes chilling examples of such cases.