Saturday, September 11, 2010

Blumner on vacation

Robyn "Blumñata" Blumner is on vacation, but still posting columns. I presume that her mode of travel caused more carbon to enter the atmosphere and place the planet in greater peril.

She's still posting columns, but instead of blaming recent violent demonstrations by Muslims on the detention facility at Gitmo, she's writing about how people in Russia and Eastern Europe know English.

Go figure.
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan —
Shouts of "Death to America!" rang out in Afghanistan on Saturday as more than 10,000 demonstrators denounced now-suspended plans by an American pastor to burn the Koran.

The protest in the city of Pul-e-Alam, about 35 miles south of Kabul, the Afghan capital, was initially peaceful but boiled over into violence as some demonstrators set shops ablaze and tried to storm the provincial governor's compound.
(Los Angeles Times)
Gitmo is also used as a major recruitment tool and motivation for violent jihadists ("explosive anger"):
“One jihadist posted a picture on the Shumukh al-Islam forum of a beheaded Pastor Jones, with words on the picture reading: ‘Punishment for whoever dares to transgress against the Book of Allah,’” SITE reported (pdf).

One of the jihadists sites called for terrorist attacks, referred to Jones’s plan, which he has since canceled, as “another example of the West insulting Islam and receiving only words of condemnation rather than physical retaliation,” SITE reported.
(Washington Post Blog)
I'm sure when Blumner returns from vacation she will soon renew the call for President Obama to close Gitmo.

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