Storm Track Appeasement: Rosie’s Holy War and a Jihadist Gets a Good Citizen Award

Maybe she wants to be known as the left-wing Ann Coulter or maybe this is just the latest howl from a moonbat.

• “Rosie O'Donnell says "radical" Christians in America are just as much of a threat as the followers of radical Islam who piloted hijacked jetliners into New York's Twin Towers and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.”

The howling goes on.

• “O'Donnell, the newest face on ABC's "The View," yesterday let her feelings fly after co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck noted militant Islam provides a threat to free people. "Just a minute," she interrupted. "Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state." She had been saying America was attacked "not by a nation." A bewildered co-host, Joy Behar, protested that Christians are not threatening to impose mass murder on Americans. "There's that difference. This group is threatening to kill us," Behar said. And Hasselback, appearing surprised, said, "We are not bombing ourselves here in the country." "No, but we are bombing innocent people in other countries. True or false?" O'Donnell said.

I wonder if this geopolitical analyst has gone unnoticed by the wing-nuts in California.

• A U.S. Government entity not only awarded an Islamic terrorism proponent and renowned America-hater a prestigious humanitarian award, it turns out that state open meeting laws were violated when the Muslim leader was selected. Apparently fearful of the controversy its radical candidate for the annual award would stir, the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission evidently violated California open meeting laws—The Brown Act—when members decided to honor Maher Hathout with the “outstanding human relations work” award, which will be distributed at a ceremony next month. Hathout, the president of the Islamic Center of California, is well-known for his anti-Semitic speeches that endorse Palestinian Hamas, known chiefly for its brutal suicide bombings, and the radical Lebanese Hezbollah. In fact, at an October 2000 rally across from the White House, Hathout screamed intifada—an Arabic term for uprising--and told the assembled crowd that Israel is a racist, apartheid state of butchers.

Little Green Footballs has posted the video of that hateful speech and calls Hathout’s humanitarian award a travesty. The Jewish Defense League is equally outraged at the award’s recipient, saying that it represents an outrageous insult to all Americans and all Jews and that Hathout should instead be condemned.

Will Rosie get the next prestigious humanitarian award?