THE DAILY BLADE: Kowtowing To CAIR
Two unidentified men tossed a soda bottle filled with acid at the Albanian American Islamic Center of Arizona, a Phoenix area mosque. The bottle broke 20-25 feet away from imam Didmar Faja and another man; neither was injured.
Faja is one of six "Flying imams" who filed a discrimination suit against US Airways for kicking them off a Minneapolis to Phoenix flight last November after crewmembers and passengers became alarmed at what they perceived to be terroristic behavior.
Predictably, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is claiming that the imams and their attorney received death threats, and pressured Glendale police to treat the incident as a hate crime.
Predictably, the police caved: "Until we know [the reason], we are going to assume that [the mosque attack] was religiously motivated," sergeant Jim Toomey tells Reuters.
Five other similar incidents recently occurred in the Glendale area but none of them were directed at Muslims or any other religious group, according to police - typically, these "acid bomb" attacks are pranks. Doing the math, 84 percent of the incidents were not religiously motivated – so why is the police department indulging CAIR’s paranoid delusions?
The Dating Game: Carnivore Counteroffensive
Much as vegansexuals won’t have sex with meat-eaters, it turns out that carnivores prefer getting carnal with other carnivores. You can count The Stiletto in the second camp. Having to pop Beanos like breath mints is rather off-putting, don’t you think?
The New York Times reports that women enjoy the pleasures of the flesh – whether rare, medium or well-done – as much or more than men:
Salad, it seems, is out. Gusto, medium rare, is in.
Restaurateurs and veterans of the dating scene say that for many women, meat is no longer murder. Instead, meat is strategy. "I’ve been shocked at the number of women actually ordering steak," said Michael Stillman, vice president of concept development for the Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group, which opened the restaurant Quality Meats in April 2006 on West 58th Street. He said Quality Meats’ contemporary design and menu, including extensive seafood offerings, were designed to attract more women than a traditional steakhouse. "But the meat is appealing to them, much more than what I saw two or three years ago at our other restaurants," Mr. Stillman said. "They are going for our bone-in sirloin and our cowboy-cut rib steak."
[O]rdering a salad displays an unappealing mousiness. …
Ordering meat, on the other hand, is a declarative statement, something along the lines of "I am woman, hear me chew."
Editorial Note: The Stiletto likes her meat so rare, it moos (or baaahs) on the plate.
Regarding the acid bomb prank, CAIR may not have known of the other six bottles when it worried about a hate crime. We actually had a similar incident in Anchorage way back in the late 70's where something like a Molotov was tossed onto the steps of a facility that had been the scene of prolife protests. The police did not investigate that angle because two other Molotovs had been thrown that night at random targets nor did we have any proabortion group to "view with alarm" as it were. And re: steaks, you too? I eat my hamburgers cold in the middle.
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