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Scrapbook Blood Libel II In last week's issue, The Scrapbook printed extended excerpts from an astounding essay published in the March 10 edition of the Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadh. That essay,...
...that its members—Arabs and an extremist fringe of Kurds—have trained in Osama bin Laden's camps...
...that some al Qaeda members fleeing Afghanistan have escaped to border areas controlled by Ansar...
...Jalah-ma failed to realize . . . that Jews anywhere in the world are one thing, while those belonging to the Zionism movement who are eradicating Palestinians is a completely different thing," he says...
...He now says Al-Jalahma's piece was "unfit for publishing," "unacceptable," "silly," and "untrue...
...In its March 4 issue, the magazine published the results of a poll taken among 351 American Indians by S.I...
...Whatever happened to "all the news that's fit to print...
...Politically correct activists, however, are still on the warpath and brush off the poll numbers as insignificant...
...Subscription information will be available soon at www.legalaffairs.com...
...Price, a writer for S.I., other critics look at the poll as "evidence that Native Americans' self-esteem has fallen so low that they don't even know when they're being insulted...
...Raising the Bar MANY WEEKLY STANDARD contributors—many times, in many pages of this magazine—have complained that modern, general-interest journalism does a miserably poor job reporting on law and lawyers...
...It has also had contacts with al Qaeda," Tenet explained...
...Al Sudairy claimed the essay had slipped through the cracks, and that he had become aware of it only after his Washington, D.C., bureau chief phoned him up long-distance to express concern...
...Got that...
...Some tribal schools on Arizona reservations use Indian nicknames themselves...
...So we are pleased to call our readers' attention to a new magazine specifically designed to redress this defect...
...As to where we are in September 11th, the jury's out...
...Now the Los Angeles Times reports that last Tuesday—not coincidentally, we hope, 24 hours after The Scrap-book item in question had hit the newsstands—Al-Riyadh's editor, Turki Al Sudairy, repudiated Dr...
...There are happy campers on every plantation," Suzan Harjo of the Morning Star Institute, an Indian-rights organization, has now told Sports Illustrated...
...It's all right to say Jews kill christian and Muslim children and consume their blood, so long as you make clear you're only talking about Jewish "specimens" like the prime minister of Israel...
...Mrs...
...Perhaps Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, director of the Hopi Cultural Preservation office in Arizona, puts it best...
...Chop on, brother...
...Al-Jalah-ma's anti-Semitic filth and apologized for running it...
...Turns out a solid majority of respondents had no problem with names like the Chicago Blackhawks, the Atlanta Braves, and the Kansas City Chiefs...
...Baghdad has a long history of supporting terrorism, altering its targets to reflect changing priorities and goals...
...And when asked whether professional teams should generally stop using Indian nicknames, mascots, and symbols, 83 percent (67 percent on reservations) said no...
...That essay, written by a faculty member at King Faisal University, purported to detail the precise recipe and technique Jewish people employ in the preparation of pastries necessary for the Purim holiday...
...In my living room, I'll be watching a Braves game and occasionally do the chop...
...So wouldn't it be funny, under the circumstances, if it turned out that actual Native Americans don't care a whit about the issue...
...The News on Iraq In his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee last Tuesday, CIA director George Tenet had some rather remarkable things to say about links between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime...
...It would be a mistake to dismiss the possibility of state sponsorship, whether Iranian or Iraqi, and we'll see where the evidence takes us...
...Umayma Ahmad Al-Jalahma explained, slaughter adolescent Christians and Muslims, drain the blood from their bodies even while they're dying, and sprinkle that blood right into the dough...
...Where the evidence is taking us" becomes clearer by the day...
...But you'd be wrong...
...AlJalahma missed the mark...
...efforts to determine whether al Qaeda had acquired chemical or biological weapons...
...Asked specifically if they were offended by the perpetually controversial name of Washington's NFL football franchise, the Redskins, 75 percent of survey respondents said no (among those living on reservations, the number is slightly lower, at 62 percent...
...It's all in good fun...
...This is sports, after all...
...staff and the Peter Harris Research Group...
...Which is okay, one supposes, so far as it goes...
...Only 29 percent (40 percent on reservations) thought the team's name should change...
...The Phoenix Indian High School's newspaper is The Redskin...
...As Sports Illustrated pointed out last week, "Since 1969, when Oklahoma disavowed its mascot Little Red (a student wearing a war bonnet, buckskin costume, and moccasins), more than 600 school teams and minor league professional clubs have dropped nicknames deemed offensive by Native American groups...
...The New York Times demonstrated still weirder editorial judgment, burying the briefest of quotes from Tenet's testimony in a largely unrelated story about U.S...
...Legal Affairs, a bimonthly publication of Yale Law School edited by Lincoln Caplan and intended for a general audience, is just out with its inaugural (May/June 2002) issue...
...Or maybe more than possible: "There is no doubt that there have been [Iraqi] contacts and linkages to the al Qaeda organization," Tenet told the senators...
...Two days after running a stand-alone article summarizing the New Yorker report, the Washington Post published a pageone story on Tenet's Senate appearance that somehow neglected even to mention the CIA director's conclusions regarding links between Iraq and al Qaeda...
...In Israel itself, there are moderate Jews—and it is unacceptable that our differences with specimens like that of Sharon should be the incentive to generalize our hatred toward all Jews...
...Which is the clear implication of another recent report in Sports Illustrated...
...Tenet said all this just days after the New Yorker published Jeffrey Goldberg's blockbuster article on Saddam's ongoing atrocities against Iraq's Kurdish population...
...and that in 1992, Egyptian Dr...
...According to S.L...
...THE SCRAPBOOK would prefer to give our Native American brethren a bit more credit than that...
...The Scrapbook cannot help noticing, however, the reason why editor Al Sudairy seems to think Dr...
...Given the splash Goldberg's article made, you'd think that an official statement from Tenet tending to corroborate its findings would be front-page news...
...I don't see anything wrong with Indian nicknames as long as they're not meant to be derogatory...
...I take the middle ground," he tells Sports Illustrated...
...Among other things, Goldberg offered evidence that Ansar al-Islam, a Muslim terrorist group operating in Kurdish territory, is jointly controlled by Hussein and al Qaeda operatives...
...Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible...
...Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's top aide, made a long visit to Baghdad, where he met with Saddam and other top Iraqi officials...
...I don't mind the tomahawk chop...
...Chop Till You Drop Gathering inexorable force over the course of thirty years, the movement to banish references to American Indians—sorry, Native Americans— from the names of sports teams seems poised for final victory...
...It looks awfully good...
...The Jews, Dr...
Vol. 7 • April 2002 • No. 28
