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Tehran celebrated its 6th Annual World Mosque Week this week.

You know what that means...
It's time for a "We're going to destroy Israel," speech!

Maybe it's because I'm no longer in LA that I hadn't heard about the case against Project Islamic Hope founder Najee Ali. Ali can frequently be seen on the LA scene decrying this or that alleged police abuse, always crying racism.

I used to turn off the Larry Elders show ever time the SOB came on.

The AFP piece notes, correctly, that Project Islamic Hope's webpage shows pictures of Ali with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Barack Obama. Leading the reader to believe that Ali and his organization are non-partisan.

Russia says its response to the further development of a U.S. missile shield in Poland will go beyond diplomacy.

Russia's Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying the U.S. missile shield plans are clearly aimed at weakening Russia.

The U.S. says the missile defense system is aimed at protecting the U.S. and Europe from future attacks from states like Iran.

Count Ralph Nader as unimpressed by the crop of supposed finalists to be Barack Obama’s running mate.

“I don’t think he’s that dumb,” said Nader, commenting on widespread speculation that Obama’s choices are down to Sens. Joe Biden or Evan Bayh, or Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine.